#malina fanfic

[aphroditesmoon]

have you guys read or watched shadow and bone? would any of u be interested in Mal x Alina fanfics? book accurate versions mostly

#shadow and bone netflix #shadow and bone #grishaverse #malina #mal oretsev #malyen oretsev #mal x alina #mal oretsev x alina starkov #alina starkov #malina fanfic

[nuclearnik]

A Girl Worth Fighting For

Hi all! This little ditty was written for the lovely @galwithalibrarycard for the @malinalovebot​ birthday exchange!

Fandom: Grisha Trilogy & Shadow and Bone show

Pairing: Mal/Alina

Rating: T

Summary: His life is different from the moment he meets her. He just doesn't know it yet. 

The events of the Grisha Trilogy through Mal's eyes.

There is blood dripping from his lip the first time Mal notices her. Alonya or something, he thinks. She'd been at the orphanage a few days now but had kept to herself.

Not anymore. Now, she stands before him in rage that made her cheeks turn pink, knuckles already bruising from the punch she'd just given Martin, who held his nose as red spilled from it, no longer looking as big and scary as he had when he was shoving Mal's head into the stone wall in the garden just moments before.

The bully stomps away, and then it is only the two of them in the yard.

“I’m Alina.”

“Mal,” he says, scrubbing the back of his neck. “Uh, thanks. For that.”

She shrugs in response as if it was no big feat, like she punches nasty boys in the nose on a regular basis.

They sit at the base of a towering tree and watch the sun disappear behind the mountains, elbows just barely touching, and he feels at home for the first time in his life.

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When their time comes to join the First Army, he doesn't see her much. Too busy with his unit and his new friends, and the ever present pretty girls eager for a tumble.

But this particular night, with the news of his mission to search for the stag heavy in the air and the stars shining brightly above, he finds Alina on the lookout tower, legs tucked in beneath her.

She looks so small in the moonlight, barely a wisp of a girl.

His bones ache from a long day of marching as he lowers himself to sit beside her, leaning over just enough to nudge her shoulder with his own, waiting for the sweet smile she shoots at him immediately after. It makes something ache behind his breastbone.

When she tentatively rests her head on his shoulder, their sides pressed together, he tries to ignore the sense of rightness that courses through his veins, instead vowing to bottle this moment up and take it with him for the long, bitter cold nights out in the wilderness.

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Deep in the Petrazoi, on route to Tsibeya, warmth like Mal has never known washes over him as Alina extends her cupped hands towards him, the glow of her power bright in her palms.

Only a brief respite from the cold could be taken, and quickly he motions for her to snuff out the little ball of light she had summoned. Retreating to a log a few feet away, she is quiet, giving him space.

He'd seen the way she'd been looking at him when she thought he wouldn't notice, like something was missing. She's right. His chest is hollow, the ache in his heart his constant companion ever since Fjerda, since his choices got his friends killed. This now, being with Alina, all his focus narrowed in on finding the stag for her, gives him purpose.

She is luminous even in the pale, barely there moonlight, eyes bright and cheeks full, no longer pale and hollow, the healthiest he's ever seen her. Her time with the Grisha had changed her, for better and for worse, and he realizes he doesn’t know the girl sitting across from him, not really.

He does know this: he will not leave her side.

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#malina fic #mal x alina #grishaverse fanfic #malina fanfic #alina starkov #my writing

[daensan]

Rating: Mature Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions of Violence Category: Multi Fandom: Shadow and Bone (TV) Relationship: Nikolai Lantsov/Mal Oretsev/Alina Starkov Characters: Alina Starkov, Mal Oretsev, Nikolai Lantsov, General Kirigan (Shadow and Bone TV), Ivan (The Grisha Trilogy), Fedyor Kaminsky Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Criminals, Alternate Universe - Road Trip, Polyamory, Blood and Violence, Mentions of sexual abuse, Hurt/Comfort Chapters: 1/1 Words: 6,882

Alina never thought she would be able to let someone else into her life.

Mal always had one destination; now, he had two.

