aggressively running toward an existential crisis... and books

book and writing nerd :)

[lucidgorgonmoonlight]

In honor of the second season of Shadow and Bone (and the Crows, specifically), my friend asked me what country Fjerda corresponds to if Ravka is Russia. I responded that Fjerda must be a fictionalized version of Scandinavia (the internet supports me).

If Scandinavia is Norse... I say Nina mirrors the goddess Hel. Why, you ask?

*spoilers for Six of Crows and Nikolai's duology*

Like Hel, whose split face represents the duality of life and death, Nina's time as a heartrender connects her to life, while her command over death connects her to, well, death. Her marriage to Hanne provides her with a kingdom to sort of rule. Additionally, look at the overall history of Fjerda: in the books we see some hints at old pagan roots before Djel became popular (reminiscent of Christianity because of one main god and the witch hunters/inquisitors) before the Grisha (aka Nina) caused Fjerdans to question the truth of their religious leaders. Similarly, Scandinavia experienced a pagan, then Christian, then sort of pagan resurgence timeline. Nina heralding the resurgence connects her to religion, solidifying her potential mirror to Hel. Nina is elevated to more than mortal status by her legendary actions, both for the people (see: the dam) and her interactions with the Fjerdan queen and its prince.

I rest my case.

[bitegore]

i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

[mirrorbird]

this is GENUINELY one of the best character development sheets I've ever seen. Cuts right to the core of what you and your readers will glom onto, doesn't waste time on details that don't directly affect the narrative. Stupendous. Effervescent. Finally, some good fucking food

[the-prince-of-the-ravens]

The Locked Tomb and The Poppy War parallel each other in ways that should be illegal

Gideon the Ninth // Tamsyn Muir

The Burning God // R. F. Kuang

[lucidgorgonmoonlight]

Suddenly I am very scared for Harrow the Ninth.

[lucidgorgonmoonlight]

Who would win in a fight (The Poppy War Edition)?

Rin

Jiang

the indomitable urge to ignore your bad decisions/past (including your exes)

opium

eternal r a g e

Voting ended onMar 15, 2023

[lucidgorgonmoonlight]

If I don't read the next installment soon, a necromancer will be needed to resurrect me.

[ephemeralzenith-deactivated2025]

TPW headcanons

i miss them so much(spoilers ahead)

if they were in the modern world, altan and rin would wear glasses and everyone would make fun of them. they would actually have abysmal eyesight even though they are super cool warriors.

also modern world; altan would be so technologically illiterate that everyone would make fun of him. hes like a grandpa, and rin (+ ramsa) would be obsessed with her phone. this is the only place nezha and altan would agree on!!! neither can use their phones and would have to ask rin and chaghan/the cike to help

altan and rin squabble like siblings over the dumbest stuff and then get over it in the next hour after swearing to everyone that they hate each other and would never talk to each other again. -> everyone is sick of their shit

conversely, nezha and altan also love fighting over shit!! altan mistrusts nezha bc.. yk, and nezha does not trust altan bc.. yk!! and rin is so done with them and she starts arguing with them too

kitay loves snakes and this freaks nezha out

altan has a phobia of spiders (i saw this somewhere else and it made sense)

ramsa and kitay are best friends. they are the chaotic duo. imagine it though… ramsa’s destructiveness and kitay’s gigantic brain. cross one of them and your room will smell like shit for the next three years.

qara and venka best friends!!!! i dont have any reasoning for this but they would be and gossip about everyone

altan and chaghan

during exam season, kitay would make fun of everyone else not being able to study easily like he can (not everyone can have a photographic memory, ok???) and everyone would tell him to shut the fuck up (he would not)

“haha i dont know how you guys do it!!! like having to memorise things after sooo long,, must be a struggle”

“THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME KITAY PLEASE SHUT UP I DONT KNOW THIS SUNZI QUOTE”

until a year before he went to sinegard, nezha didnt know how to swim. i know that it very uncanon but i would find it so funny if nezha (water boy) did not know how to swim

obviously his parents would not be very happy with him. poor nezha, cant catch a break…

altan may appear to be tough and cool and sexy (i love him) but he has the most childish sense of humour. sex jokes etc etc, and rin would have such a distaste for this they would start arguing again.

altan is also so soft on the inside. if any of qara’s birds were injured he would stay up to help them no matter what!!! altan trengsin - murderer, killer and the protector of birds <3

after he dies and rin melts down his trident, he would be so pissed at her for destroying his legacy yada yada yada, but would probably forgive her

chaghan was devastated when rin destroyed the trident. he wanted it because it was the last piece of altan :(

however nezha would probably sleep with those swords after rin dies.

kitay and rin would share a tombstone in arlong, to be joined by nezha after he dies… probably bc of the hesperians lol

altan and rin have a tombstone in speer. even though nezha hated altan, he would make one for him.

