#have before seeing it as a wesper song but now even more

[stroopwafel-enthusiast]

Wesper Song!!

Hear me out!

"The Alchemist" by The Faim is the most Wylan song from Jesper's perspective I've heard out of the blue (as in, it came up in my playlist)

First of all, banger song, listen to this

But look at these lyrics, I am going feral actually

Black eye and afraid of love

Was in pieces on the floor till you came around and stitched me up

Tell me this is not Jesper pre-Wylan, deep in the trenches of the barrel, indebted, addicted, ashamed of his Grisha abilities. But then Wylan came along and helped him dig himself out

'Cause you took this lead, turned it into gold

You took my heart and made it whole

You created diamond from a stone

This is just ✨chemistry✨ and sappy, but also Jesper being fascinated and so impressed by what Wylan can produce, in love with his intelligence and cleverness and wit. And how Wylan chose him (Jesper would call himself lead in comparison to gold) and helped him become something greater!

When I'm with you, you turn my blue a warmer colour

(this is just a beautiful line)

I was a lonely drifter, gone with the wind, girl

Never saw a life like this

You make December feel like the summer

Oh, you showed me that love exists

You're the alchemist

Again, Jesper pre- vs post-Wylan. He was living life as it came along and presented itself to him, good or bad, until he found someone to live for, to be good for, to put in effort into himself for. Wylan showed him a different side of what life can be, like how kissing him can be an equal thrill to gambling.

This is a Wylan appreciation post, but from Jesper's perspective. Hopefully one day I can turn this into more than just analysis rambling and maybe write a fic or draw something, but for now this needs to be enough, thank you for listening

[bookworm-center]

Grishaverse Oneshot Request Rules!

Yep, I'm now going to do requests! Mainly cause I feel bad about not being super good with Dirtyhands and the Bloodbender updates... Anyways, I do have a few rules for requests.

No 18+ requests. Sorry, but I'm not comfortable writing that sort of stuff.

I refuse to do Darkling oneshots. Sorry Darkling stans.

No incest, pedophilia, huge age gaps, basically anything that's like morally wrong? (Besides murder and violence I guess, but this is the Grishaverse)

I'll try to do multi-character ships but I dunno. I will do both x readers and character x characters, as well as platonic ships!

The reader will generally be gender neutral unless specified. I'll definitely try and do both straight and queer ships.

I'll definitely do AUs; those are so much fun. I don't think there are any AUs I refuse to do, but I'd have to see for the requests. I don't know if song fics count as AUs but I'm also willing to do those.

Please give me at least three sentences of a basic idea or summary of the oneshots, though more than this is welcome! The only problem with giving me more information is that it might not live up to your expectations.

I may struggle with some aspects of representation that I don't quite understand or relate to, like if you want the reader to be non-binary or autistic or anything else. I'll try my best to do topics that I don't know a lot about and I will do research but you don't have to request this stuff if you don't want to. If you do request things like this and I don't get it right, please, PLEASE tell me. I will take all criticism into consideration.

As stated before, I'll listen to criticism but please try to be polite about it. I want to improve my writing, but if you are rude about it, I won't listen or even take your request.

Characters I'll do x readers with:

Kaz Brekker

Inej Ghafa

Jesper Fahey

Wylan Van Eck

Matthias Helvar

Nina Zenik

Alina Starkov

Genya Safin

Zoya Nazyalensky

Nikolai Lantsov

Tamar Yu Bataar

Character x character ships I'll do:

Kanej

Wesper

Helnik

Nina-Hanne (I forgot their ship name)

Malina

Genya-Alina

Zoyalai

Genya-David

I might do other characters/ships if you ask, I just might not be thinking about all the ships or something right now. But yeah, feel free to request things. I'm so sorry for the long post but this is all stuff I needed to say about this.

[mostly-delusional]

Desi Grishaverse Headcanons

• inej would sing hindi lullabies to her and kaz's child (this is, of course, many years post ck when both of them have healed enough)

• inej teaches wylan a few hindi songs and he plays them every weekend when all the crows gather for dinner. he loves them a lot and soon starts writing his own songs (he has to ask inej for help because she's still teaching him how to speak hindi but he gets better at it). he has written many songs for jesper.

• you know that thing where character a says something to character b in a different language and character b asks what they said so character a just makes some bs up but actually they were just confessing something? yeah, that. imagine that with kanej. inej says something really poetic + romantic in hindi to kaz when she first leaves ketterdam and kaz obviously doesn't know what she said. so he tries to translate it. when he realises she was saying that she loves him, he says it back in the next letter he sends her.

• every year before holi, nina forces all of the crows to meet at the hendriks mansion to make gunjhiyas.

• jesper once slipped some bhaang in kaz's thandai and let's just say that no one ever speaks about what happened that day because they don't want to risk loosing their limbs to dirtyhands.

• nina and jesper LOVE qawwali. every once in while all the dregs divide into two groups (half side with jesper and the other half with nina) and they have a qawwali competition at the crow club. kaz is done with everybody's shit on that day because the entire club is pure chaos but their little show attracts a lot of visitors so he doesn't interrupt. and when the noise gets too much for him he sneaks up to the roof and sits outside. inej soon joins him and they spend the night on the roof, looking at the stars.

• inej loves lighting dhoop-batti or agar-batti in her room. when kaz gets to know she's about to return, he always lights a few in her room beforehand.

• inej writes hindi poetry while she's on the warith and sends them to kaz.

• as a child, inej used to steal her mother's dupatta and wrap it around herself like a saree so when inej sees her child doing the same, she can't help but tear up and smile.

• nina has taken up new ways of annoying kaz so she always hangs neembo mirchi on the doorknob of his office to "ward off negative energy". and every time kaz gets sick, nina insists it is because of "buri nazar" and suggests doing one of the nuskhas (if you've never had you dadi or nani or any other auty try to rid you of the "nazar" are you even desi?)

• we've talked enough about kaz in a kurta, but what about kaz wearing a DHOTI??? inej is teaching him how to wear it and jesper barges into the room and laughs his ass off until he's kicked out by kaz with a threat to keep his mouth shut.

• when everybody meets at the hendriks mansion, nina and inej insist on oiling their the boys' hair while inej tells them different stories (nina makes sure to comment on kaz's hair which leads to an argument until inej shuts them all up with a stern glare)

• wesper eating the same bhutta (you know how those cute couples drink something from the same tumblr with two straws? yeah, that. but with a bhutta) (fyi i got this idea after seeing a video of a hamster and a rabbit eating the same corn)

• nikolai loves eating biryani with his hands and he claims that whoever uses cutlery for it is stupid.

• genya has a huge collection of jhumkas, bangles, juttis, naths, maangteekas, etc.

• nikolai swearing in hindi. DO I NEED TO SAY ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THIS??!!

• genya doesn't like the quality of kohl available in ravka so she makes it for herself (she has some of it always sent to inej).

• we've already had a gajra headcanon for kanej so now it's time for zoyalai. Nikolai always makes gajras for zoya a day before he's about to arrive at the ravkan ports.

• zoya loves doing yoga and that's how every morning starts for her (she even forces nikolai to join her who's all grumpy about it but stops complaining as she starts doing the asanas. he's quite good at yoga but he deliberately messes up his posture so that zoya helps him. yk what i mean? ;))

• david once found an old radio and fixed it for genya. now she has it in her room and listens to it everyday.