Book Club For Me

I read a lot of books and like to scream into the void about them because none of my friends are big readers

[windflowermary]

lady midnight always makes me giggle a little bit bc emma is just like "dude why's my parabatai like kinda...." and julian is like "i am going to kill myself right here right now"

[simoneashwinis]

jealous garrett being controlled and intense while jealous dean is explosive is sth so pleasing

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The boop threw me off

[tiredandoptimistic]

Absolutely nothing beats Valentine's parenting strategy of "this is my good son who I keep in the house and my evil son who I keep in the shed. They're both named Jonathan"

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I started a graphic audio listen of fourth wing for the first time, and I feel like I completly glossed over Dain and Violet’s relationship. Like my eyes must have glazed over because I knew Xaden was the real love interest.

But with listening to it, I can’t tell if it’s just the way the narriator speaks influencing me but Violet was so down bad for Dain.

Like that’s your best friend and you immidiatly start flirting with him talking about how you’re totally down to pretend you two are hooking up? How you’ll moan his name so everyone can hear it?

And Dain’s like totally not phased by it? He’s just like ‘oh you, haven’t changed at all have you Vi?’

Violet’s internal monologue makes it seem like she wasn’t actively trying to change her relationship with Dain from friends to lovers, but she was certainly acting like that was her ex-situationship.

Out here instantly hitting on and flirting with her best friend. How soon after she dumped Halden was she acting like this that Dain’s used to it?

I’ve always been in the ‘Violet’s not that Whiney’ camp, a card carrying Violet Sorrengail fan club member, but I fear she hasn’t even begun to face the Girl Best Friend allegations, especially with the way she keeps going to him in Iron Flame and Onyx Storm like “I need you” and hitting him with impossible asks and he just does it, no matter what.

All I’m saying is the worst part about dating Dain Aetos might just be his undying loyalty to Violet Sorrengail, but hey, as least she doesn’t flirt with him anymore.

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I feel like we as a fandom talk too much about who the new brother is and not enough at all about the fact that Tairn almost killed Grady’s dragon for trying to question Andarna about being Irid the same way he almost killed Solas when Varrish tried to punish Violet for Andarna not showing up to flight maneuvers.

Except this time Andarna was there to get the dragon’s tail while Tairn had the neck.

Tairn is such a protector 😍

[highladyofterrasen7]

Xaden: [Cat] wasn't my first by a long shot

*cough* whore

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I cannot wait for Xaden Riorson in his villain era. He has so many reasons to destroy Navarre and it’s going to be so fun to see what he does because I really truly believe that he is going to be a monumental pain in the ass to ALL sides now that all the responsibility is off his shoulders.

Navarre:

- Tortured and Executed his father

- forced him to take responsibility at 17 years old for every marked one’s actions so that if they did something wrong, he would be the first one punished

- took away his title and tarnished his family’s legacy with the ‘great betrayer’ bullshit to the point he actively fought against being in a relationship with Violet because he knew it would affect her

- ripped him away from his cousin, his best friends, and his home to be fostered elsewhere

- ripped apart siblings, which he may not have had but he would have seen how hard that was on Liam.

- burnt his home to the ground (even though Aretia somewhat survived)

- passed laws specifically targeting him and his friends so that they couldn’t gather without risking execution.

- passed laws so they couldn’t even all be in the same squad

- forced him to protect the daughter of the woman who was personally responsible for hunting down everyone loyal to his father and dragging them to his executions who also tortured him as part of the deal.

- without any actual concrete proof tried to punish him for stealing by giving him the choice of fighting in a battle with dark weilders he had no reason to think he would win or be responsible for choosing not to fight and condemn civilians to die

- killed off 5 of his closest friends and most trusted people in the world between Resson and trying and cover up what happened in Resson. (Liam, Soliel, Ciaran, Eya, Mason)

- constantly attacked the rest of the survivors

- put his dragon into constant pain by forcing prolonged separations from her mate

- tortured the woman that he loved for 5 days to bait him into deserting his post so they could declare him a traitor and Torture and execute him

- and, even after admitting the necessity of fighting the dark Weilders and allying with Pomoriel, still tried to exert control over him by making his relationship against the rules and put him under constant surveillance to try and catch them together

- threatened to invade and attack his territory and citizens for allowing refugees in

Pomoriel & Tecarus specifically:

- tried to force him into an arranged marriage

- tried to force him to endanger the few riders he had loyal to him by insisting the Luminary only be fired in Cordyn, which would have made the dragons stationed there huge targets for dark weilders

- forced him into the position where he had to risk his and his friends lives to steal daggers to supply them with since they didn’t have a luminary

- put the love of his life in an arena with a starved dark weilder & treated it like the nights entertainment to watch her fight for her life

Dark Weilders:

- this one feels kind of self explanatory. The root cause of all of the above problems, and

- endangering Violet by association

- hurt Sgaeyl

The fourth book is going to be Xaden Riorson hunting his enemies and getting his revenge while having phenomenal dream sex with his wife while she chases him across the continent trying to restore his soul.

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I don’t know what my full theory is yet but I was doing an onyx storm reread and I don’t think that the Venin’s souls are actually destroyed.

This is the header for chapter Chapter 62.

