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[presidenthades]

HOTD Oneshot: Swords, Sheaths, and Pearls

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Rating: M

Word Count: 2.1k (complete)

Summary:

Daeron burst into Aegon's childhood bedroom, which had been repurposed into an unofficial study. Aegon and Aemond looked up from a map of the city that they were bickering over.

“How does one pleasure a woman?” Daeron asked urgently.

Or: Joffrida Velaryon and Daeron Targaryen decide they’re ready to have sex. They ask their older siblings for advice.

Notes: Set sometime in the nebulous future of the AHFOD-verse. No smut, just sex ed and a lot of oversharing.

[betweendevilanddeepbluesea]

The tumblr Coldplay fandom used to be pretty crazy around the ahfod- everyday life era! After that most people just gravitated to twitter because that’s where all the fun was sadly! But it was a good time!

And if you’re sad about the end of Coldplay, don’t be- if we’re being super honest I don’t see any possibility of their last album being released by 2025, i mean it’s possible for sure but it’s unlikely. And Guy has always had his little side projects, but listening to his new bass lines and just looking at how he’s absolutely beaming, im sure he still loves being in the band! So don’t worry! All is good ❤️

Welcome! Thank you very much for your beautiful comment, I hope so, and Coldplay still exist for a long time. 🤗❤️ And the good thing is that Guy Berryman hasn't felt like releasing solo albums like George Harrison, because that's why The Beatles broke up. 😶

[coldplayfeels]

comfort /kum′fərt/ v.

to soothe or reassure; bring cheer to; console.

[philharvey]

a head full of dreams tour

[skyfullofcoldplay]

The best cover that could have happened in 2017

[jonathanbuckland]

Principality Stadium, Cardiff - 11th July 2017

[amazingday]

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[xandwhy]

1, 3 and 4

<3

Hey Anon!

1. how long have you been a fan of Coldplay?

Gosh! Its been about six years now, I first listened to AHFOD in whole when I was looking for some music to get into, but I liked Viva La Vida and the usual suspect hits a lot before that

3. favorite album?

I don't shut up about this, so many of my mutuals probably know already that its Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends. I love the artistic influences and instrumentation and honesty I love every single song.

4. top five favourite songs?

Hmmm, that is a hard question!! It really varies from time to time but it usually includes Church, A Rush of Blood to the Head, Violet Hill, Amazing Day, and Yellow.

Thanks for the ask <3

[flamingplay]

Ok, Coldplay, what’s going on? O_o Icon is from GS era, website is partially AHFOD era-looking and doesn’t work on full (shop doesn’t work and promises a UK version of it like at the start of EL era, Music section loads very slowly or doesn’t load at all, the album logos don’t consist EL, etc), the texture of a background like EL era, the swirls in the main menu of the website has MX era swirls... Maybe, something new coming afterall?

[xmarksthexyloto]

AHFOD: My Experience

I’m at a friend’s flat, waiting for the morning to catch my train home and this seems as good a time as any to write down what I can only describe as the best time of my life, so here it goes. I wasn’t lucky enough to watch them perform live back when they were touring and all that did was make me crave Coldplay more and more. So I decided I’d do everything to see this film when it came out. The nearest theatre showing it was 500 kms away but I had my mind set. I travelled to a different city (took a whole night as well) but I was HYPED. I was a little afraid too because I didn’t really know what to expect. The trailer looked good enough but I was worried that I had built it up in my head too much and the reality would only be disappointing in comparison.

Boy was I in for a surprise.

The film was everything I wanted it to be and so much more. Just when I thought I couldn’t be more in love with them, they hit me with that. I honestly felt every single emotion that it is possible to feel in that very short timeframe. I walked in the theatre beaming, all decked up in my coldplay merch and I came out beaming too, but at the same time, sobbing. Not because I didn’t like it, but because I loved it so much. I felt so so proud of my boys and I’m so happy that they have achieved what they have. There’s no one in this world that deserves it more than them.

