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Children of Bone and Blood Chapter 6 Preview

Lady Deidre must have heard the metallic footfalls of his armor, scrambling to sit up as she sniffled, wiping her nose and straightening her skirts as she attempted to contain her emotion in a courtly smile. “Ser Criston!” Her voice came out raspy. “I-I am fine! Is everything all right with the princess and queen? Did one of them send you? If you would just wait for a moment, I will make myself presentable and—”

“Peace, my lady.” Criston held out a hand. “The princess and the queen are well attended to. I just…” He paused as he bit his cheek. “I followed you out when I saw you leave the feast in such distress. I wanted to make sure you were alright.”

She blinked up at him, frowning in surprise. “I will be, I think. Just between the needs of the queen on her wedding day, and the princess, it all became a bit���well…” She trailed off, her expression guarded as she glanced down at her lap, twisting two white stoned rings on her finger.

“Much?” Criston asked. “The princess is rather a handful, I have found, in my past few months as her sworn shield. I presume any dragon might be.” He shrugged.

Lady Deidre let out a shaky laugh, a smile curling her lips. “That is a way of putting it.”

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Rhaena and Baela ❤️‍🔥

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Take 5 min every day to just see and appreciate the beauty in one flawed or broken thing, and see how much your perspective on the world changes. I dare you.

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muliebrity if you’re raised with an angry man in your house, there will always be an angry man in your house. you will find him even when he is not there. and if one day you find that there is no angry man in your house— well, you will go find one and invite him in!

Alicent Hightower and "Cut" by Catherine Lacey (x)

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Words You Always Have to Look Up

Nonplussed

Means “perplexed.”

But there is a further point of confusion that can send someone to the dictionary: since the mid-20th century, nonplussed has been increasingly used to mean “unimpressed” or “unsurprised,” and this use, though often considered an error, has made the confident deployment of this word a fraught issue for many.

Anodyne

Sometimes words sort of seem to telegraph their meaning: pernicious sounds like a bad thing rather than a good thing, and beatific sounds like something to be desired as opposed to something to be avoided.

This is all fairly subjective, of course, but the sounds of words can have an effect on how we perceive them.

Anodyne doesn’t give us many clues in that way. It turns out that anodyne is a good thing: it means “serving to alleviate pain” or “innocuous,” from the Greek word with similar meanings.

Supercilious

Used to describe people who are arrogant and haughty or give off a superior attitude.

It comes from the Latin word meaning “eyebrow,” and was used in Latin to refer to the expression of arrogant people, and this meaning was transferred to English.

Amusingly, the word supercilious was added to some dictionaries in the 1600s—a time when many Latin words were translated literally into English—with the meanings “pertaining to the eyebrows” or “having great eyebrows.”

Stochastic

In scientific and technical uses, it usually means “involving probability” or “determined by probability,” and is frequently paired with words like demand, model, processing, and volatility.

Comes from the Greek word meaning “skillful at aiming,” which had become a metaphor for “guessing.”

It’s a term that had long been used by mathematicians and statisticians, and has come into more public discourse with stochastic terrorism, the notion that accusations or condemnations of a person or group can lead to violence against that person or group. This allows those who make the initial accusations to seem innocent from any specific violent act, but stochastic terrorism is a way to identify the motives for such an attack as being set in motion by the words of another person.

Anathema

Means “something or someone that is strongly disliked”.

Initially used to refer to a person who had been excommunicated from the Catholic church.

Came from Greek through Latin into English with the meaning of “curse” or “thing devoted to evil,” but today refers to anything that is disapproved of or to be avoided.

There is a strangeness about the way this word is used in a sentence. Because anathema is usually used without an or the, as in “raincoats are anathema to high fashion” or “those ideas are anathema in this class” it may seem just odd enough to send people to the dictionary when they encounter it.

