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[zenithofstories]

Sarah J. Maas Bonus Chapter Masterlist

Many people have posted images of the bonus chapters from Sarah J. Maas's books, and I thank you for giving us access to content we would have missed out on otherwise. However, no one person has posted all of them, so I figure that I can collate the links in one place.

There are minor spoilers below the cut in the chapter descriptions, so be wary of looking too far ahead, if you have not read all the books.

Throne of Glass

The Captain and the Prince - A conversation between Dorian and Chaol before the start of TOG

The Assassin and the Captain - When Celaena arrives back at the castle from her first mission as the King's Champion between TOG and COM, Chaol is waiting to greet her

The Assassin and the Princess - Before the start of COM, once Celaena has been the King's Champion for a month, she and Nehemia do a little shopping in Rifthold

Untitled - Mistward is visited by nobles—including one of Rowan's exes—during Celaena's time there in HOF

Untitled - A bonus chapter while Aelin and the rest of her court travel through Terrasen in EOS

Untitled - Chaol and Nesryn's sea journey before the start of TOD

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Wings and Embers - Cassian goes to visit the mortal world and ask Nesta to deliver a letter to the mortal queens in ACOMAF (And an alternative)

Feyre's Perspective - In ACOSF, after Feyre and Rhys tells her sisters about their baby, they have a conversation

Azriel's Perspective - After the Winter Solstice celebration in ACOSF, Azriel is wandering the halls, unable to sleep

Crescent City

Ruhn's Perspective - Once Cormac comes to town in HOSAB, Flynn's younger sister decides to visit

Bryce's Perspective - Part 1 - Part 2 - Cormac invites Bryce to a luncheon at Flynn's parent's villa in HOSAB

Tharion's Perspective - Part 1 - Part 2 - Tharion reminisces about first meeting Hypaxia during HOSAB

*EDIT TO ADD: HOFAS has five bonus chapters, none of which have names and are just referred to by the characters they're about.

house.of.hurricane on insta has a reading guide for them, and has them all available in her highlights at the alternative link below ↓

u/ManicPlusSize on reddit has also posted a PDF of all five chapters if that is preferred.

Bryce and Danika - Takes place before the start of HOEAB

Bryce, Azriel and Nesta - Read after chap 16 of HOFAS

Ember and Randall - Read after chap 80 of HOFAS

Bryce and Hunt - Takes place after the series ends

Ruhn and Lidia - Takes place after the series ends

An alternative is here; the highlights contain all eight chapters

If I have missed any, please feel free to let me know, or link them in the comments/reblogs :D

[ivy-saurs]

[juneelite]

When New Yorkers hear a violin 🤣🤣🕺🏾🔥

[jace-the-ace12-deactivated20221]

This is what I should think when they say “Boys will be boys”

[mexicanesecat]

Wholesome content~ xD

[the-punforgiven]

How do you start your day?

[tikkety-tok]

The accent just makes it

[bitchesgetriches]

Aunties, can you please explain the whole GameStop stock debacle in normal-people terms?

Bahahaha! I’m fucking STOKED you asked. This is the kind of absurdity that I live for, cry over, and reinforces my belief that MONEY IS FAKE. Ok here goes...

First a definition: What does it mean to “short a stock”? Shorting or even short-selling stocks is when you borrow shares in a company then immediately re-sell them in the hopes that you can buy them back later at a lower price. You then return the shares to the original lender they were borrowed from and pocket the difference. It is a STUPIDLY RISKY way of making money on the stock market, and has traditionally only been used by Wall Street Evil Knievels and people so hopped up on cocaine they thought the housing collapse of 2008 would be a great fucking idea. None of you should try shorting stocks. Buy stocks, invest for the long term, and go about your business. 

Mmkay, so with that out of the way, let’s talk about what’s going on with GameStop. 

Hedge fund managers (people who run big conglomerations of investors and investments) are betting on GameStop to fail, business-wise. They think the stock is crashing and that the company is in trouble. Why? Not important for the purposes of this explanation. They have just made certain projections that show GameStop is failing on the investment front. So the hedge fund managers want to capitalize on this failure (read: get rich off of GameStop’s demise) by shorting GameStop stock. With me so far?

