#babel rf kuang

[kindlespark]

my brother's keeper (poem from here)

#babel #griffin lovell #robin swift #my art #babel rf kuang #babel or the necessity of violence #babel an arcane history #drawing this made me cry btw #babel spoilers

[skaiplana]

Girls when translation is always an act of violence, but it can also be an act of love

#babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #babel

[literarybrainrot]

Babel, by RF Kuang, is fun cause the first half is sad but also really sweet and hopeful and relatively low stakes and you’re like “aw this is nice, found family, thanks” and then suddenly it’s the most intense most emotionally heart wrenching book you’ve ever read in your life so that’s cool I guess.

#babel an arcane history #rf kuang #babel rf kuang #babel #robin swift #ramiz rafi mirza

[changeofpace]

"The Undergrad Cohort"

I finished Babel in about 2 weeks and it's left a gaping hole in my heart I need to patch with fanart.

Uncleaned scanned sketch below.

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#babel #babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #ramiz rafi mirza #robin swift #victoire desgraves #letty price #reetarts #fanart

[nope-nora]

Richard Siken, “You Are Jeff” | Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch | R.F. Kuang, Babel: An Arcane History | Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story | Benjamin Alire Saénz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Maggie Stievater, Call Down the Hawk | Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

#richard siken #you are jeff #crush #the goldfinch #donna tartt #rf kuang #babel #babel rf kuang #queen charlotte #bridgerton #aaddtsotu #benjamin alire sáenz #the raven cycle #call down the hawk #the dreamer trilogy #web weaving #olivie blake #the atlas paradox #the atlas six #nicogideon #quotes #words #💌 #homoeroticism #yearning #lovecore

[izze-art]

The Fallen Angel of Babel 📜✒️🪽

LOVE BABEL BY RF KUANG!! I drew Robin Swift as the fallen angel painting!!

#babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #rf kuang #babel #robin swift #babel or the necessity of violence #ramy mirza #griffin lovell #victoire desgraves #letitia price #rebecca f kuang

[spittinwatches]

brothers in crime

#babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #babel #my art #fanart #art #barbie meme

[sharlsainz]

i will forever cry over how robin lost ramy and griffin after both of them saved him. only for him not to be able to continue life. because the grief was greater than he could bear. the pain was too much for him to think of the life after the strike. after all he did in the spirit of his late brother and dearest friend.

i will forever cry over robin letting victoire go. i simply couldn't find the words to describe the bond that they had. it was meant to be. victoire was the voice of reason between the two and robin just couldn't get through all of it, not without griffin and ramy. she made up her mind and so did he and it was hurtful to witness this two souls make peace with their choices. im going insane over this.

#babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #babel #robin swift #ramiz rafi mirza #victoire desgraves #griffin harley

[mariibu-art]

#babel rf kuang fanart #babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel #babel fanart #fanart #robin swift #art #griffin lovell #professor lovell #lovell #griffin babel #robin babel #rf kuang #babel or the necessity of violence #poppy #book fanart #griffin harley

[i-wish-i-were-softer]

So my friend recently finished Babel and they said creating homoerotic tension between robin and ramy only to kill them afterwards was a weak move.

What does that even mean? If you wanted to a read a happy queer novel why did you choose Babel? Why are you looking for a fairytale ending in a book that deals with heavy topics like colonialism, racism, sexism, poverty, slavery, war and whatnot. Death was always upon them. Being gay doesn't magically give characters plot armour. War doesn't care about anyone's sexuality.

#and this is not only about Babel #I've seen this take on so many other media #authors are not obligated to explore the queer chemistry between characters everytime they introduce one #babel #babel an arcane history #babel spoilers #ramiz rafi mirza #ramy #robin swift #babel rf kuang

[mysticmiav]

"The days had not yet come when Ramy wore Victoire's sloppily knitted scarves with pride, when Robin learned exactly how long Ramy liked his tea steeped so he could have it ready when he inevitably came to the Buttery late from his Arabic tutorial"

Ramy has my whole heart I love him sm🥹🫶

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[starfallkaz]

Babel Spoilers!!!

Been thinking a lot about Letty Price and her inability to comprehend how the act of Robin, Victoire and Ramy standing up and joining a resistance against Babel was so integral to their identities and experiences as POC and scholars in Britain.

How could they hate and do this to a nation that gave them so much? That gave them literature and translation, education and funding and the ability to expand their minds. How could they turn their backs on that?

She could not conceive that they had been given these opportunities, but at every turn they were disrespected and mistreated for who they were. Given rewards and treats and opportunities with the consolation that yes “you are lesser than” but don’t worry we can beat the ethnic out of you. And to hang that over you, it is only natural to form a twisted sense of self-worth contingent on the whily and abusive whims of their oppressor. The constant need to prove that they were worthy of acknowledgment, of this position. The anger and twisted gratuity for the opportunity, but injustice in being used for their minds and their abilities by an empire refusing to acknowledge them as humans, let alone equals. Stolen bodies and stolen lands.

And Letty, her only framework of suffering was the coddling of a girl in an upperclass white family and the restrictions of conservative social constructs. That while hindering and discouraging, were not a question of life and death or of humanity, but of simple opportunity and intelligence. And looking through these eyes, how could she comprehend such a thing?

#I’m still furious #god I hate that white girl #actually rot #letty price #Babel #babel spoilers #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #rf kuang #Rebecca Kuang #letty price can DIE #an arcane history #robin x ramy #victoire desgraves #ramy mirza #ouch #overthinking #babel or the necessity of violence

[mcversipellis]

“Words tell stories. Specifically, the history of those words - how they came into use, and how their meaning morphed into what they mean today - tell us just as much about a people, if not more, than any other kind of historical artefact.”

― R.F. Kuang, Babel: An Arcane History

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[whyamiheretm]

- She’s the only divine thing he’s ever believed in. The only creature in this vast, cruel land who could kill him. And sometimes, in his loveliest dreams, he imagines she does.

this was supposed to be posted here on valentine’s day but i forgot to happy late valentine’s day from your favorite doomed lovers

closeups under the cut 💋

#the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #rinezha #fang runin #yin nezha #the drowning faith #rinezha fanart #tpw trilogy #tpw fanart #rf kuang #rebecca kuang #rebecca f kuang #babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel #book fanart #book art #fanart

[igniting-quill]

Can I mention the brilliance the RF Kuang did with Robin Swift’s name? No, not “Robin Swift,” but his original one. We’ll never know what his original name was. I was waiting, all 500+ pages, and on the last one with Robin’s POV, we get nothing.

But he gets his name back. After all his suffering, I’m inclined to believe that he deserves it.

#I can't stop thinking about this goddamn brilliant book #robin swift #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #rf kuang #babel or the necessity of violence #babel an arcane #babel: an arcane history #I ramble #a little less lol #igniting-quill #babel #my post #my posts

[readlikeido]

babel annotations - pt. 1

#post: annotations #post: aesthetic #post: mine #books #bookblr #books and reading #booklr #books aesthetic #reading #babel or the necessity of violence #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #book #books and literature #rf kuang #babel #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academism #dark academia books #book aesthetics #book aesthetic #book annotations #annotated books #annotating books #annotations #usercossette