six of crows is so incredibly hozier coded and to prove it ive assigned each character/couple a song and given a specific section of the lyrics
(i feel entirely normal about this i swear)
the books in general are 100% eat your young
There's money to be made, whatever's still to come
Get some
Pull up the ladder when the flood comes
Throw enough rope until the legs have swung
Seven new ways that you can eat your young
Come and get some
Skinning the children for a war drum
Putting food on the table selling bombs and guns
It's quicker and easier to eat your young
kaz brekker - arsonist's lullabye
When I was 16, my senses fooled me
Thought gasoline was on my clothes
I knew that something would always rule me
I knew the scent was mine alone
All you have is your fire
And the place you need to reach
Don't you ever tame your demons
But always keep 'em on a leash
inej ghafa - would that i
With the war of the fire
My heart moves to its feet
Like the ashes of ash
I saw eyes in the heat
Feel it soft and as pure as snow
Fell in love with the fire long ago
With each love I could lose
I was never the same
Watch it still live in roofs
Be consumed by the flame
I was fixed on your hand of gold
Lay in waste of my lovin' long ago
jesper fahey - someone new
There's an art to life's distractions
To somehow escape the burning weight, the art of scraping through
Some like to imagine
The dark caress of someone else, I guess any thrill will do
Would things be easier if there was a right way?
Honey, there is no right way
wylan van eck - through me (the flood)
Any time I've struggled on
Against the course
Out on my own
Every time I'd burn through the world, I'd see
That the world, it burns through me
nina zenik - angel of small death and the codeine scene
Feeling more human and hooked on her flesh, I
Lay my heart down with the rest at her feet
Fresh from the fields, all fetor and fertile
It's bloody and raw, but I swear it is sweet
With her sweetened breath, and her tongue so mean
She's the angel of small death and the codeine scene
(this is so nina post-parem)
matthias helvar - foreigner's god
Her eyes look sharp and steady
Into the empty parts of me
But still my heart is heavy
With the hate of some other man's beliefs
kaz/inej - work song
When my time comes around
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
No grave can hold my body down
I'll crawl home to her
(this is just so i would come for you and if i couldn't walk i'd crawl to you i cannot)
matthias/nina - in a week
A thousand teeth
And yours among them, I know
Our hungers appeased
Our heartbeats becoming slow
We lay here for years or for hours
Thrown here or found
To freeze or to thaw
So long we become the flowers
Two corpses we were
(they're also incredibly work song coded, it was a struggle choosing between helnik and kanej for that one)
wylan/jesper - like real people do
So I will not ask you
Why you were creeping
In some sad way I already know
I will not ask you where you came from
I will not ask and neither should you
Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We should just kiss like real people do
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Reading soul music and night watch for the first time, back to back, was a mistake and I'm not ok rn
Everyone is doomed by the narrative the whole time and you know that the whole time but you still get caught up in the story and the characters are so driven and so you think maybe. maybe it will be different. maybe they can fix this
But throughout the books there are those moments when it hits you and them again that they aren't getting everyone out. that some things can't be changed
That most of them are going to die.
Both Sue and Vimes are taken out of time and are told they can't change things and you still hope that they'll be the exception. that they'll be allowed to fix something. and they do. in a way. but it's not enough and it doesn't last and almost everyone but them dies anyway and there's no one they can truly share their experiences and pain with and you're told the ending right from the start and it still hurts
It's something about both of them knowing deep down that there wasn't really anything they could do to stop the unstoppable forces of death and time but trying anyways regardless of the consequences because it's the right thing to do and they can't stop themselves from caring, even through all the anger
Anyways. Those were great books and I'm emotionally devastated.
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I can't be expected to be normal after hearing the words:
" 'I've seen enough,' he says, 'I know exactly what I want
And it's this life that we've created
Inundated with the fated thought of you
And if you asked me to, if you asked me, I would lose it all
Like petals in a storm
'Cause, darling, I was born to press my head between your shoulder blades, at night when light is fading
Just to let you know, I'm old, waylaid and feels like I am wading
Into carpet burns and carousels
Christ, you'll be the death of me' "
Like??? How am I supposed to exist after this ripped open my ribs and played them like a xylophone
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