~chaos is the way~

[saphofthehollow]

finished lightlark and I'm so torn...

[saphofthehollow]

just finished chapter 53 of lightlark and I'm devastated. I knew the main betrayal was a possibility, that the person who turned out to be the main evil was possibly evil all along but it still hurt. And then we get the revelation of the other betrayal and that fucking stings. 😭

[halos2deac-deactivated20260223]

yep

[saphofthehollow]

soooo... I've been reading Lightlark and just finished chapter 45. I sort of raged at Oro for a little a few chapters back. But then I also felt sorry for him. However, despite everything, I don't get how people are team Oro yet. Cause like, miss ma'am, GRIM IS RIGHT THERE! How do you even look at anyone else? 😭✋🏻

I dunno what I'll do if Grim ever betrays us. I feel for Oro, truly i do. But I just can't seem to sway towards him when Grim is right there!

[saphofthehollow]

you know when your favorite book duology traumatizes you so badly that every time you either flip the page or scroll to a "Chapter 40," you yelp and flinch?

leigh i'm looking at you

[saphofthehollow]

So down bad for Zahariev Zareth 😩

[saphofthehollow]

Guys, Terror at the Gates is soooo interesting and intriguing! Just finished chapter 11 (end of part 1 here). Zahariev is climbing into my top fictional boyfriends and they haven't even done anything yet. 🤭

[dullella]

[saphofthehollow]

Reading Terror at the Gates and Zahariev is 👀

[ekbelsher]

Kaz (without his gloves) and Inej  🖤🖤 This is the last page illustration I did for A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam :)

[goodmagicianproperthief]

kaz’s trauma manifesting through drowning yet he fell for the girl who ends up conquering the high seas and eventually returns to him at the same harbor where he lost everything

inej’s trauma manifesting through disappearing yet she fell for the boy who knows sleight of hand and the trick to not only making the coin appear again, but knowing that it was never gone in the first place

god i love them so much i love them so much i love them so much

[goodmagicianproperthief]

have we ever considered the concept of “i can read to him” being marya’s last words before jan decided to send her to st hilde then years later those same words being the last thing he hears before going to hellgate

[saphofthehollow]

The way I want to read Bonded by Thorns but the edition I was able to get my hands on is the indie one and I just learned the trad published has new chapters. It just put me off from reading it. What do you mean there's new chapters that I won't be able to get my hands on? 😭

[saphofthehollow]

i cannot be the only person who gets excited to see a post about a book that people just don't talk about enough. If one comes up on my feed anywhere, I'm squealing and kicking my feet and like, "YES! YOU UNDERSTAND! THANK YOU! SOMEONE FINALLY UNDERSTANDS!"

[saphofthehollow]

She was everything he’d never realized he wanted in his future queen: not just beauty, but grace; not just grace, but strength; not just strength, but compassion. He’d heard her speak enough to know she was not only educated but intelligent, proud but not arrogant.

Kamran was such a simp pls

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some people don’t deserve fanfics, much less for free.

also even if authors didn’t tag any specific warnings but they used the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” tag, then that is your warning.

“omg you should’ve —” no one forced your entitled ass to read anything. fanfic writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. if you don’t like what you’re reading, quietly leave. ao3 is not an airport. no one cares about your departure so no need to announce it.

[saphofthehollow]

The creeping sensation of hopelessness crawled over me again. “Then, I will beg. If that’s what it takes. I will beg that you take me back.” “Beg all you like.” He let out a sardonic chuckle. “I’d quite like to see you on your knees.”

With absolutely no forethought, I shot up from the bed and threw the pottage at him. The bowl hit his chest on a thump, and the pottage oozed down his leathers.

This is so funny to me and I can only imagine what people would think of it out of context. 😂