#tog era

[aho-dapa]

Chaol and Aelin getting a confrontation scene in queen of shadows I need for personal catharsis. Meant as pro chaol, but I really just wanted aelin to look at her hypocritical views on how she values the lives of others.

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“This was my home too.” Aelin snaps.

Chaol scoffs, “Some home you must have had. If all you talk about is burning it to the ground.”

“Shouldn’t I?” Aelin asks, dangerously low, “Adarlan conquered my people, killed my family, made us slaves!”

Aelin stalks closer to him, shoulders tight, “Don’t you think that’s worth burning it down for?”

This time Chaol watches her, stares right into her eyes to find her answer—and laughs. Laughs so hard he’s nearly crying, nearly falling to the ground in hysterics.

“Ohhhhh,” Chaol says, stretching out the sound almost maliciously, “so that’s what this is?”

Chaol takes in a deep breath, that damned smile still on his face and asks, “Just tell me the truth. You just want an excuse for all your rage. You want to burn these streets? Fine. But don’t blame the people of Adarlan. They were just as much slaves to this kingdom as you were.”

That rage that Chaol taunted her for boils over into something sharp and the fire in her veins becomes molten.

Chaol’s head turns back with such force that she’s almost surprised that she’s slapped him. Almost.

After a silent, tense moment, Chaol chuckles and the anger in his eyes almost looks like pain, “Is that the only way you know how to treat me, Celaena?”

Her old name whispers against her heart, slithering its way into her soul, biting and poisoning her blood. It feels like an accusation.

Horribly, it feels like the truth.

“Don’t you dare,” she chokes on her fury, “Don’t you dare.”

“Is it?” He asks quietly, all of his previous humor gone like it was never even there, before he begins again with hollow eyes. “My people were forced into this war, and were hunted down when they resisted. Magic was so newly stolen away that they didn’t stand a chance. You’ve forgotten, oh great queen, that the slaughter began here first.”

Chaol steps closer, close enough that his breath mingles with hers, “Did you also forget that Adarlan also used its own people in labor camps, to make the war even possible? Do you know what family names were wiped out on that day? What children were put in chains for? Where they were buried?”

Quietly, almost like a dying breath, he leans in closer and his words gut her like a dagger, “They don’t have graves. Or records. Or even anyone here left to remember them. To know their lives, to know their fucking names.”

Aelin takes in a sharp breath, hating him. Hating him with all her broken heart. Hates the tears in his eyes, hates his last name, hates his grief. She burns and burns and hates.

“If you really hate anyone, Aelin,” and something in her rips apart in the way he says her name, “you should at least hate the right people. After all, if you want to hate me for serving a king I never wanted to serve, just like you, or even if you want to hate me for Nehemia,” Aelin can feel the crack in his voice as his says her dead friend’s name, “alright, I’ll carry that hatred for you.”

“Just think, that when you do finally point your sword at Adarlan, know you’ll kill a beggar’s child before you even reach his throne.”

Aelin gasps as the tears falling down her face scald her cheeks. She stares into his cold gaze and she can’t look away as that part of her she’s achingly fueled her whole life dies out, and she’s left with something worse than hate.

“That is what killing means to me, what the weight of a life means to me. Assassin or not, queen or not, I am sick of hearing of how you only value life when it suits you.”

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(Here’s some more because I’m being petty)

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The sword is heavy in his hands as he beheads another Valg.

When his sword stops ringing and everything stills, he pauses to feel the black, rotting blood that stains his clothes, his blade, his skin—he knows he’ll never forget the smell even at his dying breath.

Still, he kneels next to the severed head. Not a guard, or a rebel.

He grabs a large cloth from his vest and ties it closed next to the other three heads leashed onto his belt.

He stands up, the weight of his bones aching, and he continues the hunt.

Step by step, the only thing that can comfort him is the knowledge that he might have a sliver of a chance that he would one day know the names of the heads at his thigh.

As they brush against the scabbard of his sword, he swears to himself and all his wretched dead that he won’t let them die nameless.

