siderealsandman:

afro-elf:

college is just the worst opinions you’ve ever heard being counted as participation points

if you’ve ever taken an ethics class with 19 year old rich white business majors, you should automatically get your degree because enduring four months of Ryan Henry Harrington III’s hot takes will be the hardest thing you ever have to do

pleasantlyunlikelyrebel:

confusion-and-cake:

The reason Six of Crows was so appealing is that it’s not a story about Chosen Ones and prophecies and only certain people being special enough to have an adventure. It boldly said that anyone could go on an exciting, daring adventure if one was simply brave enough to welcome it. It was an inspiration for all of us non-extraordinary common folk to see that we too can be gay and do crimes and break into the ice pentagon with nothing but a couple of buddies and a questionable will to live and in this essay i will

An excerpt from the second book really sums up this message;

‘Inej almost felt sorry for her. Dunyasha really believed she was the Lanstov heir, and maybe she was. But wasn’t that what every girl dreamed? That she’d wake up and find herself a princess? Or blessed with magical powers and a grand destiny? Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe she was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothing’s, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived if you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owes you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.’

-The inner monologue of a sexually abused, dark skinned assassin while battling another assassin. Read the Six Of Crows duology, cowards.