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Edmure Tully thought his wife cried on their wedding night because his dick was That Good, but she was actually crying because she knew their wedding guests were being murdered downstairs and she couldn’t stop it, and if that doesn’t give you a vague sense of what ASOIAF is about, I don’t know what would 

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hi, hello, life has been kicking my ass but I still love my soft river daughter

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Like this post for a small thing, probably lyric-based

[argonauticae]

CHORUS If only our fate were ours to choose you would see me on quiet waters

Seneca, Oedipus 882-910, trans. Ted Hughes (via argonauticae)

[naiadwept-moved]

Deep Ass Starters.

Sometimes it's hard to get in depth with your muse and their backstory, because you can't figure out how to bring those things up with others. Here are a couple of starters intended to make things a little more personal!

"What's holding you back?"

"I'm not comfortable with this conversation."

"Will you /ever/ be comfortable with this conversation?"

"Let me in sometime!"

"It's not that easy, you know."

"Help me understand."

"It's hard to connect with someone when all they do is push you away."

"Why are you always so cold?"

"Why are you always so happy?"

"Are you really happy now?"

"Who hurt you this badly to make you this way?!"

"What, did your ex mess you up that badly?!"

"Why do you keep fighting it any time you feel?"

"It's a problem, I get it."

"This is all kinds of messed up."

"That's not exactly a good coping method."

"So what happened, with your parents, really?"

"What was your childhood like?"

"Everyone has at lest a little bit of mommy/daddy issues. It's nothing to be ashamed of."

"My parents aren't exactly perfect models, either."

"You were bullied? What for?"

"Was it hard? Coming out, I mean."

"You can't just run away all the time."

"You can't just hide all the time."

"Are you still thinking about them?"

"I'm not the enemy here. But this makes me wonder who the real one is for you."

"Is the reason you're so cold and defensive because you feel threatened?"

"How long has it been since you last spoke to them?"

"You never talk about it, why?"

"How come you're so different around them?"

"It's like you don't have a care or worry in the world."

"You seem so perfect. I don't get it."

"What was your ex like?"

"I don't think I was ever good enough for them."

"Are you not comfortable being intimate?"

"Why don't you feel comfortable being intimate?"

"Letting someone see you that vulnerable, it's a scary thing."

"Are you scared of being hurt?"

"Have you ever been taken advantage of?"

"Why are you afraid of saying I love you?"

"I never understood how someone could say those words so easily."

"You're hurting others the way you've been hurt in the past, don't you think that's ironic?"

"You use people to make yourself feel better."

"I'm scared of being used again..."

"Losing someone isn't easy, but you're making it harder than it needs to be."

"How long has it been since you lost them?"

"You're too attached."

"I'm not attached, I'm just comfortable with what I'm familiar to."

"Maybe the real reason you're so controlling is because, deep down you'd rather have them in your grasp than lose them."

"Why did you ever break up?" / "Why did we ever break up?"

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send me a topic to write a meta about my muse on

I might write anything from a paragraph to a whopping essay, but send me something you’ve noticed about my characterisation or just something you want to know about my muse and I will write what I can!

[thereignofadaline]

