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i-have-espn:It took awhile but I finally finished Nina and...

i-have-espn:

It took awhile but I finally finished Nina and Matthias too! So enjoy some tiny Six of Crows couples. ;u;

(I am selling prints and other decor of these artworks on my Society6 and Redbubble shops if you’d like to support!)

Awwww

cryingmanlytears:Wylan Van Eck | Six of CrowsMatthias | Nina...

cryingmanlytears:

Wylan Van Eck | Six of Crows

Matthias | Nina | Inej | Kaz | Jesper

Finally we have our sixth crow, Wylan van Sunshine. All that’s left to do now is throw them all together so they can judge you in unison. I love my murder kids.

He’s so WHOLESOME looking

kavinskiies:wide awake in the glow // (listen)

kavinskiies:

wide awake in the glow // (listen)

plenilune:plenilune:inspirational message or paranoid...

plenilune:

plenilune:

inspirational message or paranoid sorcerers? #nyc #graffiti

man it’s sort of heartwrenchingly – nice? inexpressible-fond-sad-emotion? – to see one of the last photos I took in New York still flittering around

marilynmay:Alyson Hannigan, Amber Benson and Seth Green | EW...

marilynmay:

Alyson Hannigan, Amber Benson and Seth Green | EW Buffy reunion

The Crows Against the Common Cold

dealbrekker:

I have a cold so I’m inspired.

Matthias: sleeps it right off. Takes him max two days to get rid of it. Coughs maybe once. This pisses Nina offffff. Rises and shines like the secret tulip he is. “Cold? What cold? I live in the ice.”

Nina: loathes being sick. Even just the sniffles. Doesn’t want to be seen except not really. Could she eliminate it with her heart rending? Probably. But she won’t because everyone lavishes attention on her and she LOVES IT. Mattias babies her and so does Inej. Milks it as long as she can #DramaQueen

Jesper: Also #DramaQueen. But actually grumpier than Nina can be because he has to rest to get better and what is rest??? Loves Wylan taking care of him though. Very verbal about being cut down in the prime of life by the cold while wylan just shakes his head and spoon feeds him soup.

Wylan: (brought to you by my friend betterthanwaffles). Tries to hide being sick. Doesn’t want people to know because Jan Van DICK would get mad at him and call him weak. Not sure how Jesper found out, but suddenly Wy’s tucked in bed with blankets and tissues up to the gills. *cough cough Kaz told Jesper*

Kuwei: wants Jesper’s attention but he’s getting over it. Knows chemistry so well he can usually shake the cold quickly with different concoctions. Very quiet while sick. Sucks on cough drops obsessively.

Inej: tries to go about her business. Doesn’t exactly hide it, but doesn’t want a fuss. Nina wants to fuss so bad, so Inej avoids her as much as she can. Then Kaz hears her cough while trying to sneak in his office and he sends her straight to bed and sics Nina on her. Says it’s because he can’t afford a Wraith who gives herself away sneezing everywhere. Actually he is in love and brings her medicines and tissues on the sly. She knows.

Kaz: immune. The germs just burst into microscopic flame.

I’m really sick right now and this is super cute. 

Kaz: the germs wouldn’t dare. 

rennbirdd:I’m trying to rid myself of art block by drawing...

rennbirdd:

I’m trying to rid myself of art block by drawing lots of @lbardugo’s Kaz Brekker

watch the speedpaint here

The grumpiest Kaz

zalaworkshermagic:So yesterday I had a fight with @calimero747...

zalaworkshermagic:

So yesterday I had a fight with @calimero747 about whether Wylan would be in Slytherin or Ravenclaw and then this happened. Sorry not sorry. I am very keen on those Hogwarts AU’s. (also, we decided that Jesper should be in Slytherin. Sorry @lbardugo :))

(+psst Kaz looks like a meme)

Well obvs I disagree but you made this adorable thing so I’m not gonna argue ;)

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unwinona:

capnseamus:

daimonie:

motherfuckingshakespeare:

runecestershire:

runecestershire:

persephonesidekick:

harmonicakind:

yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine

The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.

So I’m more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.

Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and he’s not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain he’s got all the facts.

Except once he thinks he has all the facts – once he’s certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.

That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.

I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop

i met a scholar once who said that tragedies aren’t about a silly “flaw” or anything, it’s about having a hero who’s just in the wrong goddamn story

if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldn’t be duped by any of iago’s shit, he’d sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, they’re both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now we’ve got all these bodies to bury.

This same fact applies to Sean Bean in Lord of the Rings and Sean Bean in Game of Thrones. 

Damn, yep

THIS IS SO SATISFYING.