#Urrone

[swaps55]

🌸 SHOW ME PIXEL

YOU GOT IT.

Pixel when you tell him it's Walk Time, not Ball Time.

Pixel 'I Cause Problems On Purpose' :

[foofyschmoofer]

Oh man all I keep hearing about is Astarion and what a kinky fucker he is. It’s even in the Halsin tag. I don’t get it. Not everyone is sleeping on Halsin but a lot of people are.

I must have gotten lucky with my circle then lol I mean for awhile, I couldn’t take a step without tripping over an Astarion post 🤣 but now, not necessarily on tumblr where there’s a healthy mix of most of the companions, but discord? So much Halsin. And not all of it necessarily sexual, a lot of it has been sweet fan art of him and ducks.

I have yet to make it far enough to meet him in-game (I got sucked into Skyrim again just before BG3 release) but I’m very much looking forward to it

[laelior]

Okay so like to continue Rogue One discussion, I think one of my favorite things about that ending is that they never kiss. It’s just all these LOOKS and these LONGINGS about what could have been. It’s a lifetime, they don’t even NEED the kiss.

EXACTLY. It's all in the eyes. The way they see a whole world in each other for the first and last time.

I mean, major props to Diego Luna and Felicity Jones for how they acted that scene. It's so understated and subtle. And despite everything, it plays out hopefully. That they found something in each other was that worth everything.

I just *clenches fist* love them so much.

[wrathbites]

14 and 41 for spotify wrapped!!

14 is "Superhero" from Simon Curtis!

And 41... "My Love", Vitamin String Quartet!

[ittyybittybaker]

2, 4, 24 and 42 for the Spotify wrapped game!

2.) Blame - The Maine [x]

4.) Loved You A Little - The Maine ft. Taking Back Sunday and Charlotte Sands

42.) Meltdown - Niall Horan [x]

Spotify Wrapped Ask Game

[liminal-zone]

Liz can I tell you a Great Lakes fact that terrifies me? If you take all of the water out of the lakes and spread it over the entire land mass of the lower 48, the water would be 12 feet deep. TWELVE FEET DEEP.

I made a hoarse wheezing noise imagining this.

[asoiafreadthru]

HOUSE GREYJOY

The Greyjoys of Pyke claim descent from the Grey King of the Age of Heroes. Legend says the Grey King ruled not only the western isles but the sea itself, and took a mermaid to wife.

For thousands of years, raiders from the Iron Islands—called “ironmen” by those they plundered—were the terrors of the seas, sailing as far as the Port of Ibben and the Summer Isles. They prided themselves on their fierceness in battle and their sacred freedoms.

Each island had its own “salt king” and “rock king.” The High King of the Isles was chosen from among their number, until King Urron made the throne hereditary by murdering the other kings when they assembled for a choosing.

Urron’s own line was extinguished a thousand years later when the Andals swept over the islands. The Greyjoys, like the other island lords, intermarried with the conquerors.

The Iron Kings extended their rule far beyond the isles themselves, carving kingdoms out of the mainland with fire and sword. King Qhored could truthfully boast that his writ ran “wherever men can smell salt water or hear the crash of waves.” In later centuries, Qhored’s descendants lost the Arbor, Oldtown, Bear Island, and much of the western shore.

Still, come the Wars of Conquest, King Harren the Black ruled all the lands between the mountains, from the Neck to the Blackwater Rush.

When Harren and his sons perished in the fall of Harrenhal, Aegon Targaryen granted the riverlands to House Tully, and allowed the surviving lords of the Iron Islands to revive their ancient custom and choose who should have the primacy among them. They chose Lord Vickon Greyjoy of Pyke.

The Greyjoy sigil is a golden kraken upon a black field.

Their words are We Do Not Sow.

[sebeth]

The World Of Ice And Fire: The Andals Vs The Children of the Forest, the Ironborn, and the North (Revised 12/7/22)

Warning, Spoilers Ahead…

  Erreg the Kinslayer, an Andal hero, came upon a grove of weirwood trees in High Heart. The Children of the Forest, under the protection of the Kings of the First Men, tended the trees. Archmaester Laurent’s Old Places of the Trident notes the grove contained thirty-one weirwood trees.

