✧˚ 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 ༉‧₊˚.

*some of the legendborn talking about Sel*

Sel: *enters the room*

Someone: Ah speak of the devil

Sel: ExcUse mE I'm not a dEviL I'm a haLf dEmOn learn the difference you uncuLtured swiNe

Hermes had better have claimed Luke by saying, “Luke, I am your father.”

#don’t mind me just crying my eyes out at seeing these six together

honestly so many words sound like pretty baby names but then it turns out you can't use them bc they have Other Stupid Meanings. i mean come on. Allegra. Edema. Nitroglycerin. pretty! pretty baby names

who’s the songbird and who’s the snake?

The joke is that adult Snow is going to spend the rest of his life thinking that Lucy Gray was his femme fatale, but actually young Coriolanus was her femme fatale.

At the worst point in her life this pretty boy shows up with a rose & then cares for her as best his limited resources allow. She finds out he’s gone hungry too, that his family doesn’t have much to eat, but he’ll give her what food he has anyway. He risks his life for her, gives her his most cherished memento of his mother. Says and does all these sweet things, treats her like she’s precious. It all adds up and she comes to trust him–when she says trust is harder for her than falling in love!–despite her wariness & believes in him to the extent that she writes him a song with the line saying he’s “pure as the driven snow” (482) & then… 😬

When he slipped up and said he’d killed 3 people instead of the 2 justifiable ones she knew about, it must have been like she was suddenly in a gd Horror movie. Or the end of a Film Noir, when the femme fatale takes her pearl handled revolver out and points it right at the hero’s heart. Her sweet boy transforming into a beast right in front of her eyes.

Who was the songbird and who was the snake? Lucy Gray tells him “I want you to know I don’t really believe you’re here for grades or glory. You’re a rare bird, Coriolanus.” (127) And she liked his singing. “Was that you I heard singing? … I liked your voice.“ (143). It comforted her in an otherwise completely horrific experience. From his pov she was his pretty, sweet songbird who turned into a snake; from her pov, he was hers. I find her pov more convincing, since Coriolanus does the traditional femme fatale thing and "proves untrue,” whereas Lucy Gray was always true to her word.

I super dig the aesthetic, the tragedy, the fact that we get the femme fatale’s pov as he tries to justify himself and pretend Lucy Gray was the one who proved untrue. The poignancy of her falling for someone as they are in the process of becoming someone very different. Because, in the end, he wanted control and comfort more than love and truth. 

Oh don’t mind me, just sitting here thinking about Kaz not wearing his gloves to the docks to meet Inej at the end of Crooked Kingdom and like why … Like pretty sure he legitimately thought he would just give her her ship and show her her parents and then … she was gonna leave him and he would never see her again. Because in his mind, he just wanted to make her as free and whole as he possibly could, give her everything he possibly could, before knowing she would leave because that’s what she wanted. And I mean yeah, he knew he was gonna tell her the berth would always be there if she wanted to come back, but I don’t think going into it that he really expected her to at that point … so why no gloves Kaz?? Probably because if that was gonna be the last time he ever saw her, he wanted to be able to touch her one last time in some way if she was open to that … . I can’t … I just can’t …

I’m fucking dying. I got roasted in the best way possible.

Today in History: December 14. The Bush shoeing incident

Malec scenes with pages from the books

CITY OF BONES • 222, 223 • 231 • 235 • 243 • 256

CITY OF ASHES • 222, 223 • 262, 263 • 300, 301 • 369, 370

CITY OF GLASS • 73, 74 • 76 • 130, 131 • 157 • 175 • 222, 223 • 345 • 383, 384 • 386, 387, 388 • 424 • 479 • 487 • 490 CITY OF FALLEN ANGELS • 44 • 170 • 249, 250, 251, 252, 253 • 259, 260, 261, 262 • 293, 294, 295 • 306, 307, 308, 309, 310 • 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378 • 413, 414, 415

CITY OF LOST SOULS • 28 • 31 • 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 • 65, 66, 67, 68 • 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84 • 119, 120 • 158 • 161 • 178, 179 • 192, 193, 194 • 246, 247 • 265, 266 • 310, 311 • 354 • 396, 397 (fav scenes tbh) • 466, 467 • 491 • 499, 500, 501 • The Pages Which Shall Not Exist

CITY OF HEAVENLY FIRE • 34, 35, 36 • 40 • 43 • 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 • 59 • 61, 62, 63, 64, 65 • 123, 124, 125, 126, 127 • 231 • 273 [293 and 294 as bonus] • 311 • 338, 339, 340, 341 [356] • 381 • 387, the famous pie scene • 454 and 472 (Alec deserves a medal) • 508 • 514, 515, 516, 517 • 552, 553, 554 • 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588 • 621, 622, 623 • 636

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-Me whenever Reputation TV comes out