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[lirri-eats-eyes]

my modus operandi is reading/watching things that i know i'll like far too late and therefore missing the "heyday" of the corresponding fandoms so maybe since i wasn't there i have no say. but just based on the works that still remain the classic fandom centrifuging of wesper really fucked over the character interpretation of everyone involved huh

it feels weird because like. every character im about to talk about i Like. i like matthias. i like kuwei. i like jesper and i like wylan. i like them a lot. i think Leigh Bardugo writing jesper and wylan to be in a relationship is both good for the story and pretty awesome in terms of representation. but ohhhhh my god holy shit. i dont want to pin this all on Everyone Who Likes This Thing I Slightly Dislike. im going to try not to shit on people just enjoying something. but i Need to properly express what im seeing

i think it's odd that the immaturity jesper can show in the stories is immediately erased when people want to depict him in a caretaker position for wylan. he's charismatic and flirty in canon, but we've seen that when he's actually emotionally invested in something (as in : kaz) he can get kind of stupid with that. i think that's very real and human! i think it's odd that people erase this part of him when it comes to being the perfect, emotionally available boyfriend for wylan. (also this is kind of on bardugo actually i . don't like the little implication that jesper cannot be trusted with money and businesses at all by the end. doesn't anyone think the allowance thing is kinda weird. ok)

i also think that wylan's character can be straight up assasinated whenever he's depicted in dynamic with jesper. he is inexperienced compared to the Crows who have a Body Count, yes, i know this. but he gets his very own Body Count by the end. he is not a pacifist, he is not a waifish soft boy who can't do anything on his own and even more irritatingly the other characters do not exist to be witnesses to his suffering. i feel like his little flaws and the ways in which he actually shows strength and independence are erased when people want to project some sort of vision of a perfect victim onto him. i . know this is probably the meanest thing i have written here im Sorry

god....kuwei....i mean ive already stated that i hate how he's been reduced to the Witness of jesper and wylan's relationship. he's so much more than that, they're so much more than that, all the crows have relationships with each other that are all interesting and worthwhile It's Not Just This. depicting kuwei as perpetually in love with jesper and willing to be this sort of duplicitous snake who tries to break them up is insane to me. people refuse to engage with the idea that he is his own person with agency and that his life does not revolve around jesper, even during his time in captivity. that he is Effectively A Prisoner even when all the other Crows have free reign. that any of that might have been difficult, or worth digging into as a character. That he can connect with any of the other Crows on an emotional level (PLEASE. ANYTHING WITH NINA AND MATTHIAS. ESPECIALLY WITH HIS STATUS AS A GRISHA AND AS PART OF THE REASON FOR JURDA PAREM. GOD IT WAS SO IMPORTANT CAN ANYONE HEAR ME??)

matthias my mouse guy. god. his death was valuable, it was worthwhile, it was not a waste. it was ballsy as fuck for bardugo to kill off what was one of the main characters. it was satisfying and relevant to his arc; he was killed because he believed in someone like him, in the humanity and love of not just Nina but all of her friends and the other Grisha he knew that Changed him from someone so blinded by hate. he died protecting his friends. It Was A Choice He Made and it actually frustrates me so much when people try to argue that kuwei (who keep in mind is held in perpetual ire because of the stupid fucking wesper interpretation) was better off dying because. idk. secondary character fodder. shock at still witnessing a primary character death. this sucks man.

i feel like im less anal than some about fan works that are made innaccurately. i don't care about them as standalones, i actually think it's kind of endearing that we can reliably get works that stretch far beyond canon accuracy. but i some people's only source Becomes the fanwork and they start actually spreading misinfo about what Happens For Real In The Book and then it starts pissing me off.

