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fandomestuff · 5 months

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ejga-ostja · 2 years

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Leigh Bardugo said that Kaz Brekker’s go-to karaoke song would be Dancing Queen by ABBA and I drew this SO FAST

#six of crows #six of crows fanart #grishaverse #grishaverse fanart #kaz brekker #kaz brekker fanart #leigh bardugo #this new-found infromation will plague my mind in the most delicious way possible for days to come #thank you leigh bardugo

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peraltuki · 10 months

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My canon event was reading shadow and bone in 2021 and never stop reading fantasy books ever since

#Thank you Leigh Bardugo #thank you Holly Black!!#shadow and bone #leigh Bardugo

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sockmonstergotstyle · 1 year

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I have a fat crush on daniel arlington V just fyi

#ninth House #hell bent #darlington #darlington ninth house #hell bent spoilers #he’s so #the horns just made him sexier I can’t lie #like I’ve been obsessed since day 1 but still #horns?? the shackles?? he had FANGS briefly??#thank you leigh bardugo #she sat down to outline his arc and was like oh Becki’s gonna love this

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shhhhimwatchingthis · 5 months

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hey don't know how many ppl are aware of this but Netflix released their first public viewer engagement report and Shadow and Bone season 2 is number 32 GLOBALLY with a staggering 192,900,000 views. (if all those zeros are getting to you, let me put it this way. thats nearly 193 million views from jan-june 2023)

there are over 18,000 items on Netflix's list putting Shadow and Bone in the top 0.17% of ALL CONTENT

do not let Netflix tell you not enough people were watching.

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def-not-kaz-brekker · 8 months

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controversial opinion but inej ghafa is literally terrifying and (obviously) such a queen.

like she literally held a stadwatch guard at knifepoint after creeping up on him and whispered (I don’t remember the exact quote) “I like it when men beg, but nows not the time” like??? Queen?????

And the end of the crooked kingdom where she cuts pekka rollins after threatening him, and switched alby’s toy lion with a crow?? Fucking terrifying?????

My love for inej knows no bounds and she is undeniably a powerful and scary woman

#idk if this has been said before #leigh bardugo #inej ghafa #she’s fucking terrifying #and I love it #it honestly makes her such a good character #i understand why my homeboy kazzle loves her so much #I love her your honor #pekka Rollins shat his pants so much tho it was fucking hilarious #“I like it when men beg’’???#queen #six of crows #grishaverse #also unrelated but her determination is so admirable #climbing a fucking incenirator isn’t for the weak #did I spell incenirator right probably not #inej ghafa appreciation post #she could stab me/murder me and I would say thank you #agskajshajah my queen

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doorlene · 6 days

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inej "but even statues crumble when they're made to wait" ghafa and kaz "i'm so afraid i sealed my fate" brekker

#new couple to obsess over!#thank you leigh bardugo for giving me #kanej #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #inej x kaz #kaz x inej #kaz brekker x inej ghafa #inej ghafa x kaz brekker #six of crows #crooked kingdom

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wulanvansunshine · 17 days

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Having a bad day, going to reread six of crows to cheer myself up

#thank you Leigh Bardugo for creating this masterpiece #ily Leigh <3 #fav author frfr #six of crows #crooked kingdom #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #matthais helvar #nina zenik #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #wylan hendriks #i love this book #it heals me #and destroys me at the same time #it’s magical

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davenweenie · 1 year

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This made me chuckle, I love that they’re still teenagers while still being gang members

#six of crows #crooked kingdom #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #matthias helvar #nina zenik #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #kuwei yul bo #book quotes #I love them so much #thank you leigh bardugo for her amazing writing

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ariadnethedragon · 1 year

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SUJAYA DASGUPTA as ZOYA NAZYALENSKY

SHADOW AND BONE (2021–)

#she could step on me and I would say thank you #shadow and bone #shadow and bone edit #shadow and bone s2 #shadow and bone season 2 #shadow and bone netflix #zoya nazyalensky #sujaya dasgupta #the grisha series #the grisha trilogy #grishaverse #leigh bardugo #fantasy series #netflixedit #Netflix #character edit

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capinejghafa · 2 months

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Ok, but why are my ships like this:

“I would come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together—knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.”

