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[ruuari]

erenville & wuk lamat

[tiredfoxtf]

My favourite viceroy. Now, I need to go and make food.

[neon-virus]

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[parthenosvenus]

dawntrail was good. he was good

live wol reaction

[itachi86]

that was so awesome. for one of the few times when i read a book there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. it was funny and cute and there was NO ABUSE of any kind and the story besides the romance was really interesting and nothing felt unnecessary. definitely one of the best books i've read this year

[suaimhneas-gairid]

Vax'ildan 🗡️🗡️🗡️

[orangeshipper]

Things I loved about Gemini: (it's looooong sorry)

Gelis and Nicholas. GELIS AND NICHOLAS. A whole book of them being gloriously MARRIED. More than indefinable "love" they demonstrate that they respect each other, value each other, recognise when the other needs space, they trust each other... They're such a TEAM and it's BEAUTIFUL.

Also the way they TEASE each other. Glorious.

They were in their own house, in their own room and nearly in their own bed. It had been rather precipitate. She said, ‘Gloucester agreed? You’ve got what you wanted?’

‘Not yet,’ said Nicholas crossly.

‘From Gloucester.’ She couldn’t breathe. Her anxieties fled.

‘He wouldn’t have been any good,’ Nicholas explained. ‘He doesn’t have those little –’

‘The meeting?’ she said. But she was just teasing now, and was punished for it.

Also

Below this artful translation, her husband had written: Be patient. I am not.

Also

She was good at codes, and hardly had to look up anything. It was one particular to themselves, so that she translated the last few lines first, which proved to be the only personal ones in the note, but which could hardly have been more specifically personal. She flushed, and choked to herself as she read them, because he would know very well the disturbance he was causing. She hoped he felt as frustrated himself when he wrote it.

Also that time near the end where Nicholas just wants to happily make out with his wife and the WHOLE GANG comes in, and he's like NO TOBIE THERE'S NO WINE GO AWAY (amid much other talking)

Like, their love just fits around their life and friends and it's BEAUTIFUL. (Lol except when he kept being late to things because of it. Snigger.)

JODI. I loved seeing Jodi grow up and becoming a man, so well tutored by his family and friends.

HENRY. OH HENRY. With your beauty and blond hair, but also your brown stubble and your height and your one dimple... The slow, grudging, gradual, hesitant edging towards seeing that families could have a healthy dynamic, that silliness and learning and skill and pride could be GOOD things... It broke my heart to see how damaged and messed up his whole worldview was. There was hope... He was finding common ground with Jodi...

Pause to shout out to this glorious line from Gelis in a glorious scene:

'Nicholas, if you don’t sit, I shall take Henry at his word and carry him off to the bedroom. And that will frighten him silly.’

BUT HENRY. It's a testament to DD's writing that I felt such profound sadness when he and Simon died. It was heartbreaking. How could I be so sad by the death of two characters who had been so irredeemably and consistently vile? It was beautiful and destroyed me.

Leading to another thing I loved - how grief is shown in the HoN. One of the most striking parts of the whole series was Nicholas's grief over Marian, then again his response to Henry and Simon BROKE ME.

The storm broke for Nicholas then. The black pillar of grief with its debris crashed upon him unawares, overwhelming in its ferocity; worse than the sorrow for his people at Nancy, for Godscalc or even for Umar and Marian; Felix; Zacco… reaching back beyond that, to a bottomless misery he could not remember; beating him down as he crouched. He wanted to scream. He could not keep silent. Anselm Adorne, hearing, set his lips but did not come near. Andro Wodman, forced awake, clenched his eyes to shut out the anguish.

It just touches so many characters, and that grief is allowed space to breathe and to be. I'm thinking Nicholas's raw distress in contrast to Adorne's quieter grief, the loss so deeply felt lingering from Will Rogers' death... etc.

Similarly, I loved seeing the lingering impacts of trauma following the battle at Nancy from Caprice and Rondo. They don't just get over it. Robin has life-changing injuries, which are dealt with sensitively, and he has to learn to live with them. John seems to have some kind of PTSD too, how aimless and lost he seems to find himself afterwards, how they both just need to talk about it but everyone is afraid to. They heal, but it takes TIME, and isn't just forgotten or brushed aside.

Seeing the dots appear that will connect to Lymond... RANKIN!!! (One thing I'm confused about - so, Sybilla is Jordan and Isabelle's child. I've seen the theory that Jordan's blame of Rankin for Margaret's death (HEARTBREAKING) was what led to them having to marry secretly. Really, though?? I just didn't pick up on lingering animosity from the epilogue, when the families still evidently hang out a lot? It seems like a stretch to me but I can't see any other reason.)

I have to comment also on JULIUS. THE PIG. I'd half seen a vague spoiler that he wasn't all good, and had thought him generally untrustworthy/a bit of an idiot/greedy anyway for quite a few books. So it wasn't a huge shock. I LOVED their showdown fight though. I know people herald the swordfight between Lymond/Richard in GoK as The Greatest but I have honestly preferred both this one and Lymond/Gabriel's duel at the end of DK. It was just so brutal and hard and desperate and bloody exciting to read.

Ok that's it off the top of my head. PHEW. I completed my self-set and entirely arbitrary aim of reading the full HoN series within a month, and feel a bit lost now!

Whoever said this series was a slow burn, TRULY. I only started to feel like I was beginning to understand Nicholas like... book 6 onwards. I loved that understanding dawning and developing. I ended with a big, stupid, contended grin on my face.

[satoruxx]

okay wolf!toji tomorrow :33

[haliaiii]

encounter || color pencil and water color

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[weshney]

DannyMay Day 16: Fangs

Full Webcomic Scrolling Format Version

[ksbbb]

To post or not to post? 🤔🤔🤔

[zoyo14]

FNF: Electronic Escapades Logo Process

[yumixliving]

I've finished Banana Fish.

Afterwards, I searched for the manga part.

I'm simply speechless 😭😭

[arqbella]

WAR. IS. OVER!!!!!!

[itachi86]

so conclusion: i liked alex rider season 3 a lot but a couple things:

i'm STILL disappointed they didn't do my fave scene from the book where tom sings as a distraction to get alex onto the boat

i'm also disappointed that like in the book they still didn't let alex kill anyone. like they took so many liberties already i wish they took that one too