#she deserve revenge

[abookwormguidetoagoodread]

The wicked can fake nobility, just as the damned can fake innocence. But only the truth will rise from the ashes when we all start to burn. — Victoria Evans

- Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5), S.T. Abby.

[mycurrentobsessionis]

Arabella: Halsin, how do I get revenge on someone who's wronged me? Halsin: Well, little one, the best revenge is letting go and living well. Arabella: ... Arabella: Astarion, how do I--

[cairafea]

he makes this joke every time.

[drenched-in-sunlight]

people bending over backwards to scream Marika never loved Messmer when he alone has more blessings personally bestowed by her than any other demigods combined are so funny to me. also the fact that it's implied he used to live in Leyndell too 😂😂

also she killed an entire god herself and made sure said God is called all manner of names and depict as ugly forever. for him 😂😂

[kings-favorite-courtjester]

My wifey 😍

[zebrashavestripes]

Can't believe the guy couldn't even hand her the fucking gun

[sukibenders]

Not people talking bad about my girl Helaena just to support Aemond. Like, she had a right to ask him if what he did was worth it because, even if Aegon is atrocious, Aemond is the reason that her son was killed in front of her, the reason that she had to choose which of her children dies, and is the reason why she has to live with that now. While other characters played a part in that, without Aemond killing Luke, Jaehaerys would probably still be there or wouldn't have died in such a cruel way. B&C are sent there to kill Aemond, and when they can't find him they follow through with their next order of "a son for a son". And while Aemond may be smarter and more strategic (and not a disgusting man like Aegon) as prince regent, he is still, as Alicent called out, volatile and brewing with unchecked anger. I wouldn't feel safe having him on the throne just as much as Aegon, but because he served face and is the lesser evil I'm supposed to be okay with it? No, Helaena can question this man as much as she likes, for the rest of her life given what she has to go through. (Also, she literally just asked him a valuable question that deeply needs to be considered, so why are people mad at her?)

[skywalkr-nberrie]

One of the biggest arguments I’ve seen used by the Ob*d*l*s against Anidala, is that scene in the ROTS novel where Padmé says she could trust OW with the secret of the rebellion and was hesitant to tell Anakin and I just wanna say:

Padmé wasn't an idiot. She was an extremely intelligent and competent woman, perfectly able to understand that loving Anakin and thinking that he could be trusted with a certain politic-related matter were two very different things and reducing her choice regarding who to trust with an important political matter only on the basis of her feelings of romantic love diminishes her professionalism, and this is why I say y'all could never understand her.

Padmé didn’t have to "love" OW or even like him at all to know he was the perfect Jedi to ask for help in a secret political matter.

That's the point being made in the novel, she’s hit with the realization that Anakin in this particular moment could not be told this piece of info because of his relationship with Palpatine, and Padmé specifically mentions in the Junior ROTS novel that she didn't want to make Anakin “keep a secret” if he didn’t agree with their stance because it’d be “unfair.” So this also played a part in why Padmé didn’t think it best to inform Anakin about the Rebellion. It honestly had little to do with her actually lacking trust in him, and more to do with the circumstances she was in not allowing her to be open with her husband and her not wanting to make him choose between his wife and his “father figure.”

However, Padmé knows OW’s political ideas aren't tied to ONE particular person but to a philosophy, one which is closer to her own, at that point. None of this was ever meant to be hinted as “romantic” or even remotely insinuated as romantic. It’s strictly professional and even the tone of the scene makes that so abundantly clear.

All I’m saying is that, some of these proshippers are doing the most out here to try and prove their ship, like my loves? You forgot a very important thing called ✨ context ✨ and regardless of her rational thinking, Padmé still went out of her way to try and talk out all of this Rebellion secrecy stuff with Anakin when she confronted him in the scene where she asks if he ever thought they were “fighting on the wrong side.” Padmé didn’t trust OW in the same way she trusted Anakin (with her entire self and being) she had the level of trust and love for Anakin that was only meant for him.

Mixing up her unwavering faith in Anakin as her husband with her trust in OW’s devotion to duty as her comrade/ally is purposely deluding yourself, because the two aren’t the same and therefore can’t be compared. An example of this is: Padmé constantly putting more value to Anakin’s words over OW’s in the end of ROTS when he came to tell her of Anakin’s “crimes”. She completely disregarded what OW had claimed about her husband and instead made her way to where Anakin was herself, to ask him directly. Despite what the truth was, this is proof of her trusting Anakin unconditionally, and I didn’t even think I had to spell that out because it’s as clear as day.