Nikolai was starting to realize that the ones who saved him would also be his ruin.

Alternatively: Alina and Mal are running away from their past when they find a battered and almost lifeless Nikolai on the streets. After saving his life, they convince him to join their escape plans, their hunt for revenge and, maybe, their bed too.

Notes:

Some considerations:

This fic was inspired by the song "From Eden" by Hozier. Feel free to listen to it during your reading.

If you have any kind of sympathy for Kirigan/Darkling, this fic probably isn't for you. Be warned.

Although there isn't graphic depictions of sexual abuse, it comes very close and it's widly mentioned through the fic. Read at your own discretion.

This is supposed to happen in a modern day version of Leigh Bardugo's universe, but it's not explored at lenght, so just have in mind it's in a modern setting.

This is only my second work in English, since it's not my first language, so please be kind.

#grishaverse #grishaverse fanfic #malkolina #malkolina fanfic #mal x alina x nikolai fanfic #alina starkov fanfic #mal oretsev fanfic #nikolai lantsov fanfic #malina #malina fanfic #nikolina #nikolina fanfic #malkolai #malkolai fanfic #shadow and bone fanfic #shadow and bone #my fanfiction

[thechaoticrow]

for people who haven’t read the shadow and bone/ six of crows books, but have seen the show:

- inej ghafa is a survivor of childhood sex trafficking. she has ptsd and reacts in a panic attack at even walking past the menagerie

- kaz’s trauma isn’t just pekka rollins being responsible for jordie’s death, and waking up on the barge. he had to swim to shore, age nine and barely alive, using jordie’s body as a float

- the darkling has done far worse things than are shown on screen. he is not a ‘lost man’ and alina is not his ‘balance’

- alina was seventeen upon the darkling being nsfw/ romantic with her

- matthias helvar did not lead drüskelle, that was jarl brum- matthias is only just barely an adult himself

- the crows are not their own separate gang, they are part of the dregs, who per haskell leads and kaz takes over from haskell after haskell sold out his lieutenant (kaz) to pekka rollins

- zoya, genya, and alina have personalities outside of either being traumatised or hating each other

- alina never wanted any of the power and fame and idolatry, and in the end of the books is stripped of it all. she is very happy about this

- jesper is a gambling addict and somebody who watched the death of his mother

#feel free to add your own #yes i get that the show is to be treated as a fanfic #but it is at times a poorly written fanfic #that erases and ignores major parts of the characters’ backstories #and what makes them them #six of crows #grishaverse #shadow and bone #shadow and bone season two #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #alina starkov #malina #god i hate darklina #darklina hate space #jesper fahey #nina zenik #matthias helvar #wylan hendriks

[wh0refornikolailantsov]

Compass Of Pirates - Nikolai Lantsov

Summary: Nikolai is given a compass that he was told would solve all his problems, and yet he cannot figure out why it doesn't seem to work. Yes, I am merging with Pirates Of The Caribbean because I fucking can.

Content Warnings: No Beta/Proof Reading.

Nikolai Taglist: @hauntedenthusiasttragedy

The brass points across the centre of the compass are centred by a sundial, which as far as Sturmhond can tell is the most functional part of the compass. He holds the compass in the clutch of his palm, staring at the red arrow as it gently swings between two points, neither of which are north. He had picked it up from someone in one of the markets in the last port they docked in. It was this rocky, mountainous island, just off the northern coast of the mainland. The name of the port escapes the captains mind, but it was some fishing port with a name not unlike a weapon of some kind. But that isn't really important, what is important is the illusion of help this compass had been acquired under. "It will bring you to what you most desire," they had said, "the compass never leads you wrong." He had been dubious but nevertheless he has hope he isn't sure he has a right to, and yet he was finding the outcome very disappointing.

"This thing doesn't even point north," Sturmhond says, staring again at the compass in his hand. Mal shrugs, offering out his open hand.

