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ear cuffs by fangophilia

sometimes you have to ignore the canon timeline of ruby redfort and have clancy and elliot find a beanie boo with heterochromia and IMMEDIATELY buy it and give it to ruby. inspired by this exact beanie boo i saw at work last night. its name is heather. 

the silent g!!

The fandom bug has struck again and Ruby Redfort is the unfortunate victim. Obviously, since my character preferences are basically Adopt an Asshole™️, I latched onto the good ol' Silent G

my headcannon for him basically revolves around him being workplace asshole by day and Anxious Gay by night. A lot of his behaviour points towards him being really insecure, so I figured it would be fun to play around with that and explore his character a bit

the way leigh made these characters so unlike yet so alike normal fucking 17 year olds is fully beyond me 

the crows are so much funnier than the fandom give them credit for

here are just SOME of the funniest moments throughout the books

“….you can find your way to Ravka or Matthias’ grandmother’s house for all i care” “leave my grandmother out of this”

obviously the ghost scene

pay someone to pay someone to pay someone to

“you speak Fjerdan about as well as i speak moose” “moose is probably your native tongue”

‘Had they blown up the lab? Kaz had definitely NOT told them to blow up the lab’

The deadpan ‘He had not been shot’

Kaz trying to justify his decision if bringing Wylan along to the rest of the crows: “ i told you, ✨hidden depths✨” “see Jesper, ✨marketable skillz✨”

‘“You all look so young, where are your parents?” Wylan and Jesper burst out laughing’

“This many people having fun in one place might have shocked the Fjerdan right out of you”

“I.Should.Let.You.Die”

Nina trying to bring Kaz back: “The Ice Court, remember? 3 million kruge?” Kaz’s eyes cleared. “4 million”

“You couldn’t look guiltier if you were performing the role of Thief #3 in a penny play on East Stave”

“Who wants to buy i coat in the dead on night?” “Tourists”

“Tiny and Ferocious, just like you”

“Unless you have a unicorn for him to ride away on, there is no scenario that guarantees Kuwei’s safety”

‘They could fake a pregnancy. They couldn’t fake an actual birth. Or maybe they could, he wouldn’t put anything past Kaz at this point”

“He has a very soothing baritone”

‘“I’d prefer a pair of sable-lined swimming trunks, but we can’t always get what we want” A furrow appeared between Kuwei’s brows. His understanding of Kerch had apparently been reached and surpassed’

The Wyvil

Matthias thinking they should just let Nina and Jesper flirt the entirety of Ketterdam into submission

That MASTERPIECE of a scene where Jesper and Kaz have a random petty fistfight, and all the other crows literally move out of the way, and then when Wylan tries to get someone to stop them they just shrug and go ‘I mean they aren’t using their weapons let them fight it out’ and THEN Colm coming him and scolding them and both of them IMMEDIATELY stopping

“Whatever you say, Llewelyn”

Nina’s singing

Wylan and Kaz falling through the ceiling onto Van Eck’s dinner party will ALWAYS be iconic

Kaz’s chapters in general are absolutely HILARIOUS, but my personal favorite is when he’s depending on Matthias Not Betraying them, and he thinks something like this:

‘Either he was right and Matthias’ feeling for Nina would prove enough, or Kaz was about to pay for all those talking tree jokes’

The talking tree jokes in question

The initiation ceremony where the tree teaches you the secret handshake

‘His first thought was that this boy had the most beautiful lips he’d ever seen, and his second was that he was probably about to die’ Wylan honey we’ve got to talk about your priorities

“Is it that bad?” “No, you just have really ugly feet”

That scene at the start of Six of Crows where Van Eck has Kaz tied to a chair and is explaining what he needs, and then is explaining why he needs Kaz specifically, talking about how his De Kappel painting was stolen which is a really impressive feat, while Kaz is vehemently denying that he had anything to do with it although it was obviously him

Wylan being passive aggressive while Jesper is trailing after him trying to apologize for the Kuwei thing

“Can’t we just enter as performers? I hear Wylan really kills it on the flute”

Inej getting Nina’s cookie jar after she gets back and Jesper being offended that he didn’t get to take some

Nina making fun of Kaz’s haircut

“Is my tie straight?”

That’s all I can think of for now, i’m sure there’s more so if you think of something feel free to add on

Pretty good short video on how bad the new hp game is

ruby, always 

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its so ANNOYINH  ☹️

One thing that bugs me about this site is when I finish something and I look it up because it ticks all my favorite narrative boxes and features complex, messed up, chaotic women operating in a hostile world and I want all the meta and edits about said women operating in a hostile world and the majority of what I find are gifs of that one white guy that shows up

hi!! for the character ask game, how about 28 + 11 for ruby, and/or 7 + 26 for hitch?

ahh yay!!

ruby:

11) What’s the first thing you think about when thinking about the character? a very stereotypically 70s looking ruby smartassing everyone she encounters. her doing everything she possibly can, all the time. banana milk

28) The most unnecessary thing they ever did? I mean if we're speaking literally then everything she did tbh, she was just going out of her way to do exactly what she was told to NOT do, but specifically?? maybe when she took Archie out with her to like, fight crime. like either leave the lemon at home or wait an hour its not that hard 😭

hitch:

7) A quote of them that you remember: i had to get my books out for this lol, i'm bad at remembering quotes. probably when he tells clancy to 'cut the churchboy act,' or something like in look into my eyes, when clancy is trying so hard to not ray ruby out. idk i just think its funny.

26) When do you think they were being "themselves" the most? I think when he's protecting ruby. like obviously he's pissed at her bc she's being stupid again, but he also like, cares for her?? he's a caring person and you can really see it in these moments, with these different aspects of his personality getting all wrapped up yk

Froghorn: …and that’s why the entire coding team is still here at Spectrum HQ at ten to midnight. Redfort, obviously, is here because she was the one who crashed into LB at subsonic speed and sent her flying across her office hard enough to knock a hole in the wall. Blacker is here because he was encouraging her, and everybody else is here because they were taking bets on how far she’d get down the hallway. I was not involved in the incident in the least. 

Blacker: Wait. Why are you here then?

Froghorn: I am here to supervise, since everybody else here is apparently twelve years old and incapable of taking care of themselves.

Ruby: He’s actually here because he gave me the helmet before I started sliding, but he just doesn’t want anybody to know that he has fun, ever.

THE ARSENIC WALTZ // 1862