Bemused

So close in sound to amused that they have blended together in usage, but they started as very different ideas: bemused originally meant “confused” or “bewildered,” a meaning stemming from the idea of musing or thinking carefully about something, which may be required in order to assess what isn’t easy to understand.

Many people insist that “confused” is still the only correct way to use bemused, but the joining of meanings with amused has resulted in the frequent use of this word to mean “showing wry or tolerant amusement,” a shade of meaning created from the combination.

Words with meanings that seem to crisscross or intersect are sure to send us to the dictionary.

Solipsistic

Means “extremely egocentric” or “self-referential.”

Comes from the Latin roots solus ("alone," the root of sole) and ipse ("self").

As this Latinate fanciness implies, this is a word used in philosophical treatises and debates.

The egocentrism of solipsism has to do with the knowledge of the self, or more particularly the theory in philosophy that your own existence is the only thing that is real or that can be known.

Calling an idea or a person solipsistic can be an insult that identifies a very limited and usually self-serving perspective, or it can be a way to isolate one’s perspective in a useful way.

It’s a word with an abstract meaning, which is a good reason to check that meaning from time to time.

Tautology

A needless or meaningless repetition of words or ideas.

It’s a word about words that can be used in academic writing or as a hifalutin way of saying “redundancy,” as in “a beginner who just started learning.”

Since we value both clarity and originality, especially in writing, tautology is a word that usually carries a negative connotation and is used as a way to criticize a poorly formed sentence or a poorly argued position.

Perspicacious

The ability to see clearly is a powerful metaphor for being able to understand something.

Being perspicacious means having an ability to notice and understand things that are difficult or not obvious, and it comes from the Latin verb meaning “to see through.”

Means “perceptive,” and is often used along with words that have positive connotations like witty, clever, wise, alert, and insightful (another word that uses seeing as a metaphor for understanding).

Peripatetic

Means “going from place to place,” and comes from the Greek word that means “to walk.”

You can say someone who moves frequently has a “peripatetic existence,” or someone who has changed careers several times has had a “peripatetic professional trajectory.”

The root word “to walk” is usually more of a metaphor in the modern use of this word—it means frequent changes of place, yes, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that you are wearing out your shoes.

The original use of this word did use “walking” as a more literal image, however: it was a description of the way that the philosopher Aristotle preferred to give lectures to his students while walking back and forth, and the word has subsequently taken on a more metaphorical meaning.

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RHAENYRA TARGARYEN The Princess & The Queen | 1.06

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❛ just a few more stitches and you’ll be as good as new. ❜ for Kaleb!

Thanks so much for the prompt! Please enjoy Kaleb being Kaleb

Kaleb winced as Maester Heward inserted the needle into his skin of his arm, where a large gash had been cut into the soft flesh.

“Ow. Ow!” he gasped, fighting back the urge to flinch.

“I’m sorry, my boy, but please hold still,” Heward said. “The less you move, the sooner we can get this over with.”

“Sorry,” Kaleb apologized.

“Come now, Kaleb, you’ve had worse,” Rhaenyra spoke, resting her hand on his shoulder while the other massaged her growing belly. “It’s just a scratch.”

“Yeah, a big one,” Kaleb responded. “Look at what your dragon did to me.”

“It’s not Syrax’s fault you fell off your horse,” Rhaenyra objected.

“She spooked him,” Kaleb argued. “Otherwise I wouldn’t have.”

“Well, then I suppose next time you’ll just have to fly with me,” Rhaenyra said.

Heward looked up at her with surprise. “Have you been riding your dragon while you are with child, Princess?” he asked dubiously.

“I have, yes,” Rhaenyra responded, unconcerned.

“Are you sure that is wise when you are so far along?” Heward asked.

Rhaenyra waved his concern away with a hand. “My grandmother was doing the same when she was carrying both my father and Daemon,” she said. “And Syrax is gentle.”

“With you,” Kaleb grumbled. “Ow!” He grimaced as Heward poked the needle through his skin again, averting his gaze as the maester pulled the thread through.

