#HighValyrian

[mheraxes]

The Forbidden Book

Chapter 3: The Dream

That night, Mera had an erotic and intense dream. In the dream, she felt the presence of a naked woman gliding toward her bed. Though surprised at first, her body responded to the woman's sensual touches, her naked skin sliding against hers. The dream was so vivid that she could feel every touch, every caress, every kiss. Mera let the dream completely envelop her, surrendering to the sensation of pleasure and passion.

Mera felt the cool breeze of her surroundings, the soft bed against her skin. The naked woman lay close to her, her bare body pressing against Mera’s. She could feel the passion in the air, the desire burning in her chest. The dream felt so real that she didn’t want it to end. And then...

Mera woke abruptly, her heart pounding, and her body covered in sweat. She sat up in bed, stunned, trying to process what had just happened. The dream was still so vivid in her mind that it felt real, as though that woman had truly been in her bed. She sat there for a few minutes, trying to come to terms with what had happened. It was clear that the book’s reading had affected her.

Mera couldn’t shake the feeling of curiosity that invaded her, and her hunger for knowledge about the secret organization only grew. She spent days devouring every page of the book, searching for every detail, every hint, every clue she could find. She threw herself into reading voraciously, as if under the spell of the information. She was determined to unravel all its mysteries, despite knowing that she might be putting herself in danger.

She felt a chill run down her spine as she realized the book might have been intentionally left there. It was as if someone were watching, waiting for someone to read it. She couldn’t help but wonder who that person was and why they wanted such dark secrets to be discovered. The feeling of fear and mystery flooded her, but it only served to intensify her longing to keep reading and learn more.

[dedalvs]

Hi!

I do wonder if it sometimes bothers you that HV gets so much attention. Do you feel it sometimes overshadows your other work and does that bother you? I’ve been wondering about this because I absolutely don’t want to annoy you with talking only about HV

lol I don't think I can adequately describe how off the mark this is...

First, let's be clear. Despite what you imagine or have heard in the media, the GoT languages had next to no fanbase during the original run of Game of Thrones. There were a handful of people interested in Dothraki the first two season (and by "a handful" I mean like twelve), but then Dothraki mostly fell out of use after season 2. High Valyrian didn't get as much attention. There was the impression that they did get attention, and so I got a lot of attention from interviewers, etc., but there really weren't many people actually interested in the languages.

There was enough media attention that Duolingo became interested, and so I worked with them to make a course on High Valyrian. That course more than anything else has generated the most interest in the language.

Around this time I decided to create my own wiki, and a couple of people who are really good with HV decided to help out with the wiki. It was also around this time that I found Discord. There was a tiny community of people who occasionally posted on r/HighValyrian, and they found their way to the Discord. The Discord has actually been tremendously successful.

Then came House of the Dragon. This was another Thrones show that only had High Valyrian, and featured it prominently—and I got to create a writing system. We planned an expansion of the HV course with Duolingo to coincide with the release of the first season, and that led to a bunch of people searching for info on the language. It led them to Duolingo, and the lack of overt grammar instruction on Duolingo led them to find other resources, which led them to the wiki, to r/HighValyrian, to the Discord, etc.

And yet aaaaaaaaaaaaall of this is dwarfed by the popularity of Trigedasleng at its height.

And yet still most people haven't even heard of the show, let alone the language.

More to the point, I love all my languages, and I love to talk about them and work with them. It doesn't matter when or where they come from, or what they're attached to. In fact the best way to put it is that it's nice that there's finally some interest in High Valyrian, because that is honestly what it feels like.

So yeah, ask away about whatever! <3

[sheikah]

I take what is mine.

[rubyredwisp]

Expectation vs. Reality

[annabellehunt]

Game of Thrones | Jaime in Winterfell | Season 1 & Season 8

[luminiesbackup]

Lysa threw herself into Littlefinger's arms, sobbing. As they hugged, Sansa crawled from the Moon Door on hands and knees and wrapped her arms around the nearest pillar. She could feel her heart pounding. There was snow in her hair and her right shoe was missing. It must have fallen. She shuddered, and hugged the pillar tighter.

