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Just yesterday I was actively discussing the problem of the lack of skills of understanding and thinking in most people with my acquaintances Using "Crime and Punishment" as an example. Most people stopped reading because "it turned out not to be an action detective story, but a story of the human soul, suffering, psychology and philosophy.". Apparently, I touched their sore spot, but phrases-justifications began to flow About the workload of the school curriculum, about how it’s too difficult, how it’s not interesting, and so on.

НBut damn, this shows that people, in principle, don’t even try to think in their lives, analyze, distinguish the general from the particular and vice versa, look for the cause and effect part.People have simply become lazy in thinking with their grey matter, relying only on superficial primary sensations that have no real depth.

When I see people fighting with darklina shippers I wonder what they took from the Shadow and Bone trilogy. And I don't mean the basic things like "he's a bad person". I mean the fact the story is at it's core a story on how different people process the struggles of war, and the outcome of their actions while doing so.

I wonder if they understand malina is not the good, healthy ship, but rather the result of two very young orphans who lost everything and everyone else and bonded on an unhealthy level, to the point where Alina is willing to give up parts of herself to fit Mal's insecurities.

It's not meant to be cute and fluffy. It just is. And in that sense, I wonder if they actually look at the darkling as the full character that Leigh worked her butt off to portray, past the "ewwww, this man is problematic". Especially in times like right now, where genocide and "how far is too far when you are responding to aggression" are being openly discussed by everyone.

Sure, it's easy to reduce the darkling to this toxic abuser. It fits a box you can check and not think about it later, but I find that to be a disservice to Leigh. So many of you are old enough to think about what makes a character tick, and the context that the story is giving you, regardless if you find the characters' actions justifiable or not, and I see so little of that nowadays in every fandom. Where is y'all's media literacy? Comprehension skills? The ability to reflect on such a complex universe as is the grishaverse?

People are allowed to ship the two characters that are opposite sides of the same coin, and grieve over the boy the darkling was and the man he could have been, before the weight of war destroyed him.

Alina certainly did.

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Ares and Pierce

"Rage Of The Titans",Game Romance Club

The underrated Ares and Iapetus plotline(Pierce) that was only mentioned

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This is how to face bad weather. Learn before Zeus banishes me to Tartarus

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This is a real dialogue between me and my classmate (Kaz's lines are mine)

October 30th is "No Panties Day"And "the day of a magnificent funeral" Jesper: No panties day?!Got it Kaz: Keep your pants on. Jesper: I won't! Kaz: when I arrange the day Have a wonderful funeral Jesper/innocent tone/: Who are you going to bury? Kaz: your panties Jesper: I don't need them, don't worry. Kaz: May they rest in peace

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October 30th is "No Panties Day"And "the day of a magnificent funeral" Jesper: No panties day?!Got it Kaz: Keep your pants on. Jesper: I won't! Kaz: when I arrange the day Have a wonderful funeral Jesper/innocent tone/: Who are you going to bury? Kaz: your panties Jesper: I don't need them, don't worry. Kaz: May they rest in peace

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Minecraft Сats as Cats of the Gods

Author of the drawings @graypillowart

Cat of Hephaestus, Artemis and Apollo, Athena/Ares

Cats Poseidon, Charon, Hades

Cats Demeter (comes in winter), Hera/?, Zeus/?

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So in a sense, Hera singles out Ares among her seven children according to other, more individual criteria.

Kidnapper: I have one of your children. Hera: Which one? I have seven. Kidnapper: The loud, annoying, rowdy one who never shuts up. Hera: Which one? I have seven. Ares, distantly: HEY!!!

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Maybe I have a hyperfixation, but I love fanfics where Kaz gets adopted. It's a really cool trope when Kaz gets adopted by the Darkling. But now I wonder if Jan Van Eck would try to do that.

