FedonCiadale

Fantasy aficionado since I read Tolkien in my teenage years. I still love Tolkien but I am also into other works. I love ASOIAF (books) and GoT (Show) save season 7 and 8. Recently, I revisited HP and the Dramione ship, so expect some enemies to lovers appreciations here. Wheel of Time has come to my attention again with the show on Prime.I also like Brandon Sanderson, Lois McMaster Bujold, in short in my free time it's fantasy...Header by courtesy of ragekitn!

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[fedonciadale]

Dear followers of this blog,

I’m sorry to tell everyone this but the original owner of this blog, my mother, has passed away at the end of November. I am her daughter and it was her wish that her Tumblr-Account doesn’t get deactivated just yet, so it is still possible to access her Metas and writing even after her passing. I know there are many who enjoyed her writing, her metas and her role in the fandom and that she will be missed. Everything on this blog and her AO3-Account, which is, as far as I know, linked on here, will remain online, as it was my mother’s wish. As of now, I will continue to manage her blog. I will not post anything new.

I want to thank everyone who made her fandoms a pleasant, fun and enriching experience that she wanted to participate in. She truly enjoyed it most of the time and I am glad she found a community. I am happy her writing and thoughts remain this way. I also want to express my condolences.

I want to ask you to please not send multiple messages or condolences to the inbox since I think it will be too much for me to manage. Comments should be fine.

Thank you!

[fedonciadale]

Master meta post

*** Edit: Please check the pinned post on this blog! This post will not be updated anymore as the original owner of the blog, my mother, has passed away.***

Master meta post

So I decided to put together some of my metas/ask posts (that tend to become metas occasionally) for convenience and pin this post.

I have not yet linked all (obviously), but I will revisit this post once in a while and add links…

Also for my numerous ask - evolved into metas I usually added some that I think are representative.

ASOIAF - Bookwise

Meta series on “Singers singing songs and their impact on character in ASOIAF”: part 1: Jon

part 2: Sansa

part 3: Daenerys

part 4: Starks and Lannisters

An ask about Florian and Jonquil (note the excellent additions!)

What is a bittersweet ending? (x, x, x, x)

Meaning of Ice and Fire

GRRM is not a Nihilist

First men and Children of the Forest

Politics in ASOIAF/GoT

Legitimacy of Kings in Westeros

Claim to the throne, right to the throne and the making of Kings

Daenerys and her understanding of history

Marriage annulment

Northern Independence asks (x, x, x)

Food sharing in Westeros

Parallels to Wars of the Roses

Starks

Sibling dynamics: Everyone was the odd one out once in a while

Sansa and Arya (mostly answers to Did Sansa bully Arya? (x, x)

Succession in the North: Was Sansa disinherited (x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x)

Septa Mordane

Dragons vs. direwolves

Targaryens

Would Jon on the throne mean a Targ restoration?

Why did the Targs practice incest and what are the political repercussions?

Jon Snow’s Targ name

Shipping:

Jonsa, Jon€rys and the logic of shipping

Shipping and canon shipping

Why is Jonsa hated?

Bulverism

Show rants:

Catfight at Winterhell: rant, asks (x)

Annulment of marriages in the Middle Ages

Daenerys and her understanding of history

Doubts prior to season 8

Circular storytelling

The full cirlce of Westeros

Why the endgame doesn’t make sense: 1 (Bran) , 2 (Tyrion), 3 (Arya), 4 (Sansa), 5 (Jon)

Women:

Women in Westeros and misogyny - Cersei

Women in Westeros and misogyny - Brienne

Sansa and Feminism

Arya and her feminitiy

Catelyn the advisor

Comparison of Jonsa with other ships

Jonsa and Jon€rys (my oldest post, Nov 2016)

In General: Incest, Endogamy, Exogamy, Genetic attraction phenomenon

Cousin marriage in the Middle Ages

In-world opinions on Cousin marriage, Targ incest

Does a Jonerys marriage solve any problems?

