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antaripirate · 2 days

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the adsom characters as conversations i’ve had recently:

#i have more of these lmao #pls leave your thoughts #also for context we have a big silver ghost balloon in our living room called holland #a darker shade of magic #uni house things #adsom #shades of magic #kell maresh #lila bard #the fragile threads of power #threads of power #alucard emery #rhy maresh #holland vosijk

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luciehercndale · 9 months

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2023 books a darker shade of magic by v.e. schwab (reread)

Magic was a living thing---that, everyone knew---but to Kell it felt like more, like a friend, like family. It was, after all, a part of him (much more than it was a part of most) and he couldn't help feeling like it knew what he was saying, what he was feeling, not only when he summoned it, but always, in every heartbeat and every breath. He was, after all, Antari.

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starsailores · 5 months

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meet my son who has committed fifty atrocities and has every disorder known to man (i still love him)

#is this too niche of a reference. perhaps #my phone lock screen is just a widened version of this image captioned 'this is my son. he has every disease'#and i felt a more refined version needed to be here. i have not holland vosijk posted enough recently #and now i am holland vosijk posting my way through this transformers movie in a vain attempt at staying sane #adsom #a darker shade of magic #shades of magic #holland vosijk

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clockworkbee · 7 months

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Holland Vosijk Kell Maresh

#holland vosijk #kell maresh #adsom #a darker shade of magic #shades of magic #som #v. e. schwab

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spacehero-23 · 8 months

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An acolyte of the late king, Holland Vosjik

#do you want me to cry myself to sleep tonight????#holland vosijk #adsom #a darker shade of magic #threads of power #v e schwab #a gathering of shadows #a conjuring of light

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typingwithmyhandstied · 9 months

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I love Holland's faith in Kell being good, and how he uses it to push through with his not every good plans. Like in A Darker Shade of Magic when he knew that Kell would come back to save Lila even through how much she protested that he didn't care about her. Or in A Gathering of Shadows, when he hears from Ojka that Kell ran away, Holland is confident that he will come back because he always does. This is a great antagonist/protagonist relationship if I've ever seen one.

Not really the same but I really like the detail of how when Ojka asks him who the collar is for, Holland says "an old friend."

#shades of magic readalong #a gathering of shadows #a darker shade of magic #shades of magic #holland vosijk #kell maresh #lila bard #kell is one of the best characters ever

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nerdy-girlramblings · 8 months

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I love when authors/writers take characters that the audience hates and then we get their perspective or the other characters get to know them better and suddenly we love this character and pause and go "how did this happen?"

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bookolascage · 10 months

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Attempted a re-draw of the covers.

#a darker shade of magic #a gathering of shadows #a conjuring of light #ve schwab #book art #shade of magic #gathering of shadows #conjuring of light #shades art #holland #Kell #lila #lila bard #kell maresh #holland vosijk #adsom

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indigoreed1 · 5 months

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RIP Holland Vosijk you would have loved poetry tumblr

#spitting bars #my tortured emo son #a darker shade of magic #the fragile threads of power #holland vosijk #adsom #ve schwab #kell maresh #reading #books #ya books

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muffinworry · 6 months

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A Darker Shade of OSHA

#adsom #a darker shade of magic #holland vosijk

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antaripirate · 11 months

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Kell and Lila, to Holland, at any given moment:

disaster trio disaster trio disaster trio

#they all need therapy #someone please get them therapy #i’m begging you #adsom #a darker shade of magic #a gathering of shadows #a conjuring of light #kell maresh #v e schwab #delilah bard #lila bard #kellila #shades of magic #holland vosijk

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luciehercndale · 8 months

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2023 books - a gathering of shadows by v.e. schwab (reread)

Magic is tangled, so you must be smooth. Magic is wild, so you must be tame. Magic is chaos, so you must be calm. Are you calm, Kell?

