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This tears me apart every time I read it

thinking about what zuko means to azula and weeping. he's a traitor but he's your brother. he held you when you were born. he's banished for being too weak to hurt your father and you learn to hate his goodness. he is somewhere in the world carrying your eyes. he misses your absent mother more than he loves you but that is the price you pay for being the one who stayed. he never grants you this same kindness. you are faster and deadlier and better but it doesn't change the fact that your brave big brother used to tell you stories of dragons every time it stormed because you were so afraid of the thunder. he is the only one who understands what it means to bear the brunt of your bloody inheritance. he crumbled under the weight of it, but you stayed. you always stay. he is half of you. you hate being betrayed.

you don't love him. he's your big brother. who could you possibly love more?

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Edgar Alan Poe but procrastination

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This.

god i love fallible characters, but specifically zuko in the catacombs. choosing his sister over his uncle just to get to sleep in his childhood bed again. earning katara's kindness and empathy and stripping it all away in minutes because he ached for the familiar. fighting on the wrong side of history just to see his father smile with pride. knowing he could have done the right thing, but what is being good when you could be terrible but loved.

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😭😭😭

The Power of Love

Rigel stared at his superior expression. She wanted to scream. She wanted to cry. Instead, she laughed. Slowly, sadly, she laughed until she could speak through her anger. “No, you don’t know. You really don’t. You don’t understand our relationship at all. It’s so much more than whatever self-righteous, martyring, Gryffindor connection you’re imagining. I’m not falling on a sword for Harry. And she wouldn’t for me. If she were in this room right now she’d tell me to do the selfish thing and sacrifice her, because that’s how much she cares for me. And I would expect the same from her. Do whatever you want to us. We won’t be leveraged against one another.” Riddle was gazing at her in frustrated incomprehension, and she had to laugh lowly one last time. “I know you don’t understand. You can’t imagine a bond so strong that two people would be willing to do anything for one another. Suffice to say, all your threats are meaningless. Harry would never allow herself to be used against me. She’d die first.”

—The Futile Façade, chapter 7

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This tears me up inside, every time I re-read the series..

“Just Harry,” she muttered after him half-heartedly. She had never been more aware that she was not “just Harry.” She was Heiress Potter. She was Harry the Lower Alleys Potions Brewer. She was Rigel Black. She was highborn, lowborn, pureblood, halfblood, powerful, average, mysterious, and unassuming. She was thirteen. She was fifteen. She was fractured and whole. She was a child and a criminal, a lady and a liar. She was afraid that by the time everything was over she wouldn’t be anything anymore. Just a collection of faces that hid a hollow void where there should be something real and solid and her.

The Futile Façade, Chapter 1

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Also, Arobynn bought Lysandras' virginity.

FRIENDLY REMINDER

Aelin was willing to be tortured and captured by Maeve for Elide.

Elide was willing to go back into captivity for Aelin.

Lysandra was willing to wear someone else's skin for the rest of her life for Aelin.

Aelin bowed to Maeve for Elide.

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Literally me this past month

sorry i have disappeared, i’m on a sarah j maas binge lol

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#enemy #final words #tumblr polls #life quote

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#tumblr polls #friendship #life quote

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(Actual) FRIENDLY REMINDER

Ansel never forgot that extra minute. She tried to save Celaena from Endovier. She pillaged Melisande for Aelin and then hung up Terrasen's flag beside her own to mark the territory. She raised an army for Aelin and was willing to try and raise another.

#throne of glass #empire of storms #ansel of briarcliff

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FRIENDLY REMINDER

Aelin was willing to be tortured and captured by Maeve for Elide.

Elide was willing to go back into captivity for Aelin.

Lysandra was willing to wear someone else's skin for the rest of her life for Aelin.

Aelin bowed to Maeve for Elide.

#throne of glass #aelin ashryver galathynius #elide lochan #lysandra #empire of storms

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’cause you mean everything...

#mal descendants #disney descendants #mal x ben

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this would be fun to fully flesh out, but for now, it’s an open idea y’all can take a crack at if u want just dm me the link so i can scream how amazing u are if u do

A hostage situation in the Lower Alleys where Scar and Co., or potentially Voldemort supporters take a bunch of alley kids hostage. Harry, despite not looking or being quite so young anymore, was a known figure that was important to the King, and it fit with their MO. Jason, Cora, Margo, Jack, and others, perhaps the Bottings? all being kept somewhere in the meantime

Leo went to Count Aurel, and Kasten immediately offered to help, to everyone’s surprise. Gavril and Irena were also a surprise, but they were more active in the community than Kasten. Kasten really went off the chain, relatively, and Leo wasn’t sure what to make of his offer, he took it of course, but wondered how Harry had three vampires willing to risk a rescue attempt. (hint: everyone loves Harry)

Harry does her best to protect the kiddos, and the kidnappers took her wand (unsurprisingly, she was to only hostage to have one) and her potions kit (NOOOOOOOOO *darth vader scream*). She knew she had her magic, and her brains. Jack and Margo were fast, Cora was nimble, but she didn’t know much more about the other kids, and with so many to protect, she wasn’t willing to take any risks. She sat in the middle of the kids, and they were all hanging onto her in some way. Cora and Margo were sharing her lap.

she tells stories to pass the time, like how such and such in the 15th century accidentally added boiled slugs instead of mashed slugs to a potion and made a wart remover instead of a weedkiller, and other nerdy potioneer history stories. the kids actually really like them, which is what she’s happy to share anytime, (hopes that they arent too traumatized after this)

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#free books

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Carpe diem, quam minimum credulo postero

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow.

#colour #colourbynumber #blue #purple #pink #gold #mesh #art #life quote #latin quotes #latin language