Kaz to Inej, Crooked Kingdom (chapter 12)

But she saw Roman rise from the grass. He was only five meters away. He could no longer run; he could hardly walk. Her heart broke when she realized he had crawled through the gold to reach her.

Iris seeing Roman trying to reach her, Divine Rivals (chapter 41)

I'm fine. Fuck.

#six of crows #kanej #divine rivals #iris x roman #im actually crying what parallel #i will spiral by myself thank you #crooked kingdom #leigh bardugo #rebecca ross #kaz x inej

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imruination · 1 year

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There are very few pieces of media that speak to me on what I can only describe as on a spiritual level, and one of those is Shadow and Bone, written by Leigh Bardugo. Don’t get me wrong, I adore Six of Crows and I think it’s an important story that needed to be told for so many reasons, but there’s something so special to me about the simplicity of Shadow and Bone.

When something is simple, it has to be done well. Yes, Shadow and Bone is on its surface a good vs. evil story which we have seen in media time and time again. I think what stands out to me about it is ironically why so many people call it (or specific things about it) “boring.” There are a lot of important themes, but my favorite is the emphasis that is put on the power of being “ordinary.”

I was 15 when the first book came out, and I read them as they were released. I spent a lot of my childhood reading fantasy books because escaping into them made me feel special, in a world where I felt at once completely ordinary and like a total outcast. This feeling only got worse as a teen, as I would spend a lot of my classes, and even my lunch period reading these books. I understand that this is a feeling that a lot, if not all teens feel. I am not special even in my isolation. I spent so much of my time pretending I had some incredible hidden but innate magical powers.

Shadow and Bone was incredible to me for the very reason why I constantly see it being criticized by my peers and even my friends. The idea of “power” being seductive, while also inherently being corrupt, and fueling the class system and poverty that the entire population is living under, (but Alina as the protagonist is being exposed to a lot of it’s worsts) is something the reader is constantly being reminded of.

Alina is put in a very unique situation by being a girl who holds incredible power as a grisha, but was not raised in that knowledge. To her, the power was suddenly thrust upon her, which made it a lot easier to eventually see the flaws in the entire system. So to read about this protagonist my own age, who had the option of power, was tempted by even more of it in the darkling and the amplifiers- and to give it all up in the end was mind blowing to me.

Alina goes from despising her upbringing and general hardship, to ultimately embracing the simplicity of it. Alina is THE Main character™️ and she ends up as a powerless orphan, in love with another powerless orphan she’s known her entire life. In the realm of all my fantasy books I’d been reading, there was nothing “special” about that. And yet, in it’s difference there was.

Alina’s privilege in making her own choices was special. Her choice to not be controlled by the pillars of power around her. Her choice to embrace her upbringing, and help those who will grow up the way she did. Her choice to accept the love she had had her entire life, that although was not seductive and dangerous, was reliable and enduring and all the more powerful for being that.

It is really surreal and almost funny to see it being criticized for these things now. You think Alina and Mal are boring? Well so did they. And then they grew up and learned better. This is the first book that I can think of in hindsight, that made me wonder if I actually did have this very ordinary but incredible power in myself. I have the privilege of making my own choices. I have the power to love others, and isn’t that incredible? From a person who has now grown up and gained some perspective for myself… Thank you Leigh.

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monsterdictableau · 1 year

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still losing it after the 1 sec clip of kaz and inej. the intense eye contact? inej looking at kaz's lips just before he breaks eye contact?

#they're my one and only #miss bardugo thank you #i love them so much i'm gonna scream #kanej #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #shadow and bone #six of crows #shadow and bone netflix #grishaverse #leigh bardugo

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five-of-cr · 5 months

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here's the thing about matthias: he isn't the honorable, reformed hero some of the fandom seems to see him as.

yes, he was raised by a tight-knit family of comrade soldiers and decides to betray them in the end. of course that took incredible strength. i don't deny that. but we also need to recognize that the drüskelle are not just some rogue cult. they are a core part of the fjerdan government, who is trying to wipe out the grisha because they are seen as dangerous. that's literally just genocide. however indoctrinated someone is, this is something that is evil from every angle, even if the character can't or won't see it.

