#(( theya re gOOD

[butcharyastark]

tbh the theater's plays lineup is actually fascinating to me from an inuniverse artistic perspective. a purposely camp performance on and offstage with a ridiculously obvious vampiric inside joke whose whole twist is that the actors are genuinely amazing and setting up the first goofy, jokey, overacted plays JUST to use them to slam in the final nail of the literally showstopping fourth wall break dramatic monologue that wait the joke is REAL and youre all in danger, look at our victim here delivering a genuinely uncomfortably heartbreaking plea to be saved directly at the audience while the main actor uses it to espose some fucking poetry abt the nature of human death in the best piece of art youve seen for the past several hours? thats interesting as FUCK.

[karda]

raises hand i would like to hear about tbe hell and you benry gordon animatic i totally didn't start jumping and cheering when i read that post (if you've got the time of course :])

(below i doodled on a page with specific lyrics i have scene ideas for but heres the main idea)

ok so i picture it as mainly showing their relationship with each other and their back and forth. from hating to tolerating to actually enjoying eachothers company to hating again like this cycle of being wanted but neither one of them asking for it. hence "id rot in hell with you, if you'd just ask me to". it would start off lighthearted with the hating being mainly annoyance, to accepting him into the team, the first couple lines revolving around the resonance cascade. over the song it would get more serious and more foreboding, adding flashes of the fight on xen in between normal scenes. and ending on a comparison of the two. i wrote this out on the doodles but. the last line of "i hope you take the shot, see this chance, feel the fire, let me have this dance with you" showing a scene of them from two different times. the first three lines on gordon pointing a gun at benry during some argument, his arm turned down and not fully threatening, and then having the pov shift and tilt behind him to show them in the same pose on xen. but this time benry is the one looming above him, and gordon is pointing the gun straight and with the intent to kill. ending their back and forth cycle

[banqanas]

tearing up over fantastics in the club office rn

[oopsarboreal]

these fuckers know how to ROCK

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[iamineskew]

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[thegamingcatmom]

Hi! >:3 This one is for the Dimi sisters, for each of them what do you think they enjoy doing around the castle? Like I imagine they are pretty bored esp in Winter where they can't go outside due to the cold, I imagine Dani and Bela could enjoy reading by the fireplace but there has to be something else to do, right? I don't think Cassandra is a bookworm like her sisters, in fact I doubt that one can be STILL for more than 5 seconds XD I have a few HC of my own like I think Bela likes to read but not romantic stuff like Dani I think she'd be mroe into learning new stuff constantly from the books she reads and I think she is into art so she likes painting in the atelier, or just sketching in a notebook while sitting by the window (I once read a fanfic where Bela learned to cook? And I found it so cute and stuff that she cooked for tehf amily etc that i accepted that HC too). Cassandra would be in the armory sharpening her weapons bc theya re never sharp enough or practicing ehr moves against a dummy, perhaps even getting Dani to play some pranks on the staff (who no one finds funny except for the both of them and getting on Bela's nerves which is a plus I guess :p) Dani... Aside from reading her romantic novels and pranking the staff with Cass I thin she'd be into poetry... she'd try her best ok? (I'm kinda lost with Dani's hobbies tbh XD) What are your own HC for their hobbies? :p Have a good day <3

HI HELLO 🫶

I love your thoughts and I absolutely agree that Cassandra is incapable of focusing on anything for too long. Her record is approx. 10 secs, which is exactly how long it takes her to string someone up, slice their jugular and watch them bleed, lmao.

However, I´d like to think that Momma Alci makes sure to keep her unruly offspring entertained, mainly because it keeps them from bugging her. Momma values her me time. 🛁😌

Besides, there´s always the maids to terrorize. That never gets old. 🤭

Reading

Mostly books that expand her knowledge, like you said. She takes after Momma in that respect. 🤭

Another thing she really likes are mystery thrillers. They have her on the edge of her seat in a way no hunt has managed yet.

She´s not that big into horror though, believe it or not. Probably because she more than gets her fill of that on a daily basis in that castle, lol.

Romance? Please. She has neither the time, nor the patience for such mundane things.

Painting, drawing

She enjoys the calm that comes with it (which is rare in that castle), but she also does it to impress Momma. 🤭

Her favorite things to paint are still lifes. Especially fruit. Especially when it´s rotten. She finds that there´s a certain beauty in the grotesque.

Her favorite things to draw are humans. Or, more specifically, their insides. Organs and bones. Or just certain body parts with the muscles exposed.

Being down in the cellar almost every day truly brought out her artistic side. It´s very...inspiring.

Playing the piano

Again, she does it mostly to impress Momma, seeing how the Lady is quite the talented pianist herself.

Her favorite things to play are dark, tragic pieces that capture the haunting spirit of her existence. Such as Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement.

Music holds immense significance in House Dimitrescu, so it was only natural for Bela to prioritize mastering it as soon as she was capable of forming coherent thoughts.

Stringing them up

Slicing their jugulars

Watching them bleed

...I don´t know what else to tell you, lol.

The middle daughter isn´t particularly picky about how she spends her evenings. She simply does what she does best and, more importantly, what she loves doing. That´s all the fulfillment she needs.

It´s as simple as that with her. I aspire to be like that.

