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ooc: my parents are rewatching vikings... and i just think about how ragnar got to where he is because he knew the value of people and held that value in high regard
ooc: my parents are watching vikings... and i will never forgive when and how they killed off stan. their was a better time and place to do it and still let it be done by floki (though i have so many thoughts on how it shouldn't have been floki regardless)... hirst can go fuck himself three ways to hell...
Athelstan was the most comfortable with his view on religion and how he viewed god and the gods when he got to choose for himself how to view them all. When we first meet him it is all he has known he has been at the monastery since he was a child.
When he was taken he is given a very different view on life and not only his god but other ways of worshiping. Part of why he is so open and more or less accepting is because despite his travels prior, he is now free to view this people living just as others lived but with a different source of religion. His views are not jaded because they no longer have to be.
So he welcomes it, and accepts it, and eventually folds it into his beliefs til it is what he believes. But even then is it really his choice or was it one that was more or less thrust upon him as first a way to not die.
Its important to note that throughout Athelstan's kindness and understanding is what really guides him not god or the gods.
He is then forced back into the church, after being nearly crucified and made to become an unwilling servant of the king and god. His views are even more changed at cemented now. This is not how he ever wants to view the Christian God, but he cannot find a way to marry it with the Norse Gods he also deeply respects and understands and also worships.
When he leaves his is making his choice to turn away from how the Church of England views worship. He for the first time really is free to choose worship how he wishes. He is allowed to deconstruct his faith and faiths and rebuild them into a way that works for him.
It is only upon this final rebuilding that he is killed, and he did not fight back. Athelstan went out serving how he best saw fit, in the way of a pacifist, and it was always his doom because no one but really Ragnar, Lagertha, and Bjorn understood him, and why he chose to do things the way he did.
Athelstan would always be an outlier in whatever religion he picked, and would always end up worshiping his own way because he wasn't obedient enough for the Christians always questioning and wanting more, and he wasn't violent or questioning enough for the Norse Gods, and those who viewed themselves as superior in the religion of the Norse Gods, like Floki.
Athelstan finally being happy with how he chose to worship which was to follow both, and be free of what was expected of him, the throwing of his bracelet which was the symbol of an expectation Ragnar put on him to be like him, was his downfall. He deserved to be able to live longer and see what that happiness could really do for him.
PROMPTS FOR WORKAHOLIC CHARACTERS WHO PUSH THEMSELVES TOO HARD * Ā assorted dialogue, adjust as necessary
there's still a lot of work to be done.
i'm not finished with it yet.
i can't give up just yet.
there's nothing noble about working yourself to death.
you think i can't handle this myself?
there's not enough hours in the day.
i realize you think you have to do this.
working like this helps me think.
i'll sleep when i'm dead.
your work ethic scares me sometimes.
i don't need your help.
do you ever sleep?
they need me.
no matter how hard you work, it won't bring them back.
do you realize how crazy that sounds?
i'm not stopping until this is done.
you need to slow down.
i feel like i'm wasting my life.
have you ever taken a vacation?
i can handle this on my own.
i'm nothing without my work.
you're going to get sick if you keep going like this.
you've proven your point.
you're going to work yourself to death.
there are worse ways to spend a life.
you can't keep going at this pace.
i don't have time to rest.
it needs to be done.
do you have any healthy coping mechanisms, by any chance?
there's no time to waste.
i think it's time for you to take a break.
everything was going great until you stopped me.
i can't sleep yet. not until this is done.
i'm the only one who can do this.
at least let me help you.
if i just focus on my work, i don't have to think about anything else.
i'm not asking you to take a break, i'm telling you.
did you really have to interrupt like that?
i'm not budging.
it's my life's work.
you're not going to convince me otherwise.
when was the last time you slept?
i'll help you finish the job if you promise to get some rest.
you're practically falling asleep standing up.
you can finish this in the morning.
let me get you to bed.
don't you get it? it's over!
working yourself to death isn't going to fix anything.
if i don't do it, no one else will.
i wish you would take some time to rest.
i'm not taking a break, if that's what you're asking.
you just broke my concentration, thank you very much.
i'm not going to bed.
i don't know how to quit.
they're counting on me.
too many people rely on me.
i can't disappoint them.
you need a vacation.
i wish you would just listen to me and slow down.
your eye bags have eye bags.
all right, that's it. i'm putting my foot down.
no more excuses.
what do you get out of this? this overworking thing?
without my work... i'm nothing.
no one else is going to step in.
i don't care about me. i care about them.
we have unfinished business.
if i stop now, it'll be like giving up.
i'm a perfectionist. it's in my nature.
better to pour myself into my work than something else.
i wish you would go easy on yourself.
this is very unhealthy.
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{noflowercrownforme: Vikings + favorite platonic relationship} ā Ragnar and Athelstan.