And then almost immidiatly after Violet is losing in battle against Theophanie, and to distract her, Violet brings up Dunne and how Theophanie was a high priestess and can never go back. And this was Theophanie’s response:

Followed by what we see of Xaden’s transformation from an initiate to an Asim, how he goes from describing his soul flaking away like ash and power replacing it, To talking about the bond with Violet wedging itself in the opening, locking it in place.

I don’t think that drawing on the source actually kills their souls. They keep saying it kills their souls but also that drawing on the source without an anchor is bad. What if they just can’t feel their souls anymore and that’s what makes them evil?

Maybe Violet can dream walk to Xaden’s soul and bring it back.

[project-azrael]

By Klemiki.

This. This is just amazing. The flat look Violet has with Dain. The stars in her eyes with Xaden and daggers. Tairn's exhausted deadpan expression and Andarna's thumbs up is... Gold.

Thanks @liminally-challenged for pointing out my mistake about Dain.

[somewhere-in-the-rain]

Modern AU where Drake posts videos of Mira and Broccoli cuddling with the caption “my wife and the cat she didn’t want”

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The way Xaden was so pressed about how his reputation would affect Violet, how he tried to push her away because he knew people would treat her differently for it, be horrible to her for the association through all of fourth wing is made so much funnier knowing that the only way that Violet could assure him she was capable of handling it was telling him she had experience with it.

The way his mind would have imploded had she just gone:

“Actually I’m used to people saying really mean things to & about me because of who I’m dating because that’s what it was like when I was dating Halden. You know, the Crown Prince of our country?”

The way that man’s brain would have glitched between jealously that Halden was with his Violence and fury that Halden didn’t give a shit what it did to her reputation.

[welcome-to-the-fourth-wing]

the most hilarious part about the empyrean series is when violet is one of the last riders to channel power, and the day that she finally does, she just gets REALLY horny. and you're like what the hell, is violet's signet power being horny? and you start wondering what you're reading 😭😭😭

[somewhere-in-the-rain]

I think Fourth Wing lost any hope of being considered a serious fantasy book when Xaden’s dick started causing natural disasters 💔

[bhyancinth-deactivated20260125]

the best scene in all tsc is when Valentine turned jace's wayland ring upside down and was like. congratulations you're a morgenstern

[theseinfernalangels]

you know which character i REALLY feel bad for in fourth wing?

Baide.

literally at the beginning of chapter sixteen, violet says that, “Jack hasn’t quit staring at Tairn across the field.” Can you imagine being Baide, who’s so happy to have found a rider that’s just as ferocious and violent as her — only to realize that your chosen rider doesn’t even want you because you’re not big/strong enough? and then giving him your trust and keeping his venin condition a secret, only for him to pull a fast one and LITERALLY stab you in the back? Ouch, man. Baide, for all of her violence, deserved so much better than jack barlowe.

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Baide got what she deserved for picking Barlowe as far as I’m concerned. She knew who and what he was.

Baide bonded Barlowe after he actively hunted Andarna, a baby dragon, and then ran from that fight when it wasn’t as easy as he thought. He turned not long after threshing, and Baide still stuck around. Meanwhile other dragons were letting their chosen fall during flight manuevers.

I think Baide wanted a venin rider because she actually wasn’t all that strong and powerful. Thus Barlowe getting pushed around after threshing. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out BAIDE pushed him to turn. That she thought having a more powerful rider would make her seem more powerful, and that she was also tired of getting pushed around by the more powerful dragons and saw it as a way to up her status since dragons are known for the signets their riders produce.

[konohaironfist]

I keep seeing people upset that Haymitch never had another partner, or that he “never got over” Lenore Dove. That he was left miserable for the rest of his life. That he should’ve been given another love interest — a real one, not just anyone. And honestly?

Let’s talk about it.

1) Haymitch is not unhappy.

He literally says it: he doesn’t drink to numb the pain anymore, he drinks because he’s an addict. And yeah — I wish he had stopped altogether. Some of the most heartbreaking deaths I’ve seen in real life were due to cirrhosis.

But that doesn’t mean he’s miserable. He’s surviving. He’s healing.

2) The Capitol love interest people want for him? That wouldn’t have worked.

She’s brainwashed. Period. And if she weren’t, we would see it in the text — either through Haymitch’s eyes, or Katniss’s. Both are reliable in different ways.

In Panem, when someone from the Capitol is pretending, or disagreeing silently, it shows. It leaks out.

If Haymitch were to have another love interest, it would need to be:

• someone from the Districts,

• maybe even another Victor,

• someone who understands his trauma and oppression firsthand.

That’s the only way it could ever make sense.

3) Haymitch did get his happy ending.

And again — he says it himself.

He’s happy because Peeta and Katniss are his family.

He let people back into his heart.

He’s at peace, because Lenore Dove doesn’t haunt him anymore.

He’s moved on from her death.

Now, he sees her old and happy — and that gives him peace.

Haymitch is happy.

You don’t need a romantic partner to be whole.

He made peace with his past.

He let his ghosts rest.

And most importantly?

No more children are chosen to die in the Arena on his birthday.

For the first time,

“Happy birthday, Haymitch” isn’t a burden.