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19burstraat · 1 month

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Ok we all know guild me, build me exists due to my artistic abilities being very lacking in the visual arts, so rather than drawing the crows in the komedie brute, I had to write kaz in. however I had ideas for the others that I couldn't get into a fic, so I've put em down here

Kaz: (description ripped from guild me, build me):

a heavy black cape, sewn with stolen chains and jewels so that it jingled upon every movement (...) It was marked up and slit here and there, on the edges and at the collar, to give the impression of crow’s feathers, and it was made of some kind of shiny, velvety fabric that had the oily shine of crow’s plumage. The gloves were the same material, thinner and more embroidered than Kaz would have ever entertained, and the cane was a plain, inaccurate copy– (...) the mask; a silver crow’s head (...) crooked over the eyes and nose, almost like a Kaelish plague mask. But it left the mouth unblocked; of course it did. Dirtyhands needed to talk.

Inej:

Light and flimsy dark (doesn't have to be black; could be blue or grey) fabric for the veil and cloak. Has an element of spiderwebby fraying to it which is a nod to her being... Well, a spider lmao. But also meant to look ghostly and insubstantial, can sometimes see a metal shiny suggestion of knives underneath it. The veil can be parted just down the side of her face, so you can occasionally see a bit of her face, but never the whole thing. Would not be a practical costume to climb or spy in; too long and bothersome, the same way Kaz's Dirtyhands cloak would not be practical to pickpocket in. Sometimes productions get her a few cheap sheath knives.

Jesper:

Rabbit head mask, short cloak in some batshit colour like green or pink, lined w rabbit's fur and threaded with gambling chips, 'lucky' rabbits feet, coins, and stray bullets. Adornments tied on loosely so they swing everywhere when he moves. This way there's also a real risk of the Kaz and Jesper actors getting tangled together if they interact, which is not symbolic, just funny. This is our get-along Komedie Brute costume :) (we are stuck)

Wylan:

A once-fine red cloak with a high ruffly collar-- now tattered and singed and gone to seed. Little bits of wiring or string or pouches of powders etc sewn into it; sneakily embroidered with the Van Eck laurel around the edges. Mask, while elaborate and matching with the cloak, only covers the top half of his face, as if he's not quite as all-in as the others. For similar reasons, the cloak is half-length.

Matthias:

Wolf's head mask ofc, white fur cape a lot longer and more substantial than Jesper's, with heavy furring around the neck (made to bulk out the actor if they're not the right stature, which most will not be). Likely they also weight his boots to make his tread sound more imposing. Possibly a wig if they can afford one, since Druskelle are known for the long hair.

Nina:

Porcelain-doll Venetian style mask (you know the ones!) with a single black tear-- referential both to that bit in CK when they identified themselves that way in the crowd of Mister Crimsons, and the Queen of Mourning thing. Mask is covered with a very light veil, and she wears a long heavy silk cloak with a bit of a hint of a kefta, but not enough to get the Komedie Brute in shit from Ravkan Grisha lmao. Entrance usually heralded with a blue corpselight.

I imagine dependent on the production and the costumier they could look great and beautifully elaborate, or they could look cheap and shit lmao.

Bonus: I got bored and made a mock-up of a page of a Komedie play. I edited over the first folio for this, yes. Sorry to the Big W.S.

#right I think this is all right now. finally #fuckass blue site so glitchy it posts my shit early.#six of crows #soc duology #my fics #my post #grishaverse

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catastrxblues · 4 months

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save me, gambler, convict, wayward son, lost grisha, suli girl who had become a killer, and boy from the barrel who had become something worse. save me

#shit post 😔#reading tag #six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #nina zenik #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #matthias helvar #soc #grishaverse #nadirants

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foaming-sea · 3 months

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Hello there!

Welcome to my blog. I'm Deep.

I'm a student, a writer, a walking disaster. I think that covers all of it.

I sometimes rant here and reblog very cool post of other very cool people.

Here's my writing blog @my-elegies where I share my passion for words.

And here's my studyblur @burgundyfist which is almost absolutely useless.

Here some fandoms I'm in:

Grishaverse . PJO . Harry potter . The folk of the air . Marvel .

Here's my taste in music:

Taylor Swift . Gracie Abrams . Sabrina Carpenter . Halsey . Jeremy Zucker . Dominic Fike . MGK . Artic Monkeys .

