#kell/holland

[ashintheairlikesnow]

ENDURANCE! ENDURANCE! ENDURANCE! (imagine it's an angry crowd chanting but irl it's only me cause other anons are gone :c)

gimme anything please 🥺🥺

I can tell you that the other day, I sat down and genuinely started working on Chapter 49.

I can also tell you it starts like this:

The bitch poured it into an actual teacup. Luc stared as she held the teapot with falsely dainty hands, as if he had not himself seen the deadly efficiency with which she wielded a blade. He looked down at the blood itself, smearing red against the rim of the teacup as it sloshed a little, settled in front of him.  Astrid Dane moved around to stand behind him, and her cool, marblelike hands with their black veins carved deeply within briefly rested on his shoulders. Then she pressed the palm of her hand against the side of his neck, her fingers taking his chin delicately between forefinger and thumb. “I will tip the cup to your lips,” She said, her voice rough with enjoyment. “And for each time you cannot swallow, I will cut her. If you do not finish the cup, I will kill her.” Alucard Emery kept his eyes on the window, on the smoke from the fires burning around London billowing like dark black stormclouds. As if any moment, it would rain, and sweep away this terrible day as if it had never happened.  Both monarchs dead by the Danes’ hands, Rhy forced into marriage to a monster, and Kell bringing the Sanctuary down himself, eyes red-rimmed and miserable, with Holland Vosijk's mouth at his ear whispering poisonous commands to burn London to the ground.

[shrews-art]

I really love how separately Lila, Kell and Holland are literally the most powerful people between all worlds and also smart and resourceful and skilled but. You leave them together in a room for TEN MINUTES and disaster follows

[purplebass]

2023 books a darker shade of magic by v.e. schwab (reread)

Magic was a living thing---that, everyone knew---but to Kell it felt like more, like a friend, like family. It was, after all, a part of him (much more than it was a part of most) and he couldn't help feeling like it knew what he was saying, what he was feeling, not only when he summoned it, but always, in every heartbeat and every breath. He was, after all, Antari.

[antaripirate]

Kell and Lila, to Holland, at any given moment:

disaster trio disaster trio disaster trio

[untolduttering]

I really do love that all three Antari have the most severe attitude problems. They’re all so bitchy and I just adore it.

[starsailores]

trying to redraw the comic in ms paint almost broke me so i turned to fake twitter. do you guys see the vision

[typingwithmyhandstied]

I love Holland's faith in Kell being good, and how he uses it to push through with his not every good plans. Like in A Darker Shade of Magic when he knew that Kell would come back to save Lila even through how much she protested that he didn't care about her. Or in A Gathering of Shadows, when he hears from Ojka that Kell ran away, Holland is confident that he will come back because he always does. This is a great antagonist/protagonist relationship if I've ever seen one.

Not really the same but I really like the detail of how when Ojka asks him who the collar is for, Holland says "an old friend."

[happygirl2oo2]

And ofc I had to make one for the Threads crew as well x

[inspo]

[imaginarythingys]

As Travars

Inspired by the Shades of Magic series by V. E. Schwab

See more details here

[bookolascage]

Attempted a re-draw of the covers.

[ravencromwell]

Fuck, just had a hell of a Holland realization, which everyone else probably realized years ago but indulge my horror: The Danes have their stone statue garden of traitors. And the only thing we've ever seen in WL that can turn people to stone is As Staro. The command Holland used to kill his fucking brother. The idea of him having to replicate that kill over and over with the traitors the Danes wanted to make sharpest examples of, and then walk past those kills every fucking day? I have nothing else to say except it's a fucking crime Holland didn't get the same sort of triumphant, bloody fight against the Danes Lila got against the earth mage who tried to kill her in the tournament, because to say he deserved it so much more is the flimsiest possible understatement.

[purplebass]

shades of magic & threads of power color palettes

[antaripirate]

made this a couple months ago and forgot to post it🫢 (it’s so dumb)

[hoplessartist]

i call upon the fans of A Darker Shade of Magic

From left to right:

Alucard Emery , Rhy Maresh, Holland, Delilah "Lila" Bard, Kell

[starsailores]

the most agonising thing about holland saying 'once you let the magic in, you've already lost' to kell is the parallel to his receipt of the soul seal, and how he felt the magic running through his veins before he could block it out. he knew first hand how dark magic can damn you once it gets into your blood, antari or not, and it was as much a tired warning and reminder of his own pain as it was a jab at kell's weakness. between that and astrid's desire to keep kell, holland spent the entirety of book one a little too close to seeing kell relive his own trauma, and was consequently doing the few things he could to prevent it

he may not have liked kell, but he refused to let magic ruin kell's life the way it had his. to the point of letting kell kill him.

[holland-vosijk-antari]