[noodlls]

[arthurian]

The Court of Dreams. The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmares…And the huntress with an artist’s soul.

[amidstsilence]

[angeliquemd]

Character Aesthetic: Bryce Quinlan

“...There's nothing wrong with a party girl. I don't get why the world thinks there is...Its easier for me---when people assume the worst about what I am. It lets me see who they really are”

— House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City # 1) || Sarah J Maas

[angeliquemd]

Character Aesthetics: Bryce Quinlan

“That's the point of it, Bryce. Of life. To live, to love, knowing that it might all vanish tomorrow. It makes everything that much more precious.”

—House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City # 1) || Sarah J Maas

[atty-goldstein]

Hey guys, if this movie is showing wherever you are, please boycott it

There are so many things wrong with it and it is Extremely disrespectful to Filipinos.

1. Ferdinand Magellan was sent by Spain to search for Moluccas, but ended up on Philippine shores. This is during the time European colonizers competed with each other as to who gets to colonize most of the world.

2. This movie is framing Lapu-Lapu, a Filipino hero, as a villain. The irony right? Lapu-Lapu was a chief of his tribe. He led them to battle to protect them and their land from these colonizers. It was rightfully so.

3. These colonizers had the goal of taking Gold, converting people to their Christian God, and achieving Glory in conquering the rest of the world. These white men saw how much gold the Filipinos had and wanted them for themselves.

4. Knowing they made the colonizers the protagonists here, it's very likely the Filipinos will be portrayed as savages. Which is again, very disrespectful. There were early accounts providing that pre-colonial Filipinos were actually civilized. Do not believe the accounts likening Filipinos to monkeys. Our National Hero, Dr. Jose Rizal has produced a written work debunking that and proving that pre-colonial Filipinos were civilized and had systems that worked in governing people. Pre-colonial Filipinos treated women as equals of men too.

5. And making that POC to be an ally of Magellan? Apalling. Her name is also the name of one of the major Philippine Islands which were also one of the first places Spain conquered in the Philippines.

6. They also made the Filipino chieftain of Cebu, highly dependent upon the colonizers to fix his tribe's problems. This was not at all the case. The tribe had a government system and its own rules to deal with predicaments. The heads of tribes which did not attack the colonizers, were converted into Christianity and it took blood compacts to seal agreements between the tribes and the colonizers.

7. People were also saying a lot of the character designs look unoriginal and that the designs were ripped off El Dorado. And a lot of the designs for the Filipinos don't even look like Filipinos.

So yeah. I'm just very heated about this. This is an atrocity and deserves no one to see it. May the spirits of the fallen pre-colonial warriors haunt and torment the scum behind this movie.

[amenotamyrainnotcandy]

Reblogging this again because it's infuriating but I'm comforted by the fact that Magellan was torn into pieces by the warriors of Cebu under Lapu Lapu who's known for his impressive battle tactics. Also comforted by the fact that when the people with Magellan asked for his body for burial, warriors were like "who tf do you think you are? We killed him, he's ours." It's a common custom for warriors back then to take body parts of their enemies as trophies.

Said companions of Magellan got scared and didn't help. Unfortunately, a number of them got poisoned, too and was left for dead by their own people.

The exhibition went back to their home country humiliated and defeated so what do they do? They vilify the name of the filipino hero who only did what he has to do, and that is to defend his land and his people.

[angeliquemd]

The Court of Dreams.

“The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmares...And the huntress with an artist's soul.”

— A Court of Mist and Fury || Sarah J. Maas

[angeliquemd]

Character Aesthetic: Cassian

“This could be . . . a very bad idea," I admitted, my grip tightening on his hand.

"Oh, it most certainly is," Cassian said with a faint smile as we continued down and down into the heavy black and thrumming silence. "But this is war. We don't have the luxury of good ideas–only picking between the bad ones.”

— A Court of Wings and Ruin || Sarah J. Maas

[angeliquemd]

Character Aesthetics: Victor Vale and Eli Cardale

“All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective.”

— Vicious || VE Schwab

[angeliquemd]

Character Aesthetic: Magnus

“I’ll never marry. No man could want me in battle, and I wouldn’t want anyone who might keep me away from my duty.”

“Don’t be so hasty to rule out gentlemen’s understanding,” Magnus said. “There are some who admire a capable girl. One of them might be closer than you think, if you’d take the time to notice what’s before you.”

He leaned closer. For a second, I didn’t dare breathe. Since our moment in the library, Magnus had returned to his old, harmless flirtation. I’d half hoped it would stay that way.

He sighed gently and said, “Can’t you see the way Palehook looks at you?”

He laughed. I was so relieved that I joined him.

— A Shadow Bright and Burning (Kingdom on Fire # 1) || Jessica Cluess

[chalkandcheese]

“You don’t have a side anymore. Neither of us do. We’re on our own side.”

— Good Omens (2019)

[angeliquemd]

“Remember who you are. Nikolai knew. He was a king who had only begun to make mistakes. He was a solider for whom the war would never be over. He was a bastard left alone in the woods. And he was not afraid to die this day.”

— King of Scars || Leigh Bardugo

[angeliquemd]

Character Aesthetic: Darrow of Lykos

Break the chains, my love.

- Red Rising, Pierce Brown

[angeliquemd]

Character Aesthetic: Locke

Because you’re like a story that hasn’t happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.

The Cruel Prince, Holly Black

[angeliquemd]

Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

Valerian’s hair shines like polished gold. Nicasia’s limbs are long and perfectly shaped, her mouth the pink of coral, her hair the color of the deepest, coldest part of the sea. Fox-eyed Locke, standing silently behind Valerian, his expression schooled to careful indifference, has a chin as pointed as the tips of his ears. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest, with black hair as iridescent as a raven’s wing and cheekbones sharp enough to cut out a girl’s heart. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

“You’ll never be our equal,” Nicasia says.

Of course I won’t.

[angeliquemd]

Character Aesthetic: Jesper Fahey

“There’s a wound in you, and the tables, the dice, the cards—they feel like medicine. They soothe you, put you right for a time. But they’re poison, Jesper. Every time you play, you take another sip. You have to find some other way to heal that part of yourself.” She laid her hand on his chest.

“Stop treating your pain like it’s something you imagined. If you see the wound is real, then you can heal it.”

— Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo

[angeliquemd]

Character Aesthetic: Jude x Cardan

Our eyes meet, and something dangerous sparks.

He hates you, I remind myself.

“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”

I feel those words, feel them like a kick to the stomach. He sees my expression and laughs, a sound full of mockery. I can’t tell which of us he’s laughing at.

He hates you. Even if he wants you, he hates you.

Maybe he hates you the more for it.

After a moment, his eyes flutter closed. His voice falls to a whisper, as though he’s talking to himself. “If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.”

He drifts off to sleep, but I am wide awake.

- The Wicked King, Holly Black