and look, i love a good redemption arc, but matthias is such a passive actor in his. he falls in love with nina against his will. she changes his attitudes toward grisha because she's beautiful and kind so all grisha can't be bad, right? this a classic example of the trope of separating the "good ones" from the rest, where you cherry-pick specific individuals to point to as exceptions to a group's nature, which is still implied to be evil. you have to do a lot more than fall in love to truly unearth and address the roots of bigotry.

tbh, this is my biggest critique of the books as a whole. i loathe the "love conquers all" trope that pairs together a character from the oppressed group and one from the oppressors, letting the one show the other through the power of love that being bigoted is not nice. it puts all the responsibility on the former to prove their humanity, and gives all the credit to the latter's ability to be persuaded to recognize it. and then it inevitably leads to forgiveness, because the character has "earned" it by changing their views, once again making the victim seem like the villain if they don't absolve the oppressor of their past "mistakes". also, it's incredibly unrealistic for someone to fall in love with a person who actively hates them and considers them sub-human. in real life, people have to work on their bigotry before that happens, not use the relationship as a plot device for character development.

i think the idea of writing a character like matthias is neat. i think portraying someone's struggle to throw off the suffocating, hateful dogma they've been fed all their life is a story we need more of. i think personal growth of this variety should be celebrated, because otherwise people would never change. but i don't think the people, fictional or real, get to do this without facing profound consequences. it is not enough to feel sorry. it is not enough to apologize. it is definitely not enough to fall in love. and i think writing that lets people off the hook like this grossly oversimplifies power and oppression, and ends up being a feel-good way to romanticize people who cause a lot of harm.

a last note: my opinion is 100% influenced by my being bipoc. matthias is a classic aryan supremacist, even if being aryan isn't the thing he's being supremacist about. my gut reaction to that type of character is always going to be mistrust, both because people in real life have given me reason to be mistrustful and because characters like these are often written in a way that makes you sympathize with oppressors. i don't think matthias earns that trust, and i don't see why i owe him my affection as a reader.

#i know i'm usually a 'haha silly little textpost' blog (and don't get me wrong i still am) but this has been on my mind for a while #to be clear i don't think you have to hate him as a character to be a morally upstanding person #and there's nothing inherently wrong about relating to him either #but i do think we as a fandom (a very white one at that) need to acknowledge this #especially because it carries over beyond fiction #stories are powerful and the messages we take from them stick with us even after we close the book #plus even by the end he still is very bigoted #and i realize that he would have had more time to work on himself if he hadn't... y'know #but that's why i like fanon matthias a lot better #he's usually further along in his unlearning process or he actually has to experience that process in a realistically painful way #in fact i really *like* matthias fanon where he actually grapples with his hatred and comes out a better person for it when it's done well #i.e. when he isn't simply forgiven by everyone (especially nina) because he says sowwy #i am thankful to leigh bardugo for creating this universe AND i think she fumbled the matthias redemption arc #nuance!! it exists!!!#ok rant over #also absolutely NO calahan hate on this post #in this house we do not equate characters with their actors #soc #soc spinoff #matthias helvar #helnik #nina zenik #sab #six of crows #save six of crows #save shadow and bone #shadow and bone #crooked kingdom #grishaverse

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mindfighters · 1 year

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Hi! Since Shadow and Bone Season 2 premieres tomorrow, I'm looking for blogs who create or reblog Grishaverse content so I can feel our collective excitement (!!!!).

If you do, even if your blog is multifandom or you blog of multiple things, please like this post so I can follow you!!!

#shadow and bone #sab #shadow and bone season 2 #six of crows #soc #kanej #malina #wesper #zoyalai #grishaverse #shadow and bone netflix #leigh bardugo #idk how else to tag this but hopefully I find new people!!!#also #if you can recommend me blogs I would love you forever #thank you #♥

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def-not-kaz-brekker · 5 months

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Inej ghafa is wonderful and lovely and better than anything I deserve because I’m broken, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that I can’t pull myself into a semblance of a man for her and I would come for her and if I couldn’t walk I’d crawl to her and no matter how broken we were we’d fight our way out together knives drawn pistols blazing because that’s what we do we never stop fighting

#six of crows #kaz brekker #grishaverse #inej ghafa #kanej #leigh bardugo #soc #shadow and bone #i love her so much y’all I can’t #i love her your honor #she’s my queen #she could stab me/murder me and i would say thank you

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