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Did you notice how I didn’t name him once, yeah that was intentional, thank you and goodbye

Also yeah I mirrored aelin’s way of her talking about her beloved dead / his wretched dead all refer to all the people he’s killed

#pro chaol #anti aelin #anti sjm #because everything i write is basically anti sjm #dapa writes #tog era

[luminarai]

dog owners vs cat owners: the immortal gay edition

#my art #tog #the old guard #andromaquynh #andyquynh #joenicky #kaysanova #quynh tog #andromache the scythian #nicky di genova #nicolo di genova #yusuf al kaysani #joe al kaysani #I was getting notes on some old old art and it reminded me of the whole ‘Nicky has the vibes of the #ma there’s a weird cat outside’ cat #esp in the ‘just stopped murdering each other & joe has yet to find a decent body of water to kick Nicky into’ #-era of their relationship #also I accidentally went ham on their outfits there is zero cohesion or reason in what they’re wearing #I like to imagine that they all at some point ended up having to snag some clothing off of some rich bastard’s washing line #and over time it accumulates into being just random pieces from random places #except joe who probably painstakingly embroidered his tunic to match his cloak much to Nicky’s confusion and fascination #Nicky: ​why do you bother? it’s just going to get dirty or bloody again’ #Joe: you were literally growing out a tonsure when we met #Nicky: what does that have to do with anything? #Joe: *miranda devilwearsprada look of unsurprised disgust*

[zairaalbereo]

Yusuf and Nicolò, falling in love in the early days

— a follow up to “Sea Riders”

#the old guard #tog fanart #joe x nicky #joe/nicky #kaysanova #immortal husbands #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #the old guard art #tog art #nicky di genova #joe al kaysani #crusades era #fanart #my art #artist favourite

[gracie-rosee]

There’s a startling lack of TOG content for sjm romance week. I fear a lot of tog writers have gone and disappeared 🥺

#throne of glass #sighhh #I miss my 2021/22 tumblr #pandemic peak tog fic era #rowaelin #maybe I’ll write something #if only to fill the void in my own heart

[non-un-topo]

Was thinking about periods that best suited them based on body type

#hey. joe's eyes are up there. #tog #the old guard #kaysanova #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #siggy draws #i drew again yeeeyyyyyyy #tears were shed. it's been a while since i had the time to actually draw and i have been not so great. #director's commentary: i feel like joe would have rocked the regency era because he's got them gams. #also him in green is just mmmmmm... and with the sideburns. #nicky has a really good silhouette for 15th cen. italian fashion. broad shoulders and slim waist. and his leggies. #and his peach ofc #you can totally tell which face i'm more familiar with drawing lol. i'm doing my best. #i feel like they look so girlypop sfgds i'm so annoyed i wanted them to look masculine

[yasmterrasen]

The Eras Tour with Elorcan

okay, an inspiration that I got from: @danikamariewrites. ♥️

a modern!elorcan x reader:

• When you and Elide found out that Taylor was going on tour, you were excited.

• Lorcan barely had time to reason when they saw the two women, more excited than ever, running up to him and talking about it.

• He was never a fan of pop, and most of the time he was always talking and making jokes about you and Elide listening to these "little girl" songs, but you both knew that he knows the lyrics to each song by heart.

• You and Elide are very excited the day you buy the tickets, and of course you buy the VIP, and Lorcan loves seeing the big smiles on both of you.

• Elide sometimes seems even more anxious than you, the two of you preparing for months, organizing your clothes and listening to the albums from the beginning, singing the lyrics with the highest possible tone of voice.

• The day arrives, and you and Elide spend every hour getting ready. Elide wears a beautiful dress with Lover's colors and you wear Red's dress. Lorcan wears typical black clothes, which makes you and Elide roll your eyes, so you fill him with Friendship Bracelets and they tell him to at least pretend to be on Reputation.

• You guys get there and make Lorcan a camera. He takes photos of you all the time, and is more than happy to do so. Of course, the three of you take photos together, and everyone's cell phone gallery is full of photos and videos from this show.

• You and Elide scream and dance the entire show, and Lorcan also lets go in many moments, but usually looking at you with a smile that said it all.

