#The Shadow of Westfall

[queen-aelin-of-terrasen]

Manon: Why should I lend my army to Terrasen?

Aelin, who is rusty on her royal training: Um, you really like me??

Manon:

Manon, who also does not have much royal training: yeah why the fuck not

[i-only-see-daylight]

Aelin: Oh, here’s my award for the most rules broken! 

Chaol: That’s not an award, it’s a wanted poster from the king.

Aelin, hanging it on her wall: Well, it has the word ‘most’ in it, so I’m calling it an award!

[thevalkyriesshadow]

Where my Chaol Westfall stans at? 🙋‍♀️

[highqueenofashandstars]

For anyone who argues that Chaol is not the most relatable character, during the entire duration of Tower of Dawn, I, too, wondered what Dorian was up to.

[rainingriversofyou]

Yrene, Chaol, Sartaq, Nesryn, Fenrys, Connell, Gavriel & Vaughn

Throne of Glass / Artist: @madschofield

[sillysynopses]

An ex convict, neglected nepo baby and level 12 bland white man team up to bolster the regime of a dictator whilst also forming life long bonds and experimenting with one another sexually. Watch as the gang goes from fetch quests to killing actual god, as the magical blonde girl traverses the globe, finding love with a man who has a face tattoo instead of a personality. But that’s not all folks! Watch these characters undergo trauma after unbelievable trauma, like getting possessed by a demon, being paralysed, surviving sex slavery, or being bisexual. And that’s just the tip of the fairy shaped iceberg! Never before have characters been hotter, dumber and this incompetent. You’ll laugh, cry, and shit your pants when a terrifying murder witch who may or may not have eaten children appears in book 3 and steals everyone else’s thunder, prompting questions like: why wasn’t this series about her, AND just how many innocent people can a character kill and still remain likeable. The answer, as always, will surprise you ;)

[highladyofterrasen7]

“I’ll bleed whatever colour you tell me to”

Me:

[mistywitcher]

i’m just saying that chaol and dorian could have been gay for eachother okay? it was all there, it was ready to go. sarah could have let me have this

[velarisnightsky444]

100 pages into Queen of Shadows, heres what i got

-aelin is annoyed with chaol and missing rowan

-chaol is annoyed with aelin and being a little bitch

-rowan is not here

-lysandra: suffering

-dorian: suffering

-aedion: suffering

-elide: suffering

-kaltain: suffering

-evangeline: not suffering anymore, but likely very truamatized

-manon is done with everyones shit and making bad decisions, but god forbid any of the thirteen criticize her terrible decisions, bc they will be demoted if they do so

[tinasshelf]

I’ll never get over Chaol apologizing to Aelin in QoS, and Aelin not ever acknowledging her own hypocrisy and just going “Yeah sorry I tried to kill you, teehee!” …intimate partner violence is not cute.

Chaol had every right to be frustrated with her and while he shouldn’t have given her so much blame and could’ve expressed himself better, a lot of his concerns where completely valid and reasonable. Aelin blamed Chaol for things completely out of his control (Dorians capture, Nehemias death) and went against her word and tried to kill Dorian. But the difference is shes never expected to apologize or even acknowledge that she was ever in the wrong.

HES the one who has to come to Aelin with an apology. Because he wasn’t riding her dick the whole time and actually gave her some pushback? Because he couldn’t read her mind when she choses to withold infomation for no reason, even though he was always complicit in her plans? Alright then !!

(I don’t want to seem like I hate Aelin btw, I just went through a rough patch with her esp in this book.)

[queen-aelin-of-terrasen]

Aelin: remember when I risked my life for two people even though I’m responsible for an entire nation and revolution

Rowan:

Aelin: I was so stupid back then

Rowan: that was yesterday

[fenrysmoonbeamswife]

Ironic how Chaol is so utterly loathed for not immediately accepting Aelin (for all of two seconds btw) but nobody bats an eye at Ruhn for the exact same behaviour with Lidia that was arguably worse and lasted longer and he didn't make up for nearly half as much as Chaol did ☕️

(Disclaimer I actually like Ruhn this is more of a dig at this insane fandom)

[the-darkestminds]

I feel like people who despise Chaol lack perspective, and empathy. It’s important to understand just how insanely miserable Chaol is in Queen of Shadows. He lives in a constant state of pain and stress and worry over all of his failures, the biggest being Dorian. He feels like he has lost everything and he hates himself so much. So of course he’s going to lash out at people. Try to lessen the burden of his guilt by placing the blame on Aelin. Chaol is flawed and imperfect and human. He’s in a terrible place, emotionally. He blames himself for what happened to Dorian. Does he not deserve a little compassion?

[queenofshadowsss]

I’m still alive!! Busy with work and life teehee

Finished Queen of Shadows! YAYYYY 🎉🎉🥳🥳

But also I’ll never get to read it for the first time again 🥲

Life = forever changed

I’ll try and get out a little review soon.

I’m starting Fourth Wing soon )going to see what all the fuss is about hehe). Then I’ll hop back on to Throne of Glass for Empire of Storms.

Art credits: @pandyals_art

[evajackslover]

FINISHED KINGDOM OF ASH LAST NIGHT AND I OFFICIALLY DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF 🥲

i have no words for how much i loved this series.

[rainingriversofyou]

The Assassin, The Prince & The Captain

Throne Of Glass

Artist: diabolical_victorian_cat