#first snow day ever

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[capricioussun]

First word

[mayomkun]

I'm seeing snow for the first time and took my little standees with me ✨

[cdrspages]

soon as I saw this in the morning I cracked up, ate my bowl of honey comb and went right to it cause I just couldn’t help it HAHAHA

audio by @ shibipaffu on twitter and youtube! <3

[s-aint-elmo]

no thoughts head empty the oppressive stagnancy of legacy in ever after high dragging me round the block yet again

it's such a shame that we get so little explanation about the actual mechanics of destiny, which is the entire premise of the show, bc it's so juicy. like what power does destiny hold when you rip away milton's lies and centuries of assumptions and traditions. esp bc despite raven signing herself as the evil queen in the real storybook of legends, when the snow white fairytale actually happens in dragon games she's playing one of the seven dwarves and her mother has reprised her role. like how much of that was because of the characters' actions and how much was destiny pulling on old, familiar threads. keeps me up at night.

a lot of this is probably just like, plot holes and writer hot potato but i like making it that deep, that's half of the fun. my personal interpretation is that fate is a wild thing that desires repetition and they developed the system of fairytale legacy bloodlines to keep those repetitions predictable and contained, instead of wreaking havoc whenever and wherever they please. 

which lends itself to some really juicy exploration of how legacy is a duty as much as it is a privilege, and how to be a princess or a witch or a hero or a dragon is to be the same thing in the end: the lamb destiny slaughters on the altar to sate the ever-ravenous narrative. to keep the flock safe. keep the unknown that prowls beyond the beaten path at bay. because if a there is always a mother who will be cruel, or a maiden who will fall into a sleep like death, or a child who will become a bird, isn’t it better to know who, and how, and when? isn’t better if it’s you, who has known your whole life that you must be eaten, be poisoned, be stripped of your humanity, rather than anybody else, who wasn’t raised to see it as an honour instead of a great and terrible injustice?

[canonjansen]

A moment of peace

[ephemeral-winter]

it’s my birthday and it’s SNOWING

[blixabargelds]

did you know that um heaven….. heaven is a place… a place where nothing…. nothing ever happens !!!!

[silverhalla]

every day that I wake up in emprise du lion is another day I get closer to storming the black city to take down the maker himself

[rise-my-angel]

When it comes to Sara Snow, it seems, to me, that there is a bit of an ethnicity issue as well. I have seen a non-zero amount of people who unironically say shit like 'Why would Jace pick some unwashed Northern hillbilly over Baela?' I genuinely wish I was exaggerating, but I'm not. That is, word-for-word, what was said about her in some of the posts I saw. My jaw dropped when I first saw it.

Baela is a Targaryen, a royal woman who has the blood of two Valyrian houses running in her veins. It's no secret that Targs are believers in the supremacy of their blood, as are the vast majority of their fans- So to them, Baela, as a Valyrian girl, is special.

In contrast, Sara is a Northwoman who presumably worships the Old Gods- A girl from a culture that is widely looked down on, and a follower of a minority religion. So, in the Valyrian supremacists' minds, she's of a 'lower' race.

This is exacerbated by the infuriating fact that this fandom, even the non Targ stan sides of it, seems to genuinely buy into the claim of Northern 'savagery' Instead of understanding that maybe, just maybe, the text is trying to critique the discrimination and prejudice certain portions of society face based on the arguments of some cultures and peoples being 'barbaric'

So when these two factors are combined together, their already existing distaste for Sara Snow snowballs into a perception of her as a bastard girl who is not only of a 'lower' race, especially when compared to the "ultra special" Valyrians, but also of a 'savage' one.

You phrased exactly what I was thinking but couldn't figure out how to put into words, thank you!

It is very jarring. It always comes from extreme targ stans who speak about her in a way that genuinely feels like they are just a few steps away from calling her a slur. She's a Northern, she follows a minority religion that no one shows any respect towards, she is a bastard, and she has absolutely no ties to Valyria what so ever.

Sara Snow and Baela are as far away from each other in commonality as they possibly could be, and that makes people uncomfortable at the idea that Jace fell in love with the opposite of everything that makes Baela so special and highborn. How could he look at this lowborn Northern savage bastard and see anything he couldn't have from his highborn Valyrian princess?

