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allaboutthedrama · 2 months

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I know that I'm pretty late to the conversation, but I've just reread all of Vampire Academy and Bloodlines (possibly for The Untitled Jill Project) and it's the first time I've reread the VA series in years.

I'm just thinking about how, in my opinion, the quality of the VA series improved as we got into the last few books, and with Bloodlines, I think the reverse sort of happened. Spoilers for both series ahead. (Yeah, the last book came out nine years ago, but you never know.)

I think I hadn't realized how cohesive the ending of Last Sacrifice was. Details from as far back as the first book came up and were very relevant. The political plotline came together in a really tight way, Sonya Karp turned out the be Chekov's spirit user, we got more world-building details, the antagonists had complex and convoluted motivations, and even when there were plot threads left dangling, those actually served a purpose. I loved the part where Adrian pointed out to Rose that her actions had consequences and even though she had gotten what she wanted, not everything else was resolved, so people like Eddie and Sydney and Jill were left in bad situations, and she was partly responsible. It created a little more moral ambiguity, which I really enjoyed, especially since YA tends to like the very neat endings where everything winds up happily ever after.

The Vampire Academy books improved the deeper into the series you got. And, although I love Bloodlines, I do think that the first three books are much stronger than the last three. Which is a shame, because the series has so much potential.

I think Mead is at her best when she's writing something of a mystery. Last Sacrifice obviously comes to mind (they're solving a murder mystery, after all). Bloodlines had that, with the tattoos, Lee, and Keith being shady all building up to a really exciting climax. The Golden Lily wasn't quite as much of one, but the clues leading up to the reveal of the Warriors were well-placed. Indigo Spell went straight back into mystery territory, trying to find Jackie's sister. And then The Fiery Heart is where, in my opinion, things start to falter. There's a lot of interesting worldbuilding information introduced, with the new details about spirit and magic coming up, and it was fun to get into Adrian's head, but it definitely felt like this supernatural romance was shifting to become a lot more romance and a lot less concerned with the supernatural. But that's not such a big deal. It's the middle of the series, we're building tension, Re-Education has been a threat hanging over Sydney since page one of Bloodlines and we're finally seeing that fear pay off.

But then we get to Silver Shadows, and while I guess figuring out where Sydney is could be a mystery, it doesn't really resonate the way 'who killed the queen' does, in my opinion. Sydney's arc in Re-Education is great, and I do like the way the books deal with Adrian's mental health issues, but some of Adrian's chapters felt more like filler. And a bigger issue, imo, was that this was when we really started to lose the side characters. Some of my favorite parts of the first few books were characters like Jill, Eddie, Trey, and Angeline, and then the ensemble atmosphere was largely gone, because Sydney was in Re-Education and Adrian left Palm Springs. The final fight and flight sequence was really good, though, so I had high hopes going into The Ruby Circle.

The Ruby Circle is probably my least favorite of the books between both of the series, and I think that's a shame, since it's the finale. We'd just had a 'kidnapped character' arc, so I think there was less emphasis on describing everyone's reactions. We saw the biggest reaction from Eddie, but as a result, he got kind of flattened out from the really well-rounded character he'd been from the back half of the VA books and the first part of Bloodlines.

The Ruby Circle could have been a really good mystery, with lots of twists that tied up a lot of the lingering questions from the series. Except that a lot of threads from the rest of the series were dropped and didn't resurface. They never caught whoever was behind the assassination attempt on Jill. I don't think we even got an official resolution on whether Lissa managed to change the quorum law. The political plots that were integral to VA weren't significant in Bloodlines, despite it all starting because of a politically motivated assassination. We also never got a resolution on the rogue spirit user who turned Lee back from being Strigoi, or the spirit users who had been sent to the psychiatric facility in Tarasov (the prison from Spirit Bound). We never found Robert Duro. The bond itself was somewhat discarded, too, whenever it wasn't immediately useful for a plot point. Instead, we just got a scavenger hunt across the country, a few fight scenes where the protagonists were pretty much guaranteed to win, and a final showdown with a magic barrier that, as we learn after, would have dropped down on its own in a few hours for them to bring Jill food, anyways.

I obviously still like the series, since I'm rereading it and talking about it nine years after the fact. But I think that there were a lot of opportunities to continue plots from VA that were lost, even when they should have been brought back into the story.

