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The gentleman of Lethe
#darlington#daniel tabor arlington v#daniel arlington#ninth house#hell bent#leigh bardugo#galaxy draws
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Dropping the latest Sketch-a-Wish, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for January! Featuring a tense scene from Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo!
Spoilers for Hell Bent below!
This is one of the few examples of me putting in the WORK for the background, only because it's such a character itself. Il Bastone is a real world setting from Ninth House / Hell Bent, and even though they are scant, there were luckily a few interior photos available for me to reference to create the Virgil bedroom, where Alex and Darlington are having a tense conversation in this scene. I took some liberties on the design but a lot of the structures, accents and patterns were either pulled from the interiors or exterior facade of the Anderson Mansion. (especially the stained glass windows and painted tile fireplace!).
I spent a ridiculous amount of time on the painting over the fireplace to capture a small world-building segment from Hell Bent that I think has a modest symbolism of Alex's and Darlington's new relationship here. A fun little puzzle for those who want to try to research it!
#hellbent#ninthhouse#alex stern#galaxy stern#darlington#daniel arlington#darlingstern#gentleman Demon#il Bastone#occasional Horns#keep Your Ish Together Darlington#my art
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Daniel Arlington III the man that you are,,,,,,
#my knees are buckling#daniel arlington#ninth house#hell bent#darlington#darlingstern#leigh bargudo#alex stern#books#book quotes#dark academia
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Concept sketches of Daniel Arlington from Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (the second sketch got chosen, but I kind of want to finish the first one when I get a chance!)
#concept art#darlington#daniel arlington#hell bent#character art#character illustration#book characters#fantasy illustration#concept sketches#leigh bardugo#leigh bardugo books#ninth house#alex stern#ekbelsher
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“He’d told himself he was giving her a chance, being fair to this girl who had washed up on his shore. But he’d let himself think of her as someone who had made all of the wrong choices and stumbled down the wrong path.
It hadn’t occurred to him that she was being chased.”
another year, another reread of Ninth House
#ninth house#leigh bardugo#hell bent#alex stern#god where is the third book im dying here#darlingstern#daniel arlington#darlington#galaxy stern#lethe#fanart#ninth house fanart#book fanart#hell bent fanart
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Sometimes family is a gentleman demon, a galaxy who can see ghosts, an anxious research assistant, a well-dressed detective, and the human embodiment of a golden retriever
#book#books#bookblr#booktumblr#reader#readers#readers of tumblr#ninth house#hell bent#alex stern trilogy#alex stern#daniel arlington#darlington#pamela dawes#tripp helmuth#abel turner#leighbardugo
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I'm sick of dating apps; I want to meet someone in person (I am your Dante, you are my Virgil).
#books and reading#book characters#leigh bardugo#ninth house#hell bent#alex stern trilogy#alex stern#darlington#daniel arlington#ships#meet cute
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i class profanity with declarations of love. best used sparingly and only when wholeheartedly meant.
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“his monstrous queen”
“her gentleman demon”
#hell bent#hell bent spoilers#big zoyalai vibes from these two just SAYING#alex x darlington#darlingstern#alex stern#darlington#daniel arlington#leigh bardugo#ninth house
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There is something so comforting about Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, despite the abundance of trauma, gore and eerie stuff.
Take Il Bastone; the existence itself of a sentient house that worries about you, in a world where magic is grotesque and raw.
Dawes's warming meals.
The architecture! The beauty of New Haven, the art.
For how fucked it is, you never see Alex complaining because she has met worse. Because even among demons, and bloody rituals, and uptight professors, she's at least surrounded by beauty and comfort. That same feeling passes unto the readers, it truly is magical to read Ninth House.
#daniel arlington#darlington#alex stern#galaxy stern#ninth house#pamela dawes#abel turner#hell bent#tripp helmuth#leigh bardugo
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Ninth House, page 152
Hell Bent, page 462
#ninth house#ninth house spoilers#hell bent#hell bent spoilers#leigh bardugo#darlington#daniel arlington#alex stern#galaxy stern#they’re literally having the same dreams#they’re dreaming about each other#I cannot#deceased#I LOVE THEM SO MUCH#book nerd#I will serve you til the end of days
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Hell Bent posed a very important question which is “Is Darlington still fuckable now that he's part demon?” To which the answer is, of course, yes.
#even more so now that he's a demon#he's just so damn HOT#like he's even sexier as demon#i mean THE FUCKING HORNS?#and that glow#sir 🥵🥵🥵#ninth house#hell bent#darlington#daniel arlington#alex stern#galaxy stern#alex x darlington#darlingstern#leigh bardugo
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“How was Spain?” “Hotter than expected”
Oh this man, I love this man
#hell bent spoilers#ninth house spoilers#leigh bardugo#hell bent#ninth house#darlingstern#darlington#daniel arlington#alex stern#galaxy stern
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Everything is serious until Darlington’s glowing demon dick makes an appearance
#like that caught me SO OFF GUARD#LIKE LEIGH WHAT WAS THAT#not complaining though#love that shit#darlington#daniel arlington#alex stern#galaxy stern#ninth house#hell bent#hell bent spoilers#leigh bardugo#darlingstern
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Alex: We all have our demons.
Alex, grabbing Darlington: This one’s mine.
#ninth house#hell bent#hell bent spoilers#alex stern#galaxy stern#daniel arlington#darlington#darlingstern#leighbardugo#pamela dawes#mercy zhao#tripp helmuth
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um. hell bent (ninth house sequel) spoilers ahead.
darlington has implied anger issues, alcohol problems, a dirty mind, insatiable curiosity, a hyperfixation on the arcane, he's a murderer and he doesn't regret it - he's basically always sinned. he's always been a little bad.
it's not that only now that he's part-demon he has to wrestle with this ominous darker being that's lurking inside him. it's always been a part of him (part of every human being i'd like to argue), he's just been able to shut it out, control it better, compartmentalize (as one does), and now he has no choice but to let it free, free himself from his own inhibitions
But as he was not quite human any longer, he supposed a more flexible approach to morality was called for.
he's intelligent enough to realize he basically has to learn to deal with the fact that he's now powerless to the urges of his own demons, pun intended
this is what i want to see in a future book, not him struggling to hold back or trying to school himself into an image of goodness and perfection, because he's always done that! i want him to let go, absolutely lose it and be unapologetically unhinged and sinister, kind of like how alex is but worse
#ninth house#ninth house spoilers#hell bent spoilers#hell bent#hellbent#leigh bardugo books#leigh bardugo#alex stern series#alex stern#galaxy stern#darlington#daniel arlington#daniel tabor arlington v#golden boy of lethe#gentleman demon#gentleman of lethe#darlingstern
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