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It's absolutely insane how he could...

Hold big, poofy, bright pink cotton candy while wearing the silliest, goofiest smile on his face, shining more than the sun itself...

To being a scary, vicious, menacing, badass, bloody monster...

To a little ball of trauma and tragedy on the floor, desperately clutching his gloves and visibly shuddering.

I still haven't figured out how he does it. I'm still dazed.

Lovely to meet Amita Suman and I will never forget her reaction to my portrait! She was so stunned that it's an original! 🥰

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I got my cats addicted to Shadow and Bone.

I have four cats and they are ridiculously clingy. I used to let them sleep in my bed but after a few too many chewed phone cords and drinks knocked off the nightstand I had to start closing them out of my bedroom at night. At first, they would whine and scratch at the door so I started leaving the TV on in the living room so they wouldn't feel alone. This seemed to work and became a regular thing. After trying a few nature shows and cat videos, I found they seem most calm when I play something I would normally watch. I used to rotate through different shows but since it was canceled I've been replaying Shadow and Bone. A few nights ago I had been rewatching Bridgerton and left that on instead. They came to my door screaming after less than an hour. The next night I tried Lockwood and Co and got the same reaction. I've tried several different things now that I frequently watch but always the same result. Only when I put on Shadow and Bone will they calm and let me sleep in peace.

in the grishaverse there are several inclusive themes (this is one of the reasons why I loved the series) I really struggled to choose what to represent, but I made many wallpapers on different topics. here are the first works: 1 Aspenger: David. his mind is brilliant, always on the move, he notices things that others miss... but he struggles to relate to others... 2. dyslexia: wylan (I really appreciated this theme as I too am dyslexic... the author's delicacy in addressing this topic moved me.) 3 ADHD. jesper and nikolai. they are completely different in character but both are restless, always on the move, unmanageable. (how I understand them!) 4. post traumatic stress: kaz (I loved the representation of this theme in the show) 5. disability: always kaz (how I would have liked to see the part where kaz became disabled and what he did with his lameness part of his legend. I feel robbed...)

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I’ve been thinking about some stuff lately. I keep thinking “Anthony Lockwood and Kaz Brekker are almost the same,” but there’s been something I couldn’t put my finger on. I’ve considered that maybe Anthony is a mix of Kaz and Sherlock Holmes, but I don’t know enough about Holmes to say that.

But I just realized what it was. It wasn’t just the parallels between Kaz and Lockwood, it was also about Jesper, Inej, Lucy, and George. They were both (arguably) the main characters of their story. Lucy and Inej are both very talented girls that had people they loved cruelly pried out of their hands, and then ran away from the abusive place that they were staying. They then met their love interest with a traumatic past and abrasive nature, Anthony/Kaz. And at one point in time, both Anthony and Kaz insinuated that Lucy/Inej was only with them due to their skills. (The asset/investment moment.)

Now onto George and Jesper. This one may be a bit more of a stretch. Both George and Jesper at first glance seem to just be the best friends/brother figure of Anthony/Kaz. But they both have talents that got them onto the team (Jesper’s guns and George’s smarts). Out of the group, both George and Jesper seem to have the best backstories (even when that may not be true) and they both have a family member(s) that they could go back to if things went south, although it would be a shameful return. In addition, they both constantly provide sarcastic commentary on whatever the group is doing.

If I were to try to list all the similarities between Kaz and Anthony, it would take years. And the same thing goes for if I was trying to list the parallels of their group dynamics.

But maybe another day.

hello! because i am completely delusional (and i've also had a six of crows/percy jackson crossover idea in my mind for the last month), here i'll recount why i think kaz brekker and luke castellan are somewhat similar, and the parallels between them.

first of all, if you are watching the percy jackson & the olympians tv show and haven't read the books or gotten spoiled, stop reading because this post will contain spoilers for the books. and obviously, spoilers for the six of crows duology.

