#also im not into darklina

[omgthisisnotmyrealaccount]

finally watched season 2 of shadow and bone and like the issue with that show (outside of the bad acting lmao) is that the plot happens in one story line but the fun happens in the other 

like alina babes i don’t care about your search for the hot bird im sorry

[mossytrashcan]

alina: haha wow, I really love aleksander. I’m so glad he and I are discovering my powers so we can destroy the fold together. I also love his super cool hair and horse figurines

aleksander:

[donnanobledefensesquad]

thinking about how leigh bardugo apparently had the actors for the darkling and alina read/watch wuthering heights as "homework" for their roles, thinking about the darkling "i will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but me," thinking about how this is what heathcliff tries to do to cathy and it ultimately kills her. thinking??? insanity.

[wingsofhcpe]

darklina walked so reylo could run i said what i said

[greensaplinggrace]

"the venn diagram of reylo and darklina shippers is a circle" fact actually a statistical error. the venn diagram of reylo and darklina shippers would actually be a sun, because I and over half of the darklina shippers I know that don't ship reylo would be jettisoning from the circle like sunbursts to continue on our own paths

[waldensblog]

Baghra: My son is evil, manipulative, and cares about no one but himself. Do not trust him.

Her son when it’s just the 2 of them:

The point here being: yes, Aleksander is the villain. That was made abundantly clear in the show. But the show creators, I gather, wanted to bring a bit more humanity to him, and I think they did a good job with that, because... who is this speech FOR? WHO IS HE TRYING TO MANIPULATE WITH THIS SPEECH? 

[sukibenders]

It's really weird seeing the discourse over Alina's ending in the books, where people hated her loosing her powers and living off in some farm with Mal, only to turn around and go "but if she was with the Darkling-". This take completely ignores the fact that, in the books, Alina never truly wanted her powers nor did she want to be in the spotlight. Sure she had things to work out and everything, and may have even grown to find solace in her abilities but that doesn't necessarily mean she became less when she lost them (a narrative that some seem to think?)

It also ignores how much trauma the Darkling had put her through--from him harassing/grooming her, to making her have to constantly look over her shoulder for a big chunk of her life, and so much more. If you didn't like her ending, that's fine, but don't go around pretending as if her staying with the Darkling would have been any better. It also feels like a lot of projection going around with people thinking she's suddenly living a bad life simply because she choose to live out the rest of her time with her partner and working at an orphanage, something that she is entitled to do so after everything she went through. It's also nor like she's struggling financially, like come on, her friends are literal royals, she is fine.

It also seems like a lot of people go and take an easy route of simply ignoring her relationship with Mal, seeming just to hate it and view it as unimportant, when that also takes away from valuable aspects of her character. Mal is important to her, whether people like it or not, just as much as she's important to him (like are we going to ignore how he risked everything to go and find her? Literally being labeled a deserter!) Do I think there are some codependent elements at times? Yes, but that doesn't mean that both can't work through that and become better. That is one thing I will give the show credit for, which is having them not only verbally state that, but show Mal going off to find out more for himself, but people still used that as an opportunity to hate on him. Like 🙄.

[no-mercy-bby]

I think that Shadow and Bone is unnecessarily complex btw

[sabrinaacarpenters]

darklina antis understand that shipping is not about which dynamic is the healthiest challenge

level impossible

[thomasbrodiesandwich]

✨darklina✨

yes. yes. yes, i do ship them.

i ship them in a "i know theyre toxic and thats why i think theyre an interesting ship" way.

idk i think the whole power imbalance, however alina grabs ahold of her powers back, then darkle sparkles is like wOAH and is lowkey a simp bcs hes been lonely for centuries rly grabs my attention.

i dont think that the darkling is a morally grey character though like im rly on the side that he IS a big baddie but thats why i like him. and thats why i like this ship. the whole light and dark themes of it all and how sometimes their dark side and light side overlap. (sorry darklina/alarkling aesthetic hits HARD... i mean, eclipse?!?!?!! hell yeah)

and then in the whole trilogy where alina fights back and becomes super sarcastic and is just so done w the darkling and their whole exchange and convos and the back and forth of their shifting power dynamics and the way alina was abt to get corrupted like idc if u dont get it. I DO. and i think its scrumptious.

