✦︎ ser sol ✦︎

✷ 28, he/they ✦︎ oddities hoarder, insect lover, old man yaoier ✧

[solgarmr]

ciao ciao 🌿 i'm sol, an illustrator from italy. i like shipwrecks, insects, the middle ages and monsters, this is where you can find me!

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[solgarmr]

this is where my heart is

@orufreyweek day three ✨

[roh-reads]

For those who would hold honor in their breast, Thou shalt be brave in the name of the Warrior Thou shalt defend the innocent in the name of the Mother Thou shalt be just in the name of the Father Thou shalt shield all women in the name of the Maiden Thou shalt be steadfast in the name of the Smith Thou shalt guide the lost in the name of the Crone Thou shalt uphold thine oaths from this day until thy last in the name of the Stranger And so rise, a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Commentary below the cut

While my giftee is no longer involved their prompt was illuminated manuscript with a kneeling Dunk (amazing line up with my own offer), and I knew just the Codex Manesse image.

Though the 'plot' veneer here is after Ashford, Ser Arlan's coat of arms (with the black diamond of a funerary hatchment) gets a top spot as part of Dunk's lineage.

Dunk's arms are simplified to be a little more real world heraldic.

The Targaryen arms are not the show version again for real world heraldry - where the important part is a consistent blazon (written description) rather than a absolutely consistent image. So unless the dragon was specified as in annulo (in a circle), these are can still be described as Sable, a thee-headed dragon Gules.

The little arm beasts are also Dunk & Baelor. I like to imagine them curled up together like the weirdest little cat things.

Dunk-beast is pointing specifically at the 'hold honor in their breast' line as an "I remembered my vows, did you?"

The helmet Baelor is presenting has the Targ color torse (fabric twist) as livery for a knight sworn to the house - the similar twist on Dunk's arm is absolutely his King's ✨favour✨. Winged crests in shield colors were very common in Germanic heraldry though it also double up here as a trace of Ser Arlan again.

Baelor's little cape has a pattern called vair which is supposed to look like a squirrel's winter fur. Royal mantles and all that.

And of course there's Thunder in the back.

[keltbh]

exchange piece for @palmviolet!!! 🫶

[filibusterfrog]

how to take good care of your knight

[skelerangart]

sorry for doubling the post but wanted one with the two pieces side by side

[shmooseee]

carl…(foggy)

[lulalulens]

Trial of Seven

[solgarmr]

(take this very loosely bc i indulged in an aperol spritz before the event began and was going through Something Homosexually Charged the whole time the interview went on but) things Bertie Carvel said tonight at the Italian Global Series Festival event in Rimini:

• he used to LARP, got his first sword at eleven years old (he used to do stage fighting in drama school and absolutely loved it). playing Baelor and standing in a muddy field wearing an armour brought him right back to those happy times

• he's very proud of Baelor as a character and of himself for having brought Baelor to life. he said that if he were to put the characters he's played in a line-up, Baelor would stand out because that's him, that's Bertie's face and he seldom gets to wear just his own face. He actually prefers to be just himself

• Baelor is very dear to him. the world needs to see heroes and people who show up and do the right thing, now more than ever

• literally waxed poetry about Peter Claffey. said that acting with him was incredibly easy because that's what happens when the people you share your lines with are good. said that Peter and Dunk share a lot of similarities, that Dunk resides in Peter's comfort zone as much as Baelor resides in Bertie's and that made the acting feel natural

• the first thing he asked to the costume department when they did the armour fitting was to have a flap somewhere on the armour. front and back. this dude istg

• he likes playing political figures, especially if he can slip into their minds and build something recognizable that creates a connection between the audience and the "hidden" actor. he was asked if there's a particular politician he would like to play and replied that he usually prefers to be offered a part without him manifesting it. he also misses the selection process and wishes he could get back to experiencing some good old anxiety from competing to get a part

