#daevabad fanart

[marosii]

Ifrit Dara

[queen-shiba]

I did a thing

*casually creates an oc for Daevabad*

@eerna thanks for the confidence boost!

[eerna]

Begging you to draw Ali and Nahri

Me @ my own hands

I HAVE DRAWN THEM SO MANY TIMES BUT I AM NEVER HAPPY WITH HOW THEY TURN OUTTTT T.T

[yuinevo]

Nahri e Nahid and Alizayd al Qahtani , probably my favourite characters ever

[isilloth-draws]

Darayavahoush e-Afshin from Daevabad Trilogy

[raspberrybrain]

but the turbans

I want to draw fanart of the Daevabad Trilogy so bad but I'm so ignorant about the clothing styles. Spessifically turbans are causing me issues. There are so, so many types! And they all seem to mean something important! Ad in the fact that this isn't current fashion, but historical fantasy fashion and I'm at a loss.

Anyone know key words I should use to do my research on what different characters might be wearing?

[unhelpfulfemme]

7 and 17 for the ask game!

7. I'm gonna be honest and say that this happens very rarely to me because if there's one virtue I have (and I have very few of them) it's the capacity to attribute blame correctly. So if fandom is weird about a character I usually start hating the fandom and withdrawing from at least that part of it rather than letting it influence my opinion about the character. Alternately, I'll perhaps review the canon and realize that the fandom is right and I had skipped some key details about the character or how they were presented, which will make me change my opinion about the canon character or the canon's framework overall, but I don't think that's what the question is asking.

BUT there is one notable exception, and that's Dara from the Daevabad trilogy. Which is barely a fandom LOL, like the entire series gets 2 Tumblr posts every six months, but I do love those books and I do get livid about the way the fans treat this particular character to the point that each time I see fanart of him I recoil in disgust.

I put in a cut because this turned out longer and angrier than I expected lol but I guess that is the spirit of the poll?

Basically you know the age-old debate about whether Kylo Ren fans are racist towards Finn and whether Kylo is a better or worse character than Finn and whether people just like him more because he's white etc. etc.? I generally think that's a stupid thing to hoist onto the sequel fans when it's the canon itself that encourages a superficial reading of Kylo as tragic and dramatic and of Finn as a plucky comic relief guy whose emotions shouldn't be taken seriously. But Dara and Ali from Daevabad are the perfect examples of the trend the people who complain about it are trying to highlight and I reeeaaally wish those books were more famous in wider fandom circles because we would be Having so many Discussions about them.

Dara and Ali are basically the two angles of what's a lowkey love triangle with the series' (awesome!) protagonist, Nahri. In my eyes, Dara and Nahri have so little chemistry that I nearly quit the first book 30% in because I thought it would all be about them, but YMMV I guess. Then I saw Nahri and Ali interact once, thought "man, I wish these two were being set up for a grand romance instead" and was then thrilled to discover that actually they were and the author was clearly phoning in the Dara/Nahri parts because they were there to make a point rather than to be romantic or appealing.

Dara is an asshole, but in canon, he's a well-written asshole and there's a point to his characterization. He's an extremely talented Proud Warrior Guy who is really patriotic and cares about his family and his country and about making them proud. He's also arrogant and short-tempered, but so is Ali. The thing is, Dara's superiors send him to commit genocide, and Dara does so to mixed success. Then the people he's tried to genocide come for his own people to exact revenge and brutally kill his family. This all sparks a massive civil war, in the middle of which Dara ends up trapped in a Fate Worse Than Death kind of situation for thousands of years, until he is somehow saved and joins the protagonist. He feels anguished and vengeful about his family dying but is also still chauvinistic AF and never examines his own role in all of this. He still believes that blindly following authority and being loyal to people of his religion and ethnicity is his highest moral duty. This makes him commit even more war crimes, end up in another fate worse than death situation, and only manage to get out of it by sheer luck and through the other characters being kinder towards him than he would have been in their shoes. He also always thinks he knows better than anyone else and routinely overrides Nahri's wishes because he thinks he knows what's good for her.

Now, he also has positive traits, like he's a kind and patient teacher and has a code of honor etc. etc. but his narrative is clearly about radicalization and cycles of revenge and, well, toxic masculinity. There honestly isn't much else to him.

