#the dragon republic

[sweeetsh]

alphonse mucha paraphrase

mucha’s is partially about cultural pride, which i found to be fitting for rin. rin had to represent a culture she never knew, she never had any connections to speer outside of what altan told her, what she was showed through the phoenix, and through text books (which were horrendously racist for sure), which gave her a very limited understanding of speer and speerly culture. yet, despite not knowing speerly culture, she became its face. so in my paraphrase she’s wearing a hanfu (traditional chinese clothing = nikara) instead of the clothing that tearza is wearing in the background (inspired by traditional taiwanese clothing = speerly) to simply show her discontent from the culture she’s supposed to represent. this is also why the necklace she is wearing is breaking.

#the poppy war #fang runin #the dragon republic #the burning god #my art #mairinnen tearza #altan trengsin #the patterns are inspired by different taiwanese tribes #the halo is there because it’s pretty and i like it #rin my baby :((( you deserved better

[polartss]

what murdaaaaaa

posting this Rin here bc a kind soul in my asks reminded me I hadn't :)

#my art #digital illustration #digital art #rf kuang #the poppy war fanart #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #fang runin #rin tpw #tpw #yin nezha #chen kitay

[dcvina-claires]

they’re enemies. they’re best friends. they’re lovers. they’ve tried to kill each other on multiple occasions. they’re partners in crime. they are at war with each other. they’re each other’s greatest fear and biggest comfort. i didn’t say their name but they popped into your head, didn’t they?

#six of crows #crooked kingdom #grishaverse #nina zenik #matthias helvar #helnik #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #fang runin #yin nezha #rinezha #legacies #hope mikaelson #lizzie saltzman #hizzie #killing eve #eve polastri #villanelle #villaneve #vicious #vengeful #villains duology #eli ever #victor vale #evervale #the atlas six #callum nova #tristan caine #novacaine

[silvermarig0lds]

“Fight well. Keep us safe. I love you.” 😭😭😭

These platonic soulmates have my whole heart omg

#the poppy war #tpw #tpw fanart #tdr #tbg #the burning god #the dragon republic #fang runin #chen kitay #rin and kitay #kitay #rin #rinkitay #rf kuang #my art

[nope-nora]

the struggle to love

R.F Kuang, The Dragon Republic (deleted scene) | Sleeping at Last, “Neptune” | Richard Siken, War of the Foxes | Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life | Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath | Franz Kafka, Diaries (1910-1923) | Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red | Richard Siken, “Wishbone”

#rf kuang #the dragon republic #the poppy wars #sleeping at last #richard siken #war of the foxes #clarice lispector #sylvia plath #franz kafka #kafka #jeanette winterson #gabrielle zevin #tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow #anne carson #autobiography of red #wishbone #crush #quotes #words #web weaving #love #lovecore

[cikebabbler]

absolutely genius of rf kuang to elaborate on virtually nothing about speer's culture. the only things said about speer are "speerlies are mindless savages" and "speerlies are most definitely not mindless savages". there are no deep dives, no explanations of their way of life, nothing beyond the glimpses that disproves nikan's belief that they are nothing but a violent group. we saw that they had leaders that cared about their people and children. we saw that they are people who found joy in life. but that's really not much.

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.

we will never learn most of speer's culture and history and that was the point.

#the poppy war trilogy #the poppy war trilogy spoilers #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god spoilers #the burning god #rf kuang #fang runin #altan trengsin #speer

[feluart]

A moment of peace and quiet before everything went looney tunes

#the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #fang runin #rin #tpw #tpw fanart #the poppy war fanart #rf kuang #babel

[zaiofender]

um. um. quick rinezha as that one scene from princess mononoke

#the poppy war #fang runin #yin nezha #the dragon republic #the burning god #i know this isn’t my target audience #but poppy war fans #where are u #come here #pspspsppss 🪤 #rinezha #zai’s art

[ksoxyl]

i mourn the history that left with Rin’s last breath.