āYou cannot leave! You cannot leave me! I love you. And youāre the only one I can trust so must stay. Well, Iām happy that you have found your god. While you are here no one will ever hurt you. I will protect you.ā
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ooc: all these blonds in HoD... kat winnick must be fuming to not get cast *sips tea*
GEORGE BLAGDEN as ATHELSTAN in Vikings
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iāve made emotional ones before but also, angst?? bon appetit!
ā i canāt do this aloneā¦Ā ā
ā i canāt do this without you.Ā ā
ā nothing is worth losing you.Ā ā
ā i canāt lose you! not again!Ā ā
ā i donāt wanna lose you!Ā ā
ā i love youā¦Ā ā
ā i never shouldāve dragged you into this.Ā ā
ā youāre not alone, [NAME]⦠you never were.Ā ā
ā if something happened to you⦠that would be because of me. and i canāt have that.Ā ā
ā ā¦did you know about this?Ā ā ā this is all my faultā¦Ā ā
ā i/we/you lostā¦Ā ā
ā you wonāt win.Ā ā ā this path youāre on⦠itās gonna get you killed. you know that, though; donāt you?Ā ā
ā i canāt stop.Ā ā
ā you would tell me if something was wrong. wouldnāt you?Ā ā
ā itās like youāre not really here; even when you are.Ā ā
ā donāt you get it?! if anything happens to you, i⦠i donāt know what iād do!Ā ā
ā you have no idea how important you are to me, and iām tired of waiting for you to figure it out, and i sure as hell wonāt wait to announce it over your reckless assā grave!Ā ā
ā no! iām not leaving without you!Ā ā
ā i canāt do this anymoreā¦Ā ā
ā you donāt even know me.Ā ā
ā what have you done?!Ā ā
ā youāre shakingā¦Ā ā
ā iāve⦠made some mistakes.Ā ā
ā you are nothing to me.Ā ā
ā you were never nothing to meā¦Ā ā
ā stop it. enough of this self-sacrificing bullshit! stop acting like you have nobody who loves you! you have me! so no! you donāt get to be a martyr. not today! we can figure out a different planā¦Ā ā
ā i wouldāve done anything for youā¦Ā ā
ā iād risk everything and anything for you.Ā ā
ā iām not a good person.Ā ā
ā please donāt look at me like thatā¦Ā ā
ā i believed in you!Ā ā
ā we canāt loseā¦Ā ā
ā what?! what am i supposed to do?! please! tell me, what the hell am i supposed to do?!Ā ā
ā please, just go⦠iām not the kind of person anyone needs to be around right now.Ā ā
ā what happened to you? huh? what happened to you to make you this way?Ā ā
ā theyāre coming for you. right? thatās why youāre pushing me away like an idiot? because you donāt want me getting hurt?Ā ā
ā nothingās going to be as good as it was before.Ā ā
ā you lied to me!Ā ā
ā i didnāt mean for any of this to happen!Ā ā
ā i canāt trust you anymoreā¦Ā ā
ā i know itās selfish. god knows, ever since we met, iāve been the reason behind every threat and danger thatās come your way. but⦠i honestly canāt say that iād change a second of it.Ā ā
ā itās been an honour knowing you.Ā ā
ā thereās nobody else i can turn to. only you.Ā ā
ā i donāt trust anybody else. not the way i trust you.Ā ā
ā we have no choiceā¦Ā ā
ā why?! why are you helping me?!Ā ā
ā itās too late. thereās nothing more we can doā¦Ā ā
ā please donāt go⦠donāt leave me.Ā ā
ā you are everything to me. okay? EVERYTHING. i canāt lose youā¦Ā ā
ā you deserve better than this⦠better than meā¦Ā ā
ā i thought i could give you a better life. instead, iām the reason itās gotten worse⦠iām so sorry.Ā ā
This was in my bulletin this morning for church (judge all you want) and thus I needed to post it here and think how in my present day verse I may make Athelstan his last name.
* VIKINGS (2013-2020) PROMPTS ,
warriors donāt show their heart until the axe reveals it.
the world is changing and we must change with it.
some men lust for women, and others lust for gold, but i only lust to please the gods.
if nothing is real, we must still act as if it was.
we have lost more knowledge than we ever had.
power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.
it is always a strength to know the weaknesses of your friends.
your power resides in your prestige.
we cannot control our fate, we must accept it.
what was once true and real, is suddenly no longer true; no longer real, and sometimes we have to accept that.
we all make mistakes, sometimes for bad reasons, and sometimes for good ones.
it is one thing to use a weapon, but another to kill.
the space between life and death, thatās where we are the most alive.
life is not a walk across an open field.
we never really change, we just think that we do.
the mind is a far better warrior than the sword.
you and i both know the outcome of this battle has already been decided.
