nyphren

ren. 26. he/they. league of legends, dragon age, asoiaf, ffxiv. sometimes i draw and write.

[tomasorban]

[skrumpgoblin]

The cold gods. The ones in the night. The white shadows.

[crimson-chains]

Taken from the river Styx~

[mecharose]

I love characters that are completely harmless until they finally unleash their power and then they’re TERRIFYING

[mecharose]

or, even better: totally harmless but occasionally the other characters catch glimpses of what’s underneath and you just know

[this-is-milo-deactivated2022022]

Characters with raw, unbridled power, that choose compassion and kindess anyway

[nightingaletherobber]

[julietteoberndorfer]

My Jon Snow for the “Character Design Challenge” on Facebook!

https://characterdesignreferences.com

[ghostwriterofthemachine]

it’s almost midnight but i am here on Tumblr Dot Com to let everyone know that a fantastic and underused trope is “uses terms of endearment only when under huge amounts of stress.”

Like some character is fairly formal or is just not a pet names person but then they get a panicked phone call from a loved one and the first words out of their mouth are “Sweetheart, what happened?” 

Team “I-only-ever-use-your-first-name” going “Oh, jesus fuck, love, I’m so glad you’re safe” or “Okay, darling, you know I love you but I need some space to fix this giant mess” and everyone around them is like “oh god we have reached Pet Names Level Bad, that’s not good” 

this is the new trope I am championing, I would like it to be the Hot New Thing

[pydiyudie]

Pan

[dracolizardlars]

the trans experience of, after running as far away from your forcibly assigned gender as possible, turning around and cautiously approaching it from the other side

[havenroze]

As much as I’d love for Estinien to have bridal carried the warrior of light out of Ghimlyt Dark, it was probably actually one of these

[joestarfucker420]

The tomboy/pink hater to non-binary/pink lover pipeline

[valtsv]

literally nothing matters. except winged characters sheltering other characters under their wings. that's extremely important actually.

[devinellekurtz]

Observing the local dragons

[midori-n]

fen

[characterdesignreferences]

Art by Franco Spagnolo

January’s Theme: #MiddleEarth

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Discover the artists of the Character Design Challenge community and the current Theme of the Month in our Facebook Group! And when you repost your design on our Patreon page, you can also win awesome prizes every month and choose the future themes!

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[axicia]

[comebackbehere]

BYE KSKDLAMDKDSM

[pathological-people-pleaser]

I cannot tell you guys how much I’ve laughed at this yesterday, the comments on the willow mv are PRICELESS! 😂😂

For those of you wondering what the Swift rule is, every time Taylor releases an album, Corinthians (one of the big soccer teams in Brazil) doesn’t lose the previous and upcoming game. Like, never. And this weekend they were going to play the currently best team in Brazil, and regional rival. The other team was on a winning streak, but the swift rule is unbeatable.

But it doesn’t stop there!! People really believe taylor is some kind of patron saint of Corinthians, not only the Swift rule is definitely a thing, but Corinthians had never won a national championship while Taylor wasn’t born, first time was in 1990. And there is more, back in the day we still had playoffs for the main championship, and guess when was the final that crowned Corinthians champion? December 13th.

[karmaismybf]

SOME GEMS ON THE WILLOW MV COMMENTS:

“saint george in heaven (patreon saint of Corinthians) and taylor swift on earth. go miss corinthiana”

“it was never luck it was always taylor swift. go corinthians!”

“I was always prejudiced to hear taylor songs but since she blessed Corinthias i have started to listen and they are good. thank you taylor. go corinthias”

[birbliophile]

"Taylor Swift is the patron saint of a Brazilian soccer team" is not something I expected to learn today

[renlysrainbowguard]

This post goes out to Donal Noye, the only reliable source of information in a land full of rumours and lies xoxo

[renlysrainbowguard]

@gayasha you are the smartest person in this fandom

[weirwoodking]

Also, that scene with Donal Noye isn’t truly about the Baratheon brothers, it’s about Robb.

Noye drew him closer. “You’ve heard these tidings of your brother?”

“Last night.” Conwy and his charges had brought the news north with them, and the talk in the common room had been of little else. Jon was still not certain how he felt about it. Robb a king? The brother he’d played with, fought with, shared his first cup of wine with? But not mother’s milk, no. So now Robb will sip summerwine from jeweled goblets, while I’m kneeling beside some stream sucking snowmelt from cupped hands. “Robb will make a good king,” he said loyally.

“Will he now?” The smith eyed him frankly. “I hope that’s so, boy, but once I might have said the same of Robert.”

“They say you forged his warhammer,“ Jon remembered.

"Aye. I was his man, a Baratheon man, smith and armorer at Storm’s End until I lost the arm. I’m old enough to remember Lord Steffon before the sea took him, and I knew those three sons of his since they got their names. I tell you this—Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.”

“And his brothers?“ Jon asked.

The armorer considered that a moment. "Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He’ll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he’s copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.”

And what metal is Robb? Jon did not ask. Noye was a Baratheon man; likely he thought Joffrey the lawful king and Robb a traitor.

The takeaway from this scene is not what Noye thinks of the Baratheon bros, it’s what Jon wants to know about Robb. Jon is unsure whether Robb is actually going to be a good king, and you can feel his uneasiness and fear when he thinks “and what metal is Robb?”

Also, in the extended edition ebook, there’s this note next to that excerpt:

By word of GRRM himself, this is not a true description of Renly.