"May I?" he asks. He hands it over, without pause and the dial spins to quickly into a new direction the moment it touches Mal's palm. Mal watches the dial and follows it's direction. He knows exactly what the privateer has observed, that this compass does not point north, but instead it is now pointing at Alina, who is leaning over the edge of the ship, staring at the way the waves are breaking onto the boats side, creating the white foam of sea spray and she is smiling like she has never seen the ocean before. "Oh, Sturmhond," Mal says, "it points north alright," he chuckles, "true north."

The Captain frowns. "True north?" he questions, staring the tracker down. "What kind of navigational system are you working on Oretsev?"

"The only one that hasn't ever lead me wrong," he hands the compass back to Sturmhond and the moment it enters his hand it changes direction back to where it had been previously pointing. Mal taps the fabric of his shirt, directly over his heart. "I told Alina about true north once, she asked me what scared me most, and I told her I get the most scared when I am lost, but I don't really get lost. Yet, getting lost happens even if you know where you are sometimes. So I told her about cardinal north and true north."

"Cardinal north is a direction on a map," Sturmhond says. Mal nods, not letting his eyes leave the Sun Summoner. "So, as for true north?"

"True north is home," Mal says, sounding more like a poet than a tracker, "it is where you feel safe and loved."

"Miss Starkov is your truth north," Sturmhond says with a nod. Mal doesn't even need to respond to that. "So you think this compass points to what exactly?"

"Whatever you most desire, that's what the translation says on the side isn't it?" Mal says, finally looking at him. "You did see that, didn't you? Since you're always six steps ahead of everything, and ever so flawless Captain?"

He is too eager to test the theory to even care about Mal's teasing of him. He just thanks him absentmindedly and follows the compass forward. "Don't walk off the edge of the ship," Mal calls after him, "or do..."

He spends a good while walking the length of the decking, trying to figure out why the dial spins into a change of direction, seemingly without link. "Maybe you don't know what you want," Mal teases, observing him.

"Doesn't this interest you?" Sturmhond asks, running a hand through his tousled hair.

Mal shrugs. "What use is a compass what would be pointing right beside me all of the time?" he asks. "Besides my heart always brings me back to her."

"You're good with your words when it suits you, aren't you?" Tamar asks, coming to stand beside Mal, bored of her card game and far more interested in whatever it is that has gotten the Captain all pacing and flustered. "Still staring at the broken compass?"

"It's not broken," Mal says, "it's just not helpful."

"A compass's only purpose is to point north, and it doesn't, so it's broken," Tamar argues.

"It's a heart compass, not a compass," Mal says. The Heartrender laughs.

"Those are legend," she says, taking some walnuts from her pocket to snack on. She offers him one and he shakes his head to dismiss the offer.

"Wasn't the Stag legend too?" Mal retorts. Tamar gives him a shrug.

"That means nothing of all legend," is her response, but she keeps watching Sturmhond.

"It doesn't even make sense," he says finally holding the compass up and above his head to see how the dial moves. "It's not pointing to anything, I thought it might've been pointing to Ravka but I was wrong."

"You're suggesting your truest love is a country?" Mal asks, "what kind of excessive patriotism is that?"

"You're not patriotic?" Tamar asks, her tone littered with laughter.

"No," he admits, not feeling pulled down by the admission, "I came here for Alina. She's my flag, my nation, she is the one thing I remain loyal to."

Tamar's question was to sway Mal from paying too much attention to the captains words, but he doesn't throw her a look of gratitude, instead he returns to his fixation on the compass, as it spins to point towards the ships bow. Some of the crew start to appear on deck, changing placement as the time passes, and Tolya walks beside you, as you tell him something out of their earshot.

He takes his eyes off the compass, staring directly at you, forgetting what his original intentions had been, he offers you a smile and you grin back, all teeth and cheer. Even after the days at sea nothing seemed to sway your mood.

Tamar elbows Mal in the side and before her can take issue with it, she nods his attention to Sturmhond, who has lost interest in the compass altogether in your presence.

"Got it working yet?" you ask, coming closer to the three of them Tolya by your side.

"Think it might be a lost cause," the privateer admits, holding the compass down and to his side, as if to hide it's direction from those around you.