Some randomly assorted six of crows headcanons/thoughts/theories/idk

(feel free to agree/disagree/add your own to the list)

I think this is a pretty popular one but that Baghra survived the Grisha trilogy and was the blind Grisha amplifier being held captive at the Ice Court

Kaz is everything that Van Eck wanted in his child and that’s why he and Wylan bother him so much more than the other Crows (I have a whole essay on Kaz & Wylan parallels if anyone wants to read it)

Matthias’ mother and/or baby sister were Grisha and he didn’t know, and that they were actually killed by Drüskelle during the skirmish and Brum told him it was Infernis as part of his manipulation (this is not mine originally but I’ve seen it a lot so I don’t know who first said it, sorry)

Cornellus Smeet’s wife is brunette

I don’t necessarily think that Alys’ child is Bajan’s, though I have wondered this in the past and wondered what Wylan’s reaction might be if the kid weren’t actually his sibling, but I do think they were in or prepared for a secret relationship and that he would happily help her raise the baby as though it were his own

Mentioned this is a post recently but I think it’s possible that the reason Wylan has so few memories of his mother but such clear memories of being 8, and even younger, and going on all of the trips abroad with his father (Ice Court, Elling, Novyi Zem, Shu oil fields, etc) is because whenever Marya stood up to Van Eck, either in defense of her herself or Wylan, Van Eck would punish her by separating her from Wylan and Wylan was too young to know that was happening

I think that if Van Eck won and Kuwei went back to the Ice Court after Crooked Kingdom that the Kerch would have formed an alliance with the Fjerdans. I think they would have been able to successfully move through Ravka and I think that the Shu Han would have then declared war against them both. I also think that it’s possible Novyi Zem would ally themselves with the Shu and it would lead to a WW1 scale event. I have my reasons for this and I have a fic on ao3 exploring the idea and following the Crows in the potential aftermath (Our Gods Have Abandoned Us), but I also think it would be a really interesting discussion to get going I would love to hear other thoughts on it as well

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Ares

This was the 3rd attempt to draw Ares.

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I finished coloring Apollo's sketch. I wouldn't say the result is wow, but I tried.,Until the last moment I didn't want to add glitter and then I decided: to hell with it, it's the sun god.

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Will someone tell him? Zeus still left something behind

Why are you more like Hera in appearance and character?

I thank the light and the darkness that I don't have to share my father's appearance.

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#Ares and Aphrodite compare waist width everyday is my new headcanon#Ares: sorry babe but your hourglass can't compare to THIS *runs hands down his slutty waist*<- Previous tags @gotstabbedbyapen

I think we all forgot one canonical mythological thing.

Ares has a very thin waist!!!

I can't say for sure, but it seems that it was one of the epithets in the description of appearance/praise, even some king was described as very handsome, and comparing him with the gods it was said "a waist as thin as Are's"

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Ares with wings of night

In the idea, everything was drawn much better, but I didn’t have enough skill for it (and a stylus, it’s inconvenient to draw with a finger)

My headcanon is that Ares has wings, the legacy of wing genetics was passed on to him from his father Zeus, and originates from the chthonic nature, that is, the more ancient creatures of the underworld.

The gods endure all wounds and illnesses in the same painful and symptomatic manner as people, only they cannot end their suffering in the arms of death, so it is logical that many of the immortals try Avoid pain. Except for Ares. in the heat of battle, he fights on equal terms with people in terms of suffering, so in the respites, like everyone else, there is minimal quick dressing of wounds.(Wings are hidden from view.by the way, these are the wings of the Crow))

Aaand, I have a request - I'm tired of the background, it seems to me unsuccessful, so if you want to decorate it in your own way, write to me in private messages

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In fact, this sketch is a hundred years old (+- at least 3 months)

I won't finish this and just leave it here. Oh, if only they had met a little earlier and in a different era

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Me too. These guys are damn similar in their cunning in life. And love of deception for their own benefit.

I’m a firm believer in the Kuwei and Kaz bestie agenda (I’m the only believer)

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Reports of Wylan's hatred toward Kuwei are greatly exaggerated :/

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Ares(warriors Orochi)+Zeus.+Odin

Yes, yes, long skinny legs in white leggings.

The height difference between Ares and Zeus is impressive (in a good way). And Odin even tilts his head slightly when Ares gets closer. Moreover, Ares is not a short guy, but a fairly tall guy within the limits of normal human height.