“The Problem With Wanting Is That It Makes Us Weak.”

Рассказывай, рассказывай, я всё выслушаю

полюбовалась на верещагина в третьяковке, и появилось желание критиковать тик за одну супер-мега-специфическую вещь, на которую всё равно всем, кроме меня 😔

Why is there this notion that the Grisha are spoiled in the books?! Seriously ! The author undoubtedly describes them as an oppressed minority and yet, at the same time, manages to say that they are privileged and spoiled rotten because they live in the little palace, have good / beautiful clothes, and eat their fill. on beautiful plates?! It's fucking insulting. Of course they are well maintained. They are literally the personal cannon fodder, to put in the front lines, of the king! Alina you are stupid!

I agree with you completely this element of the books really did not make sense. It was like LB was trying to say they were privileged because they have nice things like their clothes and the LP etc but all of these things are materialistic. They are creature comforts and are there as Genya said to help the Grisha thrive. But what are creature comforts next to being hunted, burned and experimented on. I am sure any of the grisha would give up those privileges if it meant they could live in a world where they could be free from persecution and oppression.

For me though it really highlighted the difference between how the king and his men run the First Army and how Aleks runs the second. It is clear that Aleks takes very good care of his grisha, he provides them with enough food, he makes sure they've got bulletproof keftas, that they've got access to a library, access to trainers who not only teach them how to master their grisha abilities but also train them in hand to hand combat, he provides them with the LP a safe home. Whereas the king doesn't do anything to make sure the Fiirst Army is provided with everything they may need to thrive and be strong. The king sees both the soldiers of the First and Second Army as expendable.

ВОТ ИМЕННО

и при всём при этом практически общеизвестно, что все святые когда-то были реальными людьми (религия предполагает веру в сверхъестественные силы, но в мире, где есть гриши уже мало чему можно удивиться). То есть не совсем понятно, кто и за что наградил их святостью, а не, скажем, орденом героя?

И плюс у меня возникло ощущение, что абсолютно ВСЕ святые при жизни были гришами, за что многие оказались убиты. Опять же смысл поклоняться тем, к кому в лучшем случае народ относится с пренебрежением?

И отсутствие бога. Кто главный в этом пантеоне? Есть последователи святые, но нет того, за кем вообще нужно следовать.

Как в таком случае относятся к друг другу последователи разных святых? Уважают друг друга, верят и в того, и в другого или крутят пальцем у виска при каждой встрече, пытаясь доказать, что его святой самый святой из святых?

чем больше размышляю над религией в гришаверсе, тем больше хочется стучаться головой об стенку, потому что ЭТО ЧТО ВООБЩЕ

I’M SCREAMING

The Darkling without his scars

Morozova’s journals

Look, I understand Alina needed to learn about Morozova’s work in the name of The Plot™, but how likely is that someone as old and paranoid as the Darkling would just leave his journals lying around? Originals?

The show “fixed it” by making him give the journals to David to study. Which doesn’t change the fact they’re somehow easy to read.

If ~I~ were hundreds of y/o immortal with unique records of secret research, I’d destroy them after making a copy myself using:

cipher

foreign language

rare dialect

dead language

combiantion of everything above

But hey, it’s not like language doesn’t shift in some 500+ years… yet the greatest challenge was understanding Morozova’s train of thought… not the words alone…

What in the darknikolina is this.

"Oops careless 😏😜" his ass is not sorry!

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DARK!NIKOLAI LANTSOV AU: pyotr lantsov is trying to create a new kind of grisha and is testing a trial serum on his son. nikolai survives and seeks revenge. he teams up with the darkling to get to alina first and take over family's company.

“Something caught your eye, Sasha?”

Paddy's laughter prolongs life