👑live on in despair👑

currently in writer's block purgatory (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و

[salmonhere]

I've reached Doran Martell's first appearance in the book

[csny]

this is sort of sickening to me. can they swap

[csny]

the bus is never going to come because im a bad person

[i-ambirby]

the start of arya no good very bad road trip

tbh I don’t know how to color this but this was my best attempt

[asneakyfox]

in any given fictional situation, there is exactly one character who is At Fault and every other character involved is a passive victim. media literacy is when you correctly identify and condemn this character

[sleepyjump]

there's this guy who works at the convenience store next to my job and every time i come in he tries to upsell me. i'll get a gatorade and he'll say "that's it...? isn't it snacktime?" i'll get a snack and he'll say "just that? don't you want more?"

one time i got a huge pile of stuff and he STILL said it and i said "dude, you would not be satisfied with all the riches of heaven!!" and he said "i don't even get a commission. i just love doing this."

and then i couldnt come in for a while and then i came in again today for just a charger. and i said "that's it today" with a smile. and he looked at me with a gleam in his eye and said "no it isn't. you'll be back later. you'll have to get thirsty eventually, won't you?" with this conniving smile that made me realize i WAS thirsty. i'm out of my depth here. help

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

✗ Jumping bouncing bean #6 has died. ! Jumping bouncing bean #3 is in pain! ! Jumping bouncing bean #7 is in pain! ! Jumping bouncing bean #2 is in pain! ✗ Jumping bouncing bean #7 has died. ! Jumping bouncing bean #8 is in pain! ! Jumping bouncing bean #3 is in pain! ! Jumping bouncing bean #3 is in pain! ! Jumping bouncing bean #3 is in pain! ✗ Jumping bouncing bean #3 has died. ? Jumping bouncing bean #8 is hungry. ✗ Jumping bouncing bean #8 has died.

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[lilyblisslys]

flirtatiously: you better cut it out, or I’ll coat you with a fine mist ;)

later, more sternly: hey. You better stop, or I won’t cover you with a fine mist.

[fleshengine]

I do sort of feel like posts are getting harder to glean meaning from these days.

[sexuallyfrustratedavocado]

everyone talks about how strong and great Aragorn was for refusing the ring when Frodo offered it to him as if this man has not spent his entire life dodging leadership and responsibilities like bullets in the matrix 🙄

[lesspopped]

[manny-jacinto]

Pedro Pascal shares this picture for Oscar Isaac's birthday (March 9, 2025)

[billy-crudup]

[cj-k]

Lyanna x Cersei KOFI REQUEST <3

[cozysigh]

[i-ambirby]

[fairycosmos]

i think about brooklyn beckhams photography book all the time

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[greenbloods]

re: the discussion about karma in asoiaf, i think it's so fascinating that one of the things that damns cersei in the end is her relationship with lancel. lancel is so constantly treated as a joke by the lannister kids in the earlier books, as an unimportant person, that it would have been easy for george to push him out of the narrative as soon as he outlasted his usefulness after the battle of blackwater bay. but the narrative cares about lancel, cares about his emotional state, about his victimization. it doesnt treat the fact that he was exploited by cersei as a vulnerable 16 year old as a joke like the other characters do.

the fact that lancel turns to the faith of the seven as a way to make sense of his trauma falls in line with how aeron and mel do the same for their own griefs, and the way that theon seems to turn to the old gods in the godswood after his own treatment--the physical descriptions of lancel and theon are strikingly similar. lancel and aeron and theon all seem to be aged severely by their trauma (while mel is the opposite, appearing youthful despite being the oldest living character of them all)

[greenbloods]

i guess in the end im just glad that lancel is taken seriously by the narrative, and that time and time again george takes the hopes and sorrows side characters as seriously as main characters. whether it's lancel or lancel or penny or eroeh or hazzea or the miller's boys, the one thing that is punished by the arc of the story time and again is the belief that certain people matter more than others

[greenbloods]

arya's decision to kill chiswyck because of how he raped and murdered layna is one of those storytelling choices that really show how the little people are prioritized in the narrative. like sure arya couldve used her jaqen h'ghar genie wishes on killing tywin or whatever. but the whole point is that layna mattered too. the death of mycah weighs heavily on arya and ned, and the fact that of all of the Hound's crimes it’s mycah’s murder that he stands on trial for at aryas insistence is significant as a story choice.

it's telling that arya's prioritization of the 'little guy' is reflected in all the starks in different ways. sansa saves dontos hollard. robb spares osha. jon saves the old man the freefolk tell him to kill. bran probably has a moment that im blanking on right now. rickon is four.

[greenbloods]

in a series where the meaning of heroism is constantly upheld and subverted in different ways by characters such as stannis and rhaegar and robb, it stands of note that the most consistent way a hero is identified by the narrative is how they uphold the worth of the ordinary person, even when it doesn't benefit them, even when it hurts them. lyanna “that’s my fathers man you’re kicking” stark, the knight of the laughing tree, stands up for howland reed. dunk kicks a prince of the crown for the sake of a puppet girl. maybe it's true that there's no such thing as a true hero, and that all honor is a mist that melts in the morning. but a common person is not "no one."

an ordinary person is worthy of being saved.