#The crow on the roof

[theladyofbloodshed]

Nesta has cemented herself as one of the most powerful characters in all of sjm’s worlds (killed the most powerful bad guys, ability to create Made items, wield the trove) and THANK GOODNESS she doesn’t have the insufferable arrogance of sjm’s other characters. She’s just like yeah I want to go home and have dessert and read my book.

[19burstraat]

I love that kaz's revenge kind of... fails. I really love that he doesn't quite get a satisfying revenge on rollins, and I've always thought that was... well, the point. I said more about the specific scene with pekka here but like. it IS a turning point for kaz, it's just not the one he wanted. kaz gets about three narrative warnings/pieces of foreshadowing that it's not going to go how he wants it to go, but he really doesn't heed them until it's too late.

the first is the broken leg from the heist on the bank that helped pekka scam them; while its main narrative purpose is that it's the source of kaz's disability ofc (which feeds into his personal arc and his dynamic with wylan), and it exists outside of the pekka stuff, it arguably has a secondary purpose as the first in a series of 'don't pursue this, it's going to hurt' warnings, which he ignores.

the second warning comes when kaz lets pekka out at hellgate for personal score settling reasons, wastes time and fucks up the plan, and then starts a big domino effect where rollins turns the dregs on him, teams up with van eck, and hires dunyasha to attack inej.

(there are lots of other mini-nods to kaz absolutely refusing to let go of what happened and it informing everything he does; making nina give muzzen fake firepox, the fake pandemic, his interest in fifth harbour being implied to be because that's where he crawled out of the harbour, his dynamics with jesper and wylan, the body boats taking everyone out of the city, etc, but these are the big slip-ups)

the third strike feeds from that; the sweet reef sugar silo job is an almost perfect copy of the second stage of rollins' scam on jordie and kaz; sugar stock prices being driven up due to scarcity. it going so horribly wrong (because pekka anticipated it, of course he did, he made it up) and almost getting inej killed by dunyasha is a final warning to kaz to, effectively, let go or be dragged. if he carries on living in the past like this, he's going to lose his new family, not just his old one.

I think pekka's inability to remember jordie's name was more crushing than kaz admitted to himself, at least on the page; "it was a start" feels almost defeated after all that, and it lacks closure. kaz only gets one more point of view chapter (iirc?) one which feels quite reticent (it's the council of tides one and it's quite short) and he's quite quiet for the rest of the book, at least until the last inej chapter. he gets probably the cruellest wake-up call he could have been given. he doesn't get what he wants, and he'll never get it, because rollins still can't remember jordie's name by the end of the novel. it's time to move on. to his credit, he does it; he does what he always does, which is rise to a challenge. half of kaz's appeal lies in his ability to do that, no matter how hard the task, but it's a hard bandage to rip off.

unfortunately he does not really let go until he's being dragged, when his idea of what his confrontation with pekka should be like, crumbles in the face of pekka just not being able to remember jordie's name, no matter what kaz does. kaz is dragged to the precipice and told, look– here's inej, here's rollins. choose. and that's when he finally has to let go and start doing things for the future and inej, not the past and rollins and jordie. (remember that bit when he's drowning in SOC and he tries to think of revenge, and he can only think of inej instead? he always knew what he was going to pick, really).

he gets rollins out of ketterdam, but it's definitely hollow, in my estimation; the one thing kaz wanted him to remember, and he couldn't, because it wasn't important to him like it was to kaz. there's one final nod to kaz making everything about what happened to him and jordie (sneaking the grisha, colm, and matthias' body out of the city via the bodyboats and 'the bodymen don't bother to rearrange them') but I think inej saying "he doesn't say goodbye. he just lets go" comes at the perfect point; up until then it wasn't true, but now, kaz has finally been forced to (somewhat) let go, having never ever done that before.

but kaz buying inej her ship and a berth at fifth harbour (where he crawled out of the harbour and vowed to start the entire revenge plot) is a nice indication that he is trying to close that part off and move forwards with her, rather than staying in the past. and I really like that it's inej who actually makes the threat against pekka's life, to make sure he stays out of ketterdam; it's hard to know if kaz told her anything that prompted that visit (if he did, I doubt it was much, and I actually suspect he didn't know she'd gone there at all) but no matter what the circumstances, it indicates that he doesn't have to go on alone anymore, and he can finally turn away from that obsession. shared burdens n that. it's not a sad ending, it's honestly a good one for both of them, but it was a pretty rough journey to get there, and he had to fail first.

