#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

[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."

[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

[adeoetregina]

INSTAGRAM AU >> Vampire Academy/Bloodline Series

Re-make of my old edit

[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

[stay-close]

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

Richelle Mead

[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

[itsaloveforever]

One hill I will die on: ADRIAN IVASHKOV DESERVED BETTER

[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

[lexinoctura]

Rant incoming!

Okay, so I apologize for my language in the following post, and I disclaim that I have NOT seen the entire show, but only a compilation on YouTube and read the summarizes on Fandom.com

So, be warned, because this is going to be ugly!

I fucking LOVE the book series Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead.

I read them in English and in German, I have the audiobooks in both languages and the comics to it. I recently read the best FanFiction I have ever read about my favorit ship Rose/Dimitri (Romitri) called "The Ties that Bind Us" by @hiccuppedstudio , and it is one of the very, very few books, shows or movies where I don't have the burning need to write a fix-it, because the books are perfect in my eyes.

I liked the movie from 2014 well enough, even though it was a bit faster than the books. I can understand that and I fully accept that.

What i can't and won't understand and accept is that bullshit motherfucking series from 2022 which I just masochistically (otherwise i have no explanation why I sat through those 7min) skimmed on YouTube.

And don't get me wrong, it is not because they decided to cast people that don't look like the characters from the book. I couldn't care less if I can vibe with them and the story.

BUT, and here comes my full-blown inner Rumpelstizken out to play, what I HATE is when they not slightly change a plot, but fuck the entire thing up with no shame or decency or honor or respect for the source material what so ever!

you CAN'T put the content of 5 (i don't know if they added the sixth as well) books into 10 episodes, no matter how long they are.

you CAN'T try to establish characters, a forbidden romance, a stalker and kidnapper, a very traumatic death of your best friend, the murder of your ship, the 'I have to go and kill the man I love', the restoration of that man and the murdering of the leader of that society within 10 fucking episodes, just to end it with a: \(o.o)/ meh

you CAN'T just fuck something out of existence that is as vital as Dimitri's restoration and redemption to the entire plot of the fifth and sixth book because of… reasons.

you CAN'T just kick out a turn of events (Dimitri turning Strigoi and Rose going to Siberia to kill him, and everything that it entails) when it is THAT VITAL to not only three books, but also to the character development of ALL THE MAIN CHARACTERS!

I fuck you not, I have another ten reasons on what that shitshow of a show fucked up, but I fear that if I go on, I'll bit into my screen, and I am not even exaggerating!

Now, seriously, who the FUCK decided to do that!? The books are awesome – like I said – and I can only recommend them to each and every one who likes BAMF main character, and doesn't automatically think that vampire means sparkling disco ball!

BUT! The show was not made for the 'normal' consumers; it was made for the fans, because the books are relatively old (2007 was the first volume released) and the producers/directors/screenwriters dared to try and sell us shit on a paper plate and then asked us to clap

[missescara-23]

🧛🏻‍♀️🩸💋 “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies”-Richelle Mead