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Who is this sassy lost child?
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#lan wangji#a-yuan#A-Yuan knows how to to utilise his big wet eyes to get treats. What a little legend.#The crowd comments about LWJ being 'daddy' and WWX being 'the mother' are a little too 'fan-service bait' for me.#So I am personally reimagining it as another layer of 'misinterpretation of a more complex situation' commentary.#I like how the different styles of interacting with children WWX an LWJ exhibit say so much about their own childhoods.#We - human beings in the real world - take two lessons from how we were parented: What we valued and what we wish we had.#LWJ leaning into indulgence is him pushing back against his own childhood of asceticism. It's something he didn't have - so he gives it.#WWX on the other hand has been *so* defined by his drive to indulge. And here he is the restrictor!#It takes a bit more to see what's going on here. The factors are not singular.#but to keep it in theme with LWJ; I'd propose it is partly his way of establishing structure when he did not have it as a child.#Both approches are a way of saying 'I didn't have this and I wish I did.'#With LWJ it's pretty obvious why...but WWX? What is at your core? What is your regret towards a lack of restriction?#Or...What benefit do you think it gives this child to learn the harsh lessons of going without?#Did it make you strong when you were a child? Do you think it is just the nature of the world and we all must learn it?#How we interact with children is such a fascinating topic to delve into our psychology and neuroses.#In a more light hearted turn of topic:#WWX confirmed to be 'person taking the car to the drive through to order one black coffee for himself' on the triangle spectrum.#LWJ is saying 'we have food at home' as he is opening his wallet ready to order for everyone.#(Technically this is comic 213 but yippee! We are in the 200's now! Thank you all so much for reading and cheering me on!)
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Best thing about mkx was Takeda's ass shots
#they didnt need to make it shiny#they didnt need to add the ass straps#but they did#and im thankful for it#i finished rewatching x and its worse than i remember but takedas ass really helped me push through it#bro took all the ass shots from the female characters#i legit dont remember seeing any#then again takedas mightve been too distracting for me to notice#takeda takahashi#mortal kombat#mortal kombat x#mkx#cfa posts#probably gonna draw him soon
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why don't you let yourself be gently peeled off the ground and tossed across the back of a horse like a sack of potatoes by the most handsome man in china, then maybe you'll calm down
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#xu da#carrying one (1) soggy corpse#general ouyang#hwdtw spoilers#he who drowned the world spoilers#the radiant emperor#i forgot that xu da reties his hands before doing this but it's fine. it's fine sfkfhsf#ouyang: i want to grind zhu into a bloody smear in the dirt until there's nothing left#also ouyang: grinds himself into a bloody smear in the dirt until there's nothing left except Gay Thoughts#this was meant to just be a quick doodle but then i couldn't stop accidentally sort of taking it seriously and now here we are#pov the ruthless general who razed your childhood home (forcing you into a traumatic life of banditry) + almost killed your little brother#is simultaneously just a deranged little guy. and u can pick him up.#blood cw#ALSO….. thank you for the nice comments on the WIP - they gave me the necessary serotonin to push through 🥺💖#my art
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kitchen plot will return shortly!
#post's rambles#post's doodle bin#huge huge thank you to everyone in the asks still powering through and pushing it onwards!
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If ur still taking any doodle requests, any of the gobusters cast (: no worries if you have too many though i dont want you pushing yourself too hard or anything <3
woke up, saw this, shouted "ITS TIME FOR BUSTER" and ran to my computer wahah!
Well... more accurately... i rolled over, swiped a loose paper off the floor, and drew up a quick layout in bed with a highlighter cause i wanted to make sure i didn't forget the image while i was brushing teeth aahah
#lol you said don't push yourself so i drew all of them lmao sorry#it was too much work choosing i love them all so so so much#super sentai#tokumei sentai go buster#hiromu sakurada#ryuji iwasaki#yoko usami#masato jin#beet j stag#i love them so much... i miss them so much....#go busters my besties#jin and j are so yoshiko coded btw... peak gold silver duo to me#peak as individuals too but do not separate please... kobayashi... girl you're killing me...#thank you rey for my life... Gobusters fans yay~!#we are skipping and jumping together through the toku quarry#there're explosions occurring behinds us...#it looks sick as hell
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moot @beannary! some au comp support from the sidelines
->Based on this post<-
#good luck in the competition-I give you paper towels for support#Alis has good intentions but bad execution:}#may I trouble you with some help dear friend? that stab wound looks like it could use some paper towels#tmnt au propaganda#my art#tmnt spitfire#tmnt separated au#thank you tumblr for breaking and making my blog/likes/followers wig out BUT WE PUSHED THROUGH FOR THE HOMIES#art 4 others
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Why do you think the tides have slightly turned from "Elia deserves better than Rhaegar" to shipping her and Rhaegar together? Like what is the psychology behind these people because I've seen some of them like/reblog anti Rhaegar posts while also shipping Rhaegar x Elia at the same time.
hey anon! my thoughts are a bit messy, but i’ve done my best to explain them coherently :)
so, rhaegar was the best man anyone could have when elia was alive, and most people want the best for their favs. he was considered the most handsome, didn’t have a bad personality, and he was crown prince—meaning elia was almost queen, which is often seen as the greatest role a woman can have. the narrative also treats rhaegar as a beautiful, tragic, haunting figure, and elia actually had this very aesthetically pleasing man all to herself at one point! she was married to him, had children with him, and her life was so close to perfect! but rhaegar just had to go and ruin it. 😠
for many elia stans, if rhaegar hadn’t fallen in love with another woman (they want him to have been a completely different character), then everything would’ve been perfect, and elia would’ve had the best, most desirable life. however, that’s not what happened—elia met a very tragic end, and as a result, these stans feel double the bitterness. because of this bitterness, they blame rhaegar for everything (even though it’s not logical to do so), but he’s just too ‘perfect’ to let go of. so, for years these stans have made rhaegar revolve around elia, filling his tag with posts about her out of bitterness. so, i do believe that this obsession with rhaegar x elia has always been there, but i think it’s become a more favorable stance on the elia stan side of the fandom because of a mix of reasons.
plus, rhaegar is one of the few canon relationships we know elia had, since she’s not much of a character. because of this, and the fact that most people don’t like to stray too far from canon, most elia stans are forced to focus on rhaegar, which has created an echo chamber. basically, if a sentiment about elia and rhaegar’s relationship becomes popular, then the whole elia stan side of the fandom will likely regurgitate the sentiment. (also, this desire to stick close to canon is likely why the elia x arthur ship was so popular. while it’s a total crack ship, it had good aesthetics, and since elia and arthur at least knew each other, it allowed the stans to create their perfect fanfiction whilst sticking it to rhaegar. but remember, elia was actually married to rhaegar and had children with him, so while arthur is cool, rhaegar was always ‘top dog,’ meaning arthur would never be able to match up to rhaegar to most elia stans. also, the arthur x elia crack ship is likely her second most popular ship, which just shows how little elia stans have to work with, so they’re always forced to eventually return back to rhaegar for a lot of things.)
however, even if the elia x rhaegar ship gains more popularity, these stans will never stop hating rhaegar because he wasn’t ‘perfect’—and he wasn’t perfect because he didn’t love elia. plus, rhaegar loving another woman and supposedly kidnapping her is what began the war that led to elia’s tragic death. that’s bitterness times 1000. and while i don’t actually blame rhaegar for the war, i do think that this is how an elia stan sees it. i also don’t view rhaegar’s complex relationship with elia as a bad thing—it’s actually a very realistic take on an arranged marriage between two decent people. but most elia stans will never be able to get over the fact that they almost had everything, which is why many have it out for lyanna, as they consider her a thief who ruined their ‘perfection.’
tbh, that might be why so many elia stans are so obsessed with the idea that rhaegar only got with lyanna because of the prophecy—they don’t want to believe that rhaegar actually loved a different woman and not their perfect self insert elia. that’s a bit mean of me… but i don’t know what else one would call the ‘elia’ elia stans have created.
now that i’ve laid all those thoughts out, i’ll try to explain why the tides seem to be turning… i think it may have something to do with the ‘targaryens are all evil and bad’ sentiment losing popularity. i think this shift has occurred due to a mix of factors, such as years of fandom fights and fandom cycles leading to the targs being more liked now than before. it helps that canon doesn’t actually condemn the targs/favors them quite a bit, and the influx of new targ fans from HOTD has also contributed. this combination of reasons seems to have shifted the way the mainstream fandom discusses all the targaryen characters, including rhaegar. so, with this shift, it’s only natural that some elia stans/elia x rhaegar shippers—who’ve always been there—are using this opportunity to push their agenda. while these stans still hate rhaegar and see him as the bad guy, they just can’t let go of him. and as the mainstream fandom moves away from the anti targaryen sentiment, these smaller corners of the fandom, which tend to be echo chambers, are also affected, which has therefore led to a rise in rhaegar x elia shippers and the ‘shifting tide’ that you’ve also noticed.
