when did reality become this terrifying?

Madhav / 17

[madhulogy]

the crows on a scientology building raid. is this anything

[killjoys-make-some-noise130]

PLEASE. I GOTTA WRITE THAT SHIT

[madhulogy]

please do and tag me in it <33333

[gabeofcrows]

im so obsessed with the idea that kaz just reads everything for wylan, but in such a natural way that everyone forgets that it's because wylan can't read, and kaz kind of forgets that everyone else can read

kaz bringing in the newspaper saying 'look at this', slamming the paper down on the table for for everyone to see and announces the headline 'pekka rollins shits himself in the harbour'. it's just instinctual to read it out, even though everyone else at the table can read what it says

kaz going to restaurants with the crows and handing wylan a menu saying 'they've got that herb chicken you like'. then he scans it again and points to a couple of things that he also knows wylan likes, and it's so causal and conversational and wylan doesn't feel scrutinised, or as though he's being looked after

(kaz also starts point out things the others like before remembering that they can read the menu and then just stops talking)

kaz and wylan going to coffee shops and kaz goes 'what do you think you're gonna get' before they get there so that wylan doesn't panic inside the shop. and he doesn't leave room for wyan to ask him to read things out, because kaz knows he hates doing that. so they go and kaz just says 'you want syrup in your coffee? they've got vanilla, caramel, or hazelnut'

and it's just so easy and instinctual. it makes wylan feel normal, because being read to isnt a big part of what's going on. kaz just manages to easily slip it into conversation without thinking, as though he does it with everyone

(now imagine wylan isn't there and kaz begrudgingly gets waffles with another member of the dregs (he's getting soft) and immediately goes 'what sort of syrup do you like? because they've got apple, strawberry or chocolate, but it does say you can get a mix' and the dreg is like 'i know? the menu is right in front of me?' and kaz just kind of realises that he doesn't even think about doing it anymore)

(also imagine him getting a letter and some of the higher ranked dregs need to know about it, and instead of just giving them it to read, kaz starts just reading it out, and all of the other dregs are like 'isn't it easier is we just read it ourselves?' and kaz just pauses and wonders when he actually started hanging out with wylan so much that he's the only person he knows how to talk to)

[madhulogy]

the cure to reading slumps is a 100k fic of your favorite ship. btw

[madhulogy]

Rath Roiben Rye. Good night

[madhulogy]

the crows on a scientology building raid. is this anything

[beanstalk-guy]

Ok but what if this is everything

Kaz brings about the crows and explains the plan. They get in, find confidential info, get out, sell the information for a fortune.

That night, while Wylan is studying TikToks for map drawing, Jesper is deciding to wear a fucking ugly suit with Christmas lights all over it to the raid(he’s just excited to be doing a Scientology speedrun). Wylan warns against it. To no one’s surprise, he wears it anyway

Kaz looks kind of disappointed, but moves on anyway. Nina distracts the guards, and the others are able to get in. She later follows Kaz, who’s picking locked doors and making thorough recordings of faculty only rooms, while Jesper, Wylan, and Matthias continue the way. Jesper and Matthias are recording, while Wylan is finishing the map. Jesper is using his fabrikation abilities to break all of the security cameras and is Wylan’s night light.

They find a dead end room, and Matthias & Wylan get caught, but they’re wearing business casual and are also fucking white so they’re assumed to be new, very lost staff and get a tour of a lot of the more tame rooms.

Almost miraculously, they hear someone else before they find Jesper, though. He continues recording everything, sees some heinous shit, gets caught by the infamous Shannon at the final floor. She looks at him, this black guy in some ridiculous outfit, and assumes that he’s a troublemaking teenager, takes his camera and escorts him out.

On the way, they pass Nina and Kaz, who understand it’s time to bolt. Near the same time, Wylan and Matthias have finished their tour and are at the entrance.

They recount their info, and Jesper reveals that they took his camera, feels kind of guilty. HOWEVER, Kaz reveals they knew this was going to happen because of course he did.

Earlier, the night before, he told Inej to make sure Jesper gets to the final floor, and then let him get caught because he’d never be able to find his way back. He then told Wylan to warn him against wearing his ugly ass suit, but not enough to convince to actually not wear it. He was then to install three hidden cameras on it. Kaz really wanted to use those because he knew Jesper would definitely get his camera snatched like an idiot, but the tiny cameras lit up red and he didn’t know how to hide them AND have them get enough light in darker rooms until Jesper let slip that he was looking for a reason to wear this too-much outfit he got for Christmas. What better way to hide lights than around other lights?

They gather the information and collect it into a document file. It looks like a cute and bubbly Canva slide on paper because Nina organized it.

No idea what possessed me to do this

All my moots are into theater

This is for literally fucking no one

[madhulogy]

it's okay babe it doesn't have to be for anyone. it's for us i love this i love you for making this im going to write all of this down in my media journal youre amazing

[gilmores-glorious-blog]

this post has a target audience of exactly one person (me) but it’s actually crazy insane how much edouard from castlevania nocturne looks like percy from the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue

[cutetanuki-chan]

Commission for @dearestdarling-loveofloves

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[what-the-cap-dude]

Sweet tap-dancing baby Jesus, this is almost exactly how I imagine them

[firellily]

HES BEEN 18 THIS WHOLE TIME??

