#northsrose

[spynorth]

🔥🔥🔥 ( about the rpc, about the treatment of morally ambiguous characters, your topic of choice )

unpopular opinion time.

I absolutely HATE when people post constant guilt tripping/negativity on the dash. Like, shut the fuck uppppppp !!! You're ostracizing anyone and everyone who has reached out to you/who writes with you/who is trying to interact with you. Do you want pitty follows? Do you want pity interactions? Are you hoping that people will abandon writing with others to just spend every moment of their fucking day telling you how great you are? GO TOUCH GRASS. GET OUT OF YOUR PAJAMAS. GET THE CRUMBS OUT OF YOUR HAIR. SEE THE SUNSHINE. it is not tumblr's responsibility to brighten your day. In fact, tumblr is the worst place to expect something like that. It's a blackhole. and spouting negativity on the dash constantly is just going to chase people away so you're getting the opposite result of whatever it is you think you're after.

tumblr acts like morally ambiguous characters don't exist. The amount of times you go to a blog and it's 100% black or 100% white is fucking astounding to me. It's like people forget you're writing a human being (fantasy characters aside, excuse the description) who has complexities. they have layers. they are an onion !! Even when they claim to 'respect that [character] is not a great person', how many times is the blog full of nothing but excuses and uwu my baby is just so misunderstood someone please cuddle them posts?? there's a lot of that rampant in the tag for lucas but i think my biggest issue in the rpc itself was always with jaime and hook. literally had someone try to plot with me on killian once where they were like "she can sneak aboard his ship and he can show her how to stargaze. she can change him." and i was sitting there like "mate, this is a captain hook blog." so my overall unpopular opinion i guess, is that people on tumblr take morally ambiguous characters and either label them as 100% problematic or they focus on these little pieces of the characterization to make sure they have reasons/excuses for said character's actions. I don't get it. So the person sucks sometimes...who cares?? I suck sometimes. We all suck sometimes. That's what makes us interesting.

i believe that people who post constant hate anons, especially if said ask is a vague reference to a duplicate, are sending them to themselves. replies like "i know." and "yeah..." and "guess i'll delete..." - I don't have people like that on my dash anymore (i refuse. I'm not in charge of bolstering feelings) but it used to make me want to throw my laptop/pull my hair out. And I don't think people expect me to know when I'm like passive aggressively mentioned on any of my blogs (hook used to be especially bad but i think killian jones as captain hook is just universally accepted as my oc at this point), but I have a lot of friends and know a lot of people and I always know. And the same goes for when people do it about friends. We all know. We're not stupid. I shitpost on the dash like an idiot, but I swear my IQ is higher than that makes it seem. but yeah, when people constantly post hate anons and they aren't using them to educate said anon on a valid point .. I immediately am just like "yeah, that's you." please be smarter about it. make it believable. i beg of you. and if it's not you ... turn off anon, wtf.

[4ger-archived]

𝙰𝙲𝙲𝙴𝙿𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶:     𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙴𝚁 𝙲𝙰𝙻𝙻   𝙵𝙴𝙰𝚃.   @northsrose

     " BEFORE YOUR SAY ANYTHING⸺ "     for that is not just the best but also the only acceptable way to prelude a long winding explanation on why you are standing in the pathology of a local hospital while blood runs down from your waist over your thigh.   what is not soaked up by your jeans drips happily onto the floor,   it's all a ghastly mess,   really.   which is not a situation either of them should be remotely familiar with but alas,   here they are!   it's better than stitching up your own wounds in your own bathroom,   too,   so perhaps it should in fact be lyanna who is thankful for his appearance.    or perhaps the probably - maybe expired painkillers e.ames swallowed prior to coming here are muddliing his brain,   who can tell,   really?   either way he,   wisely!   bites his tongue on that one  &  offers her his sweetest   ' i'm terrificly sorry,   i know you are a busy person with a busy life  &  job,   could you please prevent me from bleeding out in this hallway? '   smile.   but he might also just look pale  &  tired  &  like a man who just dragged himself through the back alleys of the city to get here.   whichever look worked on her.    " maybe we could postpone the scolding to later?   like after,   or even while,   you stab me repeatedly with a needle  &  sow my flesh back together? "

