#richelle-mead

[quotelr]

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't.

Richelle Mead, Frostbite

[thoughtkick]

Taking a deep breath, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.

Richelle Mead

[perfectfeelings]

Taking a deep breath, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.

Richelle Mead

[oblivionsdream]

Rose and Lissa from Vampire Academy. This artwork was for the endpapers of the German edition of Shadow Kissed. Their friendship is such a big part of this series so I really wanted to play with that, Rose being shadow kissed and how Lissa saved her

[bramblrose]

"You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love."

[adeoetregina]

INSTAGRAM AU >> Vampire Academy/Bloodline Series

Re-make of my old edit

[rinadragomir]

GUYS IT BROUGHT ME BACK FROM THE DEAD😭LitJoy posted VAMPIRE ACADEMY arts, no I'm not hallucinating, we actually have 9 new art pieces

Tip-in Art by @laura_sava_art

Endpaper Reveal by @niru.sky

Tip-in Art by @gonzalom.art

[qvotable]

Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.

Richelle Mead

[retiredficwriter]

[auntieblues]

“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.” ― Richelle Mead, Frostbite

[itsaloveforever]

One hill I will die on: ADRIAN IVASHKOV DESERVED BETTER

[stay-close]

Taking a deep breath, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.

Richelle Mead

[yikuaidanggao]

VA non-canon ships POLL

[acesydneysage]

Reasons why The Indigo Spell is my favorite Bloodlines book:

Witchcraft! So much cool witchy stuff!

Sydney and Adrian aren't together yet, and there's resisting and pining and oh, but they give in and make out every 50 pages or so

HOPPER THE TINY DEMON DRAGON

How much of a goner Sydney is from page one, she thinks about Adrian constantly and misses him the second they're apart, while telling herself that the idea that she's "already halfway in love with him" is crazy

How insanely bad Adrian is at "loving from afar"

Adrian making heart eyes at Sydney while she throws fire balls

Sydney watching Adrian paint and going MINE

Crossword in the airplane scene, just how well Adrian knows her

Sydney actively going against the Alchemists, questioning what they tell her and being resentful of how they used her

"His face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was probably about to happen."

THE DANCE

Oh no, I'm completely horrified at the idea of having to touch and dance with a vampire, I'm not thinking about when he kissed me at all

Sydney and Ms. Terwilliger actually developing a mentorship, Ms. T driving herself to the ground to protect Sydney and Sydney saving her

Talking about Ms. T: "He looks like he would do anything for you" She met him once! Captain of the ship! Well, Jill's first mate, anyway

Sydney and Adrian playing supernatural detectives!!!

The kiss at the college party

Adrian looks at Sydney's aura and almost explicitly states that she's demisexual

"I'm a quick study"

Alicia is a cool villain

Malachi Wolf is back and has a squirrel cookie jar, and Sydney can't wait to tell Adrian about it, momentarily forgetting she's supposedly leaving for Mexico

The whole melodramatic set up for their kiss and first date in the end is so, so Adrian, and he found a place Sydney would adore

If anyone wants to explain what their favorite book in the series is and why, please tag me :)

[artianaiolanthe]

I know I'm the only one actively on the "Moroi society is inherently cult like" rn but like the more I think about it the worse receipts I have.

The "royal" society of Important vampires is also all encouraged to keep the bloodline from getting too murky. Like sure none of the main relationships are close cousins so much as distant relations but they are easily able to trace things like Christian having "just enough Dragomir ancestry" that his and Lissa's kids could be Dragomirs and that reads as "oh great we're related enough that our kids can matter more!"???

The whole plot with Mia also, that she's able to be mocked and ridiculed for being mistreated for dating (having been groomed by? What was the age difference again I don't have my books) Lissa's brother when she was more of a commoner and had no royal blood to her name. That Lissa was able to steal her boyfriend so easily not only because of spirit but because they were in an entirely different class.

The weird as fuck caste system that's basically "Royal Moroi > Commoner Moroi > Guardians > Other Dhampires > humans/Alchemists"

It's a rabbit hole no one asked for but I have No Choice But To Dig because otherwise I'm completely entirely lost

[jetsteelyourheart]

Bloodlines Book 5 Silver Shadows by Richelle Meade

Illustration of the wedding <3 I moved the location. I mean, Sydney loves roman architecture? And they're in Las Vegas? Honestly Caesars Palace just seemed like the obvious choice (I considered the Venetian but the locations outdoors at Caesars were just more picturesque)

Excerpt from Chapter 20 of Silver Shadows

"Oh, hang on. You need this first."

I caught hold of her hand and slipped on the newly made engagement ring. Sydney's breath caught at the glittering array, and then she looked up at me in alarm, finally realizing where the funding for this adventure had come from. "Adrian, those are your aunt's."

I led her forward. "And now they're yours."

The officiant knew about our time constraints and kept the service pretty basic, mostly sticking to what was legally required in the state of Nevada. He did add one part that was his own design, words that burned into me and repeated in my brain later when I slipped the little glittering circle of rubies onto Sydney's finger: "Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team... inseparable and unbreakable."

They were powerful words for someone like me to hear, someone who'd indeed lived a pretty selfish existence. But as I met Sydney's shining eyes and saw the hope and joy radiating from her, I felt up to them. I was ready to take that selfless step with her, to know that everything we did now was about the two of us and, eventually, our family. This was the biggest decision I'd made in my life... and the one I did most happily.

When the vows were said and the rings were on, the officiant pronounced us husband and wife. I drew Sydney to me and kissed her, full of love and life and the happiness of what we had in store for us. When we finally pulled apart, the minister added, "I'm very pleased to introduce the world to Adrian and Sydney Ivashkov."