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Eassie Pictish Symbol Stone, Eassie, Scotland
#pict#Pictish#pictish art#pictish stones#cross slab#early belief#early living#early religion#Scotland#outdoors#landscape#stonework#symbols#archaeology#relic#knotwork#stone carving
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strength and nobility
#this vignette lives in my head rent fucking free. it haunts me something abt it reworks my brain chemistry#its not even a diasom vignette but it HITS its sat w me since i first saw it early on in playing the game. it ruins me. theres AUGHH#theres something so palpable in the energy of it. the confidence mal has in him as the king of heartslabyul#bestowing the rose so he exudes the majesty he already holds within. the unwavering belief in saving the group and mal's guards#AUGHHHH MY BRAIN MY BRAIN!!!!!!! looking at riddle's journey thru book 1 and seeing this as the next step of his char? RUINS ME#sorry. imemotional#twst#twisted wonderland#malleus draconia#riddle rosehearts#mallerido#suntails
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vega my best friend vega
#my art#oc#vega#anthro#furry#cat#i LOVE you old women i love you cranky washed up irreverent deeply unhappy old women with issues#i downloaded a new brush pack (thank you thedawner) and i finally have what is known as a ''noise brush'' - we are so back#rendering is soooooooo difficult for me. shading. texturing. etcetera#but i'm carrying on regardless and this brush helps#through death of self belief. and torrents of bad practice and neglect of studies at an early age#the self-improvement in art comes to you direct regardless. no amount of procrastination can keep it down#anyway i'm trying to make some better refs for my characters (kind of. as close to ref sheets as i can make anyway)#and this will be part of one#vega has always been a bit elusive for me to draw for whatever reason but i'm pleased with this vega face
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Is Jason struggling hard trying to deal with envy that Tim has taken his family, his place in the court, his dragon? Of course, but at the end of the day Tim never owed Jason’s memory any respect or loyalty. But the egg he stayed up late whispering his hopes and notions of friendship and happiness and protection, patient and gentle for years, despite everyone telling him it was a lost cause. His egg –now a dragon– has forsaken the only person to dedicate themself wholeheartedly to its safekeeping. So Jason might eventually get to a point of understanding and tolerance with Tim but the little dragon must have felt him off in the distance and given up on him. It is the only way the pieces fit together. How can Jason accept that? He never faltered in his belief in his egg but as soon as he seemed weak it discarded him for someone easier to love.
It certainly seems that way to Jason, yeah :/
(Jason has no way of knowing that Robin hatched only a few weeks after his perceived death, and that the little dragon was inconsolable for many months to the point of near starvation, and that Dick and Bruce were so wrung out about Robin’s impending loss that Tim snuck into the dragon caves to try and coax the baby dragon to eat something, and that Robin didn’t just latch onto the first best person he saw, no, Robin felt that Tim came the closest to Jason’s kindness and uplifting spirits for the first time in months….)
#Robin’s egg was in fact about to die when Jason insisted on trying to get it to hatch#it’s not uncommon for dragon eggs to never hatch#chances increase drastically when kept with a human at all times though#without that the hatching rate is about three out of ten#anyway point is: Robin and Jason shared a very close bond#the little dragon should have spent at least another year in that egg before hatching#the trauma of having a bond grow cold and dying caused little Robin to bite his way out early#Tim was present when Robin hatched#but contrary to popular belief they did not bond immediately#robin hatching in the first place tho was regarded as Jason’s favor#a little wave from the afterlife#very wrong#hooo boy#veeery wrong#dragon au#dragon lore#Tim drake#robin#Jason todd
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maybe a weird/selfish question/request but have you considered maybe dropping fic updates on patreon when you’re comfortable? stuff like Solar Lunacy or whatever you might feel like doin, or would that still feel too tense for you? i understand if so!
I'm sorry but I can't do that for reasons even outside of my comfort zone! I'm not sure about other countries, but in mine fanwriting and fanart have different grey areas when it comes legality: fanart is more greenlight than fanwriting is. Plus i'm a very firm believer of not having fanfiction being put behind a paywall
#my artwork is still early access and not exclusive so people who cant afford to support me can still see finished things eventually#supporters get wips and sai files avaliable to them but most of my work is done outside of patreon (and stickers but theyre slow to ship)#people supporting me on patreon means i get to produce more stuff outside of patreon that they can see in other places#patreon is my only source of income as a disabled creator rn so i dont want to risk it or go back on my belief by posting my written works#sorry!
