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Never buying second hand Manga ever again 🙏

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Hard at work at the yaoi factory

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Tomfoolery actually transitioned and only does she-nanigans now

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Winter has arrived on Poob.

Start your 7 day free trial of Poob today, and watch smash hit Martin Scorcese's Goncharov.

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Hi, I'm still thinking about serfdom in Ravka and the legal status of the Grisha! I made this graphic last night for a visual reference:

This was assuming that serfs, as peasants tied to the land they're born on and therefore legally considered a portion of Ravkan landowners' property, would make up the lowest rung of society. In the Russian Empire, serfs had next to no personal freedoms (even their marriages had to be approved by the Church). However, as I continued to read about the evolution of serfdom in the Russian Empire (...as one does), I discovered that there were actually two kinds of serfs: those tied to the land who could not be sold without it,* and those who were individually considered property and therefore could be sold on their own, called kholops.

This brings us to the Grisha. We don't know much about their legal rights:

Prior to TGT, they're considered "property of the King", and families were required to give them up (KoS Ch. 25)

They can be given as "gifts", as the Darkling gifts Genya to the Queen (S&B Ch. 7)

They're given to other nobles to work in their households if they aren't selected for military service (somewhere in S&B--would be grateful if anyone can give me the chapter)

Obviously, as servants, they cannot legally refuse any order they are given, which means they can be raped by their masters and have no legal recourse** (R&R Ch. 7)

Since Grisha as people are the property of their "owner", the King, this means their legal status actually more closely resembles slaves than serfs...which means that the Ravkan "social pyramid" might actually look like this:

No wonder Alina was in complete denial about being a Grisha and turned up her nose at every "Serf-like" behavior of the Second Army. She went from being free to being, very literally, human property of the King of Ravka!

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the reason i cannot excuse the darkling’s crimes is because he has no loyalty to his people. sure, everything he did was to create a better, safer world for grisha, and he did a lot of good things for them, but how many grisha did he kill because they didn’t agree with his methods? how many innocent children did he sacrifice because they were pawns in his plan? how many otkazat’sya that also wanted a better world for grisha did he kill or try to kill because, at the end of the day, his goals were not to make the world safer for grisha, it was to make a world where grisha were the rulers of society and everyone else was left to suffer

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"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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NOSFERATU (2024), dir. Robert Eggers

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NOSFERATU (2024) — dir. Robert Eggers

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NOSFERATU (2024) Dir. Robert Eggers

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I remember one post about how people wouldn't ship Darklina if the Darkling looked his 100+ age. This cracked my brain because I had a one man private Grandfather Fucker Alina agenda that brought such delirious joy.

Anyways, the new Nosferatu movie brings a vindication the likes I have never felt before.

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Wow, she really did not love that boy. Such depressed reasoning all throughout the books. Let Malina be a tragedy. "Will make do" type ship.

I would respect the writing more. Their dynamic would be more intriguing. Just a little bit of self awareness that this is supposed to be just another strife in a country that's only known strife for 100 years. It would be such a theme for Malina to just represent Ravka's internal conflict on all levels.

Alina then would be more open ended as a character.

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i love how people (see: ka shippers) will claim that katara is ooc in the southern raiders because she’s too “dark” and “vengeful” and blame that on zuko’s influence, only to then turn around and insist that katara hates zuko with a burning passion even by the end of the show and would never forgive him.

strange, i thought your “real” katara was endlessly compassionate and forgiving, not a raging, grudge-holding bitch? or is that only the case when her (entirely characteristic and legitimate) anger can’t be weaponized as a convenient tool to prevent her from being shipped with zuko?

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I haven't been spoiled about anything Mel so I'll have that to look forward to at least.

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the real MVPs of arcane