#SoC situation

[the-wraiths-wife]

SoC situation

this is just a theory / situation. No hate

So what if Jordie lived, and what if he thought Kaz was dead and one fine day, he walks back into ketterdam and finds out his Lil dead bro is the BASTARD OF THE BARREL, Mafia bitch and goth emo kid. I mean, if I were him, I'd probably faint and die. Wut would u do ???

[the-omni-frog-tm]

Something i'd like to see more in SoC fics is Kaz and Matthias "bonding" over the shared grief of losing a sibling

[bee-a-lover]

s&b s2 is gonna be like—

alina and her s&b squad: we must use our combined powers to defeat the forces of darkness at hand and overcome the darkling and his nichevo’ya army with the strength of our friendship, love and self-acceptance

meanwhile the crows in the background encountering a nichevo’ya: HIT IT WITH A BOMB HIT IT WITH A BULLET A KNIFE

it’s a MOTHERFUCKING SHADOW MONSTER A BULLET WILL JUST GO THROUGH IT

WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS HOW DO WE ROB IT IT HAS NO POCKETS

(@ the very perplexed nichevo’ya) I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT YOUR MOTHER AND WHETHER THE RUMORS ARE TRUE

all while matthias simply lies on the floor and sobs while praying to djel

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

My brain came up with a situation™

Enjoy?

So, Jespers playing with Wylans hair and notices a scar just behind his hairline. He asks how he got it and Wylan explains that shortly after his Mother died (but didnt die) he was really unwell with the flu and had a massive fever

He was walking down the hall towards his room to rest and his Father started talking to him so he was stood there for a while trying to listen when he eventually passes out

He smacks his head open on the floor and instead of helping him his Father just walks around him…

Wylan eventually comes to, alone on the floor with blood all down his face

Although Jan didnt cause the injury the complete lack of care and concern has Jesper fuming. Like imagine just stepping over your severely unwell, unconscious 8/9 year old as he bleeds on the floor… (all for the “crime” of not being able to read)

Wyalns just like ‘I did say you weren’t going to like this story!’

Anyway do with this what you will

[five-of-cr]

the crows as candy

wylan: pop rocks (sweet but also make things go boom)

jesper: ring pop (flashy fashionista with a gaudy sense of style)

kaz: black licorice (bitter and not for everyone but the people who love him LOVE him)

inej: chocolate (smooth, adaptable, impossible to hate)

nina: chili-covered mango lollipop (hot and spicy (especially at first), bold and passionate at her core)

matthias: banana laffy taffy (tough, sweet, bad sense of humor, needs to leave his warped reality to find out what an actual goddamn banana tastes like)

[cadeirl]

some screenshots i took from todays soc saturday live ⁉️ (theres way more than this Uhm. 💀)

(i also recorded some of it so if anybody wants to see that ill post it 💥💥)

[hazellevessque]

Why is there not a single chapter from Wylan’s pov :( What is going through this boy’s head

[padfoot-lupin77]

I have a double exam in two hours. Language and Literature. Good luck isn’t saving me. @ SoC fandom I need y’all’s good luck charm

No mourners?

[sleepless-crows]

if you want to find anything romantic when inej was stabbed then it should be how kaz carried inej and ran from the dock all the way to the ferolind despite his bad leg even after jumping off those crates and his aversion to touch. kaz gouging out oomen's eyeball is less romantic and more just gruesome and awful. kaz was questioning oomen and torture is an awfully efficient way to get information because it worked. its what many people from the barrel would do. whats awful about it is that a 17 year old had to do that because thats the only way kaz could survive all that time, by learning the cruel ways of the barrel, by gouging out eyeballs and throwing people overboard

[fantastic-nonsense]

one of the things so many people miss is that the Ravka-Fjerda war is a terrible parallel to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust because it's a fundamental misinterpretation of the Grisha's role in the conflict

The Holocaust was a genocide perpetuated against innocents; there was nothing except blind hatred and political opportunism spurring that persecution. But the Fjerdan obsession with persecuting Grisha, while partially out of blind hatred and prejudice, is also at least partially happening because they're in an active war against a country that uses Grisha as soldiers...soldiers who are uniquely destructive, use that destructive capability to kill Fjerdans, and are canonically praised for doing so. Soldiers who are recruited to come to the Little Palace from all over the world based on the premise that they will be safe...as long as they fight for Ravka in the Second Army. Remember that Ravka largely doesn't care about the Grisha's wellbeing either until after the civil war is over and the Triumvirate is in power; their interest in 'protecting' Grisha lay in their ability to use them as soldiers in their ongoing wars against Fjerda and Shu Han.

You CANNOT do a one-to-one comparison to something like the Holocaust when the whole point of the Ravka-Fjerdan conflict is that there's massive suffering and war crimes being perpetuated on both sides. Nina and Matthias's chapters hammer home the point that they both have very good reason to be terrified of each other due to the situation they've been forced into, but that the hatred and prejudice they were both raised with is wrong. We mostly focus on the persecution of the Grisha becasue we're already primed to identify and sympathize with them, but there's several instances where we're explicitly shown that there's more to this war (which is principally a territory/border dispute) than just a senseless genocide.