HOWEVER-

I do like the idea of her sharpening and taking care of her weapons because she certainly holds them dear to her dead heart. They´re her babies. :3

HOWEVER-

I don´t really see it as a hobby because it still means "work" for her. She doesn´t cope well with that sort of thing, lol. She´d much prefer spending her precious time on actually using her sickle rather than maintaining it.

HOWEVER-

...She might just let a maid do the work for her. While she watches, ofc. Taunting her. Mocking her. Whispering sweet promises of gruesome death into her ear.

"You missed a spot...right here."

*slices that jugular with her newly sharpened sickle*

🤷🏻‍♀️

Reading

I think that one is pretty obvious. Anything romance is her jam. ;3

More Reading

Because why read your favorite book just once (multiplied by 1354641486418431) when you can dive into the manic endless realms of your own imagination OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND-

-UNTIL THE END OF TIME!!

Flirting/Roleplaying with the maids

The kitchen, the looming corridors, the cellars, the bedchambers - name any place within the castle, and it can almost always be guaranteed that Dani has left her mark - evidenced by blushing and stuttering maids.

Why hot when evil though?? 😭

Furthermore, as a direct result of her extensive reading, many maids have had the one-time opportunity to participate in one of her famously infamous plays, which focus on recreating her favorite scenes from her beloved books.

...Needless to say, that opportunity truly was a one-time affair.

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Thanks a lot for your ask! 💋

[tansyuduri]

Merlin Loregasm Rewatch S1E12

Hi Everyone! Welcome to my rewatch of Merlin focusing on the lore. I am a giant nerd so pretty excited about this. We're on TO KILL THE KING

Gwen: its beautiful!

Tom: Well you are a beautiful girl Gwen, you deserve beautiful things

Gwen: but How I mean, It must have been expensive, Tom: Oh Very OK SO in the medieval world Tyrian Purple dye was INSANLY expensive in this time period. It was made from a rare mollusk found in the Mediterranean. And was possibley THE MOST expensive thing. Which is why the color was so heavily associated with royalty. In the Merlin World Purple dye is not rare (I mean if nothing else convinces you The episode Lamia in season 4 proves it beyond a doubt.)

So its a good thing Tyrian purple was not the ONLY kind of purple dye

While of these other dyes were often more reddish, faded quickly, only worked on certain more rare fabrics ETC they did exist.

What about mixing red and blue dyes? well it was hard due to each requiring special techniques but it was possible. See the most comon red and blue would have been madder and Woad but if you overdye these two together you get a REALLY muddy purple. One of the sources that worked well and did not require mixing dyes was from the Scottish highlands. Ireland and Scotland were known to have purple dye so Camalot could have it via trade. Also nowadays natural purple dye is much easier due to plants from the new world and more advanced dying processes! We've already discussed how the Merlin world DOES have things from the Americas so that in another way purple could be less rare. If they had more advanced dying processes due to being able to use things OTHER than stale urine to set the dye it could be even more common! So what about this scene seeming to hint that purple is rare and expensive? Gwen could only have a dress like this due to her father being somehow rich? Well I don't think it was the purple that made the dress expensive. I think its the silver buttons. While people do have gold coins in the Goblin episode they do seem rare So I'm guessing the buttons on this dress are pure silver

Is it entirely possible they just did not put thought into this? Yes. Am I going to overanalyze and draw conclusions anyway? ALSO yes.

Oh Hello Magic Stone that is about to turn Lead to gold! We'll get back to you later. (*Cough* Philosopher's stone *cough*)

Merlin wakes up feeling the powerful magic of this stone before the man even starts casting a spell. This implies that the stone is powerful enough on it's own to wake Merlin up.

Merlin: somthing woke me

Gaius: What

Merlin: I don't know. A feeling,

Gaius: What kind of feeling?

Merlin: Powerful magic, Here in Camalot. Its intersting to me what wakes Merlin and what doesn't. Magical voices can do it a lot. So its actually possibly a good thing he never lived with the druids he might have been sleep-deprived. Because we know it doesn't only happen when theya re talking to him from an incident with Mordred. Also Magical artifacts, but not all magical artifacts. (Hell Sigan's heart doesnt even do it) The stone is just that powerful that it was like WAKE UP BITCH I'M HERE to Merlin.

Also it didn't do it until it was about to be used which I find intersting. It implies it was not just whenever it was in range, and as we saw before it was not when magic was activly running through it. So does it have a sort of conciousness? Does it decide? Am I overthinking this? Very likly (Welcome to my loregasms we overthink EVERYTHING HERE)

Arthur: Tauren, the leader of a band of renegade sorcerers, sworn to bring down the king.

Notice how Arthur says "A band" not "The band." There is more than one of these bands (as we see in later episodes.) Thats good news for fanfic writers! It also makes me wonder if there are spells to cover tracks because evern after 20 years Uther doesnt seem to have hunted down even nearly all oppisition. Also its mentioned that Arther recognised him. This and the "sworn to bring down the king" kind of implies there were previous encounters Arthur had with this man. Even if someone betrayed them once and THAT'S how Arthur knows they're sworn to bring down the king (Which, fair possibility!) He still knows this sorcerer on sight. He tangled with this man before and survived it, (Tauren also survived this mysterious previous encounter) So I kinda wonder if Trauren is not actually that powerful of a magic user. Especially since he did not include magic in his latter assasination attempt. I wonder how he got the stone? ALSO Tauren's name means bull or laural in latin! I find this cool because names tend to be welsh/celtic or really common English in Merlin if they're not from the legends. (another notible expetion being Gaius whos name means "to rejoice") I wonder if that is his real name or a nickname he chose to go by. Remember that Romans only left Britain about a hundred years ago from what we know of the Merlin timeline. It's possible Tauren's family claims decent from a Roman family!