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starsailores · 7 months

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it even happened twice

#doing my pre-threads reread which means the adsom shitposting is back in full force #i never really thought much about the time lila smacked him on the head with a metal pipe. but it is on my mind now #and i am wondering if he let her do it to spare kell. i am fond of the interpretation that he fought against orders and tried to kill him #to spare him enslavement at the dane's hands. because as much as he dislikes kell he would not wish that on anyone #but knowing his disdain for killing. perhaps he let her knock him out so he would not have to. and kell could be spared #he probably did not expect to be tied to the floor in chains and left in the streets of grey london though. hence how pissed off he was #and then kell impales him but it is confirmed that he let it happen that time so i have less to say about it. my poor man.#adsom #shades of magic #a darker shade of magic #holland vosijk

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kazz-brekker · 3 months

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kell and lila in adsom: talking about how holland is terrible and a dangerous murderer and must be stopped and they'll kill him if necessary.

me, who has previously read the other books in this series and am therefore attached to him: free my man he did all that but he was being magically enslaved by a pair of evil wizard twins and i don't hold him accountable for any of it!

#lila: the next time i throw a knife at holland i won't miss #me: stop being so MEAN he doesn't WANT to be hunting you guys down!!!#unfortunately i have a great weakness for tragic villains so i am very fond of holland #pie says stuff #pie reads #adsom #a darker shade of magic #shades of magic #holland vosijk

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ravencromwell · 20 days

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some scattered disability and White London thoughts:

Schwab missed a hundred thousand opportunities for disability rep; this is a bleak, apocalyptic landscape where one of the prevalent currencies is blood, and both children and adults are frequently attacked for their power.

Sign language. Look. Most magicians need to speak to focus their power, though Schwab makes clear it's more a way to keep up concentration than a necessity (take Lila's tiger, tiger, burning bright. So I wanna see that taken to its logical conclusion: tongues removed because many. many people think they! are the source of power, or at least where immense magic will nest.

Therefore: A thriving culture of sign language, where everyone is at least semi-fluent.

Holland, watching Talya's hands trace the old stories in gorgeous, fluid arcs with her hands as her face takes on a million expressions. Later, finishing them beneath the blankets, fingers tracing words intohis skin in the dark.

Holland stands out as much because his Antariness has allowed him to avoid disability as for the power itself.

Way the fuck more prosthetics particularly prosthetic hands considering how so many people carve element-control runes directly on their skin. Take away your hands, and some enemies would think they could take away your ability to fight.

Lethally sharp hooks for hands, with the runes carved directly into the metal and the most ruthless fighters absolutely willing ready and able to gouge out your eyes with their prosthetics.

Consequently: prosthetic care. Eventually, you have to take your hand/hands off; moisturize the stumps etc. Who you choose to be that vulnerable with says a thousand things about your character. (and the moments when you don't particularly *choose* it but you need to anyway because you've had it on too long and the skin is blistering; infection in Makt would be deadly.

The irritations of amputations. I know from some other characters I've researched for: things like washing your hair with only one functioning hand: an absolute bitch.

Anemia. In AGOS, part of what Ojka says Osaron's powers does is "warm her blood". Everyone in that city must be A. constantly cold; and not cold like a coat can fix. Cold from poor circulation and generally "weak" blood. People who have an affinity with bone magic (Athos, Vortalis, Holland himself) would have a significant advantage because everyone else is moving just slightly sluggishly, always dragging at the weight of exhaustion. It's part of what would make Talya's dancing so fucking _impressive, that she moves like that even despite the headaches, dizziness, etc.

Holland as Antari: essentially a fucking human heated blanket to anyone who isn't afraid to be so close to y'know the extremely dangerous magician.

God, there's so. so much more, but my brain is swiss cheese. But I at least wanted to start the ball rolling, because I feel like this's a corner of fandom that's just _bursting with possibilities.

#(for the record. I don't suffer from any of these disabilities #so I'm not the best reference source #though GOD am always so here for Makt #disability #discourse #White London #Holland Vosijk

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crookedcrowclub · 5 months

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the way adsom begins with “kell wore a very peculiar coat” and acol ends with “kell wore a coat that billowed in the wind” oh i’m gonna need a minute 😭

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