#Leigh Berdugo

[inotevenknowwhatimdrawing]

I am not ruined, I am ruination

#drawing #art #dibujo #pencil drawing #sketchbook #pencil #fanart #girl #red #yellow #genya safin #grishaverse #shadow and bone #sab #Leigh berdugo #listen #I love genya Safin so freaking much

[thestarwarslesbian]

Let's start a reblog chain

This is just a fun way to get book recomendations.

Reblog with the name of the book your currently reading, the author, what page you are on and what you think of it so far.

Don't forget you can tag people if you want to know what they are reading or just join in for fun

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Rule of Wolves by Leigh Berdugo.

Page 176

It's good and I'm enjoying it. I have a vage idea of who the characters are from the TV show but I haven't read the shadow and bone books

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@starrrgazingbunny @metalatl @im-here-and-im-confused @valentinemage @captainrexshusband

#reblog chain #what book are you reading #I like books and need recomendations #book recommendations

[wordswhore]

“You know I’d be lost without you.” “You’ve never been lost in your life,” I scoffed. I was the mapmaker, but Mal could find true north blindfolded and standing on his head.

He bumped his shoulder against mine. "You know what I mean."

"Sure." I said. But I didn´t. Not really.

Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Berdugo

#shadow and bone #leigh bardugo #book quotes #quote #Mal #Alina

[severeunknowntidalwave]

Instagram: @s_e_spade

"Because I don’t want to be the one you point to and say 'explode something for us.' That is not a Jesper talent. I shoot things with style, and I look good. Just play to my strengths, boss." -Jesper Fahey

#shadow and bone #six of crows #leigh berdugo #jesper fahey #kit young #grishaverse #draw #drawing #art #fan art #digital illustration #pride #lgbt #lgbtq

[anveyegres]

« Until this moment, Wylan hadn't quite understood how much they meant to him. His father would have sneered at these thugs and thieves, a disgraced soldier, a gambler who couldn't keep out of the red. But they were his first friends, his only friends, and Wylan knew that even if he'd had his pick of a thousand companions, these would have been the people he chose. »

#wylan van eck #soc wylan #six of crows #crooked kingdom #soc #shadow and bone #ruin and rising #siege and storm #grishaverse #leigh berdugo #tgt

[therabine]

In case you were wondering why wordbuilding for Ravka feels so random

After going down the rabbit hole in my search for answers I've stumbled across this conversation on goodreads dated back to the November of 2013, where Leigh Bardugo replied to some reasonable criticism about her 'cultural inspiration"- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1533856-has-bardugo-talked-about-the-russian-inconsistencies This conversation is quite long and miss Leigh gave about three replies to various questions from people that were deeply bothered by the very surface level research she did on the Russian cilture. Here are the major highlights, plus the other things I've found while goodling: 1) As far as I've understood - neither she nor her publishers expected the first book to blow up like this. So even though there was obvoiusy a lack of proper research and some mistakes variying from minor to insulting, now that she's an esteemed author Leigh claims all of it to be deliberate choices adding that "deliberate choices aren't necessarily good ones". She also tries to lift the responsibility off her shoulders, mentioning that her work "was reviewed not just by my editor, but by copy editors, proofreaders, multiple foreign editors, and foreign copy editors". Not a single word about actual Russian-speaking person/expert reviweing the text or helping her out with creating the Ravkan language though. The only person she's ever credited as the one who helped her out with creating Ravkan is Erdene Ukhaasai from Mongolia that she's been friends on Facebook at the time (source on this one - https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/genre-friction-what-is-tsarpunk-by-leigh-bardugo/ ). The Facebook page under this name currently doesn't exist and the only results that Google shows on this person are the mentions that Leigh Bardugo gave in her interview, so unfortunately I couldn't reach out for clarification on this topic. Still, it's highly unlikey that someone with zero publications under their name would be a proffesional linguist and therefore qualified for such a task. 2) Within your secondary world, unless you are writing satire, things should make internal sense. That world could not arize independently of its context. The problem with the Bardugo's Ravka is that it's based on Russian Empire alone, yet she claims that "it's only Russian inspired" without acknowledging that most people that are not familiar with the culture will take it in as authentic. She takes the words and objects out of the context, misgenders names and last names and creates new 'russian-sounding" words without understanding how the grammar works. Which is a shame, given how flexible Russian language is - the possibility for the word-building is endless and with the right guidance she truly could make some unique and meaningful terms specifically for the Ravka. Also on the alcoholic kvas issue - Leigh proudly claims this as a solution to be a vodka "substitute", because vodka would be too on the nose and too common (more on the matter here -https://www.leighbardugo.com/grishaverse/the-archives/tongue-twister/). What didn't cross her mind is that instead of turning a non-alcoholic drink into strong booze for "wordbuilding" it would be much better to use less known drinks whic do contain alcohol - braga, samogon, nalivka - just to name a few.

