M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S
Leigh: I'm gonna make a dark edgy universe with ongoing genocide on witches for centuries. It'll be like the Avatar but the elements of the four nations are: Nazi Witch Hunters, Persecution, Prison camps to torture and experiment on witches, and Slavery.
And then, I'm gonna make a character who fights back, creates a safe space for witches, finds a way to make them indispensable to the king, and plans to put an end to the ongoing genocide.
Readers with functional braincells: Is that your hero?
Leigh: Hero? No! Oh God, no!!! Where did you get that impression??? He's the VILLAIN with a capital V!!! Ugh, I guess I'll have to add more nonsensical mustache twirling evil villainous visuals to make it clear. Maybe throw in a black cape and shadow magic into the mix while I'm at it.
Readers still refusing to shut their brain before reading YA: So what do your heroic leaders want?
Leigh: Its really brilliant and subversive actually! Get rich quick hustles for money. Housewife to the first boy to talk to her. And inherit a royal title from his father.
Readers refusing to kill their reading comprehension: So what about the persecuted witches?
Leigh: What about them? Oh...maybe I'll make up magic cocaine that's highly addictive to the witches and overworks them to death to speed up the genocide now that the horrible evil villain advocating for them is dead and modern technology renders grisha useless anyway. No point in letting them just live am I right? xoxo grimdark edgelord girl
I want so desperately to go to swiftogeddon in Nottingham, but I have no swiftie friends. Does anyone else have this predicament?
Look, I’m not saying that showing Thomas and James “adopting” Abigail Ashe is something the show should have done, but if it had then that would have been the 2nd show I was into in which two men unofficially adopt a teenage girl specifically named Abigail after one of them killed her original father, which I will say, would’ve been pretty fucking hilarious.
all this talk about how weaponizing the fold will only increase anti-Grisha sentiment when it's already been established in canon that they're still undergoing heavy persecution is so strange to me. they're already being sold out to the enemy by their own countrymen as well as experimented on and burned alive overseas...how much worse can it possibly get? they're already balancing on the knife edge of being at risk of genocide. (sidebar: I hate how this show attempts to justify their persecution by laying the blame at Aleksander's feet. that conversation with Baghra where she tells him he's responsible for the 'war on Grisha' even before the creation of the Fold is so awful.)
if Alina and the gang had just let Aleksander usurp the king I'm inclined to believe the situation for Grisha in Ravka could only have been improved. and for all that I see claims of Aleksander's belief in Grisha supremacy, I've yet to find any support or evidence for that in the text. if he wanted to enslave all otkazat'sya or get revenge on them surely that would have come up at some point? instead he's a loyal patriot to the country of Ravka and is more interested in cleaning house of the corrupt Lantsov regime.
if I'm wrong please feel free to correct me, because I actually would be interested in seeing if there are passages in the books where the Darkling goes full Magneto.
Why is it always ‘queer people are projecting their identities onto characters’ and never ‘straight people are presuming that their identity is the default’?
WHITE PEOPLE PLEASE READ
YOU NEED TO REPEAT THIS TO YOURSELF EVERYDAY FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES UNTIL RACISM IS DESTROYED
ASIANS, LATINX/HISPANICS, AND OTHER NON-WHITES ARE ENCOURAGED TO REBLOG AS WELL
NO ONE IS FREE FROM ANTI-BLACKNESS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES
i could never be allowed to time travel because i would try to introduce medieval peasants to scented candles and be executed as a vvitch
We are an opportunistic bunch but only because 1)we have dealt with badly written shows before and know the pain 2) we want everyone to experience the catharsis & euphoria of your favourite (queer) characters being treated right 3) Black Sails really is the best thing out there and we are bitter it never got the exposure it deserved Tldr: Please watch the show to have outdone all shows & ended homophobia ☠️🏳️🌈
#blacklivesmatter Stand as one race. The human race. 🖤🖤🖤