@investmentofmyheart but I’m *only* writing about the Grishaverse over here. A lot. I’m a professional at Kanej. Inej is my favourite. I’m real subtle about that.
I’m Liz. I think about SOC/The Grishaverse constantly. For some reason expanding on those characters and that world has become the key window into myself. Kanej has intertwined with my psyche. Those are my characters. So important. I don’t have to answer to you. But I very much will if you would send me asks. Anyway, look at what I try and write:
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I just started writing fic this year, and am very much a U.S. (not on purpose) uni student with many a chronic diagnosis, so you’re going to cut me slack. You will get all the fanfics eventually, maybe.
Active, In Progress:
- It Takes a Murder
“Inej Ghafa has been sailing for just over five years, longer than she was even stuck in Ketterdam. Now, though, something beyond friends and lovers and her messiest jobs has brought her back to stay…for a long time: two children she liberated from a slave ship. She can’t sail with kids this little and frightened, and she can’t let them go. What ensues is what “parenting,” “settling down,” and “being adults” looks like for Inej, Kaz, Wylan, and Jesper. How do they navigate what pain having toddlers around brings up in each of them? How can Inej choose kids, her man, and staying put in this city without losing herself to it?”
Upcoming (?):
- It Takes A Murder Prequel: (Kanej’s relationship from the moment CK ends to the last visit before ITAM starts). I’ve actually had this in the works the longest. I have an entire timeline, I have decided on every visit, numbered every day. I know when they reached what milestones. I just need to get it together and write the last uh 90% of it. Guys the title is absolutely brilliant on my part, just you wait until I publish it.
- Unnamed Grishaverse Bridgerton AU. It will happen and it might be published as eight separate works. It will be more grounded in actual regency history than Bridgerton and it will be set in a Ketterdam that is under the “Ravkan Empire.” I will definitely do the first four or five couples because um they’re more interesting. If I go all the way out to all eight “seasons” it will be a miracle. Sorry to Adrik and Leoni, I’m rooting for you kids, but they’d definitely come last, and I don’t have the work ethic. I don’t have a title for this one and I’m so proud of my other titles that honestly I am ashamed.
- SOC3 fic. This is canon-compliant, 2 years after ROW, the (living, sorry) crows thrown back together and conflict leading to a bigger scale than just a “crooked kingdom.” Political Plot driven, but also aiming for the same amount of romance/relationship focus as in the books. I am most intimidated by this because I am genuinely trying to write my take on what a third official instalment would look like. So I’ve unduly pressured myself. The title I have for it is so damn good though.
I fear I ate with this and omg I'm so proud of my baby
I did this with water colour pencils then the name in pen and whites with poscar but almsot 99% of this drawing was done in water colour pencils and I for once used a reference for my drawing mainly the clothes which I know the pattern isn't the same but fucking hell is it hard to find that pattern and good photos of it
wylan has two mental lists: one of things he has to do, and one of things jesper has to do. because jesper will tell him and then absolutely forget about it so wylan has to remind him
You OBVIOUSLY have not read Crooked Kingdom, where Kaz's lips brush Inej's neck, he has a panic attack, leaves, starts a fight with his ENTIRE GANG and WINS
- Both the second of two sons, out of place in taking up the mantle of the first.
- Both stand out because of their wit. They’re both strategic thinkers, but lean into jokes, wordplay, as much as their unique, quick thinking.
- Both like to invent things. Creative thinkers. Dramatic people…theatre kids.
- Both are coded/admitted to have PTSD largely because of how and in what condition they lost a brother.
- Contrast: an actual bastard who must feign legitimacy for survival in his sphere versus a man presumably born under wedlock in a stable home who feigns being a bastard for survival in his sphere.
- Contrast: the very top (royalty) versus the very bottom (homeless -> criminal) of societal hierarchy.
- Both really can’t shake desire for a Suli woman they work with who has made clear she can kill him if he gives her a reason to. Made said woman legally or metaphorically a Queen and meant it.
Love fics where Inej is making fun of and giving advice on her friends’ love lives. Like bbg, you are in love with Kaz fucking Brekker. That’s worse than a death sentence.
Tw mentions of sa, sexual trafficing and child sexual assult
Do you ever think the reason why inej choise knifes is becuse they have a phaliic image. And your gonna have to listen for this one but inej was young when she was sexual assulted and lost her virginity and we can assure it was by an Olded person who didn't prep her becuse he didnt care so we can assume her firts time was violent and bloody as her body was forced to adapt to this intrusive action. Pentravie sex could be symbolic with being stabbed this intrusion of an item that's rough harsh and bloody and by inej useing a weapon of a knife she is holding who puts things in her. Like the scene where she went to use the knife against herself becuse she knew if they got her she would be raped and taken to the menagerie and she promised she would die by her own hands she would soemthing in her body by her choise rather then it being forced?
Please share your throught and ideas I love reading people's ideas on the book
This is exactly the kind of thing that would come up in a literature classroom. The things you’re connecting might feel wild but make a lot of sense in a very classic lit study way.
It also has me thinking about Romeo and Juliet. Critics will go on about how Juliet, in stabbing herself, is the one with the more masculine and violent death (Romeo sips poison). One of her main motivations is the fact that, if found alive, she knows she’d be forced into marriage with an older man. Juliet is also taking the idea of violent penetration and turning it into agency over herself.
I had not thought much about knives as symbolism with Inej but it’s similar to how it can be read with Juliet. OP is right, it’s very interesting.
wylan at 23 learning how after 7 years all your cells are officially regenerated. him realizing he now lives with a body his father never touched. him telling inej about it. inej quitely weeping that night because even if the memories are still there this body is entirely hers. idk if it makes sense and it is very badly worded but i'm at work and it's driving me insane.
It may be a small thing but I really appreciate that as part of his character arc in Six Of Crows, the story doesn't use Matthias's tragic past to justify the path he went on or even victimize him. He mentions Inferni killing his family once and the story quickly says "And?...exactly"
headcanon that one time, matthias really couldn’t fall asleep because of how homesick he was and also how guilty he felt for being homesick to such a hateful place and wylan had just had a nightmare so he softly sang the fjerdan anthem to matthias until they both fell asleep
Saw someone headcanon that Van Eck named Wylan, Jan Van Eck Jr. and Wylan was his middle name. And after finding out Wylan couldn't read and believed that he wasn't a good heir anymore he started calling him by his middle name instead.
i love kanej so much because like what do you mean they literally said "it's nice to be back, kaz," and "good to have you back, wraith."
the amount of layers in these lines is wild because they're so shorttt. she has literally been in ketterdam the whole time, she is not referring to being back home in a geographical sense -- she might as well have just said "it's nice to be back with you" (also because what she said is genuinely kind of an awkward way to acknowledge that she's missed him.)
and his response of "good to have you back, wraith" is really a full confession for kaz brekker. but if you want to get rude about it, that phrasing is not contradictory to inej's fear of him only valuing her for what she can give him, either.
