#glokta

[vinweavesworlds]

New favourite drama queen character… Has anyone read The Blade Itself? (No spoilers please) (I am still halfway through the first book)

[tardisteam1]

RIP Sand Dan Glokta you would have loved painkillers and blenders

[fippydarkpaw]

To me, Glokta is like one of those abused dogs that only lets women pet them.

[nmoetoe]

RIP Sand Dan Glokta, you would've hated cold weather

[jjjunebuggg]

the past month has just been me walking around my apartment mumbling ‘body found floating by the docks…’ to myself, sand dan glokta you are so special to me

[thatfoxnamedfinley]

*folds hands on top of table* So...I started reading The First Law Trilogy.

I’m bout 175 pages in and I have many profound thoughts

I want to post cause I read D E A T H L Y slow and it takes me a long time to push through a book, so 175 pages in is quite an accomplishment for me (it’s taken me a week to read this far if that says anything)

SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT, IF YOU KNOW THEN YOU KNOW LETS GOOO

1.) To absolutely no one’s surprise my favorite character is Logen “Bloody Nine” Ninefingers. That’s easily the best POV for me so far. My mans is just *waves hand around* COMPLEX. After being introduced to him I just automatically placed him into a box of the archetype I thought he fit into. However, he’s full of surprises, as Bayaz says. You expect him to be one way (especially after you are introduced to his former crew and you see how some of them act/think), and he’s just not. You have to be realistic about these things. But I DO feel like his character is building towards him doing something HORRIBLE at the end of this book. Everyone he encounters is like O ShIt LoGEN is A BaD MAN HEs a RABiDd DOG hE hAs KILLEd MoERE PeopPLE THAN THE PLAGuE and he’s literally a sweet puppy so I’m waiting for shit to hit the fan when we REALLY see what he is capable of.

2.) Other favs are Bethod (I WANT THAT BACKSTORY HE HAS WITH LOGEN SO BAD. WTF HAPPENED BETWEEN THEM THAT BETHOD SHOWED LOGEN MERCY?????), Bayaz (he is an old sassy mage and he cracks me tf up), Quai (soft boi who can’t remember his studies at all), and, oddly, Practical Severard. Sand dan Glokta is a cool character and I do enjoy that POV as well (because I know all these storylines are building to something and Glokta is doing a lot of behind the scenes shit right now politically), but I like Severard. If he dies off screen I’ll be surprised. I like the little bits we’ve gotten about him. I like Dogman too even though we haven’t gotten a lot of him either (I quite enjoyed the little chapter with Logen’s old crew, Dogman seems to be the most loyal).

3.) Least fav right now is Jezal. BUT TO BE FAIR TO HIM I think he’s being written that way on purpose so we root for him later once he undergoes character development. I just got to the part where Ardee tells him off for being a spoiled brat with a silverspoon and she makes him feel so embarrassed (LOL) that he finally decides to dedicate himself to win the Contest.  So we’ll see how his story goes. 

4.) What I find the most fascinating is I’m still not even sure WTF is going on. Like...if you asked me what the plot was so far and where the story is going...I don’t think I could tell you. We’re just following characters around while things are set in motion. The North aka Bethod wants Angland. Logen can communicate with spirits and that’s rare. His crew thinks he’s dead. Glokta is limping around killing people in a dungeon for Arch Lector Sult and torturing assassins. Jezal literally sucks at fencing despite getting roasted every day. 

But the characters are so engaging and despite not knowing where tf the story is headed, I find myself really enjoying it and wanting to continue reading. Joe Abercrombie’s prose is excellent.

[inquisitor-edgelord]

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

[sketchmonger]

#inktober 11, almost forgot to post something! I cleaned up (a bit) an old sketch of some of my favorite characters from The First Law series. Inquisitor Glokta’s lil gang...#inktober2022 #illustration #thefirstlaw #joeabercrombie #glokta #artistsoninstagram #fanart #conceptart #buttfarts https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjmo8YLulHM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=