#my friends as the grishaverse

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Grishaverse text posts I made based on things my friends and I have actually said. In real life.

Part 33, which is definitely not a ridiculous number of parts (I’m never gonna stop sorry not sorry)

Nina, rooting around in her bag: Ughhh why don’t I have eyeballs on my fingers so that I can actually see?

Nina: That is not too unreasonable a request

Jesper, opening a big bottle of lemonade: I don’t know how shaken up this is

*lemonade fizzes*

Inej: Maybe let’s open it over the sink, then.

Jesper, in a high pitched mocking voice: Oooh I’m Inej I think-

*lemonade fizzes menacingly*

Jesper: Oh, okay, maybe we should open it over the sink

*Inej takes the lemonade to the sink and starts opening it slowly and carefully*

Jesper, in the same high pitched voice: Ooo I’m Inej I make logical decisions

*Inej opens the lemonade and then takes it back to the glasses to pour them out*

Jesper: Wow, so mess free, so adult. Look at us, so grown up

Inej: Us!?

Inej: Living in my closet does not give you the right to my mother’s oven gloves

Kaz, refusing to give her the oven gloves: Yes it does

I didn’t realise how weird this sounds until I wrote it down helpppp

*context: Plumjae/Wylan’s younger sibling had a party the previous evening*

Wylan: A teenager damaged one of my Lego plants last night. Now it’s personal

[catdoingblep]

Nina, realizing that Jesper is in love with Wylan: oh, thank Saints, I am really happy that you are recovering from your disease

Jesper, terrified: disease? What disease?

Nina: yes, a common bisexual disease widely known as "terrible taste in men" I thought it reached a terminal stage when I learned that you had a crush on Kaz

Jesper: I really don't think it is a real disease...

Nina: I will tell Matthias that his prayers are finally working! He was praying for your health every day!

[olskuvallanpoe]

i like au multishipping and stuff but in canon i think kaz/jesper romance ruins their dynamic. and a lot of the drive to make it romantic comes from wanting to explore the depths of it. but their platonic relationship has so much depth and complexity. like the way kaz sees jesper as a friend and companion isn’t talked about nearly enough. he called jesper the name of the brother he’d been trying to avenge for eight years. he brought jesper to the parlay with geels. he loves jesper deeply and platonically in canon, and i think so many people cheapen platonic relationships and treat them like they aren’t good enough, but jesper and kaz love each other. they’re best friends. they fight and insult each other, but at the end of the day, they trust and care for one another. they rely on each other, and that deep platonic love and respect is beautiful and should be cherished more.

[spacespore]

drew them so quick that they look strange.. oh well!still figuring out how i want them to look anyway!

ill probably make some more finished drawings soon:3 and draw the other characters!

[jazzkrebber]

netflix I'm in your walls

[ejga-ostja]

Another pony! My favourite babygirl!

Artist notes: - His cutie-mark represents his kindness, his love for Fjerda and his devotion for the causes he chooses to fight for. He got his cutie-mark when he met Trassel and let himself get bitten. - He's an earth pony bc it seems very fitting to him being a soldier - Big-ass horse

[skepticalcatfrog]

If there's one thing I'm going to be thinking about always, it's "All Wylan wanted to do was stand as close as he possibly could to him and know that he was safe."

Like. Man. I can't properly articulate how that makes me feel.

[evellynssocbrainrot]

To be honest, the part of Crooked Kingdom that truly broke my soul wasn't Matthias's death. It was the fact that the story ended.

[crimeronan]

re that bigass post i just rbed: Every Time i add a new country to the planet tachni is on, i'm like, "god dammit. someday i'm gonna have to make geographic sense of all this." just keeping a sort of amorphous mental blob of continents and islands isn't gonna help....

from the start, my Biggest priority with the worldbuilding has been to create a planet the size of earth, which feels like it's populated by just as many countries & just as many thousands of languages and cultures & just as many millenniums of history. even if i do not know the intricacies of every single culture.

this is because i am sick to Death of fantasy worlds that are like "this land mass is the only place that sentient life exists. it's the size of the UK and everything else is water :)" or "there are five cultures. three are europe, one is asia, and one is africa. btw if you do math about the maps the entire landmass is the size of the UK :)"

....BUT.

whenever i sit down. to plot out an entire planet's landmasses. and cities. and basic history. and agriculture.

i'm like.