I THOUGHT HE WAS LIKE 22

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

HES NOT SUPER CHILDISH

HES A LITERAL BABY

[spending-life-pretending]

Monty, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue / Adrian, The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

oh montague brothers we’re really in it now

[gabeofcrows]

sorry but im obsessed with wylan and kaz's post-ck dynamic.

kaz randomly shows up outside wylan's bedroom window and scares him. wylan's sends tidbits of info about the merchers from his meetings to kaz. kaz writes letters to jesper and includes drawings for wylan, depicting a heist with stick figures. kaz taking wylan to university lectures because he's always wanted to go but was scared of people finding out that he was 'defective' and kaz taking notes for him for jesper to read back. wylan doing the crow club expenses when kaz has a big job to take on.

kaz being the first person that wylan tells about his father trying to kill him the first time, and the whole musical school in belendt hoax. because even though he knows that jesper will be kind and caring about it, something in him wants kaz to be the first to know, since he first told kaz he couldn't read. wylan and kaz sitting in kaz's office, in the dark, as wylan recounts the whole story. kaz sitting in silence for a while after, then saying 'my brother died when I was nine'. and wylan being shocked but not showing it before saying 'tell me about him'. and kaz slowly talking about jordie and the farm and the money swindle. kaz speaking until he's hoarse and wylan not saying anything. kaz not saying thr name of who killed his brother, but wylan knowing it was pekka anyway. kaz and wylan staring out at the sky as wylan puts two and two together of why kaz doesn't want to touch people, that brekker probably isn't his real name. both kaz and wylan realising that they've both had such a similar experience, almost drowning and being reborn in the barrel, and both of them being the first person that the other confides in.

wylan eventually passing out because he's tired, and waking up to find kaz's coat draped over him, and a note that has a little stick figure with a cane and an arrow pointing outside, to let wylan know he's gone out. and at the bottom, the same stick figure with his stick cane, another arrow showing him coming back inside, and a time, to show when he'll return. and wylan turns over the note to find a little drawing of two stick figures, one taller with a cane, the other smaller with curly hair. and they're kind of hugging and wylan knows it's a thank you.

kaz and wylan never really speaking about it again, but having an unspoken agreement that if the other ever needs anything, they'll be right there for each other.

[h3rmitian]

now that i am rereading the secret history i think the most unsettling thing about the book is richard himself. we do not see richard evolve as a character, we see him slowly unravel his personality. in contrast to the others, he is not a character that bent under pressure or had his development related directly to bunny’s death. in fact, i believe his revelation was destined to happen regardless of bunny. reading the book that way, it is very disturbing to realise how little the murder mattered to him. richard was very creepy from the start. through all of his interactions we get that he seemed very indifferent and nonchalant, though we knew how obsessed he had gotten about joining that particular group, and how strangely watchful he was of them. he was very secretive, and other than the fact that his parents were not really interested in him, he did not tell us much. but i think it is interesting that even when he decided to reveal himself, he unconsciously hid his thoughts in very big sentences, like when he mentioned that he squeezed a little chicken to death or that his former gf said he frightened her. there are specs in part i where he takes things personally and gets unreasonably irritated, but in part ii and especially toward the end, he becomes someone else, someone so unapologetically angry and aggressive. i think richard had always been like that and what triggered him, making his true self come out, was when he understood that after all his desperate attempts to belong to the group, to be one of them , the others never really saw him as a part, they didn’t trust him (i read bunny’s murder and his willing participation as his carmen cygni). it shows in the way he gradually changed his perception of them, particularly camilla, and the anger he released when trying to extract what was left. and donna tartt is such an incredible writer that, though the reader senses that something is off with him, cannot exactly point it out. until of course the moment that camilla visited him, which i believe is for a first time reader is the most awakening moment in the entire book. it is very scary that maybe for the first time, richard said exactly what he was thinking without filtering it, without understanding that what he said hit so bluntly and so violently in relation to who he had been presented as, and it is very important that he showed absolutely no remorse.

[madhulogy]

the crows on a scientology building raid. is this anything

[madhulogy]

the crows on a scientology building raid. is this anything

[madhulogy]

the crows on a scientology building raid. is this anything

[moderatelylostsoul]

Jesper is yelling and shouting parkour as he dodges people, Wylan is behind him trying to memorize the layout so he can draw it, Matthias is trying to convince some workers that cults aren’t the answer, Inej is on her fourth lap of the building, Kaz isn’t even trying to map the place, he’s just robbing them blind, and Nina is flirting with Shannon

[madhulogy]

*wipes tear* beautiful

[madhulogy]

the crows on a scientology building raid. is this anything

[sculpturedepoet]

[mysteryofvampires]

Maybe that's just me, but I hate the term "og crows" for Kaz, Inej, and Jesper because yes they were interacting with each other before the actual events of the series but they didn't were the crows then! It's called six of crows for a fucking reason because every character is important! These three are no og crows because the crows only become the crows when they all came together, and I think it's just a dumb thing to say.

[action-and-echo]

You’ve heard of Six of Crows, get ready for Three of Dregs: wherein a quiet, foreign, intensely traumatised, newly 15 year old girl unintentionally befriends her two worst, most sibling-bickering-like, most mentally unstable male coworkers. Why? Because one of them is hot and one of them is kind. And it’s sort of a package deal apparently.