HalothentheHorns

We all want the love of rereading our favorite story for the first time...

[marivictal]

Another drawing for the amazing fic Where Do You Call Home from @halothenthehorns!!!! you can see ive drew this at the beginning of january, thats because i became her beta reader and did this as a present to her when the chapter where the go back to camp half blood came out. Enjoy!!!

[lovecolibri]

Oh, so "you will not break me" ALSO comes from his childhood trauma.

[ghostinwinterfell]

“Catelyn began to laugh hysterically. That was the way they found them, when Robb and Maester Luwin and Ser Rodrik burst in with half the guards in Winterfell. When the laughter finally died in her throat, they wrapped her in warm blankets and led her back to the Great Keep, to her own chambers.” (AGOT, Catelyn III)

“Slow red worms crawled along her arms and under her clothes. It tickles. That made her laugh until she screamed. ‘Mad,’ someone said, ‘she’s lost her wits,’ and someone else said, ‘Make an end,’ . . . Then the steel was at her throat, and its bite was red and cold.” (ASOS, Catelyn VII)

oh nothing just catelyn laughing hysterically after saving bran’s life and being cared for by her household vs catelyn laughing hysterically after watching robb die and being silenced with a knife at her throat.

[ghostinwinterfell]

also. catelyn fighting the knife at her throat using her bare hands and saving her own life along with bran's, while carrying the scars of her survival on her fingers vs catelyn losing her will to live after the loss of her children, tearing her own face apart with her fingers, and having her throat slit.

[discoursedrome]

The opposite of “the elephant in the room” is “the centipede in the room”: something that’s not actually an issue but everyone is freaking out about

[tlirsgender]

We need more women characters who are Male Protagonists. You know. Slightly haggard. She's splashing cold water on her face and gripping the edge of the sink staring in the mirror for a minute. She's coping badly with her deadwife

[tlirsgender]

Ok listen I get that people tagging posts with men is a rule of physics on this hellsite but it's kind of bizarre how badly some of you have failed the assignment on this one. A generic male protagonist archetype who is a man is nothing. That's just the normal cliche I'm talking about subverting. What?

[tlirsgender]

Like if you are For Serious headcanoning your blorbo as a trans woman I am kissing you on the head. But I KNOW most of you are not doing that. Come on. For one dollar name a fictional woman. No being a loser does not make him a woman try again

[kosmogrl]

get in loser we’re gonna try again despite it all

[lesbianwyllravengard]

Did y'all know that there's this game called baldur's gate 3 and it has this guy in it... His name is Wyll Ravengard have you ever heard of him.... They put crack in this guy you gotta check him out

[anexperimentallife]

[gardenergremlin]

It’s called ‘being able to see the corpse’

[burning-cathedrals-deactivated2]

So if I put you in an L-shaped swimming pool, and you knew there was a corpse around the corner, you'd be fine?

[mwagneto]

loving the implication that I'm a little animal and you're a scientist putting me into various bodies of water to test my corpse:water ratio tolerance

[tahthetrickster]

just so we’re clear if you’ve never actually seen a cybertruck in person and have only seen photos of them i cannot stress enough how much worse they look in real life. like i honestly don’t know how it’s possible. most things look basically the same in pictures and in real life. but as stupid and ugly as cybertrucks look in photos, every person i’ve spoken to who has seen one in real life agrees that they somehow look even worse in person. and i know you’re thinking to yourself “tah they already look so bad in photos, how can they possibly look even worse in person?” I DONT KNOW. the first time i saw one on the road i was on a phone call and i literally cut myself off in the middle of a sentence just to be like “oh my GOD.” just an incredibly, laughably, unbelievably bad vehicle. i’ve never experienced anything like it. they’re just so bad

[aorryn47]

My wife, @foldingfittedsheets gave me my first present of Hanukkah.

[foldingfittedsheets]

The cost of being married to an artist.

[foldingfittedsheets]

I told my wife yesterday that I started with the snake. Then I did the rabbit. They were appalled.

“The rabbit was second?! You had other options, and you chose to make that rabbit?”

I nodded. Then I’d done the giraffe and couldn’t think of another long animal so I googled it and found weasels and went perfect! And drew my wiggly weasel.

[arcadianforests]

Spoilers through Parade of Horribles

Prepotente's what-if apartment in Parade of Horribles hit me so hard, and I'm still processing months later

Miriam is only in her 40's, but she came home to take care of her parents and the farm 20 years ago. She gave up her life and her dreams in her 20s to take care of her parents. For, and she plainly states this, a sense of duty. Miriam gave up her life for parents who, at most, were in their 50s. For 20 years. I can't take that as anything other than control and manipulation on her parents part. Miriam was going to be married, she was building a life in a country far from them, and they couldn't let her go, so they played on her sense of duty and trapped her on that farm.

And in Parade we get to see the Dungeon AIs prediction of Miriam's life if she hadn't left. A beautiful New York apartment, a career doing something that she loved, got to travel the world, but she was alone. Alone and sick and sad. It's easy to imagine that the fiance who did not go to Italy with her when things were rough with her parents would not sick around during a major illness, married or not. There weren't any pictures of him in the apartment.

So Miriam is someone who is willing to drop everything and help others, but outside the Dungeon I don't think there was anyone willing to do that for her. No matter how her life went she ends up alone. And I think she loves her goat children, but they would never be enough. They weren't people and they couldn't take the place of human connection.

But Prepotente did become capable of that. Prepotente, clingy, stubborn, and sweet, would do anything for his mother. Miriam knew he would die for her, and she lose the one person in her life she knew truly loved her. Who would stick by her no matter what. And she had to give him the one thing her parents never gave her- a chance to live his life, no matter how hard and scary and sad. And I think if she had tried to save herself and Prepotente had died she would not have continued on. It is only in the Dungeon that I think she got what she truly wanted in life, and to lose it would be worse than death.

And in Parade, Prepotente can't see the whole picture of her life there, just all she lost. Even now, after she has died, Prepotente would give up everything just for the chance for his mother to be happy. As much as Miriam loved him unconditionally, Pony loved his mother just as much. There's just so much grief there.

If you could ask Miriam if she would enter the Dungeon again, knowing everything that she knows, I think she would say yes. Even if it meant dying, even if meant placing the burden of grief on Pony's shoulders, because, just for a little while, she got to have a family.

[wherehumorcomestodie]

Tell me though, who's Penelope

She's our wife...

[bakumanfaces]

I only read the ✨ finest✨ of literature.

[dumpinggroundfornonsense]

Me: Man I wonder how Matt will follow up the drama of Faction Wars.

Matt:

[currently-just-here]

Also:

[helluvahotelyouhavehere]

Sometimes I think about how the last thing Stolas used his magic for before losing it for 100 years was saving Blitzø’s life and then I feel a lot of stuff

[dangerloaf]

First drawing of the princess herself! This fandom really has me in a chokehold atp :D

[no-idea-for-a-cool-name]

Older Arya I drew ages ago and then deleted for some reason. No idea how this Arya week thing works but I figured it was a good moment to repost it.