#‘if only rhaegar did this’ is a very common sentiment amongst elia stans#most stans have always had the ‘if only’ mindset#‘if only elia survived’ easily leads to ‘if only rhaegar didn’t run off with his whore’ as the targs become less hated#it’s kinda a pipeline? rhaegar anti plus elia stan leads to rhaegar x elia shipper who still hates rhaegar#another reason that a lot of this happens is because elia and the martells plus dorne are the good ‘others’ a person can like#while the targaryens are the ‘bad others’ one can safely hate as they’re white & have a bit of demon symbolism + come from an ‘evil’ empire#the targs also ruled over everyone so a lot of fans like pushing all the blame onto them for all the problems#however the targs are cool and they’re hot af and being royalty is the best! so they’re the ‘bad others’ one can safely hate#but people still want their aesthetic and want their favs to have what the targs had. all the cool magic + the aesthetic + danys monikers#so people can convince themselves that it’s okay and logical and right to hate the targs but most ppl will still connect their favs to them#of course… things have been shifting in the fandom which i’m very happy about#and all of these sentiments are combined and compressed when it comes to rhaegar and elias relationship#so any big shift on how the fandom views the targs will always affect the way rhaegar and elias relationship is viewed#it just so happens that the targs aren’t the evil dragon nazis anymore so it’s kinda okay for elia stans to ship him with her#i’m not gonna go through my tags and make sure they make sense so i’m simply hoping for the best#anyways… i hope i didn’t digress too much. i just found this shift so interesting so i couldn’t help myself#asoiaf fandom critical#anti elia stans#rhaegar targaryen#anti rhaegar x elia#house targaryen#valyrianscrolls#pro rhaelya#lyanna stark#rhaegar x lyanna#anon ask#thanks anon this was a fun topic to cover#i recently found a really old post about both elia and lyanna and boy… it was quite discusting to read#elia stans kinda cycle from ‘elia deserved better x crack ship with shallow aesthetic’ back to elia x rhaegar while shitting on rhaelya#just know that rhaegar is always the bad guy to them! the sentiment on lyanna will go from hot to cold but rhaelya is always bad as well!
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Welp, it's finally happened. PC finally died, the motherboard fried. Thank you for the past 3 years of allowing me to draw digitally, you reliable hunk of metal. I wish you weren't sold to me broken and full of viruses in the first place, but we still managed through the odds nonetheless.
I'll miss this thing, no matter how much of a pain in the ass it was most of the time. 🥹🥲
Now to the problem of 'how will I do commissions now'....
#ziku's insane rambles#Thanks for all the good times you brave soldier#As painful as it was dealing with this PC... I cannot lie. It really pushed through A LOT#And for that#I commend it#I don't recommend it though lmao#but yeah#I'll miss this hunk of junk
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im gonna be honest, I keep rereading pt 3 and 4 of the slasher handler and fantasising about how incredibly sexy it would be if kyle acquired a handler of his own by accident or on purpose and he finally understands simon's obsession now 😵💫
Slasher Handler Masterlist
Kyle and Simon aren't friends, per se. They only met through Johnny, because Johnny is sloppy and impulsive and never knows how to clean up his own messes. It's offensive to Kyle's meticulous nature and, apparently, appeals to Simon's need for a pet.
Since Johnny's been serving time for the last nine months, with nine months to go (sloppy work, he's lucky Kyle was able to clean things up), Simon's gone to ground. Every now and then, news of his work pops up. Once, one of the victims had ended up at the hospital Kyle works at.
"The Ghost Killer strikes again! Ah...! Run...!" Kyle had muttered to himself, taking the unconscious young man's rapidly fading vitals. They'd found him in an abandoned building, an old hospital well outside of Simon's usual territory. Which means something has changed.
That evening, sipping a beer, he'd called Price on his burner.
"What can I do for you, Kyle?"
"Just letting you know that your dog is out of the yard. The big one, not the terrier," Kyle answers with a smile. "He left behind a bit of a mess, but there was only one little rabbit left suffering. I handled it."
Price had hummed on the other end. "I saw the news. 'S not like him. I'll check in." And then he'd hung up.