"Come on, Captain, plenty have said that about broken things, but often you just need time or the right pair of hands," you say, "show me?"

He hesitates and Mal and Tamar share a look, a look that spreads into matching grins. "Oh, he is not as smart as he gives himself credit for," Mal says in hushed words.

"Most of the time he is, but any heart can get blind sighted, and when the heart is blind, the mind can fog," Tamar says, voice equally low.

You look at him and he is smiling at you like you're a sunrise, like he is seeing you for the first time, and you wonder how he always manages to look at you like this. Look at you in a way that makes your head spin and your stomach twist. You know Sturmhond, and you know the man can flirt like second nature, that no one you've yet to meet have been susceptible to his charms, so you try not to let go to your head. But that's not easy when he looks at you like he has just discovered what love is for the very first time.

He holds out the compass out and you look at it, not reaching to take it from his hands, you move around to his perspective for the dial to swing back in your direction. You lean around him, to get a better look and then stare out at the ocean. But he just watches you, not as much are daring to confirm what he suspects by glancing to the compass.

You move back in front of him, and the dial points to you, and you turn your head to look at the big blue expanse behind. "Compass doesn't know north that's for sure," you say, giving him a wild smile and a shrug. "But I guess it's no better than most of us in that."

"It doesn't know north," he agrees, shoving the compass back in his pocket, "but it seems to know things I should have before now."

"Hmm?" you ask, turning back to him from the waves.

"Nothing, now, tell me, what was so funny?"

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #nikolai lantsov #nikolai lantsov fanfic #nikolai lanstov x reader #nikolai x you #nikolai x reader #malina #alina x mal #tamar kir bataar #sturmhond x reader #sturmhond x you #sturmhond #tolya my darling i adore you

[smartylina]

Dear Readers!

I found such a shocking story!

You know Kuzco gets quite a few interesting fanfictions right?

Well

the one I saw was about him

Romancing a Spanish girl...

And to think he got super mad around Ramon 🤨

The audacity!!

#malina #Not feeling jealous whatsoever #the emperor's new school #fanfic #the fic is The Spanish Princess #It's on AO3 #It's worth reading tho #I'm not the writer. I'm just the reporter #kuzco

[ketterdam-it]

my first attempt at fanart!! a little Kaz piece for a fic I’m working on :))

#kaz brekker #shadow and bone #six of crows #soc #kaz #inej ghafa #kaz x inej #fanfic #my darling inej #kanej #jesper fahey #nina zenik #wesper #crooked kingdom #wylan van eck #helnik #leigh bardugo #malina #the darkling #alina starkov #six of crows fandom #incorrect six of crows #soc fanart #six or crows fanart #leigh bargudo #shadow and bone netflix #mattias helvar #kaz fanart

[milo-my-beloved]

Shadow and Bone Prompt Week

6-12th March 2023

Mark your calendars, Grisha, because Shadow and Bone week is coming!

To celebrate the release of s2 of Shadow and Bone, I'll be running a prompt event the week before it comes out!

To take part, all you have to do is create something based off that day's prompt and post it on Tumblr. Whether it's art, fic, or something else entirely, please feel free to tag me in it so I can see what you've created! I'll also be tracking the tag #sabpromptweek2023 if you'd like to see other people's contributions.

I've designed the prompts to be as vague as possible so that people from every corner of the fandom can get involved. If you're struggling for ideas, I've put some suggestions below!

Day One: The Little Palace - perhaps something set there, or involving Grisha who grew up there!

Day Two: The Crows - maybe they're pulling off another heist or perhaps they're interacting with characters they haven't met in the books/show yet... you decide!

Day Three: Magic - if you're interested in the magic system or the new wave of saints from the Nikolai duology, this is the perfect prompt for you!

Day Four: Your Favourite Ship - whether it be a popular ship, like kanej (my personal favourite) or one no one has heard of, I'd love to see some ~romance~ for today's prompt!

