hi friendly reminder that from six of crows main characters:
3 out of 7 are poc
4 out of 7 are lgbtq+
2 are recovering from addictions
2 out of 3 couples are interracial
there are all kinds of disabilities (learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental disorders, an adhd coded character)
we have a cishet white man raised in a racist, sexist environment unlearning his bigotry and actively trying to be better and help the people he used to hate
we have a fat girl who's still hot and confident in her body
I love it so much
ao3 is crazy because you'll read the most gut-wrenching 200k word slowburn that leaves you sobbing into your sweater at four in the morning and the author will be applejacksmonstercock
Matthias really goes from this:
to THIS:
✨character development✨ (or the slow corruption of one Matthias Helvar)
“weren't we the stars in heaven?” post break-up jegulus
“weren't we the salt in the sea?” post The Prank wolfstar
“dragon in the new warm mountain / didn't you believe in me?” sirius to regulus after he ran away
“yeah, you held me the whole way through / when i couldn't say the words like you” sirius to james
“i was scared, indigo, but i wanted to / i was scared, indigo, but i wanted to” regulus to sirius, apologising for not leaving with him, as he walked into the cave.
(song is anything by adrianne lenker!!)
If I was Elizabeth Bennet my entire family abandoning me at the dinner table when Mr. Collins requested a private audience would have been my villain origin story.
One of the worst feelings is when you feel a hyperfixiation slipping.. Like no.. Youre so sexy pls keep giving me happy chemical
Original Art book Wit Studio
“During one of the many therapy sessions that Regulus’s parents pay an exorbitant amount of money for, hoping they’ll make him into the charismatic son they want—like some kind of psychological boob job—his therapist asks him what he would say to his inner child. Being all of seventeen, Regulus thinks it’s a bit presumptuous to assume that there is anything inner about his child, but he doesn’t bother pointing that out."
Kill your darlings
Literally one of the best first chapters I have ever read!
james "and i'd give up forever to touch you" potter and regulus "you're the closest to heaven ill ever be" black
Alex Claremont-Diaz, flying overseas the second Henry™️ ghosted, outside the palace: