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Six of Crows Crooked Kingdom
Happy Halloween from our Inej Sparrow! 🎃 👻🏴☠️ . Still working at the other prompt, crypt are going to take me insane but I will end it I promise! Day 30 of #crowtober2022 : Pirate! 🏴☠️ aarrr!! #grisha #sixofcrowsfanart #soc #sixofcrows #sixofcrowsedit #drawing #drawingsketch #digitaldrawing #digitalillustration #inejghafa #crow #sixofcrowsduology #leighbardugo #leighbardugobooks (presso Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkX-kWGq7bl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Some of my favorite tropes in media
1. Found family
Welp. Why am I surprised?
In addition to a ton of platonic relationships, there's also a bang-on hilarity in each one of these groups.
Six of Crows (the progression in Kaz and Wylan's dynamic??? Nina and Inej being besties??? Jesper and Inej having a running joke of scheming face lol??? Matthias forgoing his prejudices to team up with Jesper and Kuwei???)
The Hargreeves siblings??? (We're not gonna talk about what's going on between Luther and Allison 💀 but the rest of them 🥺🥺🥺)
2. Ballroom dance scenes
Oh, to be twirling across the dancefloor in the arms of your partner (bonus points if it's your enemy💖) and you can't decide if your heightened breathing is due to the music's tempo or the 🌟tension🌟
Whyyyyyyy did we have to stop balls!?!?!? Whyyyyyyyy???? Are you telling me that we lost the opportunity to wear our most artful dresses and have a night of elegant dancing and food and it was replaced by nightclubs??? T_T
3. The sunshine character actually has problems.
Love, love, love it when the sunshine, always joking, always kind character opens up about their own issues and insecurities yet they don't stop being kind and don't lose their heart just because the world is going to hell
Prime examples: Ron Weasley (au contraire, HP fandom, this guy has one of the best characterizations in the books and y'all just sleep on him because you want your special ones so much), Leo Valdez (my boy repaired a whole dragon alone, dealt with losing his mom, was homeless and yet keeps the atmosphere light and happy and makes hilarious jokes T_T), Inej Ghafa (horribly traumatized, has done things to survive in a brutal world, deserves the world, and yet is so, so, so fiercely kind and compassionate and always there for her friends💖)
4. When the tough, scary one is soft for kids or animals
Nothing is more wholesome than watching a stone-cold badass softening towards a kid or adopting a baby animal or just showing love for their family (Five Hargreeves 🥺). Shows that they still have a bit of their heart unguarded wnd hopeful.
5. Wholesome friendships that just stay friendships + siblings being siblings.
My ace ass hates love triangles with a fiery passion and it's really tiring to see every friendship being shipped left and right or being pushed into love triangle *side-eyes CC*
Lucie Herondale and Cordelia Carstairs are my favorite parabatai duo and I need more content of their friendship and antics pleaseee. I need more of them being a chaotic duo.
Alastair and Cordelia are my favorite brother sister duo, just with the way they address each other and how Cordelia thought about killing him during the demon attacks in ChoG.
Percy Jackson and Grover Underwood. The guy sailed across the Bermuda Triangle to rescue his best friend.
Also the potential we lost with Hermione and Ginny because R*wling couldn't write more than one PoV -_-
But on a happy note, Ron and Harry are my favorite and I love these dorks so much. They really become brothers by the end *gross sobbing*
Aru and her Pandava sisters and the two braincells they share🤦♀️😂
Once more, the Hargreeves family going from strangers to dumbass chaotic family in TUA s2😂🤦♀️
6. Enemies-to-lovers
Bonus points if they're also academic rivals. Why is this trope not used more? We could explore some great themes on the shit education system.
No one? Fine I'll write a fic myself.
Also, enemies to lovers =/= abusive relationships. Keep that trash away from me where the love interests are manipulative, abusive towards their love interests and then later fall in love with them. My favorite progression goes like this:
Ugh pretentious ass, look at them==>ugh why are we working together?==>why do we work so well as a team!?==>goddammit why are they so nice!?==>I guess we're friends now==>what is this tension!?!==>*notices something pretty about them* uh oh. 😳😳😳
Prime examples: Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Kallias and Alessandra from The Shadows Between Us. Jude and Cardan from TFOTA (I know they're toxic. Would not stan that relationship irl but I loved their development in the trilogy)
7. When the best friends go to an event as each other's date and are mutually pining over each other but are oblivious dumbasses.🤦♀️
Bonus points if other people mistake them for a couple and they can't even get out a proper explanation ;)
*whispers* Harry and Ron should've asked each other to the Yule Ball
8. More thoughtfully-written boys in YA
Please move on beyond the bad boy and broody, immortal, muscular warrior trope. Give representation to my PoC, neurodivergent, trans and fat boys. Give boys dark features (I promise they are as entrancing as blue eyes or blonde hair). Make them emotional, make them something other than stoic, make them like teenagers (and not adults playing teens). They deserve the world and well-written role models as much as girls do.
