#ketterdam

[paintsandquests]

An evening in Ketterdam

[astastories]

I really like the idea of showing the contrast between the white page and the red silhouette of the city. It also just felt very Kaz to have all the hands there, and the shadows reaching out and touching him

[drieddpetals]

i really like the fact that the kerch government is explicitly an oligarchy. that form of government is so interesting and lowkey rare and i love how it was done in the worldbuilding of kerch it's just gah 🙏🏻

[moonbeamanemone]

[0bscure42]

can we give six of crows a big thank you for allowing the two female main characters to actually enjoy each other’s company instead of being at each other’s throats

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Just a reminder: the Van Eck house is a mansion, and explicitly described as such multiple times. In the UK and the US the modern size expectation of a mansion is a minimum 8000 square feet or 740 square metres in the countryside, though if in a city potentially a minimum of 5000 square feet or 460 square metres. Even if the Van Eck mansion is only 5000 square feet, though honestly considering the worldbuilding of Ketterdam as a city and the descriptions on the house (details like “the first floor dining room” that imply there are multiple dining rooms) it could easily be bigger, that probably means the house has four or five bedrooms (the internet said six but I’ve subtracted one for Van Eck’s office). Taking into account the servant’s quarters on the fourth floor, let’s assume there’s still space for three or four bedrooms in the family’s living quarters (I’m assuming the servants’ rooms to be much smaller than the others). With a couple in the primary bedroom and one bedroom occupied by a child, that house should have at absolute minimum had at least one spare room. But Jan Van Eck still chose to gut Wylan’s bedroom and replace it with a nursery awaiting his new child.

[teenageduckchild]

Wait wait wait wait WAIT

How has it taken me this long, with all my feelings about the crows, with all my love for Kanej and all the ways I relate to Kaz Brekker to notice this.

How have I possibly missed it? THE WHOLE TIME

Jesper and Inej pictured as standing together, overlapped and connected, and Kaz with the distance between them, no contact, alone.

Even in Ketterdam, even the Stadwatch, have seen enough to not have Kaz Brekker having physical contact in the representations for the wanted poster. They likely think it's because he is the boss and it's a respect thing- but STILL. They noticed.

Everyone can see how Kaz cannot be close to even his crows, to even Inej, no matter what he wants, he is still standing alone.