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inprogress-predicament · 1 year

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Incorrect Bloodlines Quotes

Brayden: I always wondered who would be lucky enough to marry THE Sydney.

Adrian: No luck involved. She saw, she liked, she needed diplomatic immunity, she had to.

#Sydney sage #adrian ivashkov #Brayden cartwright #Vampire academy bloodlines #Incorrect quotes #Source: modern family

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oblivionsdream · 8 months

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Thrilled to share this artwork I created for the endpapers of a new German edition of Vampire Academy! This series holds such a nostalgic place in my heart and I still love my bad ass girl Rose. 😊

#vampire academy #dimitri belikov #bloodlines #frostbite #shadow kiss #spirit bound #last sacrifice #vampire books #YA books #rose was on of the first bad ass lady MC’s I ever read and she will always be iconic for that #rose hathaway

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thatcrazyfandomgirl · 6 months

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These soppy boys live rent free in my head

#slow burn #enemies to lovers #fantasy #vampire academy #bloodlines #acotar #shadowhunters #the infernal devices #will herondale #jem carstairs #adrian ivashkov #fourth wing #xaden riorson #a discovery of witches #rhysand

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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.

🌺 goodqueenalex follow

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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🔪 atheistwithabiggun follow

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?

🧛 vampirevampirefucker follow

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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easily-distracted-ivashkov · 9 months

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They're very underrated and we deserved more of them tbh

#adrian ivashkov #eddie castile #vampire academy #bloodlines #i love them so much #best boys #sydney sage #sydrian #va

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retiredficwriter · 2 months

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sad thought of the day: really wish i knew how to draw so i could make a sydrian fanart inspired by this meme:

#sydrian #sydney sage #adrian ivashkov #bloodlines #vampire academy #my rambles

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maranoahs · 1 year

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Recently played Resident Evil and the model Leon was based on, Eduard Badaluta is definitely my fancast for Adrian Ivashkov. He is Romanian and 6’1 like Adrian.

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ebbilayart · 8 months

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It's about the pomegranate gelato of it all ;-;

#sydrian #adrian ivashkov #sydney sage #bloodlines #the golden lily #my art #vampire academy #literally LOST it when I got to the end of the golden lily #going feral and screaming and crying over them

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themelrosetwins · 24 days

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screw it. mega poll.

#was gonna make one poll for va and one for bl but no we combining that shit #vampire academy #frostbite #shadow kiss #blood promise #spirit bound #last sacrifice #bloodlines #the golden lily #the indigo spell #the fiery heart #silver shadows #the ruby circle #romitri #sydrian

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angee1011 · 3 months

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I need to rediscover my roots…

And by roots I mean that era from 2011-2015 when I was obsessed with Sydney Katharine Sage and Adrian Ivashkov.

#bloodlines #adrian ivashkov #sydney sage #vampire academy #Richelle mead #those were the days #I miss them #icons

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allaboutthedrama · 3 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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jetsteelyourheart · 9 months

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Thanks to Bookclub where we read Bloodlines outloud on the internet, I've been spouting off character interpretations left and right and of course I've been overthinking one about Adrian recently:

When Adrian goes to see his dad, he ostensibly seeks to gain a few things from it: money for his living expenses, for his dad to show some interest in his life, and information about his mom so that he can have contact with her while she is incarcerated.

Sydney notices that, in spite of this, that Adrian has chosen to specifically dress and behave in ways he knows won't endear his dad to him: he wears jeans that are getting holes in them (not jeans that are designed that way, ones that specifically are getting worn down), he crumples up his shirt so it has wrinkles, and then when he gets to the restaurant he orders a martini immediately.

None of this is set up to get Adrian what he wants, which is first and foremost access to his mom. When everything falls apart its easy to look at the scene and read Adrian as argumentative and not even trying to give his dad any leeway, even as Sydney tries to stay out of the father / son fight so Adrian can have a chance at getting some of what he came for. This obviously ends badly, with his dad laughing at the thought that his son could or would want anything serious from him. He writes Adrian off without a thought and then tries to apologize to Sydney for Adrian's existence with a payoff.

So why did Adrian go about it the way that it did?

I see it as a defense mechanism, one that I can relate to. When you are viewed as the bad kid, the worthless one, there is a deeply entrenched defense mechanism that comes about over time. If someone always expects the worst from you, at a certain point you lean into it - both because its generally easier than trying to change their mind, and also because it hurts less.

I think that no matter what Adrian did, his conversation with his dad would've gone the same way. He would have asked for money and told he was irresponsible, he would have tried to tell his dad he was going back to college and trying to be better and his dad would've written him off, and when he asked for a way to contact his mom his dad would've told him no and that it was his fault she was in prison.

Now imagine this scene, going exactly the same way, but Adrian is putting on the best version of himself he can. He's wearing the right clothes, following his father's lead, sober and stays calm the whole time. And his father still puts him down -- not for who he is now but for who he thinks Adrian is.

So Adrian puts on the wrinkled, messy clothes. He orders the martini. He orders the second martini.

Because this way, when his dad writes him off, at least Adrian has the comfort of knowing he wasn't trying the best he had. At least his best isn't proven to be not enough.

#adrian ivashkov #bloodlines #posts by me #reading comprehension #vampire academy #The golden lily #nathan ivashkov #sydney sage #richelle mead

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vasilissadragomir · 4 months

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remember when richelle casually dropped that there was a whole psychiatric ward in the most dangerous moroi prison containing tons of spirit users while rose lissa and eddy are attempting to break victor out of prison and then just never mentions it again for a whole book and a half of the series AND all six spin-off books

BECAUSE I DO

#I WANT ANSWers #why create lore if not to expand on lore #esp now that lissa is queen!!!#was that where they were holding avery???#i must know #vampire academy #va book #va bloodlines #bloodlines #vampire academy books #rose hathaway #lissa dragomir #eddie castile

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easily-distracted-ivashkov · 9 months

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Y'all are so quick to talk about how Adrian 'made' Rose date him but I never see anyone talk about the fact Avery legit compulsed Adrian into dating her clearly against his will for at least an entire month 😭

#yall are funny for this fr #adrian ivashkov #rose hathaway #avery lazar #vampire academy #bloodlines #dimitri belikov #Romitri #va #vampire academy series #also how you'll excuse Lissa and baby her over spirit #but dont show the same to Adrian when he clearly suffered more #but you wouldn't know unless you read Bloodlines #brb preparing myself to get canceled again

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retiredficwriter · 9 months

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#bloodlines #vampire academy #sydney sage #adrian ivashkov #my rambles

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bluesadansey · 6 months

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every character I love in alphabetical order: Adrian Ivashkov, Vampire Academy & Bloodlines series

“Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.”

#My moodboards*#mine*#adrian ivashkov #vampire academy #bloodlines #va #vaedit #vadaily #remember I started this moodboard series back in spring semester I think… and I only did 3…#and after Adrian I have 15 more chars for the A’s.#favcharactermoodboards #That is the right tag #16 because Alina #wait no 17 … at least 17 more A characters #bloodlinesedit

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