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#Grisha trilogy
m4rs-ex3 · 1 month
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leigh bardugo took two of the same angsty cold calculating tortured intoxicating emo black haired white boy and absolutely hurled them in opposite directions
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All I can think about recently is that there are three main career options for Grishaverse main characters:
A) Child soldier
B) Criminal
C) ✨Both✨
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lilisouless · 9 months
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The biggest difference between tgt and soc is that hating the villain abuser on soc is universal, but on sab is controversial
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outletcrash · 6 months
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the martyrdom of sankta alina and vanquishing of the starless saint
ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖᵉʳˢᵖᵉᶜᵗᶦᵛᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵃⁿ ᵃʳᵗᶦˢᵗ ᵒⁿᵉ ʰᵘⁿᵈʳᵉᵈ ʸᵉᵃʳˢ ˡᵃᵗᵉʳ
ᶦⁿˢᵖᶦʳᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ˢᵗ ᵐᶦᶜʰᵃᵉˡ ᵗʰᵉ ᵃʳᶜʰᵃⁿᵍᵉˡ ᵇʸ ᶜˡᵃᵘᵈᶦᵒ ᶜᵒᵉˡˡᵒ
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simpingforpeggy · 1 year
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the darkling in siege of storm:
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thetimetraveler24 · 1 year
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Me when Mal takes up the Sturmhond mantle and Inej goes with him and Tolya smiles at her:
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stromuprisahat · 13 days
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Siege and Storm- Chapter 11 (Leigh Bardugo)
Good.
“A lack of gratitude is unbecoming in a servant. You should wear the jewels my husband gives you.”
The Tailor
They both deserve much worse.
“You ungrateful whore,” sneered the King. ... “She is a servant, Nikolai. I didn’t have to force her.”
Ruin and Rising- Chapter 7
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riverstyxsarts · 1 month
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The king of scars and the tracker
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theweeklydiscourse · 3 months
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“I believe that the people who are the most dangerous are not the people who enter your life wearing a sign saying "I'm a bad guy", and they're not the people who are missing a nose like Voldemort. They're the people who are charming and manipulative and also probably carrying their own wounds, their own baggage. They can be brooding and beautiful and be monstrous. That's what I was setting out to show with the Darkling."
I wonder if Leigh Bardugo realizes that she effectively did put an "I'm the bad guy" sign on the Darkling by heavily coding him as a villain from his first introduction. When I look at his portrayal in Shadow and Bone, his beauty is described many times but has little impact on individuals outside of Alina (and even Alina isn't that swayed by it). So what is he? He’s certainly not a wolf in sheep’s clothing, because the reader can clearly tell that he’s a wolf, so what does that leave us with? A pretty wolf?
His name being "The Darkling", dressed in all black, uses shadow magic, shrouded in rumors, if that isn't an "I'm a bad guy" sign then I don't know what is. She clearly understands that the nature of actual abusive people is nuanced and isn't always obvious to the average person and she articulates that thought well. So that makes it even more baffling that she sees the Darkling as a subversion of that obviously abusive figure when his depiction is so clumsy.
On one hand, she wants to create a villain that embodies abusive characteristics that one might encounter in real life. She wants to say "Sometimes you can't tell right away" and illustrate the way people can fall victim to abusive situations. On the other hand, she can't help but write the Darkling as overtly sympathetic, flesh out his motives, and give him a legitimate reason to do what he does. In doing so, she slacks off on her abuse narrative and opts to make the Darkling's more noble and sympathetic qualities outweigh the scant evidence of that abuse narrative. This is why she has the Darkling commit illogical acts of violence that don't align with his previously established strategies. She needs a grand show of villainy to make up for her failure to convey the subtlety of what she had originally intended.
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darklinaforever · 3 months
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Repeat after me people so all the idiots can hear :
The Darkling did not groom Alina. That's bullshit, he was barely at the little palace in the first book.
Second :
The Darkling is not based on Leigh Bardugo's former toxic relationship. It's almost 2024, it's time to stop spreading this bullshit. The Darkling is based on Jareth, the Goblin King, played by David Bowie.
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lynsstrange · 10 months
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Kaz in Crooked Kingdom:
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m4rs-ex3 · 25 days
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i "did a thing" if you will
kefta's oh me oh my!!
