that’s enough emotions for a whole year. ciao
I often see people quote this gorgeous passage from Six of Crows;
“He needed to tell her…what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn’t pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he’d begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
However, I often see people remove the last line about the hat. Which is a shame, because I would argue that’s the most important part. Early on in the book, there’s a scene we all know where Kaz and Inej go up to his office, and he tells her about Van Eck’s offer. Before she leaves, he tells her to order him a new hat. Inej thinks about how Kaz never says “please” or “thank you.” Or at least, Dirtyhands never does. Inej comments on this, and Kaz jokingly says “Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honour of acquiring me a new hat?” But she’s right. The persona that Kaz has constructed for himself doesn’t ask for favours, doesn’t beg, doesn’t thank. He gives orders to his crew, and they carry them out. He’s not going to risk anything that would make him seem weak, give others a reason to fear him less. He’s ruthless, heartless, conniving. Willing to do anything for money. Dirtyhands. Brekker. The Bastard of the Barrel. That persona is what’s been keeping him alive ever since the age of 9.
Except, Kaz Rietveld isn’t heartless at all. He does a good job of pretending, but Inej has always been the one person he can’t hide from. Throughout the duology we slowly see her break down his walls, his armour. Kaz Brekker only cares about money and himself, but Kaz Rietveld would do anything, risk anything, give up anything for Inej Ghafa. Kaz Brekker doesn’t rely on anyone, but Kaz Rietveld needs Inej to stay in Ketterdam with him, not because she’s the Wraith or because she’s good with a knife, but because he can’t bear the thought of life without her. Kaz Brekker doesn’t believe in fairy tales, but when Inej smiles and laughs it brings magic back into Kaz Rietveld’s world. Kaz Brekker thanks nobody, but time and time again Kaz Rietveld has been grateful to Inej for everything she’s done for him. For risking her life for him and the Dregs time and time again. For her loyalty and companionship. For getting him drunk on bottled laughter. For putting her trust in him, the man who should never be trusted, time and time again. For never giving up on the person she knew he really was, the person she knew he could become. For seeing him without armour. For seeing him not as a monster, but as a man (to borrow a line from Buffy the Vampire Slayer). As a boy. A boy who wanted everyone to believe that Ketterdam has beaten the softness out of him. Only she knew the truth.
He needed to thank her for his new hat.
Hehe au where Sara goes to Hillerska but Simon doesn't and Wille and Simon don't meet. After they finish school, Sara and Felice share an apartment in Stockholm, while Simon lives on the other side of the city with some new friends from his program. One brutally hot day, they're all scheduled to go out for dinner for Felice's birthday, so Simon bikes across town, a decision he deeply regrets when he's soaked in sweat by the time he gets to their apartment. He leans his bike against the wall in the hallway, sending suspicious looks at the two broody types in suits lingering there for some reason. Once he lets himself in, he strips out of his shirt and starts trying to wipe himself down in the bathroom. Behind him, there's a startled squeak, and Simon whirls around to find a very red, very flustered Crown Prince Wilhelm, whom Felice had failed to mention would be joining them tonight.
Let me set the scene for you. Season 7 episode 20, Dean meets a geeky redhead capable of hacking into the pentagon. He needs her help to take down the world leading agriculture corporation. She volunteers.
Set: midnight, office building. She sneaks her way in, nervous, but ultimately doing her best and getting past all her obstacles until, uh oh, a big security guard blocks her path.
Dean says, flirt with him, men are dumb.
She says, I can’t. He’s not my type. I’m a one species kind of lady.
He says, cool. I can. Let me help you.
Are we ready for the last day of shooting Young Royals?
I'm might not be
Sorry sorry sorry
I just had the funniest thought
I made a joke post about an au where dean is a world famous news anchor "and oh wait"
But but
Imagine
Dean's like getting ready to do some peice on a, like, volcano that's been dormant for millennia, but has suddenly become active.
It's like, said to be the home of some sleeping love god in mythology,
The vibe is, like, end of a romcom.
He and Cas had a fight before he left for whereever
Dean's standing there waiting for his queue
Suddenly Cas is there
And he's getting the go head in his ear that theyre rolling at the same time
And Cas stopping short in front of him all "Dean, I'm sorry, for everything, I love you!"
Dean, torn between the new report he's been running the line for in his head and for the last ten minutes, and the fact his boyfriend got on a plane and followed him to Europe, says, for all the world to hear " the Love Volcano's Erupting"
Absolutely straight faced. And then, looking between Cas, and the camera "wait. No. I love you. We're live. I-"
"Oh, damn, sorry." Cas says, taking a step back. Then a step forward and kissing Dean on the cheek, before darting next to the camera woman, Charlie, grinning like the Cheshire cat.
And then, to the camera, Dean says with the most besotted expression, giggling. "He loves me." Before collecting himself and reporting the actual peice
Sam is texting them the memes not 20 minutes later.
Always thinking about Inej covering Kaz's mouth, her other hand cupping the side of his face. The LOOK in his eyes before he registers that they're touching.
He's already come-to, he can see her clearly enough. Whether or not Kaz is figuring out of he's back to reality, he still takes that half of a second to take her in. And he finds bliss in her presence for that moment.
the best part about being on Tumblr before watching Supernatural is that i knew everything and nothing about the show before i started. did i know about the Destiel confession? absolutely. but did i know which brother was Dean? not at all.
we all owe wylan a handwritten apology
Jesper would read to him ofc. He has a very soothing baritone
No mourners. No funerals. — Why do you guys say that? Why isn’t it just “good luck” or “be safe”? — We like to keep our expectations low.
