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Annika | 30 Mostly ASOIAF and marine art

[marwyn]

House of the Dragon 3.04 / Deerskin by Robin McKinley

[peakedtwins]

hotd / fawn response

[solitarydimension]

old sketch that i never did anything with lmao

[trippinon90smusic]

“My mother used to say dark wings dark words”

By Magdalena Korzeniewska

[death-of-cats]

The Turncloak, ADWD

Theon: home is where the sense of dread you feel is familiar <3

[1five1two]

'Firmament'. Tuula Lehtinen. 1992.

[ladyniniane]

Seafaring women: the brave Mrs. Holmes

"On New Year's Eve, 1855, the tea clipper Living Age struck a reef in the South China Sea while under full sail. In a ghastly cacophony of tearing timbers she shuddered to a stop, pinned to the rocks and swept by a vicious surf that took the boats away. The men were yelling and running about in panic, convinced that they were about to be overrun by pirates, when the captain's wife, Mrs. Robert P. Holmes, hove into sight on deck.

Mrs. Holmes was wearing men's clothing and carrying a dirk, but her whole demeanor was so calm that the seamen were instantly ashamed, and made an effort to control themselves. As day dawned, the whole ship's company managed to make its way to the island, which turned out to be uninhabited by pirates—or anyone else. For more than a month, until February 25, 1856, when rescue finally arrived, Mrs. Holmes somehow survived on that island, a lone woman in a party of desperate men. Unsurprisingly, once they got back home, neither she nor her husband went on voyage again."

From: Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail, Joan Druett

[aeondelirium]

We threw our hearts into the sea / forgot all of our memories

[transgenderer]

every spelunker should go in with a cyanide tooth capsule so if they get stuck they can take the gentle way out instead of being tortured by the earth for 72 hours and then dying anyway

[transgenderer]

@kropotkindersurprise said:

it should be an explosive device, so they widen that part of the cave at the same time and no other spelunkers will get stuck there

beautiful vision. i love the idea of a minecraft-style world where if you explode underground it just clears a radius

[wodania]

brother and sister tyrell

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Who is the bigger Wife Guy?

Odysseus (The Odyssey)

Jonathan Harker (Dracula)

Voting ended on17h

Two dudes who just love their wife to hell and back (literally)

THIS IS ABOUT THEIR ORIGINAL BOOK ITERATIONS

Get those movies outta here!!!

Musicals and ballets can stay but you’re on thin ice

[cry-ptidd]

No fucking way Jonathan is losing

[sofhtie]

as everyone’s always saying. it rhymes with pain

[asoiafdaenerysdaily-archive]

Dany had wanted to lead the attack herself, but to a man her captains said that would be madness, and her captains never agreed on anything. Instead she remained in the rear, sitting atop her silver in a long shirt of mail. She heard the city fall from half a league away, though, when the defenders’ shouts of defiance changed to cries of fear. Her dragons had roared as one in that moment, filling the night with flame. The slaves are rising, she knew at once. My sewer rats have gnawed off their chains.

When the last resistance had been crushed by the Unsullied and the sack had run its course, Dany entered her city. The dead were heaped so high before the broken gate that it took her freedmen near an hour to make a path for her silver. Joso’s Cock and the great wooden turtle that had protected it, covered with horsehides, lay abandoned within. She rode past burned buildings and broken windows, through brick streets where the gutters were choked with the stiff and swollen dead. Cheering slaves lifted bloodstained hands to her as she went by, and called her “Mother.” – Daenerys VI A Storm of Swords

Daenerys Targaryen by Gary Gianni in A Storm of Swords: The Illustrated Edition

[jawlipops]

want to feel the way i did reading never let me go (kazuo Ishiguro) but too clueless about books to know what to look for

[kenicat]

Sansa in some sort of backrooms

[ladyniniane]

More seafaring women

I've always thought that Mary Ann Patten was one of the most hardcore seafaring women. I mean:

It was 1856

She was 19 and pregnant

Her husband had fallen ill so she took command of his ship

Stopped a mutiny and made everyone accept her commands

Navigated the treacherous waters of Cape Horn and safely reached her destination

However, I just finished reading Joan Druett's Hen Frigates and found some serious contenders.

(Hen Frigate: c.1785 traditionally any ship with the captain's wife on board. Yes, there was a term for that)

Emma Armstrong

1879, the ship Templar arrived in San Francisco. Everyone though the ship had been lost

However, the captain’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Emma Armstrong, had taken command

The ship had been caught through a gale and sickness spread on board

The captain’s wife died and the captain himself was terribly ill

The ship was without a navigator. Luckily, Emma had the requisite navigation skills because her father had taught her

Emma herself was ill. She had to be brought on deck in a litter to give directions and instructions

She brought the ship safely into port along with the valuable cargo

Miss Arnold 

1850, the ship Rainbow, having departed from England, reached Aden, South Africa

The ship was commanded by…Ms Arnold, the captain's sixteen-year-old daughter whose father had died

The untrustworthy second mate tried to deceive her and to run away with the ship. So she appealed to the crew and placed herself under their protection, a task they took very seriously

She then made them throw all the alcohol overboard

She kept the crew under control for the rest of the journey

[dailyclassicart]

Berndt Adolf Lindholm - "Breaking waves on the beach" (1890)