Gaius: his forge Merlin, Its the finest in the kingdom. Perydacyl screams in my "Gwen's family is upper lower class (closest thing to middle class) Theory from previous entires in this series.

Though I gotta add more here, the fact that a forge in the lower city is the best in the kingdom, It's not just Tom's skill level is really strange. It implies a lot. Because while we know Tom is as skilled as a royal smith if not more and likley does a lot of smithing for knights and their expensive orders, HAVING THE BEST FORGE is odd for someone who is not wealthy enough to buy silver buttons normally! See most smiths either inherited the forge or refined it over time. Even if we assume that JUST his forge is the best not the rest of his smithy WHY THE HELL DID UTHER NOT MATCH IT IN THE CASTLE SMITHIES? (And no it can't be Toms was somehow left over by the Romans, the Romans were worse at forging) Tom (or someone) must have known some tricks at Forge Construction and engineering others did not, And Uther was too proud to admit that a commoner's forge in the lower city was EVER better than the one in the castle. (Camalot forged steel is known to be the finest as is mentioned in season 4 so perhaps he did not have much to worry about.)

Gaius: Tauren's Expariment bears all the hallmarks of Alchemy

Merlin: But Alchemy is impossible isnt it?

Gaius: To change the very nature of one thing to another has defeated all who have tried, but if you use magic

Merlin: Do you think that's what woke me?

HERE WE GO. Alchemy was HUGE in the medieval and Renaissance time period. Though it was generally introduced in the 1100s before that it was mostly only found in the east.

However since it started in Greceo-roman Egypt and the fall of the roman empire is what caused it to move mostly to the Islamic world. (or china and idea though their kinds of alchemy are different.)

Its very possible residual knowledge could have existed in the Merlin world after the Romans ditched the place. I find it interesting that its known to be folly because the idea of making gold from lead or serching for immortality (More on this when we talk more about the stone) was only viewed as ridiculous starting in the 1700s when there were efforts to separate is practices from more valid chemistry. (by 1740 it was largly viewed as the work of charlatans)

Merlin was trying to sleep when Morgana picks up the Stone and he hears it in his mind again. MERLIN IS NOT HAPPY. LET HIM SLEEP! But again it doesnt need to be activly doing magic to be like HEY I'M HERE.

Time to talk about being a Ward and what that means for Morgana

In medieval times Wards were children of a vassel (Noble) raised by the vassel's lord or another vassel This is pulling in me talking about ranks of nobility If a land was big enough like a kingdom, the king did not manage all the land instead he had vassel lords under him (And in some cases those lords had more minor lords under them.) But Medieval times were violent! So what happens when a lord/vassel dies before their heir is of the age of majority? The Child is named a ward. Now, Nobles tended to really like having wards, Why? Well chances are if you raised the child right the child would grow up to really like you and be extra loyal to you. Also as the guardian, it would be up to you to arrange a good marriage for your ward and you could do it in a way that benefitted you politically. Hell perhaps even to your own family! A guardian would also control a ward's lands. So lets look at Morgana being a ward!

We also don't know if Gorlois had an estate outside of Camalot that is Morgana's (Hes certainly buried outside camalot, but I did not see any castles nearby so really it could go either way.) If he did have lands outside of camalot and Morgana is past the age of majority its likley Morgana chose to stay in Camalot. (because she would own those lands.) Having lands seems possably unlikely if Morgana is of age because she could go to those lands and get away from Uther when she satared showing magic. I say possably because she could have just not wanted to go.

But Morgana is not called a former ward, Shes called 'His ward'

So I think we actually have a possible answer to the "who is older Morgana or Arthur" question. Because we know Arthur is past the age of majority after season 1 but unless what ward means is very different in Camalot, being a ward means Morgana has not yet reached that age. Assuming that age is 21 in season one (As it seems to be) It means Morgana is 4+ years younger than that. Accounting for her being a ward even in season 3. Of course, ward could mean something different in the merlin world and that would throw this all out the window. Or they could have just kept refering to her as ward past when she inherited whatever her father left her!

But why did I bring this up here? Because I'm sorry throwing a future noble in the dungeons with no real reason is just a stupid thing to do on Uthers part if he wants to keep them loyal. I mean its politicaly stupid. Uther problubly did have to rule though fear because he keeps doing stupid things to nobles. Even if this can be excused as him correcting his ward. This is not the first time we see it.

Arthur can say this to Gwen because what he is doing here is telling her she no logner has to pay her fudual lords. (The Pendragons) Who actualy own all the land in the city and keep of Camalot. It might seem like a paltry gesture but is actually a pretty big deal. Because this kinda thing was NOT usually done.

Merlin: the Mage stone?

Gaius: wonder of the ancients, lost for a thousand years or more

Merlin: what does it do?

