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My life is basically a constant cycle between freaking out over my daunting responsibilities in life and freaking out over Rowaelin

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Same.

shyvioletcat

Yep

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One does not deal with Empire of Storms. One survives it.

painfully sobs at all the things that happened from Book 1 til now. (via fireheartandiceprince)

Honestly, I barely survived…

(via shyvioletcat)

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TOG 6 Theory

Okay, so, I was reading @aelinscourt theory about Empire of Storms and how it came true and everything right? So one of the points made was about how Maeve is all about control. Maeve wants CONTROL to the nth degree. Guys. Maeve has Aelin. Who, in this world, would Rowan do anything for? Would Rowan sacrifice himself for? Would Rowan TAKE AN OATH FOR?! What if (and I hope to the gods this doesn’t happen?!?!??) Rowan finds Aelin and Maeve and binds himself back to Maeve to set Aelin free? OR somehow, Maeve like agrees to stop torturing Aelin and just keep her prisoner as long as Rowan agrees to work for Maeve again?

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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People underestimate Throne of Glass (and literature in general)

Books have affected our lives without us even realizing it.

Right now I am going through a hard time. I feel really lost and I’m in emotional pain. It feels easier to just sit around and cry, if i think about it all at once I feel overwhelmed.

I have a great support system and couldn’t do it without them, don’t get me wrong. But I also have something else that helps, without having realized it until recently.

There has been multiple times that I feel nervous or down, that I remember Aelin. I think about all the crap she went through, stuff way more traumatizing than what I am going through. Yet she, after wading through grief and depression, became someone amazing. She embraced her destiny and fears, accepted her faults and strengths. She used them both to become a queen her country deserves.

Without realizing it, when i feel anxious and scared I think of her. It mights me walk with my head held higher, trying to be a modern queen. It makes me want to walk through this hard time to come out the other side even stronger. I do not want to give up or let it break me.

While obviously Aelin is fictional and that someone actually has had her exact plot line, real people go through the stuff she did. Stuff I have been blessed to not experience. People all over the world are overcoming the most dire situations and life struggles. And its so inspiring and amazing.

So yes, it is just fiction. But the whole series is full of characters who shouldn’t be as strong as they are, they should be broken down and hopeless. Yet instead they rose from being beaten to dust to being queens, kings, princes & princesses, lords and ladies. None of them should have survived, but they chose to. Aelin, Aedion, Rowan, Evangeline, Lysandra, Manon, Elide, Lorcan, Asterin, Fenrys, and i could just go on…

And thats what matters to us. Its what we take away. That when its hard, we can get up. We can cry and grieve, we don’t have to be unfeeling. And that when faced with hopeless odds, when we feel intense pain, we can fight for who we want to become. For our loved ones. For our futures. For ourselves.

Throne of glass taught me to be a fighter, what did it teach you?

shyvioletcat

I love all of this. Literature and it’s influence on us entirely underrated.

When I went through the darkest point in my life I was almost entirely alone. My family was struggling as much as I was and I was too high maintenance for my friends to bother with. And around that time I got into The Lord of the Rings. I immersed myself in this world, I read and read and read. I researched and imagined and filled my head with so much knowledge of this world Tolkien created.

These works by Tolkien helped me survive and helped me to feel when I would have much rather shut down and feel nothing. They taught me about love, friendship and respect.

And even though Throne of Glass came into my life many years later it still resonants with me on so many levels. Aelin… This woman is one of my favourite heroines.

Heir of Fire. The journey she goes through in that book alone… Ugh my heart just explodes. The journey from the dark to the light inspires me so much.

Another thing that inspires me about Aelin is her confidence. In my job I have to be confident, and I am not a confident person. When I’m recoiling from the situation I think about Aelin and her swaggering confidence and I think of I only have a touch of that confidence I can get through this. Then I usually end up laughing because she’s also hilarious in those situations.

Reading is so important.

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Reblog if books saved you.

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Rhysand: I know who you are Tamlin: Say it. Out loud. Rhysand: A pretentious git

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Oh man. This almost ended with hot chocolate being spewed from my mouth and nose

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There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Dracula, Bram Stoker (via horrorshow)

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Maurizio Di Iorio

Tamlin: "There's no such thing as a High Lady."

Feyre: *Looks at camera like she's on the office."

The King: "The Queen of Terrasen is dead."

Aelin: *Looks at the camera like she's on the office."

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Aedion’s gaze lingered on Dorian, and Aelin braced herself. But her cousin’s smile turned softer. “He still eats like a fine lady.

Empire of Storms (via missmorgenstern)

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And Manon understood in that moment that there were forces greater than obedience, and discipline, and brutality. Understood that she had not been born soulless; she had not been born without a heart. For there were both, begging her not to swing that blade.

Manon Blackbeak, Empire of Storms (via a-court-of-dreams-and-fire)

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T H E C A D R E + animal forms

Far up the hill, as if they had come racing down from the mountains and had not stopped for food or water or sleep, were a towering man, a massive bird, and three of the largest predators she had ever seen.

Five in all.

Answering their friend’s desperate call for aid.