This is the absolutely breathtaking piece I commissioned @phantomrin I mentioned. The leads from my wip A Vow from the Winter Lord, Marian and Lord Athello of Winter.
('cause he deserves more attention from the fandom)
“So I’m the Darkling’s prisoner?”
“You’re under his protection.”
“What’s the difference?”
Ivan’s expression was unreadable. “Pray you never find out.”
(narrator's voice: "She did, in fact, find out🎤")
“Do you all wear this stuff?” I asked as I pulled on the kefta.
“When we’re in the field,” said an oprichnik.
“Just don’t get shot in the head,” Ivan added with a condescending grin.
Ha ha
Comedy.
I shut my eyes and tried to focus, tried to remember that feeling of certainty, to bring that sure and perfect power into blazing life. But nothing happened.
I sighed and opened my eyes. Ivan looked highly amused.
Ivan: "Girl. It doesn't work this way".
Ivan having the time of his life watching Alina acting cute and silly (or not).
“Back from visiting the invalid?” he asks as I follow him out of the Little Palace.
COMEDIC KING 👑😭
I know he begrudges me any word or confidence shared with the Darkling. Still, I like him. He treats me with disdain, but it’s the exact same disdain he shows everyone else.
How I imagine Ivan being with everyone (but the Darkling):
The man that understood Darklina first 😍
At that moment, we heard footsteps and Ivan rounded the corner. He bowed to the Darkling and then to me, but I caught a little smirk playing on his lips.
Also, did you really have to be a cockblocker, Ivan? 😒
(art by @phantomrin)
“Did you know I had two brothers?”
Ivan asked abruptly. The familiar smirk was gone from his handsome face. “Of course not. They weren’t born Grisha. They were soldiers, and they both died fighting the King’s wars. So did my father. So did my uncle.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Yes, everyone is sorry. The King is sorry. The Queen is sorry. I’m sorry. But only the Darkling will do something about it.”
(truer words couldn't be spoken)
Ivan brought me my meals, clearly disgusted at having to play nursemaid.
LMAO MOOD
A round of applause for this powerful Grisha and an underrated as fuck gem of a character.
"When falls the Iron Rain, be brave. Be brave." - Lorn au Arcos
Darrow o' Lykos as The Emperor Card
A project I was toying with in my mind for a long time... a new set of Tarot Cards, inspired by Red Rising in the style of the Cyberpunk Tarot cards... for the second part of the series, bc @phantomrin already did an amazing series of tarot artworks for the first three books <3
All right Guys double treat for my fellow Gwynriels..... so Taylor, @amandapearls and I collaborated on commissioning this masterpiece by artist @phantomrin ...
This is a really special piece ... I absolutely loved working with Tay , Amanda and working with Phantomrin has been a dream come true 🙂🙂
““She was the most beautiful female he’d ever seen. Betrayal, queasy and oily, slid through his veins. He’d said the same to Jesminda once. But even as shame washed through him, the words, the sense chanted. Mine. You are mine, and I am yours. Mate-----
“When I sleep,” she murmured, “I can hear your heart beating through the stone.” She angled her head, as if the city view held some answer. “Can you hear mine?”“ -ACOWAR, Sarah J Maas
I am so excited to share an early Elucien Week commission done by the incredibly talented @phantomrin. I am absolutely in love with this masterpiece that Rin did for me. It’s so gorgeous, and everything I wanted and more! So happy I was able to work this is incredible artist.
Some of you may remember back in winter 2017-2018, when I did this thing to spread some love through the anon ask option we've got here on tumblr. Well, I did the same thing again, back in winter 2020-2021, though instead of just one month, I did it for two months. From the 1st of December 2020, until the 31st of January 2021.
Every day, I sent the message "Hi. I love you. 🤍" to one blog each day. I wanted them to know they're loved.
Now, I know tumblr sometimes eats asks, so maybe not everyone that I planned to give love to actually got their messages, and this roundup will therefore serve as a reminder to all of you that yes, I do love you. Even now, 2.5 years later.
