#Crow thoughts

[squuote]

keep going back n forth on putting my narrator design on artfight. mostly because it’s like, this isn’t my character, the only thing I made is the design.. feels false to post him like he’s an oc..

[ofcrowsanddragons]

I'm just over here having fun, writing gothic horror/romance Veilguard fanfic and drawing Lucanis. :)

Reference screenshot by @emmavakarian-theirin

[ruins-and-rewritez]

"He's so babygirl" I say, referring to Kaz, Jes, Wy and Matthias simultaneously

"She's the man,"I mutter, referring to Inej and Nina in any situation ever

[mostlyacrow]

All hail padded bike shorts, my butt thanks you

[stackofcrows]

i love polyamory i love being queer i love non-traditional relationships i love t4t i love ace4ace i love aro4aro i love platonic love i love romantic love i love queerplatonic love i love love i love friendship i love marriage i love platonic life partners i love existing i love my partners being happy with their partners i love my partners being happy with my other partners i love my partners i love myself i love existing i love everything

[paxthepuppycat]

fed the crows today

[livecrow]

so can i start referring to fat bellies as a "primordial pouch" or is one of you gonna stop me

[vintagelilies]

Tiny Roma for today 😌

[the-clotpole-and-the-disgrace]

exclus: aces/aros arent part of the lgbt community

tumblr: hold my beer

[soaringonblackwings]

Thinking about it more, It would have been great world building if they had went with Crow being a teacher. I don’t think people with markers would be allowed to become teachers. So that would have been a huge barrier that he would have to deal with along with possible distrust and judgement from his own co-workers. Highly doubt the school system had to deal with a criminal turned school teacher.

I can definitely see a student asking him what he went to jail for.

Also Crow would have to go to school too. Imagine him in college.

[squuote]

I think the aggravating aspect of shipping characters in a story that doesn’t already involve such is this underlying feeling that people NEED to ship two characters together or else they cannot enjoy the media. which in itself feels weird in a way I can’t seem to describe but almost as if pushing a narrative that romance or any shipping must be included in a story in order to make a media enjoyable. which like yeah, maybe I am reaching with that conclusion, but it wouldn’t be one to pop into my head if people didn’t make it seem that way with how desperate some of the shipping I see is.

[ofcrowsanddragons]

The Antivan Mafia

The Antivan Crows operate like the mob, especially when it comes to recruiting desperate members of the public in a system they uphold. They're also... a genuinely legitimate power with close connections to the King of Antiva. These things are both true.

Antiva appears to operate according to and be ruled by a system of merchant houses (including the Crows) and merchant princes (arguably including the Talons).

I posit, veering into headcanon territory, that if we're thinking of the Crows as the mob, we should extend that thinking across all of the merchant houses across all of the Antivan city states. (Of course, other houses often outsource their murder to professionals.)

In terms of understanding what the Crows are, and especially what the Crows we see in Treviso are, @ravioliage brought up the great example of the Yakuza being the first to send aid in the 2011 tsunami, and further, that the largest organized crime networks throughout history "donate food in bad neighborhoods" so that people think kindly of them and become fodder for recruitment. Meanwhile, that gang or mafia or whatever is actually responsible for the fact that the neighbourhood is a bad neighbourhood, and that the people there "can't afford to eat."

They do this because this is how you maintain power over people. You keep them moderately content in a system that's designed to feed on them, or you at least keep them blaming something other than you. The problem from here, as we the audience try to establish what is justifiable for our viewpoint characters according to our own morality, is that the Crows are also established within a system of merchant houses that have very little reason to operate in any other way.

By which I mean, the other merchant houses also operate like the mob, feeding on the people at the bottom to keep their entire operation spinning. The Crows are contract killers, with lives that very much seem dedicated to the job, in a set of rotating institutions that stab each other in the back all the time. The other merchant houses create silk and wine and the basic necessities of life, perhaps with more ordinary lives, but in a system where hiring a killer is a normal way to do business.

I think the reason that Lucanis sees "his" kind of commerce as not all that different than the other houses in Antiva is because, as far as he can tell, it's not. He gets hired by someone on the inside to kill the head of the family so that they can take power (in some of the extended media), which he likely considers evidence that they're not so different from the Crows themselves.

There's no reason to think that the other houses in Antiva operate according to a more optimistic model than the Crows do. If the merchant princes don't run their own "mobs" (with their own guards and men-at-arms, and their own ability to hire mercenaries), then at their best, they're still playing a Game of Thrones.

Is there an escape from that kind of system? If you care at all, do you leave or try to make it better? If you're Teia, you fight—and you might be wrong to do so, because your default response is to aim to slit a hundred throats by nightfall. If tomorrow there are a hundred more, then you have more knives.

The problem with systems is that you take the ones that shaped you with you... wherever you go.

[fr3nzyvirus]

Missed opportunity for Corazon to have the absolute GALL to wear the black jacket thing. Look at him.

He should WEAR it.

He should SIT down.

He’s be be an absolute ball of FLUFF and just a HEAD.

He’d have trapped little Law inside his JACKET. Kept boy WARM.

[mostlyacrow]

All high and subby and vulnerable... I hope no one takes advantage

[stackofcrows]

hey guys me and my friends/partners are trying to move into a new place and are kinda struggling with the deposit and rent and stuff, please share this around if you can

[paxthepuppycat]

Crow Stimboard ^_^

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