Winters in my Veins

Lily ⭐︎ 21 ⭐︎ usa ⭐︎ INFP-T ⭐︎ she/they pronouns ⭐︎ professional fanfic writer & Game of Thrones/WOIAF enthusiasts ⭐︎ Pro- Daenerys Targaryen ⭐︎ Jonerys end game truther Targaryenology / Winters in my veins on ao3

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Odysseus trying to get home:

[monetilly]

"I dont care to see you here again."

Commission for @culpeppercheckers721

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220 Scents

This is a companion resource to Words To Describe Scent.

Arguably our most evocative sense, the sense of smell is an underused tool in writing descriptions and settings. Nothing transports me into the book I’m reading as effectively as the memory of some familiar scent, or some distant one awoken from the deepest parts of my brain. This is simply a list of recognizable scents, categorized by the “type” of scent or the kind of environment where it might be found:

(1) Natural scents are those that your character may expect to find in relatively undeveloped areas like while hiking a mountain, on a quest through a dark forest, or during an epic faceoff with their arch nemesis on a beach in the rain. These may also be found in more developed areas like a local park, and even in a peaceful oasis in a highly industrial area.

(2) Fruit/Vegetable scents are useful in many settings, so your character doesn’t have to work on a farm to use this list – though it certainly would come in handy for a farm setting! Our characters encounter these scents in the homes of loved ones, in inns where they rest for the night during a long journey, and while running through the palace orchard to warn the King of an impending attack.

(3) Florals, Herbs & Spices – perhaps the most fragrant and versatile category. Floral descriptions may be used for bouquets at an old flame’s wedding, or for a lover’s perfume left over on the pillow. Your character may encounter herbs & spices anywhere from a busy street market to a witch’s brew in an isolated mountain house.

(4) Industrial scents are those, in general, associated with humans, civilization, and development. These will typically be found in cities or wherever there are people. You may also notice that most of these would be generally considered unpleasant. That’s not to say pleasant scents don’t exist where there is development, just that the development itself usually doesn’t smell great. The beautiful scents from any of the other four categories can be, and often are, found in developed areas… especially those of the last category:

(5) Food! Your character’s favorite café, their mother’s kitchen when they were a child, the lunch their best friend used to share with them, the last Christmas meal at their ex-lover’s home, the cocktail they were drinking when they met their arch nemesis – the list is endless and endlessly evocative.

Use wisely and enjoy!

[moonlit-floruit]

name list: winter

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names reminiscent of, or pertaining to, the winter season. sources: glacial terms. light names. ice forms. non-migratory winter birds. evergreens. etc.

apricity ~ sterling ~ jay ~ ember ~ clary ~ pax ~ juniper ~ lumi ~ winter ~ finn ~ nevada ~ holly ~ frost ~ aura ~ nives ~ evergreen ~ snow ~ glimmer ~ cedar ~ nivea ~ crystal ~ cardinal ~ neve ~ isolde ~ alban ~ wren ~ briar ~ argent ~ hail ~ ivy ~ neige ~ clare ~ gwyn ~ gwen ~ aspen ~ wynn ~ nix ~ silver ~ luce ~ inverna ~ brumal ~ gliss ~ morrena ~ moraine ~ sérac ~ firn ~ esker

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enjoy <3

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+ to End the Wreck GIF-Set posts, this shot is just SO pleasing for the eyes:

WRECK

Peter Claffey | Cormac Kelly

S2 E6

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The sudden urge to delete some of my fics bc I’m yet again getting harassed by others in this fandom

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Hi! :) Just wanted to start off by saying I absolutely love this blog. You are seriously such a blessing Jana; I hope you're doing well! Now, sorry if this is random or weird but! I was wondering if you might have any heist prompts? Like, what's being stolen, from whom, what could or does go wrong, or if that's too much, maybe just dialogue prompts for characters planning/executing the heist? I understand if you can't do this, but thank you so much in advance if you can!

Hi :)

Thank you so much for that sweet message! I'm doing very good right now, I hope you do too!

I actually have a big heist scene as like the central point of my wip, so I'm trying to come up with something for you.

Heist Prompts

What's being stolen?

Intel/Data

Valuables (cash, jewelry)

Paintings

Sculptures

Artefacts

Hearts

From whom?

Museums

Art galleries

Banks

Private mansions

Government buildings

Offices

What could/does go wrong?

bad intel about the venue, the item, the client, the robbed individual

alarms going off

people present they didn't expect

someone betrayed them

it's a trap

the item they want to steal is actually fake

the item is no longer there

someone came in before them

one of them gets caught

the equipment malfunctions

Dialogue prompts for planning/executing a heist

"So, Plan D?" "Yeah, Plan D it is."

