#the burning god spoilers

[cikebabbler]

absolutely genius of rf kuang to elaborate on virtually nothing about speer's culture. the only things said about speer are "speerlies are mindless savages" and "speerlies are most definitely not mindless savages". there are no deep dives, no explanations of their way of life, nothing beyond the glimpses that disproves nikan's belief that they are nothing but a violent group. we saw that they had leaders that cared about their people and children. we saw that they are people who found joy in life. but that's really not much.

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.

we will never learn most of speer's culture and history and that was the point.

#the poppy war trilogy #the poppy war trilogy spoilers #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god spoilers #the burning god #rf kuang #fang runin #altan trengsin #speer

[jhsjykwpdw]

"hello, rin"

#rinezha #the poppy war #rf kuang #fang runin #yin nezha #the burning god #the dragon republic #the poppy war spoilers #spoilers #the burning god spoilers #the dragon republic spoilers

[koiwynn]

short analysis of the tragedy of fang runin because she’s scratching at the walls of my brain like usual.

fang runin is probably the most tragic character i’ve ever read about. she left tikany to escape drugs, poverty and abuse, and then had to suffer tremendously by those factors again and again. she fought whole-heartedly to build a world free from corruption and oppression, even if her methods were… less than ethical on some occasions. hell, she refused to even sit on the throne because she deemed that there’s where her corrupt predecessors sat. that’s how badly she wanted to separate herself from the evil of nikara.

rin so desperately wanted to give her people the childhood and life she and the people she loved never got. and then only for her at the very end to realise that war and oppression won’t end and that her country could never be free. her country is broken beyond repair, and the only way for nikara to survive is for colonialism to put it the broken scraps together, the one thing rin fought all her life to defeat.

#rin never got to live happy and it makes me miserable #the only way for her to survive was to strip herself off her humanity and carry her entire country’s burden #tbg thoroughly ruined me #SHE’S SO TRAGIC FML #she deserved so much better idc #i just love her so so much #might make a full on analysis of her eventually #hell might even write a character study #she’s such an incredible character #rfk i salute you for writing her #fang runin analysis #fang runin #character analysis #media analysis #the poppy war #the burning god #the burning god analysis #the poppy war spoilers #the burning god spoilers #tbg spoilers #tpw trilogy #tpw analysis #tpw spoilers #tpw #tpw ​‧₊˚✩彡 #˖ ࣪⭑ mine

[starfallkaz]

oh the parallels of Robin and Rin only being able to find peace in death, and the silence of it all. After all they did and all that was done to them. Those moments of silence before it all ended. Seeing how Victoire survived and thrived, and the strength of her being able to care out that space for herself —to choose to live. But then seeing how Nezha wasn’t given that choice, to choose life. To even begin to want life. How it was thrust upon him, a weighted legacy inherited. Thinking about Nezha shouldering that burden, slowly standing up, and continuing on.

#I’m actually in pain #cried so much I vomited in my mouth a lil bit #rinezha #bring in the fanfics #fang runin #fang runin i am looking at you #Babel #an arcane history #rf kuang #Rebecca Kuang #yin Nezha #rin x Nezha #the poppy war #the burning god #the burning god spoilers

[suckerforyasammy]

ok, I know this is harry potter, but it fits the ending of tbg too.

Rin, kitay and nezha

#the poppy war #the burning god #fang runin #chen kitay #yin nezha #the burning god spoilers #harry potter

[dragon-republic]

Re-reading The Poppy War from the beginning after finishing The Burning God, going over the scene where the Fangs are trying to marry Rin off to the import inspector, and Aunty Fang is telling Rin that no one would want her because Rin is too dark, and she's a poor war orphan with no family, no connections, and no other prospects ...

... and I'm just dying to write an AU fanfic with a happier ending where the wars effectively do not tear Rin and Nezha apart, and Rin one day returns to Tikany to introduce her fiancé to the Fangs and brings home the Dragon Warlord's son.

Just imagining Aunty Fang's reaction to that is fueling my cold dead heart 🙂

#rinezha #yin nezha #fang runin #rin x nezha #the poppy war #the poppy war spoilers #the burning god spoilers #the poppy war trilogy #r f kuang #aunty fang too stunned speechless to remember to ask about dowry money

[some-random-person-hi]

If I had a nickel for every time there was a red X blue ship where the blue character was from a really well respected family, the red character was a morally dubious bisexual who was in poverty for a while as a child but then rose quite high in the ranks but then died with basically everyone hating them and the ship technically survived the (first) great war but were irreversibly changed leading to the more angsty moments of the ship that happened after that war ended, I'd have two nickels.

