#i just love genya so much

[fufumomoart]

Some GenTan love 💜💚

[dcbnam-aep]

GUYS IM NOT GONNA BE OKAY LOOK AT MY POOR LITTLE GENYA HAS SHE NOT BEEN TRAUMATISED ENOUGH ALREADY???

SERIES REGULAR AND ITS JUST GONNA BE EPISODES OF PAIN HOW AM I EXPECTED TO MAKE COMFORT GENYA EDITS IN THESE CONDITIONS???

IF THIS IS AFTER THE SCENE WITH RUSALYE WHEN SHE LETS ALINA LEAVE AND SHES ON A BOAT WITH THE DARKLING ABOUT TO BE PUNISHED AND SHES REGRETTING ALL HER CHOICES AND JUST HOPING ALINA WILL COME BACK FOR HER WHAT THEN???

I CANT DECIDE WHETHER IM EXCITED OR SIMPLY TERRIFIED TO FIND OUT THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE DARKLING PUNISHED GENYA FOR CAUSE OBVIOUSLY THERES THE NICHEVO ‘YA AND EVERYTHING BUT IN CLASSIC DARKLING MANNER HE MOST DEFINITELY MENTALLY PUNISHED HER AS WELL AND INFLICTED A LOT OF EMOTIONAL TRAUMA ALSO (BEYOND NO LONGER HAVING THE SAFETY NET OF HER BEAUTY MIGHT I ADD). AND SINCE SHES A SERIES REGULAR WE’LL PROBABLY GET A LOT OF THIS SORT OF CONTENT AND LESRN A LOT MORE ABOUT GENYA THAN WE DID IN THE NOVELS SIMPLY CAUSE IT WAS ALL FROM ALINAS POV. (personally im hoping there’s some references to The Tailor short story which is in Genya’s pov)

[caveatscriptor]

Kaz's eyes narrowed. "Sturmhond."

"He knows me!" Sturmhond said delightedly. He nudged Genya with an elbow. "I told you I'm famous."

Zoya blew out an exasperated breath. "Thank you. He's going to be twice as insufferable now."

― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

[crlkt]

*rips shirt off* I LOVE GENTAN!!!!!!!!!

[taichouu]

The new episode forced my hand. Genya, get behind me, I will see to that you never shed tears again.

[serraphique]

what's inside you that's steel. it's brave and unbreakable and it doesn't need fixing. you don't need fixing. i never should have left your side.

how did you find us so far underground?

it was baghra. she amplified me to seek out familiar heartbeats.

[rottencoreflesh101]

ALEX HAVE YOU WATCHED THE NEW EPISODE!

Literally just finished it and omg… I-

[a-lil-strawberry]

I love Genya so much. I love his Mohawk, I love that he has a gun, I love how angry he is, I love the way he (spoiler ahead) eats demons, I love his temporary demon character design with the yellow hair and eyes, I love his purple clothes, I love how he's tall, I love how they make him blush like crazy when Mitsuri is around, I love his backstory with his brother (in that it's well written)... I just love Genya. I love his character design and traits and story so much.

[zehl0w]

Here’s a genzen I did on an aggie a few months ago because I have so. So many thoughts abt them.

[milyki]

“Gentan isn’t canon”

Fym? Kimetsu Academy says it all

[locklylemybeloved]

OK YALL BUCKLE UR SEAT BELTS AND LISTEN UP CAUSE I SAW THIS FANART SOMEWHERE LAST NIGHT AT GOD KNOWS WHAT TIME AND DECIDED IT WAS AMAZING AND PROCEEDED TO OVERANALYZE IT SO HERE U GO ALSO PLS LET ME KNOW IF U KNOW WHO THE ARTIST IS CAUSE I WANNA CREDIT THEM BUT I HAVE GENUINELY NO IDEA WHERE I FOUND IT. I HONESTLY THINK I WAS DELIRIOUSLY SNUFFLING AROUND THE DARK CORNERS OF THE INTERWEB AND STUMBLED UPON THIS WHILE HALF AWAKE AND SO THATS WHY I KIND SOUND UNHINGED SO BEWARE. OK HERE WE GO.

first things first i just wanna say ahead of time that i have no hate to anyone who ships a specific ship that i mention, these are just my opinions :)

caution to everyone btw, im not a malina, nikolina, or darklina shipper but out of the three i like nikolina best since i genuinely liked them but i like zoyalai way more and nikolai also basically just wanted to marry alina for political purposes so yeah

lets start with the darkling. this ones probably the easiest. his stance, position, and where hes standing kind of reflects how he only wants to control and use alina. idk if u can tell, but i have a passionate hate for him.