*canonically ignorant keftas
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(individuals n in-depth analysis aka rambling under cut)
darkling
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i mean. what do you want. B L A C K.
the pattern (which you must zoom in to see) is a swirly deal, different from the sun summoner swirls; more like wood grain
sun summoner
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sun rays! swirly swirls! yellow! idk just look at!!
squallers
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more swirls! these were kinda hell but idk i like em
inferni
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first big divergence: orange as opposed to red. i made sure not to have any repeat embroidery colors.....even though i changed alkemi so there is no red anymore.............anyway. i'm iffy on this one bc i suck at drawing fire but i think it turned out (it's mostly just the upper side panels cuz they look a lil too fur-ish)
tidemakers
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they were teal in the show right?? idk but. this one might me my favorite, but i do fear it's a lil complicated, but then again: i can do whatever the fuck i want. and no i cannot draw water without copying the great wave. whatever it's sick
heartrenders
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coporalnik were harrdddddd. heartrenders are--naturally-usually symbolized by the heart but i hate drawing real hearts so cartoon hearts it is!! kinda feel like that kinda heart wouldn't exist in this universe..... but hey look it pointy
healers
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heart but upside down!! (seriously what r u supposed to do.) plus bandage imagery, as a treat. these two were really just Vibes.
durasts
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also pretty hard, also mostly just Vibes. btw it is a distinctly different shade of gray (1 of 50, i've heard) from the squaller silver. u will not catch me lacking nice try bud
alkemi
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the most notable sticker-outer--yea she's green. i mean cmon we have enough red and no green and everybody knows science is green. anyway this is another one of my favs. vapor clouds and bubbles what's not to love
i do love the embroidery in the show, especially how, yk, much there is of it, and how identifiable it makes it, but on the other hand the books only ever mention the cuffs and hems so i like to think i struck a nice balance
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she-posts-nerdy-stuff · 4 months
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I wish I didn’t care this much. When I thought about potential bad news I knew I would be disappointed but I feel a bit like I’m being crushed and no-one understands why, and I think this is in many ways a reminder of the way so many people don’t view the things we are so vibrantly and beautifully passionate about as things worth being passionate about. But our passion is wonderful, it is bright and strong and it produces art and emotion and community and we deserve that. I adore these books so goddamn much but I think on some level when a book has an adaptation and the name becomes recognisable, the people who don’t understand our pain can at least acknowledge what it is and that’s unfairly vindicating, like I’m allowed to enjoy it because it’s recognisable so I’m not weird for doing so. That shouldn’t be the case and it’s not fair that it is, but it doesn’t change the fact that people are more reactive to me saying “there’s a TV show of it on Netflix!” than they are to me saying “it’s a powerful book series that changed my life”. I feel like I’ve had something taken away from me. And I feel like the knowledge that the show got cancelled will breed an idea of the books not being worth the time because the show wasn’t, and that’s just so so so not true. I’m reminding myself that these beautiful, life-changing books have always been the heart of this fandom and losing the show does not mean less love for the books, they mean the world to me. But that doesn’t stop this from hurting.
Anyway I needed to get that out, I don’t know, maybe I’ll delete this later. But there’s really something magic here, and I will love it forever. To have had an adaptation is a wonderful privilege and I’m so glad we got to see it, I just wish we’d been able to see a little more.
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lilisouless · 5 months
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Genya: ugh, my muscles are so sore
Alina: come here, i´ll give you a massage
everyone: NOOOOO!
Alina: what?
Nikolai: sigh...its time to tell her
Mal: no, lets not...
Alina: tell me what?
Tolya: your massages are awful
Alina: what?
Tamar: they are painfull
Nadia: the person recieving them comes out more sore than before you started to "cure" them
Alina: thats ridiculous! my massages are so good Ana Kuya used to make me do it to the kids on the nursery
Mal: yeah...hmm...that wasn't the nursery, thats where Ana Kuya punished them when they missbehaved. Actually, she wanted to recomend you to the military for torture tecniques
Nikolai: also, once you massaged Zoya and she went back to her room in tears
Alina: its not my fault she is so delicate
Nikolai: She was on her dragon form
Alina: you point? wait, is that why when Zoya talks about the "ketterdam rat" on her words , she always makes sure to mention how "tense" and "needing of a good Alina massage" he is, in case i get to meet him?
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call-me-sunpaw · 11 months
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sixofsol · 2 months
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