a song in the shadows

she/her | 18 | british reading, complaining, yearning, and dreaming “we’ll always have paris…”

[somewhere-in-the-rain]

I’m Katherine, I like talking about books, Greek mythology, history, fictional sapphics, and deep-rooted societal issues.

fantasy books are everything to me (and mostly what I post about) but I will read just about anything, with the exception of self-help books and the Bible.

Currently reading: A Day of Fallen Night, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands, If You Could See the Sun, Empire of Sand

Currently obsessed with: The Bone Season

your favourite person’s least favourite person

British in the whimsical, pride and prejudice, green party way

secretly a Paige Mahoney stan account

mentally living in a Hozier song

an atheist with an appreciation for ecclesiastical architecture

wishing I was in Paris right now

tortured poets welcome

wuthering heights (2026) apologists will be prosecuted

ai users will be burnt at the stake

I like to write really long posts about tiny details in fantasy books, probably because I took GCSE English Lit too seriously.

Please feel free to send me random asks; if you’ve been following my blog for a while you will know I love to give my opinion on things.

Reading goal: 32/84

Favourite books: The Bone Season, The Secret History, His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Bell Jar, Wuthering Heights, Magnolia Parks, Daisy Jones & The Six, Binding 13, Happy Place, Six of Crows, The Song of Achilles, literally anything by Ali Hazelwood

Favourite artists: Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Gracie Abrams, Hozier, Halsey, Bastille, Maisie Peters, Florence + The Machine, Laufey, The 1975, Cigarettes After Sex, Arctic Monkeys, Marina and The Diamonds, Noah Kahan

Favourite movies: Iron Man, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Casablanca, Pitch Perfect

Favourite TV shows: His Dark Materials, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Derry Girls, Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Merlin, Brooklyn 99

Spam account: @allthewrongshit

Incorrect quotes: @stupidlybookish

AO3: lostinthehaze

Unrequited (The Empyrean): 566 words, Xaden x Violet, one-shot from Fourth Wing

Drunk and In Love (The Empyrean): 831 words, Xaden x Violet, one-shot, Violet gets drunk and Xaden looks after her

Falling Feels Like Flying (The Empyrean): 4,626 words, 1/? chapters, Xaden x Violet, modern AU, fake dating for sister’s wedding

I love you, I’m sorry (The Empyrean): 2,728 words, Xaden x Violet, rewritten scene from Iron Flame in Xaden’s POV

[innerchildabortionclinic]

everyone who is an excellent writer thinks they suck and will never get published. everyone whose writing sucks ass is actually getting published and displayed in barnes and noble

[fellshish]

i know you said we ride at dawn but i’m not a morning person actually. can we ride after lunch

[winter-wise]

When you're in a "narrative parallels to mythological figures" contest but your competition is Paige and Arcturus

[ravioliet]

under my tyrannical rule all characters will be on the aroace spectrum

[somewhere-in-the-rain]

the scenes where Arcturus wraps Paige in his coat to keep her warm are so much cuter when you remember that he could just give her his coat to wear since Rephs don’t feel the cold and damp, but instead wraps her inside it so he can be closer to her 🥹

[winter-wise]

Nick: I've got a new game. It's called "Coffee or Arcturus". I give you real things I've heard Paige say, and you all have to tell me if she was talking about a cup of coffee or her partner. Paige: I don't think I like this game.

[blckgirlacid]

I need my weird alone time or I will explode

[thealpacalypse-archive]

sure i guess sex is okay but have you ever closed a dozen tabs after finishing an academic paper

[somewhere-in-the-rain]

the emily wilde books are such a win for introverts because they prove that if you scowl at enough people, eventually one of them will find it endearing rather than off-putting and just ask you to marry them

[fairycosmos]

you literally have to unironically listen to some shit like party rock anthem so you don’t kill yourself

[awesomebutunpractical]

I am going to clarify that when I say "if your romantic pair would have no appeal as a platonic duo, they're going to fall flat", I'm not necessarily saying they needed to have a pre-existing friendship within the narrative. I'm saying that if you can't pitch the dynamic to me without referring to the fact that they think the other one is hot, they don't have a dynamic, they're just attracted.

[old-melissax77]

a week into pride month and i still havent kissed a girl this is lesbophobic

[silverflameataraxia]

There's something so special about Lorcan giving Elide a foot massage.

This man went from a strict no-touching-outside-of-the-bedroom policy to holding Elide's foot like it's the most precious thing in the world - like she's the most precious thing in the world - all because he wanted to help ease her pain.

Lorcan's character development since HoF has been 10/10.

[theslowesthnery]

ah yes my favourite trope

[somewhere-in-the-rain]

Paige and Arcturus for approximately 400 pages in the Dark Mirror

[strandedinscion]

life after reading the bone season is hard because how do i explain to people literally everything i look for in a book are just things from TBS

[my-dailydreams]