#i wish everyone who was affected by it is safe ❤��

[no-phrogs-in-hats]

"I Will Always Love you, Ser Brienne of Tarth..."

Brienne of Tarth x reader

Warnings: Violence

A/N: This is a mix of multiple asks that I received in January (lmao sorry about the wait). It includes:

@suckerforcate 's ask: "I'd love a brienne x Reader fic/ Prompt: Brienne: Are you flirting with me?/ Reader: you finally noticed?/ Just some cute fluff, love confession, oblivious Brienne etc😘❤"

Anon's ask of a skilled archer and knife thrower (slay katniss and clove) where they end up saving Brienne in some way

“You have to go down to the crypt, Y/N.”

Brienne’s voice was stern and her gaze was harsh as she looked down at the scowl on your face.

“No!” you replied. She was taken aback by your tone as you continued to secure armor to your body. “Winterfell is my home! If you think I am going to give it up without a fight, Brienne, you are sorely mistaken! I think you, out of anyone, should know how important loyalty is!”

Her face softened and her posture relaxed as she sighed. “You’re right…I apologize. I just…I don’t want you hurt. I don’t know what I’d do without you.”

“I know,” you murmur. You look up at her now and your hand goes to her cheek. After placing a kiss over the rouge bleeding into her fair skin, you smile softly at her. “But this is a war, darling. And, physically or not, everyone will get hurt. So why not help where I can?”

“I suppose you’re right,” she said.

In the soft light of your chamber, the two of you stood there. Neither of you said a word as you looked into each other’s eyes. The only sound in the room was the crackle of the fireplace before you opened your mouth to speak. You closed it, pausing before looking back up at her. 

You wanted to say it. You wanted to say it so badly.

“I will always love you, Ser Brienne of Tarth. And I will fight beside you all night if I have to, because you deserve someone like that. You deserve someone who will stick by your side no matter what.”

But you held your tongue. She didn’t need a distraction going into a battle and a love confession would certainly be one. 

You could see the look in her eyes change–but you had no idea what it changed to. As always, she was unreadable, but you were certain there was that shred of affection–perhaps even love. Or perhaps, it was wishful thinking–it was always wishful thinking.

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You stood side-by-side on the parapets of Winterfell with the other archers. Watching the Dothrakis, their scythes flaming as they rode fearlessly into battle, you felt a sense of hope. Perhaps there was a chance the living could win this. But it wasn’t until the war cries quieted and every last flame went out that the shrivel of hope that you had felt dried up and flaked away like a leaf in the autumn breeze. In the field, the only light that remained was the bonfires for the catapults. If you scanned the troops hard enough, you could just barely make out the speck that Brienne had become from a distance. 

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Everything was ablaze. Still on the parapets, you and your fellow archers aimed your bows down to the surrounding flames. The second wave of the living-dead had surrounded the fortress and now, the Wights were overpowering the living. You desperately hoped that Brienne didn’t fall prey to the White Walkers. The thought of her suffering so much made you sick to your stomach.

“Y/N!” One of the archers yards away called to you. “Behind you!”

In a flash, you aimed your bow and sent an arrow straight through a Wight’s eye before it could pounce on you. 

As soldiers came flooding into the courtyard, chased by Wights, you bounded down the stairs in an attempt to help. It was on those stairs that you scanned the crowd in desperate search for Brienne, and to your relief, you found her towards the front near the entrance, making sure that every man and woman returned safely. As much as you wanted to call for her, to make it known to her that you were still alive, but you wouldn’t dare risk distracting her and putting her in harm's way even more than she already was. So, instead, you rushed down the stairs. 

The bow having no use anymore, you retrieved the valyrian steel throwing knives strapped to your belt. Each one slit the throat of an attacking Wight as you hurried through the hoard of soldiers fighting for their lives. 

Brienne. Where’d Brienne go?

She seemed to have disappeared again. Wights and soldiers alike fell all around you and each one you came upon, you prayed that it wasn’t her. Through the pandemonium, you heard struggling grunts. Looking over, you saw exactly who you were looking for.

Brienne was on the ground with other soldiers, fighting off a swarm of Wights that were beginning to overpower them. You called her name and her head shot up. You sprinted across the courtyard, knives of valyrian steel in hand with the only goal being to save and protect Brienne. Before you knew what was happening, your blade was in the spine of a Wight attacking Brienne.

