#Galaxy Stern

[rosiethorns88]

Dropping the latest Sketch-a-Wish, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for January! Featuring a tense scene from Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo!

Spoilers for Hell Bent below!

This is one of the few examples of me putting in the WORK for the background, only because it's such a character itself. Il Bastone is a real world setting from Ninth House / Hell Bent, and even though they are scant, there were luckily a few interior photos available for me to reference to create the Virgil bedroom, where Alex and Darlington are having a tense conversation in this scene. I took some liberties on the design but a lot of the structures, accents and patterns were either pulled from the interiors or exterior facade of the Anderson Mansion. (especially the stained glass windows and painted tile fireplace!).

I spent a ridiculous amount of time on the painting over the fireplace to capture a small world-building segment from Hell Bent that I think has a modest symbolism of Alex's and Darlington's new relationship here. A fun little puzzle for those who want to try to research it!

#hellbent #ninthhouse #alex stern #galaxy stern #darlington #daniel arlington #darlingstern #gentleman Demon #il Bastone #occasional Horns #keep Your Ish Together Darlington #my art

[breathofstorm]

This is where you belong. This is where you were meant to bloom. Don't roll your eyes, Galaxy. Not every flower belongs in every garden.

— Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House.

#leigh bardugo #ninth house #galaxy stern #alex stern #litedit #bookedit #ninthhouseedit #alexsternedit #lbardugo

[two-ndborne]

i love when authors write women who engage in self destructive behavior to claw their way to esteem in an elitist environment when they already have twice the character and skill than those around them

#bonus points when their unwavering drive enables them to commit morally gray actions 🫶 #two talks #jude duarte #fang runin #alex stern #galaxy stern #ninth house #the cruel prince #the poppy war #tcp #the folk of the air

[poetic-gays]

Alex: We all have our demons.

Alex, grabbing Darlington: This one’s mine.

#ninth house #hell bent #hell bent spoilers #alex stern #galaxy stern #daniel arlington #darlington #darlingstern #leighbardugo #pamela dawes #mercy zhao #tripp helmuth

[phy-be]

the devil knows your name now, galaxy stern

#art i'm proud of? in this economy? unheard of #ninth house #alex stern #galaxy stern #hell bent #leigh bardugo

[academtits]

Darlingstern moments that play in a ceaseless loop in my head, Vol. I

The fact that Alex was sweaty as fuck the first time they met and made Darlington roll up her sleeve to check for track marks

Darlingtons prudish shock when Alex takes her shirt off in front of him

The fact that they got shitfaced and broke a bunch of Lethe glassware??? Like she got Mr. Lethe to be like “fuck the rules”? And they passed out in the parlor???

Alex’s foot/hand/arm fetish

When Darlington complimented her Queen Mab costume, then said “didn’t someone say love is a shared delusion?” And “two people reciting the same spell”

Darlington getting annoyed when some guy hits on her

The “incident”

His heart hurting for the wanting of someone

The fact that Alex literally has constant imaginary conversations with him and everything reminds her of him and she always assesses how he would feel about her actions

#ninth house #hell bent #alex stern #galaxy stern #darlington #darlingstern #leigh bardugo

[heartofwolves]

Ninth House, page 152

Hell Bent, page 462

#ninth house #ninth house spoilers #hell bent #hell bent spoilers #leigh bardugo #darlington #daniel arlington #alex stern #galaxy stern #they’re literally having the same dreams #they’re dreaming about each other #I cannot #deceased #I LOVE THEM SO MUCH #book nerd #I will serve you til the end of days

[a-library-ghost]

“I’m the Wheelwalker. You have no idea what I can do.”

feral hell bent galaxy stern doodle

#lbardugo #leigh bardugo #grishaverse #ninth house fan art #ninth house #hell bent #alex stern #galaxy stern #Darlington #my artwork #my art

[slightlysadfilter]

There is something so comforting about Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, despite the abundance of trauma, gore and eerie stuff.

Take Il Bastone; the existence itself of a sentient house that worries about you, in a world where magic is grotesque and raw.

Dawes's warming meals.

The architecture! The beauty of New Haven, the art.

For how fucked it is, you never see Alex complaining because she has met worse. Because even among demons, and bloody rituals, and uptight professors, she's at least surrounded by beauty and comfort. That same feeling passes unto the readers, it truly is magical to read Ninth House.

#daniel arlington #darlington #alex stern #galaxy stern #ninth house #pamela dawes #abel turner #hell bent #tripp helmuth #leigh bardugo

[caprifiles]

she’d thought of herself as a survivor, but she’d been no better than a beaten dog, snapping and snarling in any attempt to stay alive.

#ninth house #alex stern #galaxy stern #litedit #mine

[wingedshadowfan]

i need to reread ninth house and hell bent fully focusing on darlington because he's so hard to grasp and he's obviously a central part of both books despite barely being there

i am obsessed with how he's old money, a snob, a different breed but he's been so broke and alone he had no heating for the winter, he's a know-it-all, too well-read, intelligent but his demon self didn't hold his knowledge over others, he's incredibly self-righteous, courteous and kind but he murdered his grandpa too

#ninth house #hell bent #leigh bardugo #mercy zhao #alex stern #galaxy stern #darlington #danny #daniel arlington #daniel tabor arlington v #gentleman demon

[noobsydraws]

People seemed to like the Ninth House sketches I shared last time so I thought I'd share this drawing of Hellie and Alex as well.

I've almost finished reading it and very excited to start Hell Bent!

#Ninth house #Hell bent #leigh bardugo #Fanart #Galaxy Stern #Alex Stern #Hellie Watson #Watercolors #Books #Book fanart #Ninth house fanart #Alex and hellie #Cute #Noobsydraws

[lusinzak]

Have you noticed that all, literally ALL character named Alex, regardless of gender, social status, even the gener of literature they are pictured in, are very much alike. Cool, charming, sharp-tongued, unique, and mostly queer, with dark complexion and unusual backgrounds.

Forgive me if I'm wrong. But I'm not.

#have the authors agreed to make a collective character? #is this a conspiracy theory? #books #booklr #bookworm #alex claremont diaz #red white and royal blue #alex fierro #magnus chase #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo #alex stern #the ninth house #galaxy stern #if we were villains #alexander vass #yeah I know he was always called Alexander

[inthefaceofadaffodil]

Dawes and Alex walking in on Darlington

#Hell Bent #Ninth House #Galaxy Stern #Pamela Dawes #Daniel Arlington #Hell Bent Spoilers #G L O W S T I C K #incredible 10/10 Miss Bardugo

[nazyaiensky]

Leigh was such a coward to make us read a intire book of Alex wanting Darlington, talking about how much she missed him and them that fucking scene with his glowing cock and Darlington talking about his disires and how he wanted to put his face between Alex's legs just for them not EVEN KISS IN THE END OR MAKE SOME KIND OF DECLARATION TO EACH OTHER!!!!!

I WANT MY RIGHTS AS A DARLINGTONSTERN LOYALIST !!!

#ninth house #hell bent #alex stern #Darlington #Daniel Arlington #Galaxy Stern #DarlingtonStern #Leigh bardugo #books

[flashbastardsramblings]

Hell Bent posed a very important question which is “Is Darlington still fuckable now that he's part demon?” To which the answer is, of course, yes.

#even more so now that he's a demon #he's just so damn HOT #like he's even sexier as demon #i mean THE FUCKING HORNS? #and that glow #sir 🥵🥵🥵 #ninth house #hell bent #darlington #daniel arlington #alex stern #galaxy stern #alex x darlington #darlingstern #leigh bardugo