The White Queen ➝ Sentence Prompts

Episode One: In Love With the King

❝ I have no choice. ❞ ❝ It may help you. And it cannot harm. ❞ ❝ There must be one more battle. ❞ ❝ You are confident of winning. ❞ ❝ I am as lucky in battle as I am in love. ❞ ❝ I cannot stay for long. ❞ ❝ You don’t fear you may lose? ❞ ❝ Isn’t that what you would wish? ❞ ❝ I wish there were no sides. ❞ ❝ I have a longing for you. ❞ ❝ I may die in battle and this could be my last request. ❞ ❝ I only ask for what is mine to be returned to me. ❞ ❝ I don’t intend to sell myself at all. ❞ ❝ I’ve been thinking about you all day long. ❞ ❝ Don’t doubt my courage. ❞ ❝ I’m match for any man. ❞ ❝ You have made a fool of me. ❞ ❝ You may not fall in love with a King/Queen unless there is some profit in it for you. ❞ ❝ Your life will not be easy because you wish it to be so. ❞ ❝ I haven’t slept since I last saw you. ❞ ❝ So, is this love then? Is this what it feels like? ❞ ❝ We have to keep it secret for a while. ❞ ❝ I will die in bed beside the most beautiful Queen this country has ever known. ❞ ❝ I’m rather enjoying it though, aren’t you? ❞ ❝ You’re making it sound more like a battle than a marriage.  ❞ ❝ It is a battle, make no mistake. ❞ ❝ I am happy for your joy. ❞ ❝ As women must, it seems. ❞ ❝ These are different times. ❞ ❝ He is the king. And those who speak against him are guilty of treason. ❞ ❝ That’s such an advantage, isn’t it? ❞ ❝ There are many who will be cursing our luck and wishing us to fall. ❞ ❝ You must have really worked some charm. ❞ ❝ I confess I had expected quite a battle. ❞ ❝ But loving you is very much easier. ❞

Episode Two: The Price of Power

❝ Hold your head high. God has chosen you in this. ❞ ❝ I am so very proud of you. ❞ ❝ Just play your part. ❞ ❝ I would have dignity and no emotion. ❞ ❝ How is it that I’ve allowed you to wear so many clothes? ❞ ❝ Shall we be safe, you and I, upon our thrones? ❞ ❝ Your advice may well be worth thinking about. ❞ ❝ I know that I was not your choice of wife and Queen. ❞ ❝ But I hope that we may join in friendship as we share love for him/her. ❞ ❝ We must build a powerful royal family around you. ❞ ❝ Is it not enough that I am not allowed to raise my child myself? ❞ ❝ You cannot live on fresh air alone. ❞ ❝ There is no love in this, only business. ❞ ❝ For I have the most beautiful lady in the kingdom. ❞ ❝ I have found the biggest prize of all. ❞ ❝ But God has brought him to us to show that my reign is just and true. ❞ ❝ Tell me there is a purpose. ❞ ❝ This is what you get when you put the devil on the throne. ❞ ❝ Please don’t leave me. ❞ ❝ I am sure of nothing! ❞ ❝ I just cannot bear that this is happening. ❞ ❝ I love you with all of my heart. ❞ ❝ Today is a special day because I have something important to tell you. ❞ ❝ I will not hear this! ❞ ❝ By my will, you both shall die. ❞

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sentence prompts ➝  reign

❛ You have no power because I’ve taken it all away. ❜

❛ How many people have you killed? ❜

❛ I know I’ve made mistakes. ❜

❛ But it’s all meaningless without you. ❜

❛ Have you ever wanted something so much that the fear of not getting it makes you wonder if you ever should have wanted it at all? ❜

❛ Something we both want so deeply warrants a bit of fear. ❜

❛ No one will ever keep us apart again. ❜

❛ Men in general like to win ❜

❛ Well, your taste in men always did leave something to be desired. ❜

❛ In the darkest of times you were my conscience. ❜

❛ The more we try to help each other, the more harm we do. ❜

❛ Have you learned nothing? ❜

❛ I lose everyone I love. ❜

❛ What odd turns our lives have taken. ❜

❛ Your life is more valuable than this. ❜

❛ My life is once again the sum of my choices, not someone else’s crimes. And I choose to help my friends. ❜

❛ Tell me, what would hurt more. Knowing the person you love will die, or knowing they’re alive but you cannot have them? ❜

❛ I don’t give my heart or give up easily. ❜

❛ Despite your heartbreak, I must warn you, I show no mercy. ❜

❛ I’m not sure I trust my own fate anymore. ❜

❛ You have to admit, your fate does have a sense of humor. ❜

❛ I need to forget a ridiculous, childish idea that I could love someone, they could love me, and nothing else mattered. ❜

❛ Choose because of what you think, not what others might. ❜

❛ There is always risk. At least when you love someone it’s worth taking. ❜

❛ I never said I was a good person, but one can receive good advice from a bad person.❜

❛ Please, let there be one honest thing between us. ❜

❛ You want to hear something honest? I would do anything to keep you. ❜

❛ Love is never simple. Not that I’m any expert. ❜

❛ We can’t do this. ❜

❛ We were supposed to dance under the stars. ❜

❛ Maybe there is no magic but what we make for ourselves. ❜

[barefoot-girl]

[thequotejournals]

Choosing to be kind is not choosing to be passive. It’s choosing to end the cycle of abuse.

