#they hate mal btw

[descendantofthesparrow]

No I Don't plan on watching it.

Yet

[jessmalia]

MAL'S TOP SEVEN VILLAINS: #1. Katherine Pierce (The Vampire Diaries) "Oh, honey, you really need to take a crash course in Villain 101. Luckily for you, I have an honorary doctorate."

[nami-moittli]

Motherfucking bitch won’t come home

Going to draw him dead for this offense

[waldensblog]

Alina: Mal is so handsome, he is everyone's type. Mal fits in everywhere, everyone he meets adores him. Mal is the centre of the universe and nobody would ever notice me when he is around. Nikolai: Alina didn't want to marry me because she saw the darkness in me that the Darkling left... who is Mal again? Zoya: Alina came out of the carriage, her beautiful white hair trailing down her back... oh yeah and then that man accompanied her too. The Darkling: Alina and I could have had everything, we could have ruled together. Unfortunately, she opted for a life with the tracker. I can't be bothered to remember his name. Inej: Hey that girl with the white hair... she looks a lot like the Sun Saint. If there is a man next to her I do not see him. Wait, WAIT! Don't make me leave I must speak with her!

[boycritter]

im a senior in high school and im Normal about it. dont look at my blog.

[malevolentsilly]

hate anons are so funny like what possessed you to just go into a strangers ask box like "kill yourself you waste of space" bro you sound like the people our teachers warned us about when we were 7

[miabrown007]

mal in the grishaverse is to alina what jacob in twilight has been to bella. in this essay i'll...

[firstenchanterorsino]

One of the big reasons why I hate having ADHD is having the degenerate combination of: executive dysfunction + clutter blindness. 

It’s hell. I’m living in hell and it’s my room.

[yutamayo]

ur actually the best boyfriend ever tho

[cosmal]

cake — send me in a character and a prompt and i’ll write you a blurb!

tasm!peter x reader who’s insecure about their stretch marks or hip dips or being flat chested!!! literally any or all of those. he’d be the most comforting ever I’m swooning. (this is not self indulgent at all btw)

spiderwebs

summary peter makes you feel better about your stretch marks.

content tasm!peterparker x fem!reader, reader has body image issues

note mal i love you for this shut up. also I love u.

Peter is kissing you. He's been kissing you for the past ten minutes and you feel like your entire body is on fire.

He hovers above you but still keeps his weight pushed into your torso until you feel breathless with it. Where his elbow is firm up against your side, and his hand at your throat with his thumb in your pulse point.

You feel like you could melt right into the mattress every time he sucks on your bottom lip or when he pulls away to look at you. He blinks hard and says, "Shit," under his breath like he's amazed. You feel quite alike.

He sneaks down the bed, pushing the heavy quilt down until it slides off to the floor. He looks up at you where you're panting, head turned to the side and pushed into your pillow. A smile that Peter thinks is quite unravelling. He starts to push your shirt up, over the bump of your belly and holds it below your bralette.

He starts to kiss along your stomach and you freeze. He peppers tiny wet smacks over the skin you really wish he wouldn't. Weeks of doing your best of keeping your top on around him and hiding yourself from your boyfriend unravel and you shouldn't be this terrified about it.

You push your hands into his curls and say his name. He seems too busy. "Hey, baby," you say quietly, voice shaky when you don't want it to be.

Peter must feel you tense up. He lifts his face and looks worried, hair a mess and eyebrows pinched. His swollen lips glisten under the light on his bedside table.

"You okay?'' he asks gently, sitting up on his arm. "Did I do something?"

You feel worse when he asks because it's not his fault. You shouldn't be so jumpy around your boyfriend when he touches you. "No, I just..." you can't find it in you to explain it to him because you feel stupid. Especially when he'd been loving on you so hard.

"You're not feeling sick?" he gets up and tucks his feet under him to kneel, half a breath away from a panic.

You sit up too, leaning back on your elbows, frowning. "No, I'm...I'm okay, don't worry about it, baby."

He smooths a hand down your stomach and you tense up again unthinkingly. "You sure you're okay?"

You duck your head down and worry you're acting childish. "It's silly."

He squeezes your thigh and smiles something that calms you more than you think he knows. Soft eyes and even worse cheeks, appled and creased around his mouth. "I'm sure it's not."

