“If I could dream, I know I’d dream about you.I’d dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I’d dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss. Without dreams,I have to be content with my own imagination—which is almost as good. I can picture all those things perfectly.”__Dimitri Belikov
Vampire Academy commission I did for Beacon Book Box! ❤ I love painting roses xD This is Rose and Dimitri. Loved working on this illustration, which became an awesome and comfy blanket ✨
I will be posting the sketches and the final product on my Instagram, if you wanna check it out!
Reading Midnight Sun has only solidified my stance that Richelle Mead needs to release the books from Dimitiri’s point of view. First of all, Dimitri is such a strong person, seeing things through his perspective would be so interesting. Second, my heart would burst to hear him gushing about Rose.
Enjoy! All six books from Dimitris point of view are completed.
All of these people are watching the Bachelorette like “Oh my god I’ve never rooted for two people to be together so bad ugh” and I’m just here like…have you never read a YA novel?
But most importantly, have you never read the Vampire Academy series???????
I love how Vampire Academy completely (and possibly unintentionally) subverted the Mary Sue trope that was so rife at the time of the first book’s publishing.
Like, imagine for one second just how annoyed we’d be if Lissa Special-Unknown-Powers Last-Princess Everyone-Loves-Her Dragomir had been the protagonist? That literally could have been the story. She’d be hated universally.
The reason we as readers like Lissa is because she was the best friend of our flawed protagonist. We weren’t meant to experience her journey because we can’trelate to her Perfect Princess problems. That’s why we can appreciate Lissa’s character since she isn’t the voice of the novel.
Instead, we got the emotional arc of the underdog sidekick with resilience as her power rather than magic. That’s how we know that the story has stakes.
abe mazur 1000% knew where rose and lissa were the whole time they were on the run and he definitely had guardians on them at all times and THAT’S why they never ran into any strigoi
petition to make dimitri 19 years old in the show pls. the age gap is already problematic and ppl who haven’t read the books before will hate it and the show will be criticised for it and young teenage girls watching the show won’t question the attention they get from older guys. also dimitri being 19 and an absolute POWERHOUSE will make him even more cool and impressive
As someone who wrote the entire series (as a fanfic) from Dimitri’s Point of View, I totally support this. I’d might be okay making him 20 at most, but normalizing relationship with large age gaps for teenage girls is dangerous, especially when one person is in a position of power over the other. Yes, Dimitri isnt technically Rose’s teacher, but as a mentor, he does hold some responsibility for her education. Because of that, their relationship needs to be handled with care.
Here are some of my thoughts on making Dimitri more age appropriate for their relationship but still keep him the total badass that we know and love by the time we meet him.
Dimitri graduates top of his class, having already gained the attention of Court during his schooling. We already have canon showing him getting additional mentoring and touring Court during his last couple of years of school. Perhaps the series introduces the idea of him taking trials to become part of the Queen’s Guard. He gets an official invitation at graduation, and he turns it down to become become his best friend’s personal guardian instead.
He is a completely dedicated guardian. It’s Ivan, after all. He can’t let his best friend down. But then the unthinkable happens.
Guardian Hans Croft, who has been watching Dimitri’s career with great interest since he offered him a position at Court, refuses to let Dimitri succumb to mental anguish and immediately informs him of an issue they are having with the missing Dragomir Princess. He asks him to lead one of several task forces trying to locate her and her friend.
His team is the one that find her, and they do so quite quickly and quite impressively. Because of that, he is encouraged to continue as her guardian at St. Vlads and thus begins our journey.
Hey everyone One of my New Years goals for 2021 is to write a little each day and I’d love to have your help with that.
If you’d like to submit a one-shot idea, I’ll do my best to turn it into a little story. It will most likely be 500-2500 words, but there is a small chance that it becomes something more. My plan is to post 2-3 stories a week. I’ll give a small thank you and tag whomever submitted the idea. Feel free to submit on this post or via a PM. Thank you!
