#babel spoilers

[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

[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

[charlilil]

I finished Babel last week and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. So, here’s an animatic about Griffin. MAJOR SPOILERS HERE!!

#babel #babel or the necessity of violence #babel an arcane history #babel spoilers #babel an arcane history spoilers #babel or the necessity of violence spoilers #griffin lovell #my art #robin swift #victoire desgraves

[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

[onebigsword]

爆 bào

1. to burst; to explode

#babel or the necessity of violence #babel #artists on tumblr #doodles #dark acamedia #procreate #robin swift #Babel robin swift #babel spoilers

[paper-ish]

the moment between lightning and thunder

happy belated birthday to my stupid babel sons robin and ramy :’)

#babel an arcane history #books #ish draws #always forget to post twitter stuff here #robin swift #ramiz rafi mirza #robinramy #babel rf kuang #babel spoilers #babel or the necessity of violence #rebecca kuang #rebecca f kuang #letitia wright #babel #babel fan art

[wishesofeternity]

"This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances which demanded it."

- R.F Kuang, "Babel, or the Necessity of Violence"

#babel #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #babel spoilers #rf kuang #books #words #colonialism #queue #mine #important

[liveandbreathemusicals]

#so I’ve been reading Babel lately… #babel spoilers #Babel #r.f. kuang #babel an arcane history #dark academia books

[belle-keys]

you want me to learn a language? the very thing that killed robin swift???

#babel spoilers #babel #babel an arcane history #rf kuang #dark academia #poc dark academia #dark academia books #robin swift #bilingual #langblr #book blog

[kindlespark]

BABEL SPOILERS // i am such a firm believer of robin being sooo much more wilfully ignorant than even he himself realised, lest it topple his shaky determination to enjoy oxford’s luxuries. and my favourite example is that in the Don’t You Know Why Scene, robin only pushes ramy about letty after ramy calls him handsome 😭😭

because he does know why!! he all but rattles off a giant list why in the scene where he’s comforting her!!!

like yes you can read robin as simply being an idiot wrt ramy’s sexuality but frankly its so much more interesting and also hilarious to think that robin, in his intoxication and frustration, is pushing ramy to say what he can’t, to articulate the Thing between them that he refuses to articulate himself. and i think ramy is aware of that, and flips it back on him. he knows robin doesn’t want to look at it directly, because confronting their Thing means he’s going to have to confront much more than that, and robin is so so determined Not to do that. he doesn’t want to think about what else he’s ignoring in order to bask in oxford’s luxuries, and he doesn’t want to wonder if upholding the status quo is worth losing all that potential freedom and love.

like robinramy’s tragedy is kind of intrinsically tied to their conflicting approaches to empire for me. robin at first always wanted to fit in, but ramy has always wanted to tear it down. idk i think they were doomed by each other and their circumstances long before letty tbh

#sorry been holding this one in for a while #theyre just so. im shaking robin like a chew toy #robinramy #babel #babel spoilers #sam speaks

[i-wish-i-were-softer]

Griffin's similarities with Lovell make me sick. He sounds like his father more often than not. It's almost like he looked upto his father at some point of his life. But that's the point right? The world needed both their qualities at the end. The world needed both Lovell's self centred, logical mind and Griffin's violence and Robin had to carry both their qualities in his softer heart to carry on. The process of Lovell leaving a mark on Griffin and then Griffin leaving a mark on Robin is almost prophetic. Robin almost transformed info Griffin in his last days. It's a complete cycle.

#babel #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #babel or the necessity of violence #griffin lovell #robin swift #Richard lovell #babel spoilers

[eenvrouw]

Nothing hurts like this

Babel by R F Kuang

#babel an arcane history #babel spoilers #rf kuang #babel rf kuang #robin swift #griffin lovell #ramy mirza

[venusaastro]

You tell robin swift he will be haunted by his unrealized queer romance for the rest of his life and he says “lol what life” and is crused by a mound of rubble

#robin swift #babel rf kuang #babel spoilers #ramiz rafi mirza #im coping #im sorry

[fagdykefriendship]

ramy. god he’s everything to me. this young bengali boy who has a family, has a home to return to, a country he loves. a strong sense of who he is even within the confines of oxford. always the bravest of them. the way he and robin connect instantly through that indescribable joy of realizing you’re not alone amongst white people. he still prays, practices his religion even though it’s banned at oxford. and he’s the most connected to an outside, non-european culture of all of them. he stays true to himself and then is the victim of the violence of a white woman who always wanted him for herself and was furious that he didn’t want her back. defiant til the very end. he was the only one with a real home he could’ve gone back to, with a family that still lived and loved him. he talked about calcutta all the time, and he never got to go back. his bengali became rudimentary. he represented defiance, going against the system at every moment, the resistance that got him killed. he broke and inspired robin. i will be emotional about him forever

#babel #babel spoilers

[xxadiaa]

babel sketches from last year that i’ll never finish

#babel or the necessity of violence #babel an arcane history #robin swift #ramiz rafi mirza #letitia price #victoire desgraves #this book destroyed me #and always will #thanks ms rf kuang #xxadiaa art #babel spoilers

[koiwynn]

“she smiles, she says his name” SHUTUPSHUTUP DO YOU WANT ME TO DIE?

#there is something so tragically beautiful about this line #for the first time since forever; someone utters his real name #i am ruined #rf kuang pls pay my therapy bills #robin swift #babel: or the necessity of violence: an arcane history of the oxford translators’ revolution #babel: an arcane history #babel: or the necessity of violence #tower of babel #babel spoilers #pretty vague in this post but i’ll add it for good measure :) #babel rf kuang #babel #˖ ࣪⭑ mine