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@burmecias-protector bc Dani asked for Le Frey
i had a dream about danganronpa and woke up freezing cold and shivering teeth chattering etc
Tag Thing!
Tagged by @refresh321 ... I don’t normally do these but I felt like it this time round. Rules: Tag 20 followers you want to get to know better! (Not gonna tag anyone though...uh except for the person that tagged me I guess...)
Name: Sam Nickname: Sammy, regrettably. Used to hate it but it’s kinda grown on me the last couple of years and too many people started calling me that to yell at anymore. Gender: female...more agender but I go with female because it really doesn’t bother me. Star sign: Aquarius Height: 180.5cm at last measure. I apparently keep getting taller despite the fact I’ve stopped growing. Sexual orientation: Asexual Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw on my first Pottermore sorting back in 2010...Hufflepuff more recently when the site got rebooted. Boy did that cause an identity crisis and a half. Favorite Color: Green. Time right now: around 7:00 PMish. Didn’t have time to do this this morning when I saw it and I’m having minor anxiety at posting it so it’s taking a while. Average hours of sleep: Like 4. Ish...occasionally 15 when I get really overtired. Lucky number: 5. Used to be 11 but 5 has always been a green colour to me so I adopted it. Last thing I googled: Telephonophobia at work to explain to my colleague why I thought she was crazy calling random numbers from her answered numbers list on her phone to see if she could get the right number for the person she accidentally hung up on. Favorite Fictional character: Um. Too many. Blankets I sleep with: Depends on the weather. At the moment, as we move into winter, I have 3 but will likely have 5 by the end of May. So anywhere between 1-5. Favorite bands: Don’t have one especially. I like a mix of stuff. Dream Trip: Visiting the WWoHP, in literally any of it’s locations, and hitting up SDCC. That’d be neat. Dream Job: ...Still working on that but my current one isn’t too bad. When did I make this blog: I don’t even remember. June 2013 or something? Follower count: 356 which is cool :) Posts: 29,384...I guess 29,385 with this one. Your most active followers according to the biggest fan thing (in order): Gonna skip this one since I'm not going to tag anyone. I’ve never really spoken to any of my mutuals/followers because I’m really awkward (sorry...Hi if you read this) When did your blog reach its peak: Don’t think it has had one. It just is. Why did you get a tumblr: Seemed like a really good idea at one point... Do you get asks on a regular basis: No...I actually don’t think my ask-box is open. Why did you choose your url: I like Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and Harry Potter. So I kind of smashed my favourite Discworld character with my favourite place from HP and got my URL. First time round too.
In modern fantasy fiction there is always a crisis of the system: both of the economic order and of the auras of power – the magic – that emanate from it. There is, in literary theory, even a technical term for this critical point: “thinning”. In their Encyclopaedia of Fantasy, John Clute and John Grant define thinning as “the constant threat of decline”, accompanied by a pervasive mourning and sense of wrongness in the world. [...]
What happened with feudalism, when kings found themselves in hock to bankers, is that – at first – they tried to sort it out with naked power. The real-life Edward III had his Italian bankers locked up in the Tower of London until they waived his debts.
But eventually the power of commerce began to squash the power of kings. Feudalism gave way to a capitalism based on merchants, bankers, colonial plunder and the slave trade. Paper money emerged, as did a complex banking system for assuaging problems like your gold mine running dry.
But for this to happen you need the rule of law. You need the power of kings to become subject to constitutional right, and a moral code imposed on business, trade and family life. But that won’t happen in Westeros
--The Guardian