Day Five: Villains - there are plenty of villains across the Grishaverse, so whether you choose to create something about the Darkling, Pekka Rollins, or a new threat that your favourite characters might face, I can't wait to see it!

Day Six: Underrated Characters - there's always someone that's forgotten by the fandom, but now's your chance to give them some much deserved attention!

Day Seven: Up To You!

I hope everyone has fun, and if you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with me so I can clear them up!

@ragingbyesexual, @number-0-iz, @milkywayjj

#shadow and bone #six of crows #grishaverse #prompt week #lina lore #sab #soc #kanej #wesper #malina #fanfic #art #sabpromptweek2023

[zaenight]

Masterlist pt 2

Ain't your mama // Esai alvarez (prequal to mama didn't raise no bitches)Soa

act 1

ch1

ch2

ch3

Silent promises // Ez Reyes(mayans mc)

STAND BY YOU// RAUL GARCIA(cw the messengers

#fanfic #wattpad #original character #jd pardo #j.d pardo #ez reyes #mayans mc fic #mayans #mayans mc fanfiction #esaialvarez #kevin alejandro #temperance brennan #bonestv #bones #zooey deschanel #emily galindo #emily deschanel #chibs sons of anarchy #sons of anarchy fanfiction #allison argent #crystal reed #happy lowman #marcus alvarez #jax teller #gemma teller #malina weissman

[sissytobitch10seconds]

Yellow and Orange Make You

Fandom: Grishaverse: The Grisha Trilogy and Shadow and Bone (TV) Summary: Every day, the girl sits in the meadow and watches the sky be painted. Every day, the boy finds her and sits by her side. Warnings: Mentions of orphaning Word Count: 1,003 Ship(s): Mal Oretsev/Alina Starkov

Archive link!

Mal stepped through the line along with all of the other boys from his dormitory. He loaded up a single piece of toast onto both of the plates that were balanced precariously on his hand. He then stole an extra sausage and slipped it under the bread of the second one without a single person noticing. He ducked his head and hurried towards the other side of the table so that he could get a spoonful of eggs when he noticed one of the meaner boys heading towards him with a scowl.

Once both of the plates were full, he made his way towards the door. If he hadn’t already almost gotten caught by one of their bullies, he would have tried to bring out two cups of tea as well. The last time that he had tried that, he had spilled the near scalding liquid all the way down the front of his shirt and had spent an agonizing hour trying to wring it out before anyone noticed.

The door opened when he pried it open with the side of his foot and then closed, joining with the clatter of silverware and voices as the other children ate their breakfast. Mal was overwhelmed with the sounds and feelings of the outside, of finally being away from the stifling indoors that he spent most of his time in. He could hear the swaying of the grass in the breeze, the echoing of critters in the woods that surrounding the estate, and most of all he could feel the breath of life that came with the wilderness. 

He walked carefully down the little stone path to the opening that led into the surrounding meadows and fields. The place that he was going to was just west of a cluster of aspen trees, before the creak and the willows with their long dancing branches. He saw Alina sitting with her back up against one of the massive trees, her head tilted up towards the massive sky that roofed them. 

Mal felt like his breath had been stolen from his lungs when he got a good look at her. She was wearing the plain peasant dress that all of the girls wore, a white undertunic and a red overdress that she basically swam in. Her long black hair was loose down her back and cascading over her shoulders so that it tickled the tips of her hands where they were resting in her lap. For a brief moment, he thought that he saw a flash in her rich brown eyes so that they were burning white and her hair perfectly matched them in color and vibrancy, but he couldn’t imagine her face with any wrinkles.

He shook himself from his thoughts and then finished the last of the journey over to her. “Hey,” he greeted as he sat down next to her. He placed one of the plates onto his lap and then handed her the one that had a little bit of extra food.

“Thank you,” she gasped when she saw what he had done for her. She always acted like she was surprised when he brought her food or made sure that she had slept the night before, he didn’t quite understand it but was eager to accept it nonetheless.

