“You’d Be Surprised How Often That Works.”

As much as I absolutely regret spoiling most of the RA series for myself (I unfortunately have the self-control of a five year old, and the wisdom of a duck) it’s admittedly kind of fun watching pieces of future plot-lines slide into place without any foreknowledge about how it will. Examples, and huge spoilers ahead:

• Halt ‘lying’ to Deparnieux about being Hibernian royalty. And then denying that he was to Horace afterwards. Crazy work. It felt like I possessed illegal knowledge.

• Malkallum actually being Malcom. I was aware of there being a healer named Malcom, but little else, so I was somewhat excited to put together that they were the same person.

• Not as much of a connection, but I definitely got wide-eyed when I read that Tennyson was working with the Genovesan assassins (which is where I left off, so… I guess I can’t say no spoilers but I still hope to be a little left in the dark for Halt’s Peril lol).

Moral of the story — don’t read fanfic until you’ve finished reading/watching all the canon content. But there are sometimes some pros that come along with knowing stuff prematurely. Still, it’s hardly worth it in the long-run :,)

jude and cardan escape the coronation — part 1/2 ☻

— Danez Smith, from "summer, somewhere" (via lunamonchtuna)

"𝐽𝑒 𝑡’𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒. 𝐴𝑢𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑑’ℎ𝑢𝑖. 𝐶𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑖𝑟. 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛. 𝑃𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠".

—Michelle Hodkin,The Retribution of Mara Dyer (the third book).

the cruel prince: world’s most serious game of kiss, marry, kill

I knew forgetting George was something of a running joke in the fandom, but I just started book 10 and Horace genuinely forgets about George after he takes an arrow for him 😭 he’s about to leave the battle scene and George is lying half-conscious on the side of the road. Like I get he’s a bit stuffy but you grew up together!!! He saved your life!!!

lil miss cringe delulu manifestation damsel in distress hacker <3<3<3

gilan: hey, halt, did you get a chance to consider my plan?

halt, reading a letter: uh-huh.

gilan: what do you think?

halt: mhm.

gilan: halt?

halt: anytime.

gilan: mm. i’m gonna go compromise the integrity of the corps by selling crown secrets to skandia and then blame it on will now, yeah?

will: hey.

halt: oh, go on then.

gilan, cracking up: can i assassinate the king while i'm at it?