mashpotato

alive

[knightwithakay]

a series I’m calling “the artist at work”

[hellenhighwater]

You tell em, yard boy

[escuerzoresucitado]

[tehnakki]

Hummingbirbs is shrimp?????!!!!!!!!

[copperbadge]

Shrimps is boids.

[hellenhighwater]

His arms

they look so stupid

[hellenhighwater]

[hellenhighwater]

Meanwhile, Malice is pretending her brother is not trying and failing to cast magic missile in the background.

[hellenhighwater]

Mayhem is the Chosen One. Obviously.

[xipiti]

WOIM be upon ye!

[hellenhighwater]

Okay there's so many good spells being cast in the notes but I think this is what Vice would want

[hellenhighwater]

If I may inquire, why does your dear sweet idiot baby boy like bringing you woims so much?

Some mysteries are not meant to be solved

[visenyaism]

aegon’s conquest movie adaptation potentially the most boring concept of all time ?

[visenyaism]

Ways to make it somehow conceptually interesting like at all:

- I think I straight up doesn’t work at all unless there is some form of significant conflict within their incestuous throuple marriage. Make Rhaenys an opponent of the conquest or something. Pit the women against each other. Extended Visenya Aegon divorce arc.

- Satirical fascism

-Aegon and Visenya are twelfth-nighting as each other the whole time

- Targaryens framed as at least a little bit evil

- Get it done in the first twenty minutes and do sons of the dragon instead

- Aegon always just offscreen/rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

- Lesbian telenovela (HOTD did it first)

- Prolonged tragic adaptation of a Blackwood-Bracken failed marriage spiraling into civil war; Aegon is the Fortinbras wandering in after everyone’s dead to emphasize the meaninglessness of the violence

- Dornish hypernationalism

- Faith of the seven conclave

- Orys Baratheon POV where it is slowly revealed that being caught up in the prophecy and the call to adventure and glory has completely eviscerated anything good about him

- Courtroom drama

[what-even-is-thiss]

One time I was at a pub trivia night with some writer friends and we almost won but there was a tie. As a tiebreaker they asked us and the other team to write down as many moons of Jupiter as we could in two minutes.

None of us are very into astronomy so at first everyone was like oh we’re gonna lose but there were three of us at the table that night who were either former classics majors or otherwise super well read on Roman mythology and the three of us were like give us that paper right now and we just took turns writing down all of the lovers of Jupiter from mythology that we could.

So of course we won lol

[what-even-is-thiss]

The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh

[what-even-is-thiss]

Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second

[what-even-is-thiss]

Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.

[visenyaism]

Do you think Helena's visions are because of dragon dreams or has the Hightower first men gene made her a greenseer?

Are the hightowers first men?

[visenyaism]

In my mind if the Targs are Normans if they were also kind of Byzantine and the First Men are the Britons and the Andals are the Anglo-Saxons the Hightowers might just be like. Romans who couldn’t get a ride back when all that ended

[frostedmagnolias]

Ivory Silk Evening Dress

c. 1913

Lasell Fashion Collection

[costumeloverz71]

Beautiful.

[wowwforever]

I hate that ‘bad dream’ just means ‘nightmare’ instead of ‘shitty quality dream.’ I had a bad dream last night. It wasn’t scary it just didn’t make a lot of narrative sense

[pmamtraveller]

"Waiting Gradually Eats The Soul"

by A.F. Vandevorst.

[tweed-eyes]

1300-1400 clothing of Lower Empire

[ardentblue-deactivated20210416]

The Byzantine Empire, that is.

[amarantines]

Oh FUCK

[kateelliottsff]

My eyes have just fallen out of my head because of this gorgeous fabric.

[robinlafevers]

Because one can never get enough visuals of medieval clothing …

[hellenhighwater]

NOT A WORM. I REPEAT. NOT A WORM

[captainlordauditor]

Hadestown is one part

"YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?"

-Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"

And one part

In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht, “Motto”

[ripe]

coyotewillow on ig

[blumineck]

Be yourself as best you can whenever you can.