• his family is two generations deep into political journalism. his grandfather (scottish, btw) and father used to write papers about England's political affairs and went on about some hours-long speech politicians used to hold in Parliament, how those men used to take a drink to strengthen themselves before hearing said speech (he mentioned 1947? It was a whole papa beaver situation and it was late, some details about this report are foggy. Forgive Me) and his grandfather asked about what kind of drink it was so that he could have a scoop. the story ends with people resigning and both his grandfather a father dying of a, quote unquote, broken heart

• he was asked something about managing his characters after their story ends and if he imagines their lives after he's done playing them and. he said. that this question made him think about what happens to the letters and e-mails you write but never end up sending. the ones sitting in your drafts. what happens when you delete them? do they stay in the cloud somewhere, is the trace of their existence gone forever? he doesn't know if the afterlife exists but he does keep on loving the people he shared a life with, and the same goes for his characters

• he loves playing Dalgliesh because he's an interesting man, he was dubious about whether the people needed another detective but he got to understand that yes, people love following a detective because we love seeing a mystery get solved. he questioned how come we as creatures on earth think that having a cup of tea and watching a detective solving crime on the telly makes our whole night (he declared himself guilty of being part of this ritual). he actually directed two episodes and needed to work around the library of sound cues that were already been composed, so he got to also stand on the other side of the camera and he's proud of himself for having taken that risk. he defined Dalglish as poetic, deeply sensitive

• when he was asked why he played two characters in The Crown, he laughed and said he needed the money

• he misses the theatre. extensively talked about favoring the theatre over filmmaking because the first demands a slower process, one that counts the audience as an integral part of the play, whereas filmmaking is a fast game, actors don't know which takes are going to be used once they close a set so they have to do the best they can as quickly as possibile. theatre means growth, experimenting, trial and error, and he loves the highs and lows of it

• two wolves live inside of him: one that wants the script to be the only sacred text he refers to when playing a character and the other that researches to the point of obsession. when movies or shows find their original source in books, he sometimes reads them and sometimes doesn't because he doesn't really know how to manages the conflict that grows inside of him when something gets changed for the sake of a screen adaptation. he's worked with directors that were open to changing the script once he brought up a detail he liked from the project's source material, but he tends to avoid doing this. he needs to do proper research to get something in his guts to switch and click when he plays political figures, though. but yeah, he sways and touches both ends of the stick, depends on the part

• "every part you play is political. and if it's not, i don't know how"

and now i really need to go to bed bc i'm exhausted and writing in english after midnight turned my brain into mush but before i do. let me share this picture and the story behind it.

picture me standing right next to this man. politely waiting for my turn to thank him for spending his time with us. literally waiting at his side. the translator (an exceptional woman btw) shows him something on her phone. he fishes his own phone out of his pocket. he's got a hot pink phone case. opens the case. pulls out a pair of what i can't even define reading glasses. they're pince-nez. clear. puts them on and they're there, just sitting on his nose. unbelievable.

oh and he was wearing an embroidered shirt. also, like, you know. big hands

[solgarmr]

for those wondering what shirt i was wearing

[wittythunderwitch]

i forgot his gauntlets btw im sorry😟

[solgarmr]

wip of dunk and baelor on a museum date (four pages were planned on my train ride home. keep me in your thoughts)

[arinavah]

"I once read an old poem... that likened stars to boats sailing through the night sky."

This drawing came from me thinking about how the images of the stars and the silver tree are woven into orufrey's whole story. It even shows up in their outfit designs. Qifrey's cloak is gray like the silver tree, while Olruggio's cloak is black like the night, with a collar that looks like the vault of the sky, filled with falling stars.

