#santangel

[darklinaforever]

You know what I find funny?

It's how Leigh Bardugo always recycles Darklina for his other works.

Nikolai & Zoya, let's be realistic, is a smoother, more palatable version. Nikolai was narratively coded as the Darkling's foil, and now he has a demon inside him, and Zoya is essentially the new chosen one.

And then, of course, there's Darlington & Alex from The Ninth House.

Or Santangel and Luzia from The Familiar.

People who love Bardugo's books but deeply hate Darklina in particular are surely hypocrites for not wanting to admit that Leigh Bardugo, in all his new stories, is just recycling Darklina every time.

For god sake, even Matthias & Nina have scenes like Darklina! Especially the death of Matthias!

The worst part is that people claim it's purely accidental on Leigh Bardugo's part if there are any resemblances.

Oh come on!

Stop being naive! As if the author of her own books couldn't see that she's always recasting the same couple?

And it makes me laugh when people say that in this case it doesn't make sense for her to be putting Darklina down now.

Of course it makes sense. It's a matter of ego.

She didn't appreciate that people preferred Darklina to Malina, and the Darkling to the other characters. But since she understood that it sells, she repeats the formula endlessly without ever owning up to it because that would reveal her hypocrisy.

@stromuprisahat

@starrfettii

[marvinthecrow]

I guess Leigh Bardugo managed to make me fall in love with another demon!

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[wingedshadowfan]

just finished the familiar and spoilers ahead

why is no one talking abt how meandering and insane that ending was? it's like the author stopped caring about how the book would be perceived at that point in terms of consistency (like this was a passion project of reckless abandon to her) and just wanted to play with the readers's hearts by putting us on a doomed rollercoaster of emotions and expectations

first there's luzia losing the tournament, failing to escape after, going to prison and surviving the torture but failing to escape by a hair's breadth when teoda did, going on trial, victor trying (and failing) to get her out bcuz she doesn't get what tf his deal is and doesn't want to push valentina and marius under the bus, santangel stepping forward and sacrificing himself to get her out by essentially claiming he's the devil and she was naive enough to trust him down the wrong path (genius way to free himself from victor and have luzia survive btw), except for donadei popping out of nowhere going "oh yea no she definitely is clever and a heretic who knew what she was doing, and also they fucked" leaving santangel gagged and luzia sighing like "well then... fuck jesus christ i praise the devil also resurrection isn't that hard if you try hard enough dick fuck cock", then we get some expert epilogue-like retardation sequence where she and santangel proceed to get burned on the pyre together, but actually hold on they just teleported and are alive in bed at an inn the next morning, but actually nevermind he does turn to ash at the first rays of sunshine, but wait she mends him back together so it's fine, he does disintegrate every morning though- LIKE WHAT WENT ON?? DID WE ALL READ THE SAME THING AND GO "OH YEAH VALID" WITHOUT RECOGNIZING HOW INSANE OF A TWISTER GAME PLOT THAT WAS?? WILL THEY WON'T THEY EXCEPT ENDLESS

[i-read-and-then-i-draw]

i'm 200 pages into The Familiar and fuck its incredible

[mayheminthemethod]

And now my pretty weeping angel has a hat! 

[amnahi]

Anahí e Carlos Ponce, como Angélica e Santiago (quase) se reencontrando, em Dos Hogares. Ay, Jesus!