#thanks for the ask crow!!!!!

[leqf]

what are your top 5 beverages 👁👁

1. Ice water

2. Strawberry Daiquiri (insert any yummy fruity drink that’s basically a smoothie)

3. Calpico (mango, melon, or original) or Yakult

4. Red wine (Cabernet or a blend, but it doesn’t really matter)

5. Your spit*

*/j maybe like. White tea or something? Maybe your sweat???**

**/j maybe like. White tea or something?

[stealingpotatoes]

do you have any Six of Crows drawings that you've never posted? (i'm so happy that you like two of my two favourite things: star wars and soc)(your art gives me life💜)

aw thank you and I don't, but I DO still have stuff in my six of crows to draw note so... here's smt from that <3 

(tip jar!)

[sockssquishiiii]

*hands Selene an opalized ammonite fossil* shiny rock but also cool shape

woah

swirly

[tharett]

-Points and pogs-

Ph

Philza the HEDGEHOG 😧‼️‼️

With his bf Missa 🥺🤏

[Esp]

-apunta y hace una cara super epica-

F

Felipe Cubito el ERIZO 😧‼️‼️

Con su novio el Missa 🥺🤏

[canisalbus]

Is there somewhere I can read all of machete's lore?

The "Vaschete lore" tag is a good place to start!

It's not very organized, and not all information is of equal importance, but whenever I ramble about my characters and their setting in depth on a post, I try to add that tag so that they can be found more easily.

[okthisway]

when poison training goes wrong

Viago: by my estimates, you should be getting better now Rook: your estimates could use some work *retching noises* Viago: as could your endurance *Rook's retching noises again* Viago: 😟 i'll get you more antidote

[jccatstudios]

I honestly never read comics but I love SoC and I came across your art. It is honestly fantastic and you’ve made the characters come to life in a a whole new way. You’re authentic to the source material while also adding your unique touches, especially with their vivid facial expressions. Your Kaz is simply perfect, just the true overly dramatic showman he is in the books. Sometimes I read so quickly I forget to imagine the visuals, and yours are just great! Bravo.

What a compliment! Thank you! Glad I could bring the source material to life. It’s been a pleasure to draw it this far and put everything I imagined from the books on paper. I love drawing these characters, especially the dregs trio. It’s been well worth the challenge to adapt my favorite book!

Little lunch break doodle (I miss them)

[technically-human]

Fell in love with this fucked up version of Charles and the gang so i drew them !! <3

Here they are spliced up for better quality :3

(Can you tell montys my favorite character ? LOL)

LOOK AT MY FUCKED UP BABIES!! SO PRETTY!!!

I love it so much thank you thank you thank you

[squuote]

I love your stanley so much. He's like a new species of animal to me.

THANK YOUU he is such a creature to me forever and always.... i am always saying thiss and ur literally so true. he's the guy who poses for pictures with his pet who looks like they do NOT want to be there.

[meightyone]

https://x.com/osckarma/status/1922695384683495901?s=46

the markoscar is really so strong this year….. mark WILL be there. The WDC charge is on

i looove that he's just everywhere now. mark webber please never stop following and lurking. if anyone kind and italian can offer some semblance of translation i will love you forever

[un-fwuit-un-fwog]

Your writing is so good!! I love how you write Leona, and the Rain series has me in an absolute chokehold 😭 The scenes with Crewel are so cute, I am a firm subscriber to the staff takes care of Yuu headcanon (bc Crowley is not a responsible adult, f) Sending all the virtual hugs!! (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ♡♡

THANK YOUUUUUUU!!!!!!! <333333

[crow0king]

Mabel putting a smiley face sticker on one of the most feared mechs, like Ratchet, Megatron, or even Shockwave lol

nothing like Mabel bedazzling one of the most deadly desepticons :>

DW soundwave will get the Art of stickers and bedazzlement in his circuits :>

[stealingpotatoes]

Speaking of SW & Grishaverse, I think that Padme and Genya would definitely get along well and form a stable relationship/bond.

Anakin and Zoya are 100% frenemys w/rivals-vibes, their interactions would be funny as hell bc of the aggression and banter and stubbornness.

Also, my weird OTP (friends kind of way) is Inej and Ahsoka (especially teenage Ahsoka). Like I cannot explain it, but I feel that they would be great friends (maybe w/ some trauma bonding in the mix).

