Sword Lilies and Ink Crowns

Multifandom (Mostly BG3, ASOIAF, LotR and fantasy). Art and fashion. Still waiting for TWOW (RIP Ice Adolescence).  Vzlan. +18

[sansa-stark-is-me]

Catelyn, Jon, and Theon are three people who fundamentally do not belong in the same emotional universe. Catelyn resents Jon as a living wound. Jon resents Catelyn as a cold, unreachable authority. Theon resents everyone because his entire identity is built on not being wanted anywhere. There is no warmth there, no found-family softness, no secret understanding. It’s all tension, distance, and unsaid things.

And yet: Robb.

Robb is the one place where all their fractures point in the same direction. Catelyn would die for Robb because he is the embodiment of everything she did “right” the son who is lawful, loved, secure, unquestioned. He is proof that her sacrifices meant something.

Jon would die for Robb because Robb never made him feel lesser. He didn’t need to. Robb loved him without hierarchy, without condition, without politics. Robb is the brother who never asked Jon to apologize for existing.

And Theon would die for Robb because Robb is the only person who ever treated him like he belonged without needing him to perform. Not a hostage, not a pet, not a rival just a brother-in-arms. Robb’s trust is the purest thing Theon ever had, and losing it destroys him.

What makes this so brutal is that Robb doesn’t even know how much weight he’s carrying. He’s the emotional load-bearing wall for three people who cannot coexist otherwise. He is the axis that keeps the household from flying apart. Once he’s gone, the entire structure collapses immediately and catastrophically.

And GRRM is cruel enough to let us see that this loyalty doesn’t fix anything.

Catelyn’s love for Robb doesn’t make her kinder to Jon. Jon’s love for Robb doesn’t save him. Theon’s love for Robb doesn’t redeem him. It just proves that even deeply damaged, mutually resentful people can still agree on one thing: this boy matters.

Which makes the Red Wedding not just a political massacre, but an emotional extinction event. When Robb dies, it’s not just a king falling. It’s the last shared truth between three people who never had anything else in common. And none of them recover from it. Not really.

[swordsandarms]

"It is unlikely that Lyanna would've had a relationship with Sansa" not in a '"Sansa is not her mini-me/Stark enough (whatever that even means)" or whatever way, but in a "No matter the timeline, Sansa would still be raised by a septa, and be just as brainwashed about 'good girl behaviour' and be taught to look down on her aunt just like she was taught to look down on her sister" truther

[theodorafrompluto]

Britomart (1900)

by Walter Crane

[atanertheartist]

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[qqchurch]

[aliasanonyme-deactivated2019060]

Yuri! on Ice in the January Issue of Spoon.2Di. [Part2]

Part 1 available here

Part 3 available here

[Please do not repost outside of Tumblr]

[wittythunderwitch]

[ariavar]

Me every time someone brings up Rhaegar o any Robert’s Rebellion character/theory:

[lamorchemoveilsoleelaltrestelle]

Mia Wasikowska in Crimson Peak (2015)

[thememedaddy]

[yasmin1000000]

“So basically my couch has electricity and I use it to charge my battery powered doorbell”

“Okay that makes sense”

[la-reine-du-disco]

Now explain it to a Japanese samurai from the year 1218

[rui-cifer]

"do you know how waterwheels grind up grain in a water mill using the force of running water? We found a way to create a huge source of force that runs all the time and can transfer its force over long distance. I can tell you in more detail, but that's the basics. Now that is a chime that has a mechanism that one can press instead of having to open the door to let you know that you are waiting to be let in. It requires the transferred force to make the mechanism work and that wire is how we transfer the force to the chime."

[sizhens-deactivated20250415]

[mediocrefantasy]

i love these sort of posts because they feel like a vision of a kinder and more thoughtful world that I wish more than anything was the mainstream instead of the exception

[ariavar]

I was going to reread some of the excellent meta by mylestoyne and?? I just discovered her blog is gone??

[werewolfetone]

You know I do think that a lot of people need to get more comfortable reading nonfiction to understand Things & Ideas. I see a lot of people especially online expecting to be educated on current issues or on political ideologies or what have you ~through fiction~ and while that often works for like. the gist of the idea. you do kind of need to read nonfiction to understand most things past their most simplistic form

[werewolfetone]

For instance a work of fiction can tell you "homophobia is bad" but do you want to understand why homophobia is bad? why it exists? how it manifests? what a microagression is? how to combat it? that's the territory of nonfiction, you shouldn't expect fiction to tell you that. and furthermore refusing to engage with nonfiction and instead assuming fiction will tell you need to know on an issue is going to result in a warped perception of the issue that's going to be completely unproductive for everyone involved

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[yves-and-scessernee]

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

[so-much-to-read-deactivated2025]

[half-giant-fighter]

[two-unwavering-bands-of-light]

The Inn at the Crossroads is Smallfolk Harrenhal

[mybeautifuldarktwistedshane]

We (rightfully) make fun of shane for putting on a suit before their first hookup but we should also be making fun of ilya for wearing a fashionable denim jacket. They were staying in the same hotel. he put that jacket on just to down the hall and up the elevator. he only wore it because he thought shane would think it looked cool (he did) and that shane would love a sexy little striptease (he did). Embarrassing!

[divergenseas]

Princess Arianne Nymeros Martell, Heir of Dorne by Mal Cao

[exuberantocean]

When reading fanfic keep in mind that for professional literature: 

Short story: under 7,500

Novelette: between 7,500 and 17,500

Novella: between 17,500 and 40,000

Novel: over 40,000

Fics over 40k are literally a novel written and shared for free.  If you have written a 40k+ fic, you have literally written a novel.

[applecrumbledore]

not only is a short story under 7,500, if you’re writing for a lit mag or other similar publication, I’ve never known one to take more than 3,000 words for a fiction feature, which, trust me, is less than you can ever imagine. if you can write short, that’s a gift. it’s harder! make someone feel something with fewer words!! it’s masterful!!