before i start, i'd like to say that i haven't actually read the percy jackson books, but i have seen enough spoilers and read luke's fandom wiki to somewhat know what i'm talking about, but if you feel that i'm mistaking luke's characterization, please feel free to point it out. so without much further ado, let's begin :)

the main point that i feel begins this madness of a comparison is that kaz would, at least in my opinion, absolutely be a child of hermes if he existed in the riordanverse. why? hermes is the god of boundaries, travelers, thieves, commerce, cunning, wit, and politics: all except the first two and the last encapsulate the various parts of kaz's character pretty well, and it could be argued that kaz is good at politics, given how much of crooked kingdom revolves around them, and kaz was technically a traveler when he first arrived in ketterdam with jordie, up until he crawled out of the harbour and made the city his home. the boundaries part could be related to how kaz crossed the line of morality & co when he became kaz brekker but i feel like i'm stretching it too far so i'll leave it at that. hermes is also the psychopomp who helps guide the souls of the dead to the afterlife, which means leading them to charon and the acharon/styx; kaz has a special connection (i.e. trauma) to water and death, with how he nearly died in the reaper's barge surrounded by corpses and then used jordie's corpse as a lifeboat to the ketterdam harbour, so it could be taken as a psychopomp-related theme about him? as a plus, almost all of kaz's schemes include sneaky stuff like trickery, lying and crime, so that's why i think he can be compared more to hermes rather than athena as i've commonly seen. and even though i doubt luke would be thrilled about it, he also is pretty similar to hermes.

kaz and luke, as people, have made it their lives' mission to get revenge against those who have wronged them (pekka rollins and the olympians) to the point that that thirst for revenge and the traumas that led to them have defined them as people, plus it has caused them to put in danger (without meaning to or not) the people they care about/set out to protect: kaz completely screwed up the plan to get out of the ice court because he went rogue and went looking for rollins, and later didn't take into account that rollins could be working with van eck and they all nearly died, and luke harmed a lot of demigods + annabeth and thalia, even though he wanted things to be better for them, which was obviously not what kronos was planning to do once he disposed of olympus, all because he was blind with rage at how the gods didn't move a finger to help their children in their inherently dangerous lives that they didn't ask for.

i want to point out their disrespect for authority for a bit; it's a theme in both sagas (at least from my understanding it is) how authority figures disregard children's suffering, from how the previously mentioned olympians + the titans don't really care about demigods, who are just children and in constant danger because monsters or they're sent into quests for the gods and die, and ketterdam... it is straight-up corrupt and pretty bad. anyways, what i'm trying to say is that luke and kaz are both byproducts of the societies they've been discarded by. i once saw a post that called luke what every demigod could become under the right circumstances, a nobody in the cabin of nobodies, and irrelevant enough to go unnoticed but smart enough to almost topple olympus (i don't remember the exact words they used but i'm pretty sure it's something like this), and this is what kaz is: just one of the tons of kids that get scammed and eaten whole by ketterdam, but smart enough to rise to the top and take revenge for what was done to him.

however, this is where their differences start to appear, because luke definitely had an altruistic goal when he meant for demigods to get actually noticed by the gods, but he was a radical and his hatred + kronos' manipulations turned him into something worse. sure, he had their well-being in mind, though it didn't exactly look like it when he let kronos possess him and started a war that killed lots of demigods, or when he blackmailed silena into being a spy and allowed for annabeth to hold the literal sky, but in the end he did make the right choice. kaz, on the other hand, only had revenge for himself and his brother in mind, and all the things he did to get on the road that would allow him that were terrible and of his own choice and doing. was cheating, scamming, conning, murdering, maiming, stealing and a lot else i don't remember crucial to get revenge on the man that ruined his life, even though it was very destructive for ketterdam and for kaz himself, and considering jordie would have urged him to get away from the city and make a better life for himself? it was to get revenge, but it's not like he would die from not doing it, and though turning himself into a ''monster'' was vital to his safety and life, that was his choice—he chose to be dirtyhands. luke also chose to revive kronos and go to war against olympus, but kronos also manipulated and mentally tortured luke, so not everything was a 100% on him. for kronos' sake, luke chose to become more ruthless and cruel, while kaz chose to be that for his reputation and his revenge. nonetheless, luke still is a backstabber and traitor to his friends and family, and sure, kaz's a bastard, but he always looked after the crows and didn't mean them harm. there's also the fact that luke only got out of the deep ass vengeance cave he was in when he sacrificed himself to kill kronos and told percy to not let what happened to him and ethan happen again, while kaz got his revenge + got retribution for all of the crows and then helps inej take down the slavers and pleasure houses.