Melissa Grey (via vigilflight)

[kolhearted-archived]

Team “I don’t trust that your kindness doesn’t come with a catch”

[naiadwept-moved]

Unfamiliar faces were a novelty to Roslin. Her whole life had been lived at the Twins, and she knew just about everyone there, and was kin to most. To see a person she didn’t recognize was enough to pique her curiosity even through the constant fog of anxiety she had lived under since the horror of her wedding.

One hand resting protectively upon her rounding belly, she cautiously approached him, a delicate wisp of a girl on soft-slippered feet.

❝ Are you come to cross the river, good Ser? ❞ // @hammerwielded

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I just realized that if Roslin and Edmure’s baby is a girl, Roslin would name her Catelyn, to honor her poor goodsister murdered by her father, and it’s her own little act of quiet rebellion

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Like this post for a small starter so I can get myself into the swing of writing Roslin

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Roslin’s mother died when she was small, young enough that Roslin cannot remember her. The youngest and only girl among Bethany Rosby’s children, she was brought up mostly by a septa and by her female relatives -- Sisters, aunts, stepmothers and such. The women of House Frey had a tightly-knit bond, supporting each other through the machinations of their manipulative lord.

Roslin is among the younger of Walder Frey’s daughters, and certainly fair enough. Walder calls Roslin his “precious little rosebud”, but in all reality, he views Roslin as little more than a pawn for him to use for his own purposes. His pretty daughter is a coin to him, something to be bartered and used to gain him something.

He controls Roslin’s life utterly, and she is terrified of him.

[vaememes]

THE TUTORS SENTENCE STARTERS.