#intro post #introduction #my writing #chaotic academia #shit post #original writings #side blogs #writing community #writers and readers #grishaverse swifties #swifties #pjo

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goblins-riddles-or-frocks · 2 months

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who called you an anti lmao you have written fics

Well didn’t you know? Writing 100k+ words of darklina fic and primarily posting about and analyzing their dynamic actually makes you an anti!

The entire thing is just dhfhf jarringly stupid tbh. The gist of it is that someone was, I guess, incensed enough about this post of mine to send it to several The Darkling Did Nothing Wrong type blogs to rag on it. And instead of vagueposting like civilized people they…. actually posted it publicly??? If you cared enough to find the posts you could probs search my url or go into the darklina tags. There’s a bunch of back and forth lmao

To a degree it’s like oh, the rabid Darkling stans vehemently disagree with me? Shocking. But also be normal about it omg 😭😭 Like on an unfortunately somewhat serious note, it’s fucked up that the response to a post vaguely talking about consent issues was to flippantly rant about all the times the Darkling could have raped Alina and never did, so he’s a good boy actually and deserves a cookie. Or to talk about how he only acted the way he did because he knew she wanted it all along, and how it’s Alina’s fault for being ashamed of her attraction to him???????

Like I always thought That side of fandom was intensely misogynistic based on how they talked about the female characters, but jesus christ!

#I was tempted to unblock long enough to reblog one of the posts to be like ‘hi!’ but the actual contents of the posts were too gross tbh #and the comedic value isn’t worth the shit stirring shdgfg #i ramble sometimes #all the bendy punctuations #a mysterious stranger has appeared #blog meta #grishaverse

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transgenderbillyrusso · 8 months

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why does aleks have this painting of himself. i bet he kisses it before bed each night.

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #darkling #aleksander morozova #ben barnes #im just in this fandom to make shit posts and pretty gifs lol

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paraskao · 3 months

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I read all the grishaverse books in ukrainian and finally got my hands on king of scars. but for this one they apparently changed the translator, and instead of cyrillic "и" in the word "гриша/grisha" they used cyrillic "і" making it "гріша". isk if it was an attempt to make it sound more like it was in canon or less like a name, but idc and don't really mind. however, when the word is used to a group of people, the difference is huge. Now instead of the word "гришники/the grisha" there is a word "грішники/the sinners"

SINNERS

#also maybe it's a one-time typo but still #in grishaverse there's a shit ton of interesting linguistics stuff and the way it's adapted in different languages #half of it makes me kinda cringe though #feels like reading broken russian #might make a post abt it one time #grishaverse #grisha #six of crows #shadow and bone #king of scars

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lilisouless · 2 years

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Nina: I am only in a criminal gang because i need the money, i am not an evil person and i don't really enjoy being here

Also Nina: "practices her evil laugther in front of a mirror"

#nina zenik #if you are going to join a criminal gang #do it with style #six of crows #netflix shadow and bone #leigh bardugo #crooked kingdom #grishaverse shit post #six of crows shitpost

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magpiesbones · 2 years

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Actually i think that the main conceit of the original grishaverse trilogy is that there Was in fact an assumption of An Amount of critical thinking and analysis skills that. not to stir up shit. are a bit rare in the circles of YA fandom and YA fandom enjoyers. ESPECIALLY regarding the darkling. Everyone is allowed to have one (1) tumblr sexyman style villain that they no holds barred hate and he is mine.

so the thing about the darkling. the Thing about the darkling is that hes absolutely a satirical and critical version of the sort of Immortal Hot Boy (antihero flavor) who is i think possibly best shown in Edward Cullen and Erik phantom of the opera. Hes powerful! hes hot! hes Deeply Fucked Up! he’s unavoidably an abuser!

ANYWAYS BOOKVERSE SPOILER WARNING since im putting this in the tag, also i don’t know how to format a read more so Long Post! sorry.

however Immortal Hot Boy trope is SO prevalent in early 2010s YA fiction that it genuinely does not occur to people to question even after you get shown a parade of his red flags. the fact that the darkling is a. of a comparable power to alina and b. seems to take her powers and autonomy seriously makes him PRIME shipping material especially if You, an enjoyer of early 2010s YA fantasy and fandom, are already used to this extremely specific parade of red flags being portrayed as hot and desireable. its an unavoidable cliche of the genre (spike from Buffy, snape, Rath Roiben Rye from Tithe, the list goes on) and he is absolutely set up as a love interest Would Be, narratively. but heres the thing:

Shadow and Bone (the books) fundamentally Are Not YA Fantasy and Romance books. theyre action/adventure tragedy books written for teenaged girls.

