IF GOD WON’T SAVE YOU I WILL

INEJ GHAFA (Shadow and Bone 1.02 “We’re All Someone’s Monster”)

Inej and Nina ready for prom!

Inej Ghafa❤️

it's been ten thousand years since i've drawn them but i am here to spread my nonbinary jesper agenda

[image description: a digital drawing of jesper and wylan in warm colors from the legs up, walking together with their arms linked. jesper is a tall, thin, dark-skinned black boy with his short dark kinky hair in twists. he is wearing a dress made of teal kitenge fabric with a design that resembles orange jurda flowers, along with a jurda flower earring, and a gold choker with an orange teardrop. wylan is a thin, pale-skinned white boy with short ginger curls. he is wearing a black suit and a red tie and a jurda flower pin on his lapel. he is smiling up as jesper as he says, "i think i understand why i hated suits so much now," to which wylan replies, "it looks nice on you, love". the background is a warm painted yellow. end id]

A concept: Jesper tosses Inej a pistol in the middle of a fight only to watch her throw it at an opponent like it's a knife.

The worst part about this is that she hits him in the head hard enough that it works. Jesper can't let it go.

the rest of the gang: where the hell is kaz he’s supposed to be at the incinerator now

kaz, checking all the cells for pekka:

Is Kaz Brekker inherently camp. Discuss

He canonically modeled his entire aesthetic as a way of standing out from and making a mockery of the men in power in his city, the people who nearly destroyed his life. Drag. Punching up. His goals revolve around not only crushing his enemies, but doing so in an often humiliating and generally reputation-destroying way. Remember how he rescued the love of his life from a hostage situation by utilizing dozens of barrels of flower petals, the timely yearly celebrations, and the in-universe equivalent of the commedia dell'arte? Camp.

Six of crows has one of the most fascinating and complex depictions of religion in any fantasy series, ever, especially one that is not speciticaly about religion. Instead it presents multiple religious traditions and even different concepts of what religion is and has characters with boldly different relations to it: characters who don’t mention it at all (wylan), characters who seem broadly “secular“ (to use a messy term) but still recognise cultural aspects like reliquaries and saints (Nina), characters who have a changing relationship to traditions and customs and for whom reanalysis/reconnection is key to growth and evolution (Jesper’s incredibly important scene where he thinks of himself as Zowa/Blessed), characters for whom religion is a central justification of a violent and oppressive world view but whom also have to grapple and change their understanding of it even if they don’t reject it completely (Matthias), characters who reject it completely, including for the hypocrisy of organised religion in their own society after personal experience (Kaz), and characters for whom religion is a KEY aspect of personal connection to an oppressed minority culture and an important act of selfhood and liberation (Inej).

we are zowa, jes

A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he’ll keep to any deal you strike with him.

Jesper: Where’s Kaz?

Inej: Somewhere disappointing the saints.

Pekka Rollins looking at the crows: death penalty for all of them.

Colm Fahey looking at the crows: these children are in desperate need of some decent fucking parenting.

i know everyones already drawn it but its such a good scene

The symbolism of Kaz and Inej taking the tools from the people who hurt them and making them their own.

Inej takes a ship, the very thing that stole her from her parents and brought her to Heleen, and uses it to hunt slavers, to stop that from happening to anyone else, exposes the rich men that profit from human trafficking.

Kaz dethrones Rollins, takes the Barrell for himself, uses that power to shut down the pleasure houses that exploit people, lets anyone with a little extra money invest in the Crow Club for the chance to improve their lives, the same con Rollins pulled on him and Jordie but legitimate this time.

Brekker and his Wraith Queen, architects of a kinder world.

“Call me Grisha. Call me zowa. Call me death, if you like.”

✨Nina Zenik belongs to Leigh Bardugo✨

SIX OF CROWS APPRECIATION WEEK ↳ day 07: all of the crows [animation]