#da norf

[kingsmoot]

i really like that northerners are distrustful of and annoyed by characters who always smile. cat and ned often point out how theon, jaime, renly, and littlefinger's smiles unnerve them and they can't read their meaning.

[monstercangirlofficial]

Recommending some of my favorite rap songs. As a latin american trans woman, I didn't grow up with rap, but I learned to listen to and appreciate it. These are some great songs I think everyone should hear, and hopefully add to their playlists. These are Spotify links, but you can find these songs elsewhere too. My favorites are in blue:

Pop Rap: She's a Bitch by Missy Elliot (1999); Comfortable (ft. Babyface) by Lil Wayne (2003); Savage (ft. Beyoncé) by Megan Thee Stallion (2020); Too Many Nights (ft. Don Toliver & Future) by Metro Boomin (2022); Never Lose Me (ft. SZA & Cardi B) by Flo Mili (2024)

Classic Rap: My Mic Sounds Nice by Salt-N-Pepa (1986); South Bronx by Boogie Down Productions (1987); Welcome To The Terrordome by Public Enemy (1990); Born and Raised In Compton by DJ Quik (1991); When In Love by MC Lyte (1991)

Gangsta Rap: Gimme the Loot by The Notorious B.I.G. (1994); Cloverland (ft. Botany Boyz) by DJ Screw (1996); The Art of Peer Pressure by Kendrick Lamar (2012); Norf Norf by Vince Staples (2015); Tear Gas (ft. Rick Ross & Lil Wayne) by Conway the Machine (2022)

G-Funk: Nuthin' But A "G" Thang (ft. Snoop Dogg) by Dr. Dre (1992); Funkdafied by Da Brat (1994); It's Supposed to Bubble by UGK (1994); Dusted 'N' Disgusted (ft. 2Pac, Mac Mall & Spice 1) by E-40 (1995); Can't C Me by 2Pac (1996)

Conscious Rap: Proletariat Blues by Blue Scholars (2006); 4 Your Eyez Only by J. Cole (2016); Blood of the Fang by clipping. (2019); Iman (ft. SiR & JID) by Rapsody (2019); I Love You, I Hate You by Little Simz (2021)

Abstract Rap: Accordion by Madvillain (MF DOOM & Madlib) (2000); Mural by Lupe Fiasco (2015); The Punishment of Sisyphus by Hermit and the Recluse (Ka & Animoss) (2018); Magician (Suture) by Milo (2017); Arugula by Junglepussy (2020)

Jazz Rap: Jazz (We've Got) by A Tribe Called Quest (1991); 93 'Til Infinity by Souls Of Mischief (1993); The World Is Yours by Nas (1994); Yesterday by Noname (2016); Live! from the Kitchen Table (ft. Ghais Guevara) by McKinley Dixon (2023)

Trap: Ridin' N' Da Chevy by Three Six Mafia (1999); Love Don't Live (U Abandoned Me) by Gangsta Boo (2001); Kay Kay by Chief Keef (2012); Digits by Young Thug (2016); Poppin by Rico Nasty (2017)

Experimental Rap: Spiritual Healing by dälek (2002); Persistence by Lil Ugly Mane (2015); Ain't It Funny by Danny Brown (2016); Thug Tears by JPEGMAFIA (2018); Superman That by Injury Reserve (2021)

I strongly recommend checking out other songs by these artists, the albums these songs are from, more songs from these genres and others I didn't include, and to explore everything hip hop has to offer (especially hip hop made by women). Feel free to add any artists and songs I (obviously) missed, that you think deserve more love and recognition, particularly independent music. Enjoy!

[daenystheedreamer]

love the starks love da norf but some stark loyalists….. youre making the north annoying. like im no longer feeling irish republicanism im feeling quebec sovreignty and you do not want me equating your fave with quebeckers

[lostchildofthenewworld]

So there are fanfics out there were Liposuction and Jonathan are alive and she goes back to da Norf to live out her shame or whatever, and the fic writer will have Catelyn do some Good Ole' Fashioned Slut Shaming of Lipo and you can tell the writer wants to make the reader think Cat is being a bitch meanwhile Cat is spitting nothing but straight bars and I HAVE TO LAUGH. I REALLY DO. Like why are you booing her she's RIGHT??

CTFU LMAO

[feddy-34]

so so so so so many thoughts my god

max from da norf of course but not the ruling house of winterfell, instead some obscure cadet branch. his father tried to rise the ranks and failed miserably. max is his revenge.

charles from the stormlands, taken as a child to the golden halls of casterly rock and trained for nothing but war. never allowed to see beyond the walls of the castle.

the maranello sun and the lion

f1 medieval AU 🪶

[the-invisible-queer]

Joe jonas da king in da norf

Not anymore 😔

The title goes to the new dude now

I can never remember his name 🙈

[sappeurmajor-1963]

Wen ich getroffen habe, der berühmt ist

Da gibt es einige. Nur wenige davon sind in meinem Gedächtnis geblieben. Als er Bundeskanzler werden wollte, hat er Norf besucht. Als Schüler durfte ich ihn befragen. Es war ein tolles Erlebnis. Ich hätte ihm damals den Wahlsieg gegönnt. Olaf Henning, mit seinem Lied „Komm hol das Lasso raus „ hat er Langezeit die Partys beeinflusst. Er war damals der Partysänger. Begegnungen mit den Promis…