Gaius: theoreticly it could gvie the bearer the power of transformation

Merlin: gold? The power of Alchemy

HERE WE GO. Okay what the shows calls the mage stone is almost certainly based on the Philosophers stone. It was the main physical goal of alchemy and could turn base metals to gold and grant imortality. The importality bit doesnt seem to apply in the Merlin world. The ealiest known writen mention of it somes from around 300CE so fits with the thousand years or more (200 years off from a thousand)

And its waking up Merlin again while held in Morgana's gloved hand. Apparently gloves don't stop it from sencing magic.

Tauren: Bribery is Rife At Camalot. I will use the corruption at the heart of his kingdom. And such abundance of gold will buy me into the kings chambers -- even to the king himself.

Okay so This is the only time we hear about this. SO I wonder if Morgana confroted it and fixed it when she got back on Uther's side. Otherwise I feel like she would have used it against him when SHE turned against him. If Merlin overhears all this I know he would have made sure it was not the case for Arthur.

A funny thought occured to me. Does this have anything to do with Camalot guards being so bad? Like you can buy a post in the guard or somthing? Or they are regularly bribed just not to do their jobs well? The court officials WE KNOW OF are not bribeable. So I assume he wanted to bribe his servants and guards to look the other way as an assasin came. Or to bribe the king's tasters and let him get poisioned. but "rife" really makes it sounds like courrption is all over and we NEVER SEE IT and it never gets brought up again. So I totally think its the guards. Its totally the guards. We now know why they are so horrible. hahaha!

OMG CALLED IT! I CALLED IT HAHAHAHA!

Uther: that was a terrible day. Your father was a great freind. I had no part in his death

Morgana: You sent him into battle, You promised him reinforments and them gave him none. You sent him to his death.

Uther: That is not true. It was never my intention,

Morgana: but it happened! So was this like one of those very hard calls comanders somtimes have to make or just Uther being an ass as usual? Was this before or after Vivianne (Morgana's mom) died. Because if it was before I am giving Uther some serious side eye, even subconciously he could have done it because he wanted the lady he hooked up with while her hubby was gone.

(It might be relivent to mention here that in the original legend Uther activly battled with and killed Garlois because he wanted Ygraine. Then after killing him has Merlin tranform him to look like Garlois and went and had sex with Ygraine and this is how Arthur is conceived.)

Obviously the show is VASTLY diferant but I do wonder if they carried the Uther causes Garlois's death because he had the hots for his wife bit.

If thats the case I expect Morgana did not become Uthers ward until after Vivianne died. (So 10 years old) But Vivianne is barly ever mentioned, not even by Morgana. I always wondered if she died in childbirth with Morgana or when she was really young. I'll keep my eyes peeled for more on this.

Merlin: Do you think Uther's a good king?

GaiusL sorry?"

Merlin: Uther-- do you think hee's good for the kingdom?

Gaius: Yes. Yes I do. In the Light of Recent events you might find that hard to belive.

Merlin: Hard? no. Impossible, Deffinatly

Gaius: Merlin

Merlin: Everyone hates him

Gaius: it is not Uther job to be liked. It is Uther's job to prtect the kingdom. Most of his Methods are right. Sometimes he may go too far.

Merlin: really you mean like executing anyone who so much as passes a sorcer on the street.

Gaius: yes, Despite Uther's failings, he has brought peace and prosparity to this kingdom

The interting thing is jugling by the vigil held for Uther when he was dying this is a generaly held view. We even see Uther working to make peace in more than one episode. Now I hate Uther. And I happen to think hes a much more compelling villian and creater of genocide because he is humanized in the show. Real people who start genicides are not always mustache twirling villians. They will care about things or people. And that deserves to be shown because if we forget that we will get complacent.

Anyway I do wonder how Uther's views on magic are seen by everyday people. We have hints that they don't like magic but never anything definative. I also wonder at the Dialuges that seem to suggest there was misuse of magic beyond just Ygraines death around the time Uther banned it. And the hints at how this effected Gaius. Again to be clear I am all for magic returning. But I think when Gwen does it she might face certain backlash. And possably not just from nobles. (Totally not somthing I plan to write about cough.)

Merlin's coment of everyone hates him (Uther) also needs to be looked at because it means the people Merlin knows the opinion of DO hate Uther (Well besides Arthur.) How many people has he spoken to? Has he spoken to many of the everyday people of the kingdom? Has he overheard knights? I REALLY WANT TO KNOW.

Okay So Goirlois was TOTLLY with Uther when he was conquoring the kingdom. Also I'll mention this again when we get to the episodes in question but, From Uther telling Morgouse she has no claim to the throne (And other things) I AM TOTALLY calling my earlier theory as the truth now. Uther gained the throne of Camalot during a sucession crisis.

Morgana became Uther's ward likley when she was 10. Also Uther says she frought him from the begining. I wonder if this was her grief exploding out or what she fought him about? Was it always about killing people? Was she a childhood trouble maker? Did she not want to be the kind of Lady Uther expected her to be? I think the last was at least part of it, because we know she and Arthur used to go at each other with swords and that Morgana knows how to use a sword very well which we do not see in most noblewoman. I wonder if Uther curbed that when she became his ward or as she entered her teenage years.