Alina Isnt the typical Strong Female Protagonist (Look At How Well We In The Writing Room Do Female Representation flavor) literally On Purpose. Alina does, in fact, just want to Go Home. however, she Is in fact a feminist character as honestly? the deciding metric for whether a book Respects Women is whether their characters are treated with respect and consideration (in the writing. books that portray misogyny do not become unfeminist by doing so) and Alina’s character (and zoya, genya, and tamar) is. Alina’s only stated goals from the beginning of the series is that she wants a. to go home and start an orphanage, b. to hang out with her best friend, and c. maybe be romantically involved with her best friend if he is so inclined. thats it. no this is not particularly GirlbossTM of her but GirlbossTM characters are not the only type of valid female character okay. but then it turns out that alina has actually God Level Powers, which, and I cannot be more clear here, she does not want.

It is therefore narratively important that alina has her choice of love interests throughout the series. in S&B, alina’s crush on mal appears unrequited and inopportune, something that has the power to ruin her current relationship with mal and not do much else. in contrast, the darkling is mysterious, attractive, and, most importantly, clearly interested in her, even if his interest mainly manifests in terms of interest in her power. he presents himself to her as the only one in the world who can understand her (which. red flag.) but in doing so, he assumes that her entire previous identity will be subsumed by being the sun summoner, which it never is. throughout the series, alina remains consistently alina. There is, throughout his expressions of interest, never any doubt that he would act exactly the same to another girl with the same power set, as he is, ultimately, not attracted to alina, but to the sun summoner. Even if this was his only problem, that’s still Not Ideal, since that’s absolutely objectification. this is not immediately evident on a cursory or first reading, both due to imperfect writing and the use of a non-omniscient and therefore semi-unreliable narrator.

Then he stops being a viable love interest as it is revealed that in fact he has a history of manipulating girls and young women under his power. The most egregrious example of this is Genya, who murders the king on what is revealed to be the darkling’s orders, and then reveals that the king has been raping her. Genya is the most beautiful girl in ravka, which can be and often is construed as a sort of power, but is one that she has no choice in. the Darkling’s manipulation of genya here cannot be overlooked either, since he does use her as a tool in his warmongering and then a scapegoat. there are Absolutely parrallels to be drawn here to alina’s situation: the darkling takes advantage of a young woman’s quest for power (or not even that— arguably, just the wish to get out of a bad situation) and then uses this to take her power from her. The darkling may not have had sexual or romantic intent towards genya, but this act Was an expression of his power and control. Genya is, by committing this act, forced to remain with the darkling, as this act, no matter how justified it was, is still treasonous. Alina, similarly, is manipulated into a quest for power that ends with power taken from her by the darkling, where he literally collars her with the antlers, which then allow him to control her powers without her consent, as if she were nothing more than an instrument. symbolically this is extremely significant, but this is a tumblr post and not a thesis. the important part:

The Darkling is not interested in Alina as a person, but in the power alina has and how it can be used to benefit him. even though the sun summoner may be most powerful with the darkling, Alina is ultimately a tool to him, and has no power in their interactions.

that’s horrifying! the darkling is unarguably a villain for that! not to mention that he knew what was happening to genya (and certainly dozens of other girls), had the power to stop it, and chose not to! and yet that is, when taken to its end, the ultimate conclusion of the Immortal Hot Boy With Magic Powers: controlling, manipulative, and genuinely? fucked up. the darkling IS meant to portray this as Actively Fucked Up, but a lack of narrative control and audience expectations did. well.

For the sake of it, though, i might as well get into the rest of alina’s love interests, because the implications and power balance in all of those relationships are fascinating to consider and write about.

second: nikolai, the spare royal, secret bastard, and Actual privateer. He’s not even a consideration until the second book, but, like the darkling, he also offers Alina power in exchange for the use of her own, but he, at least, is honest that his offer is not really romantically inclined, and explains it all for her: her power as the sun summoner will legitimize his reign (as. he is also the Only remaining legitimized member of the royal family). Nikolai’s honesty does put him over the darkling in terms of Alina’s romantic prospects, but he still wants the sun summoner, and not alina. nikolai represents a cause, not a romantic interest, and while their interests align for the duration of the war, alina Does Not Want political power, a life at court, or any of the things that a more permanent relationship with nikolai will unavoidably require. Alina’s goals and nikolai’s are fundamentally different, since alina is a commendably consistent character, who still just wants to run a countryside orphanage with mal.

