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studies reveal most people quit beating the dead horse just before it comes back to life. keep beating
was going to wait to post this but then I realized it's not that deep
enjoy the first 2000ish words of an unedited targaryens losing a third blackfyre rebellion, baelor lives for now, ten years after ashford au.
full fic will maybe someday if I'm lucky come out to around 40,000 words, since this is literally just the intro and has not actually touched any of the plot yet
gonna write a fic for real this time guys, not just 1000 words then quit. im writing on my laptop not my phone bc im serious this time
(it might get to 1200 if we're lucky)
edit to add: against all odds, we are up to 1600 words
as you all know I'm a dunk/baelor stan but have any of the dunk/maeker people thought of a les mis inspired au where maeker is javert and dunk is jean valjean? bc I think that would go crazy hard
like go to spotify pull up les mis, listen to the confrontation and just think about it
Bae is authoritative ;) Chapter 8 of "i'm gonna heal you anyway" by @itellyouthisisnottheend You had me sweating there ;)
god I love being a bandwagon jumper. got me chasing that wagon like a damn dog. bark bark
dunk and baelor get together, and dunk sneaks into baelor's chambers to sleep every night, but one night baelor wakes up and dunk is gone. and he's trying to figure out why dunk would just leave in the middle of the night, but then he hears snoring, and looks over the edge of the bed and dunk is sleeping on the floor. and baelor wakes him up and is like what are you doing down there, and dunk tells him that since he's spent so long sleeping rough, under trees and in the hedges and whatnot, sometimes the bed is too soft and he can't get comfortable but he doesn't want to leave Baelor so he just sleeps on the ground next to the bed and then sneaks back into bed before Baelor wakes up, and it actually happens fairly frequently this is just the first time he got caught
idk man, something about dunk just not being able to adjust to a different life but trying to for baelor just really hits me in the heart
The specific humiliation of sharing your writing with someone and then watching them read it in front of you in real time. they pause. why did they pause. that was a bad pause. now they're nodding but what does the nod mean. now they look up and say "wow" and you need to know IMMEDIATELY what kind of wow that was. there are at least six different wows and only one of them is good and you have aged fourteen years waiting to find out which one.
āi miss akotsk fandom :(ā āi miss when akotsk was relevantā HELLO WERE STILL HERE! ALIVE AND KICKING! YOU CAN BE HERE TOO! JOIN THE HIVE MIND!
well aware this is an au for an audience of one (myself) but consider:
dunk as one of those hoof trimming asmr youtube channels. itās got a stupid name like The Hoof Lad or something
baelor as someone who gets this randomly shown on his algorithm and watches his videos as a sort of guilty pleasure, listening to his lovely accent and watching his large hands at work.
baelor going to summerhall and visiting the stables and meeting the new farrier who, lo and behold, is gorgeous and broad and gentle with a voice heād recognize anywhere
he @motherrthing i just had a great idea
cathswaite and motherrthing, you should create
a combined hoof lad/evil horse-iverse
imagine the possibilities if the hoof lad was sent to help evil horse
evil horse would be a d1 farrier hater for sure, I imagine she'd be the reason the last guy quit and Dunk got hired.
It's probs the only time baelor would ever feel bad for evil horses behavior bc she's making poor dunks job harder. He's like Lady you have to lock in or you'll ruin my chances with the hot guy.
Lady's like I'll kill him with my hooves if he tries anything suspicious
another lil snippet, half this fic is going to end up posted here before it ever makes it to ao3.
in this one, dunk discusses a very serious matter
āItās like they say in the songs you knowā Ser Willmoore said with a suggestive waggle of his eyebrows, his impish tone promising trouble. Itās always trouble with this one Dunk thought, and somehow he drags me into it.
Last line game: share the last line you wrote (and tag as many people as words, or however many you want).
āI wouldnāt! Lyonel!ā Dunk yells after him, before apparently deciding to let Lyonel sulk in peace, which is good, which is excellent, which is exactly what Lyonel wanted.
If you see this, and want to do your own, consider yourself tagged.
i love this!!
"What's this, Donnel? Have you taken me to the woods to reveal you've been an axe murderer all along?"
@bleakflamingos @itellyouthisisnottheend @l0cal-catb0y
āStay here in the warmth, enjoy some company and wine, and perhaps the true road will make itself clear again in the morning.ā
@crypticranger @scrumptiousmoonperson
The way he says it makes Brandon feel, suddenly and inexplicably, like an intruder overhearing a confession, centuries too late.
@vardmard @snakeonthewater
Thank you for the tag!
"A quarter of Flea Bottom was some kind of dragon seed. Of all the bastards to be, that was the worst kind. You learned to ignore itāit was only polite.ā And there was that old rhyme: Aegon the Rutter, Realm-Cutter, took his fill and left us in the gutter.
@motherrthing @raethereptile and anyone else who sees this and is in the middle of writing something!
"Ser Willem has not been the same man since Ashford Meadow" Prince Baelor said. Dunk considered the Prince, his tired eyes, his slightly hitched gait, the way his grip on Dunk's arm was not the same strong hand that had knighted him, the kings guard hovering too close at his side. No, Dunk thought, not the same man at all, but he was not thinking of Ser Willem.
everyone lives the hangover inspired au where Dunk, Valarr, Daeron, and Egg go to storms end for Lyonel's wedding (he's not happy about it either), proceed to get absolutely hammered the night before the wedding, wake up in the morning and realize they've lost Lyonel.
Dunk and Valarr are in an absolute panic (they were meant to be the responsible ones), meanwhile Daeron is like guys I wake up in ditches not knowing how I got there all the time, this is not even a big deal, and Egg is just happy to be along for the ride.
so they've got like twelve hours before Lyonel needs to be in the Sept getting married, and the last place anyone saw him was dancing on a table in the great hall.
they find out Dunk accidently married some random girl, and Egg and Valarr are like shit Baelor is going to be so mad. and Dunk's like okay yeah it's not ideal that I got accidentally married but why would Baelor care, and the boys are just like ... knowing glances.
at some point Valarr was definitely hitting the Prince Harry "King" written on his chest, girl all over him, situation.
if westeros had tabloids they'd all be so cooked.
anyways I forget what else happens in the hangover but you get it
immediately after an interaction: i have GOT to get more normal oh god i need to get more normal immediately i have to get more normal or they're going to hunt me down they're going to hunt me down and flay me for sport
during an interaction: and why not put a little spin on it? why not add some conversational zest?
Major Arcana x AKOTSK
Upright: Love, partnerships, unity
Reversed: Disharmony, imbalance, indecision
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i whispered kind words and affirmations to m,y horse and he ate my hat. message received