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feluka · 1 year
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sweet mother i cannot weave. slender aphrodite has overcome me with carpal tunnel
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arillusionist · 6 months
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shadow and bone s2e1 reaction - i said i would watch this episode on sunday but i lied. haha
they should've put 6 crows in the sky are they dumb
kaz gave them papers?? when?? he probably did it offscreen i swear i didnt forget the last episode that quickly
ok oh my god by the way. they better have fixed malina in this season too because i'm halfway through siege and storm and i literally want to kill mal hes so fucking annoying and literally SO toxic. i miss the soc relationships they were all so well written
fuck this after i finish the s&b triology im rereading soc
ooh nice map
YAYY WE'RE IN KETTERDAM i hope they have more episodes here this season. aka more than 2
i have a feeling this is where they meet wylan... or nina maybe
"are you saying we have no home" ?? what about the slat
KAZ'S BACKSTORY??
thats how you pronounce inej's last name?? my whole life is a lie wtf
"she does that" aw he sounds so proud
stop this is like that one scene from soc except if he faints inej's voice wont be there to ground him when he wakes up ☹️
omg thats nikolai/sturmhond right
PLEASE KAZ'S SIDE EYE WHEN HE LOOKS AT JESPER
take your damn shoes off
ok they better tell him where shes going because while theyre on the verge of going to prison shes just making out with her boyfriend
i love alina but am i supposed to feel bad for her?? bc i dont
yayy he told him but good thing inej isnt here
Kaz side eye 2.0
theyre revealing the jesper grisha thing already...? interesting
omg novyi zem looks exactly like how i imagined it "these fugitives are wanted for crimes against our country" this isnt your country dawg
i can already tell theyre toyla and tamar
is this ketterdam again is that inej
so they kill heleen ofscreen. and inej has literally no reaction to it.
I am so confused rn didnt kaz buy inej's indenture??
WAIT NO I GET IT STOP IM SO DUMB
"im not leaving you. not now" ☹️☹️☹️☹️
HEARTRENDER NINA PLEASEEEEE 🙏🙏🙏
tf is he waffling about
talking about pekka btw
if theyre doing the whole pekka plot now what did they leave for the spinoff?? ik its probably not happening but they thought it was gonna happen and they wrote the scripts but what even are in those scripts
then again i think they only wrote the scripts for the first book
but what were they planning on putting in it for the second book if they got it 💀
WYLANNNNNN!!!!!
so he already had wylan employed (??) or whatever interesting
NINAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
"funny guns and angry hat" speaking of hats can kaz please stop wearing one it looks so fucking ugly
aww nina talking to inej in suli
MATTHIAS!!!
all the crows in one episode this is crazy
and they've been onscreen for 9 whole minutes?? even crazier
i spoke too soon 💀💀
is this a cult
GENYA!!!!!
i need to stop doing that everytime a character i like shows up
but seriously i just need zoya now and i'll be so happy
is he a fucking cannibal
IS GENYA A CANNIBAL TOO
WESPER MEETING!!!! i wasnt excepting it this episode but yay
ALL THE CROWS IN ONE PLACEE except matthias but ik thats not happening this season
"in truth hes the love of my life" kaz im sure you know so much about that
"he does this" "does he" lmfaooo
omg its the iconic scene i've seen in way too many edits
Inej in the middle i knew she was the main main character 😍😍
ughhhh i thought the episode would end with the crows but ofc not
ok now it ended
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eerna · 3 years
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Maybe I’m an outlier but I really really enjoyed Netflix SaB. I knew it was going to be a completely different story from the get-go when they cast the Crows. Did they include them bc the showrunners knew more people had read SoC than SaB? Probably. Does it change basically everything? Absolutely. But I liked the mashup. It’s the “what if they knew each other??” AU fic I didn’t know I wanted. (Love your takes btw)
That’s even better!!! I too am happy with it bc I consider it an AU, but like, I am also sad bc it could have been such a good thing. And thank youu~~
After reading your reactions to the show i realize i agree with a lot u said AND I DIDNT NOTICE WHILE SEEING THE SHOW like what happens with the dregs in season 2 now? Also that kanej...... but its ok i mean i think now a part of me is pretending this is a new story with new characters that i like but not As Much as the books?? Or a universe where Soft Kaz is a thing?? But they took away the fuckboy disease from Mal, made Malina really good and Alina super relatable and cool so i say is a win for us
IT IS A WIN!!! Maybe the Crows got wrecked, but they gave me a TGT plotline I enjoy, and a show I really like, so. Def one of better book-to-screen adaptations I’d seen, even if MY fave parts were omitted.
