#hugo vance

[aegor-bamfsteel]

Hi there, I have a relatively innocuous question regarding Ser Hugo Vance:

“Jaime concentrated on the fare before him, tearing off chunks of bread with his left hand and fumbling at his wine cup with his right. He watched Addam Marbrand charm the girl beside him, watched Steffon Swyft refight the battle for King's Landing with bread and nuts and carrots. Ser Kennos pulled a serving girl into his lap, urging her to stroke his horn, whilst Ser Dermot regaled some squires with tales of knight errantry in the rainwood. Farther down the table Hugo Vance had closed his eyes. Brooding on the mysteries of life, thought Jaime. That, or napping between courses.”

Jaime IV, AFFC

Basically, what is the significance of Hugo, whose family fought for Robb Stark and presumably lost men at the Red Wedding, casually having a kip during the feast at castle Darry?

Along with his brothers, Hugo is called a “friend and companion” to Edmure (who prefers their company to Catelyn’s). Even though all his brothers have survived, Catelyn sees Black Walder hamstring a Vance at the Red Wedding, so you’re right, it sounds like he’s at least lost relatives. His father, Norbert, had squired with Brynden Tully and offered to parley with him. It sounds like they have a personal connection with House Tully and don’t want to see them come to harm.

I think Hugo closing his eyes is a deliberate contrast to the cheerful Westerlands men (and Dermot, also in Joffrey’s service) who came to pacify the Riverlands. The Vances may be welcomed back to the king’s peace, but they’re not joining in the festivities at Darry. Jaime Lannister says: “Our new friends are no friends at all. Their loyalty goes no deeper than their skins…” (AFFC Jaime V). He knows that men like the Vances aren’t truly happy to have bent the knee as opposed to the victorious Westerlanders. It could be interpreted as a sign of disrespect (like some of the Dornish nobles refusing to drink to King Tommen) or even Jaime’s first reaction about Hugo brooding was more correct (they are in a Riverlands castle the Lannisters basically stole by killing its last lord and marrying one of their cousins off to a distant relative. And they’re joining the siege against their liege lord/close friend. I’d be brooding over this situation too).

Or it could be Hugo is just tired from days on the march. Either way, he’s not in the mood to party.

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

Hi there, I have a relatively innocuous question regarding Ser Hugo Vance:

“Jaime concentrated on the fare before him, tearing off chunks of bread with his left hand and fumbling at his wine cup with his right. He watched Addam Marbrand charm the girl beside him, watched Steffon Swyft refight the battle for King's Landing with bread and nuts and carrots. Ser Kennos pulled a serving girl into his lap, urging her to stroke his horn, whilst Ser Dermot regaled some squires with tales of knight errantry in the rainwood. Farther down the table Hugo Vance had closed his eyes. Brooding on the mysteries of life, thought Jaime. That, or napping between courses.”

Jaime IV, AFFC

Basically, what is the significance of Hugo, whose family fought for Robb Stark and presumably lost men at the Red Wedding, casually having a kip during the feast at castle Darry?

I believe it's more possible the first assumption of Jaime to be correct instead of the second one. I know that Jaime doesn't really believes that Hugo Vance is "brooding on the mysteries of life" and he is just mocking him for what it looks to him as Hugo falling asleep. However, I find it a bit unlikely that someone who is described as good friends with Edmure Tully would casually fall asleep on a feast that honors Jaime Lannister. I find it more plausable for him to close his eyes as to draw strength to continue attending the feast for someone who was until recently his enemy.

Or maybe I'm terrible mistaken and Ser Hugo Vance doesn't give a single fuck sleeping during the feast celebrating the infamous "Kingslayer".

[bleedingpomegranate]

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[lgbt-cishet-movie-tournament]

The biggest victims AND perpetuators of homophobia...

How is it cishet media?