(also, getting the olympians locked up in tartarus sounds like a good revenge plan, but telling the man who ruined your life that you buried his son alive and not telling him where he is until he remembers your dead brother's name, all while all you're telling's him a bluff? disturbing, yes, and that they both came to do that is just sad, but it doesn't stop kaz's scene from being iconic. anyways back to business).

kaz and luke had undeniably fucked up childhoods, but i'd like to point out what they did after The Thing happened. kaz lived on the streets and had to steal and do stuff to survive while looking for hertzoon, found him as the king of the barrel and then joined the dregs and started to create his reputation for safety and for revenge, and much later met his friends. luke had a lot of Things, so i'll go over them briefly. after he ran away from his crazy mother he lived on the streets and had to learn how to fight monsters, then met thalia and later annabeth and took care of them as family. after he met his father, he was angry and picked fights with monsters which equals danger for all. after thalia was turned into a tree by zeus, he resented the olympians even more & grieved for his friend. after he got sent into the quest by hermes and got his scar, he was furious that they denied him the chance to get glory by doing something already done and his resentment got worse, and that's when kronos slipped into his mind & everything went to hell. now, you may be wondering where the hell i'm going with this, to which i present you how they both chose the destructive path, but while luke got from good to bad to worse to good at the very last moment, kaz got from bad to worse to kinda good to his crew and to inej. basically, kaz found people who stuck with him and he in turn stuck with them, while luke completely alienated everyone, then betrayed them and lost them. however, it could be noted that the crows are outcasts so it makes sense they'd stick together, while luke's friends and family likely wouldn't agree to betray the olympians because they're their parents and they want to be loved by them, so there's no way they'd join kronos, so yeah, they had different people around them.

in conclusion, kaz and luke both got into a path of revenge that led to lots of bad things for both ketterdam and camp half-blood, kaz found people who stuck with him and decided to get better while luke nearly burned everything to the ground, then realised what he'd done to the people he claimed to protect and made the right choice. so yeah, this got way longer than i expected and i definitely have a thing for grey morality, and these two were children who didn't deserve the tragedy that befell them. i can't wait to see how they adapt luke in the show and hope that the six of crows spin-off gets saved so we can see the crows again! hope you enjoyed my very long ranting :)

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The tender look in his eyes, before he registers his current position, will never not destroy me. 😭😭🥺

The Slat from Six of Crows - this is how I came to this interpretation:

The Slat is described as a ricketty house leaning on it's neighbours in the typical row house style inspired by Amsterdam. We can deduce that it has windows on both it's front and it's back from the fact that in Crooked Kingdom, when Kaz and Inej arrive at the Slat, they enter through opposing sides of the attick: Kaz through his own office window and Inej through a pigeonhole bellow the hook that is used to hoist furniture up in such houses. Obviously there would be windows to living quarters underneath this hook, otherwise the hook would be useless and there are windows beneath Kaz's room as well, one of them being to Inej's room, from where the both of them can see the harbour on clear days.

Another clue regarding the Slat's configuration can be deduced from the fact that Kaz uses all the attick for his own rooms, however when Inej enters through the pigeonhole, she is not in Kaz's rooms (but above living quarters nonetheless) so how can this contradiction be? It is likely the area in which Inej enters is not hight enough for a room, hence a "half level" house is likely, where the rooms in the front are at a higher level than the rooms in the back, conveniently leaving a high ceiling for the Dreg's main room underneath.

We also know that Inej, perched on a beam beneath the roof, can see the entirety of the staircase and part of the main room, so she can watch Kaz fight the Dregs, which can be explained only if in the center of the house there is a wide 4-level opening, which would be consistent with architectural principles (living quarters near the windows, where they can be ventilated) and circulations & secondary spaces in the center.

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Shadow and Bone is such an important show for representation, making people of many types feel seen and like they too could fit in a fantasy setting. For example, nuanced South Asian and East Asian representation that's important to both the actors and the fans. Multiple disabled characters where their disability is only one part of them. Queer characters where their queerness isn't used for tragedy + a rare setting free of homophobia. That's just what I can think of off the top of my head, there's other rep too I'm sure. Also, see this article on queer representation in fantasy for a quote by one of the actors, Jack Wolfe, about how he felt to have a queer role on such a show. Of course, as with many shows including diversity, Netflix cancelled it despite the data showing it was doing well. But we don't want to accept that, we want our rep back! So if you're reading this and haven't seen the show, please please consider signing to help us out (and/or watching the show, new viewers show demand for it to Netflix). We're at nearly 187,000 signatures so far and trying to get to 200,000 signatures this month, ideally by the time the billboard our fandom fundraised for goes up on January 22nd. We want to send a message to Netflix that shows like this are wanted, that they matter to people, and that we won't simply accept cancellation after cancellation of diverse shows

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