#the poppy war

[pipsaura]

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

[adelikashere]

in the mood to make yin nezha fanart

[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

[dcvina-claires]

yeah your ship may have kissed but did they try to kill each other?

[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 :)

[arturgnojek]

[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

[serien-grl-22]

There are two kinds of male fae love interests:

300+ years older than the girl, powerful, dark-haired, cold

Cardan

[belle-keys]

I hate how the booktokification of the “unhinged woman” genre has completely reduced the concept of female rage to just “girlboss” without taking seriously how important it is to unequivocally portray female rage.

Throughout the history of literature, we’ve been given countless instances of women in despair and in sadness but save for a few writers (take Euripides, for example), we’ve rarely ever been given angry women who aren’t the villains or the foil for the perfect poised passive princess. Female rage has constantly been subdued and erased or warped into “she’s just batshit crazy” in pretty much every society.

And now that publishing and media marketing has reduced women showing rage in books to the “white hypersexual girlboss with a knife”, instead of uplifting the way women are allowed to have more dimension and sympathy in their visible anger than ever in literature, the media still isn’t taking this subgenre seriously.

[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

[felagund-fiollaigean]

not romantic or sexual or platonic but a secret fourth thing (we've spent so many years as enemies fighting each other we know each other's combat styles inside and out so now that we're teaming up against a common enemy we fight flawlessly together in sync).

[polartss]

Haircut

Rin from The Poppy War by RF Kuang

[brbarou]

sometimes, in his loveliest dreams