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

I just need to say that Wylan telling Jesper giving him a key was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for him was not an exaggeration

Jes made him feel wanted and always welcome

Jes gave him a home with that key

[drieddpetals]

do y'all think kaz secretly did strength training in his office or something

[bonefall]

breezy-p just CANNOT catch a break huh 😭😭

NOPE

Breezy-P is cursed with a terrible ailment called "writer likes him." He goes in the polycule and also into the horrors.

[uwmspeccoll]

A Crow Circus Feathursday

Extra! Extra! Read all about it: Crow slides down solar panel in daring feat at death-defying speeds!

Okay, so the crow may not have reached death-defying speeds and perhaps did more of a gentle slide down the solar panel on our green roof! But! We finally caught it on video! For years we have seen the campus crows eat bugs on the roof, strut about, caw at each other aggressively, and yes, occasionally, as a treat, slide down the solar panels.

Please turn the sound up if you want to hear our Head of Special Collections, Max Yela, cheering on the crow, and me, Alice, cheer in glee when it does, in fact, slide down the panel.

Happy crowsday to all, and to all a crows night!

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[kojiarakiartworks]

June 2013 KTM Kathmandu Nepal Patan

© KOJI ARAKI Art Works

Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe ：）

[taashed]

this is so funny what the hell???

[thisblogdoesnotexisg]

we need to pay more attention to the wunsoc weather phenomenon because what if it’s a blizzard outside of it WHAT THEN

[justarandomgirly]

Shadow and bone season 2 episode 8

[sofiewilde]

abookandadream

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Up on the roof

[kazscrows]

She’d been feeding the crows that congregated on the roof…

The sun was out for once, and Inej had turned her face to it. Her eyes were shut, her oil-black lashes fanned over her cheeks. The harbour wind had lifted her dark hair, and for a moment Kaz was a boy again, sure that there was magic in this world. ✨🪶✨

[kojiarakiartworks]

June 2013 KTM Kathmandu Nepal Patan

© KOJI ARAKI Art Works

Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe ：）

[altruistic-meme]

have you hiked in the Appalachians?

hiiiii <3 the answer is... yeah? i'm sure i HAVE dskhf

i live in georgia, i've certainly BEEN to the appalachians plenty of times. not just here but across probably most of the states they're in. and i've hiked in... a LOT of places (mostly due to geocaching, though also occasionally just for fun at my parents behest)

the only problem is that when i was younger, i never really paid attention to where exactly we were :') there are some i can name for sure; Cloudland Canyon, for instance, though thats not in the appalachians and also idk if stairs count as hiking?? though there are *googles it* 1200 steps one-way so maybe it does at that point idk it's a fond memory even as my whole family has vowed to never return (i will one day, probably). and also Elijah Clark state park. actually i'm pretty sure i've BEEN TO every (or at least almost every) state park in Georgia. and hiked in a lot of them too.

so tl;dr is yes, i am sure i've hiked in the appalachians, though i really don't remember it ;;;;; i should do it again

[sxnctxxry]

a fan: i was wondering since you guys have sure already read Six of Crows, so what are— from the heist scene would you look forward to the most filming?

amita: i would say the ice court if it was done in the studio, and not (...)(freddy: igloo) but i think, i think if we go to ever do this, i would so look forward to, instead of the bigger heists, the small office moments that kaz and inej have, and the information gathering that they do, and the verbal exchange that they do in terms of this work language that they have because that's the only way sometimes— well, that's when they feel the most comfortable talking. and within that, it's what they don't say that i find really, really fascinating. so i would really look forward to, like, the small mini trips that they go off to and find information about the bad guys and the people they want to take their money from. but i don't know if that's ever going to happen or not but, yeah

freddy: yeah, that's all really nice, but i'd quite like to drive a tank

kit: i'd quite like to shoot a gun in a tank. that'd be quite cool. no, i'd also love to do the whole sequence where— because everyone's split up and when they're all kind of meeting up on the roof and all that. like that's— to me that already feels really filmic. like i could picture that so vividly when i read it and i was like, oh that would be cool, and also probably really dangerous so let's do it. but also generally speaking with that kind of action element of the show, we are very much led by our fantastic, kind of, directors or writers as to how that works. so for us we have great, you know, kind of thoughts of "oh this scene!" when we're talking and doing this but when it comes to, like, the big stuff, in that sense, it's like "where should i stand? who needs to be where so that everyone can be safe?" but, yeah, i mean, that would be my pick, the probably stuff on the roof, that's really good