Please consider : Jesper reading for Wylan but before each new line he's like "Omg really?", "you're not gonna belive what happen next!"

And Wylan is getting pissed off like "just read it already!"

(but Jesper is the only person he dare to ask for reading to him without feeling ashamed at all)

Spent my whole day reading. I'm having a feeling storm.

So, that was AMAZING.

I could not put down the book. Every twist, every piece of the plan, every insane move and crazy revelation and intense confrontation were breathtaking and suspenseful and exciting, and funny and sad and awe-inspiring.

Wylan turned out to be even more cuter and braver than I had guessed in book 1, and his optimism and generosity created a welcome balance in the Crows.

Jesper surprised me! He is more complicated than the sassy sharpshooter he presents to the world. I loved that he is the one with blood ties and roots. It gives a different flavor to his gambling and criminal ways when you know what he's left behind and what his one weakness is.

Mathiaaaaas. I reject canon. My strong boy did not go through all that pain and all that growth, did not fight for his love, to end up like that. The emphasize on his physical strength is there, but he's also a very good strategist and his dry humor made me chuckle more than once.

Nina is a queen. She made me laugh and she made me cry and she made me gasp. She's human, so very vulnerable, and yet she's a warrior, a queen, a woman with fire in her veins and fury in her eyes.

Inej is a sweetheart and she deserves all the happiness in the world. She's never done anything wrong in her life, ever, and that's it. She'll take the world by storm and they won't know what's hitting them.

Kaz needs a break, but he won't take one because boy's a martyr. Listen, I know he's terrifying and his hands are coated in blood and he could kill me without a thought. But he's also a boy who had to survive horrors and loss and the crumbling of all he thought was safe and good and he needs to be told again and again that he is human and he deserves love and support. And therapy, man, so much therapy.

Anyway. The Crows are found family in its purest and most awesomest form. Helnik is enemies to lovers / soulmates and tragic lovers, in the way only the best love stories are. Jesper and Wylan are cute and the healthiest and they deserve their never-ending happiness in luxury. And Kanej is fascinating and complex and beautiful and absolutely not healthy but who cares, they are the kind of characters and relationships who would need ten thousand pages about them. All of them, tbh. Guess I'm not done with them at all.

Next stop, Shadow and Bone. Need to know more about all that civil war and Sankta Alina and Genya and Zoya stuff.

Wylan: Ok but small creatures are way more likely to be vicious.  It’s because their anger has less space to be bottled up in.

Inej: Impossible. Give me an example of this.

Wylan: Spiders.

Jesper: Wasps.

Nina: Terriers.

Kaz: Inej

I got inspired by a scene of the crows drumming up information in Ketterdam in the Shadow and Bone Netflix series so I had to redraw it (+ some artistic liberty with how sunny Ketterdam is)

I wanna talk about the couple moments in the show where Kaz displays that he’s in pain due to his leg.  I’m really compelled by moments where we see a character in pain, especially one that is usually extremely composed and Kaz is no different for me.  First, we’ve got the moment when he’s making his rounds in the Little Palace, scoping it out, and he has to duck into an alcove to rest for a moment because his leg is hurting him.  Pretending to be a guard, obviously, he can neither use his cane nor even limp as he usually does when he goes without his mobility device.  But not limping means he has to pretend every step doesn’t hurt-

-and clearly he can only keep that up for so long.  Second, we’ve got that Iconic Moment in the chapel where Inej kills for the first time and she does it to save him but just prior to that, we see him stumbling away from the Inferni, leaning heavily on the pews, limping badly, and clearly in excruciating pain from how much he’s had to walk around without his cane and pretending it doesn’t hurt and we’re finally seeing that mask slip, we’re seeing the price he pays for pushing himself too hard.

A thing that I absolutely love about Kaz and the portrayal of his disability is that we see his limits.  He is absolutely a force to be reckoned with.  Kaz is dangerous and vicious and gets a fight scene in Crooked Kingdom that I think is spectacularly badass and please lemme see it onscreen someday but he is still disabled and pushing himself comes at a cost.  He cannot pretend it doesn’t hurt forever.  He can’t be without his cane for very long without enduring severe pain (and even with it, his leg still hurts - he deals with chronic pain).

And what really breaks me about the whole thing is that we’re seeing just what he’s willing to endure for revenge.  Everything Kaz does is with a single goal in mind: take down Pekka Rollins brick by brick.  A lot of text is given to talking about what Kaz will do to other people to achieve that end.  But we also see what he’s willing to do to himself.  If it gets him closer to that goal, he does not care.

Sometimes I wanna lock that boy in a therapist’s office but we all know he could pick his way out.

The crows

costume changes

- Inej Ghafa

- Jesper Fahey

- kaz brekker

Kaz Brekker

Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov

Costume and makeup test part 2

Shadow and bone series

this is the best thing i have experienced in a very long time and you should get that too

Kaz had been sure it would get easier.

So since inej is known as the wraith, whenever she gets annoyed with kaz and avoids him, does that mean she's ghosting him

The crows

Kaz brekker, Inej Ghafa , Jesper Fahey

Freddy Carter , Amita Suman, kit young

Costume and makeup test

Shadow and bone series 1

Wylan: Kaz, are you ever going to listen to me?

Kaz: Yes.

Wylan: When?

Kaz: *looks Wylan dead in the eye*

Kaz: When you’re right.

my daily wesper breakdown

Ben Barnes as General Kirigan / The Darkling

For costume and makeup test

Shadow and bone series 1

*the floor is feelings for wylan*

jesper:

Kaz Brekker (colorized)