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— Danez Smith, from "summer, somewhere" (via lunamonchtuna)

chocolate academia

request of @jolivers-wonder 🤎🍫

“They’re just fictional characters” ok then why do I feel like their heartache personally cracked my ribs?

"All I am is literature and I am not willing or able to be anything else"

—Franz Kafka

"There will come a poet, who's weapon is his word,"

gilan: hey, halt, did you get a chance to consider my plan?

halt, reading a letter: uh-huh.

gilan: what do you think?

halt: mhm.

gilan: halt?

halt: anytime.

gilan: mm. i’m gonna go compromise the integrity of the corps by selling crown secrets to skandia and then blame it on will now, yeah?

will: hey.

halt: oh, go on then.

gilan, cracking up: can i assassinate the king while i'm at it?

Banana Yoshimoto, from her novel titled "The Premonition," originally published in 2015

Yes.

Weird thought, but do you think Halt ever thought about the fact that Lord Orman’s situation was similar to his own? Being the unlikable, aloof one, and having to contend with the fact that people preferred your much more charismatic relative, regardless of their true nature?

Just a thought.

As much as I absolutely regret spoiling most of the RA series for myself (I unfortunately have the self-control of a five year old, and the wisdom of a duck) it’s admittedly kind of fun watching pieces of future plot-lines slide into place without any foreknowledge about how it will. Examples, and huge spoilers ahead:

• Halt ‘lying’ to Deparnieux about being Hibernian royalty. And then denying that he was to Horace afterwards. Crazy work. It felt like I possessed illegal knowledge.

• Malkallum actually being Malcom. I was aware of there being a healer named Malcom, but little else, so I was somewhat excited to put together that they were the same person.

• Not as much of a connection, but I definitely got wide-eyed when I read that Tennyson was working with the Genovesan assassins (which is where I left off, so… I guess I can’t say no spoilers but I still hope to be a little left in the dark for Halt’s Peril lol).

Moral of the story — don’t read fanfic until you’ve finished reading/watching all the canon content. But there are sometimes some pros that come along with knowing stuff prematurely. Still, it’s hardly worth it in the long-run :,)