#and i feel like i forgot a ton but

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* I-I don't think we were talking about the same thing...

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[ddakhun]

[queer-omens-in-the-archives]

note to our body. we are not being hunted for sport. thank you

[jon-sedai]

I think it’s interesting that a particular refrain keeps appearing in Jon’s inner monologue about the Horn of Winter.

They’re not wearing skins, Jon realized. That’s hair. Shaggy pelts covered their bodies, thick below the waist, sparser above. The stink that came off them was choking, but perhaps that was the mammoths. And Joramun blew the Horn of Winter, and woke giants from the earth. He looked for great swords ten feet long, but saw only clubs. Most were just the limbs of dead trees, some still trailing shattered branches. A few had stone balls lashed to the ends to make colossal mauls. The song never says if the horn can put them back to sleep. [..] “So how did you come by your other names?” Jon asked. “Mance called you the Horn-Blower, didn’t he? Mead-king of Ruddy Hall, Husband to Bears, Father to Hosts?” It was the horn blowing he particularly wanted to hear about, but he dared not ask too plainly. And Joramun blew the Horn of Winter, and woke giants from the earth. Is that where they had come from, them and their mammoths? Had Mance Rayder found the Horn of Joramun, and given it to Tormund Thunderfist to blow?(Jon II, ASoS)

Lady Melisandre watched him rise. “FREE FOLK! Here stands your king of lies. And here is the horn he promised would bring down the Wall.” Two queen’s men brought forth the Horn of Joramun, black and banded with old gold, eight feet long from end to end. Runes were carved into the golden bands, the writing of the First Men. Joramun had died thousands of years ago, but Mance had found his grave beneath a glacier, high up in the Frostfangs. And Joramun blew the Horn of Winter, and woke giants from the earth. Ygritte had told Jon that Mance never found the horn. She lied, or else Mance kept it secret even from his own. (Jon III, ADWD)

Jon turned in his saddle, frowning. And Joramun blew the Horn of Winter and woke giants from the earth. That huge horn with its bands of old gold, incised with ancient runes … had Mance Rayder lied to him, or was Tormund lying now? If Mance’s horn was just a feint, where is the true horn? (Jon XII, ADWD)

Repeated phrases in a character’s inner monologue are always important to their development (e.g., “promise me, Ned” or “wherever whores go”). The refrain “And Joramun blew the Horn of Winter, and woke giants from the earth” is repeated four times in Jon’s. That may not seem like much, but then we get to Jon’s final chapter in ADWD:

Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun howled again and gave Ser Patrek’s other arm a twist and pull. It tore loose from his shoulder with a spray of bright red blood. Like a child pulling petals off a daisy, thought Jon. “Leathers, talk to him, calm him. The Old Tongue, he understands the Old Tongue. Keep back, the rest of you. Put away your steel, we’re scaring him.” Couldn’t they see the giant had been cut? Jon had to put an end to this or more men would die. They had no idea of Wun Wun’s strength. A horn, I need a horn. He saw the glint of steel, turned toward it. “No blades!” he screamed. “Wick, put that knife …”

It’s a rather peculiar narrative choice to have Jon think about needing a horn to command a giant right before his death. Especially since the Horn of Winter’s very purpose is to wake (and potentially command) giants, whom Jon has been in communion with since ASoS.

The fandom at large believes the old, chipped warhorn in Sam’s possession might be the Horn of Winter. While that’s a great theory, I think there’s an important narrative distinction to make: the Horn of Winter exists squarely in Jon’s storyline. Though Sam’s POV has made callbacks to the warhorn, signaling that GRRM wants us to remember its existence, the Horn of Winter’s lore and purpose are explored exclusively in Jon’s chapters. Even when it appears in Sam’s narrative, it’s tied directly to Jon through their conversations. Sam’s warhorn may be a Chekhov’s gun, but resolution to the Horn of Winter must come through Jon’s arc. Its purpose has always resided with him, so he should be the one to blow it.