"I just," you bite your tongue for a moment and work up enough courage to say more. It doesn't take much because he's just Pete. He'd never make you feel bad for feeling things. "I have stretch marks down there. Like on my belly and my hips."

Peter grins. "I know right." Your stomach churns. "They're so cool, huh?"

"What?"

He holds your hip and it startles you how much you don't hate it this time. His thumb traces over the marks absentmindedly like he already knows their path. "They're so pretty."

Your mouth feels a little dry. "Pete..."

He tamps it down a notch, nibbling his bottom lip unthinkingly. "Sorry, okay..." he starts, shuffling up the bed to meet you. "I love them."

"You do?" It's easier to stare at his nose than look into his sparkly eyes.

"Yeah," he nods, hair all floppy, "I think they're amazing."

"They're not ugly?" You hate yourself when you ask it. You're not sure why you do.

"Not at all. Look," he lifts up his shirt and turns to face his hip to you, "I have them too. Grew up too fast, I think."

You reach out to touch them. Running your fingertips over the marks along his hip and in towards his tummy. You think they look a lot nicer on him than they do you. You hum under your breath, you'd never noticed them before, and if you did, they hadn't bothered you one bit. You think he must feel the same way.

"They're pretty," you say quietly, more to yourself. You feel him shiver under your light touch.

"Not as much as yours." Pete falls down again until he's leaning over your stomach again. He kisses over them and you don't feel the need to tell him to stop this time. You relax like butter in the hot sun. You feel just as warm.

He suckles the soft skin and you twitch. "Pete," you gasp.

He pulls back looking proud, mouth popping crudely. "Yours are like little spiderwebs."

You feel a little dizzy suddenly, your arms wobbling under your weight. You lay back down before Peter can make fun of you for it. "Spiderwebs, huh?" you say breathlessly to the ceiling.

"Yeah," he agrees. Suddenly he's above you. Boyish grin that burns brighter than the downlight you were staring at. You close your eyes lest you're blinded by his charm. "It's like a part of me on you. Not as sticky though."

"Jesus," you giggle.

"Do you have any more?" he suddenly asks.

"Huh?"

He bounces up. "Any other marks? I wanna kiss them all. Gotta show my girl how much I love them."

"Peter, no."

"No, you don't have any, or no you don't want me to kiss you?" he asks incredulously. "That's really mean, baby."

"You're unbelievable." You can't help but laugh some more.

"Quick, give me your arms, I wanna look." Peter reaches for you and you roll over out of his grasp.

Peter searches until he finds them. You're less than horrified when he does, you're genuinely happy you have others he can touch. He kisses them for what feels like hours until you convince him it's your turn.

You kiss his until he's putty.

[kanejbr3kker]

Okay I need to vent. This morning I saw this on my fyp:

(btw I'm choosing not to reblog the original post and instead just post screenshots because this is definitely a rant and since the creator and I clearly have different opinions, so I decided it's just better to leave them out of this)

Anyways, I saw this and I got pissed. Very very pissed. And so I spent 2 and a half hours writing a whole three page essay explaining everything wrong with this.

So here it is. (:

First of all, the Darkling does every single thing listed here for Nikolai, excluding cutting people’s fingers off, but he does commit mass murder, which I personally consider to be worse than cutting off someone’s fingers. 

Anyways, let’s first just address Nikolai’s reasons for doing each of these things and then the Darkling’s reasons for doing the same things.

Cutting the fingers off a man: Nikolai was a teenager who wanted to help his incredibly war torn country. He felt helpless, and even once he became a privateer, a lot of people still disrespected him because of his age, so he proved his ruthlessness by injuring one person, so he could help save his entire country. 

Usurping the throne: First of all, Nikolai was second in line to the throne, and after Vasily died, he would’ve been first. Also, the current king was an ignorant rapist who let the rest of the country go to waste to fuel his own luxuries. Nikolai wanted to rescue his country from war and a ruler that was doing nothing to stop hundreds of people (many of them kids) from dying in unnecessary battles.

Lying to Alina/hiding information from her: All Nikolai did was hide his identity from Alina to get her safely away from the Darkling who had just kidnapped her for the second time in less than a year. Kissed her without her consent: Okay, let’s just preface this by saying Malina was what got me hyperfixated on the Grishaverse, so seeing Nikolai kiss Alina did upset me, but he did it spread hope to the Ravkan villagers. They were also already spreading around a fake engagement, so while it was wrong, it wasn’t like he was trying to manipulate her. Nikolai was just trying to make their marriage more believable. (I’d also like to address a scene later in the book where Alina actually wants Nikolai to kiss her, and he says no, knowing that she just wants a distraction and isn’t really in love with him).