They began to munch on their breakfasts as they watched the shifting and changing of the sky. It was edging towards winter, the air around them almost too cold for them to exist in but no snow had fallen yet. That meant that the sun rose after them and they were able to eat while they watched instead of returning back to the house so they could get their morning meal. A handful of toddlers had arrived at Keramzin the other day and Ana Kuya had her hands full with them. Mal and Alina were only ten, just barely too young to help with the rearing of the children but old enough that they were expected to do as they were told. They weren’t friends with any of the other orphans so they were allowed to wander about as they pleased.

“Why do you like the sunrise so much?” Mal asked as he set his cleaned plate off to the side. Alina had only eaten about half a piece of toast and the extra sausage patty that he had stolen for her. He wished that there was a way for him to find a solution to whatever plagued her so that he could cure all her ailments. For now, all he could do was sit with her.

“Just look at it,” Alina shrugged. She pointed up towards the horizon, which was striped with golds and pinks in a beautiful array. The searing bright yellow of the sun itself was only barely beginning to spike over the high treetops of the forest around them.

“Because it’s pretty?” Mal asked. He wanted to know everything that he could about Alina. He wanted to hold her secrets in his hands, meld their hearts into one. She had always been by his side and though he could still vaguely remember a time when she wasn’t, he never wanted to live like that again. Something, the same thing that let him procure animal markings out of the world that were invisible to others, told him that they would be together for a while longer at least.

“Just look,” she giggled. She didn’t let go of his hand, instead threading their fingers together before she snuck the rest of her toast onto his plate. He didn’t say anything about it, just stared at the sky while he chewed on the burned bread. He’d understand it eventually, he would do anything for her. He knew that he looked at Alina like she was the sunrise without being told that he did. He let himself look at her, worship the ways that the hues of the coming morning bounced off of her, because he knew that her attention was always tilted heavenward.

#fanfiction #fanfic #writing #ao3 #archive of our own #shadow and bone #the grisha triology #sab #grishaverse #save shadow and bone ship week #malina #mal x alina #alina x mal #mal oretsev #alina starkov #save shadow and bone #six of crows spinoff

[ravenyenn19]

Celebratory One-Shots: ‘A Crow’s Treasure Trove: Grishaverse One-Shot Collection”

I’m excited to announce the beginning of a new one-shot collection on ao3! These are the requests I received when opening my ask box to celebrate ���Dealing With Our Demons” reaching the 750k reads milestone! 🥹 (thank you again, I’d blubber forever but this post is supposed to be informational)

ANYWAYS. These will all be of varying length/AU/pairing/relationship style. This is based off what was requested but also what I saw in the prompt! A quick disclaimer!: if your prompt receives a shorter chapter, please know it is not a dislike of the prompt in comparison to another. I really tried to write what I first thought of with these & some are longer, some shorter. I just hope you love them! 🫶🏻

Thank you again, dear readers.🖤

#six of crows #kanej #kaz brekker #crooked kingdom #inej ghafa #shadow and bone #grishaverse #kaz x inej #soc #leigh bardugo #dealing with our demons #six of crows fanfic #dwod #malina #helnik #wesper #one shot #jesper fahey #wylan van eck

[daughterofthebitch]

𝖳𝖧𝖤𝖸 𝖣𝖮𝖭'𝖳 𝖪𝖭𝖮𝖶 𝖠𝖡𝖮𝖴𝖳 𝖴𝖲 — Charlie Bushnell fanfic (parts of instagram and chat au)

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INTRODUCING THE PROTAGONISTS:

Malina Weissman as Antonella C. LaRue

Twenty | 2004 | Actress | Brazilian 🇧🇷

Tangled (voice actress) | Into The Woods| Once Upon a Time | Cruella | Sandman | Percy Jackson & The Olympians

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Charlie Bushnell as himself

Nineteen | 2004 | Actor | American

Je Suis Ici | Diary Of a Future President | Percy Jackson & The Olympians

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Hi darlings, it's my first time posting here and I'm about to start posting a fanfic about the boy who steals our hearts. I'm sorry if my English isn't 100% perfect and feel free to correct me.