I have finished the whole season and AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH there are so many moments that made me want to scream (the good kind of screams)
The crows are still not completely our crows but theyre getting there
I was never a darklina or a malina fan but the show made me love malina, the mal actor has done a terrific job
All of them have actually made an incredible job and i want a second season right now
YAS I truly hope they get that shiny s2. Please. Please
I do agree that the kanej we are seeing is not the kanej from the books but i think that so far its okay? From the way i see it this kaz is still very much in the inej is an investment fase and we are seeing the beginning of the crows, of the start of their trust in each other. They might fuck it up later and i live in fear of that but so far its not terrible.
However i really hope they enforce a bit more on the whole kaz aversion to touching people, i feel like they didnt explore it much but since the crows weren't the focus right now i can kind of excuse it.
I have some complaints about the way they handled the mixing of the storylines but overall its not the worst thing they could have done.
Kaz is def not in the investment stage during this show, he is very vocal about Inej’s importance and humanity jdskbabcjk. But yes, the touch thing didn’t come in focus a lot, but I liked that moment in ep 1 when the guy was holding him down with a naked hand and you could SEE how much it pained him! New watchers wouldn’t notice, but once they learn the truth, they would get it. Hhuhu. And yeah it could have been worse...
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annathecupcake · 3 years
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Okay so I finished Shadow and Bone and here are my (probably spoilery) thoughts:
- I cannot believe I'm saying this but I like show Mal. I genuinely really like him. I didn't think it would be possible (obviously I was simping for Archie as Mal before the show but Holy moly). In the books Mal was just so annoying. He wasn't supportive at all, it felt rather like he was judging Alina all the way through, but show Mal is really awesome.
- Ben Barnes was the most perfect choice for the Darkling. Freaking love him! BTW I'm still team Darklina.
- Matthias and Nina omg. Do I have to say anything? Their scenes were immaculate, absolutely perfect. I was smiling so much my cheeks hurt. The dialogues were so accurate to the books and their dynamic was just awesome! Also obviously perfect casting choice. Chef's kiss. THE CHEMISTRY!
- I was surprised by the fact that I enjoyed the shadow and bone storyline more than the crows storyline. Probably because it was more accurate to the books.
- I absolutely freaking adore Jesper. He was truly the life of the party in this show, which was also a surprise since I found him to be one of the less interesting characters in Six of crows. Kit really mastered every single scene.
I did miss Wylan terribly though.
- This will probably be a very unpopular opinion but I have to say it. I did not (can't believe I'm saying this) enjoy Kaz and Inej at all. First of all, you can fight me on this, but I didn't like the casting choice for Kaz ever since it was announced and I still don't. Second of all it makes me sad that Kaz and Inej were literally my favourite characters in SoC (like I was OBSESSED WITH THEM), but in the show they felt so out of character to me. There were scenes (especially with the two of them talking to each other) where I just thought "Kaz wouldn't say that" or "This is so not Inej" and it was really disappointing. I hate to say it but I was actually kind of bored by the Kaz scenes *yikes*. There was hardly any backstory to them as well. I seriously think that my disappointment with Kaz and Inej is the only truly negative thing I can say about the show. It actually made me want to reread the books because I miss them so much.
- The brief Darkling/Kaz interaction was cringe lol.
- I still haven't decided whether I like that they combined two separate storylines or not. I kinda did, I guess. But at the same time it was so weird.
- I really hope for a season two just to see where this whole mess is going and how the crows will be incorporated into it. And I really need Wylan and Nikolai. Though I'm a bit scared since Nikolai is one of my absolute favourite characters in the books and I hope they get him right (not like with Kaz. I'm not even sure whether it was the acting I didn't particularly like or the script. Probably the latter)
- I also need to add that in the first book I thought Alina was annoying and bland, but show Alina won me over immediately.
