#all my homies hate crow crow

[morrigansredbow]

headcannon #4

when mog was little and living with corvus in the republic, he would constantly keep one hand on her shoulder and steer her around in public, making sure she never goes too far and would tighten his grip immensely whenever she did something he didnt like (ie. speak, draw attention to herself, etc.). thats when she knew she was going to be in so much trouble when they got home.

now cue mog as a teenager, living in nevermoor, and shes freaking out about something or maybe having a panic attack and crying, and jupiter tries to comfort her by putting his hand on her shoulder.

[lynsstrange]

a list of some of the horrible things jan van eck did that get forgotten:

Proudly fessed up to beating Wylan when he was a child as a method to get him to read

Married a teenager TWO YEARS OLDER than his sixteen year old son and got her pregnant

Watched unfazed as Wylan got tortured by gang members in front of him (not that he literally hasn’t tried to have Wylan killed several times but I feel this takes a certain kind of evil)

Put his wife in a mental institution because she gave him a son who couldn’t read

Kidnapped a sixteen year old girl and tried to break her legs with a mallet so it’d induce as much pain as possible (who the fuck does this)

[drieddpetals]

do y'all ever think about the fact that Wylan literally bet Kaz money that Jan wouldn't care if he died, and then went, "Pay up, Kaz." after Jan blew up the ship?? i love him so much he's such a smartass.

also i think about Wylan saying "Maybe you can pray to Ghezen for understanding, Father," when Jan was confused about the whole Kuwei situation about fifteen times a day. it's genuinely one of my favorite Wylan quotes like yes get his ass‼️‼️

[childofthestone]

veilguard doesnt let you assume or hypothesize ANYTHING by yourself bro...i hate it. immediately after presenting an idea it will provide you with all the possible avenues of thought there is no subtlety to this game

[morallyambigous]

I feel like often times people completely miss the point of the darkling and just further prove pretty privilege. Like the whole point of his character is to critique the overused trope of the dark, brooding, “morally grey”, immortal love interest that too many romance books fall into. Like the whole point is that he’s attractive and charming and STILL IRREDEEMABLE AND EVIL. Almost everything he does and all the ways he connects with Alina is a manipulation tactic. His character also critiques and highlights how creepy the immortal love interest trope is, especially in YA romance novels, where the man is hundreds or thousands of years old and the girl is still a teenager. There is a reason they always go for teenagers who don’t know any better instead of an actual adult who’s at least on a somewhat similar plane of maturity as them, and that is because they are vulnerable and easy to manipulate and it is creepy. straight up. there is a reason that the darkling consistently surrounds himself with vulnerable teenager girls like alina, zoya, and genya. its because he knows what to say to manipulate them and use them for his own ends with literal regard for them as people. and people totally miss the point of his admittedly tragic past which is that you can have a sad upbringing and it still doesn’t excuse or make up for your own horrific actions. so yeah all jokes about turning to the dark side for ben barnes aside, if the darkling wasn’t hot people wouldn’t sympathise with him nearly as much and he does not deserve to be redeemed. literally a canon woman abuser. although his character and what he represents and what he critiques is very fascinating to me. anyway stan literally almost any other man in the grishaverse 

[saltywinteradult]

i’ve said it before and i guess i have to say it again:

FUCK NETFLIX

[skeleton-to3s]

Yk what I wanna see? Wylan “We could wake them up” Van Eck go crazy in the S&B series. Like if we get a spin off I wanna see him go bat shit. He don’t need to be able to read to stick his flute up someone’s ass and bomb their house. I wanna see this kid go crazy.(Preferably at Jan Van Eck)

[ultimatetrashgoblin]

Sent this to my gf, thought tumblrland might enjoy it (this is an anti Darkling/Darklina account)

Bonus:

[ID: Texts read “Here in the grishaverse every woman is girlboss and every man is babygirl” “Except for the Darkling”

“Fuck the Darkling we hate the Darkling anyone who doesn’t hate the Darkling can not be trusted” “Idc if he’s played by Ben Barnes you can still love Ben Barnes and hate the Darkling” It’s not that fucking hard Jfc” “If I see one more pro Darkling/Darklina edit or post I am going to explode the internet with my brainwaves”]

[phantosss]

Genuinely never been so upset over a cancellation. Gonna delude myself even more now by hoping it'll get picked up by another streaming platform

[weiwx]

what doesn't sit well with me about all this anti-aging, anti-wrinkling, anti-humans-who-have-lived-their-lives propaganda, is that aging is a privilege not many get to experience. and yeah, you will eventually get lines in your face showing that you laughed and you cried and you Felt Things throughout the years, so what? that's your life, it's your right to age. you have earned all that time and each wrinkle in your body is proof of that. so fuck the anti-aging industry

[15hammerheadsharks]

Diversity win! The government official that sold out your city to an occupational force uses they/them pronouns.

