Ok, I should have done this months ago (sorry dev!!), but better late than never! So, if you’re new to the fandom or just want some great soc/ck blogs to follow, here’s my official list!
@savagekaz (Nina): THE BEST. HEADCANON AND FANFIC AUTHOR. ON HERE. No question about it. The range she stretches across is simply astounding; she can go from Wesper headcanons to Inej’s birthday stories to an AU where Jordie’s alive (!!!) in no time at all. I’ve never seen any other person have such an extensive amount of literary comprehension as Nina does. I also have the sneaking suspicion that Leigh follows her blog, since she constantly reblogs Nina’s posts all the time. In addition, she’s also the sweetest person ever, and I’m honored that she considers me her friend.
@save-the-dream (Jay): Ok, if you want some top-notch, L. Bardugo style, tear-your-heart-to-pieces stories about the Dregs, look no further than Jay’s blog. She writes like a season author who’s on her tenth publication; really, I’m astounded that she hasn’t even published a book yet. (Jay, if you see this, know that I’m buying about ten copies of your first original work as soon as it comes out). And I may talk about how I’m the #1 Kanej Fan and write about them constantly, but wow, I’ve got nothing on Jay. She writes about them so well and so meticulously, in so many different universes and AUs, and they’re all absolutely fantastic. So yeah, if you’re a Kanej fan, definitely follow Jay.
@zoyalina (Cassie): If you want to make edits/gifsets about the Dregs or the Grishaverse, I highly implore you to follow Cassie. Her edits and gifsets just blow me away every single time. She’s so passionate about what she does, and she never fails to make me smile. If sunshine were a person, it’d be her. Seriously, even if you aren’t a big fan of edits, I suggest following Cassie immediately. She’s one of the most Iconic™ bloggers in this fandom (which includes Nina as well) and you’ll be delighted at her works every time.
@heart-brekker: Now, you must know this before you read on. The Six of Crows fandom has two sectors: the meticulous, where fans make beautiful edits, stories, etc. and the hilarious, where fans post crack headcanons, incorrect quotes, and basically just joke about the Dregs (a common subject is Kaz being Ketterdam’s Official Drama King). @heart-brekker has the most hysterical posts and crack contributions I’ve ever seen here. And oh man, the puns. Such an amazing sense of humor, and they’ve supported me through so much of my work. Definitely give them a follow!
@lnej (Dev): The Official Badass Edit Center. Her edits are always so polished and clean; they look like they could be featured on a magazine! And she reblogs so many great and creative edits as well: works that somehow don’t make it to the top of the #soc page when you search that hashtag on Tumblr. I also envy her control of aesthetics: she’s organized her blog down to every last post!
@rithmeres (Rey): Now, who’s ready to follow the best cosplayer in this fandom? Rey’s cosplay as Kaz is spot on, and I constantly suspect whether she’s Kaz in disguise. But wait! Not only does she dress up and slay the cosplay game, she’s also a master hand at making edits and moodboards. In addition, she also does some amazing fanart. Basically, she’s everything I aspire to be on here, and I’m not worthy of her talented presence.
@mathiashevlr (Libby): A healthy mix of humor, edits, voice challenges, fanart, and an all around amazing friend to scream at when you have an idea or a headcanon just pops into your head. She’s also a great writer as well, so I highly recommend checking out her writings. (Psst, if you’re a big supporter of Kuwei, you might want to look here). She’s one of my closest friends on here, and I don’t think I’d ever be here without her loving support.
@fourmillionkruge (Alex): Make sure you’re not drinking any sort of liquid when you go here, because this blog will make your sides hurt with laughter. A simply hysterical sense of humor and one of the first blogs I ever followed. Alex posts the most hilarious crack posts and the tags underneath them are a treat to read. And if you’re a Wesper fan, you’ll never regret following this blog.
@sucker-for-six-of-crows (Maddy): If you want to see the Dregs characterized as different subjects (characters driving, cats, etc.) in gifsets, I suggest you look at Maddy’s blog. She posts incorrect quotes and crack posts that keep me laughing until two in the morning. And if you’re interested in fanvids, keep your eyes peeled for her great trailer for the SOC series.
@jesperinej (Ashlee): A blog I’ve admired from afar for many months, but only just recently started to talk to. She’s one of my biggest supporters, and an even bigger fan/supporter of Jesper Fahey. Delightful tags to read, and a big fanart promoter. She’s one of the greatest people I’ve ever had the fortune to meet in this fandom.
@hiswraithqueen: One of the most ardent Nikolai Lanstov supporters I’ve ever seen, and a good blog to start off your following list. Now, if you’re like me, who needs to scream at someone online for my headcanons or story ideas, shoot them across messaging to this blog. She and I have shared many days just screaming/co writing a story with our screamed headcanons. Honestly, a piece of advice for writers entering this fandom is to just shoot us a message, either in our ask box or in messaging (as long as you’re considerate and your opinion isn’t hateful, of course). That’s how I’ve built my friendship with her, and I’ve never regretted it once.
