Grishatastic

A Shadow and Bone TV show and Grishaverse books fan blog. TV show posts will be tagged as s&b tv, and book posts will be tagged as grishaverse if you only follow one medium.

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[maalidoesart]

i kinda imagine the two of them taking long walks through the forest whenever they get a chance to do so!

[action-and-echo]

Grishaverse Asks!

send me/the rebloger one of these words as shorthand for the question — a list to reblog and steal from — ask me too! — I’d loved to be tagged in any of your answers — I hope it’s fun 👀

shadow | rank all the grishaverse books you’ve read.

bone | have you seen the show? what’s the best part of it?

siege | if you got to kill off one character, who would it be?

storm | share and tag your favorite fan art

ruin | favorite character?

rising | what’s the best ship? canon or otherwise.

six | favorite grishaverse quote?

crow | which crows are you most and least like?

crooked | if you got to rewrite the first chapter of six of crows, how would you do it?

kingdom | pick a character and give them a theme song

king | what’s your favorite idea for a new series in the grishaverse?

scars | which character deserved better?

rule | favorite book cover?

wolves | sort all the characters you can into hogwarts houses, (or choose to give them zodiacs, mbtis, alignments, etc—)

ketterdam | change the ending of one of the books

os alta | when did you get into the grishaverse? tell us all about it

djerholm | what pair of characters would you kill to see interact with each other?

the unsea | what type of grisha powers would you want to have? or what crow’s skills would you want to steal?

the true sea | rant about whatever grishaverse thing you want to (a hot take, something that bothers you, something you love, etc)

[saintmatthias]

okay i need more grishaverse blogs to follow!! (and in a perfect world some more mutuals to chat with <3)

please like/reblog this post if you blog about the grishaverse and i’ll check out your blog!! pls consider checking mine out too :)

tagging a couple mutuals for signal boost but no pressure whatsoever! @riviageralts @greensaplinggrace @crow-summoner

[fantasygirl3791]

So you know the saying “ villains are the hero of their own story “, that made me think how the “hero(s)” could actually be the villain but they view themself as the hero.

[serpenteve]

Anyone read The Sorcery of Thorns? 👀 I'm only just starting but getting some darklina vibes from Elisabeth and Nathaniel ✨😌

[serpenteve]

@infernigf lmfao so valid honestly ☠️ i may steal this idea to save myself future torture 👀

[crow-summoner]

I don't remember much about this book except that the libraries are cool, someone is secretly a booklouse and the main character, her love interest and his demon cat thing are perpetually two steps away from going poly together.

[llysaan]

Girls’ night in the Grishaverse~

I’ve never drawn so much cleavage in one go, it was a fulfilling experience 😌

Characters are from the Grishaverse books by Leigh Bardugo!

[retvenkos]

Grishaverse Deep Dive: The Darkling is a Character that lives in a Society.

((spoilers for ALL of the grishaverse))

Ah, yes, Shadow and Bone season 2 is gearing up, the birds are singing, I have a cup of earl grey tea before me -  it is finally time to sit down to talk about the Darkling, and explain his tenuous relationship with the Grishaverse.

The Darkling is a character greatly contested. When simply looking at his motivations, we see a rift in the fandom. Add in his backstory and it fractures even more. When you pepper in the third ingredient of his relationship with Alina, you get an entire war. The Darkling is a divisive character. He gets under our skin and lingers for days afterwards.

I am going to take you on a deep dive of the Darklings character, and try to tease apart the problems that lie within the creation of his character. Why were so many fans betrayed by his ending? How did he muddle the messages of Shadow and Bone, and why is his ending so complicated that it satisfies very few? Today, we’re going to look at The Problem of the Darking: An Essay in Six Parts.

A little history lesson;

So first, allow me to take you back in time, to 2012, when Shadow and Bone was first released.

Two years prior, The Hunger Games Trilogy had finished coming out and, in a rather stunning turn of events, shifted the popular Y.A. category from the genre of the paranormal romance (thank you, Stephanie Meyer) to the dystopian society. 

Now, this is not to say that there weren’t dystopian stories prior to The Hunger Games, or that there weren’t paranormal romances in the Y.A. genre afterward. Both have survived, but the boom of dystopian stories and the whimper of paranormal romance was definitely felt.

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[frappe-art]

kanej bc i miss them

[thepoetdraws]

Can you imagine how much Aleksander Morozova needs a nap

[finnmcsinn]

You know what fucking annoys me.

It’s okay to like the Darkling as long as you remember he’s a villain!

Okay, thanks for your permission, I guess?

No actually, fuck you. I’ll like characters for whatever reason I want to like them. Including finding their actions completely goddamn justifiable or, at times, wildly OOC because the author had a hard-on for turning them into a moustache-twirling villain because she realized she’d written the ship she wanted into a terrible, stupid corner.