If anyone has made it this far, I suppose I should throw in a pitch for The Untitled Jill Project, which will be my attempt to rewrite the Bloodlines series from Jill's perspective, because I think there's still a lot more story to be told. I haven't got it all mapped out, but I intend to at least tie up some of the narrative loose ends I mentioned that bothered me about the series in that story. I might write up another post here soon about how Jill's characterization also suffered as Bloodlines went on, if anyone's interested.

Anyways, if anyone has any strong opinions on what I said (agreeing or disagreeing) please let me know! I'd love to talk about the series with people, since no one in my real life has read it, and I'm curious to know what the rest of the fandom thinks about how the narrative progressed in Bloodlines.

#Vampire Academy #Vampire Academy books #Bloodlines (Richelle Mead)#Eddie Castile #Sydney Sage #Adrian Ivashkov #Jill Dragomir #Jillian Dragomir #Jill Mastrano #The Untitled Jill Project #Rose Hathaway

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sydneysageivashkov · 5 months

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moroi dashboard simulator

🔥 burnthemall follow

you know I really think the alchemists all have to be repressed vampire fuckers. there's no other reason to hate us that much we're all so fucking boring.

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boy do I have news for you

👊 rosilisatruther follow

so tired of how moroi-centric everything is. where's my dhampir sexyman tournament. hashtag dhampir rights

#janine hathaway sweep

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👻 hrhtatiana follow

NOT tasha ozera sweeping the sexyman polls have you people no shame she literally killed the queen

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sorry for thinking an anti-monarchist milf is sexy ig

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all the court-based moroi being so scandalised about adrian ivashkov running off with a human is so funny like just say you've never stepped foot outside the wards and go

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i love being on tumblr bc i can come on here and be like we should be able to kill all the royals with hammers. and everyone is like. yeah. but then i have to log off and i'm expected to let the strigoi kill me with hammers bc the royal i'm guarding won't even learn how to throw a punch.

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hate it when I think I have an amazing mutual and then they turn out to be a human rping

#should have known when they said they were a spirit user but like #have you seen how many spirit users are coming out of the woodwork lately?

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oh noooo mr strigoi don't get staked you're so sexy aha

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and is jillian dragomir in the room with us right now

#so the queen supposedly makes quorum and then her '''''sister''''' is never seen again.... #sure jan. sure

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SPOTTED: Rose Hathaway, Dimitri Belikov and Adrian Ivashkov spotted at a dhampir commune in Michigan.

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oh lmao do you think we're gonna get another world changing discovery this week

#isn't ivashkov meant to be living in marital sin or whatever

#vampire academy #bloodlines

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2offayyo-kzt · 4 months

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I think we're forgetting that Sean reads fantasy romance :

this quote is from the novel "The Golden Lily" :

"You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. You have no clue of how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine."

summary of the book :

The book follows Sydney Sage, a young Alchemist that is forced to hide inside a ritzy boarding school in Palm Springs, California so that she can protect Jillian (Jill) Dragomir, a Moroi princess. The Alchemists are one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets—and human lives.

So I know it was just a reference from the wwdits writers, but I like the idea that yes, Sean reads mushy stuff

#wwdits #kztpost

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kate-read-that · 3 years

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B99 quotes and

VA

How was I supposed to know there'd be consequences to my actions?-Adrian Ivashkov, to a very angry Sidney

Life is a Party and I'm the Piñata-Christian Ozzera, every Monday

Hello,911? I'd like to report a robbery. The victim? My heart- Olena Belikova, right after meeting Rose

No pictures. If you love someone, you'll remember what they look like -Alberta Petroff,

Why dont you just do the right thing and jump off a window?-Mia Rinaldi, threatening Lisa with a glass of water

I have decided to stop fighting and lean into the fact that I'm an idiot-Eddie Castille, after 5mins of conversation with Sydney

Do you know how many basic bitches would kill to have my personality? -Angeline, letting Jillian paint her nails for the first time

I was born for politics, I have great hair, and I love lying -Abe, passing discretely his business card to Lissa on the dinner table

I'm sorry, I'm uncomfortable with emotions -Jeanine Hathway, drunk and hugging a very baffled Rose

Everyone should listen to me all the time about everything -Sydney Sage, fixing her friends mistakes for the 100th time

I am not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example -Rose Hathaway, the fifth time Dimitri chastises her

Fun? I was never fun. You take that back -Dimitri, when Olena starts telling everyone his childhood stories

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jocastasilver · 4 years

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Bloodlines Characters in Quarantine

-Sydney: Follows all the quarantine safety protocols and only goes out when absolutely necessary. She has a list of educational tv shows, and apps for Declan.

