We never stop fighting folks - let’s be Netflix’s ruination

Look, when I said I wanted Genya and David. 

Did it have to be fucking this level of angst (with Nikolai saying “danger” in the back)

Cause like, I haven’t felt this much anxiety over mass amounts of ship angst since Fitzsimmons was in its prime. 

And this one didn't help matters either. 

David is gonna kill me next season. 

I am not ruined.

I am ruination.

-“Genya—” David tried.

“Don’t you dare,” she said roughly, tears welling up again.

“You never looked at me twice before I was like this, before I was broken. Now I’m just something for you to fix.”

I was desperate for words to soothe her, but before I could find any, David bunched up his shoulders and said, “I know metal.”

“What does that have to do with anything?” Genya cried.

David furrowed his brow.

“I … I don’t understand half of what goes on around me. I don’t get jokes or sunsets or poetry, but I know metal.”

His fingers flexed unconsciously as if he were physically grasping for words.

“Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what’s inside you? That’s steel. It’s brave and unbreakable. And it doesn’t need fixing.”

He drew in a deep breath then awkwardly stepped forward. He took her face in his hands and kissed her.

Genya went regid. I thought she'd push him away. But then she threw her arms around him and kissed him back. Emphatically.-

~ Grisha, T3. Genya & David ~

"So long as the eternity lasts, my feelings for you will only blossom"

Ahhh!!! I'm so excited to finally post some of my contribution to the 2023 Grishaverse Big Bang! I am so grateful for the wonderful writing from @irreplaceable-ecstasyy that led me to draw my all-time favorite grisha couple, and for the wonderful camaraderie from @nai-nty-8 and @punchsomeoneforme-willyou. Make sure to check out @grishaversebigbang to see the rest of the works produced from this event!

Etherealki: @irreplaceable-ecstasyy (here)

Materialki: @nai-nty-8 (here) & @punchsomeoneforme-willyou (here)

I am so not chill right now

One of the last things we'll ever see of Genya Safin is her crying because of David's death I hate it here

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”

Poll 7

realllllyy easy one this time to apologize for the last one

There was no body. David's alive. There was no body.

*Shadow and bone season 2 spoiler warning!!!*

It’s time to talk about the costumes in season 2. I did not think that it was possible to top what the costume department pulled of in season one but damn if they didn’t outdo themselves!!!!

Miracles were performed.

First of all, the Kefta redesigns for the Darkling’s grisha were absolutely brilliant. The costumes featured mostly the same colour choices to represent each order, but in darker tones and with different styles of embroidery to their Little Palace counterparts. This is a physical representation of their allegiance to the Darkling, creating a clear divide between his grisha and those loyal to Alina, but I think it could possibly also represent the fact that their power has been warped by an amplifier from someone born of merzost, since it means they no longer fit in with the other grisha. This could possibly even be foreshadowing the way Nina feels that she can no longer fit in with other grisha after her power is changed by parem, since she believes her new abilities to be closer to merzost than the small science. The new costuming for the Darkling’s grisha also includes a tattoo on their hands, and although I don’t want to talk about it in too much detail here because I’m planning a post with specific focus on that tattoo, I did want to mention it as a very interesting aspect of their appearances that once again separates them from the other grisha. The Darkling’s own Kefta has also been redesigned, I don’t have anything to say about it that hasn’t already been talked about by Ben Barnes and Jessie Mei Li in interviews and the costume department tour video, but basically they said that the gold detailing represents the tether and the way the Darkling and Alina now share some of each other’s powers and I absolutely love that detail!

What’s interesting about Genya’s costume is that she never gets a redesigned Kefta when she’s still with the Darkling, but returns to the red and blue she wore at the end of season one. This represents her allegiance not fully lying with the Darkling, or by this point not at all, but it’s also the Kefta she was wearing when Alina felt she had betrayed her; creating a painful and permanent reminder to the audience of the way Genya has been manipulated and abused even through the control of her friends so that she had no-one left to trust, or who she believes will trust her. No-one except David, who also never wears a redesigned Kefta. One of my favourite things about Genya’s costuming, however, was that they put her in her civilian clothes when she was attacked by the Darkling and the nichevo’ya. This was incredibly powerful, because it highlighted her complete lack of power: in this scene she was not a soldier, she was not a member of the Second Army or any kind of rebellion, she was not even a Tailor. In this scene she was just a girl who had been hurt, manipulated, and abused, and who had run out of places to hide. For me, it made this moment even more painful and even more powerful because it was her renouncing what she said to Alina - “I am his soldier” - and forcing the audience to witness her pain as exactly what Alina replied: “We are his pawns. Nothing more”.

The only thing I would change about Genya’s costuming, is that I would have given her a veil after the attack. For me reading the book, Genya’s veil became a brilliantly important symbol as a physical manifestation of her psychological progress. When she eventually sheds the veil, it is because she feels that she is safe to do so and it’s Alina that helps her come to that conclusion. Both seasons have proven to us that the costume department are FANTASTIC at bringing symbols and little details to life, and I think they could have had an absolute field day with this.

The only other thing about costumes written in my notes is “whoever gave Jesper a skirt deserves a raise, but could they have given him a skirt that went with the rest of the suit a bit better?” but honestly I’m rewatching right now and the combo of that suit and that skirt is growing on me.

…Sorry for yet another massively long post. I’m very excited.

If you upset my wife again, I will kill you where you stand.

Top 30 TV Ships (2022 edition): 16; Genya Safin and David Kostyk, Shadow and Bone 

Shadow and bone S2 Spoilers!!

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Twice, I've had to "see" David Kostyk die... TWICE

TWICE, I've had to go through the "not finding David"...

TWICE, THEY JUST WANTED TO GET MARRIED AND NEVER COULD

I thought that after the books I'd be prepared but nope. He owns my heart and I'll cry EVERY. SINGLE. TIME!!

'You don't need fixing.' 😭❤️

The whole scene was beautiful 🫶

David experimenting with blue light for the Unsea skiffs (April 2022)