Skurtumbly - !?

my heart's a ghost limb reaching

When your familiar is just nasty… Ruda the parrot belongs to Jaina (or at the very least hangs about her to sass and chomp) who belongs to the lovely @faerie-rights who wrote my Leyna a lovely letter from Julian as a little creative trade <333

Artist:

the butterfly chart… is done…. time 2 slumber

Group pic with the ‘Rescue Laswell from a Terrorist Organization’ gang ☆

i’ve got you under my skin

In a way Goncharov (1973) really is the greatest gangster movie ever made. There are thousands of people dreaming up their own versions of this movie. With more plot threads than could ever actually fit into a 2 hour movie. No actual film could ever compare to the imagination of a million strangers and that's weirdly beautiful.

Thoughts on Hadir Karim:

It's easy to write the soldier that uses any excuse to justify the violence they've always wanted to commit. That's not Hadir. Atomgrad Ep 4 spoilers below

Kudos for making Hadir feel a lot more nuanced. It's easy to write "the person that just needed the excuse to be evil."

Hadir hates doing what he's doing. He knows his sister hates his guts and prepared for her to shoot his brains out the moment she saw him. (He was right too. She did some swinging)

In MWI he was very "I am going to hurt the people that hurt me." in Atomgrad, he seems at peace with his decisions.

Farah slings insults whenever she sees him. He just takes them in stride.

His life is already forfeit. He is already a dead man. All he cares about now is giving his sister the tools (he thinks) she needs to end the fighting.

He reminds her what she's lost: their mother and father. Keep them in her heart, but keep her head clear. He wants to make sure her decisions aren't impulsive.

I think he knew Farah was going to escape. He believed she was going to stop him from leaving with the warhead. He knows his sister can't be stopped.

His mission was to get that warhead in her hands. He trusts her to use it the "right way."

He wants the violence to end just as much as her.

In the end, he's still a big brother looking out for his little sister.