Kist and crayle

Blogging about the whole kraylym The Kingkiller Chronicle. "The Name of the Wind", "The Wise Man's Fear", "The Lightning Tree", "The Slow Regard of Silent Things". Spoilers and theories abound here. 

[incorrectkingkillerquotes]

Hi! Kvothe/KotexBast Or KvothexFelurian? 0:

KotexBast- D, I’m neutral on it but I don’t hate it.

KvothexFelurian- NOTP, I do not ship them at ALL

Send me a ship!!!

[kistandcrayle]

I understand the NamexName system but Kotex Bast sounds like the period product fairy for this town in the middle of nowhere.

[druggeddraccus]

I started tending bard last month near campus. And tonight two girls came up and one ordered a greysdale mead while the other sighed and said, sorry my friend is an idiot. I laughed and then filled a mug with water and slid it to her saying we also have sounten. I had a kvothe level smug grin on my face after that.

Omg that is awesome!!

[kistandcrayle]

Love it! Then you charge them $5 for it 🤣

Also, tending bard is the most Kvothe appropriate typo.

[kashyurio-deactivated20191213]

An illustration based on @incorrectkingkillerquotes‘s post ( which I don’t know how to find now lmao) But the credit is all theirs so please go give them a follow or check them out if you haven’t! 

[theredwateringcan]

Raise your hand if you know nothing about Satyr anatomy 👀🤚 

[theredwateringcan]

Ladies 💖💪🏿

[curlsandstems]

Have you ever seen a violinist going APESHIT?!

Be sure to check out IAmDSharp!

[thegreynightsky]

GO OFFF

[babydollbucky]

Ok so I’ve been playing for 18 years and i’m a string teacher. Can i just say how IMPORTANT it is for young kids to see a BLACK, MALE-PRESENTING PERSON playing, nae, SHREDDING on a violin? I’ve know maybe 5 black people who played stringed instruments throughout my schooling and teaching (predumably because i’m an upper middle class white woman). In districts where the population is predominantly black, funding is always low, so the instruments are crappy. Kids quit, or the program is dismantled. I’ve seen very few professional string players who are black.

Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.

This person is the real deal. They were clearly trained, and seems to have some fiddle training as well. How cool is that?

[kistandcrayle]

Someone get this Celdish musician to play at the Eolian. They must have their pipes.

[thewheelsofsteelareturning]

I have a plant in my house that has little paper butterflies sticking out of it. I don’t remember where it came from. We’ve had it forever.

One day when I was reading Wise Mans Fear, I walked into the dining room and one of the paper butterflies was laying on the floor under the plant and was split in half down the middle.

I still think about it a lot…

[bookcub]

Becoming a “Man”

So I have this friend who read The Name of the Wind a while ago and her former friend used to be a big fan like me, so sometimes we talk about the series. And she brought up a point I had not considered and apparently is a common thought about the series: Kvothe’s time with Felurian made him a man. And she asked me what I thought about that, and here are my thoughts. 

So we can all agree, Kvothe’s time in the Fae world change him. He becomes more adult and even more jaded than he was, as proven by his time later spent with the Adem and the fake Edema Ruh. However, while Felurian and all that sex contributed to how he changed, I think the Ctaeth and defeating Felurian (temporarily) are what truly changed him. 

Disclaimer: I hate that people associate sex and becoming an adult. It seems quite strange and convoluted to me, but that’s not what matters here. 

The Cthaeh tells Kvothe some of the worst things in his life. It tells him how his parents died, he tells him about Denna being beaten. These truths further broke Kvothe and then he grew because of it. That was a far more impactful moment than the majority (if not all) of his time with Felurian. 

The heartbreak of what Kvothe has learned, about his parents and about Denna completely shake his word view. He may have suspected before but the Cthaeh confirmed his worst nightmares and forced him into the dark reality of his life, even more so than before. This emotional toll reworks Kvothe’s mindset, not to mention the unknown influence it has on him that we learn later from Bast. Did you ever think Kvothe might not have killed that fake Edema Ruh troupe if he hadn’t had met the Cthaeh? He might have found a more humane way of saving them without his family’s deaths so fresh in his memory. Hmmmmm… just food for thought. 

Felurian also taught him magic, fae magic. He made his shaed with her. He then learns her true name. and defeats her with magic. This shows how his intellect has grown, not just that, but how to use the knowledge he has gained, from a combination of Ben, Elodin, and Felurian. 

Kvothe now has more knowledge and power than he has ever had before and he knows how to use it. The fact that this is paired with him losing his virginity is probably more a cue to the reader that he is becoming a man, but not because of the sex, because of the Fae. And it has less to do with sex and more to do with knowledge and power.