- The visuals were great, it was filmed beautifully imo. The costumes, the Fold... everything was awesome.
Lastly, I want to say that overall I did enjoy the show and if I could just stop comparing the book crows to the show crows there would be nothing to complain about. It was really good and I definitely want to see what happens next.
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malyen0retsev · 3 years
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So I just finished crooked kingdom and I’m curious how you think the show can work with SoC and CK being post Shadow and Bone trilogy? I imagine we could meet Wylan sooner obviously, but would we not get SoC until, like, season 4? I kinda feel like SoC could be done sooner, but CK has to take place after R&R I think?
OK, I have two theories going right now because it confuses the fuck out of me too anon!
First theory - we're not going to see SoC/CK on screen exactly the way they are in the books. I don't see Netflix OKing half the main cast vanishing, but if you can't do the SoC plot until that plot is done, then to me that implies we will see the crows doing heists and taking down criminals but just with a different plot to in the books. Which I'm absolutely fine with so long as they stay true to their characters and we hit the key developmental points.
Second theory - just as the crows had an invented storyline to fit in with TGT, so TGT characters will have an invented storyline to fit around SoC/CK when we get to that point. Zoya and Nikolai barely know each other at the end of R&R yet by KoS she is his most trusted advisor. That plot - plus them getting intel from Mal and Alina at Keramzin - will keep the Ravka plot going, Nikolai battling the monster whilst being a new King, and prevent Netflix from having to dump half of the leads in order to film SoC/CK. We do see them in CK, so this would make sense to do so it’s less of a cameo and more an intersection of plots in the show.
But see, both of these theories have huge flaws in them. If we go with my first theory, it creates zero issues with the timeline, but does create issues for the wider Grishaverse - and things such as Nina's abilities changing, and Kuwei's appearance full stop, get thrown into question. If we go with the second theory, I doubt that we have time for that to happen properly either, because Eric has said before his plan is for four seasons (Wylan is appearing in S2 btw), and as far as I can make out that implies to me that (TGT wise) S2 is S&S, S3 is R&R pt1 and S4 is R&R pt2. People who imply TGT plot can be wrapped up in S2 are in cloud cuckoo land, you can't even wrap up R&R in one season imo, too much stuff happens in that book.
So I mean this is a really convoluted way of saying I DON'T KNOW ANON. I do trust the writers, but it is a mindfuck. I mean, it could be the first theory is true and then the end of the show jurda gets introduced and that sets the scene for a future KoS adaptation, but honestly I have no idea. If I had to lean towards one theory, I think I'd go with the first one (taking characters and putting them in a similar but not exactly the same situation is a very very common TV adaptation theme - think GoT) but I'm aware of the technical difficulties of that. So like. IDK. I'M JUST EXCITED TO MEET WYLAN, NIKOLAI, TOLYA AND TAMAR, AND I'MMA LEAVE THE WRITERS TO DO THEIR WORK LOL
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darlinvandijk · 4 years
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Phone Call
Concept: a request where you’re really missing Ruel and really sad/not doing well and he calls and just comforts you and makes it all cute (aka just really fluffy Ruel because hes an angel and we all know it). just like usual send me a dm for a request and whatnot and I’ll be happy to comply (btw this is long as fuck so I apologize) Hope you enjoy :)
Today marks 3 months since the last time I saw Ruel, or at least the last time I saw him in person. He’s on his world tour, but I wasn’t able to go with him like planned, since I had too much school work that I’d need to do, and knowing us we’d never make time for me to actually do it if I went.
So that’s where everything has led up to me at this exact moment, where I’m justsitting in my room after a long day of just everything going wrong, like call me dramatic but today has literally been the absolute worst. I got a D on my sociology test, dropped my tea getting out of the car this morning, got sharpie on the sleeve of my favorite white hoodie, and worst of all just missing my favorite boy more than ever today.
I pull my blankets tighter around my body, trying my hardest to not let my emotions get to me, because I know today wasn’t as bad as it seemed, I’m just a little touchy today making everything seem worse than usual. I let out a choked sob as I feel the tears start to make their way down my face, knowing that there’s no way to get out of the complete mess I’m about to become.
Right as I breakdown, I hear the ping of my phone, alerting me that I got a text. Guess who it is, oh wait we all know it’s the giant oaf I call my boyfriend.
