[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[bidonica]

Targaryen Kings Statues Concept Art Released by Qingling Zhang

I don’t have the time to do a proper “art in HotD” writeup for these but I just wanted to add them to the posts because I’m absolutely thrilled to see the Great Hall so well lit and with this level of detail. I hope that in the next seasons this amazing set gets the attention it deserves because the craftsmanship and attention to detail that has been poured into it deserves to be highlighted – I’m not going to lie, the statues looked a lot more nondescript in the show, enough that I assumed they were meant to be generic pre-Conquest ancestors, while in fact they are THEE Targ kings from Aegon I to Jaehaerys (so actually covering the dynasty up until very recent times), each with his own defining characteristics. Some stray observations:

I especially love how Maegor has been designed as a hooded, faceless figure, a way to acknowledge his place in the dynasty (although he’s the only one who doesn’t display the Targaryen sigil) but also erase his features because of his infamy, and a blatant callback to the iconography of the Stranger

Will the addition of other kings be featured in future episodes? in F&B, Aegon II commissions colossal statues of Aemond and Daeron to be built in King’s Landing, and this might be a way to integrate that tidbit from the book into the show.

These well lit bts shots show a pretty nice glimpse of the lower part of the columns, though to be honest I’m still a bit at loss on what *exactly* they represent besides “battle scenes with dragons”. The only impression I get is that they look kind of samey, so they probably all represent the same event, or series of events, regardless of the king covering the upper half of the column.

The wedding table also seems to be decorated with a bas relief roughly in the same style as the columns, depicting a chariot race (it’s hard to make out the detail but I doubt it’s a battle as a martial theme doesn’t feel fitting for a wedding, especially not one arranged by decidedly nonmartial Viserys)

(more art in hotd) - (more art in westeros)

[s1lentsadist]

[arleniansdoodles]

Here’s a commission I did for stefan_ponten on Instagram: Sir Duncan the Tall and his squire Egg (Aegon V), from GRRM’s bookseries, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”! Drawing them was lots of fun, I just love those hugs and family feels <333

[greyhoundone]

Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora Giuliano and Marco

[eyebrowscronch]

Going through my phone and realized I have a bunch of old art haha

This was for the NeuviFuri Valentine’s Day event hosted by @/NuFuHoliday over on Twitter!

[zareleonis]

Happy 7th anniversary to that time Star Wars Card Trader released a bunch of Exclusive base cards of women who were not mothers to celebrate Mother's Day.

If I recall correctly, you had to buy the $99.99 crystal pack to get the Rey ones. And the $49.99 crystal pack for the Qi'ra. Rey and Qi'ra along with Padmé and Leia were the most sought after characters in the game.

Predictably, they got slammed for this misstep by fans in the comments and on Reddit and Twitter. As damage control, they disabled comments on the news transmission, as seen in the screenshot above, which only made us more upset. An apology or acknowledgement would have been nice? I don't think they ever did.

The cards are still called the Mother's Day Bundle Exclusive in-app to this day. Yes, I bought the Bo-Katan one. Shame on me.

When father's day came around the next month, Topps played it safe and dropped a bunch of Vader cards.

[guestiguess]

Old men in love (committing warcrimes)

[fanatsrits-art-blog]

mlehh

edit: moar

[larkspurramayact]

May the 4th be with you

[hometoursandotherstuff]

 Z from the 1998 animated film Antz.

[red-dyed-sarumane]

stop calling your own work slop

[red-dyed-sarumane]

stop forcing yourself to disengage with what you love because a layer of irony makes it more comfortable. admit you care and let yourself feel good about it

[ilynpilled]

shipping has a deserved reputation of being able to nuke ppl’s understanding of the source material but i would argue that ppl with intense hate boners for certain ships are very capable of matching them in this regard

[ilynpilled]

a relationship and dynamic with another character can be a huge component of characters and their development and themes. it may be a fundamental part of their stories. a bias coming from the opposite direction can lead to just as laughable analysis regarding the bigger picture

[grilled-chez]

relistened to zagreus

[heres-to-all-that-is-mine]

Say what you will about the flesh melting radiation, the Janusian sand is a sight to die for ✨

[weedle-testaburger]

brb tearing up rn

[feelenum]

The Great Bastards of Aegon IV

Aegor Rivers, also known as Bittersteel, was a major supporter of Blackfyre pretenders. In exile he founded a sellsword company, called the Golden Company. In his personal arms, he combined the red stallion of House Bracken with black dragon wings from House Blackfyre, on a golden field.