[archtangential]

@duolingo has 2 *fictional* conlangs and a dead language but not Quechua/ Urin qichwa, the mostly prolific indigenous language in the Americas, with over 7 million speakers worldwide. Gaelic, for example, has less than 100,000 speakers. Several other European languages have less speakers than qichwa but have widespread acknowledgement and acceptance around the planet. In fact the only 'American' indigenous languages @duolingo offers are Navajo (solo para Ingles) and Guarani (solo para espanol). This is because, unbeknowst to all of their staff or not, Duolingo and similar pay-for language learning media are fundamentally rooted in and molded by settler-colonial capitalism, and even when they offer indigenous language courses, its just for colonizers, at a price, usually not even to speak with indigenous people. The synthetic guise of multiculturalism (solely for Europeans and the arbitrary non-white cultures deemed palatable) that the neocolonial world presents is a means of placating the settler proletariat and an effective tool of genocide. We live under an oligarchy generally disinterested, even wholly ignorant, of our ability to deconstruct injustice and wholly repulsed at the suggestion that we oppose it, oriented in entirety to maintain it. Photo ID: Screenshot from Duolingo app showing several language courses and their relevant flags including from top to bottom: Klingon (a fictional language made by a white man) High Valyrian (an unrelated fictional language made by an unrelated white man), Latin (a dead language), Gaelic and Finnish (both European languages with less speakers than Urin qichwa), followed by American English, French, and German for Arabic speakers.) Tags: #linguistics #language #english #spanish #guarani #qichwa #Urinqichwa #Quechua #landback #duolingomemes #duolingo #colonialism #imperialism #genocide #klingon #valyrian #highvalyrian #capitalism #america #socialism https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSydCal5LP/?igshid=1r9aimsiecxwq

[aegon]

You all despise me. Kingslayer. Oathbreaker. A man without honor.

jaime lannister week: day seven / free choice: identity

[cat-alvarez]

Game of Thrones Rewatch ► 3x06 “The Climb”

“Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb. They refuse, they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.”

[dailyjaimelannister]

♘ In the Godswood with Bran

[adreamofspring-archive]

6.04 / 8.01 (for @rainhadaenerys ♡)

[mheraxes]

The Forbidden Book

Chapter 2: Voracious

That same night, after dinner, alone in her room, Mera couldn’t help but return to her forbidden reading. Soon she discovered that the book was becoming even more explicit, showing sensual illustrations so graphic that she couldn’t believe someone had drawn them, yet at the same time, she couldn’t take her eyes off them.

With every new word, Mera felt more and more heated, tingling in places of her body that had previously remained dormant. Her eyes scanned each page, eager to learn more.

Suddenly, she came across details of dark and unexpected practices carried out by some nobles in secrecy. Her heart skipped a beat as she read it; she couldn't believe such things were happening around her.

Despite the shock, her intrigue drove her to keep reading, like an addict to a dangerous poison. She knew it could become an obsession.

The book described the most sensual adventures of some members of the nobility and how these served to form commercial and all sorts of alliances. Even exchanges of partners and the offering of virgin daughters for favors, power, and influence were described.

Mera gasped for breath as she read about these exchanges and pacts. She couldn’t believe people could sacrifice their own children for gain. It was a hidden world of depravity.

She wondered if what the book described was real. Apparently, it was about a secret order that practiced sex as a form of religion and was more widespread than it seemed. She read about practices that included dark rituals, torture, manipulation, and other unimaginable things. She shuddered at the thought of people involved in such acts. She couldn’t comprehend how someone could partake in such perverse and sinister things.

She felt overwhelmed reading about how the order seemed to accept and even praise the darkest and most dangerous desires. It was as if they had no limits. Mera couldn't resist reading on, both intrigued and scared.

[christophernolan]

The end of the world might be coming soon, but at least he’s in love with somebody and knows who he is — and then comes a sledgehammer. -Kit Harington

[sheikah]

[chappell-roans]

Do you know what kept me standing through all those years in exile? Faith. Not in any gods, not in myths and legends. In myself. In Daenerys Targaryen. The world hadn’t seen a dragon in centuries until my children were born. The Dothraki hadn’t crossed the sea, any sea. They did for me. I was born to rule the Seven Kingdoms, and I will.

Most Anticipated Arc: The Rule of Daenerys Targaryen

[annabellehunt]

Fear not men’s anger. Fear women’s wrath.