+1 to the Merlin deaths. I find it intersting that the stone is strong enough to absorb a sidhe blast and then just reflect it! WHO MADE THIS THING IN THE MERLIN WORLD?

Merlin stays down for 28 seconds. as opposed to the 46 in Poisoned Chalice. In Gates of Avalon we dunno how long he was down.

I just realized Merlin wakes to see them hugging but likley doesnt know Morgana stabbed the atacker. At this point he may think the atacker just failed because of Uther and Morgana is playing along. He does find out very quickly after this however because he and Gaius talk about how Gaius heard about the attemted assasination and Morgana saving him.

[sumi-sprite]

AAHHHH OH MY GOSH IT'S MY BABY!!!

They look so peaceful and soft wtf, how do they pull off such dark and muted colors so well?? The details of the wrinkles/folds in the tentacles, their peaceful face, the FRILLS...!

In a bed of flowers at dusk, the little peach blossom resting under cover of shadows... I don't know how you do it Una, you bring SO MUCH expressiona nd emotion to every bit of art you do no matter the level of detail. It's absolutely incredible and I'm so grateful to know you and get such amazing art!!

Thank you so so much Una!! I love this, this might need to be my new phone background!!

Could I request peaches in Rainy Day or Moth Wings? Thank you!

Xo'to goth phase :D

Xo'to (@sumi-sprite) in Moth wings [palette]

[misguidedasgardian]

The White Dragon (16)

16. Sow what you planted

MASTERLIST

Summary: You visit your sister in Dragonstone

Pairings: main Harwin Strong x Fem!Targaryen reader

Warnings: cursing, medieval and A song of ice and Fire AU customs. Targaryen incest!. political plotting, again talks about underage people getting married, talk about people getting killed. Hinted at minors engaging in sexual activities. Skin trade. 

+18, MINORS DNI

Wordcount: 2.5 k, sorry, it is very short.

Notes: I was planning on doing another timelapse but I decided to write one more chapter in this time lapse, the three more years will be added in the next! 

“How is the King, sister?”, asked Rhaenyra, as she sat down to have a private supper with her sister and her husband

“Bed Bound, i’m afraid”, you answered with a sad smile on your lips, “I believe it’s a good time for your return to court”

“Father will never allow it”, she whispered

“Father wishes for nothing more but to see you”. You responded, knowing it to be true

“After I give birth I will visit him”, she confided 

“Very good”, you smiled

“I heard congratulations are in order, you yourself gave birth a couple of weeks ago”, said Daemon

“Yes, a boy, we name him Vaegor”, you said, with a smile pulling at your lips at the thought of your baby

“Is the little fellow alright?”, asked Daemon, “we heard concerning rumors”, you chuckled

“He is perfectly fine, everyone is freaking out because he has a tuft of silver hair in the midst of his dark brown locks, nothing more”

“Really? that’s unusual”, muttered Rhaenrya

“But he is a perfectly fine baby”, you said, “he has lilac eyes, like our ancestors, and like Saera”

“I haven’t met my niece either”, Rhaenyra said, his lips in a thin line

“You know I prefer to travel in dragonback, and they are too young yet for a day long journey in boat”

“We will see them both when we visit”, cheered Daemon

“How are the council meetings?”, she asked then

“Very peaceful, I’d say, it’s always a struggle of power with Alicent, but I've managed to concede in some decisions and fight her where I can still please her, and she is content in working with me”.

“I don’t understand why she sits in the small council anyways”. bitted Daemon

“Because she is the wife of the king”, you said simply, “and she is terribly involved in matters of state by now, and started at the side of the King with his permission and blessing”

“And you can’t do anything to keep her out of there?”

“I’m afraid that in that battle I will be the sore loser, specially since she outranks me and I don’t have complete support in the small council”, yous aid back

“You don’t have…? then what have you been doing?”

“Theya re afraid of me!”, you said, outraged, “But I cannot dismiss members of the small council and replace them with persons of my liking sadly, what would you have me do? have them killed?”

“I’m sure you can make them look like an accident”

“Uncle”, you warned, “If you don’t like the way I do things you were asked a thousand times to go back to court and you never did! And Rhaenyra held that position and she let it go willingly, so before you can judge why don’t you do something for once?”, you said with venom

“Your father won’t see me, specially after I married his daughter”

“I guess that you depend on me then”. you said firmly, “I could not found a way to replace members of the small council on my own, I don’t have the majority but I’m certain that Rhaenyra’s name is always mentioned”

“As long as you are there, they won’t try anything, we have the city watch, and more dragons”

“And Lord Beesbury”, you whispered, “and many others at court”

“What we ask of you is that you keep your alliances with Dorne and the North”

“I do”, you assured them, “In fact i’ve been exchanging letter with Cregan Stark, he has a daughter, of five and ten, we were talking about we meet, so my sons might know her, and perhaps form an alliance”, you said then, “i haven’t said anything to any of them because i wanted it to happen naturally, so we are plotting what could be the best time to introduce them”

“What about a tourney?”