[zoof-katt]

Haven't watched Last Life in a long time so I decided to draw them from memory

[asydicsydney]

The Spine always wants to be human, but is the furthest from it. His 'humanlike upgrade' gets read as uncanny valley and no one is mistaking that silver plating for human skin

The Jon is frankly the most humanlike, but doesn't care. His gold plating could be mistaken for a natural skin tone and he has the most natural looking hair, plus literal human fingers

In this essay, I will-

[sabrevine]

i forgot to post this yesterday anyways hi cablepool enjoyers. waves.

art cred: @ribs02

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

Stopped in the middle of the sidewalk and said out loud "oh duh" today when I realized that a multiple-month-long anxiety meltdown stage of job searching/future insecurity is probably not the right time to try to quit my sleep drugs (valerian tea)

[birb-tangleblog]

Gaze upon it... ✨

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

New header update! 💜

and it's been a long, long time coming...

Don't hate me too much y'all BUT ...........

As much as I never thought Gavin would go, he did. And as much as I thought Luka wouldn't...

Also I know it probably looks wonky af, but I've had a purple theme on here for so long and sorta refuse to let it, the page tear border, and my galaxy desktop theme go haha. The original image was red af, so I edited it and threw in some shadows, lights, stars, etc. to make it look a little less boring. The color swap was done with a mobile app so... yea 💀

Explanations no one asked for, but here they are anyway:

It's not that I don't like him anymore, mind you. I've mentioned wanting a change for awhile as my mobile header is years old now.. but always felt bad about doing so. Ikerev has been discontinued for ages, so I'm unfortunately less attached than I originally was. It will forever hold a special place in my heart, and I'll always be salty about how Blanc, Mousse & Dean got absolutely shafted with their treatment.

My LnDS brainrot is mostly to blame for this (and also cause I bought her outfit you see there.. I'm trying to justify it ssshhh) but I've genuinely been playing for months and enjoying it, and have favored Sylus for long enough now that I thought he was worth the mantle. Silvio is still my icon (as of posting this), and Marius remains my navi. He also remains the home page on desktop, and Luka is the icon to the far right.

Gavin, Yukimura, Satan (om!), my avatars, and everyone else who came before them remain immortalized within my blog and in my heart. But sometimes you just need a little change. I still play/enjoy the Ikemen series and keep up with posts for it a ton. But mainly I just play Ikepri these days. Wanted to strike a balance between some of my top games (Ikepri, LnDS, ToT, TWST) lately.

I always feel weird about change, but especially knowing that LnDS seems to be something people love or hate, I just hope we can still all be otome pals and gush over a variety of games together.

Love y'all, love this space, and I wish you all the best now, going forward, and always 💜

xoxo, aerin

PS: here are the original full images (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

[welcometothefinalshow]

i have read 8 books so far in 2025. yes i feel very smug about this

[remxedmoon]

My family is still staying in half of the church that wasn’t affected by the bombing because there is nowhere else to stay other than tents. They are limited to one small meal a day and one shower a week. They are sleeping on the floors, but no one can sleep since there is bombing everywhere around them. Even when there is no bombing, they can still hear the loud buzzing sound of the military planes above them, which would keep anyone who hears it awake. Along with everything, My grandma has diabetes and osteoporosis, so she can’t walk. She has to take her insulin medication along with many others; however, she has run out of many of her medications.” Am on my knees requesting for donation. Target $450

oh wow, you are a persistent scammer. for anyone wondering, insulin pens aren’t permitted to enter gaza, and in the cases of this person’s other scams, insulin does not cost 300+ dollars. there’s a great post by 12percentspider that goes into depth about this specific scam, and another post by kyra45 with links to information about other common scams. stay safe and stuff

[ford-ye-fiji]

don’t get me wrong I love ghibli movies but what on earth is happening in tales of earthsea????

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I am like, VIVIDLY dehydrated right now

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

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[incoramsanctissimo]

Manic-depressive but the manic is ovulation + caffeine and the depressive is everything else