3) To elaborate on some of the specific issues with names and last names: Leigh doesn't seem to understand how gendered surnames work in Russian. That's why we get stuff like Alina Starkov (when it's supposed to be Starkova, because she's a woman) and Alexander Morozova (Morozov would be a correct form) etc. This system is never consistent - Mal Oretsev gets to have a male surname, but so does Genya Safin and Zoya Nazyalensky has a weird non-gendered kind of in between last name (very much in fashion of Natasha Romanoff, who would be called Natalia Romanova in Russian). Also must mention Ana Kuya - poor woman's name literally sounds like "why the f*ck" in Russian, that's about just as bad as naming your Asian character Whata Phuck. Again - none of this nonsense would happen if someone bothered to find a Russian-speaking person to read the text. Other Russian words she tries to throw in seem to be the result of a bad Google Translate, rather than a conscious choice: for example the word otkazats'ya that she uses to describe non-grishas is actually a verb that translates as "to refuse". The noun with the meaning of "the refused one" would be otkaznik or otkazniki for a plural form. Same with sobachka ("small dog") - the context from the book suggests this nickname to be an insulting one, so the word we're really looking for would be shchenok ("puppy") or shavka ("mongrel", "cur"). The list of those examples, honestly, goes on and on.

4) Leigh does mention that she "can acknowledge that the choices I made in building the language and culture of Ravka came from a place of insularity and a type of privilege". However she's more keen to talk about how she has "certainly encountered critics, but I've also had Russian fans"...Which to me sounds about just as bad as stating "I do have *insert a minority racial group* friends and they say that me doing *insert a dubious act* is fine". The problem is that Russian culture has been demonized and overlooked for so long that most people (myself included) tend to praise content creators for including even the most sterytypical "insprations". Just because some people are willing to excuse her voluntary ignorance, doesn't mean that it's okay.

5) No books on Russian culture that she's mentioned as part of the resarch were written by Russian authors. And while reading the SaB it becomes crystal clear that that the major 'cultural inspiration' Leigh got was not from those books, but from the monstrosity that is her tsapunk pinterest board - https://www.pinterest.ru/lbardugo/tsarpunk-inspiration/ . About 80% of the stuff there doesn't even relate to Russian culture and the rest is a mash of modern knockoffs.

To summorize it: Leigh very much knew about the concerns surrounding her "Russian-inspired" Ravka which were respectfully brought to her consideration by her Russian speaking fans back in 2012-2013. She said "I've taken it to heart and it's something that I've tried to be conscious of as I move forward in the series and my other work", apologized and then she did nothing to do better. She marketed Shadow and Bone as "Tsarpunk", fetishisizing Russian culture and using it as a unique setting to uplift a generic "light vs. dark" fantasy plot supported by the bland narrative of the Chosen One. There was an effort and will to make a change for the better, not a single letter has been changed for us. When I think about, I can't really remember anything that would ring as a thoughtful and clever element adapted into the story from Russian culture. If everything is always altered or twisted, if there is nothing true or authentic then should you really call it Russian-inspired? Should you really make profit off it and call this aesthetic tsarpunk?