"Has anyone here done their research or did you all plan on just knocking and asking for the stuff?"

"Wait, this says that you need a cat for the heist. Explain to me what that means, please."

"They wouldn't call the police if they found us, they are criminals themselves that would make no sense." "Them not calling the police means they would punish us themselves."

"What happens if they come back earlier?" "Then we're screwed."

"Can one of these days something go according to plan? Please?"

"I told you to grab the one item we get paid for by our employer to steal, so where are all these Fabergé eggs coming from?" "They were just laying around without a name tag, how would I know who they belonged to?"

"Why am I always the decoy?" "Because you do it so beautifully."

"So, what is my role in this whole shenanigan situation?" "I thought you could be the driver."

Hope you enjoy this!

- Jana

[perfectlyrose]

AU prompts: masterlist of lists

Okay so if you’re anything like me you see those lists of au ideas floating around and you like them but when it comes time to write something and you need an idea you have no idea what you tagged them as or if they’re buried somewhere in your likes so….have a list of some of the ones I’ve come across! This is updated with new lists and fixed links fairly frequently so check back here if you’d like more! 

also: there are a few lists that people have requested that i have not been able to find so if you know of one/write one, please send it to me. my messages/ask/submit are all open. WANTED: expectant parents/parents with newborns aus, historical aus

 (updated on november 6th, 2016) 

(current count: ~163 lists + 39 individual prompts)

themed:

super long list of college aus

more college aus

even more college aus

autumn aus

it’s really cold outside aus

meet-ugly

art school aus

femslash aus

they know each other but don’t know that they know each other aus

awkward first meeting aus

MORE college aus

airport related aus

fake married/dating trope

pub aus (here for halloween season)

royal aus

assassin aus

opposites attract

lots more under the cut, the post was getting unwieldy

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[bi-widower-dads]

prompts for spring

A few more specific prompts for Barduil Month 2025 (and various and sundry purposes)

🌱 fertility rites and rituals 🌱 the first full moon of spring 🌱 new life 🌱 migration 🌱 snowmelt 🌱 planting seeds 🌱 spring cleaning 🌱 thunderstorm 🌱 waking from hiberation 🌱 flower crown 🌱 warm days, cold nights 🌱equinox

choose as few or as many as you like!

[deity-prompts]

Welcome to the February 2021 Writing Challenge! Everyday of February, you will be given a one-word prompt to turn into a poem, a paragraph, a story, anything.

Hay-fever

Bouquet

Promise

Forest

Apron

Feather

Birth

Bright

Reunion

Ivy

Yearn

Stain

Branch

Fling

Ringlet

Courtship

Violet

Bloom

Teacup

Thaw

Charity

Dirt

Forgiveness

Berry

Engagement

Reinvent

Stem

Spring

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Phrase List: Seasons

phrases and idioms to try to include in your poem/story

Be riding for a fall - to be doing something that is likely to lead to failure or disaster

Dead of winter - the middle of the winter

Fall apart at the seams - to break into parts or pieces—usually used figuratively to describe someone or something that is in very bad condition

High summer - in the middle of summer

Nuclear winter - the chilling of climate that is hypothesized to be a consequence of nuclear war and to result from the prolonged blockage of sunlight by high-altitude dust clouds produced by nuclear explosions

Ride for a fall - to court disaster

Spring a leak - to start to leak; to suddenly let water in or out through a crack or break

Spring a surprise - to do, ask, or say something that is not expected

Spring a trap - to capture someone or something (such as an animal or criminal) with a trap—often + on

Spring fever - a lazy or restless feeling often associated with the onset of spring

Spring for - to pay for (something)

Spring into/to action/life - to become suddenly very active and energetic

Spring to mind - to be remembered or thought of

Summer home - a house that someone lives in during the summer

Summer kitchen - a small building or shed that is usually adjacent to a house and is used as a kitchen in warm weather

Summer theater - a theater that presents several different plays or musicals during the summer

Tears spring to someone's eyes - used to say that someone suddenly starts to cry

The depth of winter - the middle of winter; the coldest part of winter

Winter-kill - to die as a result of exposure to winter conditions; to kill (a plant or part of a plant) by exposure to winter conditions

Winter quarters - a winter residence or station (as of a military unit or a circus)

Source ⚜ More: Phrases ⚜ Word Lists ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

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First Date Prompts

It was their first official date and despite both of them already knowing each other, they were both incredibly nervous.