“Nobody can see the King in his state”, you said bitterly, “he almost lost an eye, so we haven’t celebrated anything grand this part years”

“I see”, grumbled Daemon

“So you should travel as soon as you are able to King’s Landing, to ease our father’s mind”, you said

“We will, dear sister”, she promised 

At the hour of the owl, four wretched men gather to discuss matters of most importance to their personal agendas. Otto Hightower, Hand of the King, Tyland Lannister, master of ships, Jasper Wyld, master of laws, and the Grand Maester Orwyle

“Gentlemen”, said Otto, sitting at the head of the small council table. “Should we begin?”

“I thought we will never…”, laughed Tyland Lannister

“This of course is a matter of ultimate secrecy, about how we are going to put Aegon, the rightful heir to the seven Kingdoms, in the Iron Throne”

“In this room alone, we control the second largest fleet in the seven Kingdom, the treasure, and three grown dragons”, continued Tyland

“They have dragons, the princess had also dragons”, said the Grand Maester 

“Three full grown dragons by my account, we have Vhagar, the largest dragon in the world”, said Otto

“the Princess has Vhaelar, her little brat managed to tame Vermithor, together they could take on Vhagar, and they alone have two more grown dragons, and Rhaenyra’s bastards have another 3”, continued the Maester, “without counting the Queen who never was, she had Meleys”

“Baby dragons”, fighted Otto

“Fire breathing, riding dragons”, fought Tyland

“Then we need to gain the younger princess as an ally”, said Otto, “there is an old resentment against Rhaenyra and we need to exploit it, turn her to our side”

“She will never turn her back on her sister, she has forgiven her too much already”, said Jasper Wylde, “she is here because she is guarding Rhaenyra’s position”

“Perhaps she is guarding her own position, have any of you given it any thought that perhaps she wants the throne for herself?”, tried Tyland

“She doesn’t, she want to go back to that gods forsaken castle and live in the country like a common folk”, said the Grand Maester

“That is very naive to believe,” said Tyland

“But it’s true”, said Otto, “When we place the crown in Aegon’s head, and after she bends the knee, she and her family will return to that palace when they could live happily ever after”

“Princess Aemma is set to wed Prince Aemond”, said Wyld

“So we must press the wedding, to be celebrated as soon as possible”, Otto said

“The girl is ten!”, said Orwyl 

“When they are wed, she will commit to her husband, she won’t turn her back on him”

“She is an important part of this whole ordeal, that we can’t let in the wind, we need to be certain”

“The new maester they brought in is helping the King, let’s hope that he leaves us, after they marry”

“One girl and one dragon won’t tip the scales”

“If we have Aemma we have the Princess”, said Tyland

“If we have the Princess we will have the throne, we will have the North and Dorne, and four dragons”

“Aemma, then, is the key”

“She is the Key”

“Let’s keep discussing other key elements of our difficult endeavor”, said Otto

“The treasury will be divided”, said Tyland

“That is too dangerous”, observed the master of laws

“We will take out of the capital in cradled separately, and to be placed in custody in Casterly Rock”

“That is very easy for you, wouldn't it be?”, mocked Wyld 

“What do you propose?”

“We place it on a ship”, said Otto, “sailed not only by Lannisters, but by hightowers too, that way, when Aegon is on the throne, we will sail it safely back to King’s Landing”

“What about the Velaryons?”, asked the Maester, “What about the dragon, they could sink the ship, and then the treasure will be lost!”

“Good point”, muttered Otto

“One piece will travel by land, and the other in a guarded ship, the third part, will be guarded in the citadel”

“Gentlemen, shall we continue?”

“Now, the City watch, is an army of 3.000 men, all faithful to Daemon Targaryen and Harwin Strong…”

“We need to replace captains, for those who are faithful to us instead” 

“That could be proven difficult to achieve without being noticed, but I’m aware many of them would turn the cloak with enough coins in their pockets…”

“Luckily we hold the treasury”, laughed Tyland

“What about the Queen?”

“What about her?”

“Do we have her support?”

“Let’s not be hasty”, pressured Otto, “She is confident in Rhaenyra succeeding Viserys, and cling to Rhaenyra’s mercy regarding her children”

“Then we need to break how little the Queen still trust Rhaenyra, we need to exploit the tension between them”

“And how we are going to do that?”

“Your little grace is lucky!”, chided a dragon master, as he adjusted the new saddle on Vermithor, with the animal grumbling under his hands, “the old saddle was like 50 years old, it was a luck that had kept in place this long, and even more that had kept you in place and not throw you when you rode Vermithor for the first time”

“I’m sorry”, she whispered, her hands behind her back and her big puppy eyes looking at him. The dragon master immediately smiled

“You were lucky, but now you have an entirely new saddle, fit for your small size”,

“Yeih!”, she cheered. The saddle was finally adjusted, it took like 5 dragon masters to put it in place, it was beautiful, with dark brown leather and bronze details, very adjusted and safe for Aemma. “thank you is beautiful”

“Anything for a young rider”

“Now you are ready to fly freely”, you said, Aemma looked back and smiled

“Look mommy”

“It’s beautiful”, and then you looked at the master, “kirimvose, iksan isse aōha gēlȳn”, you said in HIgh Valyrian [thank you, i am in your debt] 

“Īles iā rigle, aōha dārōñe”, [It was an honor, your grace]

The master left you, and you admired Vermithor closely, it was a magnificent beast, almost a hundred years old if your calculations were right, he was born to King Jeahearys in his cradle. It’s bronze and old scales shone under the sun, he was beautiful

“lo ao rughagon ñuha tala kesan zālagon ao se emagon cannibal ipradagon ao”, you threatened, and he roared softly [if you drop my daughter I will burn you and have Cannibal eat you] “mīsagon zirȳla, brāedāzma vēdros, nyke beg hen ao, issa iā gentle dārilaros hen sȳz vyguēsin”, [protect her, bronze fury, i beg of you, she is a gentle princess of kind nature], you whispered near his snout as you pet him 

He seemed to answer you with soft growls, and a final purr

“What did you say?”, Aemma asked softly, “I only caught a little bit”

“That’s between me and your dragon”, you smiled softly at her.

