composed of stardust and salt

+chelsea | 22 | infj | she/her

[icamincon]

And if I said Mare Barrow is a beautifully written character who is not perfect, and did not deal with everything the right way, but she’s still a good person at her core and was only doing her best with the tools she was given. What then.

[0theillusion0]

the sel pov in the fourth book is gonna hit like crack cocaine in the 80's good god I can not wait

[elisegeese]

"I am the product of violence and I am the Scion of Arthur, and I don't want to be either. I just want to be me."

[writercultureis]

writer culture is knowing you're going to look back on your work and cringe but also knowing you won't improve if you don't write right now so you churn out some bullshit anyways

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

how it feels occasionally revisiting your old fandom you’re no longer a part of but all the good memories are still there. #nostalgia

[bruised-punk]

Cal's room being a museum to who he is, it's cluttered and lived in with his books and his armor and the things he's tinkering with, he can go there and decompress and shed the perfect prince persona for just a minute. While Maven's room is cold and hollow and practically empty with nothing more than a bed because without the personas, without all the masks he has no idea who he is, so in the one place where he doesn't have to pretend to be something or someone for other people, all he can do is sit on his bed, stare at the blank walls, and try to work out figure out where the mask ends and he begins.

[bruised-punk]

Maven asking his mother to remove his love and his grief for Thomas because it’s so painful and he’s drowning in it, and he’s seen what grief and love have done to his father, and he won’t be weak like his father, he won’t be anything like his father. Only for his mother’s mutilation of his mind to worsen his grief and damage his love, and in the end he still ends being just like his father, ruined by grief & love just in a different way.

[vilecemetery]

leigh bardugo has massively edited and rewritten the six of crows books and no one has noticed

or has for some reason decided not to mention it at all or let anyone else know.

I just found out something insane today. in the new dregs editions that came out for the 10th anniversary, leigh bardugo has removed any and all mention of the crows being teenagers, cut out whole sentences and completely changed quotes that are classic and very well known by fans of the six of crows duology. she’s replaced any mention of words like ‘children’ ‘boy’ ‘girl’ and ‘kids’ with ‘man’ ‘woman’ ‘grown’ etc

this is concerning, bewildering and just feels wrong for so many reasons. but besides the obvious —which is that the six protagonists of the duology being young is essential to many aspects of the plot, seeing as their world weariness and competence is a result of their experiences as children and survivors who are victims of their environment—besides even that, editing a piece of literature that’s been published and on shelves for 10 years is objectively not a good idea at all, and doesn’t at all take into account the new contexts and connotations the new wording brings.

above is an example of the original scene we know verses the new version. lots of it has changed, namely their ages, but the sentence at the end in matthas' pov doesn't even sound like him at all. her writing quality has declined noticeably and she sounds like she wrote that sentence in a rush. it makes no sense, and it's not something matthias, who knows practically nothing about the barrel, would be thinking.

and not to mention the famous line 'brekker's eyes were ancient, but he couldn't be any older then matthias' — cut out of the book completely. I do wonder what impact, effect and influence these changes will have on new readers.

this is another example. such a classic line and they cut it completely.

the entire books are like this. inej saying kaz looking seventeen is changed to kaz looking like someone's apprentice. the boy of the barrel changed to man. criminal prodigy changed to just mastermind. inej described as a woman in place of a sixteen year old girl. wylan changed from boy to young man. full scenes cut. 'jesper is zemeni but don't hold it against him' changed to ‘don’t let him wax sentimental about it’ which sounds way worse then the original.

and I don't actually own the new copies of these books, my best friend was looking at them in a bookstore and that's when we first noticed all of the changes. so I truly have no idea what else could possibly be changed besides the things I noticed as I cannot look at them for reference - the crow's physical appearance, more of the plot, other famous scenes just being cut completely, etc. if nothing else has changed, then it’s still way too much and massively changes core aspects of the books. but I do wonder. if you own the dregs special editions, I suggest looking for similar differences. I might have to write examples to express how messed up the new connotations are.

leigh now implies that jesper, an adult black man, made the right choice by handing over his share from his job to his white father to keep for you, as he cannot control himself and isn't ready to receive his own funds, as he is a mindless gambler. this is extremely different to a reckless irresponsible teenager grieving his mother and making stupid mistakes, and then deciding to make better decisions in the future with help from his parent. I'm sure you can see without me spelling it out how awful, racist and problematic the new context of jesper being a grown man makes this situation sound.

another example is matthias' childhood centrally seeing him be groomed, manipulated and indoctrinated by a nazi coded witch hunting organisation that targets grisha, an oppressed community, with the intention of torturing, burning, hanging, raping and eradicating them from the world

matthias is just turning 18 when he meets nina. he has not yet done any of these terrible things himself. he is fresh out of training and still basically a child. his views are first challenged, and he eventually breaks out of the brainwashing and mental manipulation that has been taught and instilled in him with repetition. it's not an excuse, but it's more understandable. matthias, now a grown man apparently way older then 18, has no excuse for these bigoted views as he is way more mature, has way more experience, and would have had to have done these horrific things to grisha at some point.

it feels like some sort of fever dream that six of crows was edited and re published so that these famous teenage characters (who were first written so obviously— in dialogue, actions, pov, - as teenagers) and their criminal prodigy leader were made into poorly written adults. I can put into words how much this has deeply bothered and distressed me and many other readers I've spoken to.

it's such an odd choice and makes me think it was done to soften the backlash the shadow and bone adaption received from some fans for aging up the characters in the first place.

