#shesacred

[hesalvation]

❝ you  have  me,  and  that’s  not  going  to  change. ❞  — @shesacred  //  isabelle lightwood.

[carelessgraces]

@shesacred​​ said:   ✉✉✉✉✉ tell me as many or as few headcanons you don't agree with as you would like!!   ( hot take v hot take: ani edition | accepting )

one. the idea that astoria is a “nice girl” is baffling to me. we know that draco married her & loves her enough to stay married to her when his parents don’t like her — despite the degree of influence his parents have over him in different ways — which suggests that he definitely likes her. i don’t particularly understand how draco, whose hobby is making life difficult for people, would get along with a nice girl, or a gentle influence, or a salvific woman? i get the desire to redeem draco, but i don’t think astoria’s the way to do it. it makes a lot more sense if draco likes astoria not because she’s a sweet gentle darling who’s never done anything wrong, but rather because (john mulaney voice) his wife is a bitch and he likes her so much.

two. the idea that draco and astoria had an arranged marriage was such a popular one pre-cursed child and i’m grateful to CC if only for dispelling that. you mean to tell me that draco stays married to a woman his parents can’t stand — specifically, who his mother can’t stand — who encourages him to abandon malfoy naming practices and to stick exclusively to what we know of black & greengrass naming practices with his son because it’s expected of him? because it’s arranged? he’s staying with his wife because he loves her and he loves her because she’s the worst, thank you very much.

three. the idea that astoria is a stand-in for harry or hermione for ship purposes, or that she’s harry or hermione lite. this series is built on cycles & mirrors and if there is a character we should be modeling astoria on, it’s either andromeda or sirius ( most likely andromeda ): all our early astoria lore tells us that she is a former blood supremacist who experiences a conversion which is equally frightening to, though less violent than, draco’s conversion from these beliefs. the relationship she has with draco is enough to make him willing to raise a child — a child !! his son !! — in a way that his parents actively disapprove of, despite his childhood desperation for lucius’ approval and his deep respect for his mother. which, again, points to a specific personality type for astoria: deep potential for carelessness and cruelty, active choice to be better than that despite her failures.

[angelaic]

↳   𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫    :     @shesacred 

❛❛    i  got    𝐭𝐰𝐨   modes  with  people,    bite    &    avoid.    ❜❜

[powerbound]

❛          they  say  we’re  all  products  of  our  worst  enemies  -----  some  of  us  think  that’s  not  true  ,  but  i  happen  to  disagree          ❜ @shesacred​ -- starter call !

[hesalvation]

a happiest of birthdays to the most wonderful, kind, incredibly talented, exceptionally lovely, hella beautiful @shesacred / @eterneaty. i love you so very much. you are absolutely amazing, a joy to talk to every day, and honestly, i feel very proud and honoured to be able to call you my friend. you are an inspiration and a big softy and i love everything we’ve created together over the past couple of years and hope that it’ll continue into the future. 

from myself, from stefan, from all the muses, i hope you’ve had the most amazing birthday, eaten lots of yummy treats and foods with your family ( and ofc, the cutie pupper ), and gotten to spend the day relaxing and just generally having the bestest time. you absolutely deserve it. 

here’s to another year :) i love ya very much :3

[neveraftersarc]

pspspsps? 🥺

yes? ❤️❤️❤️ ily shelley bby

[livingprophecy]

@shesacred​  asked:      ‘    friends  are  more  important  than  any  material  object  will  ever  be.    ’  for  nik  from  izzy’s  grishaverse  verse!      /      meme  i  can’t  find.