[wylansworkshop]

Wow I think that soc has managed to pull me out of a depressive episode again

[drieddpetals]

(warning: literary analysis ahead) i know i'm not the first person by far to say this, but there are so many similarities between kaz and wylan in six of crows and ESPECIALLY crooked kingdom.

there's obviously the big one of both of them having a re-birth type experience in the harbor, but that's not where the similarity stops. during my ck reread, i noticed that the reason kaz and wylan are in the harbor in the first place is because a father-like figure.

pekka rollins was a father-like figure to both kaz and jordie, and the book says this. the rietveld boys had just lost their father, and one of the big reasons pekka was able to scam jordie and kaz so well is because he provided them with a comforting and parental like space. kaz ofc eventually ends up in the harbor, and it can all be traced back to pekka rollins.

wylan has his rebirth in the harbor due to his father. the connection is more direct with his, but even then there are middle men and other things involved. but again, it can all be traced back to his father.

going off this thought, they both lost a close family member due to a father figure.

another big similarity i found that i feel like i haven't seen anyone talk about his what kaz and wylan are both motivated by: revenge.

wylan does not start off the books being motivated by revenge. he ends up in the barrel and with the crows out of a desperation to both hide from his father and because he genuinely has no where else to go. later on in ck, after wylan finds his mother at saint hilde, the book very clearly states that his motivation changes. at the begining of chapter 31, there's a scene where wylan is staring at himself in the mirror. there are lines that say, "What am I doing here? But he knew the answer. Only he could see his father punished for what he'd done. Only he could see his mother freed." which drives me INSANE!! because it's a DIRECT PARELLEL to things kaz says/feels about jordie!! in the chapter right before that (30) there's a line that says, "He'd found his way to shore, devoted himself to the vengeance he and his brother were owed." (there are other and better lines that reference wylan's "only he could *take revenge*" line, but this is just the closest one that comes to mind)

there are differences between their motives—you could say that kaz's revenge motive is more direct and violent—but there's also the fact that we see both kaz and wylan get their revenge in the book.

both kaz and wylan want revenge for one of their family members, and themselves, from what a father figure in their life has done.

they've also both been kidnapped by jan/held in captivity by him. i know this happens to inej too, but i think it's important that one of the first scenes we see with kaz is him negotiating with jan after being captured by him, and then towards the very end of the series, we (very simplified and on the surface) see the same thing happening to wylan. i know the two jan captivity scenes with kaz and wylan are very different, but i think the basic similarity of these scenes really attest to how far wylan has come and how much he's been assimilated into the crows.

there's also of course the part where wylan's expression is said to be something that looks kaz-like, which i feel also shows how far he's come and how he's truely developed into a crow.

in conclusion, as others have said, they truely are two sides of the same coin. they're so different but so alike, and i absolutely love how leigh bardugo was able to directly juxstapose wylan and kaz when they're so different on the surface.

[ohmrcrow]

hey so im gonna post-pone, maybe even shelf the welcome home oc crossover idea out of respect for the creator. I get being super excited for a project, the potential mysteries and stories. but everyone seriously needs to chill. especially the mfs on tik tok and insta, you guys are actually so gross for being disrespectful to their boundries.

today has been pretty eventful for me (good and bad), and i need some time to relax myself before i get too overwhelmed.

[artemx746]

I just read the first Nevermoor book and I really liked it! So b4 I go into Wundersmith, here are some of my thoughts (spoilers for the first book ahead, go read it)

I love the entire vibe of this book, I’m not sure how to describe it but there’s something about everything that just really appeals to me

[nearly every character] my beloved

Every scene with Jupiter and Mog makes me ill, the only reason Jupiter was away so often was because Jessica Townsend knew it would kill me if there were any more /j

Related to the last point: i require at least one (1) forehead kiss from Jupiter to Mog

Fuck Corvus Crow. All my homies hate Corvus Crow.

Hawthorne's a fun guy, it feels nice that he and Mog aren't shoehorned into a romantic subplot. Low bar but I'm tired of the first character of the opposite gender of mc and mc's age being forced into a romance

Mog and Jacks fighting is 100 percent accurate for cousins. Like it's concerningly similar to how my sister and our older cousin would've acted around each other when she was Mog's age

I love Ezra's vibes, like yes b call yourself a god in front of this little girl while you're in disguise. Horrible person? yes. Vibes? Immaculate

Tangentially related, my brain knew Ezra Squall was probably evil but I fully thought Mr. Jones was just in love with him which I find so funny now

Cadence is very fascinating to me, I want to study her in lab /pos

Listen I’m not saying Mog should’ve taken Ezra’s offer but I am very curious what would happen if she did

unfortunately I am having a mental battle trying to decide whether Ezra or Jupiter is my fav oops

[saltywinteradult]

so you’re telling me that the witcher can continue without henry cavill and riverdale can get seven goddamn seasons of nonsense, but shadow and bone couldn’t get more than this? fuck you netflix