[lirri-eats-eyes]

one day i need to properly put into words just how i feel about kuwei yul-bo and how he's treated by the fandom. it's just. it's so. in order to find stuff about him that treats his character with a modicum of respect and consideration for what he might actually be, the way his past and culture affects him, the way his time in the story affects him, i have to first of all find it, and he's not a very popular character (fair. he plays a secondary role, that's fine) but then the only works that seem to give him any sort of real and ascertaining look are those that include his dynamic with wylan and jesper, and even oftentimes in those he only exists as a mirror to project feelings of comfort or just being a witness to the other two's (mostly wylan's) pain.

i won't deny that ive found people who are willing to actually dive into what we see of kuwei's character but it's so frustrating. i would actually say the character he has the most tangible dynamic with is nina and maybe matthias* but since wylan and jesper (as a ship, not even as individuals of their own) are the most popular thing that is all we see kuwei in terms of

*do not get me started on the "im-sacrificing-the-meaningful-arc-matthias-went-through-by-saying-kuwei-should-have-died-instead-of-him".deck we have out here

[lirri-eats-eyes]

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[lirri-eats-eyes]

idk you could draw some gays....... (zain and corion)

yer wish is my command

added a background character who’s really an extended warriors joke anyways

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[saoirseaaa]

fireborn fireborn fireborn yay yay yay

spoilers for fireborn except no one on this platform cares because the only people who would care about this have already read all the books ok Ty

Twelve has always been more decisive and wary of others since she was a child, likely due to the mistrust and dislike between clans built into their society, but when all of Poa was slaughtered it turned mistrust into hatred and disgust and a need for revenge against the Cave Clan. she was only 11 with so much anger built up in her, for the perpetrators and herself for acting like a normal child and not wanting to hang out with her little sister, causing her death. she ran away to the Hunting Lodge and chose to block out the memories, refusing to let herself feel emotions, telling herself she didn’t care for Seven or anyone really. She built her defensive walls, much like the Hunting Lodge’s, so she was isolated for her 2 years leading up to the time the story is set. This leads to her being ostracised, which she’s quite happy to be as she won’t allow herself to make friends, telling herself they’ll distract her from her revenge. but maybe she won’t allow herself to make friends because she doesn’t feel she deserves them? the guilt of her family’s death weighs heavily on her shoulders throughout so i wouldn’t doubt it. she won’t get along with anyone, but when Five makes fun of Seven for her stutter, she stands up for her, because she isn’t a bad person beneath it all. she’s 13 and can’t be expected to make rational decisions, which Elder Hoarfrost forgets in the third book. she also takes it upon herself to rescue the other girl when she is kidnapped after the Hunting Lodge is broken into, when the Hunters don’t appear to be doing anything. she takes everything onto herself and believes she should be responsible for it all, even when she can’t deal with it.

Seven always was secretive and quiet and seemingly weak. unable to hold her sword, stammering always, and hurt easily by a certain someone’s (FIVE.) words. as Twelve put it, there was no one less fit to be a Hunter. but she was quick-witted and stronger than her appearance displayed, carrying such a burden from a young age, the youngest in her family (ONE TIME AISLING FOWLER ACTUALLY RESPONDED TO ME WHEN I WAS ASKING HER ABOUT SIX AND SEVEN I WAS SO HAPPY) and already shouldered with such. i think it would be interesting for her and Vanessa Enoteca to meet, seeing as their magic both contradicts the other’s. anyway, she was also ostracised from the other Huntlings, calling her a freak the same as they did Twelve, yet she continued to pursue Twelve’s friendship for reasons unknown until the third book. 13 with the world in her hands and nothing she could do for a lot of the time. this burden on her was so great that at the end of the second book she had completely forgotten to view Six’s Paths, focused only on Twelve’s as she saw it was her responsibility to save them all. she knew more than she let on of course, a lot more, which caused the rift and possible end in their friendship in the third book. she’d known what she was to do from a young age and seeing as she was still a child, 13, could not possibly handle the fate of the world but she seemed to expect herself to. she felt a little useless compared to the others, as they completed Hunts and left her in the dust with their fighting skills compared to hers, she wanted to help the best she could to fight the Shadowseam but what was there for her to do except wait for what she knew would come?

