#{black rook.}

[julevanwilde]

Have you met my son? He's two. He loves dirt and running.

[r-aindr0p]

Mr. Hunt's sweet true lies

[rooksunday]

thinking about fox getting his first poll card after the vode get citizenship. the guard scattered after sithsplosion day, but he and a score or so that were functionally useless without each other, like nervous space greyhounds with military training, all ended up bundled together on some planet in the mid rim.

he’s been working on a book about his years at the senate. no one knows about it aside from thorn, who has been checking his basic, and advising him where he needs to wind the reveals back a little because libel. the rest of the time he does payroll for a number of small businesses, picking and choosing his hours, and delighting in sending invoices for his business: the shiny security fund, he’s called it, to continue the tradition in a more official manner.

(when they’d been on triple zero, the fund had been for rations. blankets. bacta. they’d conned credits from tourists and stolen them from senators and turned those credits into hope for the poor bastards shipped to the city that ate shinies before they could ever earn paint. these days, the fund was for whatever his guard wanted. aside from a pony. fox couldn’t figure out where hound would keep the pony.)

the book had been born from two lists. one was the blackmail and gossip the guard had collected during their stint on coruscant; that was where thorn needed to check for dangers, but since most of those senators had died in sith-related incidents, or had been jailed when the media got hold of their dealings, all fox was doing was providing context.

the other part of the book was fox’s List. thire sometimes called it a manifesto, because he had been studying for his degree and liked to show off occasionally. the list was a suggestion of changes to the republic, some small, some large. it was a silly fancy of fox’s, as the whole book was, but if he couldn’t indulge himself in his own karkin’ book then they might as well have punted him off the high levels back on coruscant.

yet for all that he’d settled—and paid taxes, even—fox hadn’t felt part of the citizenship of the planet. then the poll card had arrived. and suddenly he mattered in a tangible way. just like the bothan baker next door did. just like the twi’lek downstairs, the one with the noisy kriffin’ speeder, did.

thorn found fox in the kitchen, still staring at the scrap of card. he rapped his knuckles on the doorframe.

“you okay there, chief?” he asked. he’d been trying out alternatives to ‘sir’. “noise complaint again?”

fox shook his head. he didn’t look up. “voting thing. there’s an election.”

“oh! yeah, we got ours yesterday. are you— what’s that face you’re making. i don’t think i like it.”

fox raised his head and gleamed his smile at thorn, who backed away slightly, one hand drifting to where a blaster once hung. fox’s eyes felt very wide. he jabbed the poll card like a vibroknife.

“do you know what this means?”

“democracy comes in two postal batches?”

“no! well, yes, apparently, and that’s inefficient, but— no!” fox jabbed the card again. “this means i am a citizen and i am about to make that a senator’s problem. where’s my manifes— list, thorn? it’s time for an update.”

[forgotten-fossilised]

oh thank god for The Prophecy! without it I would've thought Rhaenys (and later on other tb dragonriders) burning countless people was bad. but it's not just for the crown, it's actually for the good of the realm! why?? because hundred years ago the colonizer who had also burned and killed people had that dream, so now Rhaenyra has the divine right to do the same (but hmm why her and not any other Targ? oh right bc her daddy said so without any further explanation. makes sense.)

so, the moral of the story is: war is bad, except when its fought by a Targaryen motivated by some bs prophecy, got it. the other is - team green propaganda bad, team black propaganda good

[highoncatfood]

happy pride month heres the trans flag colorpicked from black dresses albums

i tried very hard to get those peaceful as hell and wasteisolation ones ok

[mumphs]

every black dresses song

Devi McCallion, mumbling: dream.... dreames come truth if.... dream come true if you really do......... if you really do...... if you really want...... if you really love....... iwht all ure fuckinG HEART ....!!!!! WITH ALL URE FUCKING HEARTH!

*the loudest noise you've ever heard*

Ada Rook: ENTROPY DEVOUR ME! HYPERSTITION ELAPSING! METAPHYSICS ELOPING! PISS STAINED FISHNETS!

[atomicwrongs]

A win for he/it femmes: Local eldritch lords plotting to conquer your universe are kinda cutesy about it

[kiivg]

.please please please please please pl.

[michaelnordeman]

City birds: Mallard/gräsand, Rook/råka, Eurasian coot/sothöna, Black-headed gull/skrattmås, European herring gull/gråtrut and Mute swan/knölsvan. Dublin, Ireland (July 31, 2022).

[themapisonfire]

Got some work done last night, drew Rook for my wind down

[urdeftonesgrrrl]

"rhaenys got killed by her daughter's dragon" 😓😓

"meleys was probably so confused on why vhagar was attacking her" 😓😓

i think you guys will be much happier when you realize that dragons don't care about anyone other than their riders. goodbye

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

EVE BEST TALKING ABOUT FILMING THE ROOK'S REST SEQUENCE IN EPISODE 4.

THE ROOK'S REST SEQUENCE IS SO COMPLEX: YOU ATTACK AEGON, YOU'RE BEING ATTACKED BY AEMOND, YOU'RE LEAVING, YOU'RE TURNING AROUND, YOU'RE FLIPPING AND FLYING.

WHAT WENT INTO FILMING IT? WAS IT ALL ONE DAY, OR DID YOU SPLIT THE DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF THE FIGHT UP?

"My God, one day, are you kidding me? It took two weeks." [Laughs]

"I was on that buck for two solid weeks — just me, because everyone’s doing their bits individually."

"The boys had maybe five days each."

"For me, it was this big block of time because Rhaenys has to span the whole sequence."

"She had to be hanging upside down at one point and then doing spins and rolls; they had to plot each separate move, each little tiny one."

"So I was on that thing for two weeks, and I was in agony."

"I kept asking for more cushions, because I was feeling like my bum wasn’t padded enough."

"It’s a real workout on your thighs and on your core, and I felt very ill-equipped."

"The boys, especially Ewan, love it."

"I remember meeting Ewan the first time in season one, and he’d just done his buck work, and he was sitting outside his trailer and we bumped into each other."

"He was sitting there just kind of glowing, like he’d just taken drugs."

And he said, “Are you gonna do the buck soon?”

And I said, “Yeah, what’s it like?”

And he said, “Oh my God. It’s life-changing." [Laughs]

"And I thought, Oh my God."

[brownbunniesblog]

[beautifulsweetschaos]

Sunfyre curling in towards Aegon in an attempt to save him 😭 now that’s true love.

Sunfyre is probably the only being that’s ever loved Aegon 🔫😭

[roomtemperaturesuperconductor]

This is unironically the best thing i’ve ever made

[silvermun]

The King’s orders are absolute ⚔️

my full illustration for the @shadow-zine!