syd !!

⋆˚꩜ fanfic writer & lover of media ⋆˚꩜ shauna shipman’s biggest supporter

[mantiswitch]

Hateeee when someone lists reasons they prefer a ship over another or why they don’t like a certain ship and the comments are “baby’s first fandom!” “Ever been in a fandom before?” LIKE OH MY GOD I CAN EXPRESS AN OPINION??? Disliking one ship does NOT mean I’m inexperienced in fandom culture…..

[subplotsideshow]

Morally grey fictional man this and morally grey fictional man that.

Blah blah blah.

I haven't seen a truly morally grey fictional man since Kaz Brekker.

[saraespa]

I just hate how people tend to soften or romanticize the Darkling, justifying his traumas or good motivations. Like, DUDE, this man is evil. Yes, at one point in his life, he was a good person with good intentions, like making the Grisha respected and accepted. BUT he became corrupted over the years, and after using merzost, he's a horrible person, and Bardugo reinforces this several times in KoS and RoW. This is the same man who willingly let Genya be raped, encouraged Zoya directly and indirectly to be a bad person, manipulated a 17-year-old Alina who was clearly desperate for love, BLINDED his own MOTHER, punished and killed several people and THE GRISHAS THEMSELVES. HE KILLED THE PEOPLE HE SWORE TO PROTECT, it's in the books, he is not a good person, he doomed Ravka and the Grisha. In KoS, we see the destruction he caused in Ravka and how the Grisha continue to be frowned upon and die, and indirectly, he helped the enemies of Ravka and Grisha grow stronger and go after them. If it weren't for Nikolai, Zoya, Genya, and everyone else, there would be no Ravka, no Grisha. It doesn't matter if he was once good—he was—but focus on this: he WAS good, he HAD good motives, he tried to fight for the right reasons, but he was corrupted and took everyone with him in that corruption.

Yes, Darkling is an extremely complex character, but he is a villain, a very well-constructed villain. THAT is his nature. There is no gentle, weak soul struggling to escape his cruelty. He is cruel, accept that.

*Unfortunately, I had to add the anti-Darkling tag because people were crying in my comments, but I appreciate him as a character and I LOVE reading about him, like I was extremely happy when that bastard came back. But God forgive anyone who points out that the villain of the franchise is a villain.

[starsandscars81]

It really bothers me how people have no problem acknowledging that Nikolai Lantsov is a smart, complex character who is impulsive and jokes around but when JESPER FAHEY does it SUDDENLY he’s “comedic relief” and “not as smart as the rest of the characters”

[dasiesanddarkness]

“A fell first B fell harder” no. they are equally as down bad. both would tear the world apart with their bare hands for the other. there is utter devotion in both their eyes when they look at the other. they both fell so hard they left a looney tunes style indent in the ground.

[dragonqueenstormwitch]

propaganda i’m not falling for:

mal oretsev slander

‘kanej isn’t together’ allegations

kaz brekker with blue eyes (sorry mr. carter)

matthias being the ‘least interesting’ crow (there’s not one)

readers who think nina isn’t ever allowed to fall in love again

kuwei as some sort of manipulative villian

shipping nikolina when zoyalai blows every other nikolai ship ever out of the water (except malkolai) (jk) (maybe)

[mantiswitch]

There are times when I ship ShaunaHat more than JackieShauna…. OMG WHO SAID THAT????????

[cryptidstealingyourcreditcard]

i wanna see the crows with visibly different bodies and body types.

i wanna see kaz be medium/slightly below average height (around 5’6-5’7). i wanna see him with a yellow, almost green hue to his skin. i wanna see him with pox scars along with battle scars. i wanna see him with uneven hair because he can’t let anyone else close enough to cut it for him. i wanna see him be lean but muscular. i wanna see him with his R tattoo.

i wanna see inej be tiny (4’11 AT MOST). i wanna see her with actually brown skin, not just slightly darker white. i wanna see her with the broad shoulders and thick thighs and all the musculature of a trained gymnast. i wanna see her with hair slicked back with tons of gel and hairspray like a dancer. i wanna see her with a flat chest and little to no curves (as was described in the books). i wanna see her with calluses on her hands and feet.