Six was similar to Seven, quiet and unlikely to let his feelings show, out of the group he is maybe one of the best at keeping his secrets (due to Twelve and Five’s explosivity, and Dog’s tendency to murmur his complaints to himself, also he couldn’t keep his lutra-touch hidden from them for long). he must’ve hated Five’s bullying of his sister so much, but managed to keep it to himself for all of that time, and managed to stay best friends with Five. even more so that Five (when he was nice for once) reminded him of Swiftlet. that was when we learned how Six managed to put up with Five for so long, which was lost to both the reader and Twelve for two books - he yearned for his big brother that he had looked up to so much. after losing their parents, Six and Seven had promised to stick together, which couldn’t be fulfilled in the Hunting Lodge so they had to separate and pretend as though they never knew each other. but for ages Six must’ve longed to stand up for his little sister, his only remaining family. but then if it were known they were related, they’d be cast out. and as Six said in a poor attempt to try and stop Five from being a dick, “where would any of us go?” (without the Hunting Lodge). Six was never as fleshed out as the other characters, as we must remember this is a children’s book I’ve somehow been obsessed with for 2 years, and of course we weren’t supposed to get too attached to Six in case of any LOSSES, so he isn’t explored into too much. cries

Five was always very much the same as Twelve, with his own defensive walls. But for reasons unknown to the readers they were sworn enemies from the start of the book (My guess is that Five tried saying something a little snarky to her and Twelve blew up, thus creating their long-lasting, pure and utter loathing of the other). In contrast to Twelve, however, his walls aren’t to cover his despair at losing all he’s ever loved, but to cover for his lack of confidence in himself. the first inkling we get of him maybe not being truly horrid and a dick on the inside is in the dungeons, where he tells Twelve how to escape and from there she lets him out too. he isn’t used to people being kind to him. he also does not enjoy talking about his feelings. when Twelve and Five finally befriend each other, she tries to bring up his feelings about Six yet is unspecifically rejected every time. after reuniting with Indigo, he tells her to “stop being nice, it’ll only make it worse”, only calming when Zenith changes the subject. he isn’t used to talking about his feelings and he doesn’t want to feel worse in the moment if he were to he let everything out to his friends, even if it means making him feel better in the long-run. he lacks foresight clearly. this unwillingness to discuss his emotions obviously comes from the feeling of unsafety and anger with Indigo after his mother died, since the boy and his father had never gotten along. i can already tell this is going to be the longest paragraph istg. Five felt lesser than from the beginning, his father had always thought his little brother was better than him and in the inevitable comparisons that would’ve came from it would’ve sprouted the feeling of being inferior. so in a way Finral’s bsckstory kinda reminds me of Five’s. eventually Five was threatened with his father murdering him if he didn’t leave the clan, because only the first heir could be chief and Five would have to die for his little brother to become chief which was what Indigo wanted, yadda yadda. he tries not to seem weak still in front of his friends, even though they won’t judge him he refuses to be vulnerable at all. he completely denies any fear of magic, despite being terrified of it - although I’d rather call it the fear of the unknown than fear of magic, seeing as he isn’t afraid of his friends’. when he is offered the potion thingy to protect him from being wounded by Twelve, he responds in anger, accusing her of thinking he’s weak. this is probably just his own thoughts about himself taken out, since when Six is taken he’s left as the only one of his friends without magic.

i think i should probably end it there before I run out of thoughts to think forever thanks for reading guys if you could be bothered I don’t blame you if not

yeah contrary to popular belief I actually do like Five I just like him so much that I hate him and want to bully him

i decided to call them by their number names because I’m lazy and i prefer them

this was made late at night and without rereading and purely out of my own memory so if there’s any mistakes I’m sorry

also five and six were better than five and reed argue with a wall but there’s gonna be no arguments anyway so idk who I’m talking to oki bye

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if phoenix and zenith were chronically online what do you think they would comment as a hate comment need urgent answers thanks love you

[lirri-eats-eyes]

Phoenix: Scum of the earth. Waste. Weakling. It is only due to the nature of this cruel and incomprehensible world that a stain such as you would continue to live when greater and more deserving heroes have passed. I wonder what crime your mother or father committed that such a coward might share their name. You are nothing. Whatever you may do is worth nothing. Also kys

Zenith: 340.1.2.9 i am in your walls

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i coloured them in Ü

[bitchthefuck1]

...did Kuwei get a share of the ice court heist money? I kind of subconsciously assumed he did without thinking about it, but they never say he does and the math doesn't add up. He was literally going through all of that for free.