(book!darklina and book!darkling u will always be famous. im so sorry for what the show did to u guys 😔✊)

[v-arbellanaris]

my entire blog is going to evolve into villain romance and if you hate me for it i dont fucking care

[lesbians4armand]

just realised that that post that said “enemies to lovers is only good when its gay if i wanted to see a man and a woman fight i’d have dinner with my parents” is a part of my dislike for darklina

[dcrkalina]

Kinda want a fic called high infidelity where alina cheats on aleksander with genya and or zoya ... itd be a bit of a slay

Esp if you somehow incorporate the lines

"Do you really wanna know where I was April 29th? Do I really have to tell you how she brought me back to life..."/"do i really have to chart the constellations in his eyes?"

Bonus if he cheated first but gets mad at her for doing it back

[ohbo-ohno]

Im living for the ghoap x reader stuff, especially with petplay. 😩🥴 I love ghost calling reader a kitten when theyre being all bitey and misbehaving but what about when reader can only shake in their shoes and cry and sob? they'd be just a little bunny. I feel like it would have been something ghost would have done and not johnny. he tries to comfort them and maybe they even let him, hoping he'll convince ghost to be gentle. but bunny should really know better, johnny obeys Simon and just holds em down while bunny cries. not that they mind, they probably love fucking little bunny thru the tears. they keep going no matter how they're begged to stop or how many orgasms bunny has. maybe if they wear lil bun down physical and emotionally they'll get some cuddles. (and maybe some lack of misbehaving for a day or two too)

return of the bunny asks

the first sentence of this is real as fuck, it's like the only thing i manage to think about when i write. i've got like [too many] wips right now and when i tell you it is a FIGHT to not have petplay in literally every single one. my own personal cross to bear

serial killer ghoap love a bunny reader. literally their prey?? johnny the hound and you the hare??? keeps your throat between his teeth, holds you down to the ground and growls so you feel the sound move through your pulse. cmon it writes itself, babe! also, bun/bunny/rabbit/cottontail as a nickname really does it for me. the darklina fandom loves to have aleksander call alina his bunny and it always gets my heart skipping a beat

breeding kink is not super my thing but like. the phrase "fuck like rabbits" exists for a reason. also.. fuckbunny :(

fucking her so much for so long, saying doesn't she like it? aren't rabbits just horny little things that always need a cock buried deep up inside them? you're soaked, bun, there's no point in trying to lie. c'mon, another orgasm and maybe you'll calm down a bit

hngggg giving you floppy ears, a leotard with a little fuzzy tail on the back, and big ol' oversized shoes to make your feet like bunny paws :( flopping around a little unbalanced, ears flopping in your eyes and your nose twitching because you're trying so hard not to cry :( oh my god

bunny gets bitey and all of the sudden simon stuffs a carrot in your mouth!! says "i'll give you something to chew on", snickers when you reluctantly chew and swallow.

also. burrow. bunnies burrow. that's fucking adorable. you get all snuggled up in your blankets and they laugh when they find you, make your face flush horribly as you try and wiggle further into your little safe haven of softness. they just pull you out (or dig in themselves), tell you you did such a good job burrowing for them :( give you some of their own clothes to burrow with

[waldensblog]

To be completely honest, I know Darklina is almost certainly not going to have that lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers arc and end up together by the end, but I can live with it because at least they were canon at a point. I was a Bellarke shipper you see...

[ceilidho]

@alwaysshallow yes!!! the witch fic took me by surprise. im supposed to be writing:

[haladriel] secret topic for an exchange fic

[darklina] 80s retrofuturism summer vacation fic

[ghoap] haunted apartment building fic

[ghoap] serial killer in the canadian wilderness

[price/reader] bear shifter!price fic

[price/reader] tarzan dad!price fic

realistically, my price stories will probably get pushed to november-december because i have to finish the first 2 fics before september ends and then i want to devote all of october to those 2 ghoap fics because they're both eerie scary fics. and i'd also like to make them chunky, like im talking 10-20k each.