“to right where we went wrong.”

syd, she/her, 22, writer. six of crows / writing sideblog! main: @ialwayswilll.

[whynotcherries]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa Additional Tags: Post-Book 2: Crooked Kingdom, POV Kaz Brekker, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Minor Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Eck, Kaz Brekker is Trying, Angst with a Happy Ending, Reunions, Captain Inej Ghafa Summary:

"Inej’s crows are bringing him gifts."

Or, the first reunion.

[boo-cool-robot]

it is frustrating to be in a fandom where an interesting and narrratively significant female character seems to be widely popular, only to realize that actually most people are just going "wow cool sword girlboss" and not um. thinking about her point of view or internal life at all

[whynotcherries]

i love kanej so much because like what do you mean they literally said "it's nice to be back, kaz," and "good to have you back, wraith."

the amount of layers in these lines is wild because they're so shorttt. she has literally been in ketterdam the whole time, she is not referring to being back home in a geographical sense -- she might as well have just said "it's nice to be back with you" (also because what she said is genuinely kind of an awkward way to acknowledge that she's missed him.)

and his response of "good to have you back, wraith" is really a full confession for kaz brekker. but if you want to get rude about it, that phrasing is not contradictory to inej's fear of him only valuing her for what she can give him, either.

[fantastic-nonsense]

still thinking about "I'll return to Ketterdam and to you. No mourners." "Wait for you by the window, always. No funerals." a full week later btw. in case you all were wondering how I'm doing

[aropride]

ao3 is an awesome website for people who love "open in new tab"

[goodmagicianproperthief]

kaz’s trauma manifesting through drowning yet he fell for the girl who ends up conquering the high seas and eventually returns to him at the same harbor where he lost everything

inej’s trauma manifesting through disappearing yet she fell for the boy who knows sleight of hand and the trick to not only making the coin appear again, but knowing that it was never gone in the first place

god i love them so much i love them so much i love them so much

[whynotcherries]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa Additional Tags: POV Inej Ghafa, Post-Canon, Letters from Ketterdam, Captain Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker Loves Inej Ghafa, Soft, Letters, 5+1 Things, Gift Giving, Promises, Domestic Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa, Fluff, Light Angst Summary:

"There is no gift that will top any of those he had already given her. Her freedom, bringing her family here. Her ship. But she is not opposed to letting him try."

Or, a series of gifts.

[whynotcherries]

aside from being something to just curb his boredom, i do wonder if emiel kroon was a way for kaz to practice touch with people while inej was away without being as vulnerable on the basis of his identity.

[dasiesanddarkness]

spoilers for A Darker Shore!!

i actually whole heartedly believe that Wylan knew Kaz was using his sheet music for SOMETHING and i would love to tell you why :)

as we know, Kaz used these little dashes underneath the notes to indicate which words to read for the coded message:

and of course, these dashes have an actual meaning in music— they’re tenuti (tenuto is the singular), and they tell the player to the hold the note for it’s entire value (or even a smidge longer). they can tell you to also play the note more legato than the others, meaning you should connect it to the next note.

now there are two reasons i think Wylan caught on to Kaz’s intentions, if not his plan:

1. this note with both a fermata and a tenuto marking:

a fermata tells the player to sustain the note past it’s value. so over a whole note, it means to play the note for at least five beats instead of four (how long exactly is up to the performer). but here’s the thing!! a tenuto and a fermata over the same note makes no sense! the fermata tells you to sustain the note, so a marking telling you to hold it for it’s full value is unnecessary! and even if it was intended to mean the sustained note should be connected to the next, a) a slur would make more sense, seeing as the tenuto’s main meaning doesn’t apply here, b) it doesnt really make sense for just the one note to be connected to the other, when fermatas are typically played with a slight break between them and the next note.

okay now remember that in Jesper’s letter, he says “they debated the subtleties of a note being “sustained” or “held”. a tenuto is held, a fermata is sustained. this particular note and marking was likely the source of Kaz and Wylan’s debate. i’m certain Wylan was arguing that the fermata made the tenuto unnecessary, while Kaz insisted on the tenuto because it was necessary to his code.

2. there are a few places the tenuto marking is placed incorrectly:

with this one, the notes on the bass (bottom) staff have shorter stems than the one on the treble (top) staff. usually, the melody is played with the right hand and shown on the treble staff, but putting the same notes smaller on the bass staff means you can play it with either hand. while technically fine, it makes much more sense to play this melody with the right hand than the left, as the right hand is only holding one other note, while the left it holding two. however, adding the smaller notes where they are means that the tenuto marking can be put there instead of under the treble clef. however, as the notes on the treble staff are the main notes, they should be the ones with markings. putting the tenuto where it is makes it seem like that note should only be played tenuto when played with the left hand, which doesn’t make sense.

with the note stem up like this, a tenuto marking should be placed in the next available space below the note head. here, it’s instead placed above the note stem.

in both these instances, had the tenuto been placed correctly, it would have corresponded to a different line of text, messing up the code. Kaz probably instructed Jesper to place them where they went, and Wylan let him, even though he likely would know these placements are wrong.

Kaz’s sudden interest in music composition would definitely come across as strange to Wylan (in his letter, Jesper says that he himself was shocked). i think that plus Kaz’s insistence on certain things Wylan knows to be unnecessary or wrong had to have tipped him off to there being something else going on. Wylan probably argued with Kaz about the fermata and tenuto for some time before putting it together and relenting.

and let’s be honest, there’s simply no way Wylan would let Kaz make a marking he thought unnecessary or incorrect on his composition unless he sensed there was a reason behind it.

[goodmagicianproperthief]

guys have we ever considered the concept of “i can read to him” being marya’s last words before jan decided to send her to st hilde then years later those same words being the last thing he hears before going to hellgate

[dragonqueenstormwitch]

captain ghafa come back to ketterdam your mob boss boyfriend is bored and extreme cosplaying again

[doodleandcry]

the Wraith was the only one who could take him by surprise

[hayleywilliamsfan84]

Now that a darker shore is out i can share 🚨spoilers!🚨that i gasped out loud when i saw "wait for you by the window always. No funerals" . jaw dropped on the floor, started pacing, threw the book down, etc

[whynotcherries]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Captain Inej Ghafa, POV Kaz Brekker, Domestic Fluff, Kaz Brekker's Hometown | Not Lij, Kaz Brekker Loves Inej Ghafa, Late Night Conversations Summary:

"Captain Ghafa, his Captain, is made to be under bright skies."

Or, the trip to the farm.

[deedoesstuff]

imagine if wylan was pronounced like dylan.

[rowanisawriter]

write insane shit that’s way beyond your perceived ability and skill level even if you don’t finish it even if you think it sucks

[helvarcult]

something genuinely nauseating about brum raising matthias to see him as protector, judge, father figure, and holy authority all in one body. there is no room left for matthias to build a self outside of him. every instinct gets redirected back to brum: grief, loyalty, fear, love, the need to belong. he’s taught to confuse being owned with being chosen. horrible evil old man olympics gold medalist unfortunately.