#Mistress of the Rock

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Meet This Author: Myron Edwards

Q: Tell us, readers, about your debut book, Mistress of the Rock. The book was conceived purely by chance when an epiphany moment hit me as I stood looking out of the vista of Petra Tou Romiou in Cyprus: the legendary birthplace of the Goddess Aphrodite, the Goddess of love. It was here that the legend began of her birth from the foam the literal meaning of her name. What I saw that day is the…

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are. are you telling me that if the romanced mage warden dies and alistair is king, he deadass stares greagoir down over her dead body and grants the circle of ferelden its autonomy after ordering it rebuilt somewhere safer. first you have to deliberately leave him behind so he won't die for you and then he does that for you once you're gone, even when you're broken up??? absolute and literal king behaviour of the highest order????? the actions speak louder than words of it all??????? I think I hauve covid

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Elvira and Axl Rose at the MTV VMAs in 1989 ✨

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Happy Halloween! 🎃

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idk why elvira is everywhere but i love this pic sm🙏

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It's their month, yall

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Misfits and Elvira Mistress of the Dark 80tas

New Romantics? Horror Punk? que fue Bro?

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Halloween is in the air… 🎃

[izzylimon]

It´s Elvira´s Birthday Today!!

b. (09/17/51)

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my mind has been developing this delusion world in which tywin lannister was the mad king’s sugar baby. aerys was “vain, proud, and changeable, traits that made him easy prey for flatterers and lickspittles” (awoiaf p.190). upon becoming king, he fired his father’s older and wiser hand and named tywin in his place, making tywin the youngest hand in the entire history of the seven kingdoms, but how did we get there?

there were childhood friends. tywin served as a page in court and we know from genna that tywin mistrusted laughter due to hearing too many people laughing at his father. at this point in time, the lannisters were a laughingstock or at least tywin wholeheartedly believed this, so the subsequent friendship he makes with the crown prince thrusts him upwards in status and into higher scrutiny. tywin is the elder, but aerys is the prince. they spend years together with the established dynamic of aerys being the one with power and tywin (albeit his friend) his servant. it is only when tywin dares to step outside this master/servant dynamic aerys has cooked up, that they begin to fall apart.

they go to war together. aerys chooses tywin, a newly made knight, to knight him. this was the war of the ninepenny kings, he could have chosen gerold hightower. he could have chosen roger reyne, or any number of distinguished knights and commanders, but no he chose tywin who had likely just been knighted himself. for added context, during this war tywin’s father stayed at home with his mistress rather than taking to the battlefield. nearly a year later, aerys is crowned and tywin is named hand of the king. as hand of the king, tywin is allowed any expense, any decision, literally allowed to do anything he wants at aerys’ leave (up until their toxic breakup era).

something that always fascinated me within this was why after gaining power of his own merit and name does he make his father’s mistress do a walk of atonement? at first, i believed this to be a way to embarrass his father further from the grave and cement his notoriety. however, right after he forces the walk of atonement, aerys and tywin rule the kingdom from casterly rock for a year (awoiaf p.194). if we believe that tywin has a subconscious or conscious shame in regards to using aerys’ fondness for him (whether you want to see it romantically or not) for seize of power and political gain, the walk of atonement is so interesting as it is a public self-flagellation of a transactional relationship that he himself mirrors. it is after this very act that aerys holds court (and tywin) at casterly rock, the scene of the crime in a sense. here tywin is, like his fathers mistresses in the same very home, flattering and bootlicking the same man for money, influence, and power. it is only after this year in casterly rock where tywin is forced to reconcile with these similarities that their relationship dissolves.

in conclusion, tywin was playing sugar baby to aerys and their relationship soured when tywin decided he wished for power that was truly his own rather than through aerys.

[bitter69uk]

On this day (9 October 1957) in old showbiz history: House of Horror premiered on Portland, Oregon TV station KPTV. Like Vampira (Maila Nurmi) before her and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson) afterwards, cadaverous cutie Tarantula Ghoul (real name: Suzanne Waldron, 1931 – 1982, affectionately known by fans as “Taranch”) provided campy comedic introductions to horror movies as the morbid Morticia Addams-like hostess of the weekly TV show from 1957 to 1959. Sadly, not a single frame of House of Horror survives (as was routine at the time, KPTV wiped and re-used the tapes of her shows), but backed by rock’n’roll band The Gravediggers, in 1958 Ghoul cut one immortal Halloween novelty single in her brief heyday: "Graveyard Rock" / "King Kong". Both songs are seasonal staples – crank ‘em up LOUD today! Her 1950s TV show may be long forgotten, but "Graveyard Rock" lives on every Halloween. Pictured: 1955 portrait of Waldon when she was appearing in the play "Oh, Men! Oh, Men!" As you can see, even out of Tarantula Ghoul drag she possessed a nicely macabre quality. (Frustratingly, there are extremely few decent quality pics of Ghoul / Waldron in circulation, and I’ve already posted them all over the years!). Link to the Lobotomy Room Halloween playlist. Read more about Waldron here.

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[y-rhywbeth2]

Vampire hunting. aka: why are these assholes fucking impossible to kill??

First off, you will be fighting a being with superhuman strength and speed and a long list of bullshit powers that will make this a nightmare. Bonus points: if we're 3.5e or older they can take character levels away, to make this worse. Also they rapidly heal from every single wound you inflict on them. And they can steal your health to heal even faster!

But first you have to actually get them to face you in combat. Which they won't! They will send minions! They will use traps! They will run away! They will use political connections to hide and turn the city against you! They will just generally do absolutely everything possible to never, ever face you in a fair fight!

And if you do kill them they turn into mist and return to their graves, where they regenerate back to full health, so you're on a goddamn time limit.

Then you have to stake them and hack them into pieces, or set them on fire, or anything else that sufficiently destroys the body enough to stop them from regenerating.

AND THEN THERE'S A CHANCE THAT THEY'LL COME BACK AGAIN AS EVIL BLOOD DRINKING MIST.

(If they're reincarnated, there's also the chance they might be reborn as a dhampir, which is odd. I wonder if that's Ravenloft exclusive.)

All things considered, Cazador should probably (i.e. definitely) have been more intimidating and significantly harder than he was. But it's Act 3, what can you do.

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Elvira

"Don't Cancel Halloween"

Music video, 2020