Erreg and company promptly started cutting down the trees. The Children and the First Men united to defend the holy grove but were slain by the Andals. The ghosts of the slain are said to haunt the place and rivermen shun the location to this day.

Erreg sounds like a charming character. Is he mentioned in the Seven’s texts? What kin did he slay?

Were Erreg and his fellow Andals so intent on destroying the weirwood grove because they were aware of the Children’s magical abilities or was it only due to the weirwoods’ importance in a rival religion?

The Andals then focused on the Children: “The Andals proved bitter enemies to the remaining children. To their eyes, the children worshipped strange gods and had strange customs, and so the Andals drove them out of all the deep woods the Pact had once given them. Weakened and grown insular over the years, the children lacked whatever advantages they once had over the First Men. And what the First Men could never succeed in doing – eradicating the Children entirely – the Andals managed to achieve in short order. Some few Children may have fled to the Neck, where there was safety amidst the bogs and crannogs, but if they did, no trace of them remains. It is possible that a few survived on the Isle of Faces, as some have written, under the protection of the green men, whom the Andals never succeeded in destroying. But again, no definitive proof has ever been found.”

I would say the Children did flee to both areas. Howland and Jojen Reed of the Neck have magical abilities that seem to derive from the Children, and no one can land on the Isle of Faces due to repeated mysterious winds and bird attacks. The Children of the Forest are also still found north of the Wall.

The Andals defeated the First Men and conquered the southron kingdoms after endless battles and wars. Many of the defeated First Men took up the faith of the Seven.

The Andals switched from conquest to consolidation. Many Andals “took the wives and daughters of the defeated kings to wife, as a means of solidifying their right to rule.” Many southron castles retained their godswoods with carved weirwoods to avoid conflicts on differing faiths.

It took a thousand years for the Andals to turn their attention to the Iron Islands. The Andals underwent a renewed zeal and “swept over the islands”, extinguishing the line of Urron Redhand, “which had ruled by axe and sword for a thousand years”.

The Andals tried to convert the Ironborn to the faith of the Seven but they said “no thanks, we only worship the Drowned God”. Eventually, the Andals on the Iron Islands converted to the Drowned God religion, though a few houses remember the Seven.

 The North remained unconquered. Numerous Andal armies were destroyed in attempts to take the North “thanks to the impenetrable swamps of the Neck and the ancient keep of Moat Cailin”. The Kings of Winter “preserved their independent rule for centuries to come.”

Dorne isn’t mentioned as one of the unconquered areas so apparently they weren’t “unbowed, unbent, and unbroken” in regards to the Andal invasion.

Speaking of Dorne, up next: The Rhoynar.

[ferindencadash]

15 Questions for 15 Friends

Tagged by @teamdilf and @finchmarie Thank you! ❤️

ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?: My dad's ex-girlfriend. 🙃 Not weird at all, right?? I was going to be named something else entirely (which I would have actually preferred as it easily shortened to a masculine name) but my mother mentioned it to her sister-in-law, who gave birth two months before my mom did, and she used the name for my cousin! My mom was unimpressed. So I got a backup name. (My dad swears it's just cause he liked the name, they weren't even that serious.)

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?: Hmm... A couple weeks ago I think? While reading fanfic. 😅

DO YOU HAVE KIDS?: Nope. Tried a while back. Turns out my reproductive organs are broken as hell. It was probably for the best as it means I'm not permanently tied to my now-ex. Hope to foster some day.

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED?: Hahahahahahahahahaa... no. Though every school coach tried to recruit me for basketball until they found out I have zero hand-eye coordination.

DO YOU USE SARCASM?: Probably too often.

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?: Hair, I think? Or some cool shirt/accessory.

WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOUR?: Blue

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?: Happy endings. But I like monster movies.

ANY TALENTS?: I like to think I'm getting pretty good at writing? I hope... I'm also a former pastry chef, so I can make all kinds of fancy shit and wedding cakes and such.

WHERE WERE YOU BORN?: Ontario, Canada.