Now thats not me shaming Baela, but that is everyone else shaming Sara. It's why they insist she didn't exist. It's easier to pretend that her and Jace falling in love was a made up fairy tale, rather then to face the facts that everything about the Targaryean supremecy that Jace grew up with became the exact opposite of what he fell in love with. He fell in love with a girl that represents a life completey opposite of his, and yet she looked at a prince who was also the complete opposite of her, and didnt treat him any different either.

I don't think it's a coincidence Jace fell in love with her when he was completely and utterly disconnected from his family. He was in the North for weeks. He bonded with Cregan, they hunted together, they came to see each other like brothers. And he spent time with Sara, a bastard girl who like her brother, didn't judge him for being a prince or for the rumours he was a bastard, and fell in love with who he was seperate of all of that. Something impossible for a Targaryean/Velaryon to do with one another.

It makes these people uncomfortable that their Targaryean Prince fell in love with everything that stands against what the Targaryeans represent. With Baela, there was no mistake. He was always going to be Prince Jacaerys Velaryon, heir to the Iron Throne, and rumoured Strong bastard. But to Sara, he was just Jace. There were no expectations on who they had to be in front of each other because they had nothing looming over who they were to one another. Sara had nothing to lose, because she has nothing to offer but herself, and Jace fell in love with that.

It should say something to them that the character they supposedly love so much, fell in love with what they look at as a savage, wild, unruly Northerner. Why did Jace see all of those supposed things and still fall in love? Maybe because he learned none of those things are true, and there is nothing wrong with Sara nor Cregan as Northerners which would make him look down on them.

And it's that which makes them uncomfortable. They don't want to see in Sara what Jace saw in Sara, because it means challenging their preconceived notions about the North in general and they don't want to do that.

They are comfortable in their bubble where the Targaryeans represent the best way of life, and the North is just a wild and chaotic place that is too stubborn to be "tamed" or "controlled". When really, Jace got over those things and saw her for who she is, so it should say something about how much they really like his character, they they refuse to accept what he accepted.

They'd rather say she was a dirty Northern bastard who was nothing compared to the beautiful, special, royal Targaryean bride he had waiting for him at home. When in reality, there was nothing wrong with Baela, but there was nothing wrong with Sara either.

Jace saw that for himself, and his heart followed suit. His heart chose genunity and love over what and who he was told to love soley because their marriage was advantagous for his own families power.

Baela grants them both power, Sara offers Jace no power and he chose Sara anyway. And I think it says something about the people who hate her, that they refuse to agnowledge why he chose her.

They'd rather live in a world where she is just a savage bastard girl who probably didn't exist in the first place.

[swag-system]

OH FUCK YES BOOP TIME

[juniperhillpatient]

sexy as hell my post popped up so high in the zucest tags (well not that sexy. It says something sad for the engagement of the tag but I still like feeling famous ok?) but. also it’s so close to 69 notes… so close…

so. Please. help me get to 69 notes helloo

also. I will be self promoting the devil you know until the day I die. ok bye

[lady-stormbraver]

I ran and flew off the side of a mountain this morning, how is your Monday going?

[touchmybutt-buymetacobell]

All month I've been loading up that Gavle stream multiple times a day, often with loved ones, hoping that the moment I tuned in would be the moment it caught fire. Could not imagine that nearing the end of the month I'd turn it on and see the birds, and my god there are so many of them, just tearing it to shreds. Like shit it almost feels bad, he so scraggly.

[snow-system-wol]

I still don't quite have the best words to put it in but. I think S'ria was more understanding of Fordola with the assumption that it was just about survival, but hearing her explain that she saw this as a path to freedom and equality for Ala Mhigans made that worse for him actually.

He's somewhat more sympathetic of the defeatist stance many have, that things will never be better but one must live. The idea of someone genuinely believing they'll ever earn Garlean respect (and be seen as an Equal) is... A level of lying to yourself that he's having a hard time wrapping his head around. They really go out of their way to say how impossible that'd be at every opportunity.

[pepsinister]

I went out for groceries and on the way back there was this unplowed parking lot covered in snow just begging at me……… I’m man enough to admit I did turn off traction control and whip one (1) extremely tame, slow shitty