i'm sorry, you're telling me that the Bastard of the Barrel, ruthless, scheming, criminal and murderer, Kaz Brekker saw "the harbor wind had lifted her dark hair, and for a moment Kaz was a boy again, sure that there was magic in this world"
and i'm supposed to just move on from that
ONLY TO SEE "she'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. it terrified him." THREE LINES DOWN?
Young Royals (season 1), in a nutshell -
“During one of the many therapy sessions that Regulus’s parents pay an exorbitant amount of money for, hoping they’ll make him into the charismatic son they want—like some kind of psychological boob job—his therapist asks him what he would say to his inner child. Being all of seventeen, Regulus thinks it’s a bit presumptuous to assume that there is anything inner about his child, but he doesn’t bother pointing that out."
Kill your darlings
Literally one of the best first chapters I have ever read!
the holy trinity aligned to create this masterpiece
sometimes love is an atheist gang leader and a religious girl who’s the only saint he believes in
i love that there’s a solid second where it’s so fuckin clear zuko’s like ‘hmm... what would uncle say...’
and then says the funniest, most-unlike-zuko thing in the entire episode
qqdhwsxxzuowo the sheer dumbassery. i love him
When Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute." But it's jegulus when James finds out about Regulus' dark mark
Enemies to lovers romance is the journey from sweetheart (derogatory) to sweetheart (affectionate)
reading red white and royal blue like
I love kanej because Inej didn't say "I could fix him" she said "this boy better fix himself if he wants to hold my hand, in the meantime let me work on myself and my life goals"
"My sweet villain, my darling God,,
- Cardan Greenbriar, High King of Elfhame