[thesellsword]

        “you keep sneaking out,” a young roguish type says as he leans against the stone, gazing upon the escaped lady stark. bronn smiles down at her. “you’re lucky that you were found by me, milady, and not some brute.” he teases, and he hops over the side of the stone half-wall. he lands beside her, reflexes like a panther. “i thought i might find you here, lyanna. i brought you something. from a far away land. . . if you would consider the veil far away, but.” and he pulls a comb from beneath his robe, with the distinct shape of the moon carved into it, marble. “s’not much, but thought might need it for your pretty hair.” bronn smiles brightly, blue eyes bright against the snowy winterfell. | @northsrose

[sanguinelupus]

i love you... bitch...

i aint ever gon stop lovin you…. bitch……….

[caracarnn]

She seemed a curious sort and that related to something in him as well. He ventured off to places that he shouldn't go, as was deemed by those of his clan. His curiosity often outshone the rules however. He couldn't help but imagine different worlds, think of other cultures and what it might mean to immerse oneself in them. Even then as he regarded the woman before her, with the magnificent wolf at her side, he had to wonder about where she was from. A flood of curiosity entered him at the thought. Would it be overstepping were he to ask? They didn't get many outlanders out here and her accent alone proved to be from very far away.

"How does your wolf find it?" He asked, his eyes lingering on the beautiful animal. He had never seen one before, only read of them, and further curiosity spiked within him. He wanted to go nearer but he figured she would not appreciate that until permission was given. "Lyanna...that is a beautiful name." He offered with a small smile. It sounded like a song or something like it. His hand reached up to touch to his chest. "My name is Rand of the Taardad Aiel." His eyes went upwards to look at the blazing sun. "The sun wont fall for sometime. Would you like shade? Some water?"

@northsrose - cont'd from here

[driedflwers]

@northsrose, continued from here.

' hm ––– '    as in so it does, as in so it is. thoughtfulness sews itself into the spirit-flushed red of his cheeks; for a moment, he’s back to being the boy who grew up at the seams of a forest and its pines. firefox rubs at a dull ache in his elbow.    ' if i ‘ad to reckon a guess, i’d say you didn’t learn about lumber from the free cities and their gods-forsaken love of palms. '    just yesterday he’d seen a man clamber up the trunk of one such sprawling tree. the leaves stuck out wildly as if in alarm, but the climber didn’t seem at all concerned. he swatted at the brown-haired fruits hanging around the base with equal confidence ––– and then promptly fell to the cobblestoned ground. the coconut came tumbling down after him, bouncing off his skull like a rock on water. the man did not get up again. ( stupid city and its stupid palms. )

he catches himself reacting outwardly to the fantastic slew of his thoughts, brows creased / upper lip tensed into a sneer. he blinks himself free from this trance and, remembering his original line of questioning, wags a finger lazily at the tree-knowing barkeep. ( she, who was most certainly not born along the coast of essos. ) he sits himself on the table she’d only just wiped down, foregoing the stools lined up neatly around it.    ' what is it, then: vengeful husband? disappointed father? cock-whet lord who wouldn’t take no for an answer? '    something brought her here, and he'd stake the length of his right arm on the fact that it wasn't a love for drunks and hooligans.

[lingeringscars]

happy birthday, beloved 💕 i adore you!!!

thank u sm i adore u too i am so glad you are back <333

[nvrqn-a]

@northsrose semi-plotted.

the starks have always been F R I E N D S to rhaenys. supported her and her claim for the throne, and so she had always held them in H I G H regard. so whenever her granddaughter's friend would visit them at driftmark, the princess greeted her with U T M O S T kindness and hospitality. " welcome back to driftmark, lady lyanna. " she greets, hands folded, lips curled in a smile that is A L M O S T motherly. " baela shall be here to greet you S H O R T L Y. "