So, here we go, I love all of you:
Dec 1st @creeeee
Dec 2nd @quicksilvermaid
Dec 3rd @faevorite-main-blog
Dec 4th @legendrarry
Dec 5th @fleetofshippyships
Dec 6th @candybarrnerd
Dec 7th @cibeewastaken
Dec 8th @nadiasna7
Dec 9th @cheekytorah
Dec 10th @stargazing-enby
Dec 11th @keyflight790
Dec 12th @all-drarry-to-me
Dec 13th @tackytigerfic
Dec 14th @shealwaysreads
Dec 15th @ununquadius
Dec 16th @mad1492
Dec 17th @gnarf
Dec 18th @restlessandordinary
Dec 19th @parkkate
Dec 20th @l0vegl0wsinthedark
Dec 21st @ekayart
Dec 22nd @lqtraintracks
Dec 23rd @midgart
Dec 24th @unicornsandphoenix
Dec 25th @phantomrin
Dec 26th @gallifrey1sburning
Dec 27th @p1013
Dec 28th @scarheaded-ferret
Dec 29th @firethesound
Dec 30th @wordsphoenix
Dec 31st @veelawings
"And she herself, she jumped up and took hold of the rock with her hands, then she skipped on to it and started running about on all fours like a lizard. And instead of hands and feet she had little green paws and a tail came out and there was a black stripe that went half way down the back, but the head was still a maid's."
(P.P. Bazhov "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain")
I do not like Locke and I was waaaayyyyy too happy (⚠️SPOILER ALERT STOP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE QUEEN OF NOTHING!!!⚠️) when Taryn admitted to killing him💀
hey, I've seen your post about your fav Darkling fanarts and they're all stunning! I was wondering if you have any for Alina? (this is my attempt to find some pretty fanarts of her 'cause it's been dry as a desert)
We have such wonderful artists here and their content is always spectacular.
I have some favorite fanarts of her as well!
(Credits to Bella Bergolts)
From the LitJoy special edition this one is *chef's kiss*.
(Credits to @phantomrin)
This one is so book accurate. You can actually feel her weariness.
(Credits to @dominiquewesson)
She looks so young but still so beautiful here <3
(credits to @nirusky)
(credits to annaabolaart)
(credits to Marissa Clement on Instagram and Twitter)
It pisses me off that miss rokii has like thousands of likes and followers but real artist get like only 100 likes. Imagine studying art for so long, excited for everyone to see your final products but Instagram won't even let your artworks come up in the tags (because Instagram just doesn't care about artists) and then you see stupid worms showing off stolen artworks and everyone loves their robot made art.
Do you perhaps know some more artists that I can give my support to? Because they deserve the world.
No I started typing this and clicked a new notification and lost it 😩. I'm sure some of my friends who do artist commissions and know artists would love to weigh in, because I won't scoop up even close to a third of the talent
I obviously love @sarahsoba and _jadee.art
Artbyjuliajm was popular on this blog two days ago when LB shared our origin story
@laxibbeb who drew Arina (my pfp) (and she draws other things!!)
Dawningdaylight, who is also just SUCH a wonderful person
Fissart, who has a style I personally love
Jrtart_ has a really lovely style too and this Lucien is one of my absolute favorites
Vmiae who has given us so much quality content (especially of LOA and Helion!)
Colouranomaly has a really beautiful Elain imo
Kolumnist_ who did my hands down favorite Elucienweek piece
Kanescribbles is on Twitter and has the hottest Azriel in the fandom according to my discord. She made elriel simps of us all
@dimalry is wonderfully talented- her curly haired Elain is my fave + baby ivy 😭
Phantomrin is another with SUCH a good style
I know there are so many more. I tried to leave out all the truly big people- though I love @naariel and if you have $5 to throw around, her Patreon is SO worth it (Lucien removes the leaf) (Cassian is THE big boy if ya feel me). I hope people add to this list- there is no shortage of talent, we are not deprived of content. There is no need to rely on AI when actual artists draw the characters we love with so much care and thought and passion.