The story will take place in 2024, initially during the recording of the second season of Sandman. Will alternate between written stories, Instagram and chats.

I hope you like it, if you want me to tag you in the chapters just comment here. Do you want some spoilers of what's to come?

#luke castellan x y/n #charlie bushnell #charlie bushnell x reader #luke castellan #pjo #pjo series #pjo fanfic #percy jackson #percy jackson fanfiction #Charlie bushnell fanfic #percy jackon and the olympians #luke castellan x reader #instagram au

[grimbanes]

honestly I didn’t mind the plot deviations in shadow and bone season 2 because I was just having so much fun “AHA-ing” and watching my crows be themselves. it was like watching one big angsty fanfic that gave me heart palpitations. wesper. kanej. helnik. MORE IMPORTANTLY; kaz and nina fake marriage?? kaz deciding nina is a crow after one job?? nina putting kaz in his place when he isn’t around, nina telling kaz the truth??? I actually love that we got to see more of one of my favourite duos??? my frenemies <33333 anyway idc how much other book readers didn’t like it, it’s a fun little fever dream i will rewatch another eight times

(my one gripe is that malina have too many heart to hearts in private rooms about the same stuff constantly and it had me throwing popcorn at the screen demanding for my crows)

#shadow and bone netflix #shadow and bone season 2 #kaz brekker #jesper fahey #wesper #helnik #kanej #six of crows #nina zenik #matthias helvar #wylan van eck

[kallypsowrites]

Shadow and Bone season 2 is a string of scenes that might be intriguing as one shots of a fanfic, or might be direct adaptations of single scenes, but the surrounding context either does not support the scenes at best and absolutely ruins the scenes at worst.

If the show is viewed in gifsets of the conversations, a casual viewer might get excited. There are direct lines from the books! There are scenes from the books! There are lovely little shipping moments. But if you actually watch these things in order, adding in the absolutely garbage pacing of the show and you realize that most of these moments are just forced into the narrative for reasons of hollow fan service, they kind of lose their meaning.

There are lots of classic Darklina lines from the books, for instance. But all of the emotional complexity is gone.

There are lots of Kanej moments, but they’re from Crooked Kingdom, which means they are happening WAY too early.

There are lots of Wesper moments, which are of course adorable, but it means there’s very little direction for their dynamic to go in the spinoff and will probably involve creating shallow conflict for the sake of drama

There are Helnik moments, but Matthias really has NO reason to be in the show at all.

There are lots of Malina moments, but the pacing of their relationship is such that it feels like an after thought at best and forced at worst. Like the writers suddenly remembered: ‘oh right, they’re supposed to kiss...ah, well, lets just throw that into the first episode, that’s a normal time to have a romantic relationship begin’.

Kaz’s confrontation with Pekka Rollins is great until you realize that his main emotional arc has already been explored and nearly resolved before the Crows spinoff. Inej’s emotional arc is removed completely as not only she is robbed of a confrontation with Tante Heleen, but also doesn’t seem to have any aversion to romantic touch. Her trauma is just...completely deleted.

Jesper is a grisha! And he has already accepted and embraced it in this show, so he can’t have that arc in the spinoff.

Matthias, Nina and Wylan still have lots of stuff left, but you’ve basically spedrun the arcs of half the Crows.

And while the Crows have some good moments but in the wrong place, the actual shadow and bone characters are absolutely decimated. Alina is given ‘girl boss anger’ because the writers think that means agency. Mal has practically nothing to do accept die. The Darkling has all pathos and care for saving/protecting Grisha removed in favor of making him a one-dimensional evil guy so that the characters can be justified in fighting him. Zoya has no purpose at all and could be removed from the story.

Nikolai might come off the best writing wise but even he is given the character inconsistency of working with the Crows to justify their actions in the previous season.

There are a lot of things to talk about in how bad this season is. But ultimately, its that the whole is SO much less than the sum of its parts. The cast is incredible and they make a lot of terrible lines work as well as they can. But add it all together and you get a terrible mess.