He was not one to kiss on the first date. But he had done a lot on this date that he normally didn't imagine himself to do.

Their first date was an absolute disaster. And everyone was shocked to find out that they were already planning the second one.

As far as first dates go, this one was special.

Having their first date in front of cameras was less than ideal.

They couldn't remember what their first date was, so they plan the perfect first date, even though they've been together for some time now.

A date is not supposed to last more than a few hours, much less more than a day. Especially not a first date.

This first date was a perfect example of Murphy's law. Nothing worked out how they had expected it to, and every time they thought it couldn't get worse, it did.

Having been in an online relationship for a while, it was weird and exciting to have their first date in person months after saying I love you the first time.

Their friends had arranged a blind date for them, and because their friends know them best, they were already planning a second date after this.

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[literaryvein-reblogs]

Words to describe blood without saying crimson or blood?

Blood—the fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins of a vertebrate animal carrying nourishment and oxygen to and bringing away waste products from all parts of the body

Arterial - relating to or being the bright red blood present in most arteries that has been oxygenated in lungs or gills

Body fluid - a fluid or fluid secretion (such as blood, lymph, saliva, semen, or urine) of the body

Carmine - a vivid red

Cerise - a moderate red

Claret - a dark purplish red

Clot - a coagulated mass produced by clotting of blood

Cruor - obsolete: the clotted portion of coagulated blood

Ensanguine - to make bloody; crimson

Geranium - a vivid or strong red

Gore - blood, especially: clotted blood

Hematic - of, relating to, or containing blood

Hematoid - resembling blood

Hemoglobin - an iron-containing respiratory pigment of vertebrate red blood cells that consists of a globin composed of four subunits each of which is linked to a heme molecule, that functions in oxygen transport to the tissues after conversion to oxygenated form in the gills or lungs, and that assists in carbon dioxide transport back to the gills or lungs after surrender of its oxygen

Hemoid - resembling blood

Ichor - a thin watery or blood-tinged discharge

Incarnadine - bloodred

Juices - the natural fluids of an animal body

Maroon - a dark red

Plasma - the fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk as distinguished from suspended material

Puce - a dark red

Ruddle - red ocher (i.e., a red earthy hematite used as a pigment)

Russet - a reddish brown

Sanguine - bloodred; consisting of or relating to blood

Scarlet - any of various bright reds

Vermilion - any of various red pigments

Word Lists ⚜ Blood ⚜ Exsanguination ⚜ On Blood ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

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CULTS, KNIFE CRIME, THEFT, MURDER, WORLD DOMINATION! Prompts inspired by fictional villains and toxic dynamics.

cw: gore, violence, usfw.

“But tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, my blades will thirst again.” “Everyone who isn't us is an enemy.” “Come to me, Father. Set my flesh to your unholy purpose.” “You're angry. Good. Anger can save you when everything else is gone.” “Oh, shut up, you little fool. Praying for the gods to have mercy on us all? The gods have no mercy, that's why they are gods.” “I itch to peel you, to split your skin, to see your skull shine in the light.” “The healer has the bloodiest hands.” “All that I am belongs to the pursuit of creation. You chose to constrain yourself. I must climb to the heights only understood by gods.” “You want to rule? This is what ruling is! Lying on a bed of weeds, pulling them out, by the root, one by one before they strangle you in your sleep!” “Duties, duties, duties. Patrolling and saluting and following and bowing and scraping and 'yes, sir, no, sir, rip and cut your throat, sir'.” “Give me a reason not to cut you to ribbons.” “I've always found the idea of death comforting.” “You would deny me my life.” “I choose violence.” “I’d never been so happy as that moment as I held hands with Death.” “I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly.” “The mathematics of human behavior... All those ugly variables.” “A mad dog understands the yank of the leash and the hand of its master, but it cannot be an equal. 'You' can be my equal.” “I look forward to your show of power.” “Do not slouch before me, boy.” “I had to put up with you for years; isn’t that punishment enough?” “It's risky but - erm - safe!” “And he shall cast upon you curses, confusion, afflictions, rebukes, for you have forsaken me, and he shall reign over all of your empty corpses.” “Knowledge is power.” “Power is power.” “Let me clear up some mysteries, then. We share so much history.” “Your daughter will die in this cell, and you'll be here watching when she does.” “Your Gods have forsaken you. This is your God now.” “Yours is a family set upon self-slaughter.” “You burrowed too deep, little rabbit.” “Pity, I thought you'd be more powerful.” “I feel an endless nausea, that only goes away when I'm killing.” “I'm a contemptible blood-pervert.” “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning.” “We are the wolves.” “Are you all right now, or is today a ‘I will wed you with a delicate veil of blood blooming over your white curls’ kind of day?” “It is a trifle, a foolish dream, just as your past fancies.” “Beg that I succeed. For I have seen the Throne of the Gods, and it was empty!” “What happens to you now is your own doing.” “When your enemies pursue, you vanish. When they become complacent, you harass them. When they are weak, you strike in earnest.”

