Ai Adler

Thoughts of a random future writer.

[ai-adler-blog]

Did someone else watch that horse girl movie with a zebra or was that just a dream

[soullesstomatoes]

every ya book fandom ever: ben barnes fancast

leigh bardugo:

[xelanul]

My reaction to the Shadow and Bone casting announcement

[kotwkawie]

[shiningwonho]

LEIGH BARDUGO GETTING THE BEN BARNES CASTING EVERY YA ADAPTION WANTED AKGFKASFSA

[books-and-cookies]

the grisha/soc fandom collectively losing its shit over an actual fancast making it into the show is goddamn poetic

we’re all a bunch of fucking nerds and it’s fucking beautiful

[adeles]

Mean Girls (2004)

[lizthefangirl]

you know i remember when i was in the fourth grade and ben barnes played prince caspian in narnia 2: sword boy or whatever and i never even saw that movie because i loved the first one too much and i was like… who is this man on the poster??? who is this person??? ruining one of my favorite movies??? …… he’s so pretty????

and now i’m sitting here almost twenty years old watching the punisher and this man…. has the nerve to continue to be…. so stunningly handsome…. and it’s so offensive to me like i remember you sir i remember you and your hair

[sleepingfancies]

Ben Barnes being cast in a YA adaptation in 2019 after being fancasted since 2008 has the EXACT same energy as Leonardo DiCaprio winning an Oscar in 2016 after first being nominated in 2004 send tweet

[sunbeamszs]

fuck the darkling but also, like, fuck the darkling. ya know?

[ivashclove]

every single ya fandom has thirsted over ben barnes as the male lead but only leigh bardugo was powerful enough for the honor

[roszy]

sorry but i love them

[saintsforsakencity]

A couple positive thoughts on the Shadow & Bone casting announcement

Jesper is being played by a stage actor! Who seems to transfer well to video! With a really expressive face!

(Stage actors are trained to act with larger, more dynamic gestures than screen actors, and they often have a slightly different tone onscreen, and often tend to pull attention. I like them.)

This is hella important because Jesper needs to be playing two emotions at once in a lot of scenes: the “funny likable guy” facade he puts up, and his real reactions

oh no I made myself sad

Anyway based on 30 seconds of scrolling through Kit Young’s Instagram page, I have high hopes for his ability to do this well.

At the very least, he’s definitely going to be fun to watch. Look at how he moves his face!

Alina also seems very expressive! I don’t quite care about her character, but I won’t mind watching her. Maybe the show will finally get me invested in Alina?

Inej’s actor has a passion for stage combat and her instagram has a video of her practicing a knife fight.

This means (unless the director is an utter fool) we are getting real fight scenes. No “knife in hand—> cut to person bleeding.” Inej is going to fight and fight well!

I wasn’t sure about this show but now I’m pumped give me a good knife fight and I’m in.

[few-too-many-fandoms]

Every other fandom @ grishaverse fans rn

[lisseim]

My twelve year old self watching Narnia in 2008: Ben Barnes is gorgeous asdfgh

My twenty fiive year old self watching Shadow and Bone in 2020: Ben Barnes is Gorgeous asdfgh

[alienyolk]

Zutara was the ship we DESERVED

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And the ship ZUKO AND KATARA THEMSELVES DESERVED TOO

[firelxdykatara]

If Zutara were to be canon,thanks to Aaron Ehasz,how will this affect Legend Of Korra?

This is a difficult question to answer, mostly because it would of necessity rely on a whole lot of assumptions and biases, and without asking Aaron himself (in private, where he wouldn’t have to worry about kicking off another fandom war), it’s impossible to answer with any degree of certainty.

Now, I can talk about how I, personally, think things would have been different if Zutara had been canon–which, for me, means that the epilogue of book 3 was just the tea shop scene, and we got a book 4 where, as Aaron briefly mentioned on twitter and in various interviews, the consequences of energy-bending were explored, the lost Air Nomads were found, Azula had her redemption arc (which would probably have tied into the search for Ursa, which I would’ve loved to see Aaron’s take on in book 4, especially considering the crap the comics handed to us), and Zuko and Katara grew closer and entered into a relationship by the end of the season.

(Before I start exploring this in more depth, I want to head off ‘delusional Zutarian’ arguments at the pass–I’m not saying it’s 100% confirmed that Aaron was planning to make ZK canon in book 4. I am saying (as I’ve said before) that, given the set up and development in canon, and the way Aaron himself has talked about how he develops characters and relationships, I believe he (and other writers/artists/crew members) was leaning heavily towards that particular relationship and would have explored it further in book 4 had he been allowed to.)

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