#faith in chen

[adelikashere]

in the mood to make yin nezha fanart

[ameliagiovanna0]

TIM STAYED OVER AND IS WEARING PJs IN LUCY'S KICTHEN I'M NOT OKAY

TIM AND HIS SCRUFFY FACE

HIS FAITH IN LUCY SCORING HIGH

LUCY’S ADORABLE MESSY BUN

LOPEZ AND HAPER BACKING LUCY

TIM IS SO PROUD OF HER. HIS LITTLE PROUD SMILE WHEN SHE TOLD HIM

TIM'S FAITH THAT THEY'RE GOING TO FIGURE OUT THE LONG HOURS

[whyamiheretm]

- She was no victim of destiny. She was the last Speerly, commander of the Cike, and a shaman who called the gods to do her bidding. And she would call the gods to do such terrible things. -

Fang Runin from The Poppy War by Rebecca Kuang

[firstdegreefangirl]

it's perpetual bliss, it's that pivotal moment (x)

[senseiwu]

women are my favourite guy

[pulpsandcomics2]

Angel and Faith

[tyrannicalgirl]

the drowning faith / the burning god

[fallingskiesandrisingseas]

Been thinking about the Poppy War series for a while now, and something just hit me.

Fang Runin is a case study of what happens when you give someone who believes they are special too much power. But at the same time, she is also what inevitably happens to people in war.

This is a little girl who works as hard as she can to escape the povery she grew up around. A girl that, after arriving at an institution built for creating soldiers, quickly realizes that she is an outcast and does not belong. Someone who experiences racism, classicism, is outright bullied by classmates and teachers alike.

She is then saved by the academy madman, who turns out to be one of the most powerful men in the empire. She commits genocide on a scale unfanthomed by the general population and does, if ever, show remarkably little regret, because it was to save her people and friends. Her people that, she finds out later, were willing to betray them and sell them out. Friends she will have to fight.

Her fire, her literal fire, is what keeps her going through betrayal, disability, cold campaigns that claim the lives of soldiers she was tasked to command and protect.

It is so well detailed, so scary how she slowly loses sight of the important things, how she becomes unable to see the value of human lives, from letting townsfolk kill their 'opressors' to culling the Cike herself.

She comes to believe, through all that she goes through, that there is nothing holy, that she doesn't owe anyone. She is shown that people with morals end up in mass graves.

The only reason she even makes it through three books is because she is so strong they cannot ( afford to ) kill her.

Fang Runin is what happens to people in war. When they suffer blow after blow after blow and are allowed no time to rest.

Chen Kitay, while serving an important role in the Second Trifecta ( parallels, damn parallels. They could've had everything, both of them ) also serves as Rin's conscience. As what a man at war is supposed to be. He serves as a narrative mirror of just how far Rin has come of the rails at the end of A Burning God.

And so Rin killing herself in the end, and dooming Kitay at the same time, is a final act of defiance. It is also quite arguably the best thing she does in the book. Because then and only then, she realizes what this post has just described. That there is no way back for her.

She has spilled so much blood she is drowning in it, and she does not know anything else but war anymore. War has consumed her, like it was bound to. And she is dragging Kitay, the most moral character in all of the books, her anchor, her conscience, down with her.

[rewrite-canon]

gotta receive therapy for every rf kuang book i read because what the fuck.

[funleen]

*insert tpw joke here*

[freddyfreebat]

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

[aleppothemushroom]

Shazam 2 was a little too complicated at times and didn't have a tight as a plot as the first one, but it still had the charm, awkwardness, and the "edge" of the first one. If you liked the first one, you'll probably like this one.

[ice-emperor-zane]

Crystallised gave the implication that Lloyd has Skylor’s number but Kai doesn’t, and I don’t think we talk enough about how funny that is

[asexualglory]

One of the things I've learned after reading the whole "The Poppy War" trilogy is that daddy issues makes you a people pleaser and mommy issues turns you into a bloodlust warlord.

[darkphoenix180]

Wanted to post a week long Shazam poll since everyone like the one day Shazam poll I did. Sorry if it's hard to just pick one character. I know we all love the entire Shazamily.

[senseiwu]

Also, doodles from yesterday

I think Skylor would be able to empathise with Lar a bit, both growing up in isolated conditions and suddenly having to get used to the world and all the new people. I like to think she gives him advice and stuff. Lar is happy his brother likes such a nice person.