oflorelei

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September - October Commissions ⛈️

These two months are quite literally the busiest months of the year so far for me so it took some time to finish all of these. They turned out great though and some of my personal favorites 💕

—- November commissions are opened! (limited to 4 slots only because I have to juggle through uni)

1. Queen Rhaenyra alongside Ser Laenor and Ser Harwin commissioned by jacaerys_

2. Birthday portrait commissioned by @oflorelei

3. ASOIAF OC commissioned by @lawolfe

4. Daenora and her dragon (OC) commissioned by weirwooddream

5. OC commissioned by heronovels

6. Aemond and Daena (OC) commissioned by dykeatron4000

7. Adult! Joffrey Velaryon commissioned by jacerys_

8. ASOIAF OC commissioned by @sikudastoner

9. ASOIAF OC commissioned by @lawolfe

[oflorelei]

One thing that annoys me so hard is whenever i see people boil down grrms writing to be the most bland, MEDIOCRE, boring ass take ever 😭 guy LOVES fantasy, he LOVES to worldbuild with mythology in mind, he LOVES prophecies- characters like Dany are literally the walking embodiment of his love for fantasy and the fantastical. YET I have to keep seeing the most braindead, tumblresque, BLANDEST takes ever. "hOTD IiS aBOuT tWO sPoIlED dAdDy iSsUED bRaTS", first of all we all know grrm sold his soul to hbo like faust sold his to the devil- but he literally DENOUNCED the show 😭 to think this everburning car accident that plagues the screens of the times square in nyc is an ACCURATE depiction of georges work is laughable. Im not gonna tell you what the dance is about, BESIDES that with removing the fantastical aspect (literally blood betrayal, dying of the dragons, the long night coming again), also removing the obvious aspect of womanhood in westeroa something that is DRIVING FORCE ON WHY THIS CONFLICT EXISTS, is fucking laughable. Especially because George DOES write about this misogyny, internalized or not so much, to completely ignore that point to push the fucking stupid "holier then thou because i hate the targaryens BC they are conquerers despite the people they conquered literally comitting two mass genocides together with forced conversion" (on that point who tf of yall think u can seperate the hightowers from the faith pre-dance?), is literally my achilles heel. I need some of you all to use your brain and THINK, very hard and long, and READ thru awoiaf or one of the DOZEN OTHER NOVELLAS we have on the dance, the blood betrayal, the long night.

Also another quick rant: this wannabe 'historian' pov of "im just boiling it down to the most blandest, white toast bread, ignoring and misinterpreting the lore the the extent that it would make the dumb and dumber PROUD" is so annoying- coming from someone who is studying history with a focus on pre-modern era (aka middle ages) atm. This doesnt work for a world in which *dragons* and *magic* not only EXISTS but also indirectly or even directly influences the fade of the world.

My take? The blood betrayal definitively definitively is there, was written to resemble the dance of dragons (or the other way around). Yeah ignore a younger brother betraying his older sister who was the rightful heir to the throne of an empire only ruled by men till then. Yeah ignore how that sister is called amethyst empress (in a line of a thousand different gems names there could be), while her brother is called the bloodstone emperor (which is btw a GREEN STONE WITH RED FLECKS). Yeah ignore that this betrayal is what caused the Maiden-made-of-LIGHT to turn her back on the world meanwhile the Lion of the NIGHT came forth with demons (with what the others are compared to btw) to the realm of MEN. Yeah ignore that Dany is also suppose to mirror/parallel the amethyst empress and that fixing the wrongs of her ancestors is also her whole thing. Yeah ignore that the breaker of chains, the Prince that was promised, the one who has an dynasty resting on her back, whose downfall started with the dying of dragons in a war fought over the heir not having a dick, is also a (very) young woman, her womanhood also playing a part in her whole Story. Am i saying Rhaenyra or Dany are the AE reborn? Hell No, and if id bet my money on Dany. But both of them and their conflicts get so extremely paralleled with the Amethyst Empress History that you have to be literacy blind to not see that.