#shadow and bone #shadow and bone season 2 #anti shadow and bone #anti s&b #s&b season 2 #s&b spoilers #shadow and bone spoilers

[metvmorqhoses]

So... thoughts about sab season 2 lmao

The writers were obviously on acids while concocting this high drivel.

It's a new fantasy genre they just founded with this season, you know, High Drivel.

They completely butchered the Darkling's character and I had to painfully witness ten hours of Ben, completely conscious of it, trying to conjure every Beauty and the Beast refrain to delay the Titanic-like sinking of his character and ship (from Phantom and Love Never Dies, to Dracula and Frankenstein to literal fanfictions I'm now sure he reads).

They completely missed the entire point and meaning of Darklina, making it a one-sided, one-dimensional stalker/simp-victim with angry Stokolm syndrome dynamic.

They threw famous line after famous line at us completely out of context as if they were bones to bait rabid dogs with (I will never forgive how they turned the sardonic "I'll make sure you hear when I make her scream", elegant half-threat and half-innuendo, into an angry madman growl with no meaning whatsoever).

"Let me be your monster!" - my children, you have read too many fanfics and not even the good ones.

Don't get me started with Baghra, the relationship counsellor and motherly hero (tm).

The shameless way they painted Aleksander taking possession of the stag amplifier as an assault metaphor. Disgusting.

I honestly didn't believe possible to do worse than the actual books, but never say never! The reasons why I hated the books were magnified this season. If Alina's reasoning and idiocy and lack of interest in her destiny and counterpart just did not make any sense in the books, in the show she is a thousand times dumber and one-dimensional! Put against this new version, books!Alina was depth personified! And if the books felt like rushed unelaborated summaries, the show is now an even worse mess! I cannot believe those are the same people who created season one. I'm astonished.

They eradicated the entirety of canon Darklina's scenes. Not a single one was present. Not one.

The tether is now for everyone to use and abuse, not only a personal soulmate thing. The Darkling is in Mal's dreams too lmao

Merzost suddenly killing the Darkling, of course. Obviously not to make Alina appear less of a cold-blooded murderer, not at all. Perhaps they should have remembered to make her fake a tear or two while burning the corpse of her ex-lover looking like a dumb emotionless fish.

Genya reduced to the victim (tm).

Nikolai the good woke boy (tm).

Nikolai giving up the Sturmhond title to the first tracker he meets, of course.

I loved how after ten hours of soppy eternal love declarations Mal dumps Alina because their love isn't real lol epic stuff.

And by the way this is still considered more valid and important than the relationship with the poor bastard who actually allowed the dumb angry fish to end him while daydreaming about her, his only peace in a thousand lifetimes of war.

Alina turning dark gives me a feeble hope, but the writers should come down from whatever drug they are currently using first.

Said hope involves the fact that they extinguished both Malina and the hatred towards the Darkling this season, and I like to think they did that to give us the proper dynamic with dark!Alina and the Nikolai's duology resurrected Darkling. But who knows if they will see reason.

#shadow and bone #shadow and bone s2 #the darkling #darklina #i won't be polite and tag anti things because malina stans never do #the grisha trilogy #anon #asks/replies #one and one thousand stories lis told #sab spoilers

[crimeronan]

i think a mal/alina/nikolai/zoya dynamic that starts off with established malina and alina/nikolai in a friendly but loveless political marriage and alina/zoya as recently-reconciled frenemies that then evolves into the four of them being in the horniest most insane handsy secret pseudo-toxic-but-also-really-cute polycule of all time is like. Peak Cinema. gonna end up writing fanfic i swear to christ. Please God,

#i don't think the show will do as much with the premise as i polyamorous kitkat (read like spiders georg) want but #fucking. imagine. think about it #mal/nikolai and zoya/alina already HAD a LOT of canon textual support in the books. LETS GO #i promise for everything the show makes canon i will make it more complicated and weird #grishaverse #shadow and bone #shadow and bone spoilers #extended polycule with genya david and literally all of the crows as well. let's go #rafi drew a giant complex polycule chart containing all of them last night