#the books and ben barnes

[thedeadpoets-blog]

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[periodcostumefantasylover]

The Darkling + book quotes Book vs Show

Why do you have such disdain for otkazat'sya? Not disdain. Understanding. They're not all fools and weaklings. What they are is predictable, he said. The people would love you for a time. But what would they think when their good king aged and died, while his witch of a wife remained young? When all those who remember your sacrifices are dust in the ground, how long do you think it will take for their children or grandchildren to turn on you? His words sent a chill through me. I still couldn't get my head around the idea of the long life that lay ahead of me, that yawning abyss of eternity. You never considered it, did you? Said the Darkling. You live in a single moment. I live in a thousand. Are we not all things?

[belle-keys]

the age-old discussion as to whether or not ben barnes was poor casting for dorian gray is incredibly funny to me like yes we know that dorian is supposed to look like an innocent blond cherub instead of a dark luciferian daddy long leg prince of sin because literature but it all comes down nitpicking in the end because i’m just sure that oscar wilde the man himself would have been salivating over ben every waking minute of his damn life if he were here

[anythingfor-ourmoony]

The Marauders + being happy

~ft. a hint of wolfstar <3~

[aesthetic--mood]

Shadow and bone Aesthetic

[thedeadpoets-blog]

- all beauty has an end -

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Favorite Character in a TV-Show 2023

The Darkling in Shadow & Bone Season 2

[ladygreek]

hades x persephone | a touch of darkness

[belle-keys]

nah cus why do the s&b cast kinda have their own cast lore like i’m so invested

the many secret goofy videos and pictures of freddy that clearly exist but the cast won’t share, archie’s ongoing sufferation due to the rampant mal hate in the famdom, amita not knowing how the internet internets, danielle probably having a stan tumblr and also being the championing voice of the people, everyone’s hyperawareness of ben’s ben-ness at all times, ben somehow being the one that understands how fandom and thirst work the best

[daerklina]

what do you mean alina has to wear first army soldier’s uniform. that first army was killing grisha, her people, left and right and the writers made ZERO statement on it.

it’s so unfair that in the books alina was manipulated into not wearing darkling’s color, a man who protected grisha from otkazat’sya for centuries.

but everyone was fine w her wearing simple soldier’s uniform 🤡🤡 at least in the books they gave her golden kefta w jewelry and all the fancy shit she deserved.

book! Alina would turn them all into fruit ninja if they tried to put her in that ugly uniform of men who ordered to kill her.

[iamthehamburglar]

[dciphe-r]

The Marauders on

✨Instagram✨

James takes a trip to the Black residents

(For reference here are the original posts of the second + fourth screenshots)

[periodcostumefantasylover]

The Darling + quotes

Book VS Show

The moment his lips met mine, the connection between us opened and i felt his power flood through me. I could feel how much he wanted me - but behind that desire, i could feel something else, something that felt like anger. I drew back startled. You don't want to be doing this. This is the only thing i want to be doing, he growled and i could hear the bitterness and desire all tangled up in his voice.

The key to the shadow fold is finaly within our grasp, and right now i should be in the war room hearing their report. I should be planning our trip north. But I'm not am i?

Am I? he repeated and he nipped at my neck. I gasphed and shook my head, unable to think. He had me pushed up against the door now, his hips hard against mine."The problem with wanting", he whispered his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, is "that it makes us weak".

[super-oddity]

No one knew his name to curse or extol, so I spoke it softly, beneath my breath. "Aleksander," I whispered. A boy's name, given up. Almost forgotten.

[editfandom]

Dorian Gray - Dorian Gray, 2009

[nyx-lyris]

girls don’t want flowers. girls want ben barnes doing full audio books for the shadow and bone trilogy and freddy carter doing audio books for six of crows and crooked kingdom.