In conclusion, Padmé didn’t trust OW more than Anakin, she just knew the circumstances she was in didn’t exactly make it easy for her to openly talk with her husband about these matters and that’s part of what played into the issues they had in ROTS, it’s exactly what Sidious wanted. This scene in the novel doesn’t exist to imply some hidden romantic undertone that George was intending all along. No, far from that. George was always an “open, , clear and easy to understand” type of storyteller, so if the former was the case, this scene wouldn’t be any different if there was some hidden message or subtext the reader should be made aware of, George would make it obvious. Fact of the matter is, the one and only reason for this scene in the novel to exist is only to show to us as the “reader” that the narrative is tearing apart the Star-Crossed-lovers (Anakin and Padmé.) and visibly putting the two of them on different sides in the story because the consequences of this narrative choice is what will foreshadow and play into the inevitable and great fall of the couple and character in the future. Even the novel makes a very purposeful and clear distinction between “love and trust” in this chapter where all this occurs. Padmé loves Anakin, but knew she had to trust OW with the situation at hand. And if you want to talk “narratively” Padmé needed a reason to keep the Rebellion a secret from Anakin, thus leading to Palpatine to sense “betrayal” in Padmé later on, and using that to his advantage to manipulate Anakin even more into getting him to “suspect” her. It’s all spelt out for us and it’s not hard to miss. All it takes is a little media literacy and understanding context.

(Mind you, hypothetically, if this scene existed for literally any other reason, it would’ve been brought up again, but it wasn’t. It’s only mentioned once and exists for only one moment which was meant to serve a certain narrative and then it was done. There’s not much to make of it since the context of the scene is so clear.)

[scarnemo]

an extra page from Volume 2

[minniiaa]

Ugh they really grow up so fast, don’t they? *sniff*

[abookwormguidetoagoodread]

Any demon is capable of cruelty, but only an angel is majestic enough to rain down vengeance for the innocent. — Marcus Evans

- Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5), S.T. Abby.

[witchhazelevesque]

Listen even if Hazel wasn’t destined to be right up in the action when Leo vaporized Gaea, you know what she could have done?

Ripped Gaea from the ground, her source of power, so Leo could carry her off into the sky. It should not have been as easy as it was in canon, and it makes so much sense that Hazel would be needed for that task.

Imagine that. Because Gaea used and tormented Hazel in her first attempt at power and she failed. Imagine Hazel using those same abilities Gaea targeted her for and getting to cut her off from that power now, for the last time, and then watch as she’s stopped for good. Having someone there to be her partner in that, when she was alone right up until the last moment the first time.

Oh god, the Marie and Leo parallels in this scenario…

[wonderviolet17]

claudia sketch

[87000beesinapersonsuit]

meyim was sexually abused by her master growing up. she's free of him now, but he is still there in her mind no matter where she goes

[rxally-borxng]

A little reimagine - fix it of some events from Arcane Season 2 Act 2...

Because imagine if Caitlyn was planning to betray Ambessa with her Enfocers BEFORE the Noxian army would start attacking Viktor's sanctuary. And then, Vi appears and she's perfect to get rid of Ambessa (at least, until her soldiers are defeated); but Vi wants to save her father, so Caitlyn tells her she would take care of that.

But why Vi would be a perfect distraction for Ambessa? Because Ambessa is fucking tired of watching Caitlyn distracted: she's trying to teach her Noxian figthing styles, but Caitlyn keeps copying Vi's boxing stances; she's telling her how she needs to present herself before others as a Commander, but Caitlyn keeps wearing zaunite's clothes that "someone picked up for her" in private meetings; she's trying to set a mole, but Caitlyn is not interested in getting a relationship because "they're just not was she's into" (Sorry Maddie, it would hurt you less if you're just a one-night hook up)

So, in this context, everything keeps the same but now, when Warwick/Vander loses his mind, the Noxian and the Enforcers stop their fighting to get rid of the new threat (but it's over for their alliance), Ambessa got reasons to try to kill Vi and Caitlyn doesn't switch sides because "cupcake" is a magic word.

[swan2swan]

How the dialogue would have gone if Sammy was allowed to focus on her Issues for this season.