Grishatastic

send me/the rebloger one of these words as shorthand for the question — a list to reblog and steal from — ask me too! — I’d loved to be tagged in any of your answers — I hope it’s fun 👀

shadow | rank all the grishaverse books you’ve read.

bone | have you seen the show? what’s the best part of it?

siege | if you got to kill off one character, who would it be?

storm | share and tag your favorite fan art

ruin | favorite character?

rising | what’s the best ship? canon or otherwise.

six | favorite grishaverse quote?

crow | which crows are you most and least like?

crooked | if you got to rewrite the first chapter of six of crows, how would you do it?

kingdom | pick a character and give them a theme song

king | what’s your favorite idea for a new series in the grishaverse?

scars | which character deserved better?

rule | favorite book cover?

wolves | sort all the characters you can into hogwarts houses, (or choose to give them zodiacs, mbtis, alignments, etc—)

ketterdam | change the ending of one of the books

os alta | when did you get into the grishaverse? tell us all about it

djerholm | what pair of characters would you kill to see interact with each other?

the unsea | what type of grisha powers would you want to have? or what crow’s skills would you want to steal?

please like/reblog this post if you blog about the grishaverse and i’ll check out your blog!! pls consider checking mine out too :)

Girls’ night in the Grishaverse~

I’ve never drawn so much cleavage in one go, it was a fulfilling experience 😌

((spoilers for ALL of the grishaverse))

Ah, yes, Shadow and Bone season 2 is gearing up, the birds are singing, I have a cup of earl grey tea before me -  it is finally time to sit down to talk about the Darkling, and explain his tenuous relationship with the Grishaverse.

The Darkling is a character greatly contested. When simply looking at his motivations, we see a rift in the fandom. Add in his backstory and it fractures even more. When you pepper in the third ingredient of his relationship with Alina, you get an entire war. The Darkling is a divisive character. He gets under our skin and lingers for days afterwards.

I am going to take you on a deep dive of the Darklings character, and try to tease apart the problems that lie within the creation of his character. Why were so many fans betrayed by his ending? How did he muddle the messages of Shadow and Bone, and why is his ending so complicated that it satisfies very few? Today, we’re going to look at The Problem of the Darking: An Essay in Six Parts.

A little history lesson;

So first, allow me to take you back in time, to 2012, when Shadow and Bone was first released.

Two years prior, The Hunger Games Trilogy had finished coming out and, in a rather stunning turn of events, shifted the popular Y.A. category from the genre of the paranormal romance (thank you, Stephanie Meyer) to the dystopian society. 

Now, this is not to say that there weren’t dystopian stories prior to The Hunger Games, or that there weren’t paranormal romances in the Y.A. genre afterward. Both have survived, but the boom of dystopian stories and the whimper of paranormal romance was definitely felt.

It’s okay to like the Darkling as long as you remember he’s a villain!

Okay, thanks for your permission, I guess?

No actually, fuck you. I’ll like characters for whatever reason I want to like them. Including finding their actions completely goddamn justifiable or, at times, wildly OOC because the author had a hard-on for turning them into a moustache-twirling villain because she realized she’d written the ship she wanted into a terrible, stupid corner.

Are we no longer listening to metal and punk?

There is nothing wrong with looking at at edgelord and saying, “I think I will adopt that”.

Or empathizing with a character like Hannibal Lector.  

Or saying Shub-Niggurath speaks to me.

Art, stories, fiction, they are meant to inspire emotions. You should never have to explain or defend those feelings.  Your journey with life and self expression is your own.  

“I am become a blade"

Where is all the energy going?

Her powers are pretty, uh, shall we say, unimpressive, in the books.

“The truth. Tell her where the boy is stationed.”

“She’ll think-“

“I know what she’ll think, Genya.”

I feel so stupid... what will Alina think? He’s stationed far away, he’s not getting her letters? He’s not dead? He’s choosing not to respond?

I feel like I’m missing something?

aksdjsdfsdfkfh i've been blessed by @kasamira !!!! 🙏🏽😭✨

Demon in the Woods hurt my soul.

I’m gonna write meta on both but with DITW I just don’t know where to start.

Being hurt by a book is the best thing it can do. If it makes you feel something, then (most of the time) it’s succeeded.