#[They are crows. To be very clear]

[many-gay-magpies]

seeing all these posts talking about payneland as if its some tragic unrequited love drives me insane ngl. or i guess not TRAGIC but the posts that are like "man edwin really got every boy except the one he wanted" HE ALREADY HAD HIM. HE ALREADY FUCKING HAD HIM ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?? MAYBE NOT ROMANTICALLY BUT GOD HE HAD HIM. AND HE STILL HAS HIM.

[veerbles]

I keep thinking about this line from ck.

this is the culmination of the van eck job; the 'post-credits' scene that tells us where each of the characters is going forward. nina is 'going to find a way to make it matter', which teases row. inej is starting her journey of ending slavery on the seas. jesper and wylan's futures are explicitly intertwined and implicitly turning to politics.

what does kaz's line mean? what was leigh trying to foreshadow?

I refuse to believe the phrasing of it means nothing, because in the context of this scene, it can't mean nothing. this is kaz's next big journey. and it also references another big conversation from ck:

this scene from the geldrenner bathroom is so important because, in it, inej confronts kaz with the truth of his revenge arc (which essentially drives the plot of the entire duology): how is the person he became to ruin pekka different from pekka himself?

and again, kaz mentions building an empire and burning it.

so it has to have meaning. is it literal? will a big plot point in soc #3 involve kaz setting fire to the barrel? but if that's the case, why is it significant that he rebuilds it into something new beforehand?

or maybe it's figurative. at the very end of ck inej asks kaz to help her end slavery from his side of things in ketterdam. she mentions taking down the crooked politicians, the slave-owners, the... even less-moral barrel bosses. while it seems obvious that kaz's 'new empire' is a barrel under his control, what would become of a criminal empire under the thumb of a man indirectly helping to destroy it? perhaps it figuratively 'burns to the ground'.

so either kaz builds his empire, and then literally burns it to achieve something else, or kaz builds his empire and uses its own power to 'burn it' by helping something cleaner grow instead. maybe that's the connection to the bathroom conversation: maybe it's the way he finally proves himself to be different from pekka.

or maybe it's neither of those, and I'm completely off-base? either way it has to mean something big, and I would honestly love to hear more interpretations.

[lelianasbong]

Struggling with Rook concepts. I think part of me was holding out hope for an Ambassadoria-adjacent background for dwarves, and something more directly associated with Par Vollen/Seheron for qunari since our last qunari protag was Vashoth and raised in the Free Marches. Normally I find it easy to brainstorm Dragon Age OCs but lately.... blerp.

[gay-strawberry]

part 2 the never king shitpost ! heres part 1

vane:

winnie:

pan:

bash:

kas:

vane:

tink:

i will come back (maybe) when i read more and meet more characters | update. i did (part 3)

[caramelmochacrow]

happy birthday to kokorooooo! <3

[luvuwite]

Don't say I can't go with other boys

[earl-grey-crow]

me: blocks the bad batch tag because I don’t want to see spoilers from the new season and also because I don’t want to see anything about it in general because I’ll go feral

also me: has spent about an hour everyday for like the past three days scrolling through bad batch pins on pinterest

[incorrectnevermoor]

Unit 919 as SPIDERVERSE CHARACTERS

Archan: Hobie Brown AKA Spider-Punk

Francis: Pavitr Prabhakar AKA Spider-Man India

Morrigan: Gwen Stacy AKA Ghost Spider

Hawthorne: Mayday Parker. You know I’m right. (Or Peter Parker AKA Spider-Man Earth-120703)

Anah: Aunt May. In every universe.

Cadence: Miles Morales AKA Spider-Man [UNIVERSE REDACTED]

Lam: Cassandra Webb AKA Madame Web

Mahir: Insomniac Miles Morales

Thaddea: Ben Reilly AKA Scarlet Spider (Comics ver.)

Bonus:

Ezra: Olivia Octavius AKA Doc Oc

Jupiter: Peter B. Parker AKA Spider-Man OR Cooper Coen AKA Web-Weaver

Jack: Lyla. I am RIGHT.

[jackwolfes]

also! do you have wesper reca with characterisation you love apart from yk, your own?😂 (i’ve reas everything from you atp)

this is much more up my alley 😂 i tried very hard to pick a mix of horny and non-horny fics, be proud of me

(T) can you fill the silence (annesbonny): pre, mid and post canon; super interesting take on wylan being selectively mute in the aftermath of trauma; excellent idea and very well written

(T) marketable skills (randomcat1832): canon compliant set on the Ferolind the first time; PERFECT amount of bickering, absolutely feels like it could be slotted right into the book itself

(T) it was the eyes (pigeontoad): modern cafe au; really good jesper POV. i also really really enjoy this author's other wesper works!

(M) delay (boxoftheskyking): post canon; really cinched the "boys that can't talk about their feelings" vibe

(M) writing in the dark (tommylane): post-canon fluff although i'm just a bit of a sucker for love confession fics

(E) my heart doesn't slow down, when you kill the lights (anonymouspoet): florist x tattoo artist au; phenomenally written all the way through especially wrt wylan's insecurities, but the sex scene at the end is just! *chefs kiss*

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread    

The Crows

Adult horror

a young woman buys & renovates an old spooky house in Wales, and discovers it’s sentient, cursed, and has a few murders tied to it…..

also there’s this weird guy next door who’s maybe an eldritch serial killer

(the weird guy is asexual. there’s QPR vibes)

[the-owl-tree]

I know it’s an old convo by now but the “nightcloud coddled breezepelt” argument in an attempt to blame her for why he was evil is. weird. it gives off people want to abuse kids and think they have to. idk maybe it was my own upbringing where adults around me said that children acted out because their parents were too nice to them and didn’t hit them enough (spare the rod spoil the child and all that) and it always sounded backwards. shouldn’t this be the opposite? in what world could you logically conclude that breezepelt decided he was gonna join murderers and child killers (for revenge, as he stated multiple times btw!!) because his momma loved him too much? what. also takes away each of these characters reasons and agency given in the text, but take all of that away and it’s still a dumb argument. wym being cruel to your kids makes them good people and being kind makes them killers. huh.

and as far as I know shepherds don’t beat their sheep if they stray. they gently guide them back to safety with their rods. I have never heard of anything else. really dumb argument that falls apart easily after thinking for 2 extra seconds

To be fair, the coddling was always partnered with her allegedly turning him against his father. But even then, that still isn't really enough to justify blaming everything on her, especially when Breezepelt explicitly looks at the reader and goes "I am doing this because of how my father treated me. My actions are a direct consequence of his behavior. My mother is not even mentioned in any of these scenes."

It didn't help that a lot of art and animation depicted Nightcloud driving Crowfeather away from the nursery or threatening to hit him. Since YouTube was the most common way for people to understand story beats without reading the books, I wouldn't be surprise if that contributed to the amount of misinformation.

[heartrender6]

"if will gao doesn't get cast as kuwei then i dont want it 🤪 🤪" is that true or is that just the only young east asian actor you know 😐

[crw-ooc]

quadrant vacillation?

sometimes when i think about corr's sexuality it interests me a lot. ehe.

[caramelmochacrow]

for some reason when im watching nijigasaki i have to have toasted bread w cheese (spread ver.) and milo. idk why but i just. gotta have it.

[fortheloveofexy]

Yes, I understand it should be just fun polls and games but….. I’m competetive.. (and biased (aftg all the way))

Nothing wrong with being competitive! I just think you can be competitive without being a jerk, yknow?

[fallencrowkarma]

*Taps the sign aggressively*