#r f kuang

[feluart]

Back when studying at Sinegard and competing against a spoiled cry baby brat were the hardest parts of life 🥹

#tpw #the poppy war #the poppy war fanart #the dragon republic #the burning god #fang runin #chen kitay #rinkitay #character art #character illustration #fan art #tpw fanart #r f kuang

[essayisms]

No one was kidding when they said how good this book is - and Fantasy really isn't my usual genre. I had no plans on buying it just before visiting Oxford but I picked it up in a bookshop I hadn't planned on going to before I left and haven't put it back down.

#journal #babel #r f kuang #books #booklr #bookblr #litblr #oxford #oxford university #studyblr #english literature #dark academia #light academia

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

textposts that remind me of the poppy war:

#the poppy war #r f kuang #r. f. kuang #the dragon republic #the burning god #fang runin #chen kitay #yin nezha #altan trengsin #chaghan suren #su daji #yin riga #jiang ziya

[pipsaura]

something about rin being betrayed by everyone in her life and in her final moments turning against the only person who would never betray her because that’s all she’s ever known (they make me go insane)

#fang runin #the poppy war #r f kuang #the dragon republic #the burning god #chen kitay #rinkitay #tpw #tpw trilogy #rf kuang #tpw spoilers #the poppy war spoilers

[a-feller]

got gaybaited hard by that one scene really near the start of the book

Except now I realise it wasn't bait. It was a lost oppurtunity taken partially by western imperialism and colonialism. It was something perfect that was never meant to be and could never be. This is angsty in the worst way.

#babel #r f kuang #robin swift #ramy mirza #gay #ramiz rafi mirza #babel an arcane history #the necessity of violence

[artsychanel]

my favs. reading book 2 and i'm absolutely terrified for all of them. please send thoughts and prayers for my sanity as i move forward what are they called? the fruity four? the altan fan club? the altan hate club? idk

#the poppy war #the dragon republic #fang runin #chen kitay #yin nezha #r f kuang #if anything happens to them i will kms #don't spoil it thank you <3

[annie-handholder]

trying to cope with the dragon republic ending 🥲👍

#my art #rinezha #rinzha #the poppy war #the dragon republic #r f kuang #fang runin #yin nezha

[learnelle]

Day Two - The last book I finished is Babel. Without a doubt, it’s the most important dark academia book to read if you are interested in this genre. The criticism, the setting, the characters and the whole book is just phenomenally done. While reading it I was just completely in awe that one singular person wrote this book. Like, in a YEAR. I’m manifesting a Victoire sequel or a Griffin prequel 🕯

#none of these pictures are mine! just a moodboard of this book ☺️ #tranquilfallbuddies #dark academia #darkest academia #grey academia #witchblr #bookblr #books & libraries #books and reading #booksbooksbooks #Babel #r f kuang

[sunscreenstudies]

-> my bookstagram

#bookblr #bookstagram #yellowface #rebecca f kuang #r f kuang

[blackthornarchives]

altan trengsin the man you are

#altan trengsin #bookblr #the poppy war fanart #digital art #poppy war #art #character art #creative writing #booktok #fanart #r f kuang #the poppy war #rinezha #rin fanart #fang runin #yin nezha #sring venka #chen kitay #the dragon republic #the burning god #chaghan suren #artists on tumblr #artblr #writeblr #tpw trilogy #tpw

[larc-en-punk]

finally finished reading the poppy war trilogy and i have WAY too many things to say about it, but first let me shed light on one of the mysteries regarding altan's death (because as the last speerly, a legend itself, he remained a mystery to everyone even in death) and why chaghan couldn't find any trace of his soul after passing: it can clearly be linked to how his soul was connected to rin's, as the last two speerlies even their wills became alike (or at least altan made sure to mold rin's will like his), altan's soul was coexisting in rin's body, in rin's mind; chaghan couldn't find any trace of his soul because only after rin's death he would finally be free from any "speerly rage", because there would be no speerly left to pass on what the genocide of their nation truly meant to them.

but, while reaching this conclusion, i also had the realization that altan's soul was actually scattered among everyone. everyone had a little bit of altan in the end, right? rin gained his rage, suni gained his empathy, chaghan gained what we could call somewhat love.

altan's soul became part of rin's, yes, but it was also shared among everyone. therefore, in the end, he did not have anything to himself just like what he had learnt during all his life.

#altan trengsin #i actually cried i love altan #the poppy war #the burning god #the dragon republic #tpw trilogy #tpw spoilers #r f kuang

[xueyuverse]

Even though I love Nezha and ship him with Rin, I don't see him being someone Rin needs or would love, so much so that she didn't love him for a long time anyway.

His mind was always very closed, he was never able to see the world beyond his father's eyes, or was unable to believe that there could be a world beyond what his father believed.

And Rin, being a war orphan who grew up in a small town and with dark skin, knows that the world under the vision and control of people like Yin Vaisra didn't contemplate people like her.

While Rin was alive, Nezha was not able to see a world that worked through Rin's vision, because Rin being alive meant the eternal risk of more and more wars because of the Hesperians, and he preferred false peace through Hesperian colonization than the rebellion for the independence of a sovereign country that embraced people like Rin.

Nezha loved Rin so much, but she wasn't enough and Rin knew it. She knew that as long as she was alive, not even Nezha, who was once her friend/ally, would give her peace. She knew that she would not be a good ruler, so she accepted that, after destroying the entire greatest force that would make Hisperia sovereign over Nikara, the best option to rule Nikara was Nezha.

Unfortunately, Nezha was too cowardly, his mind was too closed, his racist views were still too strong, his belief in Rin was too weak.

Imagine what it would have been like if he had believed in Rin and stayed by his side, I highly doubt Hisperia would have had any chance of winning, no matter how hard they kept trying.

#the poppy war #the poppy war trilogy #tpw #tpw trilogy #yin nezha #fang runin #yin vaisra #r f kuang

[pipsaura]

forever thinking about that one scene in the dragon republic when rin tries out the wings kitay made for her and they’re just so happy and when she comes down she shouts move! but he just grabs her wrist and swings them around until they collapse in a tangled laughing heap of leather and silk and limbs and she says “i love you” and kitay gives her a tired smile “i know”

#fang runin #chen kitay #rinkitay #the poppy war #the dragon republic #i love them so much #platonic soulmates #r f kuang #the burning god #tpw #books #tpw spoilers #tpw trilogy

[adorablecrab]

R. F. Kuang. (2022). ‘Babel’, 108 | Mcelroy, Justin. (2022) ‘My Brother, My Brother and Me’ episode 624

#the tower of babel #mbmbam #my brother my brother and me #r f kuang #babel or the necessity of violence #obsessed with this sentiment #mine

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#babel #r f kuang #fantasy #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls #contender for longest title on here?

[dark-giver]

Oh, boy, now I understand why ,,It ends with us" and ,, Shatter me" have taken over booktok - booktokers will never be able to recover mentally if they read books like ,, Ninth house", ,,The poppy war" and ,,Red rising".

#not recommended for the faint of heart #booktok #ninth house #the poppy war #red rising #alex stern #fang runin #darrow au andromedus #leigh bardugo #r f kuang #pierce brown #shatter me #it ends with us #war crimes #betrayal #only pain #quality YA books #ya books #if they were as massive as “Shatter Me” there would be complete anarchy