And now you flew away from King's Landing, you riding over your children keeping an eye on them, Aemma on the huge beast, who was as big as Vhaelar, Maekar in Aerion and Rhaegar in Karnax, small dragons in comparison, but they were going to grow even larger you hoped. And even over you, was the monstrous Vhagar, the dragon of your nightmares, who could eat you all if he proposed so. You never had those nightmares again but only the Gods know what they meant, if they meant anything at all

Your return to King’s Landing was just in time for the celebration of the thirteen name day of Prince Aemond 

You had asked the boy if he wanted to celebrate it with a tourney or whatever he preferred, something you could put past the King. But he denied you. Instead you decided to tell your children to be by his side the entire day, and that way he seemed to enjoy it.

Aemond was a serious little kid, and that didn’t surprise you, considering what he had been through. 

So you made sure he had a gift, you went to see your father so he could tell you what he wanted to gift him, and you, with help of Steffon, managed to acquire it. A beautiful crafted sword. Aemma asked you to make her own gift.

This day was about him.

So he took a long dragon ride with his siblings and nephews, and you packed lunch for them to eat in their adventures. And when they returned, a feast with their family was expecting him

He seemed happy, the little boy. You had given up on Aegon, and his taste for wine, but you didn’t want to give up on Aemond. 

You ordered the Kitchens to bake him a huge cake, and his favorite dishes. You even managed to bring your father in. Who prepared a toast to honor his second son. 

Alicent grabbed your arm softly

“I’m glad you are here”, she whispered, “I’m glad you are in the small council, and I’m glad Rhaenyra has you too, with you by her side she is going to be a great Queen”, you smiled warmly at her

“We are going to create a beautiful and united family, all of us”, you said. “Aemond is growing to be a very smart and dedicated man, I’m sure he will achieve great things”

“With Aemma by his side���, and you toasted to that between the two of you

When the feast ended, Aegon grabbed the arm of his little brother, as he dragged him out the hallways and out of the Red Keep, only with Ser Erryk by their side

“Where are we going?”, he asked serious, trying not to show how scared he was

“You are thirteen now, brother, It’s time to get it wet” 

Aegon took him to a pleasure house, the boy already knew what that was about, his older brother already telling him everything about his scandalous nights in King’s Landing by himself. 

He was only a boy, but Aegon made sure that by the end of the night, he wasn’t as such anymore.

He was left confused, of the pleasure he felt, but also, how unprepared he was, and without being able to admit it, how scared and disgusted. He sat in the gardens the next day, not quite understanding what had happened to him. He didn’t feel any different, but he was left with a strange fear of ever venturing beyond the Castle walls at night. He bitterly remembered every detail and street that took him to that ordinary house with double doors, sadly, the only thought gave him chills, he would never let Aegon drag him out of the Keep again. 

And then Aemma showed up. With her chubby face, her silvery hair in Strong curls, and those eyes, and dimples in her cheeks. 

“Hey uncle Aemond, would you like to play with me?”, she asked

“I don’t play any longer”, he said bitterly

“But we played all the time!”, she muttered

“I’m a man now, not longer a boy, I can’t play silly games”

“Oh alright uncle Aemond, I’m sorry”, she said

“And you now are a dragon rider, the rider of Vermithor, King Jaehaerys’ dragon, you can’t keep playing silly games either”

“I guess you are right my prince”, she said, trying to fix her posture, feeling strange under the boy’s hard gaze, “I’m sorry”, and when she turned around and Aemond saw her walking away from him, he did want to chase her like he did when they played silly games. 

More notes: So we know how things are, despite all her best efforts Otto won't take a hint that greedy bastard.

I wrote an entire chapter... well, not yet a chapter but several pages about jealous Aemond when the heir of Driftmark is put in question 😂😂

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[rh-confessions]

Captain Tuck had a wife, they just divorced due to him not being present as much in the family. Theya re on good terms though.

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mother

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psyche

GODDAMMIT SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI: PERSONA 5: THE ROYAL

FUCKING COMMIT YOU BASTARDS

it had foreshadowing, it had gravity, it made Shido's actions have consequences, it fit into the narrative by making Ryuji do a completely selfless act to tacitly atone for how he was partially to blame for shit going off the rails in the second act

and they fucking WHIFFED IT

cowards!!!!! come on! be the persona game that dares to kill off one of the main characters, literally your FIRST PARTY MEMBER IN THE GAME

ugh i'm so mad

ANYWAY

Pictured above: A portrait of my feelings on Ryuji.

Onwards!

Shido wakes from his Fake Death Pill and immediately starts sobbing.

