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[jdexhusband]

Behold: Mopdale!!

This is Dale (mine!) and Mop Top (made by @90svn)! A hitman bounty hunter and a... an actor!

[daisiesonafield-blog]

Fire Aid Benefit Concert For California Wildfire Relief

tldr:

When & where: Kia Forum and Intuit Dome on Jan 30 at 6pm PT. Tickets: onsale Jan 22 at noon PT via Ticketmaster. Your ticket is only valid for the venue you select at the time of purchase. Streaming: on several online platforms, movie theaters and radio stations. Line up: see artists listed above. Plus more artists being announced in the coming days.

Two venues. One night. Your favorite artists coming together for music & solidarity. Shows start at 6pm. Tickets go on sale January 22nd at noon. Stay tuned for more artist announcements in the coming days.

Hosted by Live Nation with AEG Presents and the Azoff family, FireAid will raise money for rebuilding communities devastated by wildfires and supporting efforts to prevent future fire disasters throughout Southern California. Music industry mogul Irving Azoff is producing the concert with Live Nation and AEG Presents. The Eagles, Azoff’s longtime management clients, announced on Wednesday that they’d donated $2.5 million for the concert. American Express, Intuit, and UBS are among the sponsors of the show.

Tickets go on sale Wednesday, Jan. 22 at noon PT via Ticketmaster.

FireAid will be broadcast by select AMC Theatres, Apple Music and the Apple TV app, Max, iHeartRadio, KTLA+, Netflix/Tudum, Paramount+, Prime Video and the Amazon Music Channel on Twitch, SiriusXM, Spotify, SoundCloud, Veeps and YouTube.

The broadcast will motivate viewers across the platforms to submit donations to aid the victims of the wildfires. iHeartRadio will broadcast the show live to more than 860 radio stations across the United States.

FireAid will air days before the Grammy Awards are set to take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Downtown L.A on February 2. The Recording Academy announced Wednesday that it would be shrinking its event lineup for the week leading up to the awards to focus on fundraising efforts. Several other organizations are also hosting smaller benefit concerts to aid wildfire victims.

The FireAid Benefit concert will begin at 6PM PST on January 30th. The concert will be split between the Kia Forum and the Intuit Dome, both starting at the same time. Tickets are only valid for the venue that you selected when you purchased your ticket(s). They are not valid for both venues.

Sources: Deadline, Fireaidla.org, Rolling Stone

[raddest-laddest]

so far there are 4 types of games to me in regards to spoilers:

don’t care, won’t affect me at all (stardew)

2. spoiled it on purpose to keep myself interested (rainworld)

3. if anything gets spoiled i’ll genuinely become violent (outer wilds)

4. got carried away hyperfixating one night, accidentally spoiled everything, majorly regret it now (hollow knight)

[melrosing]

a while back you mentioned bran being a fisher king type of figure if he becomes king. i am so intrigued by that concept. can you tell us more?

so full disclosure, I don't have a great deal of familiarity with Arthurian legend or British/Welsh mythology, which is what the Fisher King really draws upon, so I don't think I can say anything of real substance on this subject! i keep meaning to just sit down and swot up on this stuff but it's. not really something you can do in one sitting lol

HOWEVER i think even to a wiki peruser it's patently clear that GRRM is drawing on the Fisher King concept with Bran (as in, once you know he's doing that, you realise he isn't even trying to hide it). and I do tend to think that GRRM is more likely to stick with the top line of a myth or historical event he means to parallel rather than get lost in the minutiae - e.g. Matilda v Stephen succession crisis inspiring Rhaenyra v Aegon, the Black Dinner of 1440 inspiring the Red Wedding, this is GRRM taking the substance of an event but not the details of how it came to pass.

I'm going to guess that rather than getting into the finer details of the Fisher King mythos, GRRM is going to utilise it much like he's used Shakespeare's Richard III for Tyrion, which is another inspiration that seems painfully obvious from the moment you spot it, but is hardly lifted beat for beat, and I seriously doubt that Tyrion's story ends up anywhere like the end of RIII. but you can see GRRM taking the bits and pieces of RIII he finds interesting and twisting them for Tyrion in ASOIAF.

so with that in mind, I'm just going to quickly list the key points I can personally gather from the Fisher King myth that seem to gesture to Bran, and why I think these are probs interesting to GRRM as a writer (but as I say there are people who know lots about arthurian legend and british/welsh mythology who would probs have a lot more to say here):

the Fisher King is usually depicted as being wounded in the groin/legs/thigh - this is considered synonymous with his inability to have children and so propagate his line. immediately obvious parallel to Bran, and I think through both ASOIAF and F&B, GRRM is trying to show that ruling through dynasties where everything hinges on how the next guy's son turns out, is not a viable way to run a country. Bran will not be succeeded by children of his own blood, but I think much in the way that he himself has succeeded Bloodraven

the Fisher King is one with his land as such: his welfare is the welfare of the land, and when he takes a wound (and becomes infertile), the land too becomes barren. the Fisher King awaits a hero who will heal and restore him and so the land (but I can only imagine GRRM would subvert this - it's clear through GRRM's writing of disability that he doesn't see value in just 'curing' his characters. he wants to actually write them as disabled people). and I think there's a lot in Bran's story about man learning to respect the land he lives upon - the children and the first men's peace pact was agreed upon the grounds that the first men would essentially preserve Westeros and its weirwoods etc, and so I think it's generally agreed ASOIAF could end with a similar kind of pact to end the Long Night (or after the end of TLN)? so again, think this point is about Bran representing a renewed relationship between the lands of Westeros and its peoples - the welfare of all is tied together through him

the Fisher King is guarding the Holy Grail. im way out of my depth on this point, someone with more knowledge re. the Holy Grail needs to weigh in here lol, but I would guessssss that maybe this has something to do with Bran ending the story on the Isle of Faces, protecting the peace from there or SOMETHING idk

then the most obvious point: the Fisher King as he appears in Arthurian legend is thought to draw on the figure of Brân the Blessed, a character of Welsh mythology - which immediately recalls Bran the Broken (something Bran literally calls himself several times). the name 'Bran' also translates to crow or raven in Welsh, so, duh. and Brân the Blessed's story ends with his requesting that his head be buried on the White Hill of London - and as long as it remained there, Britain would be safe from invasion. more about Bran being tied directly to the welfare of the land and its peoples