Ali is also stubborn and arrogant, quick to judge people who are different than him, and prone to foot-in-mouth incidents. He's more of a warrior poet type, equally badass but also bookish. BUT he's also Black and a practicing Muslim, which I guess puts some people off of him. The thing is, Ali is a wayyy more complex character than Dara, he has a whole-ass family and his relationship with every one of its members is lovingly and intricately drawn by the author, and he also has nuanced and complex thoughts about his code of ethics, the system of governance of his country, his religion, and many, many other things. He is put into a lot of interesting situations and forced to make many difficult choices and is just overall a more complex and interesting character.

And still! STILL! Like 80% of fanart and fan content for this series is all about Dara, a frankly quite unsympathetic character if you think about it for more than 0.2 seconds and the flattest one of the main three to boot. I would have been content to read Dara's canon story and recognize it for the well-crafted story it is and even empathize with him (he was quite young when all that happened to him) but the amount of passionate insistence by the fans that he is the poorest meow meow and so much hotter and more interesting than Ali makes me have an irrational and visceral negative reaction whenever I see him.

17. Superficial answer?

We need more Padmé Amidala/Asajj Ventress content. For some reason I really like the idea of the two of them together and there are like 4 fics with them on Ao3 of which 3 are orgy fics with 10 different characters. The reason I like the idea of the two of them together is totally not because they represent the two types of women I tend to develop crushes on and I'm just mashing my dolls together.

Deeper answer?

I really really love those posts where people apply whichever discipline they're working in or are passionate about to fandom works? Like that biologist who made up a theory according to which Wookies and Caminoans have a common ancestor?

I can never get enough of that and wish I could see it more often. I want more biologists squinting at the weird plants in the back of scifi series. I want political theorists to try to make sense of the politics in Vorkosigan. I want art historians to try to develop a theory of how art and fashion changed between Hot and GOT.

Make me a bastard child of your fandom special interest and your professional special interest. I will eat it up, I promise.

[daevabadfanart]

Hello and welcome to @daevabadfanart, an archive for Daevabad fanart! 🎉Please check the tags to filter by characters, books, ships, or artists! Or check the archive to see everything!

NOTE: This account has SPOILER ART, so if you haven't finished the series, be warned. (and maybe filter out the books you haven't finished yet in your tumblr settings) 🚩

ARTISTS: See something of yours that is tagged wrong or you don't want it reblogged here? Let me know and I'll fix it. Likewise; know of art that should be here but isn't? Let me know and I'll add it! This page currently only hosts tumblr art and merch/art prints, but I'll be looking into adding fanart from Instagram later on. Please ask if you have any questions.

VISITORS: I shouldn't have to say this, but please, do not harass the artists. If you see something you don't like, block the relevant tag. Or better yet, draw art of what you want to see, so there's more fanart for everyone. Love & Peace.

[apocketfullofhobbits]

1, 14, and 21 for the end of year asks :)

1) favorite song was definitely 'through me (the flood)' by hozier. i just loved it so much. and 'try measure loss measure the silence of the house' made me think of ronan being all alone at the barns in cdth and that fanart of him looking at the old photographs

14) favorite book was the daevabad trilogy ❤️ already thinking abt rereading

21) im actually almost done with home renovations that i started in october! very happy abt it 😌 painting + drawing on the walls rn!

[raspberryresearch]

Clothing items mentioned in the Daevabad series

Collecting clothing words to google for fanart's sake. This post will be continually edited as I research. See the turban version here.

Dishdasha

Nahri wears -

Abaya

Chador

[corvushound]

Shedu from the Daevabad trilogy. Such an excellent series!!

[itsmunazza]

i made a lil comic out of @leafy-m ‘s fanfic, “The List” ❤️✨

full comic on twitter :) happy late vday

[queen-shiba]

You ever just

[fairandfatalasfair]

Prince Alizayd al Qhatani, from S.A. Chakraborty’s The City of Brass

[yuinevo]

[devnw]

My rendition of Ali & Dara | the Marid & the Afshin

If you haven't read city of brass yet, what are you waiting for???

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