You reached your hand out and she took it graciously, smiling at you in thanks as she stood up. That night, until the Night King was dead, the two of you remained side-by-side, for if you lived and Brienne died, you would fall to pieces, impossible to glue back together.

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Candles lit the dining hall where you sat with Brienne, playing a drinking game with Pod, Tyrion, and Jaime. You couldn’t remember the last time you saw Brienne this happy. Her smile never dissipated as she laughed at Tyrion drinking to Brienne’s response to his question. All you could do was look at her with a dazed smile as you admired her, knowing that you will never love someone as much as you do Brienne.

In front of you, Jaime and Tyrion snickered to one another, noticing your infatuation with the woman beside you. When you came out of your daze, you noticed Brienne blushing madly before getting up and leaving the hall. You followed after her moments later, able to hear the laughter of the three men at the table behind you.

Hurrying through the hall, you made it to Brienne’s chambers. You knocked softly on the door and she answered not half a minute later. 

“Oh…erm…hi,” she mumbled.

“Hi,” you replied. “Can I come in?” 

Without hesitation, Brienne let you into her room. A fire roared in the hearth, her clothing from that day on a wooden chair in front of it. Brienne was a creature of habit–one of the many things that you adored about her.

“Are you alright?” you asked carefully. “You left in quite a hurry and I can’t bear to be without you.”

A soft smile appeared on her face, almost as if she was flustered of someone caring about her absence. “I’m alright,” she said. “I promise.”

Silence stood in the room, the pair of you standing almost six feet apart. It wasn’t until the heavy silence became unbearable that Brienne spoke up. “Have you been flirting with me?”

The question shocked you, but your face softened into a smile. “You finally noticed?”

Brienne smiled back, stepping closer this time. I reached for hand, taking it and pulling her forward to truly look at her. Emotion poured from her gaze and she swallowed hard. “You know I’m not good with this stuff…We’ve known each other for years and I’m just now realizing you’ve been flirting this entire time.”

You let out a giggle. “I think I have been since the day I met you.”

She laughed with you, squeezing your hand. “I just don’t know what to say.”

“You don’t have to say a thing,” you muttered, your free hand reaching up to touch her cheek. “I’ll say everything for you.” And, with a deep breath, you finally told her the words that you had desperately wanted to tell her from the beginning.

“I will always love you, Ser Brienne of Tarth…”

[heeslomll]

Help my baby ,Don't leave my baby alone please

🍉I am Hala, a Palestinian from the besieged and destroyed Gaza Strip 😭😭. I fled the war with my husband to Egypt..

The story began on March 21, 2024 when my beautiful child was born.. He was a wonderful and special child.. Suddenly, a week after his birth, my child Abdul Aziz's belly swelled up a lot and I visited several doctors without discovering the reason.. After another week of the child's suffering, I took him to a specialized hospital and the doctors there discovered a blockage in Abdul Aziz's colon that prevented him from excreting stool.. It was decided to perform a surgical operation consisting of an opening in Abdul Aziz's belly to temporarily remove stool from his intestines until the affected part of the colon was removed in another complex surgical operation that cost thousands of dollars..😭😭

I am speaking to you now with great sadness about my child's condition and I ask you to help me and donate to me to collect the costs of the operation within a month from now.

I appeal to everyone who can donate any amount, no matter how small, because it will save my child and give us hope.

Please don't leave my son alone to suffer and struggle in these difficult days alone.. You can support my campaign by donating what you can or share my posts to reach others who can help us by raising the cost of the surgery you are helping in the life of an innocent child with your small contribution. ❤❤🍉🍉

Every donation makes a difference in his very difficult life

Hello dearest :(( I’m so so so extremely sorry for everything :// my soul and heart is breaking this world is truly so evil and I wish and pray things were different / going to be different… I’m praying for your son and i’m praying for you and your family. Please stay strong and safe :// please let’s share & donate let’s not stay quiet let’s spread awarness and help those in need.

HERE’S THE LINK TO DONATE !!! PLEASE SHARE & DONATE !!!

[viscountessevie]

Not sure if you want to answer this but it’s been bugging me. So Simone was at Bafta Afterparty yesterday evening, ofc she looked gorgeous and there are pics where she is clearly arriving with her boyfriend and then I saw people just casually joking that She was drunk and it made me so angry.