The Exorcist: A movie (sort-of) beloved by the Catholic Church that promotes traditional family values. Has a lot of homophobic language, and it was released around Christmas. Only one gay character and they only tell you through a flamboyant gesture. Screen writer and book author was homophobic enough to make petitions to "un-catholic" the catholic school featured in this film (they were reaching out to gay students and having pride so he wrote an angry letter to the bishop) and it shows. The Vatican once invited the director to come over specifically because of the exorcist :(((

The Haunting: In the movie adaptation, Eleanor calls Theo "nature’s mistake" for being a big lesbian. She’s also in love with the scientist and looks at him like this 👁👄👁, instead of her being desperately and hopelessly in love with Theo in the book. Thanks to the tv series, people even think they're het and bisexual blood-related sisters. She was very much a stranger in the closet and gay for her. For the love of god read the book!!!

The Servant: 🤔🤔🤔 Is it homophobic for a butler to ruin a man and a woman's marriage, then systematically create a platonic co-dependent relationship with the ex-groom-to-be and turn him into a sexed-up alcoholic? (it's worse in the book. the butler tries to make up evidence that his master is a gay pedophile to blackmaile him).

How is it lgbt?

The Servant: Tony cries pathetically next to pictures of sexy athletic men in their underwear on his bed and it’s never explained. The conflict is largely pushed by the scene where Tony and his fiancee Susan see his butler Barrett naked in Tony's room after having sex. Also?? The way Barrett yanks up Tony's tie like he's about to dominate him??? They didn't have sex, but they did have sex with the same girl in the same time frame when she was in on it. I consider this toxic yaoi and a psychosexual class war. I'll put photos.

Haunting: Oh my goddddd is Eleanor still so repressed and dealing with internalized homophobia in the movie. She and Theodora have a love-hate-attraction-repulsion thing going on. Theo is lesbian-coded and was even supposed to have a female lover in the movie (her "roommate" in the book) but then came censorship. Eleanor calling Theo "unnatural" in the movie... that is a vintage code word for lesbian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF2FKI7Fe-U). Before that, she was totally smitten even if the scientist distracts from that. The book is more lesbian, but at least the movie sneaks it in. And it sucks that Eleanor is so angry and lashing out but I get it. Her family hates or at least doesn't care about her feelings. n it's about how unsafe the traditional family structure really is even when you try to do found family but no one likes you for being gay and uptight. Oh and Theo, who is lesbian, survives at the end in all versions.

Exorcist: Regan is sooo off-putting and a bad daughter. This is just what being queer and having several diseases is like minus the exorcism. Her voice gets deep while she acts rebellious and her mom rejects her. Damien Karras (the younger priest) also reads as so repressedly gay and in the closet in the original book, but the movie squeezes in a bit of that with a scene where Fr. Dyer lays Karras to bed, and they hold hands until Karras eventually recoils with so much pathetic pain. I KNOW what you are. (https://afieldinengland.tumblr.com/post/657429236105248768/they-were-in-love-here) Karras and Dyer are even closer in the book, and Dyer is his stereotypically effeminate "ride or die" gay best friend. He told him to leave the priesthood with him since the gays are doing it, meanwhile all the other local priests were panicking about gay priests. The movie is extremely quotable too and I find that camp. Also found "Mother what's wrong with me?" and "That thing upstairs is not my daughter" to be sooo personal. I know it's homophobic but it helped me come out more somehow because I don't want to DIE like that. Saw some fun Regan MacNeil dragqueens, trans posts and non-binary comics (with regan and karras) awhile ago as well. In the 90s, a reviewer said that the movie was actually a priest's homoerotic wet dream (and that's why they wanted to kill pazuzu the "female element") and it so threw off the director to the point that his biography, an analytical book on the exorcist by kermode, AND some articles will bring it up as a bizarre theory or serious analysis. Well I say the reviewer had a point, but with the wrong priest. Dyer is the only confirmed gay character who gets censored a lot, but I know what those two had. Big closeted catholic energy. That's why Regan was so homophobic. She read Karras' mind.