          “𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓’𝐒  𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐄  𝐀  bold  claim,  don’t  you  think?”      the  privateer  only  has  a  grin  on  his  face  as  he  turns  to  his  crewmate,  wind  blowing  the  reddened  hair  he’d  come  accustomed  to  into  his  eyes.  as  sturmhond,  the  prince  put  on  a  different  face,  but  maybe  it  was  closer  to  the  person  he’d  always  felt  like  he  was  PUSHING  DOWN  at  the  grand  palace.  the  person  he’d  become  on  the  waves  was  doing  more  for  ravka  than  he  ever  could  have  as  a  prince  —  admitting  that  wasn’t  something  he  was  ready  to  do  yet  though.  instead,  he  continues  with  his  quip,  mask  ever  present.      “i’m  a  big  fan  of  material  objects  myself,  you  know.”      nikolai  laughs  then,  knowing  izzy  would  see  right  through  his  cocky  and  arrogant  exterior.      (it  was  one  of  the  reasons  he  liked  having  her  around  so  much).      and  her  words  are  true:      there  were  only  a  few  people  on  this  ship  that  knew  HIS  TRUE  IDENTITY,  most  of  them  grisha,  and  they  were  the  closest  friends  he’d  ever  had.  he  moves  forward,  dropping  his  arm  over  her  shoulders.      “i  suppose  i  can  make  an  exception  for  you.  well,  you  and  the  twins.  i  think  tolya  would  be  hurt  if  i  said  i  didn’t  think  he  was  more  important  than  shiny  things.”

[carelessgraces]

@serendpitous & @shesacred said:   grishaverse au!   ( yelling about aus | accepting )

so i have two versions of this — astoria’s a fjerdan tidemaker who flees to ravka after killing two drüskelle, and either she ends up in arkesk when she’s found by sturmhond, or she ends up in ulensk where she’s found by the darkling. so this already affords me the really cool opportunity to look at how a character evolves when she’s presented with two vastly different sides of the same situation, given the same initial circumstances. so here are some notes that are just generally accurate across the two:

     one. we know, from what the darkling says about genya, that the corporealki / materialki / etherealki lines aren’t always clearly drawn, and that there’s genuine overlap across the board. it comes down to training — what one is trained in, who trains them, etc — and the choices made there. all of this to say: if astoria were brought to the little palace as a child she probably could have chosen between heartrender & tidemaker. there’s a lot of water in the human body; she’s self-taught, and taught by her mother ( a heartrender ), but she does have a talent for manipulating water, and so she focuses on water wherever it is, including in the body. she mainly trains as a tidemaker when the opportunity for formal training arises, unless the darkling, for instance, insists she train as a heartrender. 

     two. astoria’s mother is fjerdan; her father is, by origin, kaelish. astoria doesn’t know where her father is and hasn’t ever met him, but she’s been assured that she is in many ways his spitting image: while she has her mother’s brown eyes, she has her father’s red hair and curls, and she has a similar face shape — same jaw, same nose, same smile. she wants desperately to meet him someday, and i like to imagine that if she survives the events of ruin & rising, she tries to locate him.

     three. astoria doesn’t do too much stealing while she’s on the run. not because she’s opposed to it — she’s really not — but because it’s fairly easy for her to charm people into wanting to help her? she’s a genius when it comes to giving a good show of being terrified and delicate, and she finds that a lot of people are willing to try and help her if she asks. she kills more than a couple of the people coming after her, though, and she never hesitates to loot their shit and keep it for herself, so she can pay for things sometimes. 

     four. in a surprising bout of sentimentality she refuses to change her hair. she’ll hide it, or put some mud in it to try and cover the color, but she will not even consider any more permanent change. she loves her hair; it’s her father’s hair, and her mother loved it, and she desperately misses her mother and wants her to come to ravka too, though she knows that’s not particularly likely, and it’s the one link to her family she refuses to sever. she’ll change her name ( she goes by asta or storya, or even a completely different name, to hide ) or hide her accent, but her hair stays untouched. 

     five. if she had a lot of options, she’d still always choose ravka. in the eventual verse where she flees to ketterdam instead, she’s still trying to find a way to get to ravka safely. it’s about power: she does not want to live in hiding and being vulnerable all the time. even when she’s on the volkvolney, the hope is always that she’ll be able to settle in ravka. she does not ever want to be powerless again.