I have experience with friends who had an alcoholic problem so people, „fans“ casually assuming this about my fav is making me sad. No one knows anything about what she was doing and also none of the pictures look like she was drunk honestly. also it is always a particular group of subset of fans who are more Anthony/JB fans. And I know I just know if anything like this had been said about HIM they would have rioted. I am getting to annoyed by these so called Simone fans, no one calling them out. First they subtle bodyshame her, now they „joke“ about alcoholism.

Sorry i didnt know where to turn. I always see your takes and know you won’t laugh at me because others did.

Heya anon! About your last para; you never ever have to say sorry about venting and opening up about this here! I've said time and time again, my blog is a safe space for those who wish to make it so and I will never ever laugh at that. Everyone knows what I stand for so if you agree and feel safe to talk to me, this blog is always here for you to let out frustrations like these ❤

I am truly sorry this affected you and you have friends going through alcoholism. It's a very hard thing to watch someone you love go through that and I'm sympathise. If you ever want to talk about this more, my DMs are always open!

I definitely see how that personal experience and people making light of it with Simone makes you angry. It puts me off too especially if it's fake fans who always take a shot at Simone everytime she steps out.

I will admit that I saw some of the jokes made in jest kind of funny but now I apologise for being implicit in this. It was something that went along the lines of "She's just like me; Go to a party, look pretty, get some drinks and say bye." These jokes just felt relatable to me because I am a social drinker for my job (and I quite literally have to just be there and look pretty lmao) but I'm not a partier who stays out all night so I go home early too. However, I do see the more insidious side of the comments and that is ABSOLUTELY not okay.

You're definitely right, there is a double standard in this fandom. Not just with JB only stans who keep trying to make Jonny v Simone happen (it's not gonna happen!! They're besties stop comparing the two!) But her against most of her Bton castmates. I don't understand why they all dislike and discount Simone so much. It's so disheartening to see when I admire her so much and see alot of myself in her.

Honestly they just need to leave her the fuck alone but we know they won't. So the best we can do is take stock with our feelings on this, love and support her as much as we do and know that's enough and she sees our support!

Hope this helped to hear/read and you can always come talk to me about anything at all at anytime ❤

(Everyone else's asks sorry to keep yall waiting - life has been busy busy! I will be slowly replying to asks over the next few days. Just wanted to reply to this cos Ik how hard these feelings are, about loved ones going through alcoholism as well as Simone getting shitty comments like this.)

[raamitsu]

Happy birth day bestiee<3, ever since we met you have been such a amaizng friend and i have enjoyed the countless times that we spend together ❤ may allah give you a long and happy life dear bestie i love you very much ❤❤ i would love to give you this apple pie and sarmas that i made as gift ❤❤(btween this was frist try on making a apple pie 😩)

Aww bestie 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 THE WAY I CAN’T EVEN FORM A WORD RIGHT NOW SGSFFSSFSGS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WARM WISHES. I truly adore and cherish every single word you’ve said to me, and you’re also one of my understanding and loving friends that I have ever had. I, too, had so much fun conversing and sharing our thoughts, interests and pain together like we’re sisters already 😆 May Allah grant both of us Heaven and that when we left this world, we’re accepted as a true Muslim, InsyaAllah, Amin 🤲🏼✨

I would like to take this opportunity to extend my greatest sympathy and condolences to everyone in Turkey (Syria and Lebanon as well) who is greatly affected by the earthquakes last week. I wish many people, ANYONE, to give the same energy as any other causes to help them who needs it the most right now. Furthermore, as a fellow Turkish friend of mine, I hope that you’ll be always be safe and healthy, bestie 🤍

[mc-cookies]

Hello dear friends! ❤🤍🖤💚

🍉I am Mahmoud Ayyad, a Palestinian from the besieged and destroyed Gaza 😭😭, coming from an extended family of young children, women and elderly people ❤❤ who have been suffering😭😭 for 300 difficult days from an aggressive war.

Our lives are harsh because we lack all the basic necessities of life. Everything has become scarce and unattainable. There is no food, no water, no medicine.

So, I ask you to help me keep my family safe and alive, especially after we had lost all our sources of livelihood.Please do not leave my family to struggle and suffer these difficult days alone. You can support my campaign by donating whatever you can or by sharing my posts to reach others who can help us survive the war to safety and peace. You are helping the lives of many people with your small contribution. Every donation makes a difference in our very difficult lives. But this is a legitimate campaign and has been checked by 90-ghost.

https://gofund.me/31c5cbe3

i wish the best for you and everyone else affected by this cruel war.