Hey baby, I miss you a lot and thought I’d let you know Hi bubs, I miss you too, what’re you up to? In my hotel room, finished everything I needed for the day so all I have left is soundcheck and the concert tmw Excited for the Paris show? Mhmm, enough about me, I want to talk about you Eh nothing exciting, pretty boring day today. Are you okay love? You seem a little off I’m okay, just tired that’s all
As soon as I send that text, my screen lights up with an incoming phone call. I give myself a few seconds, trying to contain the sobs and tears so that Ruel doesn’t notice, he doesn’t need the extra stress of worrying about me. As soon as I pick up, he’s already talking and throwing questions at me.
“Baby what’s going on? I know you’re lying to me, just because I can’t see you, doesn’t mean I can’t tell. Are you okay? Did something happen? Do I need to fly down or fly you out here? Baby-“ Ruel rambles with anxiety lacing his voice, causing the tears I was holding at bay, to be released. I let out a small whimper as the tears pour out, instantly causing him to stop talking and cut off his sentence.
“I’m sorry, I’m honestly okay, just a little emotional today” I mumble out, not able to talk loud with my voice shaking so much. I hear him let out a sigh before he starts talking.
“Babygirl, tell me the truth. I know it’s more than just that, please talk to me baby. I can’t help you if you don’t let me.” He pleads, knowing that I’m never like this, even if I am emotional sometimes.
“I just really miss you, it’s been three months, and today was just horrible. Nothing went right for me Ruel. I basically failed my soc test, dropped my drink everywhere this morning, and then I got fucking sharpie on your white hoodie. You know it’s my favorite” I cry out, finally letting all my emotions out, knowing he’s the only one that’ll truly be able to talk me down from my breakdown.
“Baby, you can retake the test, one test won’t ruin your life, you’re too smart to let something like that fuck you up. I’ll send you money to get a new drink tomorrow if that helps, and babe it’s just a hoodie. I’ll buy you 50 more of that exact hoodie if it’ll make you happy.” He states, trying to reason with me to make me feel better. I let out a whimper, because none of those things are going to make me happy. I just want my boyfriend back.
“I don’t want any of those things ruel!” I sob, causing him to take in a deep breath, finally realizing what the source of the issue was. He gives me a few seconds to calm my breathing before asking me a question.
“Then what do you want princess? Name it and I’ll make it happen, I promise.” He states with so much conviction in his voice, that I almost believe it.
“I want you. I want you back home with me. I don’t want more hoodies because I want yours, I want the ones that smell like you and have all the tears and stains because you always seem to trip or spill something on them. I just want you.” I whisper out, feeling completely broken for the first time when it comes to having a part time long distance relationship.
I hear him let out a sound of distress before the call hangs up. I stare at my phone in shock, not able to comprehend that he just hung up on me. Before I can lose it, I get an incoming FaceTime call. I answer it while pulling the blankets over me so that he can barely see me, as I set my phone up against my side table, so that I don’t have to hold it while talking to him.
Ruel sits there, with his phone in a similar position, letting him just lean back and watch me. I see the slight crease between his eyebrows, letting me know he’s stressed out because of this.
“Hi baby, I wanted to see that pretty face of yours, but I can only do that if you move the blankets.” He says with a small smile on his face, causing me to rapidly shake my head, really not wanting him to see me like this.
“I look ugly. My eyes are probably puffy and my face is splotchy from crying. Like I’m literally still crying, so I don’t want you to see me” I whisper back, feeling completely insecure, even though he has seen me cry countless times over the length of our 2 year relationship.
“First of all, you’re never ugly. I don’t care if you go bald and even lose your eyebrows, you’ll still be the prettiest girl in the world. Let me see that beautiful face of yours, or I might just lose my mind” He says, trying to joke with me to make me feel better. I let out a quiet laugh at how dramatic he’s being, causing him to instantly breakout in a grin, knowing he’s finally reaching me.
I pull down the blankets from around my head, causing him to just watch me, with a look of awe on his face. He looks at my slightly puffy and red rimmed eyes, my hair that’s in a messy falling apart bun, and the red splotches around my face from crying so much. He also takes in the tear streaks that are going down my face, still managing to think that I’m the most beautiful girl he’s ever laid his eyes on.