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Kunikidazai is a galaxy-brain ship obvs but but i need a fresh out of the PM Dazai viewing Kunikida as like the Ultimate CumulationTM of both Oda and Chuuya, the people who loved him, one Dazai left and the other who left first, I need Kunikida terrified of Dazai not because of any PM suspicions but because Dazai’s everything Kuni could be if he skewed to the right: the sucide obsession, the dangerous morality, the lost ideals, the general bizarreness–what puts Kuni off of Dazai is that he’s everything like Kuni and at the same time nothing like him, surely and that has to Fuck You Up, being stuck with your distorted image day in and day out.
“You are everything I could have had,” Dazai thinks towards Kunikida
“You are all of the horrors I could become,” Kunikida thinks of Dazai
#this isn’t even touching on kuni basically being dazai’s ideal view of the agency: high morality high stakes the constant belief in goodness#aaanyways i know i’ve just described Dazai’s Entrance Exam but I Needed To Word Vomit#Like YES kunikida/azure king makes me want to bite down on something but!!!! he’s!!! STUCK!!! with dazai!!#also fuck you i bet everyone knew who dazai was bc come on the demon poofs off for two years then they get his spitting image dressed up as#a medieval wannabe?? they KNEW who dazai was. fuku gave kuni the order to KILL on bad vibe sight. wonder wgat ranpo and yosano had to say#about early stage kunikidazai#kunikida x dazai#kunikida doppo#doppo kunikida#dazai osamu#osamu dazai#bsd#bungo stray dogs#kunikidazai#kunikizai#it’s no wonder that dazai latched on so hard to kunikida
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One popular scum villain take i've seen that i completely disagree with is that Luo Binghe is aware that SY!SQQ and SJ!SQQ are two different ppl. (obviously this is talking about canon, not divergence au situations where smth happens that tips him otherwise.) Not only do I think he doesn't know this, I think that a number of his "irrational' actions post-Abyss are informed by believing SQQ went from hurting him to being nice to / accepting of him once before already.
#im not writing the full meta but like#smth smth lbh's early post-abyss belief he could 'prove' himself to sqq and regain his acceptance#smth smth lbh being more comfortable with sqq hurting him than sqq being indifferent#smth smth lbh trying to provoke sqq into physically fighting him#because in his mind 'shizun physically beats me until he starts being nice to me again' is a concept backed by lived experience#and so on you get the idea.#luo binghe#bingqiu#svsss#scum villain's self saving system#scum villain's self-saving system#mxtx#danmei novels
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god wouldn't it be interesting...if they worked it out on the top of Urithiru on the tenth day? 😏
#winds and truth#winds and truth spoilers#wat spoilers#stormlight archive#its honestly so refreshing that someone is finally calling Dalinar out#also Adolin ROASTING HIM#im like so curious why Brandon is doing this so early on#like why have them shoot angry glances at each other from across the room and each being unyielding in their own beliefs?#like why all the setup#and all this beef has been cooking since Oathbringer...#and then Navani brushing it off and not really thinking much of it like OH theyll work it out eventually?#will they though?
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this post probably exists out there somewhere but. you know the book la galatea? the one Flint leaves for Miranda in 2x3? uhh well it was written by Cervantes the man most well known for creating the patron saint of lost causes (don quixote) but that isnt even the most insane part this book was a collection of pastoral poems loosely wedged into a narrative now, what were these poems about you may ask? well, pastoral stories for those of you who do not know are about love specifically they are about overpowering love making people do insane things and many of these stories in this book end either in tragedy or very ambiguously. essentially the love was there but it didnt change the ending. now the frame these tales are set in? well, THAT is the story of two gentleman, one of noble birth named Elicio and one of low birth who is nonetheless quite well-spoken named Erastro (sound familiar?) who are both in love with the same woman (the titular galatea). they agree that their shared love will never interfere with their friendship. now if you, like me, are throwing objects at the walls at this point, wait for the best part: la galatea is UNFINISHED. Cervantes wrote only part 1 and IN DON QUIXOTE there is a scene in which part one is BURNED and a character comments that it will never be any good without a second half. which he never wrote.
#cervantes was a racist bastard who wrote in the most stifling prose known to man but he knew the power of stories and the power of belief#and steinberg took one look at that and said here's an easter egg for all you early modern literature fanatics out there#its about love not being enough! its about the idealization of one individual (galatea is miranda is thomas is silver is flint is madi)#its about the story can't end! its about the story is a lost cause and the story lives on#mutilated#in another story which becomes canon!#its about i will love you whether you want me to or not and even if it kills me and beyond the capacity of the narrative to encompass#black sails#la galatea
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Replica of the Monymusk Reliquary, circa 8th Century CE, Arbroath Abbey, Angus, Scotland
#reliquary#early religion#metalwork#metalworking#archaeology#replica#early belief#ancient cultures#ancient living#status#ancient design
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In Ep55 A Place for Everything, when Minkowski thinks Kepler is doubting the likelihood of Eiffel still being alive after he's floated towards the star in his spacesuit, Minkowski says "Eiffel had plenty of air left, and let's not forget he survived for -" It seems pretty likely that she was about to say that Eiffel survived nearly 200 days stranded in deep space on Lovelace's shuttle. It's interesting to me that Minkowski uses that incident as evidence that Eiffel will survive this time too, because that's not really how situations like that work.
