Spooks

Gemini and Virgo mommy♍️ ♊️-Lover of all things spooky 👻

[weary-observer]

[depsidase]

[perplexingly]

Montjuic cemetery in Barcelona

[sarceansurvivor]

prepare to be sick of me

[sofiisx]

Like whyyy

[princessofwallachia]

[imjustheretomooch]

Violet: *unchains strange boy so he won't drown after he saved her life*

Will, who set a man on fire at 6 years old for the woman who once gave him a slice of pie: ask me to tear apart the fabric of reality and i would do it for you

[ninicaise]

what's so refreshing about will as a character is that he doesn't throw a denial tantrum about it at any point like most characters with Darkness Within Them do. he's not a moral paragon, his angst and secretkeeping don't get annoying at any point. and i think it's because there's no contrast between who will Really Is, which is Good and True, and the dark king as his shadow or his dark self.

will is the dark king. he behaves like the dark king. he lies and he manipulates and he's a "sneak" and he's scaringly charming and he's possessive over james and a ton of other messed up shit and he tells himself it's for a good reason, and maybe it is!! and will is clearly you know. a Good Person. while his methods are sneaky, he does not actually do anything wrong. but those are his methods still, and they are cool moments and badass and also kind of eerie.

with the way he's written, i would argue will doesn't have or even need a corruption arc, he's just like that from the get-go and he's not gonna change. and i don't mean he was born evil or whatever other bullshit i mean that he was born a full person, including the dark king and will both, and there's complexity, but no clear line separates them.

[smurny]

It is so fucking cool how CS Pacat wrote Will as an unreliable narrator who is often hiding his thoughts from the reader, cutting himself off, leaving us guessing even when we are in his head.

And the reason it works is that it’s not just a handy literary device that creates mystery, it is perfectly in line with the rest of Will’s character. He is in fact sneaky, repressed, and traumatized. There are parts of himself and his past that he’s unable to accept, thoughts and memories that terrify him, that he has to keep locked up. He can’t even enjoy a hug from Violet without feeling guilt. He realizes he might be the Dark King in like chapter 3 but doesn’t allow himself to think/process it till Katherine dies. He knows how many minutes it takes to choke someone to death. Being attracted to James is too Sarcean-like so he tries to not have those thoughts as well, even though it feels like “the sun, or something brighter”

And all these things are for the reader to infer from Will’s actions rather than being told explicitly by the narrative, which forces the reader to actively participate in the storytelling and become more invested.

TlDR: and that’s how cs.pacat fucked me up and ruined me for all other books 😭

[d3monicas]

catch the latest issue of your fave 2000s magazine

[gustavmalheur-deactivated201509]

nicole kidman recreating various portraits by john singer sargent by steven meisel, for vogue magazine (1999) see more

[mysterium-solis]

[spitblossoms]

[cottaqecore]

source: motherthemountain

[kotaku]

This is the village of Nukumori no Mori, or, in English, the Forest of Warmth, in Shizuoka, Japan. People say visiting it is like jumping into a Studio Ghibli movie.

[froggymp3]

https://www.instagram.com/khoone.sabz/p/CWvpSs4NlKs/

[wolveswolves]

Wolf-shaped northern lights photographed by Marja-Terttu Karlsson in Pajala, Swedish Lapland