#THIS HAS BEEN IN MY HEAD FOR AWHILE

[danytheconqueror-jonthewhitewolf]

Scenario, where Daenerys meets young Griff, and she very reluctantly lets him meet her dragons.

They go to the dragons, and he says in the most cocksure voice, "Well, of course I'm going to claim the dragon named for my father."

He starts swaggering up to Rheagal, who is giving off "bitch, don't even think about it." vibes.

Dany sees the way Rheagel is looking at him and tells Y Griff to wait. He waves off the concern with an "it's fine, it's fine." He goes to put his hand on Rheagal's snout and barely, barely avoids getting the Quentyn Martell treatment from Rhaegal whose growling and puffing smoke.

Y Griff, clothes singed and bits of hair smoking, backs away, turns to Dany, and says, "Actually, I think Viserion over there is calling to me." With painfully fake confidence.

JonCon is in the background all but screaming, crying, and ripping his hair out.

[helpicanntfindaname]

so i watched a video where someone mix a guardian from Botw and a gloom hand from totk. and in totk gloom hands when kill summon phantom gannon

so…..

would a gloom hand guardian summon a blight ???

because blights are part gannon part guardian?

[rustyvanburace]

That "Kiss The Girl" song from My Little Mermaid except it's The Boy and it's Navarre and Issachar in the boat and there's demons or something singing that in the background

[salad-uchiha]

[nixiegenesis]

Long post below: tw for some emotional talk but mostly just the current state of my creative mind and my attempt to crawl out of this anti-creative black hole lol.

Almost 10 years ago I started writing Fireborn. That number is scary because I start to think about what might have happened in those 10 years had I been able to stick with the editing process and actually get it published.

I’ve been pushing myself to revisit it. It hasn’t been till recently though, that I’ve realized it’s like reading a novel that isn’t mine. It’s not so much because I’ve improved as a writer, but because the story no longer resonates with me.

Fireborn was a story of hope, of overcoming the Powers That Be to make the world a better place. I began to write it after my divorce when I was hopeful and felt like I had the whole world in front of me. The characters, while I still love them, feel distant to me.

If I were to restart the book, it would be a very different story as I am in such a different point in my life. I can no longer resonate with a MC that is a go getter who can overcome everything because I no longer am that person. How am I supposed to write about hope when I am struggling with hopelessness? How can I write about saving the world when I’m “saving” myself?

I’m almost 40. I’m emotionally exhausted, burnt out, and in survival mode most days. And so I was thinking maybe that’s the issue. The story I want to tell and the story I need to tell are two different things. Maybe I can’t write a story of triumph right now because I’m mired in everything heavy and feeling stuck. Maybe it’s time to write something new—a character who is also stuck, burnt out, weighted down, and go on that journey with them through my writing.

Forcing myself to write what I can’t connect with anymore isn’t working and it’s actually makes me feel guilty. I’ve realized it’s ok to feel some sadness and even grief that I may never finish that book. It’s ok to grieve that point in my life, and understand I’m at a new point. I’m at the bottom and working every day to claw myself out and maybe I need to write a character who is also at the bottom and who must claw their way out.

I lived vicariously once through my MC. Maybe it’s time I do that again. And so to my Fireborn characters, I love you and perhaps one day I’ll be able to revisit you and finish your story. I thank you for being what I needed at the time I created that world for you. But for now, I think it’s time to focus on a different story. And honestly, I feel a spark of excitement about it.

[dailyinkk]

day 35!! experimenting :3

[anemonet]

[Outtake from iterator Prosperity of Populace final speach to her citizen before its disassembly.]

[vicsy]

used to be, you and me

[cherubdulce]

I’m going to be completely honest, it’s so frustrating to be a person of color in this community. I always see white shippers mainly interacting with white/light skin shippers then see a black or brown shipper being interacted in every blue moon or the bare minimum. it really says a lot on them as a person especially them being the same people who rb poc racial struggles/psas but just never take action. And even when someone gets vocal about their racial insecurities, some people would still miss the point and take offense. I know discrimination can’t be erased but this is the only community I’ve been that’s so casually racist and it’s just so tiring to see it get repeated. I’m genuinely so tired of white people talking over poc’s voices and make it about them. I’m tired of poc shippers and characters not treated like people whether they’re treated like animals or some sort of trophy for being respectful. Bipoc especially dark skin self shippers deserve so much better and I seriously wish for the better in the future or at least people doing better at actually listening and learning.

white people, I do not want to see “as a white person x , I’m white but x, we as white people x” or anything similar, do not make this about you.