We don't know exactly how much Minkowski knows about Eiffel's time on Lovelace's shuttle, but the reality is that he survived for those 193 days due to an extremely specific combination of impressive ingenuity, incredible perseverance, access to the right resources, a fair dose of stupidity, and an extraordinary amount of sheer luck. Without just one of those ingredients, he would never have made back to the Hephaestus alive. The ingenuity and perseverance could serve him well in this situation too, but the other factors don't exactly apply in the same way.
In my view, it isn't really that Eiffel's survival on that shuttle serves as evidence of any specific attributes that will guarantee his survival this time. I think it's more that the events with Lovelace's shuttle - Minkowski thinking Eiffel was gone forever but then being miraculously reunited with him - have given Minkowski a non-specific sense of Eiffel as a person who survives, a person who ends up in nearly inescapable peril and yet somehow always escapes, a person who makes it back alive against all the odds. It's not a piece of logical practical evidence. It's just an emotional instinct that allows her to believe that she's not going to lose him, allowing her to focus on what she can do to try and find him.
Minkowski's 'Goddamn it Eiffel' when he floats towards the star in Ep53 is so much less dramatic than the way she yells his name as the shuttle drifts away in Ep28. And that's partly about what the story calls for in those moments. And it's partly about the specific situations and the agency Eiffel has had in them. But it's also that in Ep53 she already believes that he will be okay, that he'll come back. He's done it before. He'll do it again.
#Wolf 359#w359#renee minkowski#doug eiffel#renée minkowski#And he does come back but when that happens#she can't appreciate that she was right to believe he'd survive#I love that Minkowski thinks she's so logical but sometimes she really isn't#I don't think her belief that Eiffel is a person who survives is ironclad though#Kepler says that there are limits to what the human body can withstand#and Minkowski's mind immediately jumps to the idea that he's saying Eiffel is likely to be dead#She immediately starts arguing against that assumption#I think she's been arguing against it inside her head already#Also there's a contrast between this and other moments#where Minkowski acts like Eiffel is at a higher risk of dying than most people#like that bit in the liveshow where she jokes about the horrifying early death Eiffel is hurtling towards#That was before she heard him hurtle off into the likelihood of a horrifying early death#and before he returned from it#Also I think this idea of Eiffel as a person who survives probably contributed to her trying to send him back to Earth in the finale#She needs to know that one of them makes it out. And he's survived so much. He should be the one who survives#wolf 359 spoilers#w359 spoilers#the empty man posteth#long post#Eiffel & Minkowski
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americans learn what the middle ages are challenge
#15th century? that's the very very tail end (depending on what landmark you chose for an end)#16th century? ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT#and also the witch hunts weren't really a medieval thing they mostly took place in the early modern era#and largely weren't perpetuated by 'the church'#and the inquisition spanish or otherwise had nothing to do with them#because church doctrine actually was that belief in witchcraft is superstition; only god is all-powerful#yes heinrich kramer called himself institoris. that doesnt mean anything it's just a fancy title he gave himself.#and hey guess what! protestant regions were way worse about killing witches than catholic ones. 'the church'? that's catholicism babe#do you see the flaw in your argument#anyway of course theres not an exact endpoint to the middle ages however#it's a period of a relatively stable socioeconomic system that collapses for various reasons#& things like the witch panic are a symptom of that collapse#so to talk about that in the same breath as *actual* medieval folklore & blame them on 'the church'#(when the catholic church losing power and influence was ALSO part of that collapse!)#is careless and silly#esp when you call yourself a historian#rant over
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Is it bad that my first thought after total shock seeing that Alicole scene was man, that'll be great to use for Rhaenicent manips?
