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It’s them… About their own story..
Interview With The Vampire (TVC #1)
Just some thoughts that came to me while reading the first book.
Lestat through Luois' eyes was born to be a vampire. There is an inhumanity about him that strikes me as the ideal of a vampire, what it should be: charming at times, diabolical always. Vampirism to him is a matter of extremes. He feels both love and despair more than anyone else around him. Lestat pretends to be unflappable, like nothing ever touches him, when in reality he is flooded with emotions every second of his inexistance.
And Louis either cannot see it, or refuses to see it. Louis seems to think Lestat is dependant of his money and intelligence, but the truth is Lestat is dependant of him. He craves confort and companionship and acceptance. Lestat is such a masterful deceiver that even Louis falls to his lies and believes him uncaring, incappable of love, an irredimable monster without feelings. It turns out he is the opposite of it.
That's what makes Louis and Lestat the perfect companions: they both feel too much. True, their approach to it is widly different. Louis lives self-absorbed by questions and doubts, Lestat lives in constant movement. When something becomes too much Louis crambles within himself while Lestat looks for a way away from it, a scape.
At their core, they are the same being experiencing feelings in two wildly different ways. And that is fascinating, the contrast they provide to the world.
Ignore canon, and the world you’ve created comes apart like tissue paper.
GRRM, JULY 11, 2024, NOTABLOG
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Maomao?! Are you thinking about decently sized frogs? 🐸
🚨 Vol. 12 SPOILERS 🚨
Maomao? Choosing a name that her knight in shining armour, aka Jinshi, would recognise when (not if, when) he came to save her? How far we've come!
I just spoiled myself Lahan's Older Brother's real name.
Can someone tell me in which LN is it revealed? 🥺🥺🥺
The rains did not let up. They rode through woods and fields, fording swollen streams where the rushing water came up to the bellies of their horses. Arya pulled up the hood of her cloak and hunched down, sodden and shivering but determined not to falter. Merrit and Mudge were soon coughing as bad as Watty, and poor Ned seemed to grow more miserable with every mile. “When I wear my helm, the rain beats against the steel and gives me headaches,” he complained. “But when I take it off, my hair gets soaked and sticks to my face and in my mouth.”
“You have a knife,” Gendry suggested. “If your hair annoys you so much, shave your bloody head.”
He doesn’t like Ned. The squire seemed nice enough to Arya; maybe a little shy, but good-natured. She had always heard that Dornishmen were small and swarthy, with black hair and small black eyes, but Ned had big blue eyes, so dark that they looked almost purple. And his hair was a pale blond, more ash than honey. (Arya VIII ASOS)
So I just realized that the scene above has an earlier paralleling scene:
The rains came and went, but there was more grey sky than blue, and all the streams were running high. On the morning of the third day, Arya noticed that the moss was growing mostly on the wrong side of the trees. “We’re going the wrong way,” she said to Gendry, as they rode past an especially mossy elm. “We’re going south. See how the moss is growing on the trunk?”
He pushed thick black hair from eyes and said, “We’re following the road, that’s all. The road goes south here.”
We’ve been going south all day, she wanted to tell him. And yesterday too, when we were riding along that streambed. But she hadn’t been paying close attention yesterday, so she couldn’t be certain. “I think we’re lost,” she said in a low voice. “We shouldn’t have left the river. All we had to do was follow it.”
“The river bends and loops,” said Gendry. “This is just a shorter way, I bet. Some secret outlaw way. Lem and Tom and them have been living here for years.”
That was true. Arya bit her lip. “But the moss …”
“The way it’s raining, we’ll have moss growing from our ears before long,” Gendry complained.
“Only from our south ear,” Arya declared stubbornly. There was no use trying to convince the Bull of anything. Still, he was the only true friend she had, now that Hot Pie had left them. (Arya III ASOS)
I just find this really amusing. In the top quote it’s raining and everyone is wet, Edric Dayne is getting ill, and he complains, and Gendry scoffs and is rude. However, in an earlier scene Gendry is also complaining about the rain! But what makes this even better is this parallel:
The next day they rode to a place called High Heart, a hill so lofty that from atop it Arya felt as though she could see half the world. Around its brow stood a ring of huge pale stumps, all that remained of a circle of once-mighty weirwoods. Arya and Gendry walked around the hill to count them. There were thirty-one, some so wide that she could have used them for a bed. (Arya IV ASOS)
By sunset they were at the top, making camp where no harm could come to them. Arya walked around the circle of weirwood stumps with Lord Beric’s squire Ned, and they stood on top of one watching the last light fade in the west. From up here she could see a storm raging to the north, but High Heart stood above the rain. It wasn’t above the wind, though; the gusts were blowing so strongly that it felt like someone was behind her, yanking on her cloak. Only when she turned, no one was there. (Arya VIII ASOS)
I just find it funny how obviously jealous Gendry is. And in my opinion this whole Gendry/Arya/Edric triangle is meant to be a tamer mirror to the Robert/Lyanna/Rhaegar triangle. Arya even looks and acts like Lyanna. And Gendry looks like a young Robert. And Edric has the same coloring as Rhaegar with the ash blonde (a dull sort of silver color) and they roughly have the same color of eyes. Rhaegar’s eyes are a deep purple, almost indigo, while Edric’s eyes are a dark blue that look almost purple. Of course, I feel this is just an innocent mirror and Gendry wouldn’t hurt Edric, and I also believe that Edric is just one Rhaegar parallel out of a couple of others in the story, but I do find this fascinating, and funny. Poor Gendry is so jealous! LOL
Ignore canon, and the world you’ve created comes apart like tissue paper.
GRRM, JULY 11, 2024, NOTABLOG
I would've loved to see this in HoTD:
Does anybody else stay awake at night thinking about Rhaegar and Lyanna kind of fulfilling that pact? No? Just me? Okay-
How it feels knowing I'll enjoy Arya's arc whether my theories are right or not because I'm a fan of what's written in the books, not what I projected onto her character
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Valryian Text, House of the Dragon, Episode 109
I showed this on Instagram, but thought it would be fun to post it here, as well. In episode 109 of House of the Dragon, they asked me for an orthographic version of the King's Peace law, because they wanted to put it on the top of the dragon pit. I spied it as the crowd is filing in to watch the crowning of Aegon. I took some analog screenshots (i.e. photographed my television screen with my phone) to show how it works. The top shot is the basic shot of the front of the dragon pit. The second shot has the Valyrian text superimposed over the top of it. The last shot is it written large in glyphs. It reads:
Tego Ēlior Vēttir Dāro Lyks Kessa.
"The first law of the land shall be the King's peace."
Fans of the books will know that this law stated that if any of the Seven Kingdoms had beef with any of the other Seven Kingdoms (e.g. the North and Dorne had beef), they had to take it to the Iron Throne, rather than settle it themselves. I thought it was a cool little detail, and I was so delighted they asked me to do it!