never forget that mal is an insecure little bitch that wanted to immediately take off the stag amplifier from alina and was never comfortable with her being too powerful. he will always represent her limitations and self-suppression. ALWAYS.
rip to alina, but if i found out the darkling was the black heretic, i would've gaslit gatekept girlbossed my way into his trust and convinced him to protect the grisha some other way
@successtextpost
but honestly if i was kendall when shiv said “you can’t be ceo because you killed someone” i wouldve honestly said so the fuck what. what does that have to do with anything. none of us are in a car right now are we.
@linamorozovaa
its the way the aoo3 tagging system is the best out there too like 😭😭😭 wdym u don't read the tags gurl... how tf do u know if the fic is gonna be up ur alley or not.....
@successtextpost
he’s like haha? murder? i wasn’t even IN THE CAR i’m just an empath so i felt like that’s what being in the car w the kid would’ve been like
"the author said this" "the author said that"
i dont CARE any good author will know literature is about emotion and the human experience and therefore different readers will have different interpretations and thats FINE. authors dont get to dictate how readers experience books.
the darkling intentionally sits with the soldiers, feeds grisha food all ravkans typically eat so that theyre not too out of touch, spends most of his time in the frontlines despite not needing to and his sole motivator is the protection of grisha... and yall want me to hate him?
bruh how r u gonna have only 2 immortal main characters who have powers that are literally and aesthetically the exact opposite of each other + let them be powerful enough to rule the world.... then have the mc end up w a farmer
except it wasn't alina's choice. her powerlessness was forced upon her and she hated it. this is all explicitly stated. like you don't even need reading comprehension to understand that, it's written there plain and simple. she didn't leave, she was punished for doing her best.
i dont care what le*gh says in that stupid duology, alina wouldve hugged aleksander the moment she saw him again. we KNOW she grieved him and felt empty without him.
m*l in the show being like "what do you want with us?" and nikolai looks him up and down and he's like "with you? nothing. i'm not even sure who you are."
I WAS GAGGEDDDDD
luke skywalker showed more character depth than he ever had before in “the last jedi”..... but some of y’all are miles away from ready for that conversation.
this is ur not-so-friendly reminder that aleksander used to canonically count the minutes until sunrise every night. the sun’s arrival every day brought him joy. so did his sun-summoner.
THE AUDACITYYYY of them having her say that aleksander was the first person to make her feel like she wasn't a "weak stick" knowing DAMN WELL that "sticks" was the name mal gave her in the books to body-shame her. nah, that writers room is insane.
if i hear the “hot villains make people/women forget theyre the bad guys” argument one. more. fucking. time... i cannot be held responsible for my actions.
im convinced that if someone just hugged the darkling and told him they love him and that he actually matters, he would be persuaded to destroy the fold.
book!alina finding her powers after realizing that her past/mal was holding her back and shes the only person that could save herself >>>> show!alina finding her powers cause mal didn’t write back
book!darklina is so tragic and for WHAT?
the immortal that represents darkness being alone for centuries until the immortal that represents light finally comes around and they are the only ppl that really see each other? and they have a magical bond? AND THEN ONE OF THEM DIES?
do you think aleksander morozova sometimes would remember random inside jokes he had with people whenever he'd see something related to it, and he'd start laughing until he pauses and remembers those people are dead and has to blink back the tears?
@shadowandbone_
its good that u know where the money is so ur using darklina for marketing, but its a big mistake if theyre not gonna be endgame cuz audiences will have them as the expectation after all this fucking darklina promotion. viewers/show stans will be VERY confused.
ok but... given the clear fan/audience favoritism of darklina... you guys darklina being endgame in the show + darkling redemption arc is a very real possibility
U GUYS I REALIZED SOMETHING!
when alina arrives at the little palace, she hasnt packed anything so all that she has is whatever’s on her. so they had have gotten her new underwear and bras
...what if the darkling was the one to pick them out or at least give his stamp of approval
@strawbrryblurbo
i want u to realize that thinking women are somehow antifeminist or regressive if they’re with men is deeply sexist towards women. DEEPLY.
