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Death

Maura said, “That’s your card.”

On the card on the table was a black knight astride a white horse. The knight’s helmet was lifted so that it was obvious that his face was a bare skull dominated by eyeless sockets. The sun set beyond him, and below his horse’s hooves lay a corpse.

Outside the windows behind them, a breeze hissed audibly through the trees.

“Death.” Gansey read the bottom of the card. He didn’t sound surprised or alarmed. He just read the word like he would read eggs or Cincinnati.

“I thought that psychics didn’t predict death,” Adam said quietly. “I read that the Death card was only symbolic.”

-Maggie Stiefvater

[annoyingbird22]

dragon riders are the horse girls of fantasy

[sforzesco]

giulia farnese, lucrezia borgia, caterina gonzaga

we are. figuring out looks. slowly but surely, we're figuring out looks.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta / tip jar!

[lunacapra]

A model of surge I made in just about 3 days

[magicandmundane]

Murtagh: Yeah, sure, my stupid kid brother is the leader of the Riders. But am I going to acknowledge that? F*ck no. I hate authority, and I am not giving him that ego boost. Now let’s go hunt down this witch and her cult.

Meanwhile, Eragon: *gets nervous when someone says he’s in charge* *literally could not sleep in a bed because Vrael used to sleep there* *turns down positions of authority almost every chance he gets* *is just a goofy little guy who would like to see his big bro every once in a while*

[starlightanddragons28]

Murtagh Morzansson! He's my favorite character in the Inheritance Cycle and of all time

[oldschoolfrp]

Some say there's a ghost cycle gang in Connecticut, cursed to search eternally for Exit 37 (Dan Carroll, from "Along the East Coast with Correspondent X" by John Nowak, in Car Wars supplement Autoduel Quarterly, V5 N4, "Winter 2037" issue -- published December 1987)

[marcelskittels]

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[batsplat]

random throwback to fabio's response to casey saying he should've been black flagged for the whole open leathers situation

[feigningroyalty]

I’m a sucker for found family stories

Particularly of desperate orphaned boys with immense trauma who hide their pain behind a stoic face and/or a charismatic smile who are constantly getting themselves into life threatening situations and will do anything to protect their found family

[applejuucee]

My take on the first Urgal bonded dragon.

[oneminutefiftysixseconds]

matching each others' freaks to a frankly dangerous degree

[dia-viller]

I think that Du Namar Aurboda, aka The Banishing of the Names, was much worse than the death of the Dragon. The bond between a dragon and a rider is so deep that they know each other's inner thoughts, their minds can function as one, and they share all feelings. (The best example is Eragon and Saphira's bond. Even Saphira has referred to Eragon as a "partner of her heart and mind")

Yes, the death of a dragon can be considered for Riders as a death of their soulmate. (e.g. The death of Saphira I and all the pain that it caused Brom, the death of Jarnunvösk and how much it has affected Galbatorix)

But with the Banishing of the Names, dragons were still alive. They started to forget everything about themselves, their Riders, and, in the end, lost the ability to even think. The fact that at the same time, Dragons were still mentally bonded to their Riders, so that means Riders could sense how their "other half" can't recognise them, and the only feeling they could sense from them was just a requirement for a basic survival needs. They couldn't even call their Dragons by their name, the names they've been using since the Dragons hatched for them!!!

No wonder why half of the Forsworn lost their minds, watching how someone they have loved for so long slowly became just an animal, that can't even recall everything they went through, can't remember their own Riders.

(maybe that's why Morzan lost to Brom and was addicted to alcohol)

[fayegonnaslay]

Kate Moss by Terry Richardson for Harper's Bazaar, 1997.

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Ghost Rider #31 (August, 1978) Art by Frank Robbins

[canipel]

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