Haunting Propaganda

The Exorcist Propaganda

The Servant propaganda:

[fiadhvance]

closed starter for @hugovance

at first glance, the room fiadh had commandeered at wayfarer's rest to serve as her study. sunlight streamed through the windows, illuminating the clutter within. it was not an unclean place - simply littered with stacks of books and papers covered in fiadh's own handwriting and doodles where her mind had wandered. in the corner, her lute was propped against the wall, by the fire, a basket where her fat, pregnant dog snoozed, and the few spots where there was available surface space, vases of wildflowers. it may not have looked at it, but there was a sort of care beneath the mess, an order to the disarray. everything had its place.

she'd managed to clear a bit of space at the table, where she sat with hugo, showing him a document she had unearthed from deep within their archives. "i think it's from the time of harren the black," her face was deep in thought, a crease appearing between her brow. "it's a lament, you see. written for a wife for her murdered husband. it's sad."

her fingers drifted down the paper, stopping to tap a particular line. "it's this bit that's giving me the trouble. it says that... well, that the wife drank his blood. after he died, i mean. but that can't be right, can it? it must be a mistranslation from the original."

shaking her head, fiadh looked up from the old parchment, leaning back in her chair and focusing her attention on hugo. "the past is the past, i suppose. but i'd still like to figure out the true story." she picked up her cup of tea, took a sip, and made a face. "eurgh, it's gone cold. anyway," the change of subject was abrupt, as it usually was with fiadh. her brain worked quickly, jumping from one conversation to the other. "i heard you were involved in a ruckus in riverrun the other day. something about the blackwoods and brackens. was it serious?"

[elysbrax]

closed starter for @hugovance setting : flashback to lann's day festival context : name a more unlikely friendship than elys brax and hugo vance

the streets were alive with merriment, the lann's day festival in full swing. lanterns of gold and crimson hung from every corner, their warm glow illuminating the night, and for a change, elys brax was in a good mood, allowing the festivities to lift his own spirits. music drifted from the nearby performers, a lively tune competing with the laughter and chatter of the crowd. stalls lined the streets, selling everything from hot spiced meats to jewellery, but it was the mine merchant's stand that elys found himself leaning against, swirling his drink in his goblet.

it gave him a good vantage point of the festival, just slightly apart from the busiest part of the crowd. he was unmasked, not having arrived wearing one, his sharp attire immaculate even in the middle of the chaos. at his collar was a unicorn pin, silver filigree and inlaid with amythests, that glistened when he turned his head, watching the debauchery with amusement, and it was that he caught sight of a figure both familiar and welcome to him.

"hugo vance," his voice boomed as he raised a glove hand to catch hugo's attention and beckon him over. "now there's a happy sight." once hugo had reached his side, he clapped his shoulder in greeting, before gesturing toward the stall with a faint smirk. "this good fellow here claims to have a cask he'll open just for me, aged since the coronation of maegor the cruel. a bold claim, wouldn't you agree, to hold on to a vintage so fine? though boldness and honesty are often distant cousins, in my experience." the look he gave the merchant was pointed, as though daring him to challenge the fact elys was all but naming him a liar.

"well go on then, man. what are you waiting for? open the cask, my friend here looks thirsty." he barked his orders, and the merchant hurried to comply. elys finished his first cup, just in time for the second to be pressed into his hand. once both he and hugo were holding a cup of the wine, he raised the cup. "to the little prince," he said. "my great nephew. may the gods favour him. and to us, my friend. it's been too long."

[tricoufamily]

listening to a 2014 tumblr indie playlist for the memes while i’m doing this and i haven’t heard so many of these songs in years and like wow. a lot of them i loved so much are…..not good <3

[petermot]

The Hugo Winners Volume One: 1962-1967, redactie: Isaac Asimov

Bespreking: Peter Motte, 1460 woorden Mijn huidige boek, The Hugo Winners 1963-1967, bevat twee verhalen van Jack Vance: “The Dragon-Masters” en “The Last Castle”.Van “The Dragon-Masters” zouden er maar liefst 3 vertalingen in het NL bestaan, tenzij minstens één van de vertalers met een pseudoniem werkte.De uitgave in de SF-Kwadraten bij Meulenhoff heb ik jaren geleden gelezen, maar ik…