#rinezha #wangxian #the poppy war #mdzs #the burning god spoilers #fang runin #yin nezha #wei wuxian #lan wangji #tpw #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[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

[vikensbrainrot]

I can’t even begin to explain what this chapter did to me. I love Rin and Nezha so much 😭

The Burning God (R F Kuang), chapter 29

#rinezha #Rin #Nezha #fang runin #yin nezha #Altan #altan trengsin #the poppy war #the poppy war spoilers #the burning god #the burning god spoilers #books #bookworm

[teartra]

Nezha did a lot of things but I WILL NEVER forgive him for killing Dulin and Pipaji

#i feel freakin petty for this #but that’s one thing i can’t forgive about nezha #tpw dulin #tpw pipaji #yin nezha #the poppy war #the poppy war spoilers #tpw #the burning god spoilers

[cikebabbler]

sometimes I'm minding my own business then I suddenly remember venka. venka betrayed and left arlong, nezha, her family, and everything she knew since she was a child to fight alongside rin. and rin throws that sacrifice in her face and accuses her of betraying her to nezha. but her first instinct when she saw danger? protect rin. venka put herself in the line of fire to save rin, the girl she used to think was beneath her. the venka rin met in sinegard would have ducked. the venka rin was accusing her to be would have protected herself. but venka, the girl who used to be the spoiled, selfish, self-centered princess, died in one of the most selfless ways possible—by protecting someone else. I remember venka, and everything she went through and how she changed and how she was brave and selfless, and suddenly I'm in tears.

#I shouldn't be crying over a fictional character like this #sring venka #fang runin #the burning god spoilers #the burning god #the poppy war trilogy spoilers #the poppy war trilogy

[future-problem]

CURRENTLY READING: The Burning God by R.F. Kuang

Idk how this is going to work, this is my first CR on tumblr but oh well ig lmao I wanna do a CR that's the facts

IM SO SCARED FOR THIS BOOK BESTIES THE LAST ONE WAS SUCH A ROLL COASTER

(secretly excited to add to my nezha experience chart tho lmao)

#currently reading #twitter refugees #the burning god #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god spoilers #r.f. kuang #rf kuang #fang rin #nezha #chen kitay #cr #currently reading thread #IM SCARED IM NOT EVEN JOKING

[koiwynn]

VENKA DIED SAVING RIN’S LIFE??? SHE JUMPED TO PUSH RIN OUT OF DANGER ONLY FOR THE ARROW TO HIT HER INSTEAD… HELLO?? how the hell did i forget about that. i thought she just got assassinated in front of them.

gnawing at the bars of my cage, i’m gonna have a rinvenka induced crying session i can’t do this. i did not need this reminder, rf kuang you will pay for my tears

#rereading venka’s death for my fic and how come it never occurred to me that venka sacrificed her life for rin #in the middle of an argument yet still looking out for rin :( #screaming crying throwing up #VENKA. #sring venka #the poppy war #the burning god #the burning god spoilers #tpw trilogy #tpw spoilers #tbg spoilers #tbg #tpw #tpw ​‧₊˚✩彡 #˖ ࣪⭑ mine

[starfallkaz]

I cant stop thinking abt rinezha and it is killing me.

The petty hate of enemies/rivals, the bregruding allies, the cultivated intimacy of knowing each others weaknesses and short comings bc they’ve spent so long picking apart each others defences to hurt and bully one another, but it’s turned into a tentative respect and mutual understanding of each other and how they’ve gotten here. And they haven’t completely acted on it but there’s an assuredness in looking at each other and knowing how the other feels, in prolonged eye contact and all the words unsaid but felt so deeply, in lingering touches.

But they’re on opposite sides of a war and the gap between them that used to be minute with their petty squabbles has turned into a chasm, seemingly irreparable. And they have to hate each other to justify hurting the other, but there’s the lingering familiarity of loving one another and holding each other. The nostalgia for an easier time when they were both children playing at soldiers and students, not generals - exhausted and covered in blood. the yearning, but lingering anger that the other won’t change. If you tried to hurt me, I think I’d let you. I cant live without you (don’t ask me to). Dying in the others arms - the joint relief and grief of holding them again and losing them.

It’s a visceral pain in my gut thinking abt them. I’ve cried so much over them today, I started gagging

#rin x nezha #rinezha #the poppy war series #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #the burning god spoilers #rf kuang #rebecca kuang #fang runin #yin nezha #book recs #emotional damage #I’m so unstable #I want to kiss them

[userfayne]

The Burning God - R.F. Kuang // Bigger The The Whole Sky - Taylor Swift, Midnights (3am Edition) // The Drowning Faith - R.F. Kuang

#* #words #parallels #r f kuang #the burning god #the burning god spoilers #the drowning faith #the poppy war #the poppy war spoilers #rinezha #fang runin #yin nezha #taylor swift #midnights #bigger than the whole sky

[2kitsuneao3]

Title: Her boys

Pairing: Fang Runin/ Chen Kitay/ Yin Nezha, Fang Runin/ Yin Nezha, Fang Runin/ Chen Kitay, Chen Kitay/ Yin Nezha.

Summary: What if that night, when everything was (for a second) as it had been before, the trio spent their last moments together a little differently.

Tags: Aged up!, Fang Runin, Aged up! Chen Kitay, Aged up! Yin Nezha, Depicted Characters are 18+, PIV Sex, Threesome, Double Penetration, Explicit Sexual Content, Major TBG spoilers,

#the poppy war #the poppy war series #the burning god spoilers #fang runin #chen kitay #yin nezha #fang runin x yin nezha #fang runin x chen kitay #chen kitay x yin nezha