-Adrian: Is definitely sliding back into his drinking heavily habit, but is refraining from utilizing spirit for Sydney’s sake.

-Jill: Worries about her human friends, bingewatches her favorite tv shows, and occasionally provides her sister Lissa with some insightful ideas. Misses Eddie a lot, and Zoom calls him once a week.

-Eddie: Is paranoid about accidently bringing home the virus, and has enough hand sanitizer for the whole neighborhood. Teaching Declan is the highlight of his day.

-Angeline: Is going stir crazy about being locked up, but isn’t willing to put her friends in danger.

-Trey: Spars with Angeline to cheer her up, and figures this mess will blow over someday.

-Sonya: Is assisting humans in uncovering a cure for the virus, but has to be reminded to rest occasionally.

#quarantine #bloodlines #sydney sage #adrian ivashkov #jillian dragomir #eddie castile #angeline dawes #trey juarez #sonya karp

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varosemariehathaway · 5 years

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jill: what do you believe in?

sydney: i believe in coffee. coffee for everyone!!

#vampire academy #va #bloodlines #jillian dragomir #jill dragomir #sydney sage

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adeoetregina · 6 years

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INSTAGRAM AU >> Vampire Academy/Bloodline Series

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biwonderland98 · 3 years

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Just realising that Jill and Adrian's bond is like... hardly mentioned in the series? It really only serves as Sydney's (and the readers') pipeline to Adrian, except when the medication numbs it. Like, Jill is shadow-kissed, yet there's no mention of Jill seeing ghosts like Rose did, or absorbing Adrian's darkness or anything. I wonder if that's because the bond is so new, or if it's just an oversight

#vampire academy series #vampire academy #bloodlines series #bloodlines #jill mastrano #jillian mastrano dragomir #adrian ivashkov

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hathawaydontrunaway · 3 years

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Wait a minute… if Mia and Sonya are the adopted daughters of Victor, then how is Jillian going to be introduced into this show?? Who’s her mother going to be??

#biological sisters reunited trope maybe??#this needs to make sense again #vampire academy #jillian Mastrano #richelle mead #lissa dragomir

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inprogress-predicament · 3 years

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Incorrect Bloodlines Quotes

Adrian: Here we are. The epic final duel to decide the Fate of Friday Night Dinner! Sage vs Castile. A show of physical skill. A sword fight! TO THE DEATH!

Jill: What?

Adrian: To the SURENDER! Winner choses the restaurant!

Eddie: Wait! I couldn't hurt Sydney!

Trey, and ice pack on his face: But the guy you're allied with is apparently fair game.

Eddie: I said I was SORRY, TREY!

Angeline: Sydney Wins! Again! Who decided these things should be almost all trivia games?

Jill, seeing in Adrian's head: We all took a vote weeks ago.

Angeline: I voted for fist fights.

Eddie, backing Jill: Which is why the rest of us chose trivia.

#bloodlines #incorrect quotes #source: total drama #Adrian Ivashkov #jillian mastrano dragomir #sydney sage #eddie castile #Trey Juarez #Angeline Dawes #vampire academy

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allaboutthedrama · 3 months

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I'm curious about how active the Vampire Academy book fandom still is. Specifically, if anyone out there would be interested in reading a retelling of the Bloodlines series from Jill's POV? I've been rereading the books and felt inspired, but I'm not sure if there's anyone else who would want to read it? If you think you might, please interact with this post or send me a telegraph or something, idk how the kids are doing it these days.

#Vampire Academy books #Vampire Academy #Bloodlines (Richelle Mead)#Jill Mastrano #Jillian Mastrano #Jill Dragomir #Jillian Dragomir #Sydney Sage #Adrian Ivashkov #Sydrian #Eddie Castile #Rose Hathaway #Dimitri Belikov #Bloodlines

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gildedsydney · 4 years

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