Do not tag this as discourse.

[l3xdrigo]

The concept of Zero

Inspired by someone commenting that like the number zero, Vertin or the role of the timekeeper itself is a concept.

The concept of zero being that it is the placeholder for writing numbers, it is the origin but it is also the one that is merely a concept to get more of an understanding or guide to natural numbers to integers. It is the invisible line from the positive to negative, it is the middle ground.

The concept of zero in a more mathematical sense is that it is a additive to other numbers to make them bigger (ex:100) but the number zero itself is a non existent and empty number, like an equator, it is an imaginary line that helps us grasp the locations and placements of continents. Both are imaginary, both are just man made concepts to guide us to a better understanding.

Vertin's soul number is zero, she is unchanging and is considered one of the middle ground between humans and Arcanist. In a sense, she is a guide to most, but once the storm reaches its end, she will become nothing more than a concept, the role of the timekeeper was created for the very purpose of recording the beginning and ends of eras and braving the storm to one day create the immunity for it. The moment that there is no need for the timekeeper anymore, either the storm ending or finding a full reliable immunity towards it, the more people that gain the ability, the more Vertin's role becomes more of the ordinary.

The role of the timekeeper will soon fade and become only an invisible line, the origin of how it first began, on how civilization reached the immunity of the storm, and how the threat of the storm ended. In the far future where the rain doesn't rise, the term timekeeper and the name "Vertin" will be nothing more of a concept to what once was a catastrophic phenomena that hinder the progression of time, a subtle reminder of how she guided the freedom of humans and Arcanist out of the grueling storm, and into a world where the rain falls and the sun rises; Vertin is the concept of zero.

[laurabenanti]

CAT'S VERY HAPPY GIFIDAYS

for @singinprincess

[lesbiandarvey]

JOSH CHARLES and PETER KRAUSE as DAN RYDELL and CASEY MCCALL

SPORTS NIGHT: 2x06 Shane ➳ directed by Robert Berlinger, written by Bill Wrubel, Matt Tarses, Kevin Falls. Original airdate December 07 1999

[thetopichot]

Auron: I've made my peace with what that says about me. You have no idea what it's like. They know what a shitty person I am but they still smile at me.

[tiktaalic]

something. hey everbody. have you noticed how in supernatural dean is playing a very delicate balancing act of Being A Man and the more violent he becomes the more small things he allows himself as indulgences in Not Manhood that are acceptable bc of the aforementioned violence. this happens in dabbification certainly where he bops around to taylor swift and wears silly outfits and various dweeby clothing items but acts like. gestures. but im thinking very particularly of how the time dean got closest to textually addressing his level of care towards cas was when he was widow-ing and taking it out on a baby. you're acting like dad. its okay if you're #gay as long as you're embodying the worst parts of your father !

[pointycorgiears]

Cross Guild is fascinating to me because of who it consists of. Crocodile makes sense and Buggy makes sense. But Mihawk is ????

He's always been a loner, until now. Why? I think it's because of Luffy. Mihawk acknowledged Luffy's ability to draw others to him to fight alongside him in Marineford. I think Mihawk now realizes that no matter how much he wishes to remain a lone wolf, he is still going to be affected by what's happening in the world. He will never come out of the war unscathed. He can no longer fight these battles alone. His vision of the future will have better odds if he is fighting alongside someone against the World Government. So he took up Crocodile's offer.

What's interesting to me is, he is working with Crocodile and Buggy, two pirates who momentarily joined forces with Luffy when it was needed. And they may have to again in the near future. Just by being in the presence of those two (not to mention Zoro), he is closer and closer to falling into Luffy's direct sphere of influence.

He may end up a temporary Straw Hat just like the others did.

[citrine-elephant]

takin another crack at the vendetta novelization (translated by highball66, i don't have the link atm)

last time i opened tis was in january omfg...