• By the end, you and Elide were hoarse, the three of you covered in sweat. You could barely walk with your heels and the calluses that formed on your feet, this made you and Elide lean on each other as you walked and Lorcan called a car.

• You two were sleepy, and almost fell asleep in the car, but Lorcan woke you up and helped you get out of the car and go into the house.

• He's pure muscle, and he didn't let you take a single step when you two got out of the car. He placed you and Elide on both his shoulders and carried you to the bedroom. While you two were lying in bed, he came down and made sure the house was closed and safe.

•You and Elide take a shower and put on the first pair of pajamas you can find.Lorcan found out and sees the two of you lying in bed, eating some snacks and your bodies are tired.

• You rest your head on Elide's shoulder and you cuddle together, while Lorcan finishes showering and starts massaging both of your feet.

• Elide snuggles into you and the three of you lie down, Lorcan's arms wrapping around your body and Elide's.

• This is how you sleep, with your back pressed against Lorcan's muscular chest and his hand stroking Elide's hair. Tired, but very happy with the moment that happened.

#Poly!Elorcan #Elorcan x reader #lorcan salvaterre x reader #elide x lorcan #throne of glass #the eras tour #taylor swift #elide lochan #elide x reader #aelin galathynius #aelin x rowan #rowan whitethorn x reader #gavriel tog #elorcan

[galaxyofstars]

'sjm is a romantasy author and it's not that serious. it's meant to be fun" for you. i started tog when romantasy was not a genre. i remember waiting for QoS to come out. i went and bought it at the bookstore the week it was released. it was just another ya series (that i was obsessed with and loved). i witnessed the degradation of her writing after HoF. it felt like a betrayal. i started reading her when i was a lot younger, and followed her series for years. it's too late the obsession was already created. the betrayal was personal (sjm has no idea i exist). so no i will not get over it let me have my fun.

like. look. i love the concepts and ideas and blueprints for the characters. they're fun and you can have a good time reading them. i hated chaol and still read CoM and ToD. i hated rowaelin and still enjoyed the series. just when the quality is at the point where it feels almost insulting that she published it and expected people to pay money for it it pisses me off a little.

#sorry i woke up with a bone to pick today clearly #in my whining era this week apparently #im sorry ill stop soon #anti sjm #sjm critical #i feel mean using anti tags but like #where else is this supposed to go lmao #acotar #acosf #tog #throne of glass #tower of dawn #yes im tagging tower of dawn there are not anti opinions of it #there are only valid negative opinions of chaol #as i said

[rwoh]

Calcifer closet cosplay, Rakucon 2023, Manchester

📸: ksjd_cosplay

Editing by me

#entered my tog era #this coat is embroidered but i only spent like 4 hours on it so it doesn't count as transformative #you can't even see it #calcifer #ghibli #howls moving castle

[savourings]

in my reading era and THRIVING

but i want more mutuals who match the vibe

follow if you are a basic bitch who read hunger games and twilight as a kid and then stopped reading until you picked up acotar/tog and now you’re reading every romantasy/na lit you can get your hands on

…too specific? 🤷‍♀️😅

#books #booktok #romantasy #na lit #reading #acotar #tog #SJM #azriel #Ravenhood #eras tour #girly #idk

[pearblossommina]

ToG Read-a-Long, Queen of Shadows, day 9

I’m so normal about this chapter set you guys

Ch 52

"Not yet," he said roughly, his own breathing uneven. "Not now.”

BOO

BOOOOOOO

Rowan you TEASE. How dare you.

Please, my crops, they’re so dry. Please. Chomp down on her neck. Mark her up, be a beast, I know you want to do it, SO DO IT! You think Aedion has never heard the sound of people having sex in the next room?!? It’s fine! He’s a big boy, he’ll get over it!

You can be as loud as the hell you want when you’re making love, don’t let the neighbors stop you from having fun; they’ll have peace and quiet when you’re good and done.

Ch 53

AGAIN?!?

(SJM: hey are you turned on? Excited to read a chapter about Rowan and Aelin dancing around the idea of maybe potentially consummating?)