#The Rhaenicent brainrot is real#And like#Alicole actually being intimate makes ZERO sense to me character wise#Like Criston was all torn up about breaking his vows with Rhaenyra#But he's got no problems breaking them for Alicent?#Granted he's now spent years unhealthily obsessed with Alicent. But still. I'm gonna need to see some moral wrestling from him about it#And Alicent??? She spent her early years of marriage being maritally raped#and could never understand how Rhaenyra found freedom and pleasure in sex#I'm happy for her to finally have good sex like congrats girlie#But it was still a shock to me seeing her go from 0 to 100 on experiencing pleasure and enjoying sex#I got whiplash#With all her trauma and religious beliefs I would expect it to be a long journey to get to the place we opened the episode with#And we didn't see ANY of it nothing to show how she got to that point#At the end of the episode I think she was riding Criston??? And like again. Good for her#But don't erase all the nuance she doesn't need a girlboss-ification it does her character a disservice#... All that said#I'm definitely looking forward to using that scene in a Rhaenicent manip😂#Rhaenicent#alicent hightower#rhaenyra targaryen#criston cole#Hotd#hotd spoilers#Hotd s2#hotd 2x01#house of the dragon#Mine
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Wanted to write out the consequences (TM) of Shaw accidentally entering the wrong story arc & then having @the-dye-stained-socialite ‘s Elias accidentally drive him insane during their current plot line, sooo… short Drabble-y thing incoming.
There was stillness after Elias left the townhouse, a vague semblance of quiet. The taste of iron still lingered on Shaw’s lips, his heartbeat heavy in his ears. He watched Elias’s departure with an unfocused look in his eye, before Shaw’s gaze settled on nothing at all.
Despite being well and truly awake now (wasn’t he?), crimson visions still felt more tangible than reality. It had been months since that night had been so clear in his mind. The cobblestone streets, the screaming. She was trying to apologize, wasn’t she? Shaw couldn’t remember why anymore. All he could recall was the sensation of blood coating his hands through a filthy handkerchief as his daughter bled out on the street. There was so much blood.
So much red.
He was bleeding now (no, he couldn’t be.), a stab wound oozing from his side. Elias’s hands had trailed the blood across his form. A half dozen handprints and stains, brushed across his forehead, his hair, his hands. At least, that was what his bedroom mirror showed. (None of that was real. At least, not here.) Shaw couldn’t pull his eyes away from his reflection, watching unseen hands smear crimson even further. (He made a terrible mistake.) He couldn't feel much of anything, either. (It was agonizing.)
Shaw had known there would be consequences, of course. At the time he hadn’t cared. Chessboard be damned, for those he cared for, he would do what he could. He tried to hold onto that conviction, but it was quickly swallowed under the pain. (Why her? Dear god, why is it always her?)
He watched a phantom hand brush a loc of his hair back, unblinking. It was difficult to find a thought that wasn’t smothered in the pain of the past or intoxicating carmine. (Shaw was screaming, somewhere.) There were tears budding in his eyes. He wanted so badly to believe that it was a mistake. That it wasn’t Elias’s fault. They wouldn’t do this to him. Not knowingly, not willingly. He wanted to believe that very, very badly.
Something else was leaving him, too. Flowing freely from the wound in his chest, trailing towards the mirror’s edge. Something important. (Let it stop.) It didn’t feel like other times where Shaw’s mind faltered, the sudden slip behind the mirror in a flash of mania and cosmongone-gold. His reason was being bled out of him, sanity spilling onto the hardwood floor. The hands were more physical, now, as they painted his throat in red. (He would do anything, now. Just make it stop.)
It was a slow and exquisite torture, lulled (dragged.) into madness by bloodsoaked hands, too locked inside his own memories to fight back. But there was nothing he could do anymore, was there? Queen takes rook. He slips away. With any luck, another could finish the game in his stead. With any luck, they could save them.
The sensation of finally falling through glass was almost a mercy, when it registered. Shaw wouldn’t be home for a very long time.
#zeeposting#my fic#august shaw#wahoooo hooray for the bargained heart arc#Rd3Qxd3#<- specific tag for this bullshit. trust me bro#tw blood#ask to tag?#ad astra typical horror bullshit#I’m very excited to accidentally give Shaw even more bad days#bc he tried to help out the homies#it’s hilarious how much Shaw’s (intended to be) very irrational belief that the colour red is out to get him somehow#from his early time in the neath has like. been proven right on a few occasions now#whoops!