And now for why the Darkling did all the same things. 

Trying to usurp the throne: The Darkling hates the king, but not because he’s a terrible person, but because he’s ignorant and the Darkling knows he could be using the Fold to expand Ravka’s power. The Darkling usurps the throne so he can try and take over the country, not because he wants to save it.

Lying to Alina/hiding information from her: Unlike Nikolai, he wasn’t trying to protect her. The Darkling lied to Alina so she would believe that 1) he was in love with her and 2) he wanted to save Ravka. We know this isn’t true. When Nikolai lies, he does it to protect Alina, but when the Darkling lies he does it to manipulate her.

Kissed Alina without her consent: The Darkling tried to convince Alina he was in love with her so she would be easier to manipulate. Alina even says she doesn’t know how he feels about her, and that she doesn’t believe he loves her, but that she wants to be wanted by him. 

And now for everything else the Darkling does:

Mass murder: He destroyed an entire town just to prove a point. 

“Gifting” Genya to the Lantsovs, and then allowing her to be continually raped by them

for years. More than anything else, I feel like this proves just how terrible he is.

Killing his own mother: No explanation needed, that’s just awful.

Threatening to kill Mal to make sure Alina stays in line. He enslaved Alina. He put an unremovable collar around her neck that forced her to do whatever he wanted, and then promised to kill her boyfriend just in case that wasn’t enough.

Using kids as bargaining chips. Using grown people is bad enough, but kids. Sure, they’re Grisha, but they aren’t strong enough to fight back, especially after seeing their captor kill Ana Kuya, who helped care for them while they were in hiding. (Also just felt like adding that Nina was one of the students who he used as a bargaining chip. That’s honestly pretty unimportant, but if you needed another reason to hate him.)

Killing Alina’s mother figure: Again, he did this just to prove a point. He wanted to show Alina that he could hurt the people she cared about, and that was his only incentive.

So that the first 75% of my rant, but I also made the mistake of looking at the comments on that post and added a whole extra page responding to those.

Saying that the same thing can be applied to Kaz is so fucking disrespectful. Kaz is a traumatized teen. Is he violent? Yes. But he only hurts people who have hurt him, his friends, or other innocent people. Oomen nearly killed Inej, as well as the other crows, so Kaz hurt him because he cared about his friends and was mad that they were almost killed. When the Darkling kills people, it’s out of greed for power and the fact that he knows it’ll get a rise out of Alina.

And then this. Kaz calls Inej an investment because he values her. She said four words to him and chose to pay off her indenture. She ended up being not only an incredible spy, but an incredible friend as well. Kaz didn’t need to pay off her indenture, but he did because despite everything terrible that he does, he’s still a genuinely good person, and didn’t want to see a woman being exploited the way she was. An investment is something you value, which is why Kaz calls her one.

Also, Kaz makes a big point of Inej not belonging to anyone. He didn’t force her to get the Dregs tattoo, because he didn’t “want to be the one to mark her again.” He recognized that she was an independent person, and by not making her have the tattoo, he was giving her the freedom to leave Ketterdam when her indenture was paid off. Also, when Inej tells Kaz she wants to leave Ketterdam, he literally buys her a boat so she can leave. That’s not how you treat your property.

And as for the Darkling, he used Alina’s power to start a civil war. What he does is beyond redemption. The Darkling exploits and manipulates women. He abuses and assaults them to reach his own goals, most of which involve destroying the rest of the world so that Ravka stays in power. Comparing him to two kids who just do what they have to to survive is so disrespectful, and clearly you misunderstood the messages of the books if you think that Kaz and Nikolai are the same as the Darkling.

So that's my little anti-Darkling rant. I've already tortured my frienda with this, so if they didn't think I was insane before, they do now lol.

[jessmalia]

If you told 12–17 year old me who was steadfastly up on her contrarian high horse against Game of Thrones that in the future she'd be blogging this obsessively about a GOT spinoff she would've murdered you

[alais-bladesoflight]

I dont care people's hate towards Aerin. I love Aerin and since childhood all people literally abused him. Even Mal had his sister and mom (for a while) ... He met Shadow Court at very young age like he was an abused lonely kid with weakest mind. It was easier to give in shadow. When he met Mc it was already too late. He didnt know them for a long time or something. It is painful to see his scenes. Thats why my Mc romancing him and give him love. It would be different for him...