[starsandscars81]

kuwei yul-bo shows that it was indeed, a skill issue on leo valdez’s part

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SOC and CK allegories for the queer characters (and other thoughts)

I was going to make a separate blog to yell about books but I decided to do it here.

I AM NOT DONE CROOKED KINGDOM AT THE TIME OF WRITING THIS SO EVERYTHING I SAY IS HAVING ONLY READ HALF THE BOOK SO FAR.

The Grishaverse doesn't seem to have any form of homophobia, but SOC and CK are chalk fulllllllll of what I can only see as plots that mimic queer experiences for the queer characters in the main group.

We have four queer characters (that I know of at the moment): Jesper, Wylan, Nina, Kuwei.

So let's start with the obvious, three of the four are Grisha. Obviously not all Grisha are queer, but all the Grisha in the party are. This gives them an automatic plotline of "hide who you are".

It could be said that since Nina is Ravkan she wasn't raised that way, and no, she wasn't. However since leaving Ravka she has been forced to hide for her safety, and not only that but she is frequently told she's "too much" which sounds a lot to me like what some people say about queer people when they think queer people should be less queer. Also Matthias is all about being "traditional" and "proper" and Nina's whole thing is that she is neither. Traditional and proper sound a lottttt like some people's arguments to be homophobic.

Jesper's I think is rather obvious. His father has a clear concern for his son being Grisha since it can put your life at risk. In Jesper's argument with his dad he goes off and asks his dad why did he never let him go to Ravka where he could be himself and learn about himself and his powers. Oh not to mention the fact that him and his dad talk around him being Grisha like it's some sort of virus that can be caught by simply speaking the word.

Kuwei's took a second to hit me but when it did I was like "ah yep, makes sense" and this is probably because it took me a hot second to realize Kuwei was queer. Yeah, apparently him being jealous that Jesper only looked at Wylan a certain way didn't tip me off... ANYWAY THOUGH. Kuwei is also told to hide who he is, but his dad goes the extra length of literally making a drug to help him hide himself. Is it giving anyone else Dorian's dad from Dragon Age vibes??? Blood magic for the gay son???

FINALLY, I will talk about my baby, the character I love more than anything else. Wylan. Here's the thing about Wylan, while I was reading SOC I wasn't sure if homophobia existed in this world yet and I was half convinced that his dad disowned him because gay. While his dad obviously didn't do that, I still think at the end of the day it portrays an experience that is very similar. Wylan is shamed, hidden, and ultimately his dad tries to have him killed, all because he can't read. His dad loathes him over such a stupid reason, especially since Wylan is absolutely brilliant at tons of stuff and the cutest lil guy. But I think it's that hatred of his son over something so trivial that really lends itself to being about something else entirely, Wylan being queer.

All four of our queer characters in the main group have different plots, but ultimately they all circle around the idea of hiding who you are and being ashamed of who you are. That sounds like a very common queer experience if you ask me.

I don't know if this was intentional or just a huge coincidence. As a writer myself I am all too aware of how easily accidental metaphors and symbols can happen. But I think about it a lot as I'm reading so I wanted to shout about it either way. I also have no clue if this is a common idea or not, I just know when I pointed it out to my friends who had read the books prior, one of who loves and reads them yearly, they both kinda went "oh damn, you right," but didn't see it before I mentioned it.

Anyway, if I missed things (or you wanna yell at me about how wrong I am, which is usually the more likely option) I'd love to know thoughts :)

AND BONUS THOUGHTS

This one is super obvious but I just wanna say it. Jesper is ADHD and no one will change my mind in the history of ever. This man cannot sit still, has been described as having limitless energy, and he seeks constant immediate gratification in the form of gambling and adrenalin rushes. COME ON MAN. I know I know, there's a lore reason, something something Grisha not using magic blah blah. No. No. He is ADHD and you cannot tell me otherwise. And I love him dearly.

Also, not a theory or anything but, y'all, I love Wylan so much. I just wanna give him a hug and a lollipop and tell him it's okay. He's so cute.