Months later, and Kyle finally has an answer when he catches Simon trailing behind a woman not once but three times. He's surprised to see her face, an old classmate and the justification for his second ever human kill. He's almost sad to know that she's been marked for death. When he hears about the Ski Lodge massacre and the Ghost copycat, he has a drink in her honor.
So it's a surprise when she reaches out to him online and asks to meet.
She's frazzled and wild-eyed when she sits in the chair across from him. She's also wearing one of Simon's beanies. And when she reveals what Simon's been up to, he can't help but laugh.
Simon - the weird, off-putting, murderous Ghost - has somehow managed to find the one person in the world who devotes herself to a project more than him. The Final Girl Girlfriend.
They're both doomed.
Kyle begins the painstaking process of reviewing his daily journals for mentions of Simon and their shared connections. It's very unlikely that Simon would be caught alive, and even more unlikely that he'd say anything about Kyle or Johnny or Price. But unlikely isn't impossible, so it's important to start getting his stories straight now.
Reviewing, flagging, and annotating his journals from his initial meeting with Johnny to now takes a month and three days. It's always an interesting process, looking at his life with the advantage of hindsight. There's always a new fascinating pattern to examine. For example, that first summer, he'd meet with Johnny every other week, and two and six days later, he'd gradually step up a patient's blood thinners.
Another pattern that's emerged is that he hasn't dated anyone for more than 35 days in the last three years. That's about as long as it takes for his exacting nature to become... a conflict. It's not much of a problem. He's a nurse, he works long hours. He's got a gym routine and volunteers at the local pet rescue once a week. He's a part of the community, so he doesn't stick out as a loner. But he's also solidly at a point in his life where someone would expect him to have a partner.
He makes an online dating profile. It takes a week for him to delete the app.
"Darlene," he greets the head nurse with a smile and her favorite coffee at the beginning of his next shift. "How are you today?"
"Kyle." As always, she barely glances at him, just holds out her hand for her drink. "You're early. What do you want?"
She's right, he's thirty minutes early. He grins. "You wound me. Can't I just want to know how a beautiful woman is doing?"
Darlene gives him a blank look over the top of her bifocals. "Save it for the maternity ward, Garrick. What do you want?"
"Just wanna know the lay of the land," he says, coming around the desk and taking the seat next to her. He likes Darlene because she only expects him to be coy for a short time. "Been on the apps, trying to date. But my hours make things difficult. You know everybody's business. How is anyone in a relationship around here?"
"The surgeons are all on meth, the rest of the doctors are on coke, and the nurses are either fucking each other or their high school sweethearts," Darlene says, dry as a desert. "You know this already. What do you actually want?"
"That's it," he says with a shrug. "Just want to know who's not seeing anyone, or if you know of someone at another campus with the time."
She takes a sip of her coffee and thinks for a moment. "Stay off the psych and plastics floors. Maternity floor's about to get a whole new batch since all of those idiots got pregnant within three months of each other. But there's something in the water up there, so unless you also want a baby, I'd say leave them alone."
"James is on the maternity floor," Kyle points out.
"James cheated on his boyfriend and his side piece with another nurse," Darlene points out, settling into her coffee and gossip. "Which is another reason to stay away from plastics, but also trauma and rads. I didn't know you were bisexual."
"Doesn't come up much," Kyle dismisses, sipping his own coffee.
By the time Kyle has to clock in, they've explored the pros and cons of almost every department. The prospects are pretty grim. Maybe being single isn't the worst thing in the world.
He makes a point of spending time with the other nurses for the next month. He goes out for drinks and karaoke, attends a couple of baby showers. Lets on to a couple of gossips that he's looking, tells another that he's not sure he has time to date. Enjoys the conclusion of a project when a racist old bastard finally has the heart attack he can't bounce back from.
And then the nurse coroner flags the death for investigation.
Kyle doesn't panic because technically all deaths in the hospital are investigated. But he is intrigued. His own notes show that the patient's condition was well within the expected parameters of recovery and relapse. His medications were administered appropriately while Kyle was on shift, and the hydrogen peroxide added to his IV would have been nigh undetectable.
In the end, the hospital is not determined to be at fault for the death, and that's all that administration cares about. But the cause of death is changed from heart attack to embolism in the record, and that is intriguing.
"Knock knock," Kyle says, poking his head into the office area of the morgue. He expects to see Dennis, the older gentleman running the morgue unit, who waves back at him. He doesn't expect the new face, sitting across the desk from him.