— no one will remember her as the girl who passed the Keju with only two years of studying under her belt

— no one will remember her as the girl who punched the Dragon Warlords son or the girl who defeated the Dragon Warlords son in the trials and won

— no one will remember her as the girl crazy enough to pledge to lore

— no one will remember her as the girl who had to endure torture in a Mugenese lab

— no one will remember her as the girl who gave the “broken” girl the chance to fight again

— no one will remember her as the girl who destroyed and saved her best friend

— no one will remember her as the girl who had to fight her whole life till the very end. all they’ll remember is a girl on fire, with so much rage, that it almost destroyed the country.

she saved nikara, she burnt it, and she gave it a second chance.

#the poppy war #fang runin #yin nezha #chen kitay #sring venka #the burning god #the dragon republic

[nepttunnee]

not enough people talk about how rf kuang immediately writes a book shitting on anything she decides is bad no matter her connection to it and how iconic it is. lived in the us? fuck you, here’s tpw. graduated oxford? babel. harper collins published her book?? here, publish this one thats directly a call out about you.

#rf kuang #she is literally my idol idc #babel #tpw #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #yellowface #books #harpercollins

[blackthornarchives]

‘I have become something wonderful, she thought.

I have become something terrible.

Was she now a goddess or a monster?

Perhaps neither. Perhaps both’

#art #tpw #tpw trilogy #rin fanart #fang runin #the dragon republic #the poppy war fanart #the poppy war #the burning god #rinezha #fanart #fan art #character art #creative writing #bookblr #booktok #chen kitay #poppy war #sring venka #yin nezha #renaissance #writeblr #writerscommunity #writers #books #fantasy #artists on tumblr #illustration

[koiwynn]

i think i’m onto something

#˖ ࣪⭑ mine #let kitay go apeshit (as a treat <3) #fang runin #yin nezha #chen kitay #rinezha #rinkitay #character dynamics #character relationships #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #meme #tpw trilogy #tpw core #tpw #tpw ​‧₊˚✩彡

[polartss]

Haircut

Rin from The Poppy War by RF Kuang

#my art #tpw #the poppy war #the poppy war fanart #rf kuang #the dragon republic #the burning god #yin nezha #chen kitay #altan trengsin #remember when she had long hair during the first chapters of tpw?? #fang runin

[dcvina-claires]

this is so “do you love him?” “yes. more than anyone else in the world” and “fight well. keep us safe. i love you.” and “he loves her. of this he is certain” and “is there anyone in the coalition you trust?” “venka” and “lovely, wonderful kitay” and “she would draw this moment out forever if she could” and “i left for you” and “i’ll hate you for it but i’ll love you forever” and “she terrifies him and he loves her so much it hurts” and “should’ve realized that venka was trying to save her life” and “kitay. her best friend. her anchor” and “ah, i get it. you’re in love” and “did they love one another so fiercely, so desperately?” and rin and nezha and kitay and venka

#the poppy war #tpw #the dragon republic #tdr #the burning god #tbg #fang runin #yin nezha #chen kitay #sring venka #rinkitay #rinezha #rinvenka

[jazzkrebber]

"a woman with knives ready to kill you!" WHERE⁉️⁉️

#pretty boy better get out my way ITS MY TURN #MOVE KAZ #MOVE CARDAN #MOVE NEZHA #WHOS NEXT #kaz brekker #cardan greenbriar #yin nezha #inej ghafa #jude duarte #fang runin #six of crows #grishaverse #crooked kingdom #the cruel prince #the folk of the air #the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #leigh bardugo

[artsychanel]

more rin doodles

#the poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #the poppy war spoilers #if commited several war crimes why babygirl #fang runin #i cant defend her at this point anymore #i've decided to accept her as she is #i don't know if i will be the same person after i'm done with this book series #would let her set me on fire #AND i would treat her right! fuck you altan and nezha #if i was nezha rn i would be shitting myself #anyways she's so fun to draw