Foreshadowing for Jonsa, Jon€rys and J0nrya

Jonerys foreshadowing

Why Jonerys is incompatible

Comparison of Jonsa and Jonerys foreshadowing

What was GRRM’s original idea?

J0nrya and the original outline

So called J0nrya foreshadowing (= Jonsa foreshadowing in disguise)

Will there be a Jon€rys baby? (x, x, x, x, x)

Arya and Jonsa, J0nrya reunion

Political J0nrya marriage after Sansa’s death?

J0nrya as a possibility in books and show

Anti Dany/Jon/Sansa threesome for Targ restoration

Anti Sansan 

Anti Sanrion

Does Jon have a crush on Alys?

Alys Karstark as possible marriage candidate

Sansa Stark

The Trident incident (x, x)

The ‘Horseface’ question

Precanon crush?

Sansa is Jon’s type

Arguments against Sansa and “Rickard Forrester” as a rando last minute love interest

The Broken Tower in Winterfell

Sansa’s ‘betrayal’

Sansa won’t be disfigured

Sansa’s wishes

Sansa and the Northerners

Sansa and Alysanne Parallels

Sansa and Lady

Dany and Sansa as foils

Sansa as the ‘original villain‘

Does Sansa trust Littlefinger?

Is Sweetrobin getting poisoned?

Sansa and Sweetrobin

Ned and Cat

The man who passes the sentence

Was Ned in love with Ashara and did he have sex with her?

Ned and Cat as parents

The Starks value life

Literal tropes:

Relationship tropes in GoT and ASOIAF

Accidental incest and secret parentage and their outcoming

The function of secret parentage in fiction

What even is incest?

Jonsa and Beauty and the Beast

Fairy tales:

The trickster cat

The Bear and the Maiden fair

The Pig boy

Allerleirauh

Comparisons with Tolkien:

Beren and Luthien: part 1, part 2, part 3

Aragorn and Arwen

The Girl in Grey:

Various asks on the Girl in Grey (x, x, x, x, x)

DarkDany stuff

Why conquer Westeros at all?

A Storm that hits

Conquerors landing on the shore

Will Dany die as a saviour?

Questioning sharply (Dany’s descent into darkness)

Dany and politics

Dany’s ‘hero’s journey’

Dany and Galadriel

Setting up Dany as a villain: the Leni Riefenstahl connection (mostly @une-nuit-pour-se-souvenir but it started with my ask

Dany is not an abolutionist

Fire and Blood:

Methods of foreshadowing

Alysanne

Jaime

Succession in Fire and Blood

Fire and Blood tidbits

Will Arya kill Dany?

Archmaester Glydaen and his bias

Political Jon

Jon the Player, Jon the Deceiver?

Cersei and Aurane Waters as a parallel to Jon and Da€nerys

Deceiving and Lying Starks

Jon the Negotiator

Jon’s political skill on the show

Starks and their political skills

Asks about Political Jon (x, x, x)

Other:

Jaime Lannister as Hand of the King

Jaime as Hand - Hints in F&B (1, 2)

Tully mud, blood, death and sudden change

Rains of Castamere and the futility of revenge

Stark words and Stark obligations

Parallels to Outlaw King

Crack:

Why we should ship Tormund and Dany

HP Verse:

Everything wrong with the HP verse

Good Slytherins

Internalized misogyny in HP and the girly girl

Is S.P.E.W fake woke?

Grey characters in HP

Classism in the HP verse

Is Draco smart?

Hogwarts sorting: How it should go

JKR’s writing

Arthur Weasley and muggles or classism in HP

On redemption arcs: Draco,

On ships in HP: Fremione and Harmony; Anti Romione

My thoughts on : Ginny, Ron

[fedonciadale]

Hello everyone :) First of all, thank you for continuing to keep my mother's memory alive by still liking and reblogging her metas, it means a lot to me. Second of all, this is simply a reblog by me, Fedonciadale's daughter, so her carefully thought out and collected metas can be accessed more easily. If you are new, please check the pinned post on this blog!