“Fuck you’re gorgeous” He says with a lovestruck grin on his face. I immediately roll my eyes and try to cover my face, hoping he doesn’t notice the way my face turns red from his compliments.
“Shut up Rueloff, you’re just saying that to make me feel better” I retort, making him lean back with a hand over his heart like I shot him.
“Excuse me baby, I don’t lie. You’re fucking beautiful, like I have the hottest girlfriend in the world if I’m being blunt about it.” He laughs with a boyish smile on his face, causing me to throw my head back with a laugh. Loving the way he looks at me, with that little twinkle in his eye.
“I miss you. I really miss you, please come back” I mumble with a small sad smile taking over my face. I see him straighten up from my change in mood, before he tilts his head to the side and gives me a small loving smile.
“I’ll be back before you know it. I miss you more than anything baby, I have an idea but I’ll tell you about it soon, I just need to talk to Nate and figure some things out.” He mumbles with a smirk on his face, letting me know he’s up to something.
“Okay, I can’t wait to hear about this idea of yours” I laugh out, trying my hardest to ignore the way he’s looking at. I see his eyes shift down to the hoodie I’m wearing, since the blanket fell off my shoulders.
“Baby you can barely even see the sharpie on the sleeve, but don’t worry I got about 3 hoodies here that I’ll make sure you get, smell just like me and one of them even has some mystery stain on it” He says with a big smile causing me to snort at the fact that he’s such a mess.
“Ew bubs, you can keep the mystery stain one.” I say watching him glare at me, for laughing about his dirty hoodie. He looks me over again and just smiles. I look down and play with my fingers, not liking how intense his gaze is.
“I love you” he says, with the biggest smile on his face. I look up at him and slightly tear up again as I just stare and wonder how I got such a beautiful person to love me and all my faults.
“I love you too, more than anything.” I reply with as much love as possible, hoping he can hear and feel how much I truly feel for him. He gives me a breathtaking smile, before turning a cute shade of pink from blushing.
“Stooop you’re making me blush” he whines out, trying to give me a glare but ruining the act by laughing. I smile at him as I watch the way his eyes light up as he laughs, the way he tilts his head to laugh but watch me at the same time, the way he looks at me like he’s seeing me for the first time.
We talk for another hour or so before hanging up since he had to go and get food, because Nate told him no more room service. I sigh a little bit once we end the call, before realizing I’ll be okay, a little distance for a bit won’t hurt us.
Two weeks pass by before I get a phone call from Ruel, I stare at the screen with a perplexed look, considering we just got off the phone an hour ago. We talk every single day, but he’s never called me before without sending a text first to make sure I’m not doing anything, I start to get nervous thinking it’s an emergency.
“Hello? Ruel are you okay?” I instantly spew out with anxiety lacing my time before he can even get a word in. I hear him start laughing on the other end of the receiver before hearing Nate yell at him to hurry up.
“Haha babygirl, calm down. I’m okay and I’m not hurt. I can finally tell you the idea I had, well not an idea anymore since I made it reality.” He says, I can literally hear the smirk in his voice, instantly causing me to roll my eyes at his cocky tone.
“Okay Rueloff, what’s this amazing plan that you have?” I sassily reply. I hear him start snickering, causing me to become weary since Ruel only has that laugh when he’s about to do something crazy.
“Ohhh babygirl I don’t think you’re ready, are you ready? Like really ready? Like positively ready? I don’t think you are” he basically sings out, with pure excitement filling his voice. I feel myself getting filled with anticipation on what my crackhead boyfriend is about to do. Before I can even reply to him to shut up and tell me, my phone gets an alert.
“Look at the text” He basically screeches out, causing my to fumble and put him on speaker so I can still hear him as I check the message. What I see leaves me shell shocked, I was expecting a new collab with an artist I love, not him to completely go all out.
“Oh my god Ruel what” I choke out with tears pouring down my face, a few sobs coming out from the overwhelming emotions I have running through me.
“That’s your boarding pass for tomorrow, see you in Norway baby” He shouts, his voice wavering, letting me know this gap of not seeing each other and finally getting to reunite is affecting him as much as it’s affecting me.