Leigh Bardugo could have fixed the most jarring problems with the material while doing the adaptation from book to screen, but she chose not to. There was no effort made to include more people of slavic descent as a major part of production team or as background actors. Almost nothing of the production design or clothing was inspired by Russian culture. To elaborate: I'm not even mad. I'm just deeply sad and hurt by the indifference.

Some might argue that this book series was not written for Russians, that it was written for the western audience. But don't they deserve respectfully researched and authentic stories too?

#leigh berdugo #shadow and bone #sab #six of crows #grishaverse #alina starkov #bookblr #tsarpunk #mal oretsev #genya safin #zoya nazyalensky

[fearietqles]

After all this time, she still had not found an end to her grief. It was a dark well, an echoing place into which she’d once cast a stone, sure that it would strike bottom and she would stop hurting. Instead, it just kept falling.

King of scars, Leigh Berdugo

#leigh berdugo #king of scars #nikolai lantsov #zoya nazyanelsky #nina zenik #six of crows #quotes i like #bookish #grief #hurt #quotes #kaz brekker #young adult

[journeytothepast6]

Wylan aesthetic

#wylan van eck #six of crows #leigh berdugo #wesper

[selfcareonly]

just damn

#shadow #shadow and bone #ben barnes #jessie mei li #general kirigan #alina starkov #nina zenik #mal #archie renaux #netflix #leigh berdugo #couple #fantastic #usa #love #Aesthetic #vintage #retro

[feathershadows]

#darkling #alina starkov #darklina #shadow and bone #netflix #leigh berdugo

[artemishdp]

leigh wrote a scene of inej almost dying and kaz going absolute feral one time and now the SOC fandom cant stop killing/hurting inej in fanfics. 

#why #yáll are so masochists honestly #ive never seen a page of AO3 full of dead character fanfics #yáll want kaz to be miserable so bad poor boy cant catch a break even in fanfics #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #soc #crookedkingdom #leigh berdugo #grishaverse #shadowandbone

[connelwaldron]

i’ve always felt as if leigh berdugo wrote the six of crows characters in their twenties, and it was her publicist/editor that told her to make them teenagers. the way they talk and behave... they all feel like twenty years old, or am i insane

#soc #leigh berdugo #ck #shadow and bone #kanej

[valkyrie-goddess]

KAZ 🖤

#six of crows #leigh berdugo #kaz brekker #shadow and bone

[sweet-villlain]

Me after finishing first half of King of Scars: alright so Nikolai still has the demon, Ravka is broke,shu Han is attacking grisha, and there's a slight chance that The Darkling is coming back

Me: There's no way things can get any bad right? RIGHT?

Second half of King of scars:

#kos spoilers #im not done with the book #king of scrs #leigh berdugo #grishaverse #nikolai lantsov #the darkling #mypost

[library-mermaid-blog]

Nina Zenik & Waffles : The Purest Love Story in SOC (Ft. Art by Elena Berezina) || more grishaverse edits ||

#Nina Zenik #Six of Crows #Crooked Kingdom #Kaz Brekker #Inej Ghafa #Waffles #grishx #Leigh Berdugo

[nacey-drews]

that moment, somewhere

tagged by two of my favorite ladies @ithoughtyoulikedmereckless and @bigdsgirl

last song - me and the devil by soap&skin

last film - uhhh 'the new mutants'? 5/10

currently reading: a shit ton of fic, man. but also i'm in the first few pages of 'shadow and bone' by leigh berdugo

currently watching: A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES aka that show with the indecent amount of sexual tension that makes you feel like you're watching something dirty, that one

currently craving: uh, let's see, chocolate, ice cream, my hot neighbor, a cold glass of coca cola, world domination

tagging: literally who hasn't done this all my friends have done it i guess i need more friends :(

#another tag thing thingy!!!