Prime example: Ron Weasley, Jesper, Wylan, Enrique and Hypnos from TGW, and Julian Blackthorn.
I could write essays for Ron but all I'll say is that r*wling did a good job by giving the role of emotional support (that's usually considered a feminine job) to a boy and made him funny and kind-hearted🥺
As for Julian, like I said before ruthless characters being soft for their family make me go T_T
9. Showing feminism with an equal society (as Tricia Levenseller does it), wholesome f/f and m/f friendships, normalizing the presence of LGBTQ people, without trashing men or femininity.
If you have to deliberately create a highly patriarchal society to show off your progressive views and badass female MC, then you're doing feminism wrong :)
Oops my saltiness leaked out in the end 😳
My exact reaction, when someone mentions Nikolai Lantsov
He is just an awesome guy 😁👌
Book review of Leigh Bardugo's Six Of Crows. -By Supriya, intern at @just.lemmebe This book was my father's gift to me on my 21st birthday. It had been recommended to me numerous times before as well. This book takes you around the story of six outcasts, with all except one, having a history of crime, who team up to perform a heist. Although the very reason they do it is either the money and/or their freedom, they are all trying to fix their lives and make them better. The heist's target is to rescue a scientist from the ice courts prison who has all the required knowledge behind Jurda Parem. This drug could make a Grisha all-powerful but also destroy them in the process. However, none of these people were criminally inclined. Their twisted fates and tragic childhoods landed them here, and they all wish to undo it to some extent or another. As Helvar thinks, "They are all survivors. They adapt." People are not born imbeciles or criminal-minded; grief, trauma, and tragedy often swirls the morally correct to give up everything and walk into the darkness just to survive. Kaz, aka Dirtyhands, leads the heist. The team has Inej or Wraith, the spider; Wylan, the demolition expert; Nina, the Grisha soldier; Matthias Helvar, a prisoned druskelle; and Jesper, the sharpshooter. They are all teenagers, the oldest being eighteen. The further you read through the book, the more you sympathize with every character. This book might be set in an imaginary land, and the characters might seem to possess some magical powers, but their stories will hit close to home. At the end of the day, they were just like us before their tragedies swept them up and threw them into places they never wanted to be in. It turned them into beings they promised themselves they would not become. . . . #book #booklover #booksbooksbooks #booklovers #bookreview #bookrecommendations #booksthatinspire #booksaboutwomen #sixofcrows #leighbardugo #leighbardugobooks #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstack #authorsofinstagram #writers #writerscommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CVX3b50MI7G/?utm_medium=tumblr
I've had my eye on this @stellabookishart No Mourners, No Funerals pillow from @society6 for some time, so the current 50% off sale was too good to resist! How gorgeous is this?? The crow feather, the Ketterdam skyline, it's all just perfect 😍 So happy to finally have it! 🪶 🪶 🪶 #sixofcrows #sixofcrowsfandom #sixofcrowsduology #sixofcrowsfanart #sixofcrowsart #crookedkingdom #crookedkingdomfandom #crookedkingdomfanart #leighbardugo #leighbardugobooks #leighbardugoquotes #stellabookishart #society6 #society6artist #society6shop #shopsmall #supportsmallbusiness #supportartists #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #ncbookstagrammer #ncbooklovers #BookKeepingBlog #bookishlove #bookishart #bookishaesthetic #nomournersnofunerals #nomournersnofunerals🙌 https://www.instagram.com/p/CW09CdyLbXY/?utm_medium=tumblr
Let’s talk about favorite series! Which ones have recently joined your favorites list? 😍📚✨ . After reading Six of Crows, we truly didn’t think we could like any other series set in the same universe because we loved the crows too much, but then comes King of Scars with Nikolai and honestly, it’s another great series (bonus is that we get to see the crows for a little bit 🥺👌). . I guess when series become our favorites it’s because they have an excellent cast of characters! Like in the A Chorus of Dragon Series or The Great Library series! 😩🙌 Other series we really love are The System Divine, Spin the Dawn, The Dauntless Path & The Storm Crow. 📚🍂 . . #leighbardugobooks #grishaverse #leighbardugo #sixofcrows #prettybooks #bookishpost #bookflatlay #favoritebooks #bookseries #bookoftheday #readingtime https://www.instagram.com/p/CSkNV_jnFS1/?utm_medium=tumblr
