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rumours of zoya being soft over animals greatly exaggerated
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↳ MALINA ROMANCE WEEK ☆ day two: favorite episode
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sleepy malina time 😴😴
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ALINA STARKOV APPRECIATION WEEK: ↳ Day One: Favorite Quote
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More scenes from Hand in Hand in Unloveable Hand:
The first almost-kiss, between Mal and Alina
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NATACHA Shadow & Bone “A Searing Burst of Light”
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Tamar Kir-Bataar my beloved ✋😳
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GRISHAWEEN 2021 costumes/hiding in plain sight
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"If you upset my wife again I will kill you where you stand" -David Kostyk⚒ ( King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo)
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Zoya, Alina and, Genya
from enemies being manipulated by the Darkling to reluctant allies in the civil war to lifelong friends who would do anything for each other
Alina’s Horror Series (part 1/?)
I’m excited to finally share this here! :D Since I’ve been on a bit of a break, I’ll cap this and share until I’ve got the next pieces up!
This series aims to depict Alina’s relationship with the Darkling in a way that highlights the horrors that unfold as the story progresses— including his detrimental impact on others— as his legacy lives on in the shadows of his victims’ minds.
Fear is cautionary. Cautionary tales are made with fear for those we love. Let’s never confuse the two, even if they’re close when dancing with each other! Because this isn’t a love story babey :)
I also have a playlist if anyone is interested! ٩( ᐛ )و
#alina starkov#tgt the grisha trilogy#alina horror series#sab shadow and bone#seige and storm#ruin and rising#grishaverse fanart#the darkling#anti darkling#anti alarkling#netflix shadow and bone#zoya nazyanelsky#kos king of scars#kos spoilers#king of scars spoilers#sankta alina#art series#saintprivateerart#saintprivateer#procreate#black and white#ya lit#ya fantasy#ya fiction#horror art#visual development#concept art
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I’m obsessed with drawing the stills from Shadow and Bone. Anyway here’s David because I love him a lot!
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once again, you're 100% correct and this is such a good way of explaining the "why" of things. i feel like they really watered Mal and D*rkling down for the audience. Mal got the "clueless boy next door" treatment which undercuts his mistakes and his ability to learn from them and grow, D*rkling got turned into "kind of okay guy except for that One Thing" instead of the genocidal p*do that doesn't understand what "no" means that he was in the book.
yea my biggest disappointment with show mal is that the writers didn’t let him be ANGRY. they really wanted to pound home that mal would do anything for alina and interpreted that to mean “he loves her so much so that prevents him from feeling anything other than devotion and kindness towards her” and so they stripped a lot of nuance from him/their dynamic. mal has such a complicated relationship with the military and people in power and how that pain gets reflected in alina’s journey and it’s such a real and compelling struggle and they took all that out. i don’t mind their romance being a slow burn, but it’s like they were so focused on that that they forgot that lifelong best friends have fights! that doesn’t mean they don’t love each other!
the darkling......yea i could go on and on about how irresponsibly the writers/cast are treating him. i was really looking forward to seeing how the show would talk about consent. i wouldn’t have minded the change of alina explicitly giving consent if they took that as a moment to talk about how much more complex consent is than just saying yes to making out with someone, how that kind of consent through manipulation extends into the darkling’s relationships with zoya and genya, etc etc. but all they’ve done is “alina consents so it’s ok!! what a sexy girl power moment” and it drives me mad.
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SHADOW AND BONE REAL TODAY..... it's a little surreal seeing my favorite characters come to life. here's to wherever this story will go next!
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"Just … be careful.” "Of what?” “Of powerful men.”
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WHAT???THE????FUCK?????
This is disgusting, i'm so upset for this.
Also, I'm white and I don't feel I'm the right person to talk of this.🤷🏼♀️
please speak up!!!!
Im desi.
This is disgusting. I am sick to my stomach and I can only imagine that this is less than half what Amita must have felt when she was told her stunt double was a white woman whom they would put in brown face.
Netflix has been blasting the diversity of this show for a while. And sure, capitalise off of diversity points. I don't care about that because we don't have enough diversity in western shows and therefore it matters when we do have it.
It matters when netflix puts a brown woman on screen and tells us shes amazing. Tells us she's not lesser for her faith. It matters when netflix puts a brown woman of colour in a main role and doesn't reduce her to a caricature. It matters.
So it also matters when netflix props up a brown woman and then gives her a white stunt double. When they put that white stunt double in brownface. When their brown actress was training to do those same stunts. When they were filming in Europe and Asia and could have easily found a stunt double of the same damn ethnicity as Amita.
It. Matters.
Inej is such an important character to me. But if there isn't diversity behind the scenes, what use is there of having diversity on screen? Leigh and Eric spoke endlessly about how important it was to them to have diversity on and off set. Why couldn't it extend to this? Why am I, as a brown woman, once again being told I'm not good enough? That a white woman only has to show up while I have to claw and fight and prove my way to make even half the same progress.
I'm tired. Amita Suman deserves better. I deserve better. The little brown girls who are growing up and watching this deserve better.
^^^!!!
This is an ongoing problem in Hollywood. Here are a few articles about it (most refer specifically to African-Americans but obviously it’s an issue for all POC, the first article also addresses “wigging” in which they put a wig on a male stunt double instead of using a female stunt double):
The Telegraph article is blocked by a paywall but you can read it if you give them your email address. It boils down to how stunt coordinators claim they can’t find POC who are stunt doubles, but that this is a claim made any time someone wants to sidestep diversity. Hollywood is fueled by nepotism and stunt coordinators would rather hire their white friend than a brown or black person. In addition, it’s a difficult issue for both actors & stunt doubles to speak up about. Not only do they risk being blacklisted from the industry, but stunts can sometimes be very dangerous (life and death dangerous) and upsetting the wrong stunt coordinator can have harmful consequences. The granddaughter of a black stuntman (Ernie Robinson) said her grandfather told her about a time a black stuntman was supposed to barrel through breakaway glass but it was “accidentally” replaced with plexiglass.
this isn’t to distract attention from S&B & Eric’s actions but highlight how this is a really big problem that many people have been fighting for decades, yet there’s little awareness of it. It’s a form of racism that the S&B stunt coordinator (among others i’m sure) actively participated in, probably thinking they could get away with it because everyone gets away with it. Performative activism at its finest.
tl;dr: Hollywood is still racist to its core, S&B is no exception.