#or saving it for the spinoff

[dropthedemiurge]

It's funny how it already happened several times to me -

I love complicated and thoughtful shows. I love subtext and deep meaning and hidden details. I really struggle with silly comedy in BLs unless they do it thoughtfully and balance it well with meaning (bless you, shows like Be my Favorite)

I have nothing against silly romcoms but maybe I don't need them right now. I can't even watch We Are Series because I suffered in first episode :(

And yet! And yet sometimes I watch a show that I know technically isn't great or even if cinematography is bad but that show fills me with a lot of warmth and joy. Somehow I absolutely enjoy stumbling upon those weird anomalies. Somehow I lower my expectations based on how they present themselves and I enjoy the heck out of them till the end.

That's what happened to me with Twins the Series and now Boys Be Brave lol

And then I come on Tumblr, and everyone is trashing them xD

I guess I should not be surprised but I think genuinely I just see the potential and I'm content with having the rest of it in my head if the story at least shows where they were going with them and what they wanted to say. Instead, I'm filled with absolutely rage in the finale when the show poses itself like being meaningful and groundbreaking and then completely ruins their own messages and characters (looking at you, Only Friends)

This post doesn't mean anything, I'm just really curious why I don't particularly enjoy averagely-made stories but every once in a while I get truly happy watching one.

(putting this out of my tags - i had a funky thought about the dissonance, jinwoo x kiseob are living in a romcom world, meanwhile inho x balgeum live in a grey shelter world. No wonder we got the similar ending for them, right? Does anyone know what I mean?)

[doodlesnoff]

They have an ace up their sleeve

Compilation of commissions for Gaza

[kay-required-lovely]

But sure, netflix prefers quality over quantity

[ainadelothwen]

Jesper commission by the incredible @jccatstudios ! The moment in S2 when he kisses his gun before jumping out from behind the wagon lives forever rent free in my head.

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

We do not talk enough about the brilliance of “Nina can raise the dead” “I can’t raise them - well, they get up, but-” like I can’t explain it but this is so funny and just so brilliant I love it so much and honestly I feel like it’s just so very seventeen year old of her and I know all the characters feel older than they are because of their experiences but they also all have some key moments where you’re reminded just how young they are and how painful that is but I think arguably Nina had slightly less of these moments than the others so this interaction for me is so brilliant because I can see real people in it but also just love it as a scene and as a moment between her and the other crows idk maybe in just talking nonsense I feel like I’ve stopped making sense and just started rambling but I think about it every time I reread that line I love it

[olskuvallanpoe]

the best shadow and bone (show) line by FAR is when Jesper and Wylan are kissing, and then Kaz side-eyes them and says “everyone’s lost their mind” like I laugh every single time. That man needs to CHILL

[five-of-cr]

help i can't stop making textposts

[udovaintomyheart]

Grishaverse,

Warrior Nun was able to be brought back. I don't know the legal specifics of the contract Eric and his team have with Netflix but we need to fight for someone to save this show. please let's trend #saveshadowandbone !

[auroravictorium]

how to bug netflix 101

a few ideas/tips to put pressure on netflix to reconsider their decision, given the fact that a select few shows have had their fates reconsidered:

Keep Shadow and Bone & Six of Crows trending! Character names, 'No Mourners, No Funerals', Leigh Bardugo, and other key words might help too! And remember that the threshold to keep stuff trending gets higher the longer that words/phrases trend, meaning we have to keep it active!

Spam the Netflix title request form at https://help.netflix.com/en/titlerequest

with Shadow and Bone, Six of Crows, etc. At the very least, it'll inconvenience them.

Sign the petition at https://www.change.org/p/save-shadow-and-bone-a3b37712-c648-4b87-9bfc-8b8cd685c623

Fill their social medias with calls to renew. Again, at the very least it'll be annoying/inconvenient, but at least our voices will be heard.

If you feel so motivated, you can submit anonymous tips to publications and ask them to pick up the story (though there is no guarantee this will work). IGN, the Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and Deadline all accept anonymous tips without having to register or provide personal information.

UPDATE (16 Nov.) Send emails to the following people and let them know (respectfully) that we're unhappy with their decision and that they will be losing money as a result!

At the very least, Netflix has continually refused to listen to fans, even though we have shown that fandoms have the power to bring in lots of revenue; they seem to have forgotten who pays for their service and gives them the money they need to pay for the shows nobody has asked for.

Even worse, Netflix is holding the work of the writers hostage by owning the scripts yet refusing to produce them. Either Netflix needs to return the scripts to the writers, or they need to give the scripts to a platform who will actually use them and finish the story!

Industry-wide, there has been a repeated pattern of streaming platforms buying the right to a book or a series and then holding onto it without producing it or canceling it without finishing the story. This is similar to what 'patent trolls' do, filing for a patent without any real intent to use it. This is grossly unfair to the authors, not to mention the cast and crew whose livelihoods depend on a show surviving for longer than a season or two.

Leigh Bardugo deserves better. The crew deserves better. The cast deserves better. We the fans deserve better.

No mourners.

[littleblackraincloudofcourse]

No one is handling sexual tension like Kanej.

Neither of them will make a move even though they both desperately want to. But instead of dealing with their trauma or admit their feelings

Kaz goes and calls out a room full of killers, beats the shit out of them, then takes over their gang

While Inej straight up ends the psycho that's been hunting her.

Top tier stress relief! Love to see it

[achillesleftheel]

SHADOW AND BONE JUST WON A GOLDEN TOMATO FAN CHOICE AWARD⁉️‼️⁉️

[savethegrishaverse]

Unsure if you already heard about it, but Google just dropped their top searches of 2023 and Shadow and Bone made the top ten for TV shows! That's crazy! It's even more crazy that Netflix decided to scrap it despite its popularity!

Let's keep fighting Crows! We know just how popular this show is and can be going forward!

[doodlesnoff]

Crows perching. Checkout my insta doodlesnoff for closeups and a show-book blended design!

[ainadelothwen]

@maybemacdc was super generous and offered art in exchange for donations to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. How could I say no? Good cause, good art from one of my favorite Grishaverse artists.

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Sometimes I think I’m not that weird and then I spend a solid amount of time wondering what kind of contraceptives are available in the Grishaverse and specifically how accessible they are in the Barrel, particularly based on the quote “Getting pregnant isn’t actually a special talent. Ask any luckless girl in the Barrel”. Is unwanted pregnancy more common in the Barrel than elsewhere in Ketterdam because of the lack of social services in the city and especially in its poorest areas? is it because teen pregnancies often lead to kids being kicked out so they end up in the Barrel? is there a higher statistic by product of the pleasure houses and especially if there aren’t safe contraceptives readily available in the pleasure houses? and if so what do the people running the pleasure houses do to the girls because of it? is it because unexpected pregnancies in higher social classes would just lead to rushed marriages so it’s more noticeable in the Barrel? or is the comment based solely on Kaz’s individual experience of the city, ie its slums, in which case whilst it’s telling us about the Barrel it’s not making any particular comparison to the rest of the city? I kind of assume there must be some contraceptives available because the possibility of pregnancies in the pleasure houses is never discussed but I doubt they’re readily available and based on what we know about the resources and development in the worldbuilding and timeline may not be the most reliable, in which case what is happening to indentured girls who end up impregnated? Because, somehow, I just don’t think they’re safe. (Where could I have possibly gotten that idea?) So yeah, I am, in fact, that weird. But I really need to know the answer to this.

[olskuvallanpoe]

it’s too bad the soc spinoff was cancelled. we truly missed out on getting to watch freddy carter regurgitate tiny bombs in the middle of the ice court.