[hugovance]

VISAGE

“Mother says that a well groomed man is prepared for occurrences in life and death.” Hugo Vance, a well groomed man, takes careful time to keep himself clean even when he’s in a place where it’s not the main priority. Everyday after fighting in the dance you wouldn’t find Hugo with a camp follower in his tent, you would find Hugo cleaning himself up, cleaning his nails, and then shaving the hair off his face and ensuring his hair was always cut to a length his mother would approve of even in war. This called the men to make jokes, mockery of the pampered lord who finally ranaway from his mother. Hugo has always taken then ribs in stride, he knows that men bond through mockery though he rarely takes part for he has little understanding of where the line is.  Tall, lean, and boyish is how one can describe the physical presence of Hugo. He is a naturally curious young man, bright green eyes always holding contact. Something people commented on is far too intense which he has taken note of and now mentally counts to 30 before looking away, he thinks he needs less time. The only facial hair he’s ever had is a thin mustache, he and his mother agree that a mustache is elegant and easy to maintain over a beard. Hugo often gives the impression of a young man filling in for his father when he enters rooms. Described as studious, educated, and kind the Lord has a reputation for his ability to recall historical events, namely dates. With a fondness for reading, hawking, horses, and fencing the Lord is quite active. In the same breath that women use to call him gentle and pious, men will call him boring. The Lord of Wayfarer’s Rest is known to his people because of his love for horse racing through his lands or his hawking with the children.

QUICK FACTS 

Hugo spent some time at the Citadel where he learned what they had to teach him, what they allowed him to do beyond the scrubbing and cleaning of many new members. When he was called away due to the realm being on the brink of war he considered it his greatest sadness. 

While not incredibly war minded, Hugo loves to make plans. He sees the many patterns in the world around him and he knows how to put those pieces together and forge something of success. He was very successful in his time in the dance with the few plans he used to cut off groups using hunting trails and beaten horse tracks. 

While not considered near the top 100 of great knights in Westeros, Hugo is a phenomenal fencer and enjoys taking part in the contest. He experienced one duel in his time in the dance with a young lord hoping to win favor. Using his prized rapier blade he slew the man in single combat taking his host as prisoners. 

“Everyone with experience died. We’re giving it our best and so far, we’re alive and well. May the Gods bless and guide the souls of the dead but, and I mean well when I say this, people die. Whether it’s those little girls or those smallfolk, people died. And people will continue to die if we don’t make room to learn from mistakes.” 

Hugo Vance is not a council member as much as he is a courtier who maintains a close friendship with the King and hand. He wishes to forge positive connections with everyone, seeing little use in animosity and trickery when working together is the only way to solve their problems.

[klarence4]

Adolescent, je voulais être un écrivain ; mais quand d'autres rêvaient du prix "Congourd", moi je rêvais des prix Hugo ou Nebulla.

Peut-être avais je trop tendance à me prendre pour le Chronatic de Lutz...

[redrumrose]

More Artfights!! (Part 3)

Soleil for @stariteart

Brewster for @possessedpasm

Lailah for silverbugs (on twttr)

Dr. Hugo for @l1me0p0ssum

Batasha, Bermuda, Vance, and Grey for bmoviealien (on twittr and insta)

[preservationofnormalcy]

[Emergency Director Council 12/17/24 Meeting. 2/7 Administrators in Attendance]

Attending: 

[Redacted] Walker, OPN Director

Orson Knight, Security

Wren, Holistic Theology

Ann Tiope, Applied Mythology

Hugo Razorstrop, Parafiction

Patty Cakes, Toyetics

Subject: Königsratte Medical Emergency

Transcript begins below:

[Hugo Razorstrop] Crowded in here. 

[Wren] This was the only room we could find on short notice.

[Patty Cakes] I’m used to working in a closet. 

