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It’s DOOOOONE! It’s finally finished! Oh my gosh, what a journey this has been! I started concept on this last July (2020) and have been working in chunks via Instagram Lives to complete this sequel papercraft of the Six of Crows for over a year! I’m so excited to present Hook And Crook, inspired by a specific scene that happens in Crooked Kingdom. I’ve been stating this over and over again during the lives, but there were specific mirrors happening here between the two papercrafts that wholly define the dynamics of the characters and the two books.

We talked about how the symbols in the facade of the Slat in Featherdark (Six of Crows papercraft) represented the strengths of each character (cane, knife, guns, bombs etc). The crow is standing proud and upright, above the city, to symbolize the upper-hand that the dregs had during SOC.

Now, the tables have turned in Hook And Crook. The symbols on the facade of the hotel show the character’s weaknesses (gloves, a red bird, gambling wheel, Dunyasha’s stars, paintbrush & laurels etc). The crow is defensively crouching with its hackles raised, the city above and oppressing - all representing the dregs having to turn and fight under dire circumstances. And bonus! When you put the two side-by-side, a little nod to a certain Ravkan symbol takes form! What a stupidly fun project this was! I’m so happy it’s finally finished and I thank you all for those who joined me in the lives to watch the process! (so sorry for the low quality on this; Featherdark is my most pilfered artwork for unsanctioned merch 💔)

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Overlooked scene in Crooked Kingdom.

As they sped across the bridge, Jesper thought he spotted Matthias and Wylan in their red capes, tossing coins as they steadily made their way off the Stave. If they started running, it might draw stadwatch attention. Jesper struggled not to laugh. That was definitely Matthias and Wylan. Matthias was hurling the money with way too much force and Wylan with way too much enthusiasm. The kid’s throwing arm needed serious work. He looked like he was actively trying to dislocate his shoulder.

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7K CELEBRATION | @safinss requested: jesper and kaz

“Kaz could have told Jesper that he knew he wasn’t dirty, reminded him that he’d trusted him enough to make him his only real second in a fight that could have gone badly wrong tonight. ” kaz (soc, chapter 3)

saintzoya

Jesper Fahey is the human embodiment of ‘the risk I took was calculated, but man am I bad at math’, and honestly, mood.

michaelaconlin

happy 16th, Bones <3

rorigilmore

Things that keep me up at night:

I would come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together—knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.

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Kanej aesthetic

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one of the most painful parts of six of crows is that kaz and inej’s dreams were never compatible. never. kaz dreamed of money, of revenge, of power and of ruling ketterdam; inej dreamed of home, of her family and of her heritage that was taken from her and degraded by tante heleen.

but as crooked kingdom progresses, kaz and inej manage to incorporate each other into their futures and reinvent their dreams. they make concessions, they make sacrifices. they realise that yes, i will be happier with this person in my life and they never even entertain the idea of giving up on each other. not once. that’s real love.

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This is a special post for the “I don’t think Inej loves Kaz” crowd, since y’all need things spelt out for you I’ll spare a bit of insight: I noticed in the books while re reading, that to Inej the idea of giving her heart to just any man isn’t very appealing to her, she remembers her fathers words and clearly states right after “I’m not sure I have a heart to give anymore papa.”

And again when Kaz kisses her neck and encourages her to leave him she says “was she meant to find a kind husband? Have his children then sharpen her knives after they’d gone to sleep? How would she explain the nightmares she still had from the menagerie or the blood on her hands?” - she’s single handedly admitting that she can’t be with anyone but Kaz and she doesn’t even want to think about it either.

But anytime Kaz is involved in her headspace she lets herself wonder at the possibility of love and them becoming something more and that she wishes in another life where things would be normal, that him and her could have been something more by now. It’s all there implied in plain sight.

And most importantly, after what Inej had suffered through the very fact alone of her wanting to still be with Kaz and become intimate is the sweetest and most genuine thing to her love. As a rape survivor she shouldn’t want to come in 10 ft of another man again but here she is asking if they can be something more.

I think those are all pretty big factors to Inej’s feelings, and not even that hard to spot but as usual you’d have to really pay attention and if you don’t you’ll miss it.

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The thing that breaks my heart is that

Matthias was healing, he was changing and trying to unlearn all the toxic and cruel lies he had been raised to believe in.

He was finally with a purpose he was at peace with, with himself and Djel. Matthias was pure, he did not want the money, he did not want revenge, he wanted to protect Nina and Kuwei.

He wanted to save so many like him, who had been wronged by the fate and then forged into a weapon for some cruel politics of power that had no mercy for anyone.

He wanted mercy for his people and himself.

And then.. it all ended. He had walked just a mile into the path he had decided to walk on.. he had just started and to be ended by a picture of his own past..

All when he had finally begun.

I will always miss Matthias.

wulfhalls

― John Keats

rorigilmore

Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo // I Will Follow You Into the Dark, Death Cab for Cutie

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Wow Leigh Bardugo really came for my whole ass with the bandage changing scene like. The intimacy. The vulnerability. Kaz's POV where Inej is like this angel of kindness literally "framed in white and gold" and he is really trying to be worthy of her but he just can't. Alexa play From Eden.