The bit where Nina realizes that Zoya, her mentor, is to Matthias what Jarl Brum is to her. Nina forcing Matthias's heart to speed up on the Ferolind for no reason other than to scare him. Learning that the whole reason Matthias ended up as a druskelle in the first place was because his village was burnt to the ground and his family (including his "baby sister") were murdered by Inferni soldiers. Nina effectively murdering a couple hundred druskelle while on parem at the Djerholm harbor. "We are all someone's monster." And so many more.

Matthias is not a Nazi (the druskelle are much more analogous to a fundamentalist religious cult than anything else, especially when you consider the specific indoctrination Matthias was subject to). Leigh Bardugo (a Jewish woman born in Israel with direct family members who died in the Holocaust) has firmly stated that she "would never write a Nazi-Jewish romance," and we as a fandom need to be extremely careful when drawing real-world parallels to fictional conflcits. Nina and Matthias are both soldiers caught up in a centuries-old war, not an oppressor engaging in mindless ethnic persecution against a helpless victim. Matthias has a lot further to go than Nina to unpack and grow out of those mutual prejudices, but they're very clearly present in both characters.

Yes, there are parallels between the Grisha experience and the Jewish experience, and we should talk about that! It's an interesting discussion to have. But Leigh has explicitly cautioned people not to say "this is a mirror to a real-life conflict" because she purposefully built into her world that in some respects, many Grisha (especially Ravkan Grisha) have power and privilege and are actively utilizing it. It's dangerous to try and say something like "the Fjerdans are Nazis and the Grisha are Jewish people" when discussing that conflict because it can unintentionally perpetuate the idea that the Jewish people deserved what happened to them, which is something we obviously should categorically avoid even implying in our discussions.

[70707070707o7]

i love soc doms w all my heart until they do that weird thing where they go 'umm. why do you even CARE what i think??? you should continue talking to me even after i insult you and behave aggressively if you 'didn't care' but clearly you Do.' to a soc blind who doesn't wanna talk to the soc dom bcs they were mean to them. bcs they misinpreted the situation. a bit. and thought the soc blind was being aggressive when they were just kinda Silently Vibing or at most being irritating but still 'expected to be talked to' later on

[cobraonthecob]

i'm just. going to sneeze out some thoughts regarding junior drivers being arrogant enough to publicly like tweets regarding lance. the tl;dr is that everyone should get off of lance's back for being a pay driver and that every single celebrity should reduce the time they spend on social media interacting with fans and fan content, because as we have just seen with bianca, it turns into a very, very ugly situation and a reputation set on fire and thrown away

drugovich makes sense since he is aston martin's reserve driver would be called up to drive for the team should anything happen to fernando or lance. this is not to excuse him, and he should not be taking out his frustration on any driver (if i'm going to be spicy, maybe turn your ire to the driver who retired a few years ago and then came back), especially when said driver is in the same team as him and technically higher in rank. if anything, if he really wants to play his cards right, then he should wait until fernando finally retires, get the seat, and try to prove why he thinks he's better than lance (and then he makes rookie mistakes and the fans turn on him. that's just how it all goes for most rookies. do really well in feeder series and f1 throws lemons at you. george russell was a victim of this, as was mick. yes, horrendous cars, but fans are quick in changing their opinions on young drivers)

bianca however, makes no sense on why she would be frustrated about lance's presence in f1 unless there was a valid point to make about how financially inaccessible this sport is becoming (which none of the tweets from what i heard, did not talk about and only insulted lance). if we are to ignore everything else for a minute and put it in a vacuum, then bianca's frustration at lance having a seat at aston martin makes zero sense. bianca is currently in an f4 equivalent series and a midfield driver who should be focusing on becoming a better driver and a contender for top three, not liking tweets talking shit about a driver in a series way above her and in a team she is not backed by. like, let's say bianca does well next year, gets into an f4 series, does well there, rinse, repeat, and rise to the top, 2027 rolls around, she would be up against whether or not lando or oscar are still with mclaren or if they've moved to other teams or left f1 (let's just assume both of them are still there). she, as a rookie, would be going up against the talents of two drivers who have been with mclaren since 2019 and 2023, respectively. her concern should not be to a driver who is in a completely different team, but to proving that she is a capable driver

now back to actual context, there is no excuse for either drugovich or bianca liking anti lance tweets. that is extremely disrespectful from both of them, and i hope that this situation becomes a lesson to all junior drivers that the fans' eyes are on you and you have to distance yourself from the fandom. if aston martin or the fia really had a problem with lance, they can deal with it on their own.

[noitsbecky127]

obsessed with how many sun summoner kaz fics there are on ao3. it’s like people are asking “who is the worst possible person for this role” and they’re all getting the same answer

[neosatsuma]

finally reading Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom, and losing it over the fact that Kaz is a 17-year-old father of five (and a half); all his terrible duckling children are essentially his own age; and every three pages he just. spiritually. orders one black coffee and leaves. Character of all time

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

I need a fic where Jan is released/broken out from Hellgate, I need Wylans reaction and how he copes knowing full well his father will stop at nothing to end him and reclaim whats “his”

I can imagine Wylan initially acting like hes fine (which obviously no one believes), and then shortly later leaving the room only to not get far as hes found clutching the wall mid panic attack trying not to end up on the floor

[the-gayest-of-faggots]

I am back cooking baby

With stalkahh

I love stalker way too much

Somebody gotta get off me this addiction