#but that's not important right now

[portablechemist]

the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was better than I thought it was gonna be - dare I say even good! - kin the sense of like... I feel like the men in that movie knew each other carnally, u feel me??

[tes-trash-blog]

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Because my friend Muse is opening ✨emergency ✨commissions!

"But tes-trash-blog!" you may say, "you don't have any friends!"

Well, be that as it may, Muse is a great artist to work with and she's opening emergency commissions to keep her afloat. With her blessing, I'm posting her commission+contact info here on Tumblr:

PRICES:

Bust: 15$ Halfbody: 20$ Fullbody: 25$

Colours:

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Painting:

Bust: 80$ Halfbody: 90$ Fullbody: 100$

Background: +25%, Additional Characters: +50%, prices may vary based on complexity

EXAMPLES:

(NOTE: These are not the true sizes! I had to scale them down so Tumblr would actually upload!)

You can contact Muse at:

EMAIL: mewsiemayhem @ gmail . com (please remove the spaces) DISCORD: musiemayhem

If you can, help a fellow Elder Scrolls fan and generally awesome human being with a commission or a reblog!

[thinkinginscripts]

Just finished Old Vines after having it on my Marked for Later list for aaaggees (didn't want to start anything big till BNF was done) and wow.... so... yeah now I want to buy a Californian vineyard, make my own Zinfandel and talk about grapes and tannins all day.

[the-laws-of-physics-were-harmed]

Pride thing, day 9! It's Sleet, one of my favourites of my Flight Rising dragons! Ey are genderfluid, omniromantic, and asexual! Ey use exclusively ey/em pronouns (they/them but remove the th). Oh, and ey're autistic and a palaeontologist!

[wispisstillverybored67]

We respect VinMega in this house, sir.

[roosterarts]

It's Christmas! At least, it is here, so... Merry Christmas everyone! Hope everyone is having a safe, fun, and cozy holiday!

Disclaimer, I cannot sing. Because of that I'm using Liza Chan's voice from Christmas In Our Hearts. This still counts right, @techbro-arts ? Do I still get a point? XD

[infectiouspiss]

is dan talking about shagging tony the tiger he did that a lot at my show

[starfall-spirit]

Y'all I am having too much fun setting up the Elucien sequel to my gift exchange fic.

5/7 chapters of Feysand are finished and I'm hoping it'll be finished by Christmas so I can start story 2

[rafeandonlyrafe]

well 🧍‍♀️ as a reminder this blog is NOT a safe space for trump supporters but it IS a safe place for women, queers, trans ppl, people of color, undocumented people, and any marginalized group.

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Yes, all of this.

Like ask yourself the question: at one point while writing ASOIAF, GRRM thought it would have been interesting if he had made the Targaryens black, but by that time it was far too late.

But after he had that thought - when he was working on the histories for TWOIAF (which turned into F&B), he could have introduced other characters of Valyrian descent who happened to be black. Say House Qoherys, who are all dead now so who knows what they looked like. Or some Free Cities house. Or even Velaryons! Just do the fandom nerd excuse and say a some fourth son a generation back was a sea captain who married a Summer Islander or Basilisk Islander or a Naathi, and so there's mixed race brown cousins. (Which would hopefully make pedants and racists stop saying "but Aurane! But the queens! So why aren't Targs mixed race?!" etc etc.)

But he did not. Whatever GRRM's thought process was, he evidently decided "ugh guess I'm stuck with my original worldbuilding. My fantasy world has only white Valyrians. That's all, nothing else."

However, the one thing he did do: he made Nettles black. Multiple comments by multiple characters on her brown skin. "You need only look at her to know she has no drop of dragon’s blood in her."

So in this world of only white Valyrians, here is this black lowborn bastard girl dragonrider whose race and origins are deliberately questioned by the narrative! If GRRM didn't want it to be questioned, he would have established her parentage, and revealed some Velaryon or Targaryen in her heritage somewhere. But no. Nettles is an "unlikely dragonrider" of "uncertain birth" purposefully to raise the question in the reader's mind -- do you even need to be a Targaryen to ride a dragon?*

And the fact that Nettles's bond with Sheepstealer was accomplished via acclimatizing him to her by feeding him sheep over time, not by either of the other ways known (cradle egg, or jumping on and praying you won't die) -- the fact that this matches that we're told the early Valyrians were humble shepherds who found dragons nesting in the Fourteen Flames -- it only underlines how different Nettles is. How special she is. How her existence as a dragonrider is designed to make the reader doubt the fundamental thing Targaryens believed about themselves.

The fact that Nettles is, as you said, so much more than even that mic-drop world-breaking question (she's the origin of the Burned Men, hello?), just underlines her specialness. Her importance to in-world history and to narrative themes. Her -- shall we say -- exceptionalism. And to see parts of the fandom try to write her off -- try to write off the work GRRM deliberately did, to try to make us think -- well. It would be angering if it weren't so depressing.

People really are missing the point of a character like Nettles. Being the a non-Valyrian dragonrider is what makes her different(in every positive definition of that word) and helps to serve a larger purpose in this story.

Valyrian blood is not special. It’s not needed to do great things. No one is special because of what family they happen to be born into.

A non-Valyrian Nettles shows that we are more than the circumstances which we are born into. Our birth, our names, and our very blood does not define us. Our actions are what do. We can overcome so much and rise to become absolutely extraordinary with a little bit of determination, patience, and a dash of help along the way. Nettles exemplifies that to the fullest extent.

She's more than a Black Valryian. She doesn’t have to be Valyrian. She shouldn’t have to be Valyrian.

She’s a survivor. She’s a final girl. She’s a Black low-born girl likely without a drop of dragons blood that tames a wild dragon with patience that killed countless others who had dragons blood. She survived the Dance where others high and low alike fell and perished to become a firewitch to the Burned Men.

Her legacy is immortalized in the history books(and by the Burned Men cause they still worship her) as one of the last(if not the last) dragonrider(s) before Dany all without having any known Valyrian ancestry.

[conqueenror]

"I love rambling about my ocs" I say as I never mention them here

[sangrefae]

i love getting to see day one expac launch bugs such as "eating pizza breaks male au ra faces" and "syrcus tower now has savage level difficulty mechanics"

[gender-ambiguous-pirate]

Not to be dramatic, but I think moving out of the city would solve all my problems

[violottie]

Don't lose focus! Yes, the university campus protests are excellent, but remember WHY and WHAT they are protesting.

from Bisan, 27/Apr/2024:

[the-ghost-of-a-spirit]

there's a character that was pretending he's asexual.

And I dont like it.

[jurph]

That's just a tumblr joke! There was a tumblr user named @one-time-i-dreamt who made it up. As in like "one time I dreamt there was a place called Croatia", I don't actually know the original meme. I bet if you scroll up you'll find OP though. Maybe we can ask.

Anything to do with Croatia ever: *happens*

Tumblr:

@one-time-i-dreamt