#racism solved!! yay rocks fall all the racists die

[serpenteve]

I laughed out loud at Nikolai's speech about having a "Suli queen, a Grisha queen, a Ravka queen!" The author has been clear that the Grisha are based on Jews and the Suli are based on some messy smush of African cultures. Can you imagine a 19th century Russian prince declaring "We shall have a Kenyan queen, a Jewish queen, a Russian queen!" Not just the racism and antisemitism, but the misogyny that would have fed the inevitable revolt? The author's worldbuilding is nonexistent.

She builds up these obvious parallels to real-world marginalization and prejudice and then she picks and chooses when they will apply and who they will apply to and rewards/punishes characters in non-sensical ways 🙄

Zoya loses her shit and decides to turn into a fucking dragon to rain down fire on Fjerda and it's framed as an iconic #girlboss moment that lets her ascend the throne and singlehanded solve all of the anti-Grisha hate, anti-Suli racism, and sexism!!! But if Aleksander does the same with the Fold, he's an evil power-hungry villain................

#viv answers #racism solved!! yay rocks fall all the racists die #that speech will haunt me for years to come #i dont even hate zoya's speech honestly...it's just the stupid fucking reactions from everyone else #what am i reading??? #shitty fanfic???