Icarus's Burning Nest

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venividivictorious

Oh fuck it's just occurred to me that like

1) The Little Palace was designed by a very old, very paranoid Grisha who's spent his entire life being hunted and persecuted for existing

2) The Little Palace was built with at least one secret passageway Alina didn't know about, which brings her out into the grounds somewhere. There are most likely dozens of these hidden tunnels - they're escape routes for when the otkazat'sya inevitably turn on the Grisha and Kirigan finds himself with a school full of kids to evacuate.

3) In S2 at the Spinning Wheel, Nadia says that the First Army raided the Little Palace, and Nikolai is sheltering the survivors. There's a decent number of them, by the looks of it. More than a handful. Probably all those who were close enough to an exit passageway.

4) Kirigan wasn't there to open up the tunnels and lead everyone out, and neither was Baghra. So the tunnels can't be truly secret. Enough Grisha knew about them to vanish under the First Army's noses and escape. I'm picturing that one scene from Ye Olde X-Men 2: most of them got out through tunnels that weren't on any of our schematics.

5) This means it's likely that the Little Palace has its own version of those fucked-up shooter drills they have to do in America. The procedure for something like that would have to be drummed into these kids from as early as possible, just like they train you to respond to the fire bell, because otherwise in the rush and the noise and the confusion, they'd just panic, and that would cause chaos. They all need to know where their closest emergency exit is, how to open it, where it leads, how to check for nearby soldiers before emerging, where to go next. So that when they need that knowledge, it's become second nature. Instinct. Like young prey animals - just as Baghra taught him.

And this is the kind of fear and constant hypervigilance Kirigan and Baghra have been living with their entire lives, without even the benefit of a relatively secure, long-term home literally built to protect them. It's no wonder the pre-Little Palace Grisha are so messed up.

And he's probably had older Little Palace Grisha over the years, people like Fedyor, questioning whether it's really necessary to still be making these kids think they're at risk like that. The Grisha have been at peace with the crown for over a century! This is a relic from a crueller time, surely. And he brushes it off every time, because at some point in his history, he learned better. He's learned from his failures.

6) After Anastas put a bounty on his ambitious General's head and named him heretic, the guards say, "Thought you [and Luda] could quietly train witches under our noses, did you?"

So he's already helping teach other Grisha, even then, and we know from Luda that the king is now having said Grisha rounded up. And there's nothing he can do. If he goes back, the king will have his head. So when he next aligns himself with the crown as his own descendant, he's learned that unless he puts safeguards in place, it will be the Grisha he's protecting who will suffer whenever he butts heads with the monarchy.

And he turns out to be right. Pyotr and Vasily have neither the balls nor the strength to meet him on the battlefield, so instead they target whatever Grisha they can get hold of - the half-trained students, the researchers, servants like Genya - and blame them for whatever treason they're accusing him of this time. The escape routes were still necessary. They've always been necessary.

It just? Really hit home how fucked up this world is for them, like. Even within the 'safety' of the Little Palace, the Grisha kids would never truly be able to avoid or forget the fear and hatred the world at large has for their kind, or the danger being Grisha might place them in if their protector falls out of favour with the royals. Ravka might not experiment on them or burn them alive, but they're not safe. They never really were. They've only ever been used.

Convenient weapons, or convenient scapegoats, and with no say in any of it.

aleksander kirigan baghra morozova general kirigan shadow and bone hi this is fucked up and evil pls....
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prettymajestical

the swedish eurovision commentator and their media are accusing the finnish commentator of manipulating finnish voters and sneakily telling them to participate in tactical voting, and saying that that’s the reason loreen didn’t get any televote points from finland.

they won and they’re STILL whining. at FINLAND.

prettymajestical

They literally called us a dumb nation. Said that we should be ashamed of not voting for them (and voting for Germany instead). They said “fuck them” about finns on a podcast hosted by one of the biggest newspapers in Sweden.

They said we are a dumb nation. Over Eurovision. That THEY WON.

machikono

Reading about this pissed me to fuck off. They feel entitled to points from Finland for some damn reason, for a performer that has previously won before with a song that is eerily similar, thus repetitive, and wondering why Germany, who sent a heavy metal band, instead got points from Finland well known for our love for heavy metal music? Get off your high horse. They said “the people aren’t always right and jury is right” so why are they cursing at the people then? You got your jury points, why does it bother you so much that you didn’t get the peoples’ if in your words they don’t matter? It bothers them so much they verbally attack the whole nation? How bloody immature can you be?

To me it just sounds like even they don’t truly believe it was a deserved and fair win and feel insecure about it and wanted those televotes to feel validated.

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peggycatrerr

spiralling thinking about how the idea that mulder is the believer and scully is the sceptic is literally what they want you to think of themselves. like there’s a reason his whole thing is “i want to believe” and it’s because it doesn’t naturally come to him. he is actually filled with doubt but he desperately clings to these ideas of the unexplained and the paranormal in hope that it’ll end up being real. and belief does come naturally to scully but it terrifies her so she puts up this guard, she only allows herself to believe in what she can prove and explain and she’s willing to believe in the extraordinary so long as she can scientifically rule out the ordinary and. and hguhhhgg.

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