@fittes (Kate): One of this fandom’s fantastic fanart producers and promoters. And if you like Hamilton, boy, are you in for a treat. Kate’s the person you go to for the #hamforcrows content. She made a My Shot post concerning the Dregs, and she and I collaborated on who amongst the Dregs + Co. will play the different roles in the play (the post is somewhere on Leigh’s blog, which I’m still reeling over). She runs a multifandom blog, but she’s one of the greatest people you’ll ever meet in this fandom.
@clearlynotclaire (Claire): An amazingly talented artist and fanart producer. I’m simply honored that I can get to call Claire my official illustrator. She draws amazing illustrations for so much of my stories/au lists voluntarily, and it’s always such a delightful surprise to look at her work. Her enthusiasm always makes me smile, and she’s always there for me whenever I need to talk/cry about the Dregs.
@dregs-of-the-barrel (Anna): I’m still not completely convinced that Anna isn’t a professor, because her written works look like they should be gold plated, carefully written down with ink, and hung on the wall in a frame. She analyzes and writes about Kanej with an astounding sense of insight, and I’m constantly in awe whenever she talks about any of the Dregs.
Other blogs to follow: @jespefrahey, @mydarlinginej, @dirty-handed, @kaznej, @totallylegit-sixofcrows, @kazmtaz, @the-bastards-of-the-barrel, @brekkfast, @dregsdaily, @dailysixofcrows, @astratastic, @queen-ghafa, and @talkkerchtome!
everyone is a lady: jesper fahey
“There’s always a price to be paid for greatness.”
everyone is a lady: kaz brekker
“Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.”
moodboard: inej ghafa
“Stop treating your pain like it’s something you imagined. If you see the wound is real, then you can heal it.”
sixofcrowsnw challenge: take two || week 3 → a song for a book/character/ship/etc.
Fifty words for murder, and I’m every one of them.
“Sankta.”
Inej woke with a start. Kaz shifted in his sleep and murmured the word again. She stared at him. The sound of it sounded alien - a holy term on a sinner’s lips.
For a brief moment, Inej wondered if he was asking guidance from one of her own saints. The thought was so preposterous she rejected it immediately; Kaz never begged forgiveness for anything he did. If anything, it was the rest of Ketterdam that constantly went on its knees to grovel at Kaz’s feet.
She was about to fall asleep again when Kaz spoke once more.
“Sankta,” He whispered like he was praying. “Sankta Inej.”
No but can you imagine
- Matthias drives the van (yes, they all go in one van because there’s no way in hell Kaz allows anyone to drive his car)
- he’s the one who’s in charge of checking their luggage and belongings because he doesn’t trust anyone else to be responsible enough
- Nina recommends all the diners and when they drive past a pancake/waffle house the rest of them have to restrain her from jumping out the window
- also she’s the person who sings horribly along with the radio and bangs on the dashboard
- Inej joins her occasionally and she’s always constantly on the lookout for interesting sites and unique places
- she’s also the person that takes photographs of the crew because why not
- some of them include: Nina with her head dangling out the window, her hair blowing back in the wind, Wylan holding back a smirk as Jesper lays his chin on Wylan’s shoulder, Kaz looking indignant when Matthias suggests they see how well he might survive diner work
- Wylan holds all the maps and tells Matthias which ways to go
- ‘tells’
- “You just missed the exit! I said LEFT!”
- “This way’s faster.”
- “Ghezen-”
- Jesper sidles up next to Wylan and whispers horrible jokes into his ear that make him break out into giggles even though he tries to swat Jesper away with his maps
- and sometimes Wylan’s too tired so he dozes off and rests his head against Jesper’s shoulder
- Jesper’s not red, nope, stop smiling Inej
- Kuwei just reads with his headphones in to block out the chatter
- sketching the other five
- Inej gives him a reference photo of all of them and he makes a fantastic caricature of all of them squished into a tiny van
- (Kaz has it framed)
- plus when Jesper flirts with everyone in the van along with Nina, he’s one of the only people that responds with equal fire
- “Drawing me again, Kuwei? Good to know your tastes are high quality.”
- “You offering a commission to model? I’d gladly have you in my apartment.”
- Wylan throws a bag of chips in Kuwei’s face in revenge
- Kaz is forbidden to ride shotgun because there’s always the possibility of Matthias punching him in the face
- honestly with all the snarky commentary Kaz makes on the trip he’s lucky to even be squashed in the passenger seats at all
- and this boy just takes up three seats by stretching out on his back
- Inej solves this by sitting on his legs and he just falls to the car floor facefirst
- ok someone better write this or I’m just going to make this into a full fledged fic
fandxmsunite replied to your post: “inej ballet au”
omg yes do the au!!
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^^i second this
Your wish is my command!
BALLET AU
- Inej is a well-known ballet dancer in the New York City Ballet, and she’s slotted to take the leading role in Swan Lake
- until newcomer Dunyasha swoops down from the Bolshoi and snatches her position from her with perfect poise and grace
- Kaz is the new choreographer and initially favors Dunyasha for her brilliant technique
- but it becomes obvious that she lacks the emotion behind the leading role when tryouts begin
- Kaz sees Inej for the first time, and praises her display of emotion and passion however
- “You’re a storm. If this were art for art’s sake, there’d be no doubt you’d lead with that dangerous power. But this isn’t contemporary.”
