#crooked conversations

[jack-redacted-files]

This is the saddest, soggiest piece of writing I have ever read. Fuck this man entirely for making me read this neon colored salty paper wrapper of buzzwords and then forget to add the extra literacy on the side.

This is a work devoid of even the nostalgic sense of corporate loyalty, an article in the most loose and nebulous sense in the same way that a public swimming pool shares similarities with a baptismal font.

There is less meat on this than there is on the bottom of Franco’s old kitchen shoes, there is less substance here than there is salt on his fries, and I hate everything which led up to the Washington post publishing this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/07/mcdonalds-was-there-for-me-when-no-one-else-was/

[lunarthecorvus]

The crows as conversations from my grishaverse discord server

Nina: I could fuck a cake rn

NO A BURGER

BOTH

Wylan: NINA

Nina: Yes, darling?

Wylan: THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU DON'T SAY OUT LOUD

Nina: FINE I'LL KEEP IT INSIDE

Jesper: [replying to I could fuck a cake rn] relatable

Wylan: [replying to relatable] LOVE

Jesper: [replying to LOVE] WHY LIE

(All I will say it that I was one of the people, and I was sleep deprived... it may have been the same time as my dangerous flower post... I'm not sure. You could guess as to who I was)

[2ndbestalex]

[calla-starkflowerstew11]

Inej: hello kaz, make anyone cry today?

Kaz: sadly no, but it's only 4:30

[fantastic-nonsense]

What are five of your favourite Grishaverse quotes? Send this ask to 5 of your favourite grishaverse blogs!

Thank you so much for sending this, and sorry it took me such a long time to get to it 😭

Choosing was super hard because there are so many insanely good quotes in the books and I love several of them for very different reasons, but I'll try and give it a go anyways. So: five of my favorite Six of Crows quotes (because I still haven't read the SaB trilogy), in no particular order:

Kaz and Inej, on getting back up after a fall:

Get it together, Brekker, he scolded himself harshly. It didn’t help. He was going to faint again, and this would all be over. Inej had once offered to teach him how to fall. “The trick is not getting knocked down,” he’d told her with a laugh. “No, Kaz,” she’d said, “the trick is in getting back up.” More Suli platitudes, but somehow even the memory of her voice helped. He was better than this. He had to be. Not just for Jordie, but for his crew. He’d brought these people here. He’d brought Inej here. It was his job to bring them out again. The trick is in getting back up. He kept her voice in his head, repeating those words, again and again, as he stripped off his boots, his clothes, and finally his gloves. -Ch. 22, Six of Crows

Matthias asking for mercy for monsters/the "we are all someone's monster" observation:

“Nina,” he said, hand still pressed over the smooth skin on his chest where a bullet wound should be. “Nina, please.” “You know they would not offer you mercy, Matthias.” “I know. I know. But let them live in shame instead.” She hesitated. “Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.” Nina shifted her gaze to his. Her eyes were ferocious, the deep green of forests; the pupils, dark wells. The air around her seemed to shimmer with power, as if she was alight with some secret flame. “They fear you as I once feared you,” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina.” -Ch. 41, Six of Crows

Wylan and Kaz's entire conversation about disability and vulnerability while cracking Van Eck's safe:

He thumbed quickly through the ledger and said, “When people see a cripple walking down the street, leaning on his cane, what do they feel?” Wylan looked away. People always did when Kaz talked about his limp, as if he didn’t know what he was or how the world saw him. “They feel pity. Now, what do they think when they see me coming?” Wylan’s mouth quirked up at the corner. “They think they’d better cross the street.” Kaz tossed the ledger back in the safe. “You’re not weak because you can’t read. You’re weak because you’re afraid of people seeing your weakness. You’re letting shame decide who you are. Help me with the painting.” They lifted the portrait back into place over the gaping hole in the safe. Martin Van Eck glared down at them. “Think on it, Wylan,” Kaz said as he straightened the frame. “It’s shame that lines my pockets, shame that keeps the Barrel teeming with fools ready to put on a mask just so they can have what they want with no one the wiser for it. We can endure all kinds of pain. It’s shame that eats men whole.” -Ch. 18, Crooked Kingdom

Inej vs. Dunyasha on the Church of Barter rooftop, refusing to be cowed on her own turf:

“The blood you spill is the blood of kings,” seethed Dunyasha. “You are not fit for such a gift.” Inej almost felt sorry for her. Dunyasha really believed she was the Lantsov heir, and maybe she was. But wasn’t that what every girl dreamed? That she’d wake and find herself a princess? Or blessed with magical powers and a grand destiny? Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway. Inej raised a brow and slowly wiped the blood of kings on her trousers. -Ch. 35, Crooked Kingdom

And Inej at the harbor...hopeful, in love, and ready to take on the world with her boy and her ship:

Had she really thought the world didn’t change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent. The boy beside her. The future before her. Anything was possible. -Ch. 44, Crooked Kingdom

[jazzkrebber]

aka Kaz's excuse for being able to sense Inej's presence, when in reality he feels the lack of her presence, and when she returns to him he hates the silence because he missed her and wants to talk to her

[lilisouless]

Nikolai: i know he is no one´s favorit person, but he was a guest here and should have been treathed like such

Zoya: its probably not permanent

Nikolai: the heartrenders spend hours trying to remove Brekker´s tattoo

Zoya: well, i thought Ketterdam´s thugs liked looking "badass"

Nikolai: i don't think a big tatto on your forehead that says "SKANK" its a badass look. Anyway, we need to figure out who did it, it was a powefull one because Brekker is not a heavy sleeper and apparently the person who did it didn't touch him

Nikolai: we need a motive, did he anger someone here?

