#nikolai hated thing

[local-crying-boy]

Today in Nikolai’s hated thing of the day:

My favourite teacher not being in…

Tut, tut, sir… WHERE AM I SUPPOSED TO GO AT LUNCH AT BREAK?!???

Sir, sir… please, my favourite teacher, my piano teacher. Please. This ain’t fair, bossman.

I just wanna go in the practice roooomsss

Pls.

BUT NO

this mf ain’t in.

He better be in tomorrow, I have been waiting for a lesson all week :<

[bajablastable]

yipee

[unanottexxx]

i love how we add +lai or +zai at the and of everything that slighlty relates to nikolai or dazai. laizai. but what's their ship name?

[meloriri]

today i bring you teruko, tomorrow, who knows….

[servethelight]

Cod headcanon:

Soap discovers the band ghost in Nikolai’s playlist (my fave metalhead) and starts listening to them mainly because he thinks he’s super funny. But since they make pretty good music he starts to like them and his favorite is “call me little sunshine”

[kikizoshi]

can we form a coup against asagiri and make you the writer instead? genuinely... I am not taking the Fyodor immortal information well.. please help............................ ( ´，_ゝ` )

Oh, I would absolutely not do BSD well either. I just wish Asagiri had stuck to his roots more. He was a great comedy writer, and the beginning of the story was great for it. It's the action and Death Note stuff he can't seem to get mastery of. But for the immortal part: I'm not entirely sold that Fyodor's immortal, yet. It seems like yet another twists that will twist to reveal oh, shocker, he faked his memories to confuse Sigma/the ADA... or something. Could very well be immortal, but not 100% guaranteed.

[surreal-duck]

more oc stuff 🎉 i love divorce

[1jemmagirl22]

Can I just say how much I appreciate the fact that Shadow and Bone season 2 stuck to the crucial lines. Like my gods they stuck to them.

Nikolai Lantsov’s best lines were put word for fucking word into season 2.

Kaz and Inej had word for fucking word scenes in season 2.

Kaz Brekker had one of best scenes word for word in season 2. 

The Zoyalai fans has a single split second crumb and it was word for fucking word. 

Shadow and Bone needs to get renewed for a season 3, and the Crows spin-off needs to get green lit for many reasons, but most of all we should want this because I have never seen an adaptation this accurate. Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter weren’t even this accurate! Every nerd corner stone adaptation ever made (Save maybe Good Omens, but that’s just cause Neil Gaiman himself is writing it) has ever been this word for word fucking accurate while making everything so different. 

It is unique to Shadow and Bone and it is fucking brilliant! 

We need more people, and we need to make sure Netflix knows! Because my gods we will never get a chance at a cast this perfect and writers this invested in the source material again. We hit the jack pot people, we need to make sure we keep it. 

[pegging-satan]

If you’d told me that I’d be shipping a bunch of classic lit authors with each other say like, a year ago, I would’ve laughed in your face

[antihibikase-archive]

Brand New Terrible Situationship

[local-crying-boy]

Today in Nikolai’s hated thing of the day:

Really annoying people.

Yes, yes, third time about people, but UGH.

Cadets be getting annoying with some new people and, honestly, I’ve never wanted to NOT go to it :/

These fucking girls man!! My DAYS PLEASE.

I love cadets, it’s the one thing I got going for me and these annoying asf girls are proper making me want to not go.

In parade = stay FUCKING STILL

Colour/sarnt is in the room? = don’t be a dick

In the building? = behave please. You would not be acting lil this in a serious place

Like it’s ARMY cadets. ARMY.

If you don’t wanna be there, don’t go.

[lingeringscars]

couple gris.haverse (primarily alina) things

big fan of nikolai and alina as a friendship. i did not particularly care for nikolai in s&s (or r&r but i still cried at everything related to him and like props to leigh for that) but i did love the fact that alina had someone else that they could talk to. i still think about them linking arms At All Times. It's not a hard & fast no romantic them for me, i guess, but it would definitely depend on the nikolai writer

Alina is never queen <3 hope that helps <3 i understand the show direction here but alina never wanted to be queen and her saying no to nikolai in the end was sooo important. she has given enough.