.....wow.

god damn.

i understand the appeal of making this place the size of the UK.

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Grishaverse text posts I made based on things my friends and I have actually said. In real life.

Pretty sure this is part 23

Wylan: I’ve got anxiety, I DON’T fall over

Jesper: … what?

Wylan: I am very steady on my feet

Jesper: Who trusted me with adult money? Today I impulse bought a pomegranate for literally no reason except that it was there and I wanted it. I think I’m gonna put it in a salad but now I have to figure out how to cut it

Wylan: How do you not know how to cut a pomegranate?

Jesper: Well I’ve never bought a pomegranate before

Wylan: How have you never bought a pomegranate before????

Jesper: Just spoke to my Da he said he doesn’t think he’s ever bought a pomegranate in his entire life

Wylan: HOW!??????

Wylan: It’s actually on my mind 24/7

Jesper: I don’t know what’s on my mind 24/7, it’s just like a duck - no, it’s a goose just like revolving

Jesper: What brain cells? I’ve just got a goose

[about a minute later]

Jesper: There’s no real way of understanding how my brain works. If I was the Truman show people would be so confused

Nina: I don’t try to be iconic, I just am

[padfoot-lupin77]

Since I have to spend almost three weeks studying way too many hours every day, I have to somehow stay motivated. So far it’s been two days and I’ve been writing stuff on my hand with the Kerch alphabet. Yesterday it was “study bitch” today I wrote “don’t disappoint Kaz and Inej”. Wonder what I’m gonna write tomorrow

[xadenviolct]

*browses through tumblr tags again*

*misses all the potential that grishaverse could have held*

Seriously, there was some epic story potential there if Bardugo had only taken a few more risks. A few more avenues explored that weren't "typical".

And yes, I guess the mid 2010s (Shadow & Bone was published in 2012 I believe?) there weren't a lot of "risk taking" in the YA genre and I can get that... sort of.

Maybe.

Because the bare bones of the story? The plot itself?

It's so utterly good. And there's depth there between dark and light, and outcast and minorities in a society (the Grisha) and the symbolism between power and corruption, monarchy--

Just--

I could probably rant on how much COULD HAVE BEEN with these books, with this story, and yet what did we ultimately get?

A boring, tired, childhood friends to lovers, power corrupts, keep the status quo story line.

Yawn.

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE the idea. The plot. The characters. Everything about it.

I love what it could have been.

I just... wish it was given such a chance to do that?

I want THAT story.

I want the morally grey "how far is too far". I want the revolutions. I want the dark versus light, the yin and yang. I want the comparisons between Nikolai and Aleksander and I want Mal's mediocrity to actually be addressed and dealt with.

I don't want the FMC to ... settle in the end. To make herself smaller so the "ordinary" male love interest is satisfied. Because I keep thinking of the scene of her in the window, playing with the sunlight--

Mal might be happy, but Alina settled.

And that is not the message I want. That is not the message that should have been told, either.

I want the blurry lines between what is right and wrong. What is necessary for the good of many versus the good of the one.

And you know what?

That's where the books failed.

Because I'm sorry. Like Mal all you want, but the guy was just...

So far below mediocre it was ridiculous.

[arillusionist]

“happy inej

sad wylan

mentally disturbed matthias

super nina

drama jesper

big ol’ llama kaz”

-my 10 yr sister who has never read six of crows

[where-is-the-angst]

i haven’t even read the grishaverse but as a certified slavic the fact the alina’s last name is starkov instead of starkova (and other examples of just weird cultural misrepresentations) REALLY irks me

[altrame]

I'm 89% sure there was a pic like this going around but I didn't save it so let's just say I was inspired by @ letraspal's gorgeous gorgeous SnowBaz fanart. Which is also true.

Something about this looks off but I can't bring myself to try and fix it again, I've been staring at it for too long!! Get it away from me!!

[whitevesper]

six of crows as things my friends have said pt. 5

nina on phone: we’re already flying to usa! wish us good luck!

inej: *waves hand from plane*

jesper: *shows phone to kaz and wylan*

jesper: half of my friends are flying to usa, while i’m studying here…

wylan: at least you are studying.

kaz: at least you have friends.

matthias on phone too: kaz, aren’t we your friends?

*silence*

*silence*

jesper: kaz?..