Btw before people commenting sh*t Nia has every right to not forgive him and she suffered bec of this. I'll never ever think Nia being close to be whiny or sh*t.

[fi0n4]

ma meilleure ennemie translation

i'm sure this has been done, and also this is only my second year learning french. however, i think sometimes things are better understood by amateurs (which btw is a french word that is opposite of expert, not in the sense that one is really good and one is really bad at what they do, but actually that experts do what they do because they are good at it, and amateurs do the thing because they actually love it despite their skill level :3), because when you're too good at something such as a language, you can't explain it as well.* on the flip side, i may simply get things insanely incorrect. and for that i apologize. i hope not though because my french final is in t-2 days!

final note: i am new to tumblr so idk how to format things nice and fancily. :(

anyway. here i go.

Original: Je t'aime, je te hais, je t'aime, je te hais x4 Translation: I love you, I hate you, I love you, I hate you x4

Original: T'es la meilleure chose qui m'est arrivée | Mais aussi la pire chose qui m'est arrivée Translation: You are the best thing that's happened to me | But also the worst thing that's happened to me Analysis: Arriver means to arrive or to happen. This line can also mean "you are the best/worst thing that has come to me." Arriver is conjugated in the feminine, in reference to Powder.

Original: Ce jour où je t'ai rencontrée, j'aurais peut-être préféré | Que ce jour soit jamais arrivé (arrivé) Translation: The day that I met you, I would've maybe preferred | That this day had never come

Original: La pire des benédictions | La plus belle des malédictions Translation: The worst of blessings | The most beautiful of curses Translation 2: The worst blessing | The most beautiful curse

Original: De toi, j'devrais m'éloigner Translation: From you, I should move away

Original: Mais comme dit le dicton | "Plutôt qu'être seul, mieux vaut être mal accompangé" Translation: But as said by the saying | "Instead of being alone, it is better to be poorly accompanied" Analysis: The former was a "direct translation." It sounds better in English when, in addition to using the English version of the adage, "But as the saying goes, it is better to be in poor company than alone." This is the direct opposite of the real saying of "It is better to be alone than in poor company."

Original: Tu sais c'qu'on dit | "Soit près d'tes amis les plus chers" Translation: You know what they say | "Be close to your dearest friends"

Original: Mais aussi | "Encore plus près d'tes adversaires" Translation: But also | "Even closer to your adversaries" Translation 2: But also | "Still [be] closer to your adversaries" Analysis: An elongation of "Keep your friends close but your enemies closer." Google Translate will give you the word "opponents" as the translation of adversaires as if adversaries isn't an English word. I am including this as a note because maybe people don't know what that word is? Similarly, benedictions is the English word for benédictions but I didn't know that so. Just in case.

Original: Mais ma meilleure ennemie, c'est toi | Fuis-moi, le pire, c'est toi et moi Translation: But my best enemy, it's you | Run away from me, the worst, it's you and me Translation 2: But my best enemy is you | Run away from me, the worst is you and me Analysis: Fuir is a verb meaning to escape or avoid, and it is conjugated in the imperative, which is the tense used to give commands. Ekko is telling her to run, to avoid him, to escape from him. Or perhaps he is telling himself, in the end.

Original: Mais si tu cherches encore ma voix | Oublie-moi, le pire, c'est toi et moi Translation: But if you're still searching for my voice | Forget me, the worst i(t')s you and me

Original: Pourquoi ton prénom me blesse | Quand il se cache juste là dans l'espace? Translation: Why does your name hurt me | When it's hiding right there in space? Analysis: I think this might be a funny play on words for English speakers. Blesser is the French verb for to injure, but based on the false cognate in English, one may assume its meaning to be positive. Further, the direct translation doesn't seem to mean a lot. I believe the second part is meant to express the same sentiments as the saying "hiding in plain sight." Still, I have no idea what that means in context of the song or the show?

Original: C'est quelle émotion, ta haine | Ou de la douceur | Quand j'entends ton prénom Translation: What an emotion! Your hatred | Or __ | When I hear your name Translation: Which is this emotion? Your hatred | Or __ | When I hear your name Analysis: My undereducation is showing here. La douceur refers to the sweetness of candy, and I'm unsure if this sweetness applies to the personality or if this would imply that a person actually tastes sweet (French can be weird like that). In essence, la douceur can mean sweetness, softness, and gentleness. All work in English.

