#kaz i love you but...

[gay-jewish-bucky]

saw someone, when busting the myth that medieval people were illiterate (this is a nuanced topic that can't be reduced to 'myth' or 'fact') be like 'well [christians] had to be able to read their holy texts'

my dude…. the bible wasn't translated into the 'common language' (i.e. enlgish) until late in the reign of henry viii, something which caused a lot of religious controversy and was considered heresy

like.... the language barrier was an intentional control tactic, by the church, to ensure the only people who got to interpret those texts were the clergy

the rich, who could access resources to learn those languages, were the only non-clergy who had the privilege of reading and understanding christian texts

like... this was a pretty big driving factor in the schism and reformation...

like my friend, if you are going to myth-bust... do your research? you can't assume that what was true for jews and muslims, was true for all other religious people

[meziniart]

It comes down to this Your kiss Your fist And your strain

[jpg-of-dorian-slay]

love love LOVE jesper fahey so much, kaz rips out someone's eye and tosses them overboard and jesper's just like "would he do that for me?" not at all bothered, just wondering if kaz cares about him enough to kill a guy for him. a man with his priorities absolutely in order.

[hauntingyourself]

In which, at some point between his brother’s death and the first book, kaz actually had somehow become a demon or something not-quite-human

[silly-little-gooses]

we need to appreciate the diversity in six of crows more!!!

a disabled orphan boy with PTSD and flashbacks

a POC girl who is a sexual assault survivor and a victim of human trafficking

a queer POC boy who has an addiction to gambling and (probably) ADHD

a queer boy with dyslexia and daddy issues

a queer plus size girl who is also a refugee and has to overcome addiction

a boy who has to overcome the misogynistic and racist beliefs forced on him by his toxic culture

THIS BOOK IS TOO GOOD !!

[lynsstrange]

Other YA characters taking down their enemies: massive scale magical fight scenes, complex good vs evil moral conversations, love triangles, tragedy

vs crooked kingdom

kaz brekker: so, what do you fuckers know about the stock market?

[lilisouless]

Wylan: what do you want me to do about it?

Inej: what’s the problem?

Jesper: Wylan was never in the middle of a love triangle

Inej: which is….good?

Jesper: good? I don’t know where I stand in this relationship! Guys all fit in the “wholesome but safe” or the “dangerous but enticing” label, and without a love rival i don’t know which I am, am I the friendly ,reliable farmer boy that’s better than a jerky mercher son? Or am I the dangerous yet charming sharpshooter that Wylan would choose anyway over a clean rich guy? My identity it’s in danger

Kaz: that’s ridiculous, I didn’t have a love rival either

Nina passing by: only cause I let you win,buddy

[insignificant457]

There is a nebulous jordie lives au which lives entirely in my head in which jordie recovers from the plague while Kaz is still sick. He gets up to find them food and water only to return and discover Kaz is nowhere to be found. Still recovering from the fever, he searches the barrel for days before he finally sees Kaz wandering down the staves in a sort of fugue state, soaked to the bone with a haunted look in his eyes.

Kaz won’t tell him what happened, but jordie knows it’s bad because his baby brother flinches every time he touches him, and soon enough he’s started wearing gloves, even in the height of summer.

Soon, they discover kazs gift for cards, and it keeps them fed and clothed, if not much else. Kaz is angry at jordie for losing the money, refuses to let him make any decisions. Jordie is beholden to his angry traumatized little brother because he can’t deny that he failed them the first time around.

Kaz is offered a place in his pick of the gangs, but the only one willing to take both him and his tag along older brother is the dregs. Jordie dies a little bit inside when they join up, when they take the tattoo side by side, but he’s not sure they’ll survive another winter on the streets.

And the plot of SoC generally goes on from there. Jordie tags along on the ice court, he and Jesper test kazs patience at every turn, he’s constantly offering unsolicited annoying older brother advice about Inej.

This lends itself to a really interesting exploration of Kaz and jordies relationship, what holds brothers together in the face of incredible trauma, the skewed power dynamic of Kaz becoming the breadwinner for them both at the age of nine, etc etc. But mostly, this au is a vessel for the sailing of the ultimate crack ship, which is of course, jordie/alys Van Eck.

[evellynssocbrainrot]

All I'm gonna say is that Show Kaz Brekker, played by the phenomenal Freddy Carter, will always be the most iconic thing I've ever seen.

I also miss him 🥲

[shaykappa]

Just so you know, I am not obsessed with six of crows. I haven't hugged the book because it was just that good. I haven't cried over the "He was just Wylan Van Eck. He told them everything." scene. I haven't dreamt of the ice court heist and Kaz scheming and Van Eck being a dick. I am just a normal person, okay?

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

I think a really underrated quote from chapter 3 of Six of Crows is when Van Eck tells Kaz that he can’t help but wonder what “a boy of your intelligence might have amounted to under different circumstances” and Kaz replies “I’d just be stealing from a better class of sucker” because whilst at face value this is simply a suggestion of this is who he is and circumstance wouldn’t have changed that it’s also yet again an insult of Van Eck and a continuation of Kaz’s direct assault of Van Eck’s performative morality and the philosophical conversation they’ve been having about murder and trade - such as when Kaz states that 1 in 5 if Van Eck’s ships never return to port because they sink or fall prey to pirates so ��let’s not speak of violence” or of Kaz openly claiming that they share the same cause for both being murderers: “profit”.

[apathetic-kiss]

Kerch History Museum (Section 2B, Ketterdam Artifact Archives)

Photograph of Inej "Wraith" Ghafa and an unknown individual crossing the rooftops of Ketterdam. Ghafa was infamous due her ties with the Dregs and her association with Kaz "Dirtyhands" Brekker, but would later go on to become one of the most renowned pirate captains known for taking down hundreds of slaver ships and rescuing thousands of kidnapped individuals being trafficked to Kerch under exploitative indenture contracts. (For more information, see Exhibit 21: Indenture Laws & Kerch's History of Slavery, Exhibit 23: The Dregs & Other Notable Ketterdam Gangs, and Exhibit 26: Sankta Inej & Other Modern Saints) Obtained from an anonymous donor 4.25" x 3.14" Photographer Unknown Artifact #24383

[ketterdamswinchester]

“Kaz Brekker ripping out oomens eyes was so hot” this “ Matthias’s helgate look” that. FUCK THOSE. Let’s talk about Jesper Llewellyn Fahey shit talking J*n Van Eck to comfort Wylan after he found out about his mother and then telling that piece of shit that he would read to Wylan. Because me and my daddy issues would have married that man right then and there for that ALONE.

[capinejghafa]

I know this is a little dumb but I just love reading fics that have Kaz bypassing all of the Van Eck’s mansion security measures post-canon. For whatever reason it makes me smile. Like Kaz use the front door, Wylan and Jesper might let you in, and he never does. Good for him.

[wecanstart-fresh2day]

If I see one more person saying that Kaz calling Inej an investment was romantic I’m going to invest in a gun

[light-cornflower-blue]