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Interview With The Vampire (2022) // Paris Paloma, labour

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this is the best she’s ever looked in (semi) official art btw. love the fits love the hair love the small waist. princess 👑

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estrogen COULD have saved her (finished this)

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revisiting daenerys chapters

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When they’re deciding who to make regent and you’re right there

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Alyssa Targaryen, Mother of the Cat

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Vhagars too tough caraxes too rubbery like twizzlers. Meleys is probably gamey. Tessarion and vermax would be fine but they’re like little chicken wings so the meat is probably not worth the effort. Maybe sunfyre pre barbeque unless you like your meal a little charred.

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She would've eaten everyone up at the Met Gala btw...

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ppl will be like “guys cersei isn’t evil 😖 she’s just a stupid idiot paranoid girl who thinks with her pussy. she’s not evil she’s just a silly girlfailure loser. okay. that’s enough feminism for the day 🙂‍↕️”

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everybody’s like oh cersei is so evil she killed her friend when they were kids. well maybe the girl had bad vibes? did you consider that?

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“i ship sansa with petyr” “i ship sansa with sandor” well i ship her with peace and happiness ✌️

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i recently played deathloop for the first time! ^_^

if you do not wish to exercise your neck here's an upside down version:

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video game scenery ≡ rapture credit: other places

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fire and blood is really the perfect text for the wiki warriors and i think thats why there are so many fans who act like theres no reason to care about any characters but died-in-childbirth blonde #3 or daeron the diva #16. like they don't want characters or interiority they want a bullet pointed list of things they can point at fed to them in an easily digestable way. not since the marauders fandom has a fan community so transparently used character names to project their ocs onto

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what do you think of waymar 😭 george wanted us to dislike him?

no, i don’t think george wants us to dislike him at all! rather, i think waymar is our introduction to the themes george is most fond of - the arrogance of the noble class, the concept of a true knight, and the randomness of death.

our introduction to waymar royce is kind of quintessential spoiled little lordling. his clothes is too fancy, he’s dismissive of the smallfolk who clearly know better than him, he’s got that shiny knighthood but he’s not all that impressive, he doesn’t even have the right type of horse for ranging! he mocks both gareth and will, despite them being more experienced than him, and despite gareth being an “elder” of a sort. for waymar, the idea that gareth could have a better understanding of the situation is unthinkable. when gareth tells the story of frostbite in an attempt to get waymar to turn back, waymar dismissed him wholesale. he leads them, unknowingly, to their doom because he is simply too arrogant to see the sense in what gareth is saying. not only is that entire dismissive attitude prevalent in the story, but someone marching themselves and several innocents straight to their doom over their pride is a HUGE issue throughout the series as well. just as varys says - it is always the innocent, the peasantry, who suffer the most and here, poor gareth and will are forced to pay a price for the foolishness of someone they KNOW is less experienced.

and then the others come.

There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing, a ghost-light that played around its edges, and somehow Will knew it was sharper than any razor.

Ser Waymar met him bravely. "Dance with me then." He lifted his sword high over his head, defiant. His hands trembled from the weight of it, or perhaps from the cold. Yet in that moment, Will thought, he was a boy no longer, but a man of the Night's Watch.

The Other halted. Will saw its eyes; blue, deeper and bluer than any human eyes, a blue that burned like ice. They fixed on the longsword trembling on high, watched the moonlight running cold along the metal. For a heartbeat he dared to hope.

He won’t win this fight. He knows it, the Others know it, and Will knows it. But the fact that Waymar has doomed himself and his men to death doesn’t matter here; what matters is that he doesn’t give up! When faced with a monster from a story book, an impossible nightmare, Waymar picks up his sword and he fights, and for a moment, Will has hope.

That’s why it’s Waymar in the prologue. He’s not an exemplary sort of man, he’s not particularly smart or skilled or kind or even overly cruel or stupid. He is a very normal, common type of man who led a very normal life until this moment. But he still tries.

And so does poor Will! And so does Gared! Will is terrified as he hides in the trees, watching Waymar fight and die, knowing that going to help will just get them both killed. He’s not particularly brave, but I would say he’s smart! Genre savvy even, when he knows the fight is hopeless and makes the decision to keep hidden and fight another day. Gared flees (and it’s interesting that we have the theee main fear responses here - fight, hide, and flee) but he’s so traumatized by what he’s seen that as he’s questioned he can’t give a good, clear answer. And then he’s uselessly, needlessly killed by our shining example of chivalry and honor in Ned Stark, his head kicked like a toy by Theon Greyjoy. As Jon says, he only dies “well” because he’s shell shocked - he is confused and deeply afraid in his last moments.

the three of them - gared, will, and waymar - are the entire series diluted down to one chapter, to three unextraordinary men. but with them lies a lot of the point of the whole story. and waymar specifically, for me, is about all those moments of bravery in the face of unbeatable odds. he’s a very normal, very flawed person who reaches down deep in himself and finds something good and brave at the very end.

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> be me 13 yrs old

> young teenager with no emotional intelligence and the highest kill count known in the entire world

> my abusive father murdered by a snake person

> my furry juggalo older brother: “hey im sorry dad tried to kill you like 1000 times but we kind of have a problem now like nobody in this village is competent at ruling at all and i would do it but i want to play league of legends ”

> i just found out that im a human person inhabited in a body and i have emotions and stuff like absolutely yesterday

> mfw i realise i m the only potential candidate because this village is full of idiots

i guess it’s time to become the president

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RHAENICENT APPRECIATION WEEK 2024 🥀🗡️🕯️

day one: younger or/and older