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES?: Writing, gaming, reading fanfic excessively, crochet (and knitting, cross stitch, sewing, all the fibre arts basically).

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?: Currently two cats. Orange and Void. The Halloween Duo.

HOW TALL ARE YOU?: 6 foot (hence the basketball)

FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL?: Spanish

DREAM JOB?: I do not dream of labour. But since I must work, I really just want to do something I can feel good about. And if I could pay my bills, that would be a nice touch.

If you want to play: @biotickaidan @dandenbo @rowansnaps @aleksxo @deerbab @lonesurvivorao3 @hippotooth @vorchagirl @keriweird @eavangeek @eregarden @maintitle @choccy-zefirka @urrone @tatterings and literally anyone who's interested. ❤️

[writes-in-space]

Thanks for the tag to do this picrew, @ad-astra13

So here’s my face, kinda:

Tagging @mallaidhsomo @urrone @swaps55 @screwyouflightlieutenant and @crescentbunny . No pressure, ofc

[swaps55]

Fucking fiiiiiiiinally, how does west Texas survive without Starbucks

THE PEPPERMINTING HAS BEGUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I do not know how West Texas survives. I will never forget the day I got in the car to drive from San Antonio to California, passed a Starbucks, thought, "eh, just got on the road not quite ready to stop yet I'll hit the next one."

The next one was 8 hours later in El Paso.

[nextstopwonderland]

Tagged by @urrone for this:

shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals <3

Semantics tangent: so I don’t have many “playlists” but I do have lots of “mixes” - I consider a playlist something that you throw a bunch of songs onto that might consist of lots from the same artist and not in any particular order but probably has some sort of theme. Mixes I consider as carefully curated in terms of song, artist, order, and theme and title.

I couldn’t possibly pick my favorite mix that I listen to. So I’m just going to go with my “tub tunes” one which is probably more of a playlist as my only criteria was relaxing songs to listen to while in the bath, order was less important to me and I didn’t come up with a title that’s a song lyric as I usually do.

Here are 5 shuffled songs from Tub Tunes

1. Knife- Grizzly Bear

2. I’m on fire - Chromatics ( Springsteen cover)

3. Love songs on the radio - Mojave 3

4. Purple Rain - Prince

5. Take Care - Yo La Tengo (Big Star cover)

Tagging anyone who wants to do it (I live for music memes)

[laelior]

shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals <3

Thank you! I love any excuse to inflict my taste in music on others. <3 Tagging @bisexual-kaidan-alenko and @vela-ad-astra, since they tagged me in a similar game a while back (sorry for taking while!)

Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage!

They Might Be Giants - Particle Man

Tacocat - Men Explain Things to Me

Great Big Sea - The Chemical Workers Song (Process Man)

Nina Simone - Feeling Good

Going to tag @shadoedseptmbr @urrone @favoriteblogonthecitadel @dandenbo and @unicorn-farm (no pressure, of course).

[stumblingoverchaos]

For #junkjournaljanuary. Day 1: Resolutions. Collage, label, typewriter, gel pen.

"no new years resolutions. it is the circumstances turn to improve." -@sarahclazarus (twitter, 2021) via @urrone

[ittyybittybaker]

wheat bread for that one meme

i do seem to have wheat bread energy !!!! thank you 💗

[swaps55]

This reminds me of that time we made a joke about cheese fandom, which inspired @urrone to go to AO3 and see if there were cheese fics. Which led to the discovery of a fic in which Ted Cruz got railed by Charles Entertainment Cheese, and we now just have to live in a world where that's a thing that exists.

I still think about the poor Etsy woman who received the request to embroider, "Put a bunch of monkeys in a room with typewriters and eventually one of them will write Ted Cruz getting railed by an animatronic rat," on a pillow.

A real person gave her real money to do it, and bless her, she did it.

Shoutout to incredibly contrived set-ups for kink stories, I respect the grind so much. One time I was frolicking in a field of flowers and I found a fic whose summary started w 'IN A WORLD WHERE THE LOSING ATTORNEY HAS TO SUCK OFF THEIR OPPOSITION' and it's been stuck on my mind ever since