[Dir. Walker] Would you like to send a grant proposal to move into a larger office, Miss Cakes?

[Patty] No ma’am.

[Dir. Walker] Would you like a stack of books?

[Patty] Yes ma’am.

[Dir. Walker] Hugo, please help Miss Cakes reach the table.

[Hugo] You got it, toots. 

[Wren] We talked about gendered language, Hugo. 

[Hugo] S’ the way I’m written, sweetheart. You can’t fight it an’ neither can I.

[Dir. Walker] This discussion can wait until we don’t have an ongoing crisis. Wren, you may begin. 

[Wren] As you all know, Herr Königsratte is experiencing an acute medical emergency. We’re not sure of the cause, but parafictional individuals have….unique medical needs. We believe Herr Königsratte’s ontology is becoming unstable. He’s–

[Hugo] He’s going toon.

[Dir. Walker] Pardon?

[Hugo] Going Toon, ma’am. Parafictionals like me an’ the Rat King are mostly stable. Rare breed, us. Y’might know, when fictionals from animation manifest, they’re all….sludgy. Big puddles a’ ink, can’t stay in a solid form for long. Has to do with the animation cells, tens of thousands of ‘em, all making the individuals in question….splintered. Usually that don’t happen with non-toons, but I’ve seen it before. Hell of a thing to happen to someone, and I think our German visitor is experiencin’ it. Makes a man’s blood run cold.

[Dir. Walker] Isn’t there at least one stable “toon”? 

[Hugo] Vance Valiant, ma’am. But he’s busy. An’ a little bit of a coward, if I’m bein’ honest. 

[Dir. Walker] Spare me the editorial.

[Hugo] Beggin’ your pardon. I’m on edge. Seein’ the King in this position is like watchin’ someone melt. 

[Dir. Walker] Königsratte is under the Yule umbrella, is he not? Can we ask Kringle for his help?

[Wren] Ahh. Mr Allfather has made his…displeasure with one of our staff members politely but firmly known. I don’t think it would be advisable for us to contact him while the wounds are still fresh. As an aside, Mr Allfather has also challenged Ms Cold to single combat should she ever attempt to enter Valhalla. I would…advise Ms Cold to not attempt to enter Valhalla. 

[Dir. Walker] If I had a dime. Ann?

[Ann Tiope] Thank you, Director. After conferring with Wren, Applied Mythology has a theory. Many extranormal entities subsist wholly or in part on, for lack of a better term, belief. A sort of…stabilizing influence of the noosphere could help Königsratte’s ontology. We just need something to anchor that psychic flow. A physical object related to his origin, and the holiday zeitgeist. That’s where Toyetics comes in. Patty?

[Patty] Thank you for the books, Hugo. So, um. I left my notes on the floor, but basically - nutcrackers. 

[Dir. Walker] Go on.

[Patty] We think of them as kitschy decorations now, but when The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was originally written, they were toys. Objects of joy and affection! A lot of them were modeled as soldiers, like in the story. Or kings. They meant something. They’re inextricably tied to the Rat King’s origin, and an integral part of many cultures’ celebrations this time of year, even if a lot of people overlook them.

[Dir. Walker] What is your proposal?

[Patty] We can use the social media outreach of the Office to ask for nutcrackers. Physical donations, but even pictures or artwork will work. It just has to have a story attached. The story is important. I’ve already asked social media’s AI to help me intake and collate everything we get. We’ll print them out, 3D print copies, set the physical models we receive up around Herr Königsratte, and….

[Dir. Walker] And?

[Patty] ….hopefully that’ll work. 

[Dir. Walker] I’ve heard more ridiculous plans, but not by much. Do you have any input, Director Knight?

No? Then let’s move ahead. Get a message to Social Media. I have faith Agent Halter will frame this in a way that minimizes how childish this all feels. You’re dismissed. 