‘here lies altan trengsin and fang runin, the last speerlies, under the heart of the phoenix that they followed home - everything changes on speer’

unegen and enki visited them. idk where they went off too after leaving the cike, but i like to believe they lived, and found speer.

nezha and chaghan regularly visited speer to pay tribute to their speerly bros that died and that they loved lol. once they saw each other and they were like ‘oh you too?’.

i feel like jiang knew (even subconsciously) that rin was his daughter and loved her as such :( he also loved his nephew altan but couldnt protect either.

rin and nezha have opposite music tastes

kitay hates music because it hurts his head

I MISS THEM SO MUCH. if someone wants to talk about tpw i am here 25/8/365

[jurdanhell]

that one twitter au

Episode I | Episode II | Episode III | Episode IV | Episode V

Masterlist

madoc making shitty supernatural edits is CANON. no i will not elaborate

Tag List:

@cutekawaiihentaiboobies @cardan-greenbriar-tcp @slightlyrebelliouswriter23 @whoviantalibah @snusbandxknifewife @goddess-of-writing @storiesandschemes @thesirenwashere @aelin-queen-of-terrasen @andromeddea @clockworkgraystairs @hizqueen4life @highqueenjudeduarte @the-chick-of-the-air @dorkzrul @sassylunars @justabunchoffandoms @queenofgreenbriar @fandomfanatic987 @df3ndyr @brittneyal @woodsbeyond1 @clouds-and-peonies @mis-lil-red @firestarsandseneschals @b00kworm @bisexual-bibliophile @greenbumblebee @danaanruhn @acciomanorian @ireallyshouldsleeprn @vanessa172003 @janeslandrys @potterpasties @nahthanks @ahdiejajdjsiaksudijssj @queen-of-demons-and-hell @thefolkofthefic @myunfortunatenightmare @reneereadsstuff @lordoftermites @figonas @aftg-tcp-soc4402 @dumble-daddy @greenbriarxrose @shadowhuntingdemigod @pollyaunt @kittkatandbooboo @savagelysarcasticsilence @romantic-loverr @teenyweenynightghost @bookcide

[snusbandxknifewife]

Rip egg madoc you will be missed

[jurdanhell]

honestly i’m gonna make one of vivid obituarieth just for egg madoc

[lucidgorgonmoonlight]

I had to memorize a list of words for a test, and my sleep-deprived brain decided to create the mnemonic device:

Please Punch The Ill Mannered Cardan.

I am a fucking academic weapon.

[tyaz]

What do you mean killing isn't an act of devotion

[alleycatboy]

they call it committing murder because it's a commitment. it's a more serious commitment than marriage

[tyaz]

What do you mean killing isn't an act of devotion

[alleycatboy]

they call it committing murder because it's a commitment. it's a more serious commitment than marriage

[tyaz]

What do you mean killing isn't an act of devotion

[alleycatboy]

they call it committing murder because it's a commitment. it's a more serious commitment than marriage

[tyaz]

What do you mean killing isn't an act of devotion

[alleycatboy]

they call it committing murder because it's a commitment. it's a more serious commitment than marriage

[lucidgorgonmoonlight]

I had to memorize a list of words for a test, and my sleep-deprived brain decided to create the mnemonic device:

Please Punch The Ill Mannered Cardan.

I am a fucking academic weapon.

[lucidgorgonmoonlight]

I had to memorize a list of words for a test, and my sleep-deprived brain decided to create the mnemonic device:

Please Punch The Ill Mannered Cardan.

I am a fucking academic weapon.

[lucidgorgonmoonlight]

I had to memorize a list of words for a test, and my sleep-deprived brain decided to create the mnemonic device:

Please Punch The Ill Mannered Cardan.

I am a fucking academic weapon.

[lucidgorgonmoonlight]

I had to memorize a list of words for a test, and my sleep-deprived brain decided to create the mnemonic device:

Please Punch The Ill Mannered Cardan.

I am a fucking academic weapon.

[lucidgorgonmoonlight]

I had to memorize a list of words for a test, and my sleep-deprived brain decided to create the mnemonic device:

Please Punch The Ill Mannered Cardan.

I am a fucking academic weapon.