#there's that convo with Fenris where he asks what you do when you finally stop running

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

"Man, Desire Demons are so full of shit. Ambition? I'm just fucking trying to make it to Friday." --Gen Hawke, probably.

[aelinbitch-archive]

top 5 moments of all time for miss galathynius bc i'm a wildcard like that 🥴

SORRY I NEVER ANSWERED THIS i got super busy for finals ok so. i simply cannaught pick 5 so i’m going to wax poetic for 200 bullet points (but top 5 moments if i HAD to choose are bolded)

the whole scene where she beats rolfe in a (short, lmao) fight and makes him sign the documents saying he won’t sell more slaves in tab and she reveals she memorized his signature and stole his ring

all of the assassin and the healer. being just totally pissed off and drinking all the time and looking for a fight and then getting her shit together and teaching yrene to defend herself

racing with ansel on asterion horses through the desert and feeling free in the first time in forever... i’m Emotional

the party in tab

putting the spider silk in sam’s suit and saving his life and not telling him... all the samlaena scenes in general tbh

first scene in tog when she mouths off to everyone... that was the first thing i read of her and i fell in love immediately 

meeting nehemia and speaking eyllwe with her so chaol can’t understand them. especially the scene where she turns around “sneers” at dorian nvsnfkdl i love that wording 

telling dorian outright that she doesn’t exist for his entertainment

beating grave in the fight obviously 

wearing the red dress in tog and telling archer she’s trying to kill him instead of fuck him and just being so unimpressed with him overall

maiming chaol’s face and trying to kill him after he gets nehemia k*lled 

torturing grave. we love revenge in this house

killing baba yellowlegs

using wyrdmarks to do necromancy... honestly every time she uses wyrdmarks. i love witchy!aelin

killing archer

saying fuck it and drinking on the rooftops in hof

“because i am lost and i do not know the way” even though it K I L L S me

when she first shifts into her fae body and runs with rowan through the forest + it’s so joyful

setting a trap for the skinwalkers

scene where she burns out and rowan sees her scars and then she sleeps in his bed... the Tenderness of it all.......

sneaking out in the middle of the night to train 

the final battle at mistward......... as immy put it “aelin, using the very magic that frightened her and caused her to be shunned by people she loved to protect mistward whilst simultaneously putting herself at the mercy of things she knew would kill her because she was actively suicidal but wanted to go out helping those who had taken her in >>> anything any male tog character has ever done or has the capacity to do”

rowan taking the blood oath to her after she threatens to burn maeve’s city

ALL OF QUEEN OF SHADOWS LITERALLY FUCKING ALL OF IT THERE IS NO SCENE THAT IS NOT ON THIS LIST BUT ESPECIALLY:

meeting with ar*bynn in the vaults and then wrecking the place

meeting nesryn for the first time

absolutely going off on chaol the first time they see each other again, and bitching him out again on the rooftop of her appt

reconciling with lysandra and deciding to get sweet sweet revenge with her

freeing aedion

manipulating lorcan into killing the wyrdhounds for her

fight at the vaults

THE SCENE AT DINNER WITH AR*BYNN WHEN SHE’S LIKE “WELL IF YOU’RE CONCERNED ABOUT MONEY YOU COULD ALWAYS SELL THE HOUSE OR STOP USING LYSANDRA’S SERVICES” LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING!!!!! THE O N L Y BENEFIT OF A TOG TV SHOW (BESIDES TO CORRECT THE SHITTY ELEMENTS OF THE SERIES WHICH IT INEVITABLY WON’T DO) WOULD BE THE ABILITY FOR ME TO TAKE THAT SCENE AND PUT THE ‘TURN DOWN FOR WHAT’ BEAT DROP OVER IT 

(and then their ensuing discussion in the living room. she plays him so flawlessly)

standing on the roof in the rain while arobynn dies being like “i just feel empty” :((((( baby

being an absolute goofball in the sin eater’s temple

fight with manon at the temple of temis hellooooooo

tricking lorcan into taking the fake amulet

oath to darrow at the beginning of eos as beautifully depicted by this edit (i HAVE to plug zoe as aelin i HAVE to)

taking back whatever that place is called for rolfe... turning all those soldiers to ash

convo with her ancestor’s ghost (brannon?) where she’s literally canonically like “well i’m suffering but at least i’m hot”

appearing in rolfe’s office and Ending His Whole Career... that whole part in skull’s bay where she manipulates him into helping her 

she’s not technically in this scene but “here’s to hoping you find more creative terms than the word “bitch” to call me when you find this. with all my love, aag” LMFAOOOO

reuniting with ansel holy fuckkkkkkkkk and just the way all her plans come together. schemey babie

every interaction with fenrys in that book too

the “you do not yield” scene where she punches the shit out of the iron coffin

telling cairn his dick was small after he tortured her for months

the scene where she escapes and its from lorcan’s pov

asking people to VOTE on when her fucking death should occur even though it depressed me that it came to that

SENDING THE GODS TO HELL.... I FUCKING LOVE “She was no lamb to slaughter. No sacrifice on the altar of the greater good. And she was not done yet... Aelin smiled and bowed. Far out, striding over the hills, the gods paused. Aelin’s smile turned into a grin. Wicked and raging… She had been a slave and a pawn once before. She would never be so again. Not for them. Never for them.” LIKE HELLO??????? AELIN GODKILLER INDEED

walking with all the women through orynth after the battle

practicing with rowan before her coronation bc she was nervous.... Shes Baby

and like 600 other things that i probably forgot!! basically I Am Aelin’s Whore 

[cocopbblez]

oof why do you hate anders? I'm v pro Anders oof

Ooooh, man. You better strap in for this. This gonna be hella long.

I haven’t played Awakening, so I have no clue what he was like before DA2, but all throughout DA2, he was just so… tiring to talk to. He always had to bring up something about mages being oppressed. Like, if Hawke stubbed his toe, Ander’s would probs be like ‘Well, that’s nothing compared to how mAges are tREated in the cIRcle!’ And it’s like… buddy… my dude… 

So, I initially didn’t like him. Like in one convo you have with him, he’s like ‘I’ve yet to meet a mage who wants to rule anything.’ and it’s like, just do some quests with me and I’ll fucking show you plenty of mages who want to rule over men and idolize Tevinter (which he does too???) Yeah, mages are free and rule themselves in Tevinter, but blood magic is rampant there, Magisters sacrificing slaves just to do a small party trick. Like the slaves life means nothing. Even Dorian’s like ‘Yeah, it’s pretty fucked up there, but I want to make things better because there are people like me who disagree, but we’re the few unfortunately.’

And then in that one quest where you work with Thrask to convince the mages to exit the cave in Act 1, when the mages ask you to kill Thrask, Anders is like ‘Done and done let’s kill the Templar bitch.’ Like??? Thrask is a good dude??? He asked you to go in because he didn’t want to kill the mages??? He even distracts Karras and the other Templars if you choose to try to help the mages escape???

Yeah, pretty shitty.

But then!!! He goes and blows up the Chantry????? Like, are you fucking serious??? Yeah, I hate the Chantry and everything they stand for as much as the next guy, but even my dumb ass knows that blowing up the goddamn Chantry is the absolute worst way to stop the treatment of mages. My favorite thing is after he does that, my Hawke is like ‘You realize you just turned everyone against mages’ and Anders is like ‘Was anyone with us???’ YES!! YES THERE WAS!!! No one’s gonna see it as ‘Oh, the Chantry was targeted?? Something must be wrong with the Chantry and their treatment of the Circles and mages.’ 

No, they’re gonna see it as ‘Holy shit a mage was powerful enough to do this??? They hella need to be put down.’ which is exactly what Meredith did. Yeah, she was batshit crazy, and she shouldn’t’ve called for the Annulment when the man who did it was right there, but that’s how everyone would see the Chantry explosion. Thousands of mages, like Vivienne and Wynne, didn’t have a bad time in the Circle, many even preferring it!! Because of Anders, now more people than before are looking down on them out of fear and hatred. 

Now, what REALLY grinded my gears was his treatment of Fenris. Now, I’m not saying this just ‘cause Fen is my ultimate romance. I understand why people don’t like Fenris. But them saying how they don’t understand how people can hate Anders, but love Fen when they’re the same??? Ummm, no. No they’re not. 

Fen grew up as a slave, not even remembering his childhood or family because of Danarius’s experiment on him, the process where LYRIUM was BURNED INTO HIS ENTIRE BODY!!! He’s seen the worse of mages, having served as a slave to a fucking Magister in Tevinter. He has more than enough cause to hate mages and be hella weary of them. And like, Anders has probably seen and experienced his fair share of injustice in the Circle, but the difference between them is that Fen is willing to grow and learn. He understands that not every mage is Danarius. When you go into Hadriana’s hideout and hire Orana as a servant, Fenris yells at you, his mind automatically seeing you purchasing Orana as a slave. When you tell him otherwise, HE APOLOGIZES!! When Anders almost kills the mage girl because he couldn’t control Justice (I’ve only done Dissent once or twice because I refuse to do anything with Anders ‘cause he’s a bITCH, so correct me if I’m wrong), he’s all like ‘Poor me:((( Even though I said I can control him, I actually can’t:((( It was those dirty Templars:((( They made me so angry:(((’ He corrupted Justice into Vengence because that’s what he wants.

Now, I didn’t bring up Fen to compare the two, I brought up Fen because of the scene where you finally confront Danarius. If you choose to give Fen back to Danarius, little bitchass motherfuckin’ Anders says ‘Good thing I wasn’t the only one thing that.’ with a fUCKING smILE on his ugly ass rAT face!! Like, you are NOT allowed to go on and on about how oppressed mages are, comparing them to slaves when you actually deadass wANT to return a former slave bACK to his slAVER just because you don’t like him!! Like, are you fucking kidding me??? No, you’re fucking dead to me.

Like, he had so much potential to be a good character, but with everything mentioned above (there may be more, but these are the only major things I can think of off the top of my head) I just think he’s a piece of shit.