But thats my opinion, you can believe what you want as long as you dont boil hotd down to being the "truth" and ignoring the existing fantasy/magic as well as the world building relevant extreme misogyny.

[oflorelei]

"So all I have to do is to wake up?"

Velriel Laidir

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DRAGON AGE TIME BABYYYYYY

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ITS A SONG?? 😭😭 NAH I THOUGHT THAT WAS A RANDOM THOUGHT

if i wwent up and told you "i be poppin bottles" how would you feel about this information

WHO STARTS A CONVERSATION LIKE THA-

i would immediatly think of "popping the Cherry" cuz i just l learnt that phrase today AND CANT STOP LAUGHING 😭

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if i wwent up and told you "i be poppin bottles" how would you feel about this information

WHO STARTS A CONVERSATION LIKE THA-

i would immediatly think of "popping the Cherry" cuz i just l learnt that phrase today AND CANT STOP LAUGHING 😭

[oflorelei]

A dream guardian and his liege 💫

Pov you are just a little hater

[oflorelei]

Pov you are just a little hater

[oflorelei]

dear brother lend me you strength 😤✨

[oflorelei]

Im not gonna apologize for the Person I will become once I see Elgar'nan, Dirthamen and Falon'din those are my fav problematic Dilf & Silfs 😭🫶 man MYTHAL PULLED!!

[oflorelei]

Huge fan of Mathieu Bellamont and how they never explored him and the silencer being intertwined by fate

[oflorelei]

Spoiler!!!

Me the second its the 31st october:

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Have you heard the tale of Mathieu Bellamont

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I could explain my opinion and view on this matter, especially how the incorrect and lazy Overgeneralization is actual more harmful and that you completely ignore the culture context and the fact that this (evil pretty boy) is a troupe that fromsoftware keeps on reusing, but I already did! On the Server. Which was ignored. So respectfully

TLDR;

i wonder if you were to make a venn graph of people who said that even just daring to theorize that miquella might've bewitched mohg was "victim-blaming" and the people who are now saying that "miquella did nothing wrong, he only bewitches and manipulates and uses people who deserve it, it's okay because he had good intentions" or are still trying to spin the situation to be mohg's fault somehow, would said graph perhaps resemble a perfect circle 🤔

strange that there hasn't been an uptick of people telling anyone who draws or likes miquella or ships him with anyone (especially mohg or radahn) that they're not allowed to do that and that clearly they support and endorse real-life abuse because they like a fictional abuser. almost like people only care about a character being abused if said character is pretty, meanwhile the ugly one deserved it, especially if their abuser is the pretty one 🤔

just saying, seeing the lengths some people are ready to go to erase any and all of miquella's culpability and keep painting him as the Good™ one and mohg as the Bad™ one in the situation, even now that it's been revealed that miquella bewitched, used and defiled mohg (all the while allowing him to continue his blood cult stuff despite having him bewitched) is very interesting and does not go unnoticed. almost like some people will only afford compassion and grace and victimhood to characters that are traditionally attractive. almost like a lot of people are unable - or perhaps unwilling - to comprehend the big, scary, ugly monster man being the victim and the small, angelic-looking beauty being the abuser. some would rather tie themselves to knots to somehow still make mohg the abuser and miquella the victim because it's incomprehensible to them that the big ugly monster guy could be innocent in this regard, that it was the pretty, cherubic little blonde that used and defiled him instead, because they're only able to feel compassion for conventionally attractive characters (it has not escaped my notice how much more compassion and grace messmer, the twinky guy with a conventionally attractive face, who committed a genocide simply because he was told to and has corpses of the people he genocided displayed alongside those of animals in his little british museum, is afforded than mohg).

but hey, what do i know.

[oflorelei]

Nebarra watching the LDB date the prince of his homeland:

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Write in the tags your biggest "fun police" take (aka: something you hate that is totally inconsequential and that everyone else seems to enjoy)

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What a stupid ending ...

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