[lirri-eats-eyes]

yeah i think this all rings pretty true. tbf it's easy to apply a framework of "power that is persecuted and therefore must be hidden" to a queer reading, but jesper's narrative with his dad is defenitely deliberate, what with the line "it's killing me...just slowly" (paraphrased). It's the way his father reacts at his core with the intention of protecting jesper, but he buys into the narrative that people "born as grisha" are predisposed to a life of pain and hiding, therefore telling his son to hide something about himself that is literally killing him. we are told that grisha usually have shorter lifespans if they are unable to use their powers, not being able to grow old and. yeah :(

[lirri-eats-eyes]

actually going back to this, i only have one disagreement with this post.

"The Grishaverse doesn't seem to have any form of homophobia;" i was conflicted about this because on one hand, this could just be a product of bardugo having to work within our society's already-heternormative standards to give the story structure and make it understandable for readers, but on the other hand, i think bardugo deserves more credit than that. i think there are deliberate instances of the characters or society showing homophobia that add to the story's overall setting.

im going to list some examples here, and then maybe try to analyze why they exist in the end

example number 1:

(bear with me i don't have access to the first book currently) but jesper talks about "flirting with girls" while bonding with wylan, who is more of a stranger that the crows are holding at arm's length at this moment. after wylan asks "only girls?" jesper grins and amends his statement, saying no, not only girls. this could hypothetically just be a product of a society that accepts queerness but where heterosexuality happens to outnumber any other type of attraction, but this could also be jesper testing the waters because he knows wylan is a) a stranger and b) a son of a merch. i think that with the second interpretation we can set up the idea that queerness is generally seen as "less high class" and that maybe those in the crow gang don't really give a shit (and perhaps embrace it as something that seperates them from the upper crust), but wealthier people in power do in fact care.

example number 2:

wylan's status as van eck's heir is pretty important to the plot (and VERY important to van eck). i figure a society that puts so much weight on heirs and family name probably has difficulty being normal about relationships where reproduction cannot occur. although, wylan never "comes out" to his father and we can't see his reaction (and never really displays any anxiety about coming out as much as he displays anxiety about his dyslexia [?] being revealed) so that might be something that discredits this evidence. in any case, even if homophobia doesn't exist in this society to the extent that it exists here, i have not trouble imagning van eck mocking wylan for another thing he can't do (have a biological heir with jesper)

example number 3:

again, an example of how straight interactions are kinda seen as the norm (and again could be written off as them just being more common in this universe). however, the other point that matters is that matthias's society has specific standards for different gender roles. i don't think it's impossible for a society to have split gender roles while also being normal about gender-queerness, but i think bardugo also knows well enough that matthias's explanation of Fjerdan gender roles can be reflected in the Real World. i personally think that we are supposed to read his and the broader Fjerdan values as pretty sexist without necessarily drawing direct comparisons to any specific culture, even though one can be tempted to with the way the grishaverse nations are introduced. that all to say, i think Fjerdan culture, with the way matthias explains it, would not take too kindly to trans people.

fourth example, tw for sexual assault.

example number 4:

this is when inej describes her indentured work at tante heleen's. a man gets upset that he cannot "perform" (likely referring to his body not 'properly' reacting to inej's) and hits her to vent his frustration at himself because he sees her as an object. setting aside the horror of this scene, this implies that on some level, there is shame that comes with a man not being able to have sex with a woman. this could be a high-ranking man, which refers back to van eck's obsession with producing an heir, or this could just be an average man, which means on some level lack of attraction to the opposite sex could mean some sort of shame

those are all the examples i remember. i think it's no mistake that bardugo usually uses examples of straight relationships being expected or strict gender roles to describe the oppressive cultures or people she wrote. i also think it's no mistake that she does not write characters "making a big deal" out of jesper, wylan, kuwei, or nina's queerness; i think this is her using fantasy as the venue for escapism that it usually is, while also managing to tackle real-world issues in metaphor.

[demonictumble]

we as a society do not acknowledge how iconic kuwei is.