we live to fight another day.
the more complicated a person is, the more interesting he is, but at the same time: the more dangerous he is.
we all live in the past, although some people donāt understand that.
all of my life, and all of your lives, have come to this point.
the only way to tell if something is real is to sail there.
there is nowhere else to be but here.
the lure of an imaginary land, traveling somewhere that doesnāt exist? of course iām coming.
all roads lead to the throne.
to be here now is the only thing that matters.
the gods are manās creation to give answers that they are too afraid to give themselves.
i never forget anything.
you will look better if you have something to believe in.
fame wonāt make your small kingdom any bigger.
to everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the sun.
i have no interest in peace; peace is a dirty word.
if the gods donāt protect me, then who can?
family isnāt everything, in the end, we are born alone and we die alone.
i desire to live a totally different kind of life.
whatās important is how we deal with suffering, how we deal with the truth.
i am old enough to know that you can never say for sure what someone else will do.
what is real today might not be real tomorrow, but sometimes we have to help it to shift.
as long as my brother is still alive, he is not defeated.
you emerge from the womb with only one thing on your mind, how to die.
you couldnāt kill me if you tried for a hundred years.
when you hear thunder, itās only thunder.
it is the way of prophecy.
iāve seen enough of war, i have seen enough of death.
the truth can be a bad choice for a wise man.
you are a great man, but even great men make mistakes.
how the little piggies will grunt when they hear how the old boar suffered.
donāt waste your time looking back, youāre not going that way.
life is all about change, is it not?
man is the master of his own fate, not the gods.
there is an illusion of power that induces inside you a kind of madness.
the gods will always smile on the brave women.
a king must be prepared to do the most terrible things against all conscience if he wants to survive.
words are fine, but they donāt win battles.
itās not a matter of negotiation, itās always a matter of blood.
hatred must never take the place of love.
sometimes the real truth is hidden from all of us, beyond the accidents of time and place, and has to be revealed.
nothing is so complicated, only thinking makes it so.
i have had enough of compromising with the men in my life.
you made a decision, live with it, believe in it; otherwise, how can i ever respect you?
you donāt need a title to be a leader.
what is it about the word king that makes even reasonable people behave like idiots?
i was never the usurper, always the usurped.
now I know Iām the chosen one.
we are always the same. We just pretend to change.
stones are much easier to wear than earth.
i would sup with the devil if he would show me how to achieve my earthly goals.
a hostage of the highest value is the safest hostage.
your death is on its way.
that is always the danger, to do the right things for the wrong reasons.
bad news travels a great deal slower than good news.
i am tired of fighting.
yes, we will all die. but not necessarily when the bandits attack us.
the man i once was would have dug this spade just deep enough into your skull to make you unconscious.
do you see this? are you watching this? this is our dream.
i am done with the humans.
you need to believe in yourself, or youāre not fit to wear that crown.
if you are afraid, then you are already dead.
the gods abandoned you a long time ago.
nothing is ever permanent, everything is always changing.
i need you to help me put my armor on one last time.
what is the point in trying to find a new land, if we behave just the same as we did in the old one?
we should never forget our past, ever.
life is a journey; we are borne ceaselessly into the future.
there is no way you can win.
life is about suffering, thereās no escape from it. thatās the truth.
i can hardly remember his name even now.
the world is more important than we are; we should take care of it.
power is always dangerous: it attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
wherever you go, i will go too. whatever you do, i will do too; even till the ends of the earth, even to the ends of endurance.
if we donāt change, we fall behind.
the gods never had children with humans.
āI am not the child I once was,ā he said, looking at them. āI came to Kattegat, not just as someone who was young, but as someone who knew so little despite all I had learned to that point. I have learned so much, and I still learn each day.ā He paused, and looked down, as he was in thought. āYou among many others help teach me, and I wonder if I will ever be able to repay you for that.ā
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ooc: its me thinking about how when athelstan returns from england he doesnāt deny that he would do a threesome with ragnar and lagertha
also its me thinking about him having monk abilities from dnd... for a fun au verse
He appeared to me. Here, in this room. He blessed me and made the sign of the cross. But he was silent, and his image faded almost as soon as I saw it.
ooc: being so far behind on watching vikings... but seeing another character have a crown of thorns on his head... it hurts a little, noting is sacred for stan now is it?
BLESSED Ā BY Ā THE Ā GODS Ā HE Ā GREW Ā TALL Ā & Ā HANDSOME Ā & Ā IN Ā WISDOM Ā WITH Ā A Ā KEEN Ā MINDā Ā BUT Ā THEY Ā HAD Ā CURSED Ā HIM Ā WITH Ā A Ā BONELESS Ā BODY, Ā TOO.Ā
credit.
ooc: hirst really just canāt leave history alone, didnāt he fuck up enough history already?