Flower with Imagination @black-rose-writings - Tumblr Blog

Ask and thou shall recieve... or something

I am now taking prompts/short story requests for Shadow and Bone/Grishaverse. No prompt list, just general categories, you be a little creative, too.

Little Palace/Grisha school shenanigans (self-explanatory)

Second Army/Grisha Loyalist shenanigans (self-explanatory)

The Saints, where are they now?

AKA Sasha gets himself some immortal friends/allies. Either Sasha meeting up with the Saints at some point in the past, the Saint in question secretly being part of the Second Army, or just using the Saint as an outside POV. Pick a Saint (preferably one that was probably Grisha, and definitelly none of the ones that appear in the KoS/RoW) and what involvement you want them to have, or pick a topic (like, say, Grisha are celebrating a specific Saint's day and said Saint is awakwardly watching from the sidelines) and let me pick a Saint. Whatever floats your boat.

If you want book or show specific version, tell me, otherwise, it will likely be a mix.

AUs and canon-compliant are both welcome. Be as specific or vague as you want.

I don't do smut and time travel, everything else is negotiable. Most ships are welcome, but in general, I'm probably not going to write positively about canon-compliant show!Kanej and Helnik, and either version of Malina.

You can also ask outside of these three categories, if you really want to see my take on something. My ask box is open and I will do my best to answer.

Please, make it clear in the ask you want a prompt fill/story, just so it doesn't get mixed with any other asks I might get. Thank you.

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #grishaverse fanfic #shadow and bone fanfic #writing prompts #prompt fill

taragreenfield

There are a lot of things about Zoya in the duology that I absolutely hate but I think the one that puts me off most is her constantly being called ruthless and cruel like it feels so cringe to me, even in SOC she has badass lines about her like

It had hit her then: For the drüskelle, Zoya was a little like Jarl Brum—cruel, inhuman, the thing that waited in the dark with death in her hands. Zoya was this boy’s monster.

I do think she is a cruel person but in a petty way like choking some random guy or breaking a girls ribs or constantly overall being shitty to people, but the books make it sound like its in a pragmatic competent gets shit done kinda way and it irritates me more than anything else about her character, and I dont see it mentioned often

Hi, anon!

Yup, Zoya's violent outbursts are so disproportionate and exaggerated; they feel almost comical instead of formidable and intimidating. She is not a "monster", she is a pest.

This particular passage, though, disturbs me beyond Zoya's despicable personality. Sure, let's feel sorry about druskelle. They slaughter, torture and rape because they believe that Grisha are not human and therefore don't deserve any rights or even existence, but you don't understand; they are just scaaaaared! The members of a genocidal cult are just like that little harmless spider on the wall; it's more afraid of you than you are of it! Bardugo created a marginalized group that is subjected to all the horrors known to humanity and keeps granting infinitely more sympathy and understanding to their oppressors. Disgusting.

What also immensely disgusts me about Zoya is her masturbation garden (I refuse to call it anything else) and that smug magnanimity when she proclaims that "even Ivan gets a place." Ivan fought against the monarchy Zoya helped prop up and was murdered by her "allies", and that cunt acts like she has any business using his memory for her "compassionate Grisha leader" performance. Shove your petunias up your ass and shut the fuck up.