[stein048]

TW// MCD

Hermione didn’t escape with the others during the war and she died by Bellatrix wand. Her ghost haunts the library at Malfoy Manor, her little bluebell flames the first indication of her presence. 🤍

A little drabble written for this:

~*~

The house reeked of dark magic and burnt ozone. It clung to every surface, staining it with the unsavory odor. The magnificent Malfoy Manor, grand as it once had been, was now the operational base for the Dark Lord from which he now lived in as well. The opulent space had taken on a darker atmosphere. Gone were the merrily flickering chandeliers and torches, replaced by nearly clinical blue orbs of light. The scent of death now lingered. How many had died here, in these walls? Countless. Draco certainly hadn’t kept track.

Most of the family’s private rooms had been sealed off from their live-in guests. Rooms they wished to keep private and untainted. His mothers sitting room. His fathers office. Their own bedchambers. The library.

Draco lingered outside the massive, double doors of the Manor library. They were hand carved mahogany, heavily ornate.

There was no time to read in a war. No time to study. He had been pulled from Hogwarts months ago. The brass handle was cold beneath his fingers, but the door granted him access effortlessly and silently.

The library was dark, the torches no longer lit. They didn’t need to be. Light spilled in from the hallway, casting long dark shadows across the wooden floor. The sunlight peered through the shut drapes, barely illuminating the shelves in stunted warmth. His shoes echoed across the floor as he moved towards the middle of the room. It was silent, but comfortably so. This space hadn’t been tainted by the war. The books had kept their own memories from a different time.

A light seemed to flicker down one of the rows of shelves, and Draco drew towards it. Like a moth to a flame, the little dancing blue light called to him. He had never witnessed them here before. The books that rest on the shelves were filled with magic, and many had magical qualities that could make them appear alive.

“Is anyone here?” Draco asked in a low voice, keeping it steady. He would loathe to think a Death Eater had crept in here and was ruining this sanctuary with their antics. Another blue orb flickered to life besides the first, the pair dancing lazily in the air.

“Malfoy?” A voice called, the sound floating on the air itself.

He turned on his heel, silver eyes glancing around the room to find the source. He recognized that voice. It haunted him.

“Quit playing games with me, Goyle.” He snapped impatiently.

A hazy mist appeared before him, slowly solidifying until a spectral form came into focus. He felt his heart lodging in his chest as eyes met his, her face surrounded by waves of loose curls. He could make out everything about her, from the dance of freckles across her nose down to the way her lashes fluttered.

“Granger.”

A dispirited smile lifted the corner of her lips.

“What are you doing here?” He asked her. As if he didn’t know.

“I can’t seem to leave.”

A pang struck him; many had died yet he had to run into any other ghosts that haunted the Manor. What had made her stay?

“Well, figure it out. I can’t have you flitting about and causing a ruckus. My mother will be distraught to have a Mudblood tainting the halls.”

He moved to step past her, but paused at her words, “I can’t leave this room. It’s been lonely.”

Draco turned his head to look at her. Down at her, really. Had she always been such a short little thing? Well, she wasn’t really anymore as she was dead. Her ghost seemed diminutive. Her arms were wrapped around her waist as she looked at him, brows furrowed.

“I have things to do.” He snapped, but there was no bite to his words.

“Will you… will you return?” Her voice was barely above a whisper. There was almost a hopefully glint to her eyes as she looked up at him. A pleading. It had been months since her death.

Draco glanced towards the door before back at her, his only response a slight tip of his head before he swept from the room. He looked once more before he shut the door to where she lingered, her corporeal glow seeming to cast a light of its own amongst the shelves.

And he would return to her.