@BeijingPalmer
i mean? i don't get what the point of the condescending tone is? are you upset by the fact that you've been faced with the fact that your tweet is objectively wrong? if you don't LIKE the art generated around the sequels that's fine but to say that there is none is just silly
my grandparents and great-grandparents who were alive during the British colonization of our country, watching over me as I thirst over a 39-year-old British man every day.
somewhere in an alternate universe, book! darkling is sobbing because what the fuck do you mean there's a picture of him smiling as he boops the sun summoner's nose
book!alina's speech abt how the grisha could call her "the darkling's whore" for all she'd care is soooooooooooo hot like no wonder aleksander was down bad????
israel has expanded from bombing palestine to bombing my country by the way, a country that has diplomatic relationships w israel and has not involved itself at ALL with the conflict. in case anyone still thought they’re acting in self-defense😁
we talk a lot abt how leigh/eric ruined the darklings arc but whats underrated is that alinas story couldve been abt class relations, gender roles, and systemic oppression.
instead shes used to prop OTHER characters up. her story is just used as an INTRO to everyone else.
and alina didn’t just lose her powers. they left her!! nature finds a balance. she had far too much power for one grisha, so her power was distributed to ppl all over ravka. it’s kind of like if buffy had to lose her powers to activate all of the other slayers
WHY is the best writing that your team has ever done been for a show whose pilot has yet to be greenlit, as opposed to the show you're currently working on? the show you're currently trying to promote? WHY is alina not enough?????
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what r u more likely to deal with irl? someone using your abilities without your consent and being a mass murderer, or a "good guy" who slut shames you, makes remarks about your appetite, and is most comfortable when you're not powerful? y'all gotta think abt that shit
the real villain is the monarchy and how it allowed the systematic execution/discrimination against grisha. someone who was gonna fight back CENTURIES of violence with violence was bound to happen, because thats the result of such long-lasting violence against a group of people.
i’m going to rip my hair out of my skull this is an INFINITELY better reason for alina to have suppressed her powers. not so she could spend time with some man. an ASSHOLE man at that. alina starkova u have been done so dirty.
“kanej is toxic! he doesn’t even act like he cares about her!” they yell on tiktok. satisfied, they close the app then open wattpad to read the most recent book in their library: a mafia-kidnapping romance.
now that darklina is officially the most popular ship... maybe some people will try to learn about what makes it appealing to the majority of readers/audiences instead of saying that EVERYONE who ships darklina is sick and an abuse apologist... idk just a thought
this is like when book!aleksander was upset over how much he liked alina that he kept saying over and over how much he hated it WHILE making out with her
the thing abt s&b darklina is that it feels like eric heisserer himself broke into my house in the middle of the night when i was asleep n stole what was most precious to me
WHERES the name reveal? WHERES the canon soul connection? WHERES the ying/yang? WHERES alina mourning him?
season 2's explanation for alina and aleksander's connection is that they "share an amplifier"??? PLSSS as if they couldn't feel each others presence and emotions telepathically since BOOK ONE. i see how it is eric. we're just lying now, huh?
here’s your friendly reminder that darklina was originally supposed to be endgame and the book was originally marketed as a fantasy love story between the darkling and alina <3
darklina is so iconic
-“there are 2 thrones on that dias, you could see me anytime you like”
-“you might make me a better man” “and you might make me a monster”
-“why wont you leave me alone” “then id be alone too”
-“i seem to be a victim of my own wishes where you are concerned”
did they truly just take aleksander's desire to not be buried so that he isn't tormented by people's hatred for him, even in death.... and turn it into a scene where the people who hated him the most cremated him SO they can desecrate his body... and had nikolai gave some speech?
friendly reminder that alina is the first person that aleksander cared about for centuries and she was also the person to drive a sword into his chest.
yk what's funny about shadow and bone. NONE of the grishaverse trilogy fans one. darklinas had the darkling die. malina broke up. zoyalais have to deal with alina and nikolai being together. the writers said fuck you to all of us and i think that's funny and kinda beautiful.
im literally tearing up rn because i realized that so many reylos tried to flood the og tweet with support and love. THANK YOU. thank you so much. i cant put into words how much this means to me. i have never felt a bigger wave of empathy and support, thank you.
i hate season 2 but genya saying "you survived?" and aleksander replying with "of course i did. when have i ever not?" got me giggling and kicking my feet in the air ngl.