I used to be a passive fan, only listening to some of their hits from time to time but about three years ago, around the same time as the release of the new album, something clicked and I just couldn’t imagine a life without this band. Their music became so much more to me than just something to put on while I concentrated on other things. I listened to everything they have ever done, front to back and then the other way around, soon after, and I can honestly say, they made me feel like I was alive again. That was a truly difficult time in my life and they gave me something I didn’t even know I needed- hope. This is a bit dark but I probably wouldn’t be here today, writing this with the dumbest smile on my face and tears in my eyes, without those five guys. Without ever knowing of my existence, they were there for me at every point of my life. They were there when I was hanging by a thread, they were there when I managed to pick myself up and dared to hope, they were there when I thought I wasn’t capable of love and then when I thought I couldn’t possibly be more full of love, they were there when I had given up and they were there when I was lost and then when I found who I was. They have been there every step of the way and they’ve given me so much, I’m eternally grateful. I love Chris, Guy, Jonny, Phil and Will more than anything else in this entire world. A Head Full of Dreams was a masterpiece and despite being like a million miles away from where they are (probably), I feel like we’re all in this together, we’re one big band.

@coldplay thankyou for honestly everything.

[isognimaivissuti]

Heey, innanzitutto gran bel blog! Sapresti consigliarmi frasi da canzoni rock e pop?

Grazie millee!Ma ceeerto ne so a bizzeffe: -We're burning down the highway skyline, on the back of a hurricane that started turning. (when you were young/the killers)-So never mind the darkness we still can find a way. Cause nothing lasts forever even cold November rain. (November Rain/guns n' Roses)-I'll find out a way to make it back someday to watch you, to guide you through the darkest of your days. (Wherever you will go/the calling)-I want to heal, I want to feel like I'm close to something real. I want to find something I've wanted all along somewhere I belong (Somewhere i belong/linkin park)-Light a fire a flame in my heart. We'll run wild. We'll be glowing in the dark (Charlie Brown/Coldplay)-Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me. (Teenagers/my chemical romance)-Forever trust in who we are and nothing else matters. (Nothing else matters/metallica)-Look at the stars, look how they shine for you and everything you do yeah they were all yellow. (Yellow/Coldplay)-Who cares if one more light goes out In the sky of a million stars? (One more light/Linkin Park)-If I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world? (Chasing Cars/Snow Patrol)-You're gonna be the one that saves me and after all you're my wonderwall (Wonderwall/Oasis)-And if you were to ask me after all that we've been through still believe in magic? Well yes, I do. (Magic/Coldplay)-Here comes the rain again, falling from the stars. Drenched in my pain again. Becoming who we are. (Wake me up when September ends/Green Day)-Cause I'm still breathing on my own. My head's above the rain and roses. Making my way, away. (Still breathing/Green Day)-Every wave that broke me, every song that wrote me, every dawn that woke me was to get me home to you, see. (Landlady/U2)-If there is a world we can't always be, if there is a dark that we shouldn't doubt and there is a light don't let it go out. (Song for someone/U2)-Well it’s too late tonight to drag the past out into the light. We’re one but we’re not the same. (One/U2)- You get a head, a head full of dreams, you can see the change you wanted, be what you want to be. (AHFOD/Coldplay)ne ho mooolte altre ma per oggi bastano queste ahah!Pagina domande: @asktostefano

[presidenthades]

One-Year Celebration Post 🎉

Today is the one-year anniversary since I posted the first chapter of the Handbook! So many fandom things have happened in that year:

I’ve posted 9 fics in the AHFOD series. 2 are completed longfics, 4 are oneshots, and 3 are WIPs. (Those fics currently have a total of almost 6000 kudos and almost 170k hits. 🤯)

Across all those fics, I’ve written 314k words so far. For context, the average non-fantasy adult novel is 80k words, so that’s almost the equivalent of four novels. 😳 (Most fantasy novels by authors who aren’t GRRM are around 100k.)