[sammytherat]

Hello dear friends! ❤🤍🖤💚

🍉I am Mahmoud Ayyad, a Palestinian from the besieged and destroyed Gaza 😭😭, coming from an extended family of young children, women and elderly people ❤❤ who have been suffering😭😭 for 300 difficult days from an aggressive war.

Our lives are harsh because we lack all the basic necessities of life. Everything has become scarce and unattainable. There is no food, no water, no medicine.

So, I ask you to help me keep my family safe and alive, especially after we had lost all our sources of livelihood.Please do not leave my family to struggle and suffer these difficult days alone. You can support my campaign by donating whatever you can or by sharing my posts to reach others who can help us survive the war to safety and peace. You are helping the lives of many people with your small contribution. Every donation makes a difference in our very difficult lives. But this is a legitimate campaign and has been checked by 90-ghost.

https://gofund.me/31c5cbe3

I wish you, your family, and everyone affected in Palestine safety and care!! 🍉🇵🇸 ❤️🤍🖤💚

Please also check out @90-ghost’s page and support them as well!

[unofficial-illinois]

Help my baby ,Don't leave my baby alone please

🍉I am Hala, a Palestinian from the besieged and destroyed Gaza Strip 😭😭. I fled the war with my husband to Egypt..

The story began on March 21, 2024 when my beautiful child was born.. He was a wonderful and special child.. Suddenly, a week after his birth, my child Abdul Aziz's belly swelled up a lot and I visited several doctors without discovering the reason.. After another week of the child's suffering, I took him to a specialized hospital and the doctors there discovered a blockage in Abdul Aziz's colon that prevented him from excreting stool.. It was decided to perform a surgical operation consisting of an opening in Abdul Aziz's belly to temporarily remove stool from his intestines until the affected part of the colon was removed in another complex surgical operation that cost thousands of dollars..😭😭

I am speaking to you now with great sadness about my child's condition and I ask you to help me and donate to me to collect the costs of the operation within a month from now.

I appeal to everyone who can donate any amount, no matter how small, because it will save my child and give us hope.

Please don't leave my son alone to suffer and struggle in these difficult days alone.. You can support my campaign by donating what you can or share my posts to reach others who can help us by raising the cost of the surgery you are helping in the life of an innocent child with your small contribution. ❤❤🍉🍉

Every donation makes a difference in his very difficult life

that's awful- i cannot donate, but i will absolutely share. be safe, and i wish you and your family the best.

everyone please donate/share!

[raleydrew]

Help my baby please

🍉I am Hala, a Palestinian from the besieged and destroyed Gaza Strip 😭😭. I fled the war with my husband to Egypt..

The story began on March 21, 2024 when my beautiful child was born.. He was a wonderful and special child.. Suddenly, a week after his birth, my child Abdul Aziz's belly swelled up a lot and I visited several doctors without discovering the reason.. After another week of the child's suffering, I took him to a specialized hospital and the doctors there discovered a blockage in Abdul Aziz's colon that prevented him from excreting stool.. It was decided to perform a surgical operation consisting of an opening in Abdul Aziz's belly to temporarily remove stool from his intestines until the affected part of the colon was removed in another complex surgical operation that cost thousands of dollars..😭😭

I am speaking to you now with great sadness about my child's condition and I ask you to help me and donate to me to collect the costs of the operation within a month from now.

I appeal to everyone who can donate any amount, no matter how small, because it will save my child and give us hope.

Please don't leave my son alone to suffer and struggle in these difficult days alone.. You can support my campaign by donating what you can or share my posts to reach others who can help us by raising the cost of the surgery you are helping in the life of an innocent child with your small contribution. ❤❤🍉🍉

Every donation makes a difference in his very difficult life

I'm very sorry for what's happening to both you and your family. I can only imagine how hard it must be on you, but I think I understand how you feel. And I'm glad you were all able to escape safely ^-^

I'm unfortunately in a bad spot right now too, so I'm sorry I can't donate anything to help out, but I'll spread the word as much as I can. Hopefully everything works out and goes well and your son recovers soon. Again, I'm very sorry I can't help directly, but you have my condolences and support, and I wish you the very best ❤️

Edited to add link:

[soundandshadowcollective]

🚩Trauma Talk and Self-Limiting Beliefs

By Anastasia Darkwater

I love my mother. She did the best she could with what she had. Today, I hold nothing but love and compassion in my heart for her, but in being raised by her, I picked up some self-limiting beliