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a darker shade of magic places + the 4 londons
“There’s Dull London, Kell London, Creepy London, and Dead London,” she recited, ticking them off on her fingers. “See? I’m a fast learner.”
books read in 2018 » shades of magic by v. e. schwab
“I’m not going to die,“ she said. “Not till I’ve seen it.” “Seen what?” Her smile widened. “Everything.”
For too little power, and we become weak. Too much, and we become something else entirely.
t for the night circus » chosen by @auroracycle
↳ no announcements precede it. it is simply there, when yesterday it was not. within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. it is called le cirque des rêves, and it is only open at night.
@storyseekers event 14: book to read to understand me
— At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.
Lost Hat (A short comic)
This was the scene that inspired me to draw the comic. The idea has been in my head since June, after the release of the Good Omens episodes. It went lying in my folders for a while, but I’m glad to finally have it finished! Thank you for reading :)
It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.
- seven husbands of evelyn hugo, taylor jenkins ried
The Starless Sea deck, with art by Erica Williams | Get your copy of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern NOW!
kristyn’s endless list of favorite characters: 19/∞
SIMON LEWIS — SHADOWHUNTERS/TMI
“The funny best friend who gets left behind? Dead man.”
@lgbtqcreators event 08 — new years idols
but i like you this way. i like you impure and scrappy and formidable. i like the evelyn hugo who sees the world for what it is and then goes out there and wrestles what she wants out of it. so, you know, put whatever label you want on it, just don’t change. that would be the real tragedy.
Every year. No matter where I am. I promise.
Until we meet again.
Hunger Games didn’t really eat holes in my brain the way that it did for some other people but god the opening lines. The opening lines. Katniss wakes up in bed and immediately, instinctively reaches beside her, only to find the bed empty and cold. Before we even know her name – before we know literally anything about her or this world or her place in that world – we know that she loves someone. We know that she is reaching for where Prim should be, sleeping safe and warm beside her, but Prim is not there. She is not there, and her half of the bed is cold and empty. People talk about characters being “doomed by the narrative” when most of the time the character was literally just a well-foreshadowed death, but Prim WAS doomed by the narrative. It’s the very first thing we learned. It’s the most key, integral, important piece of information we’re given about everything that is about to happen: Every single choice Katniss makes is to protect her little sister, and it isn’t enough. In the end, Prim still dies. Prim was dead before the story even started. Katniss, reaching. Prim’s side of the bed was cold and empty. There is no version of this story where Prim could have been saved. Katniss, reaching. The very first thing she does in the series. She wakes, and she reaches, but Prim is already gone. THAT is how you do Doomed By The Narrative. Edit: Also it is key that there was literally nothing Katniss could have done differently. If she had not acted to save Prim, Prim would not have survived the Hunger Games. But by acting to save Prim, Katniss accidentally kicked off an entire rebellion and ultimately massively increased the amount of danger Prim was actually in. The key is that this is irrelevant. If Katniss had done literally anything differently, Prim still would have died. If Katniss had faltered or changed course at any point, Prim still would have died. There was never a point where Katniss could have changed Prim’s fate. There’s no version of this story where Prim lives to see the end of it. She’s dead before the story begins. That’s doomed by the narrative.
“It’s a good one?”
“Fuck yeah”
After everything, when Joel gets to use his smuggling knowledge purely to procure books and comics (and a telescope) for his kid.
Kell wore a very peculiar coat. It had neither one side, which would be conventional, nor two, which would be unexpected, but several, which was, of course, impossible. The first thing he did whenever he stepped out of one London and into another was take off the coat and turn it inside out once or twice (or even three times) until he found the side he needed. Not all of them were fashionable, but they each served a purpose. There were ones that blended in and ones that stood out, and one that served no purpose but of which he was just particularly fond.
for @lilabard ♡
JESSE RUPERT BLACKTHORN
❝I,” said Jesse steadily, “am letting go of the complicated history of my family. Of being a Blackthorn. There is, of course,” he added, “nothing inherently evil about any family. Every family has members who are good, and those who are less so. But the terrible things my mother did, she did after taking that name. She hung the Blackthorn sword on the wall above my coffin because it was so important to her that even in near death I be reminded always that I was her idea of a Blackthorn. So I’m burying what my mother thought it meant to be a Blackthorn; I am putting it behind me, and I will start again as a new sort of Blackthorn. The kind I choose to be.❞
" Don’t turn around. She thought of Orpheus in the Greek tales, who had been forbidden from turning to look behind him at his dead wife as he escorted her from the underworld. He had failed, and lost her. Grace had always thought he was silly—surely it could not be that difficult simply not to turn around and look at someone.
But it was."
@cassandraclare
The TSC girls Clary, Tessa, Cordelia and Emma. This entire series has such a sentimental place in my heart.
Characters by @cassandraclare