SHADOW AND BONE (2021– ) S02E04: Every Monstrous Thing
Source: bladesrunner
some time after wille asks simon to spend the weekend with him but before parents' day, wille falls pretty badly ill and is taken back home to receive care from the royal family's doctors. erik hangs close, keeping him company (he picks up pretty quickly on the fact that Wille has a Someone at school, and he teases him relentlessly). So it's not too bad, but he's mostly confined to his bed.
one morning he wakes up to see simon scrolling on his phone in an armchair in the corner of the room. "what are you doing here?" he asks in delighted disbelief.
simon comes closer, sits tentatively on the edge of the bed somewhere near wille's knees. "your parents were concerned you were missing too much school, so they asked hillerska to send a student with your notes and textbooks and assignments. it was also apparently a good opportunity to, quote, show that you've been making friends and you're a man of the people."
wille groans. "so they wanted people to know i have friends who aren't rich."
"that's what your brother said, yeah."
"you've met erik?"
"yeah." simon smiles cheekily. "he's been grilling me for information about your crush. i told him you haven't mentioned a crush."
"okay, for the record, he's the one who used that word. i think i just...confirmed that i'd...met someone," wille finishes shyly.
"met someone? hmm." simon pretends to contemplate. "you met rosh and ayub recently. could it be one of them?"
wille tugs the pillow out from under him and weakly tries to hit simon with it. when he gives up, he murmurs, "this isn't really how i pictured our weekend together going."
simon's lips twitch. "we're both on your bed. that's pretty much what i'd pictured."
wille blushes, but he likes it, likes the way simon enjoys unsettling his expectations. "if i weren't sick, i would kiss you," he says.
simon scoots down the edge of the bed a bit, closer to wille, so he can reach out and stroke back some of wille's hair that's come loose. "we have time," he assures him.
the reason why the whole pekka Rollins burying son scene didn’t quite work because of 1. lack of buildup, 2. change of audience, 3. change of plot/lack of outsider factors
*disclaimer: while i am writing out this whole thing, freddy carter killed it with this scene, and yet here i am
1. lack of buildup
In the books, it’s literally doesn’t even seem like the climax because you don’t see it coming. according to what the crows knew, it wasn’t the plan. it was the whole fake auction where they would auction up kuwei and trick everyone. and I see where they got the whole thing of pretending Kaz was caught, they replaced him with kuwei in that way because it was a similar thing. but it doesn’t work as well because while we’ve seen Pekka in the show before, and now Kaz’s backstory, I think we don’t quite see the whole “brick by brick” thing as much as the book emphasizes. Kaz legit lets Pekka out of the ice court because his death belongs to him (side note is this why they put him in hellgate?), and he even goes to him at the end of the first book to make a deal with him to get inej back. it’s also less powerful for the other crows because by that point in the book, pekka had clearly aligned himself with Van Eck— a common enemy. and the whole thing was to be able to get their money back. inej hasn't been kidnapped, the crows haven't made the deal with pekka, and they missed the part where kaz started a whole plague. all of that happens before the son scene, and it all builds and builds. it's really the scene you think it's almost over, but then this happens. and that leads me to my next point
2. change of audience
in the books, it was just pekka, a couple of his men, inej and kaz. there were no other crows, and there was no audience. because kaz didn't need to humiliate rollins in front of everyone, he needed him destroyed, and for that destruction to be able to ruin his reputation and force him out of town. and, as per usual, i will make everything about kanej, but this is a key kanej scene towards the end. first of all, kaz only trusts inej to bring her with him when he's talking about what happened in his past because no way would he say that stuff in front of everyone. he's got a reputation to keep. he only brought inej, nina and jesper were not there. he trusts her, but it also shows that despite the whole two books, he would still do something "she would not forgive him [for]" inej gets to see how he has changed, but also how he still needed this vengeance- still needed to bring rollins down in his own way. inej gets to hear what happened, and how it goes out. it was so....intimate between these few people, and it had to be this way to hit. even the first part of six of crows is called "shadow business" and that's more or less how it ended with this scene
3. lack of outside factors/change of plot
this goes along with the lack of buildup, but this is what's going on at the same time. every other member of the crows has something else going on as and before this was happening. we don't get jesper's whole thing with the grisha on parem, we don't have kuwei seemingly "died." the chaos of the auction isn't there, it's not as much stuff. also not only immediate outside factor, but we're also missing a key point that they took out of the "bathroom scene" and put into this scene. kaz tells inej he's paid off her indenture in the bathroom scene, but in the show, he has pekka fix it because of the weird thing they did with inej's whole plot. it's weird, and it's out of character for him. especially by now, kaz has learnt and relearnt that you know she's his tell. it got her kidnapped at the end of six of crows, and it would have gone badly if he had done that in front of everyone instead of just them. the scene just falls flat. we also don't get to see how it parallels the very first scene with kaz when he threatens geels (i think that's his name?) with the whole killing his mistress thing, but it was a bluff. just like this.
tl;dr: you can't put a scene that's at the end of two books without even having done the plot of the first one.
when the insufferable “incapable of love” character starts to have genuine love & affection for someone makes me go feral every time
rwrb movie text posts p1
I've made too many of these
Just out here living my life constantly thinking about how Inej couldn’t stand being on the boat at the start of Six of Crows because it made her flashbacks so bad, but by the end of Crooked Kingdom she is sailing a boat to reclaim the power it has over her and to take vengeance in the name of herself and countless others.