Lyralows

I yap about books. My other account was hacked. This is my new one :) I lost all my likes and reblogs 💔 tragic. Actively trying to repost everything.

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I’ve been working with more orange lately and I blame that one stupid fucking bisexual friend of mine.

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Orange you glad you know me?

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Rufus is so real, I, too, would fall in love with a curly black haired boy with glasses and crippling anxiety.

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Close enough, welcome back Wylan Van Eck and Kaz Brekker.

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Tired of people attacking white Zoya fanart. No, they're not white washing the character, or erasing her heritage. She is, canonly, white passing, that no one knew she was Suli at all. She used her mother's name, and she had her mother's skin, which is directly stated in the book.

I'm not saying to stop drawing her colored, representation is important, and it's nice to have strong, independent, p.o.c female leads. Especially when she goes on to be the queen of Ravka!

You get to decide how you Invision the character, and how you perceive them. Writing is art, it's meant to be interpretive. But stop bashing people, or shaming them, for painting what's explicitly stated. I see so much hate and criticism towards artists for painting her how she's described. Put down the keyboard, and pick up the book.

In fact, I would go on to argue, you yourself are taking away from the character by being so hateful. Her being white passing is important to her development. Her being Suli is a deep written shame of hers. It affects decisions she makes through the books, and it becomes part of her arch to embrace her culture rather than pretending it doesn't exist.

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"I asked chatgpt-"

Well I asked Wylan Van Eck, and he said not all poisons have an antidote.