This bit is actually really effective. Shido is just completely losing it, face with all of his actions, all without the buffer of his villainy, and the weight of it is immediately crushing.

And while he sobs into his knees, all the people around him start discussing how to keep all his secrets from getting out, and they rush out to make arrangements to move him to a private hospital.

Alright, P5R, that's an effective image.

The symmetry with Akechi is poignant.

OH GOD SHIDO'S THUGS GOT DAD.

WE GOTTA GO SAVE DAD.

Reverie and Futaba just saved the world or at least Japan, and Sojiro is like "that's nice kids but help me clean up" and because theya re good kids, they help Sojiro clean up the cafe.

Everything is going great, we're in the waiting period where we gotta twiddle our thumbs until the deadline. All is well, except:

MISHIMA HAVEN'T YOU DONE ENOUGH?!

TAKE THE FUCKING WEBSITE DOWN, MISHIMA.

okay so when do i find out wtf is going on with Notigot, I hope its soon

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IM ALMOST HALFWAY THROUGH SONG KF ACHILLES OH MY GAYD ACHILLES CALLS PATROCLUS HIS HUSBAND (THE CIRCUMSTANCE IS A BIT SAD THOUGH) BUT OH MY GOD THEYA RE IN LOVE

-ash

oooooh it sounds so good

i’m gonna start reading babel soon which i’m super excited for

the poppy war is now on my (ridiculously long) tbr now

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You might laugh but these things are very serious to us and are getting worse and worse and he's stuck in a similar problem and yes has been to the castle at Disney and willing to bet he's been near Mar a lago somehow and he says ohh and that's not good maybe it was the trip to the keys so we're really going to have to have a bad day unfortunately this blows we know what part of the place it could be it gets us together and he says I'm in it and I'm doing a tour and I go there and I do a tour and then he's not sure which one this one could be the first movie. So he's gonna take a look at it. But But this would be the movie that's part of the assembly of the structure and I'm starting to look at those things and I have a lot of notes and a lot of things put together of what it could be and why and I probably should get a scale model sent together so I can remember it and I can do before and after and that would be great and it's inside and outside and that's pretty cool too and I'm gonna go ahead and do that. There are a lot of people who are not doing anything you're gonna be sickened and amazed at the same timehttps://youtu.be/2cBja3AbahY

and we have seen it there are some elements from prison there. yes.

I think I agree with him that this is part of the Elsinore mansion and it is what the bottle has on it there is something going on here that's very strange these people are possibly around getting revenge on us and having us do the job and we are blaming our friend here for it and I don't think he's to blame So we are seeing stuff but we we think we're right we don't really want to be but this makes a lot of sense And that they probably are prisons from Bavaria and we think we become criminals there today and that we probably do stupid things and we investigate the area these as we probably push people out and they go to the kill zone and I do see something there is a big kill zone there and I had didn't done an overlay and it's real

and it's real

jason

So you say we go out there and might find them trying to get us to go there that we might try and get them to go there to see what it is and they're locals possibly foreigners and our people and some some Macs and we get them out there and it works but not enough of them and we're probably not doing it on purpose so much he says which might not be true he doesn't know we've gone to areas like this and told them we know about it and they started screwing around with us and we insist they go there and this is going to be an issue and a really big one these people are very mean already but this is going to be extremelyrude

jason again

we do this. it is my creature too nope but is haha lol and mine is nearby as in right next to his behind him not where the blade is. and yeh a creature like this destroyed the titanic. and they say this one. and probably and returns to its origin, and froze and we do agree

Hera Zues and mine awakens and hits. takes out Jaeger like they were nothing. and at the same size. then use weaponry, and yeh shuold not work and i se it is a game ok and not ours yet

w use this it is evidence and theya re tampered iwht and we find out who therer now

trump

need it in a weaon and he said it there is one. and ok biomechanical so. and we use that. and below the city ad ok that too. shit. fried out the mac stuff and this blows

trump

we do this need it in now and all of it

jason

and so be it we hit you then

Olympus

and we need you in jason. as you say to me we try for you. and over and over. you go there and get irate yes. and mean yell and kick scream and are grabbed. lots of times.

Zues

sure will happen and to stan. need you in lol

Hera

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Oml Saku

I need your opinions on boys with hair clips. It could be any boy or an idol in specific. All boys with clips seriously look so cute, especially if the clip has a litol drawing on it. Like, imagine a tiny pumpkin stuck on their fluffy hair...

Ps I TRIED SCROLLING THROUGH MY PINS FOR IDOLS WITH HAIR CLIPS BUT THE ONLY THING I FOUND WAS THIS-

HEESUNG 😭😭 IT LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER IN MY HEAD I SWEAR- OKAY BUT HE STILL LOOKS GOOD THO, BUT UNTIL THEN, I REST MY CASE *dramatically bows down and spotlight turns off*

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ADN IM PRETTY SURE THERES ONE MORE WHERE HES WEARING 2 HEART CLIPS!?!?!?!!? IDK WHERE IT IS THOOOOO TwT

THEYA RE ALL SOSOSOSOSOSO CUTEEEE THE LITTLE PRINTS AND CHARMS ARE ALSO SSSOSOOSOSOS ADORABLE!!!!! (and omg heeseung so cute TT)