Opal Pond Time

I can't express enough just how important Kaz Brekker is for younger disabled people. I first read Six of Crows when I was sixteen years old and just starting to experience more severe symptoms of my chronic illness. I refused to get a mobility aid because I felt like it was admitting defeat, like it would make me weak. Then I read about Kaz Brekker- a boy my age going through similar pain and need for aid that I am, and he was Strong. He wasn't just strong in spite of his disability, he was stronger For it. Having such a strong, dangerous, and honestly just Really Cool character with a disability not entirely unlike my own completely shifted my view of my limitations. I got myself the cane I needed and I started to feel almost proud to walk with it. It turned from something that made me feel weak into something that felt powerful and defiant- like I was reminding a world that wasn't designed for people like me to live in that I will Not accept defeat and that I will continue to live my life using the tools at my disposal. Without that representation I might not have reached that place of acceptance, especially not so quickly..

We have disability representation in media, but often those characters are portrayed as softer, weaker, quieter characters. Those one-note portrayals made me feel like that's all I could ever be. Then Kaz Brekker came in and showed me that people like me can be strong too. That means the world to young disabled people. We need representation like this. We need to feel strong again.

YES! This is something I think about way too much, and I have so many questions. Does he just want something besides exy that he can obsess over? Does he use the past as an escape from his current reality? Is he just a nerd??? Who knows lol

Since I finished tsc a few days ago it has been living in my head rent free. And there are definitely a lot of major plot and character points that are included in that, but also: Kevin Day and his history major.

Like we don’t really get to know much about it because neither Neil or Jean thought anything about it other than “this weirdo really likes history for some reason”, but I have so many questions about this.

He really, truly begged Riko, the primary source of misery in his life, to take this major with him, even though he had to know that it was never going to be something he used outside of the court since Ravens were, by design, never meant to have a future outside of Exy. How much did he have to love this thing that was just his in order for him to agree to do two people’s worth of work and to push for what he wanted enough for it to stick out so clearly in Jean’s memory? When and why did he learn to care so much about it?

no but LET'S TALK about how andrew is (outwardly) apathetic in every aspect of his life and towards every person he interacts with; this man shows nothing but indifference (i'd say half of it is true due to his severe depression and trauma/ the other half is just a performance so as not to hurt others with his rage but himself, as neil deduced).

but the MOMENT he gets to kiss neil he drops his neutral facade and throws his self control out the window -and we KNOW how important being in control is to him- and kisses neil like he wants to extract neil's soul out through his mouth.

neil described it like "he kissed him like this was a fight with their lives on the line, like his world stopped and started with Neil's mouth". my boy was STARVING he did NOT care about mantaining his apatheic front.

how is it possible to go from "i hate you 😐 most of the time i want to kill skin you alive 😒" to "let me kiss you like we're souldiers dying in the trenches and the only air i can breathe is through your mouth"

The Stars are All That's Left of You and Me

my little (not so little) VLD tribute!!!! some post canon because VLD is leaving Netflix.....very slow burn, lots of Klance, check it out :DDD

YESSSSSS MATTHIAS WITH LONG HAIR

matthias before that tragic haircut🐺❄️🩵

hear me out—hozier reading the silica tweet out loud, and then immediately transitioning into eat your young

“BE QUIET, SILICA GEL! CAN’T YOU SEE I’M starving, darling, let me put my lips to something…”

I need to see a conversation between Gansey and Jeremy Knox

I just think it would be interesting

BRO ATE WITH THIS LINE

quick sketch of jean and jabberwocky

Shoutout to my favourite bitch Adam Parrish