alina is not ?? selfish ?? or stupid ?? for being like hey i cannot physically or mentally give anything else right now and i need to go

alina is well aware that there are people that are better equipped for this particular role and it was never something they wanted to begin with. they took on as much as they could. they died for it. they couldn't come back from what happened in destroying the fold and Be A Leader.

sainthood definitely plays into this. alina is so much more than a grisha, so much more than a person. alina will never be fully grisha or fully otkazat'sya. that in between is really something that no one else can understand, either.

i do keep alina losing her powers because i personally thought it was powerful and showcased the fact that she literally gave everything to ravka. it also felt like the apt conclusion to her search for the amplifiers, the warnings about what possessing them would do, and in general the passing of them to otkazat'sya was A lot. following, alina is already hounded by sun saint people ( pls i'm forgetting the names for the groups rn ) and that constant reminder of losing her powers is gutting, and it's another reason that they can't just Go Back

alina doesn't stop caring about ravka? or grisha? the fight just looks different for her now

Also putting out there that alina is In Love With genya & Has Complicated Feelings re Zoya

also complicated feelings about the darkling but i have less than 0 interest in exploring anything romantic between them ever

mal has complicated feelings re nikolai thank u <3

it's actually not that unreasonable that mal would need to adjust to alina being grisha and also that he would have to react to his own trauma. i know this is an extreme take.

mal deserted the army for alina, mal would follow alina, but mal also Good at what he did. he was vital. he was a tracker and was useful and he lost that in part. he got to live despite this, in part because of alina, and there is a part of mal that wishes that they had treated him like any deserter

does mal fuck up? yes. is show!mal somehow better than book!mal because he isn't as traumatized? no? he needs to adjust to everything that has happened, and eventually he needs to adjust to him actually dying (+ also to alina killing him even if he was adamant that it needed to happen). it's part of why i'm very okay with his ending in the show because i do think that he needs to find a purpose and explore without his tracking abilities. this is more complicated with Misha because mal is extremely protective of him, but i think alina going back to keramzin with him helps him. at this point he can also better recognize that he can't just go back and it wouldn't be fair to either of them (or himself)

i honestly do not think inej's trauma has been erased. i definitely understand the gripe with tante heleen being killed off screen and the s1 reaction. inej freezing is very important to me. but so is the fact that inej tells kaz that she struggles too.

inej and kaz have different reactions to touch. inej had to adapt to touch in a way kaz also has not needed to on account of their different circumstances. this is not me saying that kaz would have been able to or any of that, but inej in order to survive DID. kaz became the bastard of the barrel but inej became the wraith. able to disappear in a moment, even if not physically.

inej canonly has to spell out that she struggles even when jesper and nina touch her. idk maybe i'm being too kind but i do think that amita showed hesitation in many cases. we're not in their heads so we need those little context clues; inej hesitating before initiating anything, rarely initiating but responding to the people close to her. the point is just inej is accustomed to swallowing that fear, but that does not mean it is not there. it just presents itself differently! and that's okay! something i care a LOT about in this series is that they show the different manners in which trauma manifests because it is not the same for everyone

i think inej would take issue with nina making a show to turn leoni and adrik into saints

i also think leoni does not particularly like this, she just understands and agreed with the reasoning. however, she was dedicated to the mission in fjerda and thinks that more good could have come if her cover had not been blown, making her and adrik unsafe

she does not resent nina for this and does believe much good comes from it. she chooses to focus on that. they helped people who needed help, and that is worth it in her eyes.

it is a choice, though. leoni chooses to be optimistic. she chooses to see the good. she was saved by someone who was willing to die to save her, who took on the poisons herself so that leoni could live, and she chooses to honor this every day. she was blessed in more ways than one.

she also needs to see the greater good because she knows that she is helping create things that are killing people. this is something that she can struggle with a lot. she needs to believe that the cause is just and that it will end with less suffering overall.

[roguelov]

Watching shadow and bone and having read all the books years ago is like *squinting at the tv* ok did that happen in the books? Wait what changed? Ok that’s different for sure … I think

[fulltimeviking]

pov i am watching shadow and bone season 2

[miabrown007]

mal in the grishaverse is to alina what jacob in twilight has been to bella. in this essay i'll...

[daz4i]

sometimes bsd reddit can be fun but sometimes i will go on it and see posts like "why do people think dazai is depressed? i don't remember it ever being mentioned, is it just a common fanon thing?"