I’ve received two Spanish fan translations! 😍

I’ve shared 6 fic-related artworks. I have another one that I’ve yet to share because it’s related to Compromise, and I just started talking to someone about creating yet another artwork. 👀

I’m almost done making my first ever typeset (for the Handbook) so I can maybe bind my first ever fanfic. 🤞

And of course, I’ve met so many great people through AO3, Tumblr, and Discord! Virtual hugs to everyone who interacts with my fics and posts. 🥰 When I was going through my old Tumblr posts so I could make my masterlist, I realized how dead my blog was this time last year compared to now. Thank you to everyone who likes, reblogs, comments, and sends Asks!

I have a super-huge life event in September, so I may have to slow down my writing and blogging activity as the date nears. If my fandom activity gets quiet at some point this summer, please know it’s because of Life. But people are always welcome to drop into my Asks and comments with friendly check-ins!

Although I can’t predict the future, currently my fanfic roadmap will look something like this:

Continue to alternate updates of Compromised and Lavender.

When I finish posting Lavender, that’ll happen around the time of my big life event, so I will focus on just Compromised until that’s over.

Once life settles back down, I might work on another of my side fic ideas, like the Ancient Valyria AU. Then I would alternate those updates with Compromised, which is going to be a WIP for a while because it’s so long. 🥲

At some point, as part of an art trade with an artist friend, I will write another Joff and Daemon adventure.

Thanks for listening to me toot my own horn! I hope everyone braces themselves for the S2 premiere. 🫣

[newscoldplay]

A final look back at Coldplay’s incredible journey and accomplishments from the AHFOD era!

[coldplayfeels]

Fetus Coldplay

[philharvey]

Coldplay: A Head Full Of Dreams (Film)

“Jon Buckland, Chris Martin, Will Champion, and Guy Berryman, aka the Coldplay are gonna be such a huge band. Guy, Will, Jon and Chris. Dont you forget that. Massive. Absolutely huge.”

[rachaelmac]

Brief Music Response: Album Cover Imagery

On my research for my album imagery I came across Coldplays A Head full Of Dreams cover. Everything about this cover fascinated me to the colour, imagery and symmetry.

LYRICS

“Oh, I think I've landedIn a world I hadn't seenWhen I'm feeling ordinaryWhen I don't know what I mean”

The cover itself was designed by Pilar Zeta in 2015. Before designing the cover Zeta collaborated with Chris Martin to create art in a studio in London. For it she made a 3 meter handmade college including the childhood images of the artist. Zeta and Martin would later collaborate again with Chris painting in the studio along with his children.

“Actually, the band’s kids came and they did all these beautiful paintings, so I wanted to include those too. So if you see the mountains of the collage at the top, the layers, it’s pieces of their kids paintings that I scanned in. So it’s like a mix of everything. And at the end it looked really good.”

Zeta and Martin would then go onto creating a kaleidoscope version of the college and then used it as the cover art of the album including a colourful version of the flowers of life designed by her.

Me and Chris met again in New York with all the material. He wanted to see everything. And he said, “Why don’t we try make the collage like a kaleidoscope?”. So when I multiplied the collage and created this kaleidoscope, we tried cropping it to a flower shape and somehow that’s when everything came together. Then they were like, “What can we put in the middle? Right, the Flower of Life!”. And it fitted perfectly.

Reference list

Hole, R. (n.d.). Coldplay - Official Site. [online] Coldplay. Available at: https://www.coldplay.com/interview-pilar-zeta-ahfod-artwork-creator/ [Accessed 23 Oct. 2020].

pilarzeta.com. (n.d.). Pilar Zeta — Creative Director + Artist. [online] Available at: https://pilarzeta.com/work/coldplay-a-head-full-of-dreams [Accessed 23 Oct. 2020].

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