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snowflake_challenge #4: In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon.

Let's go with Six of Crows since I'm currently in the middle of re-reading Crooked Kingdom and this canon is fresh in my mind. Be mindful of spoilers. (I haven't read anything outside of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom, and am aware that there's a book set post-Crooked Kingdom. In this house, we ignore what we want to ignore!)

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When everything's done and dusted and the band of crows seemingly has parted ways:

• Inej sends Kaz letters from The Wraith detailing secrets she's discovered. This is her way of sharing her adventures on the seas with him while pretending that her reasoning for sending letters is all business. Eventually, she removes her own armour and sends him letters because she wants to, not because it's business.

• Kaz writes to Inej detailing the day-to-day of Ketterdam. She's his spider; she needs to know what's happening so she can stay informed. It's not because he misses her or anything. But the letters stop being business-oriented and including only details about the comings and goings of certain people in Ketterdam, and become a little more heartfelt as Inej transforms from his spider to the person he chooses to be emotionally vulnerable with.

• Inej continues to return to Ketterdam to see Kaz—and, sometimes, she brings those she's rescued who have no home to Ketterdam to start anew. Kaz helps them settle—it's the least he could do; he was once them, after all, and history will never repeat itself ever again.

• Kaz helps settle Inej's parents in Ketterdam. While they do want to return to Ravka, they want to see the home that Inej has created for herself here—and they learn very quickly that Inej will always come back to Ketterdam. The heart is an arrow and Inej's arrow always leads back to here.

• Matthias never dies. He and Nina travel to Ravka, where he's continuously exposed to the Grisha culture and sees similarities and differences between his culture and Nina's. He helps train Grisha in how to protect themselves in physical combat in the instance their powers are inaccessible. Nina learns how to use her new power and harness it.

• Because I am a fucking sap, Matthias and Nina travel to Fjerda and find Trassel. TRASSEL LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER. HE IS A GOOD DOGGO.

• Jesper learns how to use his Fabrikator powers to make weapons that complement Wylan's bombs. He also learns how to use his powers to guide his bullets and teaches that to other Fabrikators to give them an edge with their abilities, since they're not seen as an offensive type of Grisha. He and Wylan may travel to Ravka and Novyi Zem to learn, but he always comes back to Ketterdam. That's home.

• The Dregs become a safe haven for everyone without a family. Kaz never lets anyone ever starve or be sick or die without dignity again.

• Of course, there's another heist.

• And when they hear a version of jurda parem is being created under a different name, they, of course, go to destroy it. No Grisha will ever fall prey to its consequences again.

Oh, man. I'm about to show my ass and embarrass myself with what I've been watching.

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reading
I'm currently reading The Witcher: Baptism of Fire. I'm currently finding it a lot easier to read than Time of Contempt (I found that too slow and filled with too many characters I didn't care about), but so far Baptism seems okay. Yennefer is my favourite character and she hasn't appeared in the first 100 pages. I'm not usually a fantasy reader, so I struggle through all the fantasy-like stuff, but the characters are really enjoyable so I persevere.

My Goodreads updates literally consist of "Where is Yennefer?" because WHERE IS SHE?

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I did buy The Viscount Who Loved Me since I have been enjoying all the trailers for the new season of Bridgerton. (I may have rewatched that trailer around 50 times.) Totally suspect that I will be annoyed by it since I've read excerpts and I dislike some of the more, uh… misogynistic value systems that exists in this world. More on this below.

NGL, I started reading this last night. It's easy to read. I already know I prefer the show.

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watching
For Friday night movie night, I picked 10 Things I Hate About You. Still a classic. Still so much fun. I have found that the late 1990s and early 2000s movies contain words and plot tropes that we wouldn't necessarily accept in 2020+. Aside from one slur, I did find that the movie still holds up 20+ years later.

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I'm watching Killing Eve and did not expect to enjoy it so much. Somehow I'm in season 3. Villanelle is so much fun to watch and is so unhinged (I love it when she randomly yells and does things to stir people up), and Sandra Oh is amazing as always. Every time I start watching an episode, I immediately see Cristina Yang, but Sandra disappears into Eve. Eve is so, so different to Cristina—she's not so self-assured and she's a little more swayable than Queen Yang. (For one, I think Cristina would be dragging Villanelle's ass for fifth.)

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I binged Bridgerton season 2 and I fucking LOVE IT. I'm going to be rewatching this over and over and over (and already am rewatching it). I love the inclusion of a desi woman as the lead. I loved the enemies to lovers plotline. I loved the development and chemistry of the characters. This season was so much more fun—characters got to be funny and some actors got to lean into comedy which really livened their characters up for me. (Anthony got rid of his hideous sideburns.) This was so much better than season 1 imo.

AND IT HIT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY FAVOURITE TROPES.

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I finished reading Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. I haven't read any other books in this universe yet, so all of these thoughts and questions are from someone who only inhaled the Crows specific stuff. I've also combined my thoughts of both books together because I never bothered to write them down about SOC when I had finished.

I enjoyed the duology and felt that the stories and characters were a lot of fun. I enjoyed the writing most of the time. I particularly enjoyed how the characters worked together similarly to how Ocean's 11's characters did.

Here's my assortment of thoughts: ( caw caw. )

I watched Black Widow last night, which was a lot of fun. While I miss the in-cinema experience, I actually liked doing it from the comfort of my lounge. I wore trackies, had my cats with me, and was very comfortable and relaxed.

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Anyway, for a while, I've been thinking about trying some public entries with my thoughts on the media I consume to get me back into using this journal. I don't really use it to document personal shit anymore, so why not be a nerd?