Beth

- You cannot be judge, jury and executioner because the division of powers was created for a reason; to remain impartial and try to keep corruption to a minimum.

- Every single living person has human rights. Including the most evil people you could ever meet. Those people have a right to live, to get healthcare, to eat and to have a job. YES, even evil people.

I've seen a lot of people talk about abolishing prison, because it's the cool, new hip thing that everyone is talking about. And instead of understand what it means, they think it's the liberation of wrongfully imprisoned minorities - which it is. But also:

Prison abolition means setting up a system of psychological and physical help for the people whom are deemed dangerous to society. Yes, that includes Evil Fucking People. Recovery and rehabilitation should be the goal, not incarceration. THAT is abolishing prison.

Of course I want that abusive piece of shit father who abused his children to die. I want him dead! DEAD. But it does not mean that that's what I want as an official law, because as much as I'd love to see him dead, the betterment of society and the rehabilitation and development of a human fucking being is important.

The benefits to prison abolition are ENDLESS. But it is also a struggle, and y'all can't keep going through life with a 5 year old's justice mentality. I swear, fandom has rotted your fucking brains off, because we NEED ACTIVISTS. We NEED TO KNOW WHY WE WANT WHAT WE WANT, AND WHAT IT ENTAILS.

You believe in something? Look up the activists who are doing work there. Read up on it. Look up videos. Follow them on their social media. Work in your communities, if you've the opportunity.

And stop being so fucking stupid about abolishing human rights. You're doing the work for the far right when you call on all pedophiles to be executed on sight. Not even twenty years ago, gay people were mostly thought of as PEDOPHILES.

You see how this shit goes? Yeah?

“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.

Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent

Nina is now working for Ravka, right? Granted, I haven’t read the Nikolai series (I’m getting to it!) BUT what I truly want for whatever book comes next is for Nina and Kaz’s rivalry to be brought to a comedic boiling point. Like, Nikolai is dealing with Kaz for whatever reason and so he brings Nina in like:

Nikolai: I’ve heard you have had dealings with that Kerch Bastard of the Barrel?

Nina: Yes.

Nikolai: Good. We’re having an issue and I’ve done my research. He is dangerous, merciless, calculating, and-

Nina: He’s a little bitch with shitty hair is what he is.

Nikolai: ….

Nina: ….

Nikolai: I mean, sure-

And the entire rest of the story and Kaz and Nina going against each other but instead of it be a tragic ‘we’re on opposite sides of a war’ sorta vibe, it’s a feral ‘I am so excited I get the chance to beat the shit out of you for free’ vibe. i.e.

Nina: YOU DON’T HAVE INEJ HERE TO PROTECT YOU, BREKKER!

Kaz: What are you doing to do? I’ll fear you when I’m dead, Zenik.

Nina: I can still throw a punch- oh, btw are you going to Wylan’s birthday dinner next week?

Kaz: That was a pathetically weak punch. Have you not fully recovered from the parem? And yes, Inej is visiting, so I may as well join.

Nina, while trying to load a gun to shoot him with: Want to go half and half on a present?

Kaz: No.

Nina: Come on. He’s so hard to buy for.

Kaz, hitting the gun from her hand with his cane: I already got him something.

Nina: What?

Kaz, holding up a bag: Treasures I stole from your king.

Nina: Bitch-

And it’s just like that the entire story. Nikolai gets annoyed and starts coming up with all these super smart, intense plans that Kaz manages to untangle and finally Nina goes, ‘I got it. He hates the smell peanuts. If we make everything smell like peanuts he’ll get pissed off and leave’

Nikolai thinks it is so stupid but then it works. The very last chapter is them at Wylan’s birthday dinner and they are both beaten up and covered in blood while the rest of the Crows remain oblivious as to what happen until finally Inej is like:

Inej: How was everyone’s day?

Nina: Your boyfriend stabbed me.

Inej: I- wait, what?

Kaz: Only twice. She tried to cut off my head.

Wylan: What on earth were you two arguing about?!

Nina: Hm? Oh, we weren’t arguing.