finally there’s mal. He is Absolutely Nothing compared to A Thousand Year Old Wizard God and The Next King. But he wants Alina. He doesnt care if she has powers, and remains the Only one of her love interests who is Actually Interested in who she is, instead of what she can do for him. in any other book, the main girl character giving everything up to date a mediocre dude and run an orphanage is not, particularly, great. However, this Isn’t any other book: by dating her bestie and running away to an orphanage in the countryside Alina is fulfilling her Only Stated Goal. The sun summoner’s powers have only even been used to control her and arguably when her powers were strongest she had the least narrative agency as she was imprisoned and used as the figurehead of a cult. Alina was a living martyr even Before she faked her death. she Does Not Win and even symbolically loses by becoming powerful enough to fight the darkling: so she Doesn’t.

Alina’s agency comes from her choice, and not her powers, and her powers are intrinsically not her choice, which is why the final battle cannot be fought by her. if alina really Is the Only One powerful enough to fight the darkling, then the darkling is proven right, and the entire war does Not matter: if Only Alina can fight, then the war was over in book one, because the stag’s antlers mean that the darkling can control alina’s powers. and that’s nihilistic and depressing.

Even alina thinks that this is true, though: she thinks that everything comes down to an ancient and extended scavenger hunt, and she thinks she has no choices. yes, completing morozova’s trinity renders her Physically unable to fight, but mentally and symbolically she was unable to fight either chapters or books previous to the final battle. ironically, she regains the ability to choose after losing her powers, since her agency is not related to her power level, but to her choices.

It doesn’t matter what alina chooses to do, but it Does matter that she has the power of choice. Alina is, in this way, a better-written character than any of the sort of GirlbossTM Strong Female Character types that were really Very much her contemporaries.

and, as an addendum: no, it’s not particularly great writing. you can sort of see the loose strings, even if they’re not particularly important loose strings, but you can see the writing get Much better as you read, and, like, the themes Are more complicated than the writing can support. this is a subversion propped up by the bones of the narrative it subverts, and they’re not particularly strong bones. yes a great deal of it is expectations projected onto a narrative and a lack of critical analysis. however, the narrative actively welcomes projected expectations and only reveals that they’re being subverted twenty pages later. so.

#long post #grishaverse #shadow and bone #alina starkov #alexander morozova #do you love the color of the literary analysis #malina #i’m so sorry for the length of this post. i do not have anything to say for myself #im not blaming the fandom for doing this shit! ive absolutely projected expectations onto this and other books!#i just Do think that bardugo accidentally creating a sexyman is very funny and i love literary analysis

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whynotcherries · 1 year

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa Additional Tags: POV Kaz Brekker, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Fluff, Banter, Pre-Relationship, Kaz Brekker Loves Inej Ghafa Summary:

"At around hour two of the previous day, he’d determined that the screaming coming from the room above his was, shockingly, not aiding his ability to focus, and he’d moved to the school’s coffee shop.

Seeing as Inej Ghafa happened to be the only barista working for the weekend, he had not managed to escape distraction."

#this is my finals week distraction work #i do have other shit to post but that'll be later #six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej fic #kaz x inej fic #grishaverse #soc fic #sic of crows fic

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greensaplinggrace · 10 months

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"the venn diagram of reylo and darklina shippers is a circle" fact actually a statistical error. the venn diagram of reylo and darklina shippers would actually be a sun, because I and over half of the darklina shippers I know that don't ship reylo would be jettisoning from the circle like sunbursts to continue on our own paths

#mayhaps it is not even a statistical error #mayhaps it is a logical fallacy #some may even call it.... circular reasoning #anyways no hate to op of that other post cause im just goofing lmfao #say stupid shit win stupid discourse #shadow and bone #grishaverse #sab #darklina #myramblings #anti darklina bs #fandomcourse #alksjdlfks i guess #sab discourse #just so people can blacklist lol #(also it technically isn't a statistical error OR circular reasoning. but it IS about five other fallacies lmfao)

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ghoulishsmilesxox · 2 years

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The only king I’m concerned with is Nikolai Lantsov

#shit post #queen elisabeth ii #nikolai my beloved #i haven’t finished rule of wolves #rule of wolves #grishaverse

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