Spoiler alert for ruin and rising by Leigh bardugo!!!
I love the way Leigh bardugo was able to change my mind about mal by the end of ruin of rising but I just can't stop thinking about the alternative ending. I just can't stop picturing aleksander in place of mal. Leigh could have given the darkling the redemption, I feel, he deserves.
Just like how alina loses her powers, Alek could have lost his powers too. Making Alek a normal person without any powers would have been an interesting twist. The og ending of mal and alina taking over the orphanage could have been Alek and alina taking over the orphanage. They could have lived a normal life without any worries about people trying to kill them, without any politics and stress. Alina could have made him a better human.
I know he manipulated alina, hurt or even killed a lot of people but imagine yourself in his place. Imagine going through everything he went. I highly doubt you would have been able to trust people and have faith in others. At the end of the day he was just a lost lonely soul seeking someone like him. Alek could have changed if given a chance. He didn't even get a chance. I know it's her characters and she gets to decide what happens with them but it's just that I can't stop thinking about this!
He deserved better !!!!!!
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“Everyone finds different lessons in stories, I suppose, but here’s one: Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway. It doesn’t matter if the boy with the heart of stone was the villain. It doesn’t matter if he got what he deserved. No one’s heart has to remain stone.”
~Holly Black, Hthkoelths
Darklina as Taylor swift songs ~
"And it took you five whole minutes, to pack us up and leave me with it."
"You were my crown, Now I'm in exile seein' you out."
"Second, third, and hundredth chances, balancin' on breaking branches. Those eyes add insult to injury."
"You're not my homeland anymore, so what am I defendin' now?".
"All this time, we always walked a very thin line."
"My eclipsed sun."
"My twisted knife, my sleepless night, my win-less fight."
"Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in."
"You knew you won, so what's the point of keeping score?"
"My kingdom come undone, you have beaten my heart."
"Weepin' in a sunlit room, and if I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too."
"Did I deserve, babe? All the hell you gave me? 'Cause I loved you, I swear I loved you, till my dying day."
"You had to kill me but it killed you just the same."
"I didn't have it in myself to go with grace, 'cause when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave."
"And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?"
"And you can aim for me heart, go for blood, But you would still miss me in your bones."
"And if you wanted me, you really should've showed."
"But we were something, don't you think so?"
"And if my wishes came true, it would've been you."
"You know the greatest loves of all time are over now?"
"If one thing had been different, would everything be different?"
"You and I walk a fragile line, I have known it all this time. But I never thought I'd live to see it break."
"He will try too take away my pain, and he just might make me smile. But the whole time I'm wishing he was you instead."
"But I still mean every word I said to you."
"I thought I had you figured out. Can't turn back now, I'm haunted."
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people's need to show love🙄 BUT HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO THEM<3
“Get up,” Chaol whispered. "Celaena,” he breathed, his voice laced with pain—and hope. This was all she had left—his outstretched hand, and the promise of hope, of something better waiting on the other side of that line.
Back when I shipped Chaolena</3
V.E Schwab writes such dynamic and complex characters that are so unforgettable. Like they have so much range and spice to them,, they're just *chef's kiss*
I often find myself thinking about the gay little family in Vicious and the nerdy little romantics in Addie Larue and the bisexual Slytherpuffs in Shades of Magic. I wish I could give Kell, Lila, Addie, Henry, Victor, Syd, Mitch, Eli and Rhy a little forehead kiss and protect them.
The Darkling- *diabolical plan for world domination* *tortures Genya* *burns down Alina's only home* *kills all her friends* *tries to make her his puppet* *tries to kill Mal* *your power is mine* *kills Ana Kuya*
Alina-😐🙄😤😭🖕
The Darkling- why, oh why do you not love meeee!?!?
I was craftier with my observation, kept my head down and my eyes ready to leap away. But he was craftier still. At least once a dinner he would turn and catch me before I could feign indifference. Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.
~Patroclus, The Song Of Achilles