[studyofasoiaf]

Names used in the Reach

(according to books; names of characters from houses in the Reach)

- next to the names are either houses which have a character/s with that name or culture of the character/s with that name

Female

Alerie (Hightower)

Alicent (Hightower)

Alla (Tyrell)

Alyce (Graceford)

Alys (Oakheart)

Alysanne (Bulwer, Hightower, Osgrey)

Arwyn (Oakheart)

Bethany (Hightower, Redwyne)

Ceryse (Hightower)

Clarice (Osgrey)

Delena (Florent)

Denyse (Hightower)

Desmera (Redwyne)

Elinor (Costayne, Tyrell)

Ellyn (Beesbury)

Elyn (Norrridge)

Falia (Reachman)

Florence (Fossoway)

Florys (Reachman)

Helicent (Uffering)

Janna (Tyrell)

Jeyne (Fossoway, Merryweather, Rowan)

Leona (Tyrell)

Leonette (Fossoway)

Leyla (Hightower)

Lia (Serry)

Lynesse (Hightower)

Lysa (Meadows)

Malora (Hightower)

Margaery (Tyrell)

Megga (Tyrell)

Melara (Crane)

Melessa (Florent)

Meredyth (Crane)

Mina (Tyrell)

Myrielle (Peake)

Olene (Tyrell)

Olenna (Redwyne)

Patrice (Hightower)

Patricia (Redwyne)

Rhea (Florent)

Rohanne (Webber)

Rosamund (Ball)

Rose (Crane)

Rowan (Rowan)

Rylene (Florent)

Samantha (Tarly)

Sansara (Tarly)

Selyse (Florent)

Sharis (Footly)

Talla (Tarly)

Victaria (Tyrell)

Yrma (Peake)

Male

Abelar (Hightower)

Addam (Hightower, Osgrey)

Aegon (Ambrose)

Aemon (Costayne)

Agramore (Cobb)

Aladore (Florent)

Alan (Beesbury, Tarly)

Alekyne (Florent)

Alester (Florent, Norcross, Oakheart, Tyrell)

Alton (Beesbury)

Alyn (Ambrose, Ashford, Cockshaw, Hunt)

Amaury (Peake)

Androw (Ashford)

Armen (Peake)

Armond (Caswell)

Arthor (Oakheart)

Arthur (Ambrose)

Arys (Oakheart)

Aubrey (Ambrose)

Axell (Florent)

Baelon (Hightower)

Barris (Hightower)

Barquen (Peake)

Bayard (Norcross)

Ben (Beesbury, Bushy)

Bertrand (Tyrell)

Bors (Bulwer)

Buford (Bulwer)

Branston (Cuy)

Braxton (Beesbury)

Bryan (Fossoway)

Bryndon (Hightower)

Cleyton (Caswell)

Clifford (Conklyn)

Colin (Florent)

Damon (Hightower)

Desmond (Redwyne)

Denys (Oakheart, Redwyne, Woodwright)

Derrick (Fossoway)

Dickon (Tarly)

Donald (Tarly)

Donnel (Hightower)

Dorian (Hightower)

Eden (Risley)

Eddison (Peake)

Edgar (Sloane)

Edgerran (Oakheart)

Edmund (Ambrose, Gardener)

Edwyd (Fossoway, Osgrey)

Ellard (Crane)

Elwood (Blackbar, Meadows)

Elyas (Willum)

Emerick (Peake)

Emmon (Cuy)

Erren (Florent)

Eustance (Hightower, Osgrey)

Franklyn (Reachman)

Foss (Fossoway)

Gareth (Gardener, Tyrell)

Garlan (Tyrell)

Garland (Gardener)

Garmon (Hightower)

Garmund (Hightower)

Garrett (Reachman)

Garse (Gardener)

Garth (Gardener, Hightower, Oldflowers, Tyrell)

Gawen (Gardener)

Gedmund (Peake)

George (Graceford)

Gerold (Hightower)

Gilbert (Redwyne)

Gordan (Gardener)

Gormon (Peake, Tyrell)

Glendon (Hewett)

Greydon (Gardener)

Gunthor (Hightower)