Everyday, through the war and after. He spent his days reading to her until it seemed as if they had managed to read every book in the library. There were times he swore he could feel her. Touch her. Brush a curl away when she leaned over him. Even as he grew old, she remained the same. But she didn’t seem to mind, and she greeted him the same. One day, many heads into the future, Draco carried his tired body to the library to sit upon the chair by the fire, just as he had for the last few decades. She joined him, but her smile was sad. Her hand came to brush his face, as if to wipe away the tired lines that marred his skin. Draco closed his eyes one last time, almost able to feel her fingers.

Hermione Granger left the Manor that day, her fingers linked with Draco’s as their spirits finally departed.

**Please do not use art without permission.**

[stardustinthesky]

✨ Ems’ favorite ships (1/?): John Sheridan & Delenn of Mir ✨ 

Please, have her come in. I’ve been looking forward to meeting her.

[stardustinthesky]

John and Delenn │ Thirdspace

[medievalthymes]

dni unless you have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, all the modern languages, all while possessing a certain something in your air and manner of walking, the tone of your voice, your address and expressions-

[pizza-hats-of-the-world-1882]

[graysedai]

Consider

Instead of having Moiraine and Siuan grow out of their queerness and fall in love with men, wouldn’t it be way, way funnier if, after Thom rescues Moiraine and Gareth and Siuan mutually save one another, Thom and Gareth re-meet and fall in love with each other? They can be like “Light it sucks to be thrown out of Caemlyn by Morgase with an execution order on your coattails,” aaaand kiss.

[thcrin]

TOLKIENWEEK 2022 Day 10: Hope

[starlady66]

BATTLE OF DILFS

Choose your fighter!!

Armitage

Viggo

Hugo

Charles

Ben

Joe

Or

Mr. Owen

[anemarie]

I'm-

[starlady66]

Well, as you may imagine, I like them all but my heart is Owen's 💖✨😭

[not-the-real-norbert-hofer]

Vater, Vater, ich versuche durch Nacht und Wind zu reiten, aber ich bin verdammt dick und das Klatschen von meinen Arschbacken weckt ständig den Erlkönig auf :/

[desertfiredance]

[emziess]

Robert Aramayo as Elrond The Rings of Power, Episode 1

[tchaikovskaya]

"it sucks that the most visible women with political power in the last century have almost all been right wing/conservatives" babe theres a reason for that 💗

[apas-95]

[luxlightly]

It's so important to remember that tumblr is bad. Has been bad. And will likely remain bad for the foreseeable future. And that is vital to our survival. If Tumblr was a good website that worked, it would get turned into a corporate hellscape like every other site. It's so important that Tumblr is broken and poorly run and impossible to effectively navigate. It's all that's keeping us safe.

[ghiresteem]

tumblr management know we feel this way though. They’ve just added trackers to sharing urls/links. The first step to targeted advertising, yay!

don’t get complacent about the possibility of tumblr becoming a corporate hellscape

[pokette]

remember that ANY text in a link after a ? is only tracking information and can ALWAYS be safely removed

[hierophanthistorian]

[catstrophysics]

Quick summary of the (I think) easy way I've been getting around this now:

When you copy a link (form your dashboard, not from their page), it'll come in the format https://at.tumblr.com/[blog name]/[post number]/[tracking junk] (brackets are just for show, don't include those!)

Delete the tracking junk. That's anything after the post number.

Replace the "at" before tumblr.com with [blog name]. Replace where [blog name] used to be with "post" (no quotation marks).

Your final format should be https://[blog name].tumblr.com/post/[post number]

Share the link! It should go directly to the post and not route through any app store or tracking nonsense.

Hope this helps someone!

[chaos-connie]

and buy crabs (if you have the money) so they focus on the quirky 'useless' features instead of developing algorithmic content!

[tiffanyachings]

“We spoke a lot about his parentage. He’s sort of an orphan, and there are unhealed wounds that exist within him. Elrond is part-human, and his brother Elros, who chose to be human and eventually founded Númenor, were raised by their captor as children. I liked the showrunners’ ability to collaborate with that, because it became important to me that he’s an orphan and that he doesn’t belong here or there. I’d gained such passion for Eärendil and Elwing, Elrond’s parents, who appear in the Silmarillion, everything they’d achieved. It’s a lot to live up to for him!”