ok next: mal. hm. where to start. to me, the way that hes looking at alina but not fully taking her hand is like showing that he loves alina, but in the end he never gave her anything. he wasnt there for her in the end and so hes not meeting her halfway. also he has the personality of a wet paper towel

lastly: nikolai. my beautiful amazing nikolai. he gave alina so much, and tried so hard to love her but he stated HIMSELF that he didnt love her (he said he liked alina and COULDVE grown to love her, but he didnt love her). and u can see this in the way he holds her hand firmly (giving her a lot) but he doesnt truly love her (hes not looking at her)

i just wish that alina ended up with someone who truly did love her and actually SHOWED her that they did. and believe me, genya and david is amazing and i love them sm and row mentally damaged me but genya and alina had a good setup for being ✨romantically involved✨

yes ik it never quite reached the level for me where i was like SHIP SHIP SHIP THESE TWO ARE ALL THAT COULD EVER BE YESS but there was def some potential for those two.

anyway yeah 🥲 this is mainly just my opinions on the ships and the whole alina ship quarrel but the fanart reminded me of it

[little-cereal-draws]

Major Shadow and Bone season two spoilers

OK BUT WHAT WAS THE REASON???? WHAT WAS THE REASON??? WHY DID DAVID DO THAT??????? IT WAS SO UNNECESSARY!! SOBBING

ok and now that i've got that out of my system, I actually do problems with how his death was treated.

It felt so... unnecessary. Putting aside my love for David, it felt so weird from an in-story point of view. I genuinely don't know why he did that. There was enough room for them both in the elevator and what on earth was he supposed to do against a being made of shadow? There was no tension of "what's going to happen to David" bc there was no way for him to win. I think he was supposed to be sacrificing himself so Genya could escape and be safe but honestly if he wanted to protect her, it would be better to live. He could seal doors to keep monsters out, he was studying how these creatures work at the beginning of the season so maybe he knew a secret weakness or smth, or at the very least they have a better chance of surviving if they stick together.

Locking her in an elevator is so stupid too bc he could have been dooming her. What if the elevator got stuck/broken and she couldn't get out? She would have suffocated or starved. What if a monster got in and she was boxed in? Literally no way for her to escape. Like it was such a stupid decision. Luckily neither of those happened but they very easily could have. (And then the fact that we don't see where the elevator goes or her getting out bothers me but that's not what this post is about.)

And this next thing may be a moot point bc the last two episodes were so busy and I'm not quite sure how to fit them in, but I wish we got to see at least a little bit of David fighting the monster. I know I said before there was no way for him to win but I at least want to see him try. I want to see David, a shy, introvert who has never been anywhere near the front lines, fight with everything he has to get back to Genya. He has no training, no idea what to do, nothing but the idea that he needs to get back to her. His death was already sad but this really would have pushed it to a new level. The way they had it, I already knew he was going to die bc the odds were so against him. But if they showed him trying to fight, it would have given the viewer a bit of hope and make it that much worse when he loses.

The last shot that we see of him is him standing in front of the elevator looking determinedly at the monster while Genya screams for him. I'll be honest, I actually did have a bit of hope for him here. We just saw this Durast saint in Shu Han kick everybody's asses; all these expert soldiers and criminals that we've seen win over and over, and she did it like it was nothing. And Jesper even had a very minor arc abt using his powers more and in more unconventional ways and I was hoping to see it reflected in David. We know he's an amazing Durast, one of the best ones in Ravka, and unlike Jesper he actually has training and knows how to use his powers. We last saw him standing in a workshop, surrounded by tools and materials that he knows how to use, and I was really hoping that he would figure out a way to use them in battle. Idk if he could actually hurt the monster but it would still be so cool and develop his character in a way we haven't seen before. Or at least he could make a flash bomb or smth like the ones Wylan uses and escape. But nope. I put too much faith in the writers to think they would do that.

Lastly, his death didn't advance the plot in anyway. If they wanted it to develop Genya, I really don't think it was the right choice. Over the course of this season, she's been mutilated, disabled, kept as a prisoner, thought she lost the love of her life, and confronted her abusers. She has already been so developed so much since season one, adding David's death doesn't really do anything. I think they did it just for shock value. And the way it was written didn't really make sense either? She's upset when she can't find him after the battle, she's upset when she finds the ruby in his coat, and then the next time we see her she's fine? She's laughing and smiling and hanging out with her friends. And I'm not saying that ppl who are grieving can't do those things, but it was just such an extreme 180 that happened so quickly, both in the episode's run time and the in-show timeline, that it felt jarring and like she didn't care anymore. And this is not hate on the actress ofc, she was amazing this season.

Idk I just think they handled David's death very poorly. But we didn't see his body so maybe he's still alive. I hope so, I love him so much.

[stealingpotatoes]

the sun saint / the first tailor

(some doods messing around with negative space!)

[munadyke]

hmmmm!

[taichouu]

[1lvaites]

ppl will write villains and then be like mmmm i don’t like that villainous thing they did <3 and change it / erase it