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#cylas speaks#optional add your country or region it whatever#i read that it's bad luck in Greece and Russia and Germany to say early#but opposite in... china?#poll#polls#tumblr poll#tumblr polls#birthday poll#random polls#cultural differences#superstition#superstitions#superstitious beliefs#cultural beliefs
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Much as I theoretically understand why fandom glomped onto the possibility of the tragic Daeron and Addam romance, it genuinely doesn't seem like the closest explanation the text itself offers. One of the biggest implications people see for this is the paragraph wondering about Tessarion's motivations for intervening in the Vermithor vs Seasmoke fight:
Vermithor’s size and weight were too much for Seasmoke to contend with, Lord Blackwood told Grand Maester Munkun many years later, and he would surely have torn the silver-grey dragon to pieces…if Tessarion had not fallen from the sky at that very moment to join the fight. Who can know the heart of a dragon? Was it simple bloodlust that drove the Blue Queen to attack? Did the she-dragon come to help one of the combatants? If so, which? Some will claim that the bond between a dragon and dragonrider runs so deep that the beast shares his master’s loves and hates. But who was the ally here, and who the enemy? Fire & Blood Chapter 17: The Dying of the Dragons — Rhaenyra Overthrown
People tend to focus a lot on the love aspect and basically ignore the alternate possibility offered up, which is hate as a motivating force.
As happy as I am for people enjoying the concept of Daeron/Addam, let's acknowledge that they have neither actual on page interactions nor as much as implied aquaintanceship, and GRRM is the opposite of subtle when it comes to "hinting" at these things for implied same sex entanglements. One line about Addam, who canonically served on his mothers trading cogs, having previously traveled as far as Oldtown, or Daeron enjoying spending his off - time at Oldtown's or prior to his fostering King's Landings harbour or shipyards would have been sufficient, but instead there's absolutely nothing.
Whereas Daeron and Hugh Hammer, dragonseed and rider of Vermithor, do have canonical interactions, both on page involving dialogue and implied by their close proximity, that develops into a plot relevant enmity, culminating in Hugh stating he'll claim Daeron's birthright for himself, as rider of the largest surviving dragon, and Daeron approving the Caltrops assassination of Hugh in turn.
With his brother Aemond slain as well, the greens found themselves kingless and leaderless. Prince Daeron stood next in the line of succession. Lord Peake declared that the boy should be proclaimed as Prince of Dragonstone at once; others, believing Aegon II dead, wished to crown him king. The Two Betrayers felt the need of a king as well…but Daeron Targaryen was not the king they wanted. “We need a strong man to lead us, not a boy,” declared Hard Hugh Hammer. “The throne should be mine.” When Bold Jon Roxton demanded to know by what right he presumed to name himself a king, Lord Hammer answered, “The same right as the Conqueror. A dragon.” And truly, with Vhagar dead at last, the oldest and largest living dragon in all Westeros was Vermithor, once the mount of the Old King, now that of Hard Hugh the bastard. Vermithor was thrice the size of Prince Daeron’s she-dragon Tessarion. No man who glimpsed them together could fail to see that Vermithor was a far more fearsome beast. [...] The lords and knights of Oldtown and the Reach were offended by the arrogance of the Betrayer’s claim, however, and none more so than Prince Daeron Targaryen himself, who grew so wroth that he threw a cup of wine into Hard Hugh’s face. (...) Lord Hammer said, “Little boys should be more mannerly when men are speaking. I think your father did not beat you often enough. Take care I do not make up for his lack.” The Two Betrayers took their leave together, and began to make plans for Hammer’s coronation. When seen the next day, Hard Hugh was wearing a crown of black iron, to the fury of Prince Daeron and his trueborn lords and knights.
[...] Though Prince Daeron was not present at the council, the Caltrops (as the conspirators became known) were loath to proceed without his consent and blessing. Owen Fossoway, Lord of Cider Hall, was dispatched under cover of darkness to wake the prince and bring him to the cellar, that the plotters might inform him of their plans. Nor did the once-gentle prince hesitate when Lord Unwin Peake presented him with warrants for the execution of Hard Hugh Hammer and Ulf White, but eagerly affixed his seal. Fire & Blood Chapter 17: The Dying of the Dragons — Rhaenyra Overthrown
Which seams like a far more (meaning: at all) established backdrop for that musing about sharing loves and hates to me.
Tldr; Less "love wins" and more "haterism transcending death" for Daeron the Daring.
#asoiaf#hotd spoiler#potentially#daeron targaryen#addam velaryon#hugh hammer#tessarion#as mentioned no shade to people who enjoy it but to me it's even more milquetoast than the one line about Rhaenyra and Laena#(also rip to Aemond for being overshadowed by his brothers even at being a hater)#it's not like I don't understand why people would see it the whole “mating dance” comment etc#but rather that even if such was his intention that GRRM barely even bothered you know?#of course as stated previously I am of the belief that Daeron was actually involved in Tessarions battles#but if you subscribe to his early death + Tessarion fuelled by his emotions then this would be my opinion on Tessarion's weird decision#which is what in universe sources run with (Daeron's death prior to Tessarions battles against Seasmoke and Vermithor)
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