This is all business as usual for the world of high stakes investing. But heeeeeere’s where it gets interesting. There’s a Reddit forum called /r/WallStreetBets. Their whole thing is sharing stock tips and hot investments. It’s for people who know the stock market well enough to literally play with it on a small scale. They found out about the plan to short GameStop stock. And they took evasive maneuvers. 

Suddenly, members of this Reddit started buying up GameStop stock en masse. These purchases drove the price of the stock way up (that’s how the stock market works) AND it prevented the stock shorters from fulfilling their scheme AND it forced them to lose a ton of money. For example, the professional hedge fund managers lost $1.6 billion in a single day last week. By contrast? One of the WallStreetBets dudes turned $50,000 into $11 million.

But what does any of this literally have to do with GameStop? ALMOST NOTHING. The company itself is not doing anything any different. Its value and stock prices are soaring not because of anything GameStop has done to improve itself... only because people who play with money are artificially inflating its value through this weird war.

In my opinion, the heroes here are WallStreetBets. They are demonstrating, in real time, how fucking arbitrary the value of something can be. They are calling Wall Street’s bluff and fucking with the people who--FOR A LIVING--just regularly decide to drive an individual company out of business and its employees out of jobs. 

Whatever your thoughts on GameStop as a company, this is an abject lesson in how capitalism is not some hallowed law of the universe, but an arbitrary system we made up. That system can be hacked. It can be broken. And it can be fun!

Anyway, hope that helps. This is as close to a simple explanation as I could get, and a LOT of nuance is missing so please don’t @ me. If you want a way more in-depth read that’s still simple enough for those who don’t know shit about investing, I got my information from Vox. And if you enjoyed this explanation, maybe read these ones too:

A Brief History of the 2008 Crash and Recession: We Were All So Fucked 

Dashit Just Happened, Equifax?

[the-theory-of-nothing]

For real though... is there any A C T U A L purpose to the stock market?

[bitchesgetriches]

There is! It’s just... not a very easily explained reason???

In its purest form, the stock market (and investing in general) enables companies to grow. If you want to start a business, but you don’t have the capital (read: money) to do so, you get people to invest in your business idea. This means they give you money, and once you’ve established your business, they get a share of the profits in return for their initial investment.

The stock market works like that on a gargantuan scale. Yeah, it’s pretty sickening that the goliaths of the corporate world are still operating on this basic investing principle... and that hedge funds can use all kinds of slick techniques to fuck with a company’s value and people’s livelihoods... and that rampant unfettered capitalism is actively ruining lives... but in exchange for that dumpster full of shit we also get brilliant ideas funded. And a nice side effect is that in theory, we all can invest in the market and passively grow our income by rooting on everyone’s brilliant ideas to take off.

Again: this explanation is written in crayon, don’t @ me. 

[dankmemesforsadteens]

[30-minute-memes]

“That Lion only eats good food”

[ilovewinningbabyiwantitall-deac]

Wait this rules.

[complete-trash-and-despair]

I thought this was some weird Christian game but wow

[angry-yet-asexual]

There is literally no way to anticipate how this video ends

[neverwhere]

This is the greatest plot twist in cinematic history

[itskyalenotkyle]

When ya man’s choking but it makes a good beat

[queernigga]

i love black ppl.

[eclecticblkgirl]

I will reblog this every time I see it

[catchymemes]

[rockhardgeologist]

A prodigy

[sindri42]

You missed the best part. They weren’t even their sheep. This good pupper gathered up a bunch of random sheep it found somewhere on the countryside and brought them home for its human.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

*whispers* the countryside is full of free sheep

[theleafriday]

[vrabia]

[cheshireelims]

I need this movie in my life now.

[ashleybenlove]

This would make an amazing ask game, y’all. Someone put a movie/show into your ask and you play keep the human and cast the Muppets. 

[thyladestiel]

[oskarlevant]

[randomitemdrop]

Item: 500 yds. of phoney squirrel tail

[whitepeopletwitter]

[crittizen]

[loloftheday]

rolled up to the girl

[brothamalcolmfarrakhan]

Toooooooo fuckin smooth

[mr-phishbowl]

10/10

The execution.

The precision.

Then he made her laugh…

[stabby-pal]

When will I have a rival who thinks I'm a dumbass but also dreams of kissing me under the moon light

[stabby-pal]

Oh to be an oblivious protag confused as to why my rival ran away in embarrassment after they pinned me against a wall and our faces where inches apart