[solgarmr]

(take this very loosely bc i indulged in an aperol spritz before the event began and was going through Something Homosexually Charged the whole time the interview went on but) things Bertie Carvel said tonight at the Italian Global Series Festival event in Rimini:

• he used to LARP, got his first sword at eleven years old (he used to do stage fighting in drama school and absolutely loved it). playing Baelor and standing in a muddy field wearing an armour brought him right back to those happy times

• he's very proud of Baelor as a character and of himself for having brought Baelor to life. he said that if he were to put the characters he's played in a line-up, Baelor would stand out because that's him, that's Bertie's face and he seldom gets to wear just his own face. He actually prefers to be just himself

• Baelor is very dear to him. the world needs to see heroes and people who show up and do the right thing, now more than ever

• literally waxed poetry about Peter Claffey. said that acting with him was incredibly easy because that's what happens when the people you share your lines with are good. said that Peter and Dunk share a lot of similarities, that Dunk resides in Peter's comfort zone as much as Baelor resides in Bertie's and that made the acting feel natural

• the first thing he asked to the costume department when they did the armour fitting was to have a flap somewhere on the armour. front and back. this dude istg

• he likes playing political figures, especially if he can slip into their minds and build something recognizable that creates a connection between the audience and the "hidden" actor. he was asked if there's a particular politician he would like to play and replied that he usually prefers to be offered a part without him manifesting it. he also misses the selection process and wishes he could get back to experiencing some good old anxiety from competing to get a part

• his family is two generations deep into political journalism. his grandfather (scottish, btw) and father used to write papers about England's political affairs and went on about some hours-long speech politicians used to hold in Parliament, how those men used to take a drink to strengthen themselves before hearing said speech (he mentioned 1947? It was a whole papa beaver situation and it was late, some details about this report are foggy. Forgive Me) and his grandfather asked about what kind of drink it was so that he could have a scoop. the story ends with people resigning and both his grandfather a father dying of a, quote unquote, broken heart

• he was asked something about managing his characters after their story ends and if he imagines their lives after he's done playing them and. he said. that this question made him think about what happens to the letters and e-mails you write but never end up sending. the ones sitting in your drafts. what happens when you delete them? do they stay in the cloud somewhere, is the trace of their existence gone forever? he doesn't know if the afterlife exists but he does keep on loving the people he shared a life with, and the same goes for his characters

• he loves playing Dalgliesh because he's an interesting man, he was dubious about whether the people needed another detective but he got to understand that yes, people love following a detective because we love seeing a mystery get solved. he questioned how come we as creatures on earth think that having a cup of tea and watching a detective solving crime on the telly makes our whole night (he declared himself guilty of being part of this ritual). he actually directed two episodes and needed to work around the library of sound cues that were already been composed, so he got to also stand on the other side of the camera and he's proud of himself for having taken that risk. he defined Dalglish as poetic, deeply sensitive

• when he was asked why he played two characters in The Crown, he laughed and said he needed the money

• he misses the theatre. extensively talked about favoring the theatre over filmmaking because the first demands a slower process, one that counts the audience as an integral part of the play, whereas filmmaking is a fast game, actors don't know which takes are going to be used once they close a set so they have to do the best they can as quickly as possibile. theatre means growth, experimenting, trial and error, and he loves the highs and lows of it

• two wolves live inside of him: one that wants the script to be the only sacred text he refers to when playing a character and the other that researches to the point of obsession. when movies or shows find their original source in books, he sometimes reads them and sometimes doesn't because he doesn't really know how to manages the conflict that grows inside of him when something gets changed for the sake of a screen adaptation. he's worked with directors that were open to changing the script once he brought up a detail he liked from the project's source material, but he tends to avoid doing this. he needs to do proper research to get something in his guts to switch and click when he plays political figures, though. but yeah, he sways and touches both ends of the stick, depends on the part

• "every part you play is political. and if it's not, i don't know how"

and now i really need to go to bed bc i'm exhausted and writing in english after midnight turned my brain into mush but before i do. let me share this picture and the story behind it.

