#Malkolina

[ryoryeonggu]

"I present Nikolai Lantsov" // inspired.

BONUS:

[mal-zoya]

Mal Oretsev & Alina Starkov & Nikolai Lantsov in SHADOW AND BONE season 2

[justtositoutsideyourdoor]

Shadow and Bone x Crazy Ex-Girlfriend lyrics (part 2)

[and-home-before-dark]

My favorite thing about Shadow and Bone is how hard Nikolai is crushing on Malina. Like Alina and Mal are just going “aww, that’s my best friend Nikolai” and he is making heart eyes staring longingly at them and pulling all of his best lines and sitting sadly in a chapel and giving them everything he has. Justice for Sobachka 😔✊

[aberfaeth]

i fr love mal and alina’s ending! so fun fresh and healthy to have these two characters who are extremely codependent actually decide to discover who they are outside of each other. take some time apart, try your hand at a new occupation, add a third to your relationship, etc

[crimeronan]

i think what enthralls me most about mal/alina/nikolai is that i don't THINK the polyamory was intentional at all. or at least not the specific polyamory i'm reading. like, i think the intent was to subvert the trope of an angry rebellious royal and an angry rebellious chosen one who refuse to form basic political alliances through marriage even though it just makes fucking sense. and then i think the writers' further intent was to distance mal and nikolai from their worst shitheadery in the books by uniting them thru a deep emotional bond and genuine respect and trust and care for each other. like. it's an arranged-marriage throuple that has a lot of potential for toxic misery and the writers wanted to sidestep that by going "okay, but maybe it's more interesting if they're all friends who love each other instead"

then the EXECUTION of that concept is like. not only are nikolai and mal so chill with the other dating their girlfriend that that Alone makes the polyamory pseudo-canon, but nikolai and mal's friendship is also -- apparently intentionally?? -- written with a SHITLOAD of parallels to nikolai and alina's relationship???

i think the intention in THAT is to reinforce how nikolai and alina have a strong non-romantic platonic partnership. because nikolai does the same things that he does with alina with mal, too! who, you know, is a man! and who is not nikolai's betrothed! see! everyone is such good friends!! :D

and so of course the way it reads onscreen to me, spiders georg polyamory kitkat, is just. nikolai has two hands. and is bisexual. and wants to crawl into bed with both alina and mal so bad it's fucking UNREAL,

they're perfect. polyamory rights.

[imruination]

Insp. Demons deserve love too.

[sometimes-petty]

coming from someone who has only watched the show so far

textpost from @aztarion

[greensaplinggrace]

you all are simply not thinking big enough. multishipping is the only way to go about this I'm afraid.

[littleblackraincloudofcourse]

When not if we get Shadow and Bone back for season three, among many other things I look forward to seeing, I'm curious how they planned to resolve things with the different relationships

Mal finding his way back to Alina, Zoya and Nikolai falling for each other, and even though it's unlikely I would love for David to have survived to be with Genya. And of course I need to see Tamar spoiling Nadia as promised.

That being said, I know the canon couples are perfection and I am desperate to see their stories continue . . . but since the show has already taken a few unexpected twist I just think we should consider ALL of our options

[percysjakcson]

SHADOW AND BONE 2.07 | Meet You in the Meadow

[ryoryeonggu]

When people's having a party of three without inviting you in.

[mal-zoya]

RIGHT IN FRONT OF TOLYA’S SALAD!

[wexpyke]

a Nikolai gif set a day keeps the nichevo'ya away

#i’ve made it out of the nichevo'ya attack that happened when i stopped making these #to offer you some more malkolina content :)

[justtositoutsideyourdoor]

Shadow and Bone x Crazy Ex-Girlfriend lyrics, part 2 (part 1)

[barrel-crow-n]

David: Nikolai, you'll be working with Alina and Mal.

Nikokai: Alright! My fantasy threesome!

Everyone else: *blank stares*

Nikolai: ...Of people on a team.