Guthor (Grimm)

Gwayne (Gardener, Hightower, Oakheart)

Gyles (Gardener)

Harlan (Tyrell)

Harlon (Tarly)

Harrold (Osgrey)

Harys (Cobb, Graceford)

Herndon (Tarly)

Hobber (Redwyne)

Horas (Redwyne)

Hosman (Norcross)

Humfrey (Beesbury, Hewett, Hightower)

Humphrey (Bulwer)

Hyle (Hunt)

Igon (Vyrwel)

Imry (Florent)

Jack (Bulwer)

Jafer (Reachman)

Jason (Hightower)

Jeffory (Norcross)

Jeremy (Hightower, Norridge)

Joffrey (Caswell)

John (Gardener, Oakheart)

Jon (Bulwer, Florent, Fossoway, Hightower, Roxton)

Josua (Willum)

Laswell (Peake)

Leo (Blackbar, Costayne, Tyrell)

Leyton (Hightower)

Loras (Tyrell)

Lorence (Roxton)

Lorent (Tarly, Tyrell)

Lorimar (Peake)

Lucantine (Woodwright)

Lucas (Inchfield, Leygood, Tyrell)

Luthor (Tyrell)

Lyman (Beesbury)

Lymond (Hightower)

Lyonel (Hightower, Tyrell)

Mace (Tyrell)

Manfred (Hightower)

Manfryd (Redwyne)

Mark (Mullendore)

Marq (Ambrose, Merryweather)

Martyn (Hightower, Mullendore, Tyrell)

Matthew (Mullendore)

Matthos (Tyrell)

Medwick (Tyrell)

Merle (Gardener)

Mern (Gardener)

Merrell (Florent)

Mervyn (Reachman)

Meryn (Gardener, Peake)

Morgan (Hightower)

Moribald (Chester)

Morgil (Hastwyck)

Moryn (Tyrell)

Myles (Hightower)

Norman (Hightower)

Normund (Tyrell)

Nyles (Rowan)

Olymer (Tyrell)

Olyvar (Oakheart)

Omer (Florent)

Orbert (Caswell)

Ormond (Osgrey)

Ormund (Hightower)

Orton (Merryweather)

Osmund (Tyrell)

Otho (Hightower)

Otto (Hightower)

Ottyn (Wythers)

Owen (Costayne, Fossoway, Inchfield, Merryweather)

Parmen (Crane)

Paxter (Redwyne)

Perceon (Gardener)

Peremore (Hightower)

Perwyn (Osgrey)

Portifer (Woodwright)

Pykewood (Peake)

Quentin (Tyrell)

Quenton (Hightower)

Quentyn (Ball)

Randyll (Tarly)

Raymun (Fossoway)

Raymund (Tyrell)

Renly (Norcross)

Reynard (Webber)

Rickard (Redwyne, Rowan, Tyrell)

Robert (Ashford, Redwyne, Rowan, Tyrell)

Robyn (Rhysling)

Rolland (Uffering)

Runceford (Redwyne)

Runcel (Hightower)

Russell (Merryweather)

Ryam (Florent, Redwyne)

Rycherd (Crane)

Samwell (Tarly)

Samwyle (Tarly)

Simon (Leygood)

Steffon (Fossoway, Varner)

Talbert (Serry)

Tanton (Fossoway)

Thaddeus (Rowan)

Theo (Tyrell)

Theodore (Tyrell)

Titus (Peake)

Tom (Costayne)

Tommen (Costayne)

Torgen (Oakheart)

Torman (Peake)

Triston (Hightower)

Tyler (Norcross)

Unwin (Peake)

Urrathon (Peake)

Urrigon (Hightower)

Uther (Peake)

Uthor (Hightower)

Victor (Risley, Tyrell)

Vortimer (Crane)

Walys (Reachman)

Wendell (Webber)

Wilbert (Osgrey)

Willam (Wythers)

Willas (Tyrell)

Wyman (Webber)

[nyx-tenberis]

Seven deadly sins judgment

1# Pride

Sharp needles pierce just beneath the neck's skin,

You won't dare raise your head-

try doing so and invite your own death.

Punishment to destroy the arrogant pride you wore,

As if it was your second skin.

Writer's note: I’ve begun a short poem series titled “Seven Deadly Sins judgment,” where each piece explores a judgment crafted for one sin. At the end, I’ll share a complete version combining all the parts into one poetic whole.

Hope you’ll also support this series — and feel free to share your thoughts along the way.

Also this sin is dedicated to the one word prompt 'skin' by @picklemafia.. ^^