[m58]

three from Stephen Bett

Tom Pickard: Oop norf, fook sake

bulimia oblivia

     I

[h] ate

    it

bulimia oblivia―Tom Pickard (w/ nods to Basil Bunting, the Newcastle poets, Liverpool “beat”                                                                                                                                   poets, George Harrison, bp Nichol)                                                                                                                                                                                                  bulimia oblivia

don’t woof yr cookies (Newcastle Brown Ale)

purge yourself, sunflower

say somebody’s lil’ bunting

     I

here’s I me mine in yr eye

oop norf, fook sake, you bet

Yorks Bete beat the Pool

[h] ate

not to get all cocky

h’8 no ’aitch 4 bp concrete

viz, getting all visual

    it

ate me (’arf-time) so don’t be

telling porkies, pie-head

magpie caught in a barcode

Jeremy Prynne: Paratactic Procedures

Here I saw… telescopic to the field inside the mouth

where speech parts of separation had been swallowed

in foreground… fricative was the advice and

to palate by adhesion said to be forward

Kazoo Dreamboats―Jeremy Prynne (with a nod to Gerald Bruns)

Here I saw… telescopic to the field inside the mouth

chokeberries on the line rotten beyond description

chomp by field ate down to baby letter shivers, bottle

our mal du doute upchuck trick, there’s a good chap

where speech parts of separation had been swallowed

by black holes, do not interrupt his moment of disconnect

at all / anyway / whatever / even so / rubbish

goes down whoosh it’s got some teeth in it

in foreground… fricative was the advice and

couple disjunct blimeys in a row pick & prune a’miss

near scurvy them ballsy labiodental f’n fearsome

feckful avant swine, dey do dis da joint

to palate by adhesion said to be forward

by outward tastes like collage glued on the tongue

you can only “be” in the moment, just out Near/Miss

meets Gordon Lish meets Lewis Black, well done old son

Tom Raworth: gifted

a present

that

fits me

to a t

Ace ― Tom Raworth (with a nod to old Stones… & stoners)

a present

gifted, & at arms (rah-rah)

shabby old cardigan, slippers, &c.

― the real raw deal!

that

’s worth a lotta r…

She corrects    /    x-ray

muse in my devices

fits me

sting or other wrays

Rae-worth, Raw-worth let’s call

the whole thing off ?

to a t

Om boy… pleased to meet’cha

full steam a head

top speed, them ol’ rollers

Jack Spicer: No One Listens to Poetry

No one listens to poetry.   The ocean

Does not mean to be listened to.   A drop

               •               •               •

It pounds the shore.   White and aimless signals.   No

One listens to poetry.

Language―Jack Spicer (with nods to Robin Blaser)

No one listens to poetry.   The ocean

rolls over us    ― these coastal people

nothing’s out beyond this last gasp edge

serial decoder of breakers

Does not mean to be listened to.   A drop

drip drip on little green transceivers, whatever

comes in from that darkness around us

you were the real outsider, honest angel

It pounds the shore.   White and aimless signals.   No

jolts or jive, so okay dictate something, anything…

Nothing, you said, Deserves to live

& I heard that, crystal clear

One listens to poetry.

It’s difficult to get the news

No one listens to radio anymore,

not even Martians

Stephen Bett is a widely and internationally published Canadian poet with 25 books in print (from BlazeVOX, Chax, Spuyten Duyvil, & others), his most recent being Broken Glosa, from Chax Press. His personal papers are archived in the “Contemporary Literature Collection” at Simon Fraser University. His website is StephenBett.com

[haraldbulling]

Hemmschwelle

[kingsmoot]

exciting developments i have brainstormed a good chunk of personhood and development for harlon and varvara (newly named maegor-era starkbolton marriage ocs) so i just gotta lock down harlon's second wife and then i'll be ready to share...

i sort of want her to be from house arryn maybe to make it even more of an insult that harlon would spurn a bolton bride but then accept a bride from another house that the starks have a contentious (thousand year war...) history with but the arryns are so uninteresting to me... then again i do love a non-northern lady adjusting to the culture shift of da norf. hm. i'll think on it.

[daenystheedreamer]

doesn't feel like anyone's been throbbing in a while. are you throbbing? me- i'm positively pulsating. anyway. question: is throbb compelling as yuri? like double genderbend. or are its yaoi properties critical to its structural integrity?

is the yaoi load-bearing i guess is my question. anyway have a lovely and normal night!

satin was my 2021/22 fixation and theon was my 2022/23 fixation so i havent throbbed in ages 😭 i think genderbent throbb would be so fundementally different. robb as king in da norf and his father's heir and theon in an inherently masculine (by the notions of the text's social order) role as an advisor militarily and diplomatically as his father's son is pretty important to throbb as a whole. the masculine posturing and masculine sense of duty and honour are unforch pretty inherent.

HOWEVER. that isnt to say yuri throbb isnt fun. dirtbag gf theon golden jock daughter robb very intriguing. girlrobb so baffled gagging going why your pussy taste like weed wtf. girltheon who would of course have some transmasc AND transfem shit going on. and then girlramsay...... lets just say im hard! a normal and lovely night to you as well sweetheart

[wild-moss-art]

🔥🔥 an unpopular opinion about your face character!

Sansa is the only person in the entire series that actually pays attention when other people talk

[barberoftoydaria]

Something dumb I threw together...poorly.

[onedirtymotheragain]

Sophie Turner