But what would be also pure comedy is the meeting of Pirates (privateers): Hondo & Nikolai. There is absolutely nothing other than their (kind of) job that unites them, and their vastly different personalities would just ignite. Again, so much potential.

all of these are genuinely perfect but i HAD to take the opportunity to draw my childhood fave with my teenhood fave <3

[urfaveisgoingtosekai]

can u put Goro Akechi in the stage sekai?

Goro Akechi from Persona 5 is going to Stage Sekai!

[revanhaed]

Hi, I want to say that your sketches and works are amazing 🤩... And I want to ask: Do these two have kissing breaks during work? (from coffee break to kissing lol)

[sound of two magnets snapping together]

[fantastic-nonsense]

I love your thoughtful SoC meta! I would love to know your thoughts on Kaz and Jesper’s relationship. Specifically, I adore Kaz but one thing in particular that always seemed so dark to me was that he enabled Jesper’s gambling addiction even though he obviously does care about him. Kaz is obviously willing to do a lot of fucked up things in service of his goals, but this one in particular, toward his own brother figure, I find sad. It’s kind of addressed during their fight at the end of CK but still feels a little unfinished.

I love Kaz and Jesper's relationship. There's sooooo much to dig into there (way too much for a single meta); it's super juicy and complicated, and one of the best complexities of it is that they often enable and feed off of each other's trauma. The pre-canon status quo is a situation where Kaz and Jesper are, in many ways, using and abusing each other as a way of avoiding dealing with their own trauma. It's a fascinating push-and-pull dynamic because neither of them are pushovers and yet neither one is particularly interested in facing their Issues™ head-on, and they both seemingly recognize that in each other and give each other an uncharacteristic amount of grace in helping the other avoid dealing with it.

In Kaz's case, that most often looks like enabling Jesper's gambling addiction and then repeatedly bailing him out of trouble under the justification of "he's loyal and competent, it would be wasteful to let the other gangs kill him." In Jesper's case, this looks like ignoring Kaz's countless and extremely obvious issues in favor of playing the loyal second. Basically, it's not just Kaz enabling Jesper's gambling addiction; it's also Jesper enabling Kaz's unhinged ruthlessness with little pushback other than a few snarky comments.

They also project a lot of their own issues onto each other! Kaz pushes Jesper away in part because he's projecting the grief and blame he feels over Jordie's death onto Jesper, but Jesper is using Kaz's ruthless pragmatism to escape the crippling disappointment of returning home to face his father's judgement for being a college drop-out, gambling addict, and gang member. And Kaz withholds praise and verbal declarations of trust from Jesper because he hates acknowledging that he cares about people, but Jesper uses Kaz's emotional detachment as a crutch to avoid dealing with his own commitment issues by pining after a boy he knows will never reciprocate his advances. This status quo is, of course, insanely unhealthy for both boys long-term, but where would we be if any of the Crows actually dealt with their issues in a healthy way?

That dynamic, imo, is also only possible because Kaz and Jesper have known each other for longer than anyone else in the main crew; Kaz may have let Inej in further, but he let Jesper in first. As far as we know, Jesper is the first person Kaz genuinely lets past his mile-high walls since Jordie died...but he very deliberately holds him at arms' length in a way that he does not with Inej (something that Jesper notices and is jealous about!). Being "the first" in this case unfortunately comes with a lot of baggage, and Kaz and Jesper would both lowkey rather die than talk about how much they care what the other thinks of them.

Kaz clearly didn't recruit Jesper looking for a friend or someone who reminded him of his dead older brother; he recruited him because he saw someone with a useful skillset who he preferred to be at his side rather than in a rival gang or dead in the canals. It's to Jesper's credit that he managed to break through those walls anyway, but there's only so much he can do in the face of Kaz's armor. And like Inej, Kaz's closed-off personality and actions hurt Jesper repeatedly. But he stays anyway, because he (like Inej) sees the boy underneath the mask that Kaz wears and cares a little too much to let him go:

“He wouldn’t—” Jesper stopped short, and then he laughed. “Of course he would.” Jesper flexed his knuckles, concentrated on the lines of his palms. “Kaz is…I don’t know, he’s like nobody else I’ve ever known. He surprises me.” “Yes. Like a hive of bees in your dresser drawer.” Jesper barked a laugh. “Just like that.” “So what are we doing here?” Jesper turned back to the sea, feeling his cheeks heat. “Hoping for honey, I guess. And praying not to get stung.” Inej bumped her shoulder against his. “Then at least we’re both the same kind of stupid.” “I don’t know what your excuse is, Wraith. I’m the one who can never walk away from a bad hand.” She looped her arm in his. “That makes you a rotten gambler, Jesper. But an excellent friend.” “You’re too good for him, you know.” “I know. So are you." -Ch. 17, Six of Crows

Kaz is unused to verbalizing the trust he places in others and actively in denial about how much he cares about them until Crooked Kingdom; he spends his time deliberately being cruel and pushing people away even as he proves over and over again that he doesn't actually want them to leave him. This casual assholery hits those closest to him (Inej and Jesper) the hardest because they are clearly trusted with his life but not with his heart, and that hurts them both.