i wanna see nina be tall (around 5’11). i wanna see her with fat rolls. i wanna see her with wide hips and a chest that gives her back pain. i wanna see her with flabby underarms and stretch marks on her legs and torso. i wanna see her with central heterochromatic eyes. i wanna see her with the body language of someone who was trained to be a soldier since childhood. i wanna see her with wavy but not curly hair. i wanna see her with beauty marks scattered all over her body.

i wanna see matthias be reasonably tall (6’0-6’3). i wanna see him with big muscles, especially on his upper half. i wanna see him with light skin and even lighter hair. i wanna see him with battle scars and wolf bite scars. i wanna see him with burn scars from the fire that destroyed his village. i wanna see him with a triangular shoulder-to-waist ratio. i wanna see him with the faintest of faint freckles across the bridge of his nose.

i wanna see jesper be unreasonably tall (6’5-6’8). i wanna see him be lanky and long-limbed. i wanna see him with the muscles of a farmer. i wanna see him with calluses on both his hands. i wanna see him with battle scars and the scars one gets from horses and cows and farm-related incidents. i wanna see him with cherry blossom and jurda bloom tattoos. i wanna see him with a wide nose and plump lips. i wanna see him have little to no curve from his shoulders to his waist to his hips. i wanna see him with stretch marks from growing so tall so fast. i wanna see him with big hands and feet. i wanna see him with his mother’s dark skin and his father’s freckles.

i wanna see wylan be short (5’5-5’6). i wanna see him be scrawny and gaunt in the way a person gets when they’ve been malnourished (he canonically had to cut new holes in his belt when he got to the barrel). i wanna see him with hair that shifts between auburn, strawberry blond, and gold depending on the lighting. i wanna see him with actually curly hair and not just waves. i wanna see him with chemical burn scars and scars from his father’s abuse. i wanna see him with thin musician’s fingers. i wanna see him absolutely covered in freckles. i wanna see him with big doe eyes and the blue-eyed stare.

[cryptidstealingyourcreditcard]

headcanon that jesper is ambidextrous

[selinabrookheimer]

jan van eck is the rare character that i straight up HATE. Like 0 redeemable qualities AT ALL. Evil demon

[mantiswitch]

Shauna isn’t just JackieShauna and Tai isn’t just TaiVan!!!!!!!

[dramatic-dolphin]

please stop writing "viscous" when you mean "vicious", it produces the weirdest mental images ever

[dramatic-dolphin]

"a viscous murder" yeah i don't want to know what that could look like

[transmasc-wizard]

it looks like the Boston Molassacre of 1919

[krakenartificer]

#and vice versa btw#i don’t know what a vicious fluid would be like#and i don’t want to find out

it looks like the Boston Molassacre of 1919

[tiktaalic]

Can I speak my truth. I don’t think Brienne is even a little gay. I think she’s a kinsey zero who false positives on everyone’s radar. I think if you dropped brienne into new age 2024 she would get treated as a lesbian in her day to day life but whenever a woman liked her she’d be like. Ummmmmmm I’m really sorry but I don’t. Feel like that. I think she’d give lesbianism the good old college try bc of the direness of her male love life and come down firmly on the side of not attracted to women. I think she is quintessential pnw woman who you think is a slam dunk homerun lesbian based on everything about her who drops the word husband on you. I think she gets clocked on sight and mentions a partner named Jaime which makes people go. Okay. Partner i know that game. Jamie easily the name of a lesbian. Easily. And then she drops the he pronouns and you go. Well. Could still be a weird lesbian. And then Jaime is a business major in a frat with generational wealth. And HE is the kinsey five in the relationship.

[batrachised]

the fact that FEMALE FRIENDSHIP is what loosened Mel up...Mel's braid came undone at the hands of a friend, she let loose thanks to the invitation of a friend, she was able to be free in the company of a friend--

[supermegahijabi]

[girlwhateverdawg]

this tweet is making me emotional she would take such good care of elmo and make sure he’s not scared and she’d hold his hand

[mantiswitch]

Is this a safe space to say I don’t hate Ogilvie…..??? He’s like a classmate to me. Or maybe a coworker