“Oh come now, Syrax likes you,” Rhaenyra argued. “You wouldn’t have lasted this long if she didn’t.” She pressed a kiss to his forehead. “You’re lucky I love you.”

“Yes, I am,” Kaleb hummed, tilting his head back to look up at her. “Princess.”

He offered her a lopsided grin, and Rhaenyra smirked back at him, leaning down to kiss him on the lips. Then she smoothed his hair with her hand, letting her fingers linger in the long, dark strands of his hair.

“Maester, how long is this going to take?” Kaleb asked lightly, eager to be done with it and have Rhaenyra all to himself.

Heward smiled knowingly. “Just a few more stitches, and you’ll be good as new,” he assured him.

Kaleb flexed his fingers and drew his tongue along his teeth with a grin. Suddenly, the pain was much more bearable. “Perfect.”

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Well-dressed Wizard (Georgiana, my D&D character)

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PHIA SABAN as HELAENA TARGARYEN in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: SEASON TWO (2024)

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Sweet Jace and Helaena💙

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Baby Therese and Tristan (mine, lol)

Reverse baby Kaleb and Deidre (the man is a Casanova, and he gets child on her two friends. I do not see this not happening at some point, too!)

Ah yesssss both of these are such cute ideas

Therese x Tristan

“Tristan, we need to talk,” Therese said, taking the knight by the arm before he could walk past her.

His dark eyes searched hers curiously. “What it is, Princess?” he asked.

Therese glanced around, making sure that no one was listening to their hushed conversation.

“I think it would be best if we were to discuss this in private,” she said. “Perhaps in my quarters?”

“Alright,” Tristan responded with a slow nod.

Therese took his hand and led the way back to her rooms, a few halls over. As soon as they were inside, she hurriedly shut the door before whirling around to face Tristan again.

“Therese, what is this all about?” he asked her. “You’re worrying me.”

“I’m pregnant,” Therese said suddenly.

Tristan’s eyes widened in shock. “You are?” he exclaimed. “And you-you think it’s mine?”

“It is yours,” Therese replied, taking a step towards him. She rested her hand on her growing stomach, the bump very visible beneath her dress. “I am certain of it.”

“That’s my child?” Tristan murmured in a small voice, looking down at her belly.

Therese smiled softly, cupping his face in her hands. “Yes, it is,” she cooed. “You’re going to be a father, Tristan.”

“I am,” he muttered, still not quite believing it himself.

Therese kissed him gently. “Yes,“ she smiled. “And I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

Kaleb x Deidre

“Mmm, this is nice,” Kaleb sighed, nestling his face into Deidre’s soft curls as she snuggled into the crook of his neck. “I could stay like this forever, just you and me…”

“And the baby,” Deidre hummed into his shoulder. Her pretty green eyes flickered up to look at him, a smile growing on her plump lips.

At once, Kaleb sat up, staring down at her with his mouth agape and a look of complete and utter surprise on his face.

“Did you say ‘the baby’?” he asked. “What baby?”

“Our baby,” Deidre responded smoothly. “I’m pregnant.”

She massaged her stomach, and for the first time, Kaleb noticed the small bump that had begun to form there.

He reached up, running a hand through his hair as he took it all in. His heart was hammering in his chest, and for a moment it felt as though he had forgotten how to breathe.

“Deidre, this is… this is wonderful!” he exclaimed after taking a moment to compose himself. He scooped Deidre into his arms, pulling her into him and peppering her with kisses. She threw her arms around him, laughing.

“You are such a beautiful woman,” he said. “And we are going to have such a beautiful baby.”

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CATE BLANCHETT as GALADRIEL THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) | Costume by Ngila Dickson

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I'll never forget what you looked like on that night But I know that time's gonna take me I know that day's gonna come

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Happy Holidays @rottengrowls! Here’s a little gift of lovely Elayne!❤️