"Good morning, Kyle," Dennis greets, waving him in. "Been a bit since you've come to see us. Care for some tea?"
"Can't," Kyle says, apologetically. "Just dropping someone off."
"Well, at least let me introduce our new nurse!"
The new nurse gives him a no-nonsense handshake and a nod. They don't say much beyond their name, and Kyle is pleased to put a face to the name on the investigation into his last project. He wasn't exaggerating when he said he couldn't stay long, so he says his goodbyes.
But when his next completed project is flagged for investigation again, he decides that maybe it's time to take an interest.
#cod#fanfiction#dark fic#slasher handler#kyle gaz garrick#gaz appreciation nation#dragonnarrativewrites fanfiction#coffeeshop chats#thank you so much for this ask#this really helped me push through the writers block!
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HARRY: I am a directioner first and a human being second (real)
#harry styles#stylesnews#stylesedits#hledit#hlcreators#hljournal#1dsource#gif*#europeans besties i know youre awake please dont leave me hanging i worked on this through the breakdown#harry should pay me i am pushing the correct agenda thank u very much#https://www.tiktok.com/@fabiwndrlnd/video/7123308200018971909?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&lang=pt-BR#there was more on my little list but this already took me an eternity#i had to download the whole bta doc just for that gif lmao
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The Boys S01E05: Good for the Soul
#hughie campbell#jack quaid#homelander#anthony starr#the boys#cara gifs#also the way homelander throws hughie down is just#oh it's very good#it feels so violent#ALSO#homelander's grip on his wrist in that last one??#how careful he's being not to push his hand right through hughie's back during that pat tbh#(but still i bet hughie has bruises in the shape of homelander's hands for WEEKS after)#you know i had to include hughie panicking underwater#this whole scene is just so fucking good#THIS EPISODE AS A WHOLE TBH#i'll just be over here#checking ao3 for homelander/hughie fics#of the badwrong variety thanks#yes I do think hughie is the only one homelander might actually get to top thanks for asking
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"What do you mean their name isn't Beef?"
(for @moondal514)
#TGCF#he xuan#I only know TGCF through having multiple people try and explain it to me + watching S1 of the animated series.#And fandom osmosis of some characters and plot points.#So I had a genuine 'A platypus? *PERRY* the platypus?' moment when doing research for this prompt.#My method for drawing novel characters is to read their description + personality and make a few drafts from there.#Sometimes I get curious and look up official art on a wiki. Ensue the: “huh who is this (sees the female form) I KNOW WHO THIS IS”#Anyways this is actually just a warm up. An unprecedented part 2 comes tomorrow.#Because the journey of “How *would* I draw he xuan?” took me on a wild journey that nearly drove me into madness.#Spoilers: its not how I drew HX in this comic. It's more...on brand for this blog. Lets leave it there. Everyone gets a 24 hour warning.#Thank you Moondal514 for pushing me into the deepest waters on this one. I am forever changed.
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i will get killed for saying this but ttpd does not deserve to stay no 1 for this long
#maybe one week or two i get it but over hmhas & brat & chappell? no way#it's the million singles and variants that keep pushing it through all thanks to big fandom 😭
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He is approaching…
Hey everyone just wanted to give you an update!
Progress on the next installment is going well, but slow. Tis the season after all and it’s best to assume I’ll be very very busy this and next month due to holidays and family events. So don’t expect the next updates for quite a while.
But I promise you it’ll be worth the wait 👀
#dragon updates#good!Vlad au#Danny phantom#thanks again for your patience!!#this project has meant a lot to me and everyone’s reception has been pushing me through all this!
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Corruption!
