[iv3mp]

me at 3 AM rereading the same fic for the 12th time:

[murvens-law]

[ripleyuniverse-deactivated20230]

Do you ever think about how good Joey and Rachel were and how bad Ross and Rachel were?

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[alinastarvko]

insp

[forthisone]

“You belonged with me,” he said quietly. “No, Mal. Not really. Not for a long time.” He looked at me then, and his eyes were deep blue in the twilight. “Did you miss me, Alina? Did you miss me when you were gone?” “Every day,” I said honestly. “I missed you every hour. And you know what the worst part was? It caught me completely by surprise. I’d catch myself walking around to find you, not for any reason, just out of habit, because I’d seen something that I wanted to tell you about or because I wanted to hear your voice. And then I’d realise that you weren’t there any more, and every time, every single time, it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I’ve risked my life for you. I’ve walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I’d do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don’t tell me we don’t belong together,” he said fiercely. He was very close now, and my heart was suddenly hammering in my chest. “I’m sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now.”

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

[crowsnotvultures]

is this nOT WHAT HAP-

[wewillbehappyagain]

Without a word, we lay down in the furs. Mal curled around me, his chest pressed to my back, his arms a tight circle, his breath soft against the crook of my neck. It was the way we’d slept with the insects buzzing around us by the shores of Trivka’s Pond, in the belly of a ship bound for Novyi Zem, on a narrow cot in the run-down boardinghouse in Cofton.

[murvens-law]

Newest edit ❤️

[orangeskied]

Mal's letter, 'Leigh Bardugo, 'Shadow and bone' bonus materials .

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[kallypsowrites]

And now…text posts!! 1/??

Part 1. Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

[kallypsowrites]

Shadow and bone text posts 2/? cause I could go on for days

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,  Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

[murvens-law]

My newest malina edit. 💕

[thegirlwholied]

shadow & bone book reader take: am I the only one who actually missed the Mal & Alina hall scene...? I thought us not being in Alina's POV, journeying with him & seeing Mikhail & Dubrov die, was going to transform that already-cinematic scene by giving charged neither-party-is-wrong-but-ouch! *layers* to it and... not even a little argument...? ...okay maybe it is just me, I like my ships with a side of conflict & misunderstanding & righteous anger on both sides that gets walked back with apologies & personal growth later okay!