#was she in kings rising??????

[laurentspeach]

wait hold on is hypermenestra still alive??? did she know about the coup??? what does she do post canon??? or during it???? if this was mentioned in the books i completely forgot lol please help

[yourfriendlyneighborhoodhomo]

Im right and you know it

[jinbugs]

🌻🌻🌻

Thank you to marse422 (on Instagram) for commissioning me! April’s my number one forever 💛

[laurents-secret-diary]

Can we see any of your drawings you may have had for the side characters please??? 👉👈

I only got a couple so far! I think I'm gonna do Nicaise next

[jazzkrebber]

Kaz Brekker may not have needed a reason, but he always had one. it was always Inej

[mklinaaa]

my roman empire in captive prince trilogy is "Whether his beauty would survive adolescence no one would ever know, for Nicaise would not see fifteen now."

[vvienne]

I literally woke up in the middle of the night like God will dark rise is so fucking screwed. The line that’s like. “Everyone wanted to kill the Dark King.” What’s the part where he looks at Violet helplessly, haunted, almost pleading for mercy? But of course he reveals nothing of substance to anyone. Elizabeth is too young to understand but the reader knows what “Her relationship with that boy was…unnatural” can mean. Tying him to bedposts? Failing to strangle him? What else? Never not even once seeing beyond a mythological identity Will himself didn’t know he had? What did he think was the reason? That he was just intrinsically hateful? Of course he says nothing. Of course Violet can’t trust him- he’s given her nothing as painfully real as what she’s given him. So he gives her the sword hoping at least he can die at the hands of someone he loved, but even that doesn’t work out - she gives the sword to a Visander still furious at SARCEAN. The pattern continues; no one looks at Will, who vomits when he realizes what’s happened to James, Will who is much of a liar and killer and sneak as Elizabeth accuses but nonetheless wants to be different. Even when he doesn’t remember his own past. There’s no way out for him that doesn’t hurt. Hope this obsession passes soon given the one and a half years of waiting required for book 3

[mrsdulac]

One complaint I have with Queen Charlotte is we never got to see when George started calling her ‘Lottie’.

[wylanslcve]

So if you've been following me on Instagram you would have seen me say recently that I've decided to take a step back from posting/sharing/creating Grishaverse content due to what Leigh Bardugo said (or rather what she didn't say) about the situation in Palestine. For context, during the press tour for The Familiar, an audience member asked Leigh about the justification for non-BIPOC authors profiting off BIPOC stories yet not advocating for real-life BIPOC people (since Leigh has been silent on Palestine since October, despite having expressed solidarity with Palestine in the past).

The video (which you can watch here) has been circulating the internet for a while, and I've already spoken about this on Instagram. I just forgot I had Tumblr for a second there, hence why I'm only addressing this now despite having already spoken about this. However, as someone who has an entire online presence dedicated to Leigh's work, it would be wrong and rather hypocritical of me to not address this.

Disclaimer: This is not a conversation about whether or not white/white-passing authors should be allowed to write BIPOC stories, as many people both in the comments of the original video and online generally have taken it. The issue isn't that Leigh is writing BIPOC stories - it's that she's writing them and choosing not to advocate for real BIPOC people.

The audience member asked a confronting but necessary question, and isn't harassing Leigh as many people online have interpreted it. Holding your favourite people accountable isn't "harassment", especially when that person is a successful author profiting off stories that reflect issues in the real world. Art is inherently political whether or not you want to acknowledge it. This also isn't about specifically asking Leigh this question because she's Jewish - it's because she profits off these stories and yet when these exact same issues are prevalent in the real world, suddenly they're "too political" for her to speak up about despite having expressed solidarity in the past. It has nothing to do with her being Jewish.

However, what's going on in Palestine isn't a political issue. It's basic human rights. It's about humanity, and acting as if posting about this issue is "performative" is ridiculous. I don't know what she's doing behind the scenes, so I'm not going to act as if she isn't doing anything outside of social media because I simply don't know, but when you have an online presence as big as Leigh's you should be using that platform to raise awareness and express solidarity. I understand that it's very easy to come across as "performing activism", especially on social media, but Palestinians have asked us time and time again to use our platforms to help raise awareness and amplify their voices. When you're someone like Leigh who profits off stories of the trials and tribulations of BIPOC people, the very least you can do is talk about the atrocities being committed against BIPOC people in real life.

No one is expecting you to be an expert on what's going on. If you've previously posted misinformation, why not learn from it and actually educate yourself and do better? You're literally an author who profits off stories of colonialism, oppression, dissemination, apartheid, segregation and genocide and suddenly that happening in real life is "too political"? And the amount of privilege you have to not want to get involved in talking about a real-life genocide because you "stopped being political on Instagram" is laughable. Just feeling sad about it isn't going to do anything. It doesn't erase the fact that an entire people are being ethnically cleansed in a genocide you refuse to talk about.

The Grishaverse means so much to me, it's gotten me through some extremely tough periods of my life, but I cannot in good conscience continue to support an author who chooses silence over her own humanity. All she had to say in response to that question was "free Palestine", but she instead said something akin to "I know about what's going on and I know silence and feeling sad about it probably isn't enough, but I'm just not going to do anything about it". Again, I know she's advocated for Palestine in the past, but why not continue doing so? No one is stopping her - she's actively chosen to stop.

As for my accounts? I'm still deciding what to do with them. I won't be deleting them, I'm not going anywhere, but I won't be posting edits or sharing analyses or general posts about the Grishaverse until Leigh decides to do better. This blog will probably turn into a multifandom blog, but who knows at this point. All I know is that I won't be promoting Leigh's work.

[victor-v]

i'm not done i finished dark heir and i can't stop thinking

cyprian drank from the cup (vile, vile cat). violet will most likely have to kill him before he turns or fight him after he does

the only way to take the collar off james is killing him grrreat isnt it 🫠 what kinda sorcery are we gonna pull to resuscitate him? is he coming back whole or wrong or without powers?

why can sinclair manipulate everyone exactly like sarcean. why does he have sarceans powers. what is going on, why him and no one else which leads me to

i still dont understand why is it called dark heir. they are not heirs. they are reincarnations at best. who's the fucking heir

on other note i fucking love the visander/elizabeth duo and violet... well she's my darling i see why will loves her so much

[hitemwiththeoop]

the memes about kyoshi's height are hilarious and all that but where did ya all get she was 7 feet tall?? fc yee put her height around at least six feet tall and the show doesn't put her that far from roku's height (though to be honest all the avatars are pretty damn tall sans korra). The novels do say that she towered over most people, but that could still very well be 6 feet tall, considering most of the characters have an average height. i'd imagine her height is simply one of the many facts the fandom made up but i think it's curious that y'all came to the conclusion she was as tall as an nba player, though for a woman that lived 230 years nothing is impossible

[braemjeorn]

despa x oc thoughts because i feel like it and i need other notifs than pronbots following me

[has very slight connection to my fic sky caverns but underline the slight]

i feel like if despa was going to get entangled in a romance its going to be pygmalion/my fair lady style.

teru who was well travelled, yet hadn't visited meifu

knocked on despa's and basically went for my friends sake, since im going to be her sort of lady-in-waiting i need a crash course in meifu culture, history and language.

heaven forbid i am ignorant of those with my friend's new station as queen

he held out his open palm

she handed him an agreement scroll of her proposed time and day, also the payment offer

its like a revenge of the first time they met and he stares at her and her open palm

"have you been away too long from courtly setting, prince despa? a lady does not handle money directly. especially a princess."

(teru primly said, as she visited a man's house with no chaperone but a horse)

"i respect your intelligence, and i'm willing to pay for your trouble to adjust it to my time."

the most begrudging acceptance of training despa ever gave

it should have been on his terms than hers

internally, he'd like to strangle her in impatience whenever they argue but the amount of sun-gems and freshwater pearls she listed as payment does tankerings to his brain and pockets

she thought him silly and wasted too many breaths on exasperated sighs while he lectured

he tried to call in sick one time - his wrinkles appeared

she treathened to reduce the payment (less amount of pearls would be more tolerable but diamonds!? really now!?)

or play jumpropes with his pearls

"oh fine! you blasted woman!"

"there's my handsome teacher!"

"handso—?"

"can we learn about the sewers today?"

"...what is it about you women and sewers!?"

teru drags him outside and everywhere for practical education

despa grumbles through their entire walk

and yet...

[he let her play with the feathers of his sun hat and be distracted with the gleaming, ruby red of her hair under sunlight as they walked through the field

hardly aware how she admired (and approve of) his side profile and brows while he was deep in book browsing]

but of course they'd fight over tea again later that day

because teru abhores whipped cream and despa could not stand foul words against his shortcake

"says the person who drowns their muffins in jams!"

"at least jam made up its mind in solidity!"

[ofrabjousnight]

predictions for dark heir

[sweetycaramel]

Kit Voss and Randolph Bell in Season 6 ↳ 6.05 - “A River in Egypt”

[jazzkrebber]

when she tells him not to get her a net because she doesn't need it and he tells her that if she ever cared about him at all, don't follow him. that's true love. wanting more than anything to protect each other from the dangers of life, but realizing in the end that they have to let the other protect themselves, and do what they need to

[mklinaaa]

it's thinking about jokaste hours. her family was noble, but what exactly did they do? how was she raised? is there something veretian or vaskian in her family? how many languages she knows not counting akielon and veretian? how exactly her father got her into a palace, under what circumstances? how did the three months of courtship from damen go? did she fall in love with him from the first sight too? she was in love with him, but did it start as just simple chasing for royalty or was it true love for her? was she that cunning all the way from the childhood or did she have to become that way? what did she think about kastor from the start? how many years she spent in palace? how and when did she learn about kastor's plans and when did she understand that she needed to get into his bed, be impregnated by him so he wouldn't kill her? i just wish for series about her istg