picture me standing right next to this man. politely waiting for my turn to thank him for spending his time with us. literally waiting at his side. the translator (an exceptional woman btw) shows him something on her phone. he fishes his own phone out of his pocket. he's got a hot pink phone case. opens the case. pulls out a pair of what i can't even define reading glasses. they're pince-nez. clear. puts them on and they're there, just sitting on his nose. unbelievable.

oh and he was wearing an embroidered shirt. also, like, you know. big hands

[ravenreads1]

The t-shirt LMFAO 🤣😅🤣🤣

Sol, you will always be famous! 💗

"the funniest thing happened tonight. and by thing i mean. ahah. i met the king who never was, mr baelor targaryen" - @solgarmr on X

[solgarmr]

what you don't know is that he pointed at my shirt, laughed and pulled me in to take the picture. lmao

[fruitblush]

[reidspng]

I'm Your Man

[solgarmr]

doing the "get to know you" meme, @leupagus thank you for the tag!!! i needed me some rambling (and a full-on humiliation slash motivation ritual) tonight

Last song: i'm in a Mood and i've been all over the place this month so let's just say that my on-repeat playlist consists of Godlight by Noah Kahan, Spaceman by The Killers, Heavy Foot by Mon Rovîa, The Goose and The Commons by Small Fools, Amaze Amaze Amaze from Project Hail Mary, The Sun Will Never Settle by Kingfishr which is SOOO DUNKBAELOR to me and last but not least Tienaté by Nu Genea

Currently watching: i'm part of Da Press so i've got quite the long list. just finished s5 of The Bear, i was expecting nothing because i didn't like s3 and s4 one bit but jesus christ this last season was so lovely and wonderful. i'm waiting on ep5 of the newest HOTD season and i'm very much liking what they've done with it, i actually wrote a whole spoiler-free article about its narrative structure and usage of the 5 steps of creation but am not allowed to say anything lest hbo rightfully shoots me so let's just say that it's good. then we've got The Vampire Lestat, which i'm tragically... uh... not enjoying, Sugar's second season THANK GODDD!!! i still have to finish Half Man, Dear England + The Gold s2 (thank Sam Spruell for that). anime wise i'm still enduring One Piece and started Daemons of the Shadow Realm / Yomi no Tsugai because i LOOOVE Hiromu Arakawa and her teens with deep issues

Current obsession: Project Hail Mary (paired with Iron Lung) uhmm. well. i liked the film like a normal person would the first time i went to the cinema, the obsession sprouted weeks later. i don't know why i don't know what kind of fracture my brain experienced and yet here we are, counting six - i believe they're more, i just didn't log them on letterboxd - rewatches. i also read the book in 3 days, although i didn't like it as much as i did the film. it's taken over my life atp buuut i'm still very much calcified in the AKOTSK cave, working at the dunkbaelor mine day and night. i mean, i lowkey decided to develop a heraldic vexillology art class for the middleschool kids that'll sign up for my library's educational art program next semester because of AKOTSK sooooo yeah i'm still very much in the building (i work three jobs lmao i'm so tired)

Currently reading: What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean by Helen Scales, which is so hard to digest that i need to take at least a week-long break between one chapter and the other else i willfully walk the plank, Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph Gies, A Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures by Joanna Bagniewska, which my best friend gifted me and i've been sipping because i thought i'd dedicate each day to a different animal, Witch Hat Atelier volume 16 and Gachiakuta (i'm on volume 13)

Currently working on: please point and laugh

for the art part, my wips folder is deranged and i'm trying to develop a proper jousting au for my phm x iron lung brain parasite but yeah get into it

and for the writing part, perhaps a couple akotsk one shots based on the pub au and @keltbh's art

my dearest creature i love you baby i'll be back soon

she's meant to be written in the winter

and finally a personal project me and my besties are writing separately (our original characters are exchanging letters and don't know each other. i need to keep this short because they're haunting this website)

Tagging (but only if you want to!): @arrowxsun (tell everyone what you're writing your thesis on thank yew) @apricae @fruitgravies @klimtsonian