That’s how a little over 24 hours later, I end up falling asleep in the arms of my beautiful boyfriend. Listening to his quiet breaths as he holds me as tight as he can. Feeling his soft skin and taking in the moment, the moment where I truly got to feel whole again. I finally drift off, hearing the quiet “I love you” and feeling the soft kiss to my temple, letting me know I’m back where I’m supposed to be, with my soulmate.
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thegoldofyourheart · 4 years
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holy. fuck. i’m in the middle of reading tgoyh and i literally? can’t contain my love of it? like i was going to wait to freak out until later when i finished this, but. nope. i absolutely adored every second of this so far: the world building (holy hell the world building fhfjdk), the characterization (fucking gOD the characterization), the roceit (you currently own my entire soul for that btw)... everything. this is without a doubt within the top five things i’ve ever read. (1/?)
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aaaa thank you so much anon friend! I’m glad that my efforts in exploring this world and characters paid off ^-^ Honestly that’s why work on the sequel is slow; I want to give that fic just as much love and effort and thought as I did this one!
as for a personal blog yeah! I can be found at @sher-soc-the-famder if you want to read any of my other works :) (as well as SocialBookWorm on AO3)
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uvindi · 3 years
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Hey!! Hope you're doing well.
I wanted to get into Grishaverse but don't know in what order to read books (???) I have seen people starting it with Shadow and Bone or Six of Crows and I am confused. I know you are in the fandom and I would really appreciate it if you help me
Thank you <3
HI NONNIE first of all, I'd like to say im very excited to get this ask!
And second, of course im absolutely gonna help u it'd be my greatest joy to trap get more people into the fandom because it rlly is wonderful here!
I have added my rating of some of them bcuz i wish someone had told me some of that b4 i had the books so there's that, feel free to ignore them!
Also btw pronunciation is a sham. half the fandom was pronuncing words wrong and we didn't even know till the show came out so don't worry about it
and so it goes:
Book 1: Shadow and Bone
well, it's like the ya that was published at the time: im not like other girls protagonists, plain piece of bread love interest (the show gave him did him a better personality and gave that ship much more chemistry) a love triangle that is rlly just an love angle also one half of it is abusive, hating on other girls, girls fighting over boys/men, hating on pretty people, looks centered (e.g.: that person is mean bcuz theyre prettier than me, this person is my friend, there aren't prettier than me), etc etc and it rlly made it harder for me to concentrate on the rlly good bits like the world buliding and the plot so it was a dnf from me :/
But the nice thing about that is that u can skip right to six of crows and not get spoiled for the series
the show though, the show my beloved <3 (ill talk more about that later !)
Book 2: Siege and Storm
Book 3: Ruin and Rising
Then,
Six of Crows
you can read this book first, if you like. you wont get any spoilers for the first 3 from them. yeah, youll be introduced to the worldbuilding in a wacky way but it's quite fun
but just so you know: zemeni, the wandering isle, Kerch, fjerda, ravka, and Shu Han are countries in this world, and those names can also refer to the population and ethnicity, e.g: "the zemeni blamed the kerch and the kerch blamed the shu" has the same meaning as "the French blamed the Americans and the Americans blamed the Germans" (just an example ok djdks)
There are also grisha, who are the people who can be magic. Being grisha is not genetic or ethnicity based. There are 3 main types of grisha which further divide so: corperelki: healers (heal people) and heartrenders (manipulate the body). their colour is red. etherelki, squallers (air benders and lighting summoners) inferni (fire benders) and tide makers (waterbenders) and then theres matherielki, durasts (metal benders) and alkemi (chemistry things)
Crooked Kingdom
absolutely amazing tbh
tw for rape: pg 274-276. just read the last sentence of that chapter on pg 276 and then you can just go the next chapter, chapter 18
And then!
King of scars
do not read this if you haven't read shadow and bone series, and both of six crows and crooked kingdom. M a j o r spoilers. Major. But if you've read soc and ck but you dont wanna
Rule of Wolves
And that's all! The series isn't finished yet hope ive been help,
Shadow and Bone, the show:
So yeah, there are definitely spoilers for both soc and ck, but over all it's mostly just canon fanfic, like most of the stuff that happens doesn't happen in the books, so like fan service
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