I cannot stress this enough- leigh bardugo would edit iconic lines and change core aspects of her characters that have been around for 10 years to justify a cancelled netflix adaption of these incredibly popular and well loved books. it's odd and uncomfortable.

now, these books mean the world to me, they have quite literally got me through physical, mental and emotional childhood abuse, suicide ideation and self harm, the everyday ableism and oppression, chronic pain and disability experience, severe depression and anxiety, absolute hopelessness, work and life, etc) but the sheer absurdity of this all just outmatches my distress that it happened. it feels like some sort of hallucination becasue it's lowkey just insane. she never even mentioned she was going to do something like this?

there is just no conceivable reason for leigh bardugo to have done this secretly and quietly other then to have stopped people negatively critiquing the show or some other deeply odd notion. and with all of these changes, the new books absolutely are not the 'dregs' editions— the heart of the dregs is the young blood, 'the kids like kaz who he had brought in a organised, who worked the hardest and took the worst jobs'

they are the bad netflix adaption editions. the sympathy for terrible adult cast editions. it's troubling, clearly not a well thought out decision, and deeply bizarre. tell me others agree.

[strideofpride]

[buffy-vanserra]

Elain Archeron who is stuck out of time. Whose days and years are out of order because her thoughts are murky with the future. Elain who can't quite tell the difference between a memory and a vision, between now and then and one day.

Elain Archeron who hears things others don't: a heartbeat through stone, wings flapping. She is no longer sure what is real and what is not.

Just as the Cauldron loves her, so does the land. It cradles her footsteps and reaches after her, unfurling as she goes. Flowers bloom in her wake, then rot.

Elain Archeron who died in the Cauldron. Whose bones stretched and snapped and twisted. The face that looks back at her from the mirror is unfamiliar—an imitation of something now lost forever.

A gift, and a curse.

[viridianartsblog]

"I'm getting her back."

Another fanart that's been gathering dust for over a year. I think it was the last one I drew of Elriel.

I also have some of Elain saved!

Anyway, I hope to draw Elain and Azriel again at some point. Hopefully, we'll get some great scenes in the new book.

[rae2velaris]

“True loves kiss conquers all, even the deepest slumber.” – Sleeping Beauty

“I truly believe love conquers all – love is an incredibly powerful force, both in this world and in fantasy ones.” – Sarah J. Maas

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Elriel Month 🩷 Fairytales

This piece is inspired by the tale of Sleeping Beauty, with a slight change – the maiden rescuing the prince. We love the theory that Koschei will lure Azriel and Elain – Elain – will be the one to save him, with none other than a true love’s kiss.

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A huge thank you to (unii) for creating this gorgeous artwork. You were an angel to work with and so communicative at every step of the process 🩷

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Art by @x_x.uniii

Commissioned by @theseersgarden, @aoitavacorte, @lovelyfawnxx, @rae2velaris, & @landofthefaerie

Characters belong to @sarahjmaas

For @elriel-month

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[germaineeeeeeeeewweeeee-deactiv]

My reaction every time Mare was called “petite/tiny/small” AND ESPECIALLY “Lightning Girl”

Type of nicknames/words u only find cool when ur 14😀.

[lilyharvord]

Mare "Please I'm begging you, give me a mission and get me out of this house and away from my toddlers" Molly Barrow gets sent on a mission with Cal "I'm telling you that we are not going to have fun because we are going to be stressed the whole time about the kids" Calore cause eh we haven't had a good relationship/marriage bonding mission since before Cori. The mission is very simple, they will be gone for a maximum of 2 days. Mare insists she will be fine, and that HE is going to be the problem.

1 hour into the flight there Mare turns to him and says "Don't be mad, but we have to turn around. I miss the kids and I don't trust Kilorn to handle them."

And Cal just looks at her like this: 😑

[krushing]

See. It wasn't coincidence. It was fate.

CRASH LANDING ON YOU (2019-2020) dir. Lee Jeong-hyo

[dustofsilvera]

Eve sketches WIP

I'm sending this into the RQ fandom waters

I've had this idea to redesign RQ characters based on diferent cultures over the world

First one is Eve, inspired by japanese samurai culture mostly due to bushido code, where the katana is seen as an extension of the samurai himself. It is also a symbol of the samurai's honor and status. A samurai without his katana was considered incomplete, and losing his katana was a great shame.

[probablythebooks]

congratulations @lilyharvord on your awards!

"LilyHarvord INVENTED THE MARECAL SHIP NAME. THAT'S IT." -voter

"LilyHarvord, like I said, she is the OG and one of the PILLARS of this fandom." -voter

"Honestly Lily is just generally very iconic in every server ive been in. she and king-maven are regarded as the OG's" -voter

"lilyharvord, most well known writer" -voter

runner up for:

most witty and sassy blogger personality, Mare Barrow defender, best tags, most intimidating but admired blogger

most likely awards:

most likely to win Nortan prom queen

most likely to disappear for months and come back with a 30 slide presentation on something random