(Me: yeah yeah gimme gimme!)

(SJM: *writes about Dorian filled with doom and gloom and sorrow instead*)

(Me: *sigh*)

Who edited this. Who let her get away with this. I need to know where to send the bill for my whiplash.

Ch 54

Heyyyy well this is a surprise

Kaltain beat back the demon

(With fire) (mmmm)(sounds good I’m pretty sure we can muster some fire)

Good job Kaltain, can you tell our baby boy Dorian!

Ch 55

Lysandra god damn it

How dare you get kidnapped, my crops are turning to dust in the field and I’m so thirsty, I can’t be concerned for you right now

You better not be about to be killed violently like Nehemia

(I can’t keep going through all this intensity) (I CAN’T)(my feelings are all over the place)(what is even going ON)

Ch 56

I feel like I am actually being pranked right now

There is no way

There is no way she can keep getting away with this

Is the next chapter going to be another sad Dorian chapter, SMH

how much longer can these two possibly hold out! Another temptation and another postponement… yeesh

Ch 57

I’m getting so sick of all the war and high stakes stuff happening in this book

I AM IN HELL

Like genuinely I can tell this is important and I should care about what’s going on right now and yet, HEAD EMPTY, DON’T CARE

I WISH I CARED

BUT I DON’T

Ch 58

Plot!

I care a little bit

It made me kinda excited when Dorian managed to talk in his own voice, Dorian, what the hell have you been waiting for? The right moment when Aelin happened to be watching?

Lol

Is grandmother Matron fucking the king?

Probably not, since he has a wife

I just want to see Manon eat everybody, actually

Ch 59

My how the turn tables, CHAOL WANTS TO KILL DORIAN NOW

Chaol, are you fucking kidding me? This whole time you have been the only one holding onto hope

How could you let your hopes die now? Don’t you believe in good triumphing over evil? Weren’t you fighting for a better world, for humanity or whatever? What happened, Chaol? I thought you were on my side.

I thought we were doofuses together

Don’t leave me here to be a doofus by myself

I find Manon so sexy especially how she just effortlessly holds Chaol captive. I still think Baba Yellowlegs is the silliest name for any villain, it just rolls off the tongue in such a funny way. Shouldn’t Manon be glad that Baba Yellowlegs died, though? I mean maybe it’s bad when a witch dies because they’re so strong, but the fact that she died is what caused her and the other clans to join together and rival for a new Wing Leader, sooooo actually, Aelin did you a service, baby. If you look at the bright side. If you are capable of looking at the bright side.

Lol

Yeah! fight each other

Hot!

Ch 60

“If he had been one inch farther behind, it would have hit his heart.”

Aw shit be careful Rowan! You can’t be out here getting mortally wounded! I am so sick of it! Get your act together, what do you think this is, an action novel? NO, dummy, it’s a steamy romance, I don’t have time for your bleeding heart heroics! Literally!

The Manon x Aelin fight is pretty hot actually

I am here for it

Guys this chapter set gave me hell

IT GAVE ME HELL

It wasn’t a very LONG set but boy was it hard for me to pay attention lmao, and I KNEW, I KNEW the stuff happening after the Rowaelin tease was important but I was like what the actual fuck is this! Get back in bed! No! I hate myself - I hate everything!

#it’s hard out here for a rowaelin shipper #it’s like the Great Depression era dust bowl now #my crops are dead and I’m begging for it #a small sprinkle of rain #ugh #tog read along 2023 #queen of shadows

[monomonommonn]

IT'S

KHUN IN A SUIT! I REPEAT! KHUN IN A SUIT!!

#HOLY GOOD GOOD GRACIOUS LORD #WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME HE WAS IN A FORMAL SUIT LIKE THAT??? #HIS FAKE BLONDE ERA???? #EVERYONE SAY THANK YOU SIU #WE ATE WELL THIS CHAPTER #khun #khun aguero agnis #tog #tower of god #tower of god spoilers #webtoon

[aho-dapa]

Like, chaol does have a reason to be suspicious of aelin (and his fear of magic is never even explained, it’s just there)

He’s worried that aelin will kill Dorian because he has a valg prince in his body and HE’S RIGHT TO BE WORRIED??