[stromuprisahat]

Alas, the king was not of a forgiving mind. Urged on by his mother, the Queen Dowager Alicent, Aegon II was determined to exact vengeance upon those who had betrayed and deposed him. He started with the crownlands, sending forth his own men and the stormlanders of Borros Baratheon against Rosby, Stokeworth, and Duskendale and the surrounding keeps and villages. Though the lords thus accosted, through their stewards and castellans, were quick to lower Rhaenyra’s quartered banner and raise Aegon’s golden dragon in its stead, each in turn was brought in chains to King’s Landing and forced to do obeisance before the king. Nor were they freed until they had agreed to pay a heavy ransom, and provide the Crown with suitable hostages. This campaign proved a grave mistake, for it only served to harden the hearts of the late queen’s men against the king. Reports soon reached King’s Landing of warriors gathering in great numbers at Winterfell, Barrowton, and White Harbor. In the riverlands, the aged and bedridden Lord Grover Tully had finally died (of apoplexy from having his house fight against the rightful king at Second Tumbleton, Mushroom says), and his grandson Elmo, now at last the Lord of Riverrun, had called the lords of the Trident to war once more, lest he suffer the same fate as Lords Rosby, Stokeworth, and Darklyn. To him gathered Benjicot Blackwood of Raventree, already a seasoned warrior at three-and-ten; his fierce young aunt, Black Aly, with three hundred bows; Lady Sabitha Frey, the merciless and grasping Lady of the Twins; Lord Hugo Vance of Wayfarer’s Rest; Lord Jorah Mallister of Seagard; Lord Roland Darry of Darry; aye, and even Humfrey Bracken, Lord of Stone Hedge, whose house had hitherto supported King Aegon’s cause.

Fire and Blood (George R. R. Martin)

How badly do you need to piss off the Lords, for Brackens to defect and join the same side as Blackwoods of their own free will?

[overthegardenwirtt]

books

there are a few books I've read recently, like in the last year, that no one ever talks about. they're not the booktok or tumblr darlings so it's hard to find other people who are interested in them. anyway most of these are at least subtextually queer and written prior to 1970, and those vintage queer vibes go so fucking hard. like once you read pre-1970s queer lit it's really hard to read a modern LGBT romance.

Another Country by James Baldwin. James Baldwin was an actual icon. He lived between New York City and Paris and wrote profoundly human books about race, gender, and sexuality while also being an American civil rights activist and orator. Another Country is Baldwin's third novel, published in 1962. It follows a group of artists in Greenwich Village and their various relationships with one another. It looks at racism, Black masculinity, interracial relationships, homosexuality, and bisexuality, and it explores all of these societal issues through the microcosms of different romantic and sexual relationships between the characters. Baldwin's writing is like Jazz. It is rhythmic, smooth, and breathtaking. If you liked Giovanni's room, read this. It is much more nuanced in its exploration of both race and sexuality.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin. Le Guin's mind is revolutionary. She is everything jk r*wling is credited for, except far better as her most famous books center people of color and androgynous people. She published the first The Earthsea Quartet, a series about a boy wizard at a wizarding school, in 1964 and was never credited as inspiration by r*wling. The Left Hand of Darkness was published in 1969 and won both the Hugo and the Nebula that year. The book follows a human who visits a planet where he finds that its inhabitants are all completely androgynous for the majority of their lives. It is a beautiful exploration of love, trust, and the ability to see past societal conventions to truly love and understand other people.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is perhaps best known for her short story The Lottery, or unfortunately for the incredibly unfaithful Netflix TV adaptation of this novel. Published in 1959, The Haunting of Hill House follows Eleanor Vance, a woman in her early 30s who has about the maturity of a 19-year-old, as she is recruited along with a group of others to live at the mysterious Hill House. The book is essentially psychological horror and follows Eleanor as she is driven mad by her own feelings of otherness and isolation from the world. There is also some incredibly lesbian subtext in the novel between the two female main characters which adds really interesting layers to Eleanor's feelings of otherness. It's a quick and compelling read and gives interesting insight into the lives of two women in the late 1950s who cannot adhere to the standards of womanhood set for them in society.