- announcements are made and instead of making one dancer Odette and Odile (as per usual) Kaz has made Odette Inej and Odile Dunyasha
- when Inej sees him again, he remarks that he did this to see if they could challenge themselves to fill in the roles they struggle with
- of course Dunyasha masters the thirty two fouettés* for Odile’s Pas de Deux* in a week
- Inej practices the Swan Queen role with discomfort, trying to look innocent and fragile but it grows too much for her
- one night, after every dancer has gone, Kaz sees Inej practice the Pas de Deux alone and sees her getting frustrated with every single move
- He blurts out suddenly, “I can help you.”
- Inej drops her arms silently and just watches Kaz approach, face morphing into one of wonder as he adapts the role of Prince Siegfried
- slowly the two of them begin to dance the Pas de Deux for Odette and Siegfried
- they begin to do this every day
- and if Kaz looks a little more wonderstruck when Inej comes ‘flying’ en pointe
- or if Inej seems to dance a little closer to Kaz’s hands
- neither of them say a thing
- Dunyasha notices the two of them getting closer together and accuses Inej of flirting with Kaz to steal her role
- Inej: “If I really was, you think I’d request to work with you?”
- Inej nevertheless gets wary, and tells Kaz to distance himself from her as she improves
- the ballet premieres to rave reviews and already Kaz’s getting requests from all over the world to make ballets
- but he politely declines all of them, saying that this was his first and only ballet production
- on the last night, Dunyasha calls that she injured her legs (something about falling a roof)
- Kaz and the corps* are freaking out because it’s ten minutes til curtain until
- “I’ll do it. Where’s Dunyasha’s Odile costume?”
- Kaz turns around so fast he cricks his neck, and sees Inej in her white tutu with a ready expression on her face
- “But-”
- Inej smiles a little at Kaz’s doubt. “I had to practice something other than Odette when you were gone.”
- the audience leans forward with bated breath as the curtain rises and then whispers break out among them as the ballerina for Siegfried steps out
- because this can’t be it, why would Kaz Brekker be performing at his own production? And as one of the leading roles?
- by now, the crowd knows Inej plenty and when she steps out of the wings as Odette, the audience grows berserk
- but when she sees Kaz dressed as Siegfried she stops in her tracks
- a tiny smirk starts to form on his lips because he’s one upped her on surprises
- together, the two of them dance as the enchanted girl and the prince who falls in love with her
- but when the newspapers publish their glowing review of the ballet, they wax lyrical about Odile and Siegfried’s Pas de Deux instead
- and how Inej absolutely stunned everyone in her Black Swan Variation and brought the whole audience leaping to their feet when she absolutely floored them with her hypnotic thirty two fouettés (4:19)
*fouettés - a pirouette done by whipping the leg to the side in a circular motion. In Swan Lake, Odile needs to do thirty two of these - a signature and iconic move that’s never been omitted from any SL production.
*Pas de Deux - literally, step of two where two ballet dancers perform together
*corps de ballet - ballet company dancers that dance as a collective group (or the lowest ranking members of the ballet)
#@inejjghafas #I saw the ballet au and I screamed #like #can you imagine#inej is like the gifted and the best performer in the company #she is all quiet and light on her feet #and lowkey does knife-point ballet #so everyone calls her the wraith #kaz is the company manager #who used to be one of the best ballet dancers around #but was jumped in an alley and saw his brother killed and got his leg broken #and because it never healed right he cannot dance properly again #Jesper is the male lead that took over after Kaz broke his leg#and him and Inej (the female lead) are great friends #but thats like all #and they find out that he is dating the understudy Wylan like off to the side like what? #Matthias is the new immigrant #that graduated from the best ballet academy in russia #where he was trained rigorously for basically his entire life#and he kind of looks down on Kaz’s ballet company at first #but then they grow on him #Nina is the big city girl that used to go to med school?????and used burlesque dance???? and learn ballet from somewhere???? #she is all mysterious and nobody knows anything about her really #other than the fact that she is amazing at ballet #and is like the chillest one around #and she bickers with Matthias a lot because he is trained from birth and she just mysteriously appeared with like no training? #(she did train but she’ll never tell him that) #but like #everyone knows that it is just unresolved sexual tension #and then we have Kuwei (via random-writing-ideas-idk)SOMEONE GIVE THIS PERSON A MEDAL
sixofcrowsnw challenge take two || week 4 → favorite non-romantic relationship
moodboard: kaz and wylan
“You’re not weak because you can’t read. You’re weak because you’re afraid of people seeing your weakness. You’re letting shame decide who you are.”
Anonymous said: consider this prompt: a new strain of parem comes out and is tainted and turns into a truth serum. causing kaz and inej to finally tell the truth abt their feelins to eachother..
O SHIT
