Courage, dear heart

South Africa //1997//Gemi||Cancer// "Be soft but unafraid to conquer"

[starlightandtears]

Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

[vodcar]

Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia

Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal

[paprikanoir-deactivated20190515]

Thank you, Flossie. 💜💜💜

[beemovieerotica]

she has since passed away (pneumonia during the height of covid in 2020) and I just want to say what a huge loss this is. she was still actively consulting with scientific research, and if you work in the sciences you know that people in the field keep working, advising, and providing their decades of insight up until their death. her knowledge was invaluable to us. and still she saved millions of lives.

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

an underrated detail in pride and prejudice is that elizabeth bennett was home alone on the day darcy proposed because she had a headache. can you imagine. this was in the pre-painkillers era. you're at home with a headache and then this asshole walks into the room and tells you he loves you and wants to marry you even though he hates your whole family and you're beneath him. imagine having to deal with that while also having a headache. she doesn't even have ibuprofen

[poetry-protest-pornography]

she doesn't even have ibuprofen

[bbygirl-aemond]

team green this team black that fuck all that noise i'm team dragon. sunfyre's cries of pain and meleys looking guiltily at rhaenys as she died broke my heart way more than any of these blond bitches' deaths will i just know it

[pygmyharmoset]

When the pile of clothes on the chair in the corner starts looking suspiciously person-shaped in the dark:

[alysmond]

RHAENYRA TARGARYEN + her coronation outfit Season 1, Episode 10, "The Black Queen" Season 2, Episode 4, "The Red Dragon and the Gold"

[targaryensource]

Aegon the Conqueror's dream. He called it the "Song of Ice and Fire."

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.01 | 2.04

[a-really-hot-caterpillar]

One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is "if you can't go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn't in you, it's in the last sentence." and I'm mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you're stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You're stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it's unreal

[shadowerrata]

I don't remember where I heard this now, but I absorbed the advice, "if you're stuck, count ten sentences back and start again from there". It's not always ten sentences back, for me, but it does force me to look at the last handful of lines I've actually written on a sentence instead of a story level, and that is eminently helpful in unsticking myself most of the time.

[theothin]

I recently resolved a point where I'd been stuck for months not by changing anything in the scene I was currently writing, but by realizing I needed to add another scene before that one to establish key information I couldn't work into the current one

[mackthecheese]

HEY WRITER MUTUALS COME GET YOUR WRITER JUICE

[redbelles]

We're off to battle again, old girl.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.04 The Red Dragon and the Gold

[black-dreadd-deactivated2024090]

Helaena Targaryen – House of the Dragon – 2.01 The Last Day of Pompeii by Karl Bryullov produced in 1830–1833

[helenanell]

As someone who has read Fire and Blood, Blood and Cheese was great and perfectly captured how Helaena (in the show) would deal with such a traumatic event. Not all horror has to be loud and visually gory. Phia Saban was perfect. - It’s also important to remember Fire and Blood is in unreliable source, written by a Maester long after the Dance of Dragons happened, it’s right that the show is different, - it’s establishing the canon of what was lost to history / twisted.

[notbecauseofvictories]

A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: "I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns." I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

[cameoappearance]

Reblog if you are daunted by the complexities and unknowns

[andrew-garfielld]

Do you accept me as your queen and ruler?

Emma D'Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-) S02E02 | "Rhaenyra the Cruel"

[psychecreations]

helaegon + the aftermath of blood and cheese

[nebulousfishgills]

Listen, Otto realizing that he helped put a moron on the Iron Throne and then going through the five stages of grief before dipping is peak comedy, bro really fucked around and then found out.

[hoziercriespower]

Hozier - Cherry Wine (Live)

❝ the blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine. ❞

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner-deactiv]

Helaena having a panic attack after being forced to publicly expose her grief…Rhaenyra as a grown woman admitting that she never completely trusted her groomer/abuser…Alicent accepting that her and her daughter are nothing but pawns to be used by men who benefit from their pain and grief…“I have been a piece that you moved about the board.”

My heart will always be with the women of this show.

[black-dreadd-deactivated2024090]

Helaena Targaryen – House of the Dragon – 2.01 The Last Day of Pompeii by Karl Bryullov produced in 1830–1833

[somerhall]

Alicent 1x01 || Aegon 2x01