stuff and thangs

my brain management blog. Find me @omoidenokenja for my fanfiction and @watcher1ngellvar for dragon age

[petshopbutch]

submissive in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to the sheep it kills wolves for

[petshopbutch]

love how much attention this post is getting i knew the gay people in my phone would understand me. btw here's the picture that inspired me to make this post in the first place:

[visenyaism]

the whole point of the Kingsguard is that they’re unbelievably fucking washed like zero heroic deeds on the board just morning noon night overtime fraud aura farming. Complicit in every act of patriarchal violence of the monarchy. Not even that good at fighting. Hypothetical victories only. Like “noooo Arthur Dayne would’ve—” except Arthur Dayne lay down his life to stop a pregnant 15 year-old dying in childbirth from seeing her big brother on her deathbed and then got fucking hosed by teenage Ned Stark and his gay best friend who does not hit 5 foot two. “Ohhhhhh aemon the dragonknight” kept his sister in that damn cage for decades and then died in the service of his brother which is dickrider behavior. Bystanderan Selmy? Washed.

[magnetic-rose]

“why does someone MATURE like katara fall in love with a CHILD like aang?” fundamental misunderstanding of katara’s character and her dynamic with aang. she was forced to mature because she lost her mom but she is still, at the end of the day, a fourteen year old child.

she falls in love with aang because he doesn’t just represent hope for the world but he also gives her back her lost childhood with his whimsy. she gets to be silly and childish with him and that’s so important for her.

this fandom tends to adultify katara too much. she’s literally a kid. and it’s okay for her to be.

[suffering-and-misery]

adhd executive dysfunction sucks bcuz im just sitting there and my brain is like

YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME

no work done no rest gained. literally no point of this at all

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[youhavebeentraceyd]

visually, the funniest moment in the season so far

[stealingpotatoes]

alternative eras of lady normalgirl and her eunuch, part 2!

[ferretteeth]

I know Davos is an acquired taste of a POV but I was rereading some of his chapters and why are Davos and Stannis having telepathic d/s gay sex every five seconds

this is just from one chapter

[shadowen]

This is an anti-despair checkpoint! You must share something you're looking forward to before scrolling on.

[atopvisenyashill]

And the peasants, eternally at the mercy of the wind and the sea Who pray constantly to the gods

[masonxashxx]

@pinkdisc

I did the fanart! I liked Pinkdisc's villain AU of Robert and made a thing for my favorite lines. First time posting more than one panel comic on here, so I apologize for the funkiness...

[homunculus-argument]

I like the idea of fantasy settings that initially look like the Standard Stereotypical Fantasy Setting, but when you look closer it's actually more grounded and realistic, but in a way that makes sense for why it looks like that at first glance.

I once had a thought of a fantasy setting where humans are the only race who are in any way distinctly sexually dimorphic, but then it occurred to me that it'd be funnier that they all have roughly the same level of different gendered traits, and can't really distinguish between them in any other one (unless they're very familiar with the other peoples, such as living in mixed cities).

Like elves are the only ones that aren't really distinct at all, male and female ones are both just as tall, the male elves do not have facial hair and the only time female ones have distinctly visible breasts is when they are nursing. Their beautiful, somewhat delicate androgyny easily reads as childlike to an unaccustomed human, giving them an impression of a race of eternally youthful, nigh-immortal creatures, though really they only live to about 100-120 years, while humans live roughly to their 70s or 80.

Elves also assume that humans are constantly reproducing and dying at the same rate as squirrels, since they assume that every human with distinct breasts is currently nursing, and the only explanation to how they could keep having babies nonstop and still maintain a stable population is that they're also dying nonstop.

An embarrassingly large number of humans genuinely do not believe that female dwarves or orcs exist. Female dwarves have beards just the same as male ones do, and in the dwarven societies where gender is expressed at all, the distinctions are in clothing detail too subtle for the untrained eye. A dwarf drinking party might prank a passed-out comrade by unbraiding her beard and re-braiding it into a men's beard style, leaving her waking up hungover and deeply confused about why the fuck she woke up dressed in drag.

The best way to tell male and female orcs apart is that the female ones are slightly larger than males. Orcs aren't matriarchal or matrilinear because of tradition, but because they usually choose their leaders on the grounds of who can beat the shit out of you, and the biggest and meanest one in the clan is just statistically more likely to be female.

[two-bees-poetry]

twenty years across the sea

[kurzler]

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

[9everwhere]

[in prison] Maekar: I've come for my sons Policeman: What are your sons' names? Maekar: You must be new

[daenystheedreamer]

if joff was a targaryen theyd be justifying his abuse of sansa saying well she IS a stark and they ARE at war with the lannisters she shouldnt have fought back or supported her family in any way because that goes against the crown

[casthesixteenth]

Fun detail that the Z-team were scaring off dispatchers before Robert showed up, so Robert is essentially nanny McPhee, with the Z team as the brown children.

[calcium-draws]

i just think he's phenomamal