Its DOOOOONE!Its Finally Finished! Oh My Gosh, What A Journey This Has Been! I Started Concept On This

It’s DOOOOONE! It’s finally finished! Oh my gosh, what a journey this has been! I started concept on this last July (2020) and have been working in chunks via Instagram Lives to complete this sequel papercraft of the Six of Crows for over a year! I’m so excited to present Hook And Crook, inspired by a specific scene that happens in Crooked Kingdom. I’ve been stating this over and over again during the lives, but there were specific mirrors happening here between the two papercrafts that wholly define the dynamics of the characters and the two books.  

We talked about how the symbols in the facade of the Slat in Featherdark (Six of Crows papercraft) represented the strengths of each character (cane, knife, guns, bombs etc). The crow is standing proud and upright, above the city, to symbolize the upper-hand that the dregs had during SOC.

Now, the tables have turned in Hook And Crook. The symbols on the facade of the hotel show the character’s weaknesses (gloves, a red bird, gambling wheel, Dunyasha’s stars, paintbrush & laurels etc). The crow is defensively crouching with its hackles raised, the city above and oppressing - all representing the dregs having to turn and fight under dire circumstances. And bonus! When you put the two side-by-side, a little nod to a certain Ravkan symbol takes form! What a stupidly fun project this was! I’m so happy it’s finally finished and I thank you all for those who joined me in the lives to watch the process! (so sorry for the low quality on this; Featherdark is my most pilfered artwork for unsanctioned merch 💔)

All I ever wanted was a normal life - Melora

What's the movie that made you cry?

i was talking about the movie 1917 and the video essay 'in the moment: a 1917 video essay' by ladyknightthebrave and is like possibly my favourite one ever now. i really recommend watching it if you enjoyed the film!

what made me cry is when they end the essay as such: "i think part of what draws me to this film, aside from y'know, everything, is the contradictions of it. will schofield spends the entire movie trying to fulfil a promise, and he both succeeds and fails. he tries to stop one battle, but there'll be another one tomorrow. he commits acts of desperate heroics that will mean nothing in the grand scheme of things and yet it means everything. he's surrounded by brutality but also so many random acts of kindness, and he responds in kind to all of it. he tries to help two people stranded in the middle of a battlefield, he tries to keep his promise to his dead friend and he tries as hard as he can to stay alive and come home to his family. it's dramatic and desperate and horrifying and beautiful in it's own right. kait rokowski once wrote 'nothing ever ends poetically. it ends and we turn it into poetry. all that blood was never once beautiful. it was just red.' and, after what will goes through, he doesn't get a happy ending. but he gets a gentle one. he gets to sit back against this tree, a reflection of how the movie first began, and he gets to rest. knowing he did what he could. and the rest, well. the rest is just blood and poetry."

How Wenwu wore the rings like handcuffs, tying him back to the past, how he fought with his fists and taught Shang-Chi to do the same

And then Ying-Nan opening his hand, and SHANG-CHI FUCKING USING THE RINGS ALL FLOWING AND SERPENTINE LIKE HIS MOTHER AND AUNT, NOT LASHING OUT HARD AND SHARP LIKE A WHIP

THAT SYMBOLISM BABY (oh hey and that doesn't have anything to do at all with the yin yang the dragon did at the end, you know, like the light and the dark, the masculine and the feminine...)

Like can we talk about that?? That was just *chef's fucking kiss*

Got some very heavy ATLA vibes from this (hey Zuko?? Azula?? daddy/mommy issues?? masked ponytail dude?? The whole wind/water and how gentleness can be just as threatening as violence thing?? Yeah)

Them respecting the past but releasing it as well, omg. Something about that speaks very deeply to me, as I know from my own heritage, how trauma, pain, and grief just flow down through the blood

When Shang-Chi said that his mom would hate him for who he had become, but what she had actually said was to embrace both the light and the dark within himself and to accept what had come down to him from his mother and father and HIM REALIZING IT

IT WAS IN YOU ALL ALONG, YOU JUST HID FROM IT

God that's so fucking freeing honestly

I've spent so much of my life running away from my heritage and only begun to fully embrace it in the past couple years

That really resonated with me

Often I still don't feel like I belong to either side, but it's a growing process,, I'll get there some day

In dunkirk I love that Tommy doesn’t wonder why Gibson doesn’t talk he probably thinks “maybe he’s shy or he doesn’t like to talk” and this is pure

Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)