Tolya: well, he tried to steal Tamar´s wedding ring, stole Nadia´s blueprints to see how the palace works, mocked Genya´s decoration of the hall, told me he liked my verse...

Nikolai: wait, did that anger you?

Tolya: no, just trying to let you know that some people do appreciate art

Zoya: Tolya!

Tolya: sorry: he also tripped Adrik for calling him "a kid", tried to explain math to Linnea and i don't know what he did to him, but Nhaban ran away the second he saw him, also the people he came with; the two kids weren't happy that he kept breaking into their guess room despite locking it, Nina wasn't happy to be called "darling"-

Nikolai: Tolya, when i asked if he angered someone here, i meant "today"

Tolya: all of that that was today

[crowpricorn]

Jesper: Are you cold?

Wylan: No-

Jesper: Want me to keep you warm?

Wylan:

[drumlincountry]

Every ✌️🏳️‍🌈💖queer vocab as gaeilge 💖🏳️‍🌈✌️ infographic I see has like aerach, maybe ait, and then the same list of terms that were directly translated from English by USI in like 2016. Cowards. Tell me the slurs.

[iyohme]

Something something guda who notices their servants' tendency to splay hands over where their uterus/womb would be and thinking "Haha okay kinda weird, but maybe it's a god/old custom/demigod/faerie/eldritch being thing to pray for or bless for good health," but in reality it's just sending large red neon signs of all caps saying "BACK THE FUCK OFF, THIS CUTIE IS MINE" signals to any people present

Worst offenders include the Clairvoyance Trio (Solomon, Merlin, Casgil), Obebegirl, Cu Alter, Kiyohime, Raikou, and maybe a lil bit of Morgan and a riled-up Bedivere

[jack-redacted-files]

@mudstoneabyss is the only person watering my WTNV crops. The BEST META TAKES on this DAMNED SITE

[jeansyvesmoreau]

Jesper, inspecting a picture: Hey why did he cut his nose

Inej: He didn't-

Jesper: Why did it randomly start bleeding out of love

Inej: .....are yoU OKAY

[byooregard]

one of my favorite things about the six of crows/crooked kingdom audiobook is how the different actors do all the different crows' voices so i spent like two hours compiling instances of characters speaking in every character's pov.

all of these are taken from the crooked kingdom audiobook; except the last one which is from six of crows because, apparently, matthias does not have a single speaking line in any of kaz's chapters in crooked kingdom

[rotzaprachim]

one thing i’ve thought for a long time is that while i liked the idea of mal and alina running the orphanage it wasn’t something i really bought for either of their characters as an immediate sort of thing, alina especially. (mal being sturmhond now IS in fact about my favorite thing ever.) 

 but the character who i absolutely DO think would find his calling being Dad to a bunch of war orphans and abandoned children? Matthias Helvar. it’s one of the most interesting possible Matthias Lived fallouts to me. like, he absolutely needs a Lot of time to deprogram first and negotiate his own relationship with the world and his religion and relationship with violence, but matthias being a bunch of lil grisha kiddos lame awkward dad hits the sweet spot of being 

a) hilarious 

b) something wildly needed canonically in-universe - whose gonna take care of the grisha kids born into fjerdan culture or their war orphans without the existing requirement that all grisha kids assimilate entirely into ravkan culture and religion and join their army 

c) matthias’s nurturing side is one of the most interesting aspects of his character 

d) something that really engages with his story in terms of the fact that! he was shot by someone younger than him. his story is about failing to break the cycles of white male goyische military-nationalist violence, so a good HEA for him is one where he doesn’t just get to live but gets to address those root causes in the first place! and given that jarl brum was HIS terrible foster father and the root of a lot his problems and expressions of violence, walking back to that place and doing better, breaking the cycle, is so important 

[vawobefanart]

Pansy: So… your new boyfriend… you really meant it when you said you’ll go for personality next, huh? Draco: Listen. Im gorgeous. I‘m the most beautiful person I‘ll ever meet. I could not care less about what my partner looks like. They are never going to look as good as I do and no one will ever look bad enough to drag my beauty down with them. It literally does not matter how ugly the person next to me is, everyone will look good with me. My beauty pulls every single person up to a level, where we look amazing together. So, obviously, I’m gonna focus on other things when it comes to choosing my partner. Pansy: Draco: Blaise: He’s got a nice package, doesn’t he? Draco: He’s got a nice package… Pansy: Of course.

[timesomewhere]

wylan would be far less infantilised if people realised he was an andy dufresne variant