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"knight posting" this and "guard posting" that. i'm the princess's trusted handmaid who provides her advice and comfort in my soothing, low-class style. i am saying things like "if you don't mind me speaking out of turn, my lady..." and sharing fairy tales and lullabies my sad mother taught me. also i am fucking the jester.

comparativelysuperlative

The experience of being a Nazgul is that it doesn't matter.

It's not that you aren't important. You know perfectly well you're a terrifying death monster whose mere presence drives foes before you or whatever. And it's not that the things you're doing don't matter. Foes, driving, etc. But you are very aware that your experience of it doesn't matter.

The very first thing the Ring does is let him see your thoughts. After however long you spend resisting, or even during it, you will get used to filtering everything: this thought starts a fight, that one is safe. It is very easy for humans to build habits, that way.

Your first reaction to everything will always be about what he would think of it. Maybe you used to have hobbies or enjoy music. Now that's a waste of time. Or maybe you used to think the all-black color scheme was trying too hard. You're still going to Rohan to kidnap specifically those horses. You will think this way, in your own head, forever.

Eventually it's just-- whatever he says, that's what's happening now. You aren't really a participant. You're barely an observer. If he ever gets angry at you for failing to show initiative, well, apparently that's what's happening too.

You're still in there somewhere, feeling things, but what one might call "you" doesn't really connect to what you do or say or think. You ever feel like death would be better than wraithdom? Stop that; you have a task to do and now you're bringing down morale for everyone else. (Was that your voice or his? Does it matter?)

Every time you do anything, you know in advance that you won't be good enough. Maybe some of the Nine are better at things than you, but that too doesn't matter. His standards would be perfection either way, whether or not the sentence "Khamul would have done that right" features.

He himself, obviously, would always have done it right. He's smarter and better at everything than you. Or at least everything that still matters.

aragorn and legolas but theyre tired camp counselors

zecurlyone

They’d lose the children

wickedlittlecritta

i mean…isn’t that what they did in canon?

#lotr

vintagegeekculture

Hal Foster's Prince Valiant.

Early Prince Valiant was full of outright witchcraft and huge dinosaurian prehistoric monsters, but over time, the "outer limits of reality" of the series contracted. Outright "magic" became merely staged trickery, and in place of dinosaurian "dragons" who live in swamps, Prince Valiant instead fought freakishly huge specimens of crocodile. Consequently, there's a lot of art and panels of Prince Valiant battling crocodiles, who he seems to have a bizarre emnity and hatred for, rather like how Jean Luc Picard's life seemed to have constant elevator malfunctions. This is inspired no doubt by H. Rider Haggard's "People of the Mist," where a giant crocodile, grown to unnatural size by extreme age, is worshipped as a god in a lost city.

#prince valiant

poorunfortunatesolanin

Why is every woman Don Bluth makes the hottest women you’ve ever seen in your entire life???

Like you think “oh well they can’t get prettier” and yet they always do

I swear even if you’re not normally attracted to women watch one Don Bluth movie/play one of his games and you’ll definitely be questioning that by the end

#don bluth

When you're excited about a new book/movie/show but the ONLY way people are engaging with the work is shipping

#aromantic #i am so tired

lopata-four

Grandchildren of Walder Frey. 1. Children of Aenys Frey and Tyana Wylde (Aegon, Rhaegar) 2. Children of Perriane Frey and Leslyn Haigh (Harys, Donnel, Alyn) 3. Children of Jared Frey and Alys Frey ( Tytos, Kyra)

#asoiaf