Aelin spends most of her pov chapters thinking about killing her friend and people comment that she’s doing the smart thing for killing her friend and like??

It’s frustrating too, because the decision is put solely in her hands because she’s the protagonist because the book even says that she’s the only one who can help dorian like???

Soooooo if you can’t save Dorian, no one else can even try??

#anti sjm #anti aelin #pro chaol #anti tog #tog era

[luminarai]

Thank you all so much for participating in my ‘help me post old stuff’-poll! To my surprise this was the winner, it’s probably the oldest one of the entire list and it’s just two sketchy studies of Joe and Nicky in historical garb (I can’t even find the ref photos anymore but I know I had some). It’s absolutely itching in my fingers to clean them up and add some light etc but I promised myself not to so here ya go!

#my art #tog #artists on tumblr #the old guard #joe al kaysani #nicky di genova #my sketches #p sure this is like. pre-pandemic. feels like another era #I’ll be posting some of the other almost winners over the next few days xoxo #OK NOT PRE PANDEMIC LMAO tog apparently came out in 2020. but it feels like it’s been decades ya know

[zairaalbereo]

“Nicolo had seen his reflection in the water and had enough time to consciously recognize the man’s features before he’d been murdered.”

“Nicolo?” Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn al-Kaysani, called al-Tayyib, stood breathless at the lip of the well. He looked down, and Nicolo looked up. 

I can finally reveal my first set of artworks for the TOG Reversebang. ✨

It was absolutely wonderful to see it inspire—and in return be inspired by—a hauntingly beautiful story about redemption, dealing with the trauma of their beginning, and finding a way forward.

And then @falcon-fox-and-coyote​ went and wrote a whole damn sequel (and there’s a third story coming!).

So please, please go and read these amazing stories!   

"Bad Beginnings" by wind_ryder

“Uncertain Middles” by wind_ryder

See the art on Ao3

#the old guard #togrbb22 #tog fanart #joe/nicky #joe x nicky #kaysanova #Immortal husbands #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #the old guard art #crusades era #my art #long haired joe rights #messy manbun nicky #so excited to share this #read the beautiful fic #and it’s brilliant sequel

[non-un-topo]

Rating: M

Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Trans Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Trans Nicky | Nicolò di Genova, Gender Identity, Crusades Era Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani & Nicky | Nicolò di Genova, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, No actual SA occurs, Canon-Typical Violence, POV First Person, just trust me though, Melodrama, gotta tag for that because i'm a dramatic person

Summary:

At first, there were only names. Yusuf of the Kaysanites, pious and sure and cunning like my merchant father before me. Yusuf, a strong, godly name, given and taken by no one but myself. It was the name with which I carried myself to my new life, to the walls of al-Quds. I could not have predicted, at the time, the violence that would befall her. Her, that was the land that was holy, and her, that was me. A merchant’s daughter from Mahdia, who carried an old sword and a new story.

#sage writes #yoo here's the canon-divergent crusades era t4t au i drew quite a while back #sort of an experimental piece. please lmk if you want more! i might make it into a series of snapshots through time. #please heed the warnings of course. they're there for a reason! #the old guard #tog fic #kaysanova #dsfdgfhds i feel like this fic is a wild card of a bunch of things ao3 readers typically skip BUT let's see where this goes! #i should not have been writing i should have been working but here ya goooo

[rhysandsbiggesthater]

For some INSANE reason, I decided to read Kingdom of Ash and All the Young dudes at the same time.

I’m going to through much PAIN rn I don’t think I can take much more 😭

#throne of glass #tog series #kingdom of ash #aelin ashryver whitethorn galathynius #rowan whitethorn #lysandra #aedion ashryver #manon blackbeak #dorian havilliard #elide lochan #lorcan lochan salvatorre #yrene towers #no chaol #all the young dudes #atyd #the marauders era #james potter #sirius black #remus lupin #no Peter either I know what happens #lily evans #marlene mckinnon #mary macdonald #wolfstar