#rebecca kuang

[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

[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

[ofstarsandmoonlightt]

RinKitay in a nutshell:

#chen kitay #fang runin #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #rf kuang #rebecca kuang #author #book #fantasy #adult fantasy #poppy war by rf kuang

[silvermarig0lds]

happy valentines!!❤️

reference here

#the poppy war #tpw #rinezha #the poppy war fanart #tpw fanart #fang runin #yin nezha #rf kuang #my art #illustration #procreate #rebecca kuang #the dragon republic #the burning god #rinezha fanart

[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

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

text posts that remind me of the poppy war pt III

#the poppy war #the burning god #the dragon republic #rf kuang #r. f. kuang #rebecca kuang #fang runin #tpw #altan trengsin #yin nezha #chen kitay

[indogaysian]

“Violence shows them how much we’re willing to give up... Violence is the only language they understand”

— R.F. Kuang, Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

#babel #rf kuang #Rebecca kuang #words #quotes

[reinheid]

Imagine a man cursed by God.

Imagine a man who dreamed of dying, considering himself a cursed nonentity, but God did not allow it, giving him a semblance of immortality.

A man who was despised by his own family.

A man who was thrown too much responsibility too soon.

A man who tried to save his people at the cost of himself, because he was told from childhood that his life was worthless and that he should devote himself to service.

A man who couldn't save the only chance for HIS salvation, leaving himself alive until God finally drives him crazy.

A man in whose arms the only being he considered divine died.

A man who became a puppet ruler of a destroyed country, which was captured by another nation, who didn't even take his subjects for people.

A man who gradually and painfully lost his whole family and all his friends.

A man who was left alone with the people, who hated him, because all attempts to end the war led to enslavement.

Yes, this is all - Yin Nezha.

#im not okay #yin nezha #fang runin #chen kitay #the poppy war #rebecca kuang #the dragon republic #the burning god #tpw trilogy #twp #rf kuang #nezha angst

[cowboyscaviar]

*the poppy war/the burning god spoilers*

nezha kills rin to end the war…i guess you could say he’s Yin It to Win It haha am i right guys

#the poppy war #the burning god #rf kuang #rebecca kuang #fang runin #yin nezha #rinezha #hahaha am i right guys #this would do numbers on twitter #x??? #whatever the hell

[ashiistired]

Qara and Chaghan

#the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #rf kuang #rebecca kuang #chaghan suren #qara suren #chaghan may be taller but he does canonically look like a bitchy skeleton

[starfallkaz]

You think you can hurt me???

RF Kuang is my favourite author

#emotional damage #rf kuang #rebecca kuang #the poppy war #the burning god #Babel #book recs #fang runin #nezha #rin x nezha #Robin swift #Altan Trengsin

[whyamiheretm]

- She was no victim of destiny. She was the last Speerly, commander of the Cike, and a shaman who called the gods to do her bidding. And she would call the gods to do such terrible things. -

Fang Runin from The Poppy War by Rebecca Kuang

#the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #fang runin #rebecca kuang #rebecca f kuang #rf kuang #tpw #book art #books #fanart #the drowning faith #yin nezha #chen kitay #altan trengsin

[hrrystylesbookclub]

does anyone else ever think about how in a way “birdie” is the realest name robin swift ever had

#because he wasn’t called his given name ever since the day professor lovell took him from canton #and robin swift were just words he picked to anglify himself #meanwhile birdie was a term of endearment bestowed upon him by the first person to actually SEE and KNOW him #true over the years he became robin swift but he was always ‘birdie’ deep down #he just needed a ramy in his life to tell him so #babel: an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #babel rf kuang #rf kuang #rebecca kuang #robin swift #ramy mirza #hahaha this book ruined me ahahahaha

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

I just finished reading The Burning God by R.F. Kuang…

I’m gonna need several days to recover. I feel like I’ve been attacked and betrayed and someone pulled the still beating heart out of my chest and now I’m just sat here staring at it.

5 stars, highly recommended.

Gonna go cry now.

#the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #r f kuang #rebecca f kuang #rebecca kuang #fang runin #rin #chen kitay #venka #yin nezha #i’m heartbroken #fantasy books

[wyndlerunner]

Which is the worse fate in a Rebecca Kuang book? To die a horrible death at the hands of your loved ones? Or to be the sole survivor of what was once a tightly knit found family?

#Rebecca kuang #rf kuang #Rebecca f kuang #the burning god #the burning god spoilers #poppy war spoilers #babel spoilers #Babel #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

saw a post calling nezha a "colonizer apoligist". . . girl he didn't want them there either. I see where you're coming from but he very much did not want them there. also rin blew up japan so like. this is not a book for finding pure innocent baby characters.

#the poppy war #tpw #r f kuang #r. f. kuang #rebecca kuang #fang runin #yin nezha #the dragon republic #the burning god