#corra!

[mirobraz]

Helmut Newton (1920 - 2004), for the cigar industry, 1977.

[jordeclans]

the dreamer trilogy smau part 9/?

part 8

[squash1]

reading extremely loud and incredibly close (absolutely devastating, highly recommend) and i can’t stop thinking about this passage in connection to the dreamer trilogy/maggie stiefvater lore:

i don’t know how i know this (i know it is in some respect true although i may be misremembering details) but i remember maggie talking about how one day she was driving to some mundane place — the sort of place you go everyday, the sort of drive you don’t even think about because it’s become second nature — in one of her unusual, maggie-like cars and coming toward her on the other side of the road is her same exact car, and driving that car is a person that looks, from a distance, an awful lot like her. and in my recollection she was so shaken in this moment — essentially having this intense feeling of seeing herself duplicated, another version of her driving around her life — that she turned around and went home. and that this experience is what inspired the dreamer trilogy.

the idea of a doppelgänger, or a twinned self, is so embedded in the dreamer trilogy so knowing this origin story makes it all the more interesting to me. in mythology a doppelgänger is often a bad omen, a bringer of bad luck, like an evil twin, but that’s not really the case in real life or tdt. in the case of hennessy and jordan, niall and the new fenian, mór and aurora, they are all literal copies of one another — a face, a body copy and pasted. the pairs are mirrors of each other living parallel lives — in many ways more different from one another than similar. at least one of them is constantly wondering, am i the imposter? have you gotten it more right than i have?

declan and ronan are mirrors — constantly forced to recognize their father in one another and themselves. and this — the moment when ronan first sees the new fenian and thinks is that me? — feels more the like universal human experience than the true, exact copies do. that moment is the experience of maggie seeing someone with her car and changing course, turning the mundane to the extraordinary. it’s a wake up call. it’s a nudge from the universe.

it’s the moments of recognizing ourselves in others, others recognizing themselves in us. of walking around the world looking like your mother, your father, your sister, your brother, and every stranger you’ve never met.

[h0ndayot4]

thinking about mór ó corra—how, before she was mór, she had the same name as the virgin mary. and how, one fateful day in the middle of nowhere, virginia, she brought a literal god into the world. there's something in that.

[animatronic-assistant]

Naga Elara

Finally colored this. She is no longer nakey! Also her name is Corra.

[stringcage]

how do you give your son that you meticulously handcrafted every characteristic of a tree nut allergy

[orchurisarts]

SCOTLAND - JSaB AU PMV

SLAPS THIS DOWN ALMOST 2 WEEKS OF WORK <3 DONE this is my first time doing tweening with a fully rendered animation! so happy with how it came out JKSJHJF

oh fuck i have to tag EVERYONE dont i HSBKJGDJK

[lizpaige]

if ronan dreamt up the nightmare shield around the barns before he even knew about the wealth of dangerous shit his dad had been up to, what do you think niall dreamt to protect his family? nothing?

[seavoice]

Greywaren // The Raven King

[commander-gloryforge]

a collection of all of my commanders <3

Aurora Leuchtfeuer - Human Guardian

Astrid Gloryforge - Norn Engineer

Corra Lux - Asura Elementalist

Glen Spectresun - Norn Thief

Aryel Dawnscythe - Sylvari Necromancer and Soleil Huang - Human Guardian

Nona Blightsoul - Charr Necromancer

[crispycostumes]

explaining mór and niall's divorce to a friend like, yeah they got divorced because they had differing opinions on infanticide, no the differing opinion wasn't whether or not to commit infanticide

[seaemberthesecond]

CSA survivor Declan, you will always be real to me.

[adamprrishcycle]

ok maura sargent, mor o corra and gansey

[blankinsidecards]

i’m forever going to be bitter about the fact that msteif retconned Ronan’s origin. like. Niall’s a dreamer, Aurora is a dream, Declan is not a dreamer, Aurora is not Declan’s mom. the dots are so fucking connected. within trc it seems fairly obvious that Niall IS the asshole everyone thinks he is; that he wanted a dreamer kid and his first draft with a normie woman didn’t work, so he dreamed up the perfect dreamer-baby making clone to get Ronan. it was so interesting and cruel and heartless and made so much SENSE

and now she expects us to just accept that Declan’s completely absent & neglectful & borderline abusive parents actually love him so so so much and Ronan is actually a fucking god??? IT DOESN’T TRACK MAGGIE

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

i know its not an irish name but it would have been so fucking funny if it was revealed that declan's biological mom's name was ashley

[legaltrashgoblin]

Maggie stop trying to redeem Niall Lynch, I'm not supposed to feel bad for him!

But he's sad about his cows so therefore I'm sad about his cows and him