And if you don’t like it, I guess you can block me.

[yototothelalafell-deactivated20]

Is the Goth aesthetic completely dead?

Are we no longer listening to metal and punk?

There is nothing wrong with looking at at edgelord and saying, “I think I will adopt that”.

Or empathizing with a character like Hannibal Lector.  

Or saying Shub-Niggurath speaks to me.

Art, stories, fiction, they are meant to inspire emotions. You should never have to explain or defend those feelings.  Your journey with life and self expression is your own.  

Take up the PUNK ANTHEM: SO WHAT?! 

[enstatia]

I could've finished at least some of my countless WIPs, but no, this new idea popped into my head...

[kasamira]

I just found out Mal has a tattoo that reads:

“I am become a blade"

Somebody tell me it’s a lie. I don’t believe you.

[crow-summoner]

Tis no lie. He gets that tattoo in R&R. It's supposed to be a riff on Oppenheimer's "I am become death" quote, but it really does not land in context. It reads much more like Mal got a drunk tattoo from someone who transcribed his mumbled request too literally and now he has a permanent regret on his back. It is a HUGE tat on his back btw.

[bellamybellarke--archive]

send me a character & I’ll answer the following about them!

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life  hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: worst quality:  ship them with:  brotp them with:  needs to stay away from: misc. thoughts: 

[yototothelalafell-deactivated20]

Another question the show made me ask was: Does Alina create nuclear fission every time she summons one of those balls of “light”?

Where is all the energy going?

Could she be used to power things?

[that-blue-spren]

Oh Gosh… That’s a too technical question. I think she just gathers heat and light near her in books. Maybe she curves gravity fields…. She could power up solar batteries for sure.

 Zoya  is able to summon lighting, by the way…

[yototothelalafell-deactivated20]

It was the damn special effects department that inspired this question. They really out did themselves.

Her powers are pretty, uh, shall we say, unimpressive, in the books.

But the FX team made it look like she was holding miniature stars. 

[caprica99-deactivated20241221]

And what about UV radiation? Can someone get skin cancer from standing too close to her for an extended period of time while she summons?

[crow-summoner]

@caprica99 @yototothelalafell you guys would probably love the fic I Don't Even Know by Ahab2631 on AO3. Right before S&B starts, Alina gets possessed by a modern day version of herself who knows what happens in the books. She is a very different person than OG Alina, forcing the story down a different path, starting by exposing her light to the Darkling before the Fold stuff happens and naming her terms for willingly working with him. The story goes some fun directions, but the reason it came to mind during this conversation is that this Alina trains her butt off and brings modern science to her approach, so she figures out how to use her powers to inflict radiation poisoning. It's last update was years ago, but what's already there is worth a read. It's also very funny at parts, like how Alina has to convince others that she's psychic to get them to follow her "intuition" because explaining that she's currently a metatexual construct would be a lost cause.

[serpenteve]

I’m reading The Tailor and there’s this line

“The truth. Tell her where the boy is stationed.”

“She’ll think-“

“I know what she’ll think, Genya.”

I feel so stupid... what will Alina think? He’s stationed far away, he’s not getting her letters? He’s not dead? He’s choosing not to respond?

I feel like I’m missing something?

aksdjsdfsdfkfh i've been blessed by @kasamira !!!! 🙏🏽😭✨

I think it means Alina will think he's alive and well and stationed somewhere but is choosing not to respond to the letters because he's done with her, which is what the Darkling wants anyway because he's hoping she will give up on Mal. I think Alina was wondering if maybe Mal was injured and recovering in a hospital somewhere and therefore couldn't respond to her letters but this makes it seem like he is deliberately ignoring her.

[kasamira]

🖤 Thank you! That was the only thing I could think of too, I’m just loving The Tailor. We’re being drip fed Darkling backstory and he only gets more complex! You’re answers on here are like gospel lol

[crow-summoner]

@kasamira I'm glad you're liking the Tailor. I think that and Demon in the Wood are some of the best works in the Grishaverse. Genya's amazing in this story.

[kasamira]

I finished Demon in the Woods too, and I may enjoy the Tailor but there’s no competition.

Demon in the Woods hurt my soul.

I’m gonna write meta on both but with DITW I just don’t know where to start.

Being hurt by a book is the best thing it can do. If it makes you feel something, then (most of the time) it’s succeeded.

(The exception might be SaB because it made me feel a bit spiteful lol.)

[crow-summoner]

The greatest crime a book can commit is inspiring ambivalence, so I'll give S&B credit for birthing a sea of salt. That's probably the most backhanded compliment I've ever given a book. 😂 I'm glad you loved DitW and eagerly await your analysis until it disolves into crying GIFs.