#fang runin

[pipsaura]

“tell me every terrible thing you ever did and let me love you anyway” but it’s rinkitay

[sweeetsh]

no genocide au rinaltan <3

[adelikashere]

in the mood to make yin nezha fanart

[onthe23rdiyearned]

I picked up "The Burning God" at the book fair. Worst fucking mistake of my life. I should have stopped at "The Dragon Republic" while I had the chance.

[elainiisms]

you ppl love villains/morally grey characters UNTIL they're a woman, then all of a sudden they are annoying, evil and irredeemable

[sad-endings-suck]

💕the father, the son, the virgin mother, and the holy spirit✨

(bottom right: art credit to polararts)

[polartss]

what murdaaaaaa

posting this Rin here bc a kind soul in my asks reminded me I hadn't :)

[dcvina-claires]

please put emphasis on platonic soulmates in media. on unconditional love and loyalty based off of pure friendship. on heart wrenching breakups between best friends that change their lives. on knowing someone else better than they know themselves. on being a shining light for each other and finding happiness in the darkest places. on fighting side by side until the end, because a lover may visit your grave but your best friend will be in there with you

[snufflescribbles]

i love you insane, unhinged female characters who fuck everything up. i love you female rage that ruins everything else. i love you evil women who don't give a shit.

[lunalivvy]

morally ambiguous women from ancient east asia who are hell-bent on revenge and will stop at nothing to kill those who have deemed them monsters because of their race >>>

[alinasheretic]

Something about ships that are doomed by the narrative simply hits different

[brbarou]

sometimes, in his loveliest dreams

[silvermarig0lds]

“Fight well. Keep us safe. I love you.” 😭😭😭

These platonic soulmates have my whole heart omg

[cikebabbler]

absolutely genius of rf kuang to elaborate on virtually nothing about speer's culture. the only things said about speer are "speerlies are mindless savages" and "speerlies are most definitely not mindless savages". there are no deep dives, no explanations of their way of life, nothing beyond the glimpses that disproves nikan's belief that they are nothing but a violent group. we saw that they had leaders that cared about their people and children. we saw that they are people who found joy in life. but that's really not much.

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.

we will never learn most of speer's culture and history and that was the point.

[dudlesdudles]

altan and rin

[feluart]

A moment of peace and quiet before everything went looney tunes