Jobs:
news reporter= +1
police detective= +1
paramedic= +1
restaurant worker= +1
security guard= +2
hobby:dark web= +1
Choices:
If you pick the zalgo text (Not clothes but a body) and have backstory:accident= +1
If you choose …what were we talking about again? and job:security guard= +1
“not a chance in hell” or violent slashing motion when adrian suggests a sleepover= +1 (if he is your friend/crush)
“Nothing else of note has happened.”= +1
If you tell Adrian ‘it’s fine’ when he sees the hand-mark= +1
If you tell Adrian ‘it’s fine’ when he suggests looking up paranormal groups= +1
If you choose the zalgo text when you see the shadow at the ridge= +1
If you ask about intrusive thoughts and are possessed= +1
“Pure unfiltered meta knowledge.”=+1 (when you ask adrian about the apocalypse)
zalgo text when you discuss the bible apocalypse= +1
If you walk towards the sound in the trailer= +1
If you go to the window again after you’ve been knocked down= +1
If you poke your head out the window= +3
If you choose not to tell anyone about the trailer= +1
“In the end, everything turned out perfectly fine” =+1
If you look at the accident= +1
If you look at the accident, are a security guard, and choose “How am I hearing this?”= -1
If you claim the trailer is perfectly fine when it’s obviously not (also has zalgo text)= +1
If you choose “Nothing at all.” when Amnay is talking about no one noticing anything = +1
“All the lights in the city die out” = +1
When you look at the sickly yellow illumination =+1
You freeze when Adrian tells you to run (zalgo) =+1
“I freeze like a metaphorical deer in the headlights.” (when you are running from the thing) =+1
“Cower and accept my fate”=+1
“Get out of my mind” = -1
If you choose to stay right there = +1
Merlin appears= -1
Vice:wrath and you choose to wallow in your rage = +1 (after you punch Adrian)
Vice:wrath and you punch Adrian again = +1 (after you punch Adrian)
“Okay, this is my stop. You can move along now.” and Adrian is your friend/crush= +1
If you ignore the primal shriek of denial and take the elevator = +1
If you are not possessed already and “We should take the elevator to my room.” = +1
If you choose “just a little urge” or “it’s just fine” when Adrian joins you in the elevator after you’ve told him to stay out = +1
“Poor Adrian. Better left out than tossed off the roof” or “No more cavalry for me.” = +1
You reach the thirteenth floor using the stairs or the elevator =+1
If you think there’s a reasonable explanation for the wall of darkness (partial zalgo) = +1
The floor indicator is stuck on 9 = +1
Maniacal laughter = +1
If you choose to stay in the corridor= -1
If you go to bed= +1
You check under the bed= +100
Ignore the stuff under the bed= +1
(It is not formatted very well, sorry! It was initially meant for personal use!)
#Pushing this to the head of the queue for anyone who might still be playing through the game#And apparently editing a submission removes all the formatting so hopefully copy & pasting the original post will work here#Thanks for the submission!#oks-submission#oks-info#Edit: And of course adding the tags made the submission's formatting go all wonky even though it looked fine in the preview
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It is also a teeny bit weird to make Zoya being prettier and thus a more ideal sun summoner be set up as thing to be proven wrong in the beginning but then Zoya actually becomes the Queen with lots of focus on how gorgeous she is and Alina fades into obscurity and wears old shawls.
I mean yeah.
Because apparently one of the messages this trilogy wanted to pass was how nothing is what it seems. Alina is not weak but very powerful, she just doesn't know it. Aleksander is not a man to be trusted but a selfish, power-hungry bastard, except Alina doesn't realize it until it was too late (*inserting dramatic tones if you didn't notice*).
Normally, Zoya wouldn't get that much spotlight. But, alas, Bardugo has said many times that she's one of her most favorite characters so she was bound to become important. A Squaller (among hundreds) became important by becoming a Saint as well.
Saints in the Grishaverse normally have very distinct, unusual powers. Alina had her light, Aleksander his shadows, Elizaveta's Materialki powers manifested themselves through her ability to control nature while Ilya didn't allow his powers to be restricted at all (he was both a Healer and a Durast as well as an inventor). Plus, they get martyred and Zoya is...well....alive.
Her push to the spotlight was, for me, too forced while, at the same time, the author tried to remove Alina's presence (as if she wasn't the main character for three books straight that the antagonist fell in love with and his plans revolved around her). Whether someone likes Alina or not, we have to admit that it's not going to be the same without her on the front. The story doesn't really make sense without her. It's like removing Harry Potter from his own books.
And it seems that whether Alina has powers or not, she stays hidden. And Zoya got what she wanted all along: the spotlight.
#alina starkov#anti zoya nazyalensky#It's just a confused mess#the author wanted to push her feminism through the characters but it doesn't make sense for the story and its rules#how the fuck did Zoya get accepted by people who have hated Grisha *for centuries*???#and why did she shove Alina's powers and their importance for the story down our throats if she only wanted to remove them#(and her) in the end??#Leigh. Just a piece of advice. Learn to write a cohesive story first with characters that progress overtime and then put your own agendas in#thank you#anon asks#shadow and bone#grishaverse#the darkling#aleksander morozova#sankta elizaveta#ilya morozova#grishaverse trilogy#anti nikolai duology
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