#tolya and wesper

[aimeegbbs]

#tolya biggest wesper supporter confirmed

[or-we-could-take-a-walk-together]

shadow and bone: good and bad, saving the world, sacrifice and the power of listening to the guy’s mother bc she might say some legit things.

six of crows: yeah so we’re basically doing it for the money and we think we just saved the world

[swiftievolturra]

shadow and bone: Defeating evil finding real love killing the bad guy saving the world patriotism sacrifice

Meanwhile…

six of crows: umm we want money so we kill people and kidnap people

And I think we save the world there somewhere along the way

[ladymarvel27]

Tolya: *sees Wylan and Jesper together* Tolya: They're cute. I would put them on a boat. Tamar: You mean... you ship them?

[catdoingblep]

[nerdlingmerchling]

Behold Lewis Tan and Tolya Yul-Bataar both being unapologetic wesper shippers.

[pedropascll]

Tolya as Jesper and Wylan’s relationship counsellor is not something I knew I needed

[thedestructionofgrace]

If Jesper and wylan were to get married then tolya has to be the one to perform the wedding ceremony

[rebel-ezra]

and here I was thinking I was the biggest wesper stan but then this guy shows up

[or-we-could-take-a-walk-together]

shadow and bone writers: we have respect for every character, and every single one of them got their moment.

also shadow and bone writers: makes tolya straight, erases inej’s trauma, makes kaz’s touch aversion a bad thing, nearly erases tamar and nadia, makes wesper look like it was taken out of the book i wrote in middle school AND USES TOLYA AS A PLOT TOOL.

[savethegrishaverse]

The importance of inclusive fantasy

With the start of Pride Month, let's discuss one of the many reasons we're campaigning to #SaveShadowAndBone and greenlight #SixOfCrowsSpinoff: the Grishaverse series is a great example of inclusive writing of LGBTQIA characters.

One facet of this is the fact that Leigh Bardugo has stated in-universe homophobia does not exist. The result is a world where the characters’ stories are not built around their sexuality, but rather the part they play in progressing the story.

Within the fantasy genre, queer characters are also under-represented as a whole, but Bardugo, however, did an amazing job with representing multiple identities from the LGBTQIA community in her stories. The Grishaverse canon is inclusive of transgender, asexual and aromantic characters, who are frequently overlooked in mainstream media.

LGBTQIA inclusion within the Grishaverse extends to the cast of Netflix Shadow and Bone as well. Jessie Mei Li, who stars as the main character Alina Starkov, identifies as queer and gender nonconforming. Jack Wolfe plays Wylan Hendriks/Van Eck and is openly queer. This diverse casting helps create relatable characters, and the accepting nature of the cast has positively contributed to a feeling of safety within the fandom for LGBTQIA fans.

A fictional world, like the Grishaverse, where queer characters can openly express affection without fear of ramifications is hugely important as it's still a surprisingly revolutionary idea. Being able to escape into these more accepting fantasy worlds holds an appeal with LGBTQIA fans due to the often harsh realities of living as marginalized people in the real world. Having struck a chord with many of us, it’s vital we fight to keep such a world alive.

[chemdoodles]

Tolya, our resident ship counselor, thank you for your services to advance the wesper ship.

[leah-jeffries]

𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖊 ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ 2 ʀᴇᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ #128 ↳ 𝟸.𝟶𝟻: 𝚢𝚞𝚢𝚎𝚑 𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚑 (𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝)

[lilisouless]

i find funny Tolya´s reputation as wesper´s wing man (which i happily have fulfilled) because canonically he didn't do shit, he just made Jesper vocalize he did something stupid and then scared him off with poetry

[ikeharris128]

You may be a Wesper shipper, but you will never ship them as much as Tolya Yul Bataar.

[heyitsspaceace]

god (the s&b writers) gives his hardest battles (being the wesper marriage counselor) to his strongest soldiers (tolya yul bataar)