It’s going to be quite long so i’m going to put a keep reading thing here
Edit: Here’s one so you know “it’s god tier content” (quote from @gravedangerahead )
Please enjoy
I will take request for further cowboy memes if you want specific cowboy sayings and ideas for that background.
I'm rereading Spirit Bound and found this lovely little conversation between Sydney and Rose about Adrian.
Sydney, darling, eloping in Vegas with Adrian is your plot, not Rose's
I honestly wonder how much of it was Adrian is cute, and how much of it was Sydney, who has never had a friend in her life, scrambling for what you say to a friend about her new boyfriend.
I fully believe that after that call Sydney gave herself full marks on a successful social interaction with a friend
Since everybody is always talking about the VA Discord:
Seriously, where do i find this Discord Server? (Like - A Link)
I wanna join the madness
Hi!
We don't share public links to the server any more but you're welcome to message me privately
just some little sydrian moments that are too short for individual posts but that have been on my mind lately
I'm very curious about what Adrian's art is like and what his style would eventually settle into. Gonna talk about a bunch of aesthetic stuff that I have very little actual knowledge about, but I think it's fun to consider it.
The man is old, old money, literally aristocratic, so you expect certain artistic sensibilities of him. But when Sydney describe his taste it always seems interestingly dissonant to me. It makes me wonder about both of them.
His fashion sense is more standard, it's simple and is usually compared favorably to other people by Sydney, who has pretty conservative taste. Although it's a bit more daring then people who don't care it's still not outlandish, as you see in Sonya's wedding, where he's wearing blue instead of plain black but looks very normal compared to Abe. He's trendy, and sometimes dressed inappropriately for the occasion but not accidentally
But his taste in decor seems to be downright kitsch, it's kind of delightful. Sydney claims his sofa really clashes with the yellow he picked for his walls. While his choice in second hand furniture and his happiness with it might have more to do with his financial limitations and his joy in actually having some autonomy, making his own choices and doing this adult thing by himself (I believe he describes his place in court as a glorified dorm), I doubt the paint would have been more expensive in a different color, he chose that one.
Yellow is also the color of Sydney's aura, which is part of it, but he probably wasn't consciously thinking of that so early on, and there were probably more muted options. From Sydney's perspective his decor seems to be an affront to good taste, but also something she's immediately fond of because it shows his personality so clearly. In the golden lily she says both drive away the shadows (of the bad memories in the apartment, of her own troubles).
:read more:
Again, Sydney has pretty conservative taste, but Eddie is usually the representative of normality and he seems to agree that it's all a bit much. He also thinks a similar color on the Ivashkinator is ugly. Meanwhile Sydney likes it because it's the historic original color, and Adrian likes it because it matches his walls (and Sydney's aura, perhaps more consciously this time). I love it when Sydney and Adrian arrive at the same place through different routes.
Finally, the actual art he makes. It's very early on and he's still exploring his style. He makes a lot of different things for his first homework (nerd) and when he's supposed to make a self-portrait he ends up gluing together parts of very different pieces which he wasn't satisfied with.
There's a lot of very abstract stuff, and Sydney teases him about some of it but she's clearly fascinated by his art and loves a lot of it. Some of it expresses his emotions in a very direct way, some of it gets sloppy when he's drunk. It can be very earnest or very pretentious, probably normal in a young artist.
But this post was actually prompted by a post about how people who paint "badass pictures of skeletons with fire and motorcycles" should get more credit, and Adrian definitely appreciates them. He has more high minded stuff, but he's also here for the Van Wizard School of Art. The skeleton pirate biker was an absurd thing he came up with while desperately reaching for stuff to say, but he made it into a shirt and actually wore it.
He also does some more surrealist things, we see a painting of a building which gets smashed during his fight with Marcus. Surrealism matches his themes in a very obvious way considering how important dream walking and delusions are in his arc. Something inspired by the dream world and the subconscious mind would be directly linked to that.
I know nothing about art, but I really love looking at stuff by Hilma af Klint and Remedios Varo, and I wonder what he'd think of them.
Hilma did abstract that was very inspired by the spiritual world with beautiful vibrant colors that seem cheerful to me.
Remedios did some amazing surrealist work, which I find somber, strange and striking.
Okay, I'm done now
Not to be dramatic but if the VA show doesn’t play Teenagers, and Old Town Road at least once…is it really worth it?
The Dhampirs are out on the training grounds, sparring and beating the absolute shit out of each other while Teenagers plays in the background. Their instructor throws out encouraging comments and constructive criticism.
“Ashford, don’t pull your punches.”
“I’m not-” Cue Mason getting decked in the face.
“Yeah, Mason, don’t pull your punches.” Rose was the one who decked him.
All the while, the background is screaming “SO DARKEN YOUR CLOTHES OR STRIKE A VIOLENT POSE, MAYBE THEY’LL LEAVE YOU ALONE BUT NOT ME.”
How well can you draw nipples on a taco?
Badly
I can't draw
“This is the first place your family took me.”
Obsessed with the fact that Lissa said "go have fun" and Show!Dimitri was like "let me go put on my fun duster and goth gogo boots"
bloodlines was set in 2008... twilight came out in december 2008... I'm not saying that the melroses were amberwood's cullen family and trey was amberwood's bella swan but that's exactly what I'm saying
Rose Hathaway narration at its peak ✨
This is mostly from Last Sacrifice, but the vibe is the same as all the other books
“I’ve lost my fucking mind. It happens all the time.” -Falling in Reverse
There was nothing else that mattered. The world had disappeared, and he was plunged into darkness. A vast emptiness, the frigid air whipping against his skin so hard that he thought he may bleed.
He would bleed for her. He would give it all to her. Blood, heart, soul.
Mind.
She’d already taken it. Slowly, piece by piece. He hadn’t noticed, not at first. Not for a while. Maybe he just hadn’t wanted to. He was losing himself and there was nothing he could do about it. He thought the alcohol would help. If it burned his throat, maybe it would burn the part of him that ached to be surrounded by her. Burns faded to numbness. An empty familiarity. The quiet was welcomed.
She’d always come back, though. A whisper at first, an exasperated sigh. You can’t get rid of me.
The cast of Vampire Academy try to describe the show without using Vampire, Strigoi, Moroi, Dhampir, Blood, or Academy (source)
- i want to protect my best friend.
- g o o d.
