Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 148
December 16, 2016
rosierckstr:
badmoviescene:
jadegreenworks:
jimmyfury:
yatzu...
“It will be full of gays next”
Cry me a river.
fall-for-the-game:
Doodle inspired by this post.
One day, as Kaz...
Doodle inspired by this post.
One day, as Kaz watches Inej feed the crows outside his window, he has an idea…
He starts feeding them too, and trains them to do his bidding
They become his spies, thieves and messengers (after all, he must improvise in Inej’s absence)
He gives them names like Ruin, Profit, Tax, Greed and Payback
the others call them his minions and are both scared of them and jealous that they only listen to Kaz (and Inej)
Awwww
its been years...but i must clear this up at last. is your name pronounced lay or lee?? and where is the accent on your last name pls and thank you just thought i'd ask.
LEE (like Bruce Lee, or Charles Lee—-I’m a general wheeee!)
Bar-DOO-go (like… absolutely nothing)
Bonus fun fact: Bardugo is Spanish (Verdugo) and means executioner or hangman.
4 YA Book-Inspired Cookie Recipes For The Holidays
The holidays are just around the corner, which means holiday cookies are becoming increasingly necessary for the sugar-inclined. But sometimes, going with the same old sugar-cookie snowmen feels boring, especially for people who like to get creative in the kitchen. Luckily, we at Paper Lantern Lit have come up with a fun way to showcase both your love for YA lit and your cookie-baking prowess: YA-inspired recipes!
This is extremely adorable. Nina’s Cake Cookies!
December 15, 2016
cocotingo:
Inej Ghafa from Six of Crows. They call her the...
Inej Ghafa from Six of Crows. They call her the Wraith but to me she’s an angel. Ok, the kind that can cut your throat but still an angel.
Just. My heart.
vaveyard:
medievalpoc:
itsnotaboutyourfeelings:
zennistrad:
Thi...
What?
This is all types of wrong. Does this person even know the biological and geographical reasoning behind fair and dark skin? Why some peoples are tall and skinny, and others are stout and short?
Is it really that hard to understand that people consciously stayed within their own cultural regions? Why would a large middle eastern or African group of peoples migrate into medieval Poland?
Ultimately, when your entire argument is pedantic to the point of being pathetic, the only reason to make it is to be spiteful. I mean, really, potatoes?
Don’t like the product? Don’t buy it. You don’t have the right to not be offended, or to be catered to in every medium. If you seriously can’t get into a game because “too much wypipo” then guess what? You’re the one that’s racist.
Not to rain on your “Perhaps it is YOU who is Teh RACISMS!1!!” party, buuuut there’s some pretty simple answers to a rather straightforward question you asked: “Why would a large middle eastern or African group of peoples migrate into medieval Poland?”
Already in 1235 blacks had been observed in
the splendid retinue which Frederick brought with him on an expedition
to Germany. A monkish chronicler relates that the emperor “proceeded in
great glory with numerous carriages laden with gold and silver, byssus
and purple, gems and costly vessels, with camels, mules as well as
dromedaries, with many Saracens, and with Ethiopians having knowledge of
rare skills accompanying apes and leopards and serving as guards
bringing along money and treasure.”’ These unusual servants were surely
Lucerans, since we know that the exotic animals were kept in Lucera
between trips. Musicians are not mentioned, but the role of these
blacks as guardians of the royal treasury is noteworthy.
Black Africans in Hohenstaufen Iconography by Paul H. D. Kaplan. Gesta
Vol. 26, No. 1 (1987),pp. 29-36. The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the International Center of Medieval Art.
Like…hello? Central Europe doesn’t have a “white only” forcefield around it, and you’re both a fool and a bigot if you think your racist assumptions trump scientific and historical evidence of this magnitude.
Also, not to interrupt your stream of obviously anti-Black rhetoric, but not all people of color fit racial categories according to skin color (or whatever else you mean by “biological and geographical reasoning”): Tatars arrived as mercenary soldiers in Poland beginning in the late 14th century. The Tatar population
reached approximately 100,000 in 1630. They’re still in Poland now. There’s yet another massive influx of people, who apparently did not get the memo that you think they should have stayed in their “own cultural regions”.
Not only that, the massive shift in representational art in Central Europe as a whole had an impact that lasted for CENTURIES:
[Family of the Virgin Mary, triptych, Kraków, ~1530-1540]
Also, are we totally forgetting the population of Polska Roma (the biggest group of Romani living in Poland, though not the only one!) that obviously would have been an integral part of medieval Polish Society, arts, and culture?
[“A portrait of Polska Roma poet Papusza (Bronislawa Wajs) by Krystyna Gierlinska.”]
Seriously, there are tons of people of color in Polish art, over the course of CENTURIES of history:
[Bernardo Bellotto; “View of Warsaw from the Terrace of the Royal Castle”]
The internationally famous virtuoso & child prodigy, George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, was BORN in Biała, Poland!
But honestly, I know better than to think anyone capable of throwing ^^ that kind of tantrum can be distracted by little things like “evidence“.
lol @itsnotaboutyourfeelings literally skipped the potatoes and dragons not existing in medieval Europe to rail against people who did exist in medieval Europe, what a clown
Next time someone throws the “wouldn’t be realistic” argument at you to justify their racism, POTATOES AND DRAGONS.
December 14, 2016
toosmallortootall:
meredithmeri:
You can’t love someone’s mental illness away.
#this is one of...
You can’t love someone’s mental illness away.
#this is one of the hardest things to learn #and one of the most painful things to accept #you can’t love someone’s mental illness away #but you can love them through it and with it #and you can love them on bad days and good days and nothing days and everything days #and that’s more important really
adampairrsh:
character posters ♡ nikolai lantsovNot bad...
character posters ♡ nikolai lantsov
Not bad looking? He’s damnably handsome. Brave in battle, smart as a whip. An excellent dancer. Oh, and an even better shot.
So much Nikolai in the tags!
