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i need to talk about jesper fahey. i live for all the discussions about how positive inej is as representation, but i can’t sleep on my lovely son, who i identify with the most from these books. first off, he’s bi!!! and thank god for leigh bc she didn’t pull a it’s complicated. she wrote him as such an audacious flirt, i’m pretty sure everyone in the barrel knows. the entire city probably knows! he’s openly bi and in a ya series!! we all know how society tries to invalidate bisexuality. do i even need to tell you how important this representation is??? and let’s talk about how he’s described as having dark and deep brown skin. colorism is astoundingly prevalent in the media, where the “diverse” cast of characters (whether in books or films or whatever) only have light brown skin. if they’re black they’re usually conveniently mixed race (and i know jesper is but stay with me) and look racially ambiguous. and that’s disgusting. but leigh gave us jesper, who is dark brown. dark brown!!! and guess what??? he’s proud of that too, as he should be. and i can’t talk about his zemeni skin without mentioning his iconic mother, who was easily the purest person in the book regardless of her short appearances. it was so heartwarming to read these characters without those stereotypes. you know the ones. jesper’s mom raised him to be good natured and it showed. and lastly, mental illness. there was implied adhd which could have been a factor leading to his gambling addiction. which felt so real. obviously mental illness doesn’t always lead to addiction, but sometimes they coexist, and this was handled so well. it was never glorified and his struggles were glaringly obvious. and i think both inej and matthias at some point implied he had a sickness. a sickness, not that he was broken, he was sick. and idk that wording meant a lot to me. also, he came across as someone who desperately wanted to be better, but addiction had a way of consuming his life and it led to poor decisions. what was so important to me about it was, no matter how much kaz wanted to villanize him, none of this made jesper a bad guy. he still had good intentions. he still had morals, and he still deeply cared for his friends, and we could see how much he regretted his actions. mental illnesses, and especially problems with addiction, have been used as cheap writing techniques to create the bad guys far too often. leigh is so aware, so amazing, she didn’t let that happen with jesper. and i just love him so much and i need more characters like him.

This is so fantastic!

WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND

So for all you feminists out their who think that all men should die, remember, you are not a feminist.

reblogging for the last comment

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Legit question, I’m not trying to hate on feminists or anything. Why is it called feminist if they’re for equality?

This needs to be spread far and wide to everyone on tumblr. 

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This fandom.

Oh. My. God.

IMA CRY

That is so fantastic!!!!

White people specifically need to reblog this, I don’t CARE if it makes you uncomfortable–that’s the point. Listen to Native voices about Native issues PLEASE

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I JUST LOVE RHYSAND AND FEYRE SO MUCH

Me too