#IM REALLY HAPPY WITH HOW IT TURNED OUT... for having speedran it

[thedrotter]

cw eye strain , blood

it doesnt hurt to dream for world in which you can be a princess even if it isn't possible

[frootbyethefoot]

no one escapes death

[ID: a digital drawing of ryoji mochizuki standing in front of tartarus on a full moon. tartarus is towering over the background, and is much taller than the multiple tall buildings in the distance. there is a yellow, full moon and multiple tealish green clouds covering it. ryoji is far away from tartarus and standing in front of it. his face is not visible, and you can see his scarf blowing in the wind. the entire drawing is bathed in a teal light.]

[cloudcountry]

Screams fuck you tumblr you fuckin broke during the birthday ask to Auburn you heartless peice of shit, sobs anyways cracks my knuckles again.

I speedran this.

i did this all today bc i did not know what to do earlier andndbrjrjrrj

SOBS. AUBURN I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A GOOD BIRTHDAY AND YOU HAVE A GREAT LIFE GOING FORTH BC YOU ARE SO COOL AND DESERVE IR IM SOBBING

I really want to mail this to you ao bad,, something you may not know about my art is that i highlight with a silver metalic marker so if you hold the page and move it around in the light it shines AN I WANT YOU TO HAVE IT SO BAD SO YOU CAN DO THAT BC THTAS SO COOL TO DO

Ooooo and there are some fun details in that i must point out: instead of 19 candles on your cake there are 19 pearls -- 8 at the top, 5 on each side, and 1 dotting the i!!! Your name is written in silver in the shadow in the upper left corner, along with a bunch of little hearts in the shadows, my personal favorite is the cake cutter an im so happy with how it turned out :3

have a very happy happy birthday Auburn you deserve it so much!!!

OH EDIE....THE AMOUNT OF THOUGHT YOU PUT INTO THIS,..,.,. IM SO EMOTIONAL OVER THIS. ITS SO LOVELY, ITS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GIFT THANK YOU SO MUCH :(( I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!! IHAD THE BETS BIRTHDAY EVER I HAVE SUCH LOVELY PEOPLE IN MY LIFE YOU ALL ARE SO SPECIAL TO ME THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOUUUU

[oretsev]

hi helloo, i'd just written a novel in ur askbox about s&b and then tumblr crashed and it was all lost :') maybe for the better because it was a total mess of thoughts lmao so let me try to summarise my feelings a bit (im sorry this turned out REALLY long)

i HATE that they speedran s&s and r&r in the most bullshit way possible. the entire amplifier hunt was basically removed, at least journey-wise - they just. find the sea whip in that one cave and then they go to morozova's workshop and thats it?? wheres the shu han quest. where the fuck is the ACTUAL spinning wheel. and why is alina not hounding everyone to find the firebird??? she's supposed to be obsessively seeking it now, why does she barely seem to care? also where's the actual ending to siege and storm. WHERE is my darkling & alina fight. wheres her being saved by mal... where's her white hair !!!! idk that scene was my favourite and once i knew we were getting a tv show i really wanted to see this on screen :((

all the characters and relationships they cut... harshaw, misha, ONCAT, tamar&nadia (because lbr they basically weren't there), honestly i even missed sergei and stigg (who i'd barely even remembered before), nadia and adrik as siblings even. they just cut all these people and their journeys with alina for what, a fetch quest for a magic sword?

also, where's the apparat and the soldat sol? we hear people call alina 'sankta', sure, but the entire religious part of ruin and rising is just. completely sidelined. which is really weird because it's so important!! tolya and tamar's faith is basically nonexistent and i don't like it at all

the whole firebird reveal was soooo boring. like i'm sorry but that scene in the book? absolutely perfect. but in the show... it's just a story! baghra just tells mal and thats it! honestly this entire season was so much telling and not showing too, soooo much exposition and it just really didnt work

now then. ive put this off long enough but. the fucking ending. dude... i don't even know where to begin. how do you fuck up the rewrite of your book so badly that the entire moral of your book is just. completely lost?? literally the entire trilogy is built on the "what is infinite? the universe and the greed of men" quote. you CANNOT disregard that in this way. the point of the entire story is that alina's greed is punished! she loses her powers and she loses mal (sort of). the fold is destroyed by her power but not by her, because she never should have had that much power! now... she loses nothing. she has her power, she has three amplifiers, she brought mal back with merzost (which is still. insane to me like i legit laughed out loud when that happened) and now she's general of the second army and also soon probably queen of ravka??? she doesnt lose ANYTHING to her greed.

and with the ending too... where the hell are they going to take this next? because theyre sure as hell not following the kos duology storyline, what with alina now being nikolai's general instead of zoya (which im also. really pissed off about because zoya's story is SO important and theyve just. shoved her to the side)

i also have some thoughts about the crows and how theyve been handled of course i just don't feel as passionately about them (also because they shouldnt have been in this show in the first place but thats just my opinion <3) but i do wonder how theyre gonna start the soc spinoff when theyve basically done so much of the crooked kingdom plot already? and inej is literally already sailing and finding slavers like... i have no idea how theyre going to dothis spinoff and make everyone happy

very small last points but im so mad that they did the "an ordinary life full of ordinary things" line and then decided to. include nikolai? what the actual fuck? and then they didnt even GIVE malina their ordinary life... sorry im so so angry about this ending

i'm sure ive got more to say but this is already wayy too long and i don't wanna bother u anymore but ive just been mad for 3 days straight and really needed to get this off my chest <3 im really disappointed that theyve managed to screw up my favourite book series of all time so i'm just going to reread r&r and forget this season exists :D hope u have a nice day and thank u for reading this dump slfksdj

RIP but ty for venting!!! i totally get everything you’re saying. all of this comes down to the writers smashing basically all of the books into one season for NO reason. all of the things that make the trilogy & duology interesting & compelling & complex are gone bc there’s no time to show them. it’s constantly going GO GO GO with the plot, & for what?? nothing got added to these characters this season, i didn’t feel any impact during any of the big reveals, i didn’t get any emotional payoff from these characters’ journeys.

& why change the ending the way they do? eric’s already said that a season 3 would go back & touch on s&s things they didn’t address. so this ending is meant to draw out alina & mal’s stories, but why do it this way? why backtrack like that? you could certainly draw out the trilogy without speed-running the original ending like this, but that doesn’t fit whatever weird narrative he has for the crows ig.