Original: Je t'avais dit "ne regarde pas en arrière" | Le passé qui te suit, te fait la guerre Translation: I had told you "Don't look back" | The past that follows you makes war on you Analysis: I'm curious about these lyrics. The first part is in plus-que-parfait, a tense that many English speakers don't use. It implies something that was said further in the past than the past being referenced. Sometime in the distant past, Powder had told Ekko to not look back. (I may be wrong with this next part.) Also, the use of the word en preceding arrière implies a certain amount of time being referenced. En is a word that is used to replace amounts; in English, it would be similar to "of it" or "of them" ("Do you have any brothers?" "Yeah, I have 2 of them." would be “As-tu des frères?” “Oui, j’en ai deux.”). This lyric could mean "don't look back" on a certain part of their life, or "don't look back on it." For the second part, I presume the meaning to be like a "the past will haunt you if you don't let it go" sort of deal.

And the rest repeats!!! Hope this was meaningful or something and def feel free to correct me. Go jayvik nation :P

*i'm like nerding out here. but for example, take explaining 1+1 to a five year old. you're like "1+1 equals 2" and the kiddo is like "why?" and ur like "wdym why it just is." it is harder to explain the more of an expert you are!

[duncan-rohanne]

alright, i've been back for like 2 hours, i'm ready to make some enemies....

i was choosing peace, scrolling through the nosferatu and thomas hutter tags and lo and behold, the "he loves her but he doesn't understand her," discourse is back and let me tell you:

it's not new, ok. you didn't just discover anything groundbreaking.

if there is a "love triangle" between a heroine, her golden retriever boyfriend/husband and a villain, it always ends up here.

from darklina(/mal), reylo (/finn), delena (/stefan), phantom/christine (/raoul), dramione (/ron), spike/buffy (/angel), addie/luc (/henry) and of course dracula/mina (/jonathan) and i could keep going but you get my point.

listen, listen, i get it, we all get it, you have english literature degree, you like gothic horror and you think enemies to lovers is the coolest concept since death and the maiden.

i don't have anything against those ships (i mean, i do, the fandoms are worst), people like their villains, i love my villains, villains are awesome, they are fun way to explore the darker side of things and a great way for the heroine to find her own voice and power, great, especially when we make it sexy, however...

have you maybe considered, that them having a guy by their side, that tells them that murder, abuse, world domination and death aren't great, is maybe a good thing? like, yeah, maybe he doesn't get it but he is doing his best to understand and still cares for her and tries to protect her.

yeah, dark is sexy, even when it's a rotting corpse, i agree, but maybe the character trying to pull away from it and not grasping it, is not inherently pathetic and not deserving to be a love interest.

(btw, i'm aware this is a layered topic and there is nuance here, even with the ships i listed but the phase "he doesn't understand her" is really something that gets on my nerves for years, a decade at this point, i can literally go back to my teen wolf days.)

tldr: create a new line when hating the golden retriever boyfriend. thank you.

[descenderintofantasy]

another reason glassheart won't happen: As much as I love Red, do the shippers realize she’s the reason Chloe's mom was going to be beheaded? This isn't some mistake like Mal closing the barrier because she was scared(which she gets a lot of hate for in the fandom) this is someone's LIFE. I don't mean to call out the shippers, I’ve had my fair share of enemies to lovers shipping so ship and let ship but just something that randomly popped into my head...

Happy new year btw! -tb

....Your ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! *I* didn't even think of that until you said it. But as you say, are shippers expecting Chloe to just NOT CARE that Red was part of the reason that her mother DIED?

I mean yes they might argue that becuse they erased the timeline it never happened, and it wasn't really Red's fault/she didn't really want it to happen.

But still, that is a BIG thing to forgive, especially to the person you're going to develop romantic feelings for. It would literally hang over their relationship. One day, that fact WOULD get brought up in a fight. Chloe will never be able to truly forget/forgive Red for it.

Even with 'enemies to lovers' thinking Glassheart would just NOT WORK. They would break up eventually if they did date becuse the fact that Red was partly responsible for her partner's mother's death would always be under the surface.

Happy new year, and thanks for the ask! :D