For Inej, resolving that behavior looks like giving him an ultimatum ("I will have you without armor or I will not have you at all") and telling herself to walk away unless he meets her challenge. For Jesper? That looks like duking it out on top of the Geldrenner when they're both at rock bottom, because of course that's the only way either one of those boys is ever going to verbalize the tension that underlies their relationship. There's just a lot of baggage and mutual toxicity and unsaid words that neither of them are very interested in dealing with until everything comes to a head during the Clocktower fight.

I think we also forget that the Kaz-Jesper dynamic we see in the majority of the duology is not their normal dynamic: it's how they interact when Kaz is mad at Jesper. And a mad Kaz is, within the scope of canon, a pretty cruel Kaz, which is something that I think a good portion of the fandom likes to handwave away in favor of pointing towards Kaz's active attempts to be better in the back half of the duology.

Ultimately we only see the "normal" Kaz-Jesper dynamic for the first 12 or so chapters of Six of Crows (when the Dock Fight/Eyeball Incident happens) and the last few chapters of Crooked Kingdom. Those chapters are a really interesting look into what that relationship looks like when they're on good terms. It's clear that they're good friends, trust each other a hell of a lot, and joke around with each other quite a bit (the "saves ammo" joke in the parley chapter, their interactions during the Hellgate breakout, the "man with a knife!" "man with a gun!" exchange immediately after Kaz throws Oomen overboard, etc), but we also see the stress points: Jesper getting mad at Kaz for not telling him about Big Bolliger's betrayal, Kaz sending Wylan with Jesper during the prep chapters to keep an eye on him, and Jesper's bee and honey conversation with Inej on the Ferolind, for example.

These stress points are what fracture and crack in the aftermath of Jesper accidentally alerting the other gangs that they were headed out on the Ice Court Job and nearly causing Inej's death, and further buckle under the stress and pressure that Kaz and Jesper deal with during the following month and a half: the Ice Court job, Van Eck kidnapping Inej on Vellgeluk, Colm showing up in Ketterdam, and the Sugar Silo/Auction scheme.

In this way, I think Kaz enabling Jesper's gambling addiction is less about Kaz being actively cruel towards someone he sees the ghost of his brother in and punishing Jesper for the sins he percieves Jordie to have made (which is also true, and a meta for a different time!) and more about the weird balance of toxic mutual leniency Kaz and Jesper have allowed the other to provide for them for over two years...and how that leniency breaks down once it's not just Kaz's life or time on the line when Jesper fucks up.

Put more succinctly: for a long time, Kaz and Jesper existed in a toxic balance of enabling each others' worst impulses and behaviors, which was only able to be verbally addressed when they were both at rock bottom, desperate, and seemingly had very little left to lose. This conflict is somewhat addressed and resolved in the conversation where Kaz refuses to give Jesper the last of the parem and offers up a tiny bit of information about Jordie—showcasing his own growth and how he's finally trying to break the cycle by refusing to enable Jesper's self-destructive tendencies—but that level of tension is unable to be properly resolved in one single blowout argument. And I think it's deliberately left a bit unfinished because neither of them are really in a place where they're ready to address everything they've left unsaid for so long, even in the epilogue chapters.

However, we do see the beginnings of that reconcilitaion (Kaz asking Inej to tell Jesper that he's "missed around the Slat") and the story ends on a hopeful note regarding Kaz's commitment to removing his armor, which implies a lot about the resolution of that dangling thread. And of course, we know that by Rule of Wolves they're back to being thick as thieves and fucking around as usual, so clearly they hashed it out at some point in the in-between (and personally? I don't think it took either of them very long after the CK epilogue chapters to do that hashing out).

tl;dr: I love it when two traumatized and emotionally constipated teenage boys use each other to avoid facing their own personal problems and then get into a fistfight to avoid talking about how much they care about each other. Top-tier dynamic. Chef's kiss. I could talk about them for hours.