The Poppy War - Blog Posts

went into the discord talking about not understanding why everyone was so devastated by this book at chapter 20.

i was immediately and violently checked.

i'm finally tackling the poppy war trilogy and i cannot sing praises for rf kuang's writing enough

the way she refuses to shy away from describing the gore and torment of war is so impactful and shows such a mind blowing skill

I got my best friend to read the poppy war!! Which is amazing BUT now he'll send me photos or talk about stuff in the early portion of book 1 and i just get reminded of the genuinely gut wrenching stuff that comes later.

Rip Fang Runin you would've loved energy drinks

Party4u but its Nezha creating battles so he can see rin

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

the concept of being academic rivals so ardently obsessed with each others weaknesses and flaws that as soon as you’re tossed into real life you realize there is no one you can trust like each other because no one else in the world is so enamoured with you send tweet

Wdym the seal scene isn’t how the series ends with everyone happy and alive? wdym they die lmao?

thinking about that scene in the dragon republic when rin enters daji’s seal and it shows her what she wants the most, memories she can barely remember and people she’ll never have again, even if she didn’t know it at the time. she saw Masters Irjah and Jima, the two masters whose praise she’d craved her first year at Sinegard, whose classes she’d excelled at the most, Linguistics and Strategy. She saw Kesegi, who she would later sacrifice to rot in a cell, and Tutor Feyrik, whose fate would forever be left unknown, lost to her. Kitay, Altan, Ramsa, all of whom sacrificed their lives for her. And the heavy, heavy implication that they were all gathered for her wedding to Nezha. Because Nezha was the last person Rin loved who hadn’t yet appeared in her vision and his absence was too conspicuous. Because Altan had told her in that vision that he’d “never been too fond of [her fiancé] either,” and Nezha had been the only friend of Rin’s who Altan had never liked, had been paranoid and suspicious of, had told Rin to stop talking to, and had prevented her from dragging out of the fog. Daji’s seal had shown Rin what her subconscious had known and what she had refused to acknowledge (that she loved nezha even then), and what might have been possible in another life if history, the gods, and the whims of humans had not been so cruel. 

Im back

Lol hey yall. This semester was crazy, but I finished my finals and all I gotta do is walk the stage. Since I have yet to find a job I have PLENTY of time. Ive read one or two books over the time I've been gone.

The silent patient.

If we were villains.

I got onyx storm (havent read yet bc xaden and violet were so insufferable in iron flame that I got put off but it will be read.)

And I'm halfway through The Poppy War.

Oh, and I finished Sunrise on the reaping.

Once I get my bearings, aka my personal library and reading lists, I'll start back doing my reviews but I'm kind of conflicted on HOW id like to continue.

Do we like the two parts where it's the characters then the plot separately, or should I make it just one long post???? Like, how are we feeling about this. I don't have a lot of followers here but I'm hoping for some feedback to make reading these thoughts and reviews better for yall so just LMK!

Also, should I review ACOTAR? It's been a few years since I've even touched the series, and I'd need to re-read it to get all of my thoughts out but is that something yall would want my yaps on?

There are so many books I have read that I wanted to talk about, but I'd have to go back and re-read bc id rather it be fresh on the mind. But anyways.

I say all this to say I'm back and I'm gonna try to put myself on a schedule to post reviews. I'll do random posts in between, but the main events ill try to put on a bi-weekly schedule depending on what life throws at me. So be on the lookout!

I will die on the hill that almost ANY Crane Wives song is applicable to The Poppy War Trilogy

I am the force of creation, I am the end and the beginning. The world is a painting and I hold the brush. I am a god.

the poppy war trilogy is literally the great war by taylor swift DONT GET ME STARTED ON RINKITAY-

i've been living in delusion the moment i got spoiled for the burning god's ending. still havent touched that book, but i will.

FUCK. WHY DID REBECCA KUANG MADE ME SO EMOTIONALLY ATTACHED TO RINKITAY

thinking about that time when rin's hand was being literally demolished and she's like it hurts and kitay is like i know. Crying screaming throwing up. The fact that they got BONDED in such a way makes my heart HURT so bad

Rebecca Kuang is a saint i would eat up every single word she writes, matter of fact, she can write an instruction manual and i'd still rate it five stars

Rinkitay really doing the most out there, it is truly the best platonic friendship ever written

still making playlists for fictional characters in the year 2025

rinvenka prom!!!!

❗️the burning god spoilers❗️

the fact kitay died alone when rin was in the arms of person she, even when not ready to admit, loved; when he in fact didn't have to die at all💔

the yins being such a happy family

bonus saikharas cause i missed ms paint

lmao early happy halloween

Soulmates :(

I'm currenly reading The Dragon Republic and my God I'm so obsessed

“When Mingzha died, she did not so much as look in his direction for up to a year. Nezha’s mother loves him, but it’s a strained, wretched love, one stained by the ever-lingering suspicion that the person who came back from the grotto was not really her son.”

close up of the eyes:

alt rinvenka inspired by @sweeetsh ‘s amazing emo rin

they came to poland for a sedes koncert frfr

billie wrote this song thinking about him i fear

the Surens

Our Lady Saikhara of sorrows and man of sorrows Nezha