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lightwoods-world · 28 days
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cheekies were made to be squished <3
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lightwoods-world · 2 months
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I genuinely couldn’t imagine just walking around and being THIS pretty. He’s so baby girl 🤍
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lightwoods-world · 3 months
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characters that fall into this general vibe make me want to EAT GLASS
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lightwoods-world · 3 months
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you ruined a perfectly good Dark King, look at him, he's got ptsd
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lightwoods-world · 3 months
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Everyone: omg Will and his big dark eyes. He’s so kind and a natural leader, I just want to follow him and tell him about myself, maybe even get a little smooch bc he’s so pretty 
Elizabeth: i saw bitch, i smelled bitch, and i said bitch. Have that liar drawn and quartered
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lightwoods-world · 3 months
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sarcean tweets compilation because i love him ✍️
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lightwoods-world · 3 months
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About narratives: the story of Sarcean, Anharion and the Collar.
Ok soooooo I finished Dark Heir and I have THOUGHTS.
This could be my delusional mind speaking BUT I firmly believe that the whole thing about the Collar and the relationship between Sarcy and Anharion depicted in the story written and established by the winners (the Lady's faction) and Gauthier is far from the truth and a lot more complex and fascinating.
More ramblings under the cut!
Putting all the hints given in DH aside for the moment (I will discuss them later) for me the biggest red flag about these narratives is the way Anharion is depicted in both.
This is a little twisted but it’s something I’ve been thinking about since DR, so let me elaborate.
In DR, the Stewards DON’T know about the Collar. James himself admits that he found out about it from Sinclair, and so the Stewards are convinced that James/Anharion had willingly betrayed the Lady’s side, becoming willingly Sarcean’s lieutenant and his lover.
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Gauthier instead reveals a more twisted version of the story.
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It’s clear that the two narratives are in contradiction with each other: the one told by the Lady’s faction and echoed throughout the centuries among the Stewards doesn’t include the knowledge of the Collar, and it entirely blames Anharion for his deeds and his betrayal; Gauthier’s version instead, serving for the readers as an introduction to the existence of the Collar, specifies that Anharion didn’t have any agency.
So, which version is the true one? Neither of them, because both, as it often happens in history, took the truth, and twisted it to serve its own purpose.
Let’s start with the narrative ‘written’ by the Lady.
My biggest doubt about it is why the f*ck it seems that A LOT of people outside the Hall know about the Collar. Gauthier knows about it because his ancestor was the one who stole it, but Sinclair? Let’s hypothesize that he knew about it from Kettering. Kettering knows about it because he is a Returner, so someone who was THERE, in the Old World. It’s not a stretch then to theorize that the existence of the Collar and its power was somehow known in the past.
And in DH, the presence of the chain attached to the throne in the Sun Court, where EVERYONE could see it, hypothetically ( and I underline this because I don’t trust ANYTHING of what we saw in the Undahar for it was the Sun King’s court before Sarcean’s) linked to the Collar around Anharion’s neck, makes me think that the Collar and its power weren’t such a well-kept secret.
So, the whole “the Lady’s side didn’t absolutely know about the Collar” narrative is a bit sketchy at this point. I believe someone knew at some point, so why would they iterate this version of the story, instead of depicting Anharion as a victim and blaming Sarcean for it?
Well, the answer is simple: damnatio memoriae. The version of the story known at this point had been written by the Lady’s faction, so of course her enemies are painted in the worst light possible. Anharion’s memory is, in my opinion, even more tainted by this narrative than Sarcean’s one; we don’t even know his true name. It didn’t matter that he could have had reasons for his actions: he went against the "good side" and chose the dark, the end.
This narrative is not interested in reporting the truth. Its purpose is to celebrate the Lady as a Saint figure and vilify her opponents, disregarding their reasons, their feelings, their insight of the events entirely.
So, it’s not so difficult to believe that underneath all the twists and the lies, in this version of the story there is a grain of truth; that, in a way, Anharion did betray willingly the Lady. Maybe he understood that the so righteous Lady was, in fact, not that pure and good. Maybe, at the culmination of the fight, he somehow hesitated to kill Sarcean, because he was a human being, not just a cold hearted betrayer. All factors that would of course be excluded from this narrative, for they would expose the Lady’s true face.
At this point this is all but speculations, but one thing is certain, and this takes us to the second point: it’s canon that Anharion had feelings for Sarcy. Before the Collar.
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I would not call it ‘undying love’ at this point of the story, but the affection is there. Palpable, visible, corporeal in glances and words. This is, like, a HUGE revelation.
Because this proves that the narrative told by Gauthier is not the truth either!
While I believe that the Collar has some kind of power (I’ll explain this too), in the Gauthier’s version of the story, it’s clear that the emphasis on the submitting part of this power comes from the desire to possess Anharion, from the (false) conviction passed on for generations that whoever put it around his neck would master him. I suspect it consumed not only Gauthier himself, but also every member of his family who owned the Collar before him.
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In the end both narratives, pushing for their own agenda, give an insight on the relationship between Sarcean and Anharion not only false but also humiliating for Anharion, for he is depicted as a selfish, cold hearted betrayer where his own agency is totally dismissed (and not even mentioned) in one, and a plaything slave of the Collar in the other.
The truth is far more complex than this, of course, and the one million dollar question about it is then: how much influence did have the Collar on the true nature of their relationship?
In these days I have read a lot of theories about this. One of my favourites is the one depicting the Collar as a mere object of fashion without any power and Anharion not only conscious but also willing the whole time and the fact that this may be hinted in the text makes me feel unhinged (if this is true, you will hear me screaming about it for years)
In my opinion, and I will believe this until I read the third book, the Collar has some kind of power on James/Anharion but not in the way it has been described so far. This is but a mere speculation for the moment, but maybe this power leans more on binding Anharion’s magic to Sarcean’s than controlling his free will or feelings. (this bit in DH is soooo interesting!!!)
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I’m convinced that the Collar cannot create something that is not there and that underneath its power, it’s clear that Anharion had conflicted feelings for Sarcean, he always had, because James REMEMBERS feeling this even with the Collar:
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This means those conflicted feelings are still there and are not magically morphed by the Collar into pure and simple obedience and that whatever Anharion felt was real, whatever James feels is real, contradictions and all.
We still know so little about this two at this point, and since Pacat really loves plot twists, I believe that their real story will come out in the end and that Will and James will achieve what their past selves couldn’t had, unravelling the conflicts and the misunderstandings between them, and conquering the freedom they search in each other’s arms to be just Will and James.
I had fun writing this, please feel free to give me your opinion on this!
(PS. I think I needed to specify that this whole rambling is focused on Anharion’s feelings. What about Sarcy? I believe his feelings were a deadly cocktail of desire, affection, possessiveness, admiration and horny thoughts, like the disaster babygirl he was, thanks for your attention)
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lightwoods-world · 3 months
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“It’s the same for me. You’re powerful…more powerful than anything I’ve felt. I can’t look away.” James said, “I could close my eyes and know you.”
it’s giving:
I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.
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lightwoods-world · 6 months
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vernon is too pretty not to be smiling at all times. he has probably the best smile of all of them and he has beautiful perfect teeth and he's so stoic. idk kinda hot, i love the shy stoic ones. he's such a cutie though. and dont even get me started on his voice. he has one of the best speaking voices in both korean and english. i love love love hearing him speak english because it's so different to him speaking korean bc it's a deeper voice but it's so...ugh. anyway, let's talk about how vernon looks soooo good in hats like he was put in this earth to outsell in hats. name a hat he looks perfect in it beanies, bucket hats, etc. personal favorite is a ball cap like he has the perfect face for it. my gosh. but instead of his style being like cool guy hot guy like everyone else he wears things that make him look soft. yknow? like he gives off a soft sweetheart aura. like he's the definition of boyfriend material.
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lightwoods-world · 7 months
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it's me & my queer-themed media against the world
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lightwoods-world · 8 months
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lowkey back in my haikyuu phase
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lightwoods-world · 8 months
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the thing about kageyama is that he was never mean. and the show works really hard to make it clear that he was never malicious or mean spirited. and so he doesn’t have to have a redemption arc, his character arc becomes centered around understanding, trust, and love. he isn’t learning how to be kind, he’s always been kind. he is learning how to see other people and learning how to know other people. he always loved volleyball but now he loves his team. and he really really loves hinata
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lightwoods-world · 9 months
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white people reading babel: nitpicking about characters and minor errors and “oh, it’s so unbelievable that [REDACTED] would betray them!” 
multilingual poc/people who��ve been colonized by britain: crying and sobbing about how babel so perfectly articulates and validates the collective trauma and lived experiences of our whole generation
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lightwoods-world · 10 months
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Kindness is never a mistake. Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered.
C. S. Pacat, Dark Rise
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lightwoods-world · 1 year
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Of course he’d survive on a technicality, thank you Leigh I was way too attached
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lightwoods-world · 2 years
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does anyone know the name of the song in theory of love, i think it’s episode 3, when khai and Third are shopping??? it was in the background, i absolutely loved it but don’t know how to find it ajsjajsj
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lightwoods-world · 2 years
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SEAN AND YOK: BEST FRIENDS  ♡
did you sleep here last night? yes, to take care of him. you’re fast. you should learn from me.
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