’ You think you know a story, but you only know how it ends. ’ ’ To get to the heart of the story, you have to go back to the beginning. ’ ’ I cannot disguise my distress and unhappiness. ’ ’ Well, you’re going to have to. ’ ’ What about his legs? Are his calves strong like mine? ’ ’ Some people might think so. He certainly thinks so himself. ’ ’ Your Majesty… he’s French! ’ ’ As a humanist I have an abhorrence of war. ’ ’ It’s an activity fit only for beasts yet practiced by no kind of beasts so constantly as by man. ’ ’ As a humanist I share your opinion. As a King, I’m forced to disagree. ’ ’ You should know, you taught me. ’ ’ Do you really think we should go to war? ’ ’ I think we should try to do as the King wants us to do. ’ ’ What if the King doesn’t know what’s in his best interests? ’ ’ Because he endowed Universities? ’ ’ That victory made him famous. It made him immortal! ’ ’ There’s something deep and dangerous in you. ’ ’ Those eyes of yours are like dark hooks for the soul. ’ ’ You must be prepared to give him the thing you most care for. ’ ’ The thing I care for most is my integrity. ’ ’ Do you see that young woman over there? Dressed in purple and gold? ’ ’ After all, I am merely Your Majesty’s humble servant! ’ ’ That would make me very happy. ’ ’ Well, do you like it? ’ ’ Should I like something that accuses me of being cruel? ’ ’ Am I? You have no claim on me. ’ ’ I have the same claim as every other lover. ’ ’ You are a poet as I am a woman. ’ ’ Poets and women are always free with their hearts, are they not? ’ ’ You give us no choice but to attack and breach your defenses! ’ ’ No knight shall ever breach mine. ’ ’ What we lack in men, we can more than make up for in ships. ’ ’ We are in an island race, Cardinal. ’ ’ We have the best and bravest sailors in the world. ’ ’ Your highness must be looking forward with great anticipation to your wedding? ’ ’ I hear the king was a great horseman… in his time. ’ ’ Don’t tease me. I don’t like it. ’ ’ Will you like it when an old man tries to make love to you? ’ ’ Your grace goes too far. Already. ’ ’ Now you are blasphemous! ’ ’ Gospel says the truth will make you free. ’ ’ Your Grace, we shall drop our truth into the scales… and the scales will fall. ’ ’ I write poems, I don’t know how to be “a poet”. ’ ’ My Lord, I don’t know what to say. ’ ’ Of course I loved her, but from a distance. ’ ’ I ask myself why that should be so. ’ ’ Your Majesty, I’m certain he will rule in your favour. ’ ’ How dare you look at me! I am your Lord and Master, not your brother! ’ ’ You are both banished from court. ’ ’ You will remove yourself from my sight. Do you understand? ’ ’ I have yet to decide whether to make your bedmate a head shorter. ’ ’ I don’t think the English people would ever forgive him! ’ ’ I promise, I’ll take you as my only mistress. ’ ’ I won’t have a thought or an affection for anyone else. ’ ’ Look, I don’t mean he is banished forever. ’ ’ I don’t mean he is banished forever. Just as long as he breathes. ’ ’ You’re going away, why? ’ ’ Must you go? ’ ’ We little people must put our hands into the fire if invited to. ’ ’ Forgive me, I spoke of things I should not. ’ ’ For me, that is the true definition of love. ’ ’ I have an audience with His Majesty? ’ ’ Well, the King is plainly in love with you. ’ ’ What would a silly girl like you have to say to a king? ’ ’ How do you like your charge, sweetheart? ’ ’ It is your duty to use his love to our advantage. ’ ’ Diplomacy is nearly always settled by such proximity. ’ ’ I do not sleep with her. Not whilst you and I are still married. ’ ’ Ah! Your Excellence, allow me to introduce… ’ ’ Someone told me taking infusions was the worst thing. ’ ’ I didn’t see all of his game. Now I do. I despise him. ’ ’ I do believe you love as well and deeply… as any man. ’ ’ Your love is most generous where it is most hurtful. ’ ’ Your Majesty, I beg that you yield to the King’s will. ’ ’ You speak to me of chastity. ’ ’ Have you not a mistress and two children, Your Eminence? ’ ’ I could be seen to be acting against her conjugal rights. ’ ’ You think it’s nothing, to go back to bed with your wife? ’ ’ What do you think is going to happen? ’ ’ Let me make certain things plain to you. ’ ’ It would mean the total ruin of the kingdom. ’ ’ I hear you’ve been unwell? Is it true? ’ ’ Majesty, when was I ever unwell enough not to serve you? ’ ’ Have you no kind things to say? ’ ’ You treat me so unkindly and in public neglect me. ’ ’ The weight of academic opinion is against us. ’ ’ I don’t think anything, but I imagine everything. ’ ’ Do you… do you have a message from the King? ’ ’ You hate him like a scorpion. And why? ’ ’ Madam, you should never presume… ’ ’ You should not abuse the Queen’s honor with such language! ’ ’ Your Majesty must forgive me… ’ ’ I would rather see her hanged than acknowledge her as my mistress! ’ ’ Aren’t you supposed to be running the country? ’ ’ They’re all liars, hypocrites and middle-aged men. ’ ’ Would you prefer them to be women? ’ ’ Have I made you unhappy? ’ ’ I would only be unhappy if you ever stopped loving me. ’ ’ Madame, I pray you, don’t give way. ’ ’ No excellency, I shall never give way. ’ ’ I notice you allow yourself none of the trappings of your great office. ’ ’ Now, my love, let me conceive… and we will have a son. ’ ’ Can you not plead some indisposition? ’ ’ And then, I should be genuinely indisposed! ’ ’ It’s a pretty head in any case, and I don’t want to lose it either. ’ ’ Perhaps, one day this little girl will preside over empires. ’ ’ I’m not heartless, whatever some people think- quite the contrary. ’ ’ I could still do it. I could find a way to poison her. ’ ’ But, why should anyone ever know? ’ ’ No I wouldn’t. I’d die amartyr's death. ’ ’ You understand? You don’t act alone. ’ ’ You’ve never even seen a man being tortured, have you? ’ ’ I’m sure we both know the object that has brought us together. ’ ’ Will you take the Oath? ’

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dream aesthetics: drowned and blooming