There’s just a level of trust and care that I think that we have… We can be ourselves fully and we can tell each other everything and anything. [Danielle chimes in, “No judgment.”] No judgment, yeah.

CALAHAN SKOGMAN & DANIELLE GALLIGAN A Storm of Crows and Shadows Convention — 2022 vs. 2023

Still, there is this terrible desire to be loved. Still, there is this horror at being left behind. — The Hours, Michael Cunningham

“Kaz,” Inej asked suddenly. “Why crows?”

“The crow and cup? Probably because crows are scavengers. They take the leavings.”

“I don’t mean the Dregs tattoo. That’s as old as the gang. Why did you adopt it? Your cane. The Crow Club. You could have chosen a new symbol, built a new myth.”

Kaz’s bitter coffee eyes remained trained on the horizon, the rising sun painting him in pale gold light. “Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”

CROOKED KINGDOM: CHAPTER XLIV BY LEIGH BARDUGO

BARBIE POSTERS ✧ feat. Ketterdam’s Finest

#she has the range — for @ughmerlin ♡

TAROT CARDS ✴ SIX OF CROWS ➳ “No mourners, no funerals. Among them, it passed for ‘good luck’. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”

“And yet, they hesitated. The knowledge that they might never see each other again, that some of them—maybe all of them—might not survive this night hung heavy in the air. A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse.

What bound them together? Greed? Desperation? Was it just the knowledge that if one or all of them disappeared tonight, no one would come looking? […] She had no family, no parents or siblings, only people to fight beside. Maybe that was something to be grateful for, too.”

SIX OF CROWS: CHAPTER XXVIII BY LEIGH BARDUGO

SHADOW AND BONE + The Tumblr Guide to Different Dynamics (x)

“Danielle was in my apartment and told me about a party she was planning where everyone in the cast has to dress up like someone else in the cast. Naturally, she gave me Amita and for the next few days I scrambled to find a way to make that work. A very serious conversation with Freddy comes to mind where he generously offered style advice and thanked God he had gotten Kit. A couple days later, I showed up to Danielle’s apartment only to realize everyone had actually dressed up as me. It was obviously surprising and ridiculous and hilarious, but also it came at a time where I desperately needed something like this. Danielle set up a whole party themed around me because she’s an angel, and all the cast was there and giving love. It’s difficult to put into words what that meant to me at the time, but it was everything.”

SHADOW AND BONE LADIES: A (Meme) Summary

THE CROWS: A (Meme) Summary

#putting the ‘insane’ in ‘insanely hot’

I like the chaos. The gamble of Barrel life. Never knowing what comes next. I might very well have left you first. But that was before I got to know you. I can't make you any promises. Or predict what might happen between us. But I can tell you that... I'd like to find out.

JESPER FAHEY & WYLAN VAN ECK in Shadow and Bone: Season Two

It was small, unframed, suitable only for a miniature: a portrait of Wylan as a child of around eight years. Wylan curled his fingers over the edge of the painting. “It’s how she remembers me. She never got to see me grow up.” He frowned. “It’s so old. I don’t know if it will be useful.”

“It’s still you,” said Jesper. “Same curls. Same worried little divot between the brows.”

“And you took this just because you thought it might come in handy?”

“I told you, I like your stupid face.”

SHADOW AND BONE — 2.04 “Every Monstrous Thing” CROOKED KINGDOM by Leigh Bardugo

Shadow and Bone: A (Meme) Summary

Matthias reached out and took Nina’s hand. “I am grateful you’re alive,” he said. “I am grateful you’re beside me. I am grateful that you’re eating.”

She rested her head on his shoulder. “You’re better than waffles, Matthias Helvar.”

A small smile curled the Fjerdan’s lips. “Let’s not say things we don’t mean, my love.”

— CROOKED KINGDOM, LEIGH BARDUGO