- Robert Aramayo on Elrond

[rubyvroom]

Can I watch a great film knowing the actresses in it were terrorized and mistreated the entire time? Can I watch a football game knowing that the players are getting brain injuries right before my eyes? Can I listen to my favorite albums anymore knowing that the singers were all beating their wives in between studio sessions? Can I eat at the new fancy taco place knowing when the building that used to be there got bulldozed eight families got kicked out of their homes so they could be replaced with condos and a chain restaurant? Can I wear the affordable clothes I bought downtown that were probably assembled in a sweatshop with child labor? Can I eat quinoa? Can I eat this burger? Can I drink this bottled water? Can I buy a car and drive to work because I’m sick of taking an hour each way on the subway? Whose bones do I stand on? Whose bones am I standing on right now? 

[moniquill]

[dearydeerling-deactivated201904]

On one hand, it’s a privilege to be able to choose to acknowledge these horrors or not–we’re going to acknowledge that privilege. On the other hand, I once attended a lecture by the explorerer-conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s daughter and son and they had a lot of opinions about what we could do to help the environment and the ocean and I talked about how in my country, we have to drink bottled water, because it’s a desert and there’s only salt water all around, but we’re contributing to pollution and all of these things…

And she looked at me and told me not to fall into the trap of “activist guilt.” I couldn’t remember the exact words, but, it was the first time I’d heard the term and it took a weight off my shoulders.

We do what we can. It’s so much better than giving up entirely or not doing anything at all because we can’t do it perfectly. It doesn’t benefit anyone in the end if we just sit around feeling guilty about every little thing in life. I’d just joined tumblr back then (haha, so like, eight or nine years ago at this point?), I was being exposed to way more than I’d ever been before (I was previously just into feminism and animal rights/wildlife conservation/environmentalism since I was a kid), and it was weighing on me.

As long as humans are humans and living flawed lives, many consumed by greed, there will not be anything in this world untouched by evil.

I usually avoid stuff that says it was made in China or other cheap looking knockoffs, out of fear of them being made in sweatshops (now, I know even a lot of big brands use those…), it’s exhausting. Then, I read something about how people who actually lived and worked in those would still buy this cheap stuff and how this shocked the foreigner reporting on it, but they just looked confused like, it’s what they can afford and them avoiding consuming it isn’t going to change the whole system from the ground-up.

… it went on about how “money talks” and choosing where to put your money still feeds the whole capitalist system and is nearly a way of comforting yourself, but you not buying doesn’t mean everyone else isn’t. What needs to be tackled is at a much higher level than any of us can reach.

Of course, I’d still, given the choice, give my money to companies I agree with and I’ll boycott what I know to support awful stuff, but I also feel no superiority over this and know now it’s not as black and white or easy as I thought it was.

This is the same reason that moral purity “you can’t enjoy [x] because it’s Problematic ™” is such nonsense, because nothing is pure. There’s something bad about everything if you dig deep enough. As long as we lived in flawed human societies we’ve got to make the best of what they offer us. If you have the choice and means, please, do support those who do good, but also, don’t beat yourself up over not living up to an unattainable ideal.

No one can. You’ll just make yourself so miserable, you either burn up and stop fighting entirely or you’ll make yourself a non-productive, depressed heap just out of a bleeding heart left unchecked. You can’t make a change to this world if you refuse to engage in it.

Have a related article with self-care tips for activists.

[catvincent]

Purity is one of the worst, most harmful myths humans ever invented.

[vickytokio]

Rebloging for this amazing reply telling us how to actually handle this, because yeah, sometimes I’ll simply shut down trying to find something that doesn’t cause harm to anyone

[cicadianrhythm]

Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.

[funnytwittertweets]