#don't catch him using spanish on his mom tho

[cheshitora]

ʟᴀᴛɪɴᴏ!ʙᴀᴊɪ ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴᴏɴꜱ

:: Speaking Spanish/Swearing ::

tw :: just a lot of swearing tbh

Baji definitely didn't have much influence from his Latino family in his childhood (yk, growing up in Japan and all) so I feel like he'd partly know Spanish, just enough to get him by (like myself).

One thing he does know how to say fluently, as if he truly were a native speaker, are swears and certain phrases. Now, this varies depending on where you see Baji coming from, as each country has their own ways of phrasing certain things (the bottom phrases are in Mexico spanish so might not be the same in other Latin countries).

"Te voy a chingar," - "chingar" has a few meanings but in this context would mean "I'm going to fuck you up"

"No mames," - you might've heard this one before but it's basically like saying "no fucking way"

"Qué putas quieres?" - what the fuck do you want?

"Quítate," - get off me. i also use this like "get away from me"

Some other words I see Baji using a lot too are "cabrón/cabróna," "pendejo/pendeja," and"pinche güey."

I remember on my first HC of Latino!Baji I said he wouldn't use "mami". Maybe on some rare occasion he would. I can definitely see him using "princesa", but not in an endearing way, but to annoy you (hated being called "princesa growing up ngl). He also probably wouldn't use this often since he most likely favors using "pendeja/pendejo" instead.

Another thing about Latino!Baji is that he uses these phrases/words so often that the other guys start to pick them up and use them too. They definitely ask Baji to translate something from Japanese to Spanish and he tries to give them the best translation he can. Mikey and Kazutora definitely ask him the most though, with Mikey eventually using, "hijo de puta" against Draken during an argument.

Kazutora definitely likes using "mami" (cause he thinks he's so cool). He also probably tries to use "güey," or "vato," at random moments that don't seem necessary. Baji spoke more vulgar when he was younger and as he got older, didn't speak as rough and tries to work on vocabulary and grammar. Though every now and then, he throws out a, "cómo chingas" or "no me jodes".

[memento-morri-writes]

SoC is such a good book tho!!! I could NEVER make my family read it so kudos to you!! The relationships in between the characters are elite imo and the complexity of them made me really happy when I read it!

have you watched Shadow and Bone on Netflix?? if so what did you think of the mashup in between SoC and S&B??

if you don't mind me rambling, rn I'm reading The Atlas Six which if you don't know is about six of the best magicians (called medeians in the book) of the world and how they are selected to pass a bunch of trials for two years, the prize being working in the archives of the Alexandria's Society! But the catch is that only five of them will be admitted and the sixth one simply has to die for not being selected

I have only read a couple more of a hundred pages but so far I'm loving it! It's packed with action and you have povs of the six of them which always makes a book better imo

- @/ink-fireplace-coffee

Carmen, Carmen, Carmen!!! <3333

The Atlas Six is literally the very next book in my TBR, ajdkasjdak. I'm excited about it!! I've heard good stuff about it, and your endorsement makes me even more eager to read it!! I just have to finish A Darker Shade of Magic first.

Also, about SoC. I made my entire family read it, ajsdkakjdsa. My mom read it, then for some absurd reason waited like 4 months to read CK, even though I was basically following her around with a copy begging her to. That pissed me off.

My sister didn't read it, but that's because she's convinced that if she takes a break and reads ONE book in English, she will die and forget everything she's ever learned in 13 years of taking Spanish... 🙄 I'll make her read it one day.

Stuff about S&B Netflix under the cut, because I have Too Much To Say.

As for S&B, the TV Show, I'm not really a fan. Controversial, but I am a stickler for things being accurate to the books as possible. Honestly, I haven't even finished the show. I'm only about halfway through. Part of the problem is that I've never cared one bit about Alina or Mal. The only character I cared about in the original trilogy was Nikolai, lmao. Also, this is really stupid, but I think a lot of people fell in love with the Darkling, partly because he's played by a conventionally attractive man, ajdkjas.

RANT INCOMING

I could go on for hours about how you're supposed to follow Alina's path: which is confusion > idolization > attraction > HATRED, but people get stuck on the idolizing him and thinking he's hot (I mean, yes, he's described as attractive, and Ben Barnes is good-looking enough). But he's so very, very manipulative and clearly abusive and it terrifies me how many people genuinely ship him with Alina. I know that wasn't Ms. Bardugo's point at all, but people will do what they want, I guess.

P.S. - I do know that also the Darkling is supposed to be human, not an evil monolith. He's supposed to be scary partly because you can sympathize with him and feel things about him. But that doesn't erase his toxic and abusive nature. (or at least it shouldn't if your braincells are working.)

OKAY, RANT OVER.

Basically, I wish they hadn't tried to smash two stories into one. I know that the ending of season one sets up well for the actual canon SoC plot, but they've already used so many of the SoC plot points (Kaz selling his crow club shares, etc.) that it would just feel repetitive to do them again. So, I'm a little conflicted.

Okay, sorry, you stumbled into something I have very strong feelings about, ajasjdks. I apologize.