Bro finessed a kiss from his unrequited crush by being manipulative and did not really care when caught. AND HE KNEW IT WAS MEANT FOR WYLAN

not to mention his doodles of Jesper in the notebooks that he's using to try to remember all the stuff about this drug that his father created and then died.

Kuwei you're so iconic and I could never hate you. my favorite disaster of a fifteen year old

[fricklefracklefloof]

i keep forgetting to post on tumblr but here’s kuwei with fire type pokemon for @wafflesandkruge :)

[image description: a digital drawing of kuwei yul-bo sitting against a pale yellow background with a darker yellow diagonal square behind him. he wears blue clothing with fire embroidery on it. kuwei is east asian with tan skin, short dark hair, and golden eyes. he holds one hand out with smoke coming out of his finger with a cyndaquil resting on his arm. a charmander is asleep in his lap, and fuecoco is standing beside him and looking up at him]

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I am cringe but I am powerful >:) These were meant to be quick little sketches but then I had too much fun w them and spent like 2 days drawing this oop

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[lirri-eats-eyes]

i guess my thing about kuwei ties with the broader thing i have about comedy in the (fiction) books i read. like i think it's a necessary tool that's usually overlooked in most people's evaluations of scenes and more broadly the quality of the book.

at least in my experience (not something ive actually collected data on) ppl are more comfortable analyzing character dynamics, plot, worldbuilding, or even pacing, but humor almost never takes a center stage on any review. and it's not like i think humor is the only thing one should take into account, but then again, i think that none of the previously listed topics should be the only thing compelling about a book either. i think that humor is integral to most of the word space in the six of crows books, and it keeps the reader engaged and endears them too the characters -- it also plays a more utile role in distinguishing the voices of each of the characters, because they can all be funny in different ways. i would say jesper, nina, or kaz are the ones most often cracking jokes (with the former two historically doing so to mask discomfort, while kaz does it for that reason and to build up a callous persona by making more tasteless jokes or deflecting care from his friends*) but almost everyone engages in sarcasm, irony, or being the subject of the joke. and, bardugo's comedic timing is excellent. i wish the word people use to judge comedy were more mainstream in general, actually.

and then there's the whole thing with genres. i have no clue what genre six of crows is. uh. fantasy? is heist a type of genre? i don't think anyone would really classify it as a comedy, but there are certain books that fill every crack with comedy (percy jackson, the mysterious benedict society) whereas others kind of maintain a different sort of tone, or perhaps link together scenes of one specific high emotion with a different type of entertainment. it's not really a distinction one makes, even if one book has a consistent tongue-in-cheek tone while the other is more serious. they're both just defined by the other "main" genres they occupy.

i guess what im trying to say is i hope everyone in six of crows breaks up, actually. i hope jesper, wylan, and kuwei have a dramatic and played-out love triangle blowout to rival twilight. i hope kaz and inej get more repressed and attend couples councilling run by nina who keeps flirting with inej. i hope matthias comes back from the dead, prompting kaz into a sexuality crisis, because kaz keeps talking about "flirting with death" but now it's For Real this time. i hope Van Eck's new scheme is to seduce the rich jurda farmer Johannes Rietveld and talk his way back into the market, and jesper and wylan legitimately have to worry about being stepbrothers by association. kuwei uses this as part of his dating portfolio btw.**

i think there's only so much you can do by going against the grain of how a book wants you to interpret something. chapter 24 of crooked kingdom is supposed to be funny. it's supposed to be an oopsie that puts jesper in the hot seat and undercuts his previous bravado and establishes kuwei as bolder than we'd initially guessed, but that's it.

*i guess im coming to the cursed realization that kaz would absolutely crush being a modern-day comedian that complains about cancel culture ruining comedy. but y'know. he has his own stuff to deal with. i forgive him

**this is sarcasm. my point is "i wish a scene could be justified with 'it was funny and it didn't destroy the plot or characterization' and require no further explanation, because six of crows is already rife with humor (especially the darker or more uncomfortable kind) and to single this (chapter 24) scene out as being ridiculous or especially ouf-of-place is, in my opinion, missing the point"

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soc doodle dump including them in animal crossing

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I'm tired of wanting more

some extra doodles