I’m sure many people disagree with me on this, but hey, it’s personal interpretation, and that’s one of the best parts of books, right? 

Thoughts? 

[kistandcrayle]

I ... nope, that’s about right. I mean, he’s still an idiot. But he’s an idiot college age late teenager instead of a dumb/too clever kid.

[juh-a]

Meanwhile, behind the scenes of The Wise Man’s Fear…

[kistandcrayle]

I don’t understand. Kote looks... happy? That can’t be right.

[incorrectkingkillerquotes]

it’s not my fault his name literally means disaster

[kistandcrayle]

Incorrectly living up to your name I see. Tsk tsk. Where to start.

Okay! Canon bi’s are at least Devi, who’s a disaster, and Deoch, who’s functional. If Savoy isn’t bi I’ll eat my shirt, and he’s decidedly distinguished. Sim’s at least curious if not flexible. Tempi’s probably bi but he’s definitely into ladies and wants to listen to Kvothe sing him sweet sweet songs.

Stanchion is our functional gay. I move to have the first row be gays/lesbians and the last row be our queers/pansexuals. Which makes Mola our disaster lesbian and Count Threpe our distinguished gay.

Tempi is a disaster queer, Vashet our distinguished pansexual, and Bast our functional queer.

[rebellious-mage]

Figured I’d contribute to the fandom by drawing a scene with Elodin and Kvothe that I could see happening 😄 I love them

[noblushingdaisy]

On a related note, does anyone else think it’s super weird Kvothe’s dad is talking to him about sex workers, or is that like a normal thing? 

[kistandcrayle]

Super weird as in uncommon? Maybe. Super weird as in gross or inappropriate for a child, no.

Sex work is nothing to be ashamed of. Arliden finds no shame in it. He doesn’t give his child undue details, but telling children that adults have sex, sometimes to make children, sometimes to have fun, and sometimes people pay other people to have sex isn’t a bad thing in any way. And teaching Kvothe to be polite to people some others would shun and treat poorly for no good reason is a good lesson.

True, teaching your child that would be seen as a “super weird” thing to say by current United States standards, but for no logical reason. Religious? Maybe. Puritanical bullshit? Definitely.

[siryl]

“The Lamp” by Natalia Isaicheva, an illustration for The Name of the Wind (the first book in a planned trilogy entitled The Kingkiller Chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss.

[kistandcrayle]

Tumblr keeps showing me art by this artist and like. It’s good art. Well arted. But. Like. Besides being a red headed white magician. With a glowing thing. Like. This isn’t Kvothe? This isn’t the Fishery? Maybe those are kinda Kilvin’s lamps? That they’ll hit their head on when they stand up. No being barefoot in the Fishery!

I could see this as art that maybe took some inspiration from Name of the Wind, but? ???

[norainacad]

hey i’m completely obsessed with “the name of the wind”…this is a scene from book two that i thought was super cute

[kistandcrayle]

Too fucking cute! “Nothing but roses.”

[metamans]

Revelation

So basically Kvothe mentions how his mom hated the meter of that song his dad used to sing sometimes, and I just read past it as a piece of storytelling.

But then the last line of that song:

“Not tally a lot less”

NATALIA LACKLESS

I came across it on a Reddit chatroom and goddamn I was shook

[dhar16]

When they tell us about Meluan’s sister I was like: ‘Isn’t it obvious? Kvothe? Boy, aren’t you going to say anything about this?’

[metamans]

I’d simply love it if Kote doesn’t know he met his aunt and got referred to as “excrescence” by her. Somewhere in the Fae the Cthaeh is chuckling. 

[kvothe-kingkiller]

my favorite is when he first meets her and is like ‘hmmmmm she looks familiar’

she looks like ur mom ya dingus

[kistandcrayle]

And, to make matters worse...? She figures out who he is. 

Wait, wait. He met his family when he was really little. Yes, Meluan also looks like his mom, but he met her when he was little. She might not have figured it out right away, but how many Kvothe’s are there in the world? With fucking bright red hair. That can play the lute just like his father did.

She knows. Not necessarily at their first meeting, but she figures it out. She might even hope he can open the Lackless box (A son to bring the blood). 

And she lets the Maer know, and they fucking PLAY him, they bait him into revealing himself so the Maer doesn’t have to reward him justly. Reread that scene. I wonder if they found out about the troupe he killed before he told them. She knows and she’s basically prodding him with a stick the whole time.

[arrghigiveup]

Excuse me while I die of laughter

[theredwateringcan]

Boy sure loves his pockets.

(excuse my poor digital art skills)