(again there's doubtless a lot more that could be added here by someone who understands the Fisher King myth better than I do, but these seemed like the most obvious points that anyone could draw on)

anyway I absolutely take it as a given that Bran will be King at this point, and whilst it's really hard to imagine what that looks like, I do think it resonates. GRRM likes writing about dynasties but I don't think he believes in them. I'm sure he feels much the same way about feudalism, but I doubt that will be gone by the end of ASOIAF, too, so this is how I picture it??

KL: destroyed. red keep: fucked. some level of politics may continue here post-series, but I think it will no longer be the heart of westeros. the fact that it is in AGOT is I think GRRM trying to show the corruption at the heart of this country - KL is constantly described as a cesspit where the rich play their games and live and eat luxuriously directly atop the shoulders of the poor and downtrodden, divorced from what's happening in the rest of the 7K.

the new heart of Westeros will be the Isle of Faces. this is where I think Bran will end up. we don't know much about it, bc noone is able to sail there, but this was where the pact between the COF and the First Men was created, and it's one of the last places in the south where weirwoods still grow (here, in abundance). and apparently there was once a Green King of the Gods Eye?? if the Green King, of the Rivermen, is in any way the role Bran will soon be occupying, maybe this is where his Tully heritage is somehow relevant. and also like 'god's eye', Bran's whole thing is about learning to see all, so. likely place for him to be. ultimately, I don't think Bran will remain in Winterfell; the story is supposed to be about unity I think, and not northern exceptionalism, so a remaining Stark sibling will take up that seat and as I said before, I tend to think that will be Sansa.

and I guess the most I can imagine beyond this point is Bran living alongside the COF (perhaps in the company of Meera idk?), functioning less as a political entity and more as a figurehead, perhaps an oracle, who lives for the welfare of his people. there will still be politicians to run the country, but they will be guided by Bran in some way, and like Bloodraven, Bran will choose his own successor. what the intricacies of any of this look like i have no idea, but this really does sound to me like the start of GRRM's answer to all his concerns re. dynasties and corruption etc etc

sorry this was all garbled as hell but this is basically what the Fisher King endgame means to me for now. in short, not a whole lot that I can make sense of but I like the feel of it, I think it's consistent with the themes of the text and suggests the start of real change at the end of the story, rather than the start of yet another dynasty.

[victor-v]

you don't understand how much i need to kill the president

[rathologic]

I am not condemning you in any way but im just wondering do you ever feel guilty still being a pathologic fan in spite of dybowski? I still love pathologic too and engage in fan content but i feel i cant really recommend it to anyone

I spend most of my time here dis-recommending it 😅 as patho's a piece of media that exists independently in the world there will always be people getting into it organically, and I think it's valuable to have people keeping dyb's transgressions in active conversation, alongside discussion of how similar beliefs show up in the games. Guilt doesn't do anything on its own! I don't find it productive to be preoccupied with my relationship to the franchise, since the above things are actionable and useful (*though I don't spend much time on patho nowadays). It's also helped that I'm curating this blog more closely for what I'm interested in, which is p1 -- only criticism and modding work for 2/3, the games which would cost significantly more and exist in a larger sphere of publicity. Play around with what you're doing until you find something you can accept, whether that's on the side of ceasing to blog or of being more of an advocate ^^;

[royalteachitchat]

They have us distracted for a reason!

PAY ATTENTION!

[chronalshifts]

why reply when you can literally just make your own post. it’s free guys.

[lconoclasts]

apoligies for the weird scaling that tumblr does :-P but heres another gif! if you have any requests i am all ears!

[waywardsalt]

god im so glad i got smt iv and decided to go in blind

[dadsinsuits]

Ronald P. O'Hanley

[13eyond13]

HAHAHA omg someone submitted this to r/copypasta a year ago

[risingsunresistance]

haha yeah i, risingsunresistance, NEVER spend time at the colosseum. had no idea ty for pointing it out. could probably make a lore post out of that haha

[raddest-laddest]

i think bug parents would probably wait to buy their children a mask until around their final molt— unless they have a lot of geo to burn

[mothkingsley]

Astromorph [Among Us x Chonny Jash]

Soooo this fic has done numbers on the Chonny Jash Fanserver, so I thought it'd be worth it to start being on tumblr more often and posting it here! Be warned, there be emotional damage ahead! (and also polycule shenanigans)

Special thanks to @chemical-bunz for cowriting chapter 2 with me, and also helping me port it from google docs to ao3.

Deep in space, there is a crew on the ship Tycho with one united goal: curing the Astromorph virus, a parasitic infection that causes its victims to turn into monsters.

Seven dead bodies later, only four members of the crew remain; Atlas Terraquis, Apollo Kingsman, Doctor Artemis Juno, and Harmonia Goodei; and they’re no closer to their goal of curing the infection.

Now, one more is gone, and their fragile peace is corroding all at once.

[chocolate-cream-soldier]

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