#wraithblogging

[wraithblogging]

I just really love how Nikolai is everything Kaz' reputation makes him to be.

Kaz isn't born out of wedlock. Still he refers to hinself as the bastard of the barrel. Nikolai tries to hide the fact that he is a bastard for his reputation.

Kaz is the one called Demjin and treated like an actual demon. Nikolai turns into the demon people feat in Kaz.

Kaz has built rumors around his gloves, about having hands soaked in blood, hands covered in scars and having claws. Meanwhile all of these are true for Nikolai.

And the funny part is, when you talk about a powerful demon boy who is a bastard and hides his claws and scars inside of gloves, you would definitely think Kaz Brekker first. But it actually refers to Nikolai. In this they are direct opposites.

[dragonfatherofficial]

i think i made an okay decision

[artbyvampiraptor]

It’s Gorlim. I had to. 

[cataclysmofstars]

ok, so to recap, in a little over a week(???), we have added wraithfisting, gooseposting, Roast Goose (new ship name for feanor/manwe thanks to @cerulean-shark, also see gooseblogging), more shitposts of all these things and more that no one ever needed, and now melkor/ungoliant (which is called spiderfisting???).

Oh, and let’s not forget trying to hijack as many posts as we can.

[cerulean-shark]

Celebrimbor is a twink

[silver-grasp]

Dammit I’m now committed to this trashfire. This actually turned out rather cute?

Tyelpe is shy but pleased, Gorlim just really wants to pet his hair.

@verymaedhros I presume you’d want to see this?

[aowyn]

10 of 16 Gorlim works on AO3 are Wraithfisting

good job wraithsquad gettin our boi out there

[wraithblogging]

Something I think the Six of Crows duology does pretty well is how it shows these six criminals who all don't wanna necessarily BE criminals, but who were thrown into breaking laws and acting in amoral ways because of circumstances they could not influence directly.

And I feel like that really is how it often is with criminals. But we're taught to see them as people who just chose to be bad and be criminal or had it coming and all, which Six of Crows kinda also does with in a way with the antagonists. But with the crows you see they didn't chose this life. There was a life before crime and clear changes that lead to them being where they are at this point.

And I feel like another thing it did well is that while reading the duology I didn't wonder "why don't they just stop and have a normal life?" Like a "just stop being poor" approach people often take when it comes to crime. And while Wylan and Jesper (and Nina I guess) make the jump to having what would be considered a "normal life" you also have Inej and Kaz who both at some point did chose crime (cause hunting slavers and all isn't really a legal thing to do, formally) and went with it as a way to deal and to take what happened to them. And they show that while this fucking sucks it's their way to live.

But never in the whole series you have a point where you're like "it's their own fault they ended up in the barrel as criminals" like many people would argue with irl criminals. But at the same time it doesn't really glorify crime. The whole premise is that they are criminals but you stop seeing them as that and see them as people instead and I wished we did that more often.