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Am I the Darkling? Cause I’m simping for Alina

A character study that got out of hand. I’m in Fivan hell they are just... ugh (send me prompt)

There is an heartbreaking quality to their relationship (pun intended). I find a strange comfort in the realness of it, these two are deeply in love, the kind that lasts until death.

And since the background can be distracting, here’s a version without it and a close up.

Crows AU casual clothes style. Jesper and Inej are babies that must be protected at all costs

Fedyor and Ivan as teens, they have just received their new kefta.

I missed drawing this two lovebirds.

my roommate: how many times have you watched that video?

me: yes ?

Is it just me who expected Nikolai and Mal to be gay for each other? And Genya and Alina? And Tolya and David? And Zoya to be aroace? And Hanne as transman? I really see Alina and Mal as lesbian and gay man besties.

(pls if anyone has such fanfic send it to me)

Nikolai: My arms are tired! Zoya: Would you like me to tear them off?

Aesthetic: Nikolai Lanstov

Art Credit: @kolarpem

No one :

Absolutely no one :

Me each and every day from the moment I finished ruin and rising : WHAT ARE MAL AND ALINA'S NEW NAMES????

Look, I know it's dumb but I want to know

What really baffles me is how LB would defend Alina being stripped from her powers and identity by claiming she’s transformed Keramzin by raising orphans. Like how on Earth does she think this is better and more noble than her helping her fellow Grisha and making changes that would actually mean something in the long run because at the end of the day as hard as B*rdugo can try to romanticise peasant life(in what is supposed to be based on Imperial Russia!)Alina is pretty much a nobody no one at the orphanage likes or distrust her and she has no real power of her own except relying on the new king(Nikolai)and her friends which is pretty much the main reason she and M*l end up being rich(B*rdugo trying so hard to have her cake and eat it).🙄

absolutely. i think it really comes down to an anti-revolutionary bias in her writing, and presumably in her own worldview also. there's a line alina and the other 'good' guys can't cross in order to bring about change because it would make them like the 'bad' guy, and so the only alternative is to lionize a version of the status quo and value peace over justice.

family values (marriage with a husband and adopted children) and support of the general status quo (maintaining a lantsov as king, fighting against the grisha uprising and generally leaving things be) are given precedence over non-traditional ideas about justice and political upheaval (joining aleksander's revolution and leaving all that behind). alina ends up relying on men in power rather than harnessing her own very literal one for her own political emancipation, and the part of her that makes her likely to prefer revolution is cut out and cast aside for an idealised idea of an ordinary life - which, as you say, romanticises peasanthood and a lack of political change by presenting the whole thing as a fairytale, despite the obvious fact that life in ravka rarely allows people happy endings

it's mixing political realism with an ending that refuses that realism completely, and it should be jarring. alina ending up where she began, in a ravka much the same as before, is seen as coming full circle and not some kind of awful groundhog day scenario like it actually is. written with a different tone, it could have been a commentary on the way nothing ever really changes and how all uprisings are quashed by those with power and a desire to keep things as they've always been; it could have been an incisive political commentary. but instead it's presented as positive for some reason i can’t fathom. it could even be about being backed into a corner in which one’s moral integrity stifles the ability to create change - although i would dislike that moral argument myself, i could at least respect it as a narrative choice that framed things with some self-awareness and nuance.

it also bugs me because after all alina has experienced, her complete lack of investment in the plight of grisha - even discounting revolutionary tactics or ideas - is just staggering. she heard anti-grisha slurs in the first army; she felt the fear of realising what she was and what it meant for her; hell, people were willing to help aleksander massacre an entire town if it meant making things better in the long run. like ivan said, everyone is sorry but aleks is the only one willing to do anything about it, and there’s plenty within the narrative that should give alina reason not to relinquish her identity even without her power. it’s a struggle that’s uprooted her life and change her fundamentally, and she shouldn’t be able to be naive and myopic anymore, but she is and it’s celebrated.

the really annoying thing is that the morality inherent in alina’s choice to abandon the grisha is nullified by the overwhelming assumption embedded into the narrative that destroying aleksander is the only way to save ravka, despite plenty of evidence that he is hardly the worst threat to ravka’s wellbeing and that, with him gone, the fundamental machinations causing most problems have not ceased. the creation of the second army was the greatest contribution made in known history to grisha welfare, and the fact that it’s all aleksander’s handiwork is just brushed aside because people decide they don’t like him. but alina’s complete refusal to engage in political reality is treated as positive. it just makes no sense.

time to get super self indulgent

im in love with the grishaverse lore

i was super stressy so  i just decided to doodle myself grisha style… it turned into this (im gonna try and get around to painting the actual cast too

self insert week is pretty well off from now  

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Reference is from Pinterest btw🫶🏻😽

I’ve just finished watching the shadow and bone series on Netflix and it’s got me interested in possibly reading some of the books. I know i really want to read The six of crows duology but i’m not so sure i’d get much enjoyment out of The Grisha trilogy. Can i read them separately? or should i try and read them both?

please help,, i really need help