[paladinmain]

Jin Dahaad ❄️

[amber-laughs]

edric dayne thinking wylla the wetnurse is jon’s mother while simultaneously believing ned and ashara were in love omg ned they’re calling you a whore down in starfall

[wildfirefruitjars]

The Hands of Aerys II! This has been a fun drawing to make! I’ve only drawn Tywin and Jon before, so it was fun to draw the other three for the first time. I didn’t spend too much time on the piece, which means just starting the portrait and seeing where it went! Also I mostly drew this to try and remember all of Aerys’ Hands, lol! I never quite remember Owen and Qarlton’s names, but now I hopefully will! ;P

[fipindustries]

I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

[unorthodoxchronicles]

[mouseshift]

wait can we retake it i think i blinked

[grandkhan221b]

Sansa trying her wedding dress (2 seconds before learning she's getting married)

Just wanted to draw this dress with how in detail it's described - also good practice drawing fabrics

[a-song-of-art-and-fire]

Ser Harry Strickland, Homeless Harry

"Harry Strickland had always been a genial man, better at hammering out contracts than at hammering on foes. He had a nose for gold, but whether he had the belly for battle was another question."

Following up The Blackheart and Maelys the Monstrous, we have... an ageing middle manager who is totally up for reclaiming his lost homeland... but marching makes his toes quite sore, you guys. I honestly love Homeless Harry, I feel like he's probably the character I'd act most like if I was in Westeros. I adore the whiplash of hearing all the legends of the golden company, Bittersteel, Maelys... and then meeting Harry. Thay said, his iteration of the Golden Company is a hell of a lot closer to conquering Westeros than any previous, so there's something to be said for unglamorous professionalism.

Something about this mini said Harry Steickland to me - I think possibly the way the fabric under his chain mail manages to look like a shirt collar, making him look like a white collar office worker playing at knighthood. We don't have a canon sigil for House Strickland, but @mylestoyne pointed out it translates to steep land, so I thought some nice mountains would work.

[prokopetz]

Why weren't TTRPGs popularized centuries before video games? Large scale printing for complex rulebooks needed the printing press, but even then, it wouldn't justify taking off as late as the second half of the 20th century

A lot of it boils down to dumb luck. Hobbies resembling modern tabletop RPGs have come and gone before, but none of the ones that came before Dungeons & Dragons ever managed to blow up into a broader cultural phenomenon.

For example, tabletop American baseball simulators that use rules tech very similar to that of modern indie tabletop RPGs – complete with d66 rolls and Big Stupid Tables full of increasingly improbable random events – have been around since the 1880s, and by the mid 20th Century, dedicated players were using them to simulate entire virtual leagues in a way that would be instantly recognisable to modern indie RPG fans as a form of solo journalling RPG. Robert Coover's 1968 novel, The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop., dramatises the hobby in a way that strikingly pre-figures the later Satanic Panic's fearmongering about D&D players becoming so immersed in the game that they lose touch with reality – pre-dating D&D itself by over five years.

It never went anywhere from there. Such games still exist, but the hobby remains insular to this day; it just never stumbled into the right combination of time and place to grow beyond its roots. And it's not even the first time a niche hobby had approached something like modern tabletop RPGs and just never taken that final step. We can speculate about the whys and wherefores, but ultimately, a lot of it – ironically, given the subject matter – boils down to a cosmic roll of the dice.

(One of my favourite counterfactuals is speculating what the modern tabletop roleplaying hobby would look like in a world where it kicked off half a century early by growing out of tabletop American baseball simulators in the 1920s rather than historical wargames in the 1970s. Imagine!)

[believerindaydreams]

as an aficionado of the US Naval War College, their version is that they encouraged the 1970s version out of spite when their support apparatus in Rhode Island was shut down for, ironically, military minmaxing efficiency. Handing the general public technology that let you predict nation state developments had previously been kept under wraps

they will, obviously, deny it if you actually go to Newport and ask them, but this is old news to the town itself

[prokopetz]

I'm not saying I find any of this in any way credible, but "tabletop roleplaying games became a wider cultural phenomenon at the time and in the place that they did because the global military-industrial complex had been deliberately suppressing tabletop RPG 'technology', until the US Navy let the cat out of the bag in the 1970s due to an inter-departmental pissing contest" is a fascinating conspiracy theory.

[lackadaisycats]

The Lackadaisy Season 1 Poster -

Really enjoyed taking some time out to make this. A gold foil version bearing my signature is available for a limited time only. Picking one up helps us keep our indie production funded and moving forward!

Find it now in the Lackadaisy Shop!

[captainofthetidesbreath]

This scene was begging for a little audio edit, in honor of certain iconic musical cues, so I took this important task upon myself.

[queercoded-disney-villain]

Aw, what a good girl. That’s right, kitten. You’re going to come back to my house and. Wgat was that.

[argumate]

Rare leech photographed in Golden Gate Park pond: 'Total shock'

The elusive find had never been logged on iNaturalist before. 

There, wriggling in the sunshine, were two creatures that had never been documented on iNaturalist before: the Golden Gate leech, a predatory worm that only exists in the freshwaters of San Francisco’s largest park.

a predatory worm found only in San Francisco? when is its next B round??

[lgbtlunaverse]

One thing i've run up against when dealing with fandom and characters making less than ideal choices is that people seem to treat a character's decision being sympathetic, the decision being understandable, the decision being reasonable, and it being objectively the best solution for the situation, as synonymous. When those are 4 very different things.

[kingsmoot]

hey jon are you having weird thoughts about your dad commander? what the fuck is this supposed to mean

[professorsparklepants]

i know in my heart that modern au sansa has an instagram entirely devoted to lady and posts videos captioned "bath routine of my direwolf 🥰 #dogbath #doggrooming #direwolf" where she's filing lady's nails and applying lotion to her paw pads while lady sits there with big loving eyes and all the comments are like "GIRL THIS IS AN APEX PREDATOR WHY IS IT IN YOUR HOUSE"

[professorsparklepants]

rickon comments underneath with "i don't think shaggydog knows what soap is" and sansa responds "neither do you"

[mylordshesacactus]

please. have you SEEN exotic animal tiktoks.

99.9% of the comments would be "omg so magical <3 <3 <3 I want one so baaaad omgggggg"

the, like, TWO people going "GIRL THAT IS AN APEX PREDATOR YOUR ~*~SPIRITUAL BOND~*~ DOESN'T MAKE IT A DOG WHY THE FUCK IS A DIREWOLF IN YOUR HOUSE THIS IS WILDLY IRRESPONSIBLE TO PROMOTE" are getting death threats.

[professorsparklepants]

Sansa's pinned comment on her Twitter is "for the LAST time I don't support the exotic animal trade, I'm a skin changer and Lady was LITERALLY sent to me by the old gods"

[stormsthatrage]

Shoutout to Project Hail Mary for being the only media where the unconscious protagonist is dragged off screen by an alien spider monster and the audience's reaction is heartbreak on behalf of the alien spider monster.

[visenyaism]

ultimate thesis of the bloodraven v. bittersteel conflict is that unmitigated haterism will propel you to places you shouldn’t even go to with a gun and drag everyone down with you. but you will still lose to a federal agent with no principles who is willing to bodysnatch to work a second job just because it looks good on his resume.

[visenyaism]