a faraway memory

are we not all things? // she/her // intj

[kolarpem]

Morning Doodle: Since Zoya and Nikolai awkwardly have to play third wheel (or rejected love interest) for Alina/Mal, Genya/David, Tamar/Nadia, I figured that on Valentines Day they just go do something completely "unromantic" together. Like shopping for revolvers or reviewing border defenses.

[homophobicavatarstyle]

with age comes the knowledge that sokka is actually the best character in avatar

[korra-of-the-watertribe]

Insp.

[saintdri]

What are three Ronan outfitsTM?

This gives me a great idea for a separate post so give me a few days but until then here’s a textile paint study I did where I ended up turning the people in my references into Declan and Ronan to make it more fun

[saintdri]

Can we get a ship hug after MI?

Ok anon but which one?

sorry for the jordeclan erasure my hand got tired after ot3 but pretend it's here

[meg-ikarp]

weird raven kiddos

[calicoture]

a redraw of this art i made after reading the raven cycle almost a year ago i be having a ball on this bitch ever since!

rb prints

[imminences]

TRC EDITS FOR THE SOUL. THE GANGSEY

in that moment, blue was a little in love with all of them. their magic. their quest. their awfulness and strangeness. her raven boys.

[lunaathorne]

@fadenet characters of colour event: woc of the grishaverse (book + show canon)

but what about the rest of us? what about the nobodies and nothings, the invisible girls? // when the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.

[phy-be]

oh man. thinking about these two getting married brings me so much serotonin

[nazyalvnskys]

are we gonna ignore that sokka essentially has the bisexual bob with his hair down

[aaronstveit]

@queerpjo asked: neil josten or jesper fahey?  pride month: two/thirty canonical lgbtq+ characters

“If only you could talk to girls in equations.”                                                 There was a long silence, and then, eyes trained on the                                               notch they’d created in the link, Wylan said, “Just girls?” Jesper restrained a grin. “No. Not just girls.”

[nazyalvnskys]

all righty boys. buckle up.

to start with. this person literally claims lb made zoya a “flawless” and “perfect” character and then in the very next sentence shits on her for being rude and having a “bad attitude”... should i even call it cognitive dissonance? you’re gonna say that she has no flaws and then in the very next line identify a very real flaw she has that makes a lot of people dislike her?

next. “the most perfect, most beautiful, most amazing, best, most powerful woman in the entire world, and everyone bows down to her because she's already a queen even without a crown”? where in kos does anyone bow down to zoya as if she’s a “queen without a crown?” some characters acknowledge her authority and respect her for her power, but where is this supposed senseless worship of zoya that this person is describing? zoya states in her own pov that the people of ravka wouldn’t want her as a queen because they don’t trust her. yuri literally exists as a character and is constantly challenging zoya in her beliefs; juris and elizaveta exist and continually challenge her to challenge herself. nina says that she hates taking orders from zoya and definitely doesn’t “fall at her feet.” in her brief interactions with the rest of the triumvirate, the twins, and nadia, there’s nothing to indicate that they view each other as anything other than equals.

“Now not only is she the wittiest, most beautiful of them all, but she is also literally the most powerful Grisha.” did they... read the book? the point of zoya learning her new powers isn’t for her to become the all-powerful overlord of the grisha -- it’s explicitly stated that she’s supposed to be a conduit to teach all of the other grisha to access the same power. although i personally don’t love the fact that the orders were broken down and zoya gained a bunch of new powers, she’s not going to be way more powerful than everyone else forever. i talk about this more in this post. 

“It would be so much stronger if people actually treated Zoya with the same amount of respect that she shows them, instead however in KOS all of this development is undone because people will kiss the ground where she stands even if she treats them like pieces of insignificant dirt.” once again, WHERE are the people kissing the ground zoya stands on? the only person i can think of who even comes remotely close to doing that is nikolai, considering that she’s barely mentioned in the isaak and nina chapters? 

and, if we’re going to comment on zoya’s supposed “flawlessness,” where is this discourse for male characters? where were these people when the majority of characters in tgt were impressed by nikolai and admired his ingenuity and leadership? (of course, it’s no longer called “falling at his feet” or “kissing the ground he walks on” then.) “it’s because alina and mal are still annoyed at nikolai and he still has flaws!” as if characters aren’t annoyed by zoya in kos as well? as if zoya isn’t still a noticeably flawed character, which is acknowledged in the text? are we ignoring zoya’s tendency to irrationally express her anger (see kherguud scene, entering the fold scene) which is met with very real consequences? are we ignoring the fact that the majority of her arc in kos was her learning to look past her cemented beliefs about grisha power/saints and open her mind to new possibilities? 

anyway, enjoy the irony of all of this commentary about zoya being a “perfect” character whom the author supposedly tries to shove down our throats coming from someone who named their account after a/elin galathynius. 

[demidorks]

Frank: What’s the first thing you notice when someone approaches you?

Reyna: The audacity.

[keatsgay-deactivated20200126]

foreshadowing done well makes me go feral like there’s NOTHING better than getting to the end a book or an important storyline moment and realising that the author laced information so intricately into their writing that weren’t noticeable upon first read but when you read back sections they’re light giant red flags like wow writing is amazing

[inejsghafas-deactivated20200313]

genya safin for @sixofcrowsnet heist: favorite grisha

“ l u m i n o u s  genya, with her alabaster skin and graceful hands.  r e s i l i e n t  genya, who had endured countless indignities and insults, but who had always held her lovely chin high.  f o o l i s h  genya, who had tried to be my friend, who had dared to show me mercy. ”

[nazyalvnskys]

my hobby is rereading tgt but only paying attention when the triumvirate (read: zoya, genya, david, nikolai, tamar, tolya + nadia and adrik) appear