your favorite flower, your favorite song

reyna | 21 | she/her inej can step on me anytime

[baaozher]

yall!

[togetherhearted]

Let him try

[deyspectre]

[macedraws]

i'm too scared of spoilers to be on this app lol

[yenvengerberg]

#shadow and bone: the missing script edition (4/?)

[shadowandbone]

Cast Photos via Netflix | SHADOW AND BONE, SEASON 2

[clarkgriffon]

ULTIMATE SHIPS CHALLENGE - [4/6] Current OTPs ↳ “You told me about cardinal north and true north. Cardinal north is a direction on a map. True north? True north is home. It is where you feel safe and loved. You have always been my true north, Mal. And if I am to survive this, I need to be home again. With you.” // “Alina, if you get this letter, know that when I told you about true north, I was talking about you. You are my true north. And I can see my way to you now.”

[nicolodigenovas]

The Crows of Shadow and Bone + popular text posts - part 13🕺

[basicbard]

Leyendecker study but make it Kanej! 

Gonna (hopefully) do three of these to accompany my fic: watch you spin around (in your highest heels)! (full disclosure I absolutely lifted the background wholesale from the original art because no thank you to drawing that staircase/chandelier situation).

[niamhmccormack]

THE CROWS + @screenshotsofdespair

(insp.)

[greencanaries]

For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.

[bollyswood]

JESSIE MEI LI — by Alison Engstrom for Rose & Ivy

[kanej]

alina is the "let me fistfight a random stranger" gf and genya is the sarcastic "noo...... dont hurt yourself....." but actually wants to see her fistfight a random stranger gf

[jo-constantine]

genyalina + touch ↳ 1.03 “the making at the heart of the world”

[bollyswood]

today it was revealed that a white woman in brownface was amita suman’s stunt double in shadow and bone. 

at a time when hollywood is preaching to stop aapi hate the show has shown us, twice so far, that they don’t care about our community. by having a south asian coded character make racist remarks towards an east asian coded character they added nothing to the plot or character development- all they did was try to create a divide between our communities. this hurt more especially because zoya was never racist in the books.

they condoned putting a stuntwoman in brownface because they couldn’t be bothered to find a desi stuntwoman for amita. there are truly so many talented desi dancers and acrobats out there but shadow and bone refused to cast accurately solely because stuntwomen are supposed to show up in blurry or fast moving shots, making it “easier” to rely on brownface. this speaks volumes about how much they care about diversity.

for a show that has been praised for representation and diversity and was going to mean so much for asian viewers, shadow and bone failed to deliver time and time again, showing us that all we can count on when it comes to south asian representation in hollywood is constant disrespect and racism.

netflix and leigh bardugo along with the rest of the showrunners and writers marketed the show as being a diverse fantasy but were surrounded by a team that approved brownface should tell you all you need to know about how much they respected desi people in the first place. so many south asians were excited to finally see themselves onscreen in inej and zoya, especially as the show was praised by reviewers and writers as being diverse and accurate representation and this is what we got.

amita was so excited to play inej, a strong brown woman whose identity was not solely defined by her race and i can’t imagine how she felt watching a white woman paint herself brown so that she could perform stunts that amita had trained for as well. if anything, this proves that hollywood’s pushing of diversity on screen does nothing to help poc and representation unless that same diversity exists behind the camera.

[bollyswood]

jessie mei li’s stunt double was also white. this is ridiculous and disgusting, and there is no excuse for the showrunners to promote this show as a win for diversity when they can turn around and take away roles from actual performers and stuntwomen of color.

[kendalroys]

this is my photoshop contribution for the week

[perkamentus]

JESSIE MEI LI ph. Wolf Marloh