#Faith & Fangs

[whyamiheretm]

- She’s the only divine thing he’s ever believed in. The only creature in this vast, cruel land who could kill him. And sometimes, in his loveliest dreams, he imagines she does.

this was supposed to be posted here on valentine’s day but i forgot to happy late valentine’s day from your favorite doomed lovers

closeups under the cut 💋

[genericaces]

i've been really into designing chibis these days LOL and wanted to make some stickers for myself. if anyone else wants to snag some you can grab em here! (there's leverage stuff too!)

[elainiisms]

you all say you like villains but then the second a character actually does something villainous you cancel ppl for liking them 😭

[sun-archeron]

dont mind me, im just thinking about how even after all the shit she saw in golyn niis, rin still had some hope that she would be able to deal with it and move on bc altan had done so after speer, and she went looking for him, bc if he could just tell her that she would be okay then she would keep trying, but then she found him getting high bc he in fact had not been able to deal with it, and thats when she finally lost all hope, finding out that altan was an addict was the thing that finally destroyed her heart, bc he was the strongest person she knew, he was her hero and commander, even after he was an asshole to her she still admired and respected his strength,and if the guy she looked up to had lost hope, had never been who she thought he was, than what chances did she have?

[adelikashere]

in the mood to make yin nezha fanart

[yourmoodboards-areonfiirree]

Nibbly Devotee Steph moodboard!

☼︎ rq'd by anon! ☼︎

(All images found on pinterest)

Forgot to post the moodboard again whoops 😭

[tyrannicalgirl]

the drowning faith / the burning god

[ibetonlosingdogz]

shadow and bone (2021 - 2023) // the drowning faith (r.f. kuang) // the borgias (2011 - 2013) // beautiful world, where are you (sally rooney) // hilda furacão (1998) // bob dylan, on joan baez // religion (lana del rey - honeymoon)

[lonewolflupe]

aLoF | Lone Wolf Squad (OCs)

I'm so excited to finally introduce the Lone Wolf Squad (aka Lone Wolves) to you! The squad is commanded by my Jedi OC Lupe, and you can read about them in my TCW/TBB longfic A Lupe Of Faith. They just made their first appearance in chapter 4: Pick Of The Pack.

Some funfacts about these gentlemen (top left Ragnar, top right Twist, bottom left Claw, bottom right Fang) below the cut (:

Ragnar (sergeant) (top left)

Is into space Vikings

The tattoo on his face reads 'vode an' (in elder futhark runes)

Weapon of choice is a (one handed) vibro-axe

Twist (top right)

Is shy and stutters (especially when shy)

Has a small scomp behind his ear (when his helmet is off)

Is the youngest of the squad

Claw (bottom left)

Twins with Fang (oldest twin)

Always has to keep an eye out on Fang

Is a great pilot (can handle tough flight situations)

Fang (bottom right)

Twins with Claw (youngest twin)

Is the joker of the squad

Got his scars by being unnecessarily careless

I might adjust their designs on the go, as I'll (hopefully) acquaint myself with drawing humans/drawing digitally more

[potahun]

love how in episode 13, li lianhua confesses to fang duobing that he's involved with di feisheng because di feisheng wants him to "save someone" and fang duobing's first reaction to that is not 'why would you agree, he's di feisheng' but rather 'why would he ask you that, you're a hack doctor'

[whyamiheretm]

- She was no victim of destiny. She was the last Speerly, commander of the Cike, and a shaman who called the gods to do her bidding. And she would call the gods to do such terrible things. -

Fang Runin from The Poppy War by Rebecca Kuang

[starryeyesxx]

[vikensbrainrot]

maybe in another lifetime…

[lynsstrange]

the best thing I’ve seen today was under poppy war fanart on Pinterest

[fallingskiesandrisingseas]

Been thinking about the Poppy War series for a while now, and something just hit me.

Fang Runin is a case study of what happens when you give someone who believes they are special too much power. But at the same time, she is also what inevitably happens to people in war.

This is a little girl who works as hard as she can to escape the povery she grew up around. A girl that, after arriving at an institution built for creating soldiers, quickly realizes that she is an outcast and does not belong. Someone who experiences racism, classicism, is outright bullied by classmates and teachers alike.

She is then saved by the academy madman, who turns out to be one of the most powerful men in the empire. She commits genocide on a scale unfanthomed by the general population and does, if ever, show remarkably little regret, because it was to save her people and friends. Her people that, she finds out later, were willing to betray them and sell them out. Friends she will have to fight.

Her fire, her literal fire, is what keeps her going through betrayal, disability, cold campaigns that claim the lives of soldiers she was tasked to command and protect.

It is so well detailed, so scary how she slowly loses sight of the important things, how she becomes unable to see the value of human lives, from letting townsfolk kill their 'opressors' to culling the Cike herself.

She comes to believe, through all that she goes through, that there is nothing holy, that she doesn't owe anyone. She is shown that people with morals end up in mass graves.

The only reason she even makes it through three books is because she is so strong they cannot ( afford to ) kill her.

Fang Runin is what happens to people in war. When they suffer blow after blow after blow and are allowed no time to rest.

Chen Kitay, while serving an important role in the Second Trifecta ( parallels, damn parallels. They could've had everything, both of them ) also serves as Rin's conscience. As what a man at war is supposed to be. He serves as a narrative mirror of just how far Rin has come of the rails at the end of A Burning God.

And so Rin killing herself in the end, and dooming Kitay at the same time, is a final act of defiance. It is also quite arguably the best thing she does in the book. Because then and only then, she realizes what this post has just described. That there is no way back for her.

She has spilled so much blood she is drowning in it, and she does not know anything else but war anymore. War has consumed her, like it was bound to. And she is dragging Kitay, the most moral character in all of the books, her anchor, her conscience, down with her.

[dxrlinggxd]

the forces that dreamed up this world are the opposite of rational / this is the first time in an eternity that he doesnt feel like drowning / he loves her. of this he is certain. / in all of his worst nightmares shes dying; he doesnt tell her that his hand holds the blade. / she terrifies him, and he loves her so much it hurts. / it doesnt matter that he loves her. it doesnt matter. it never has. / shes the only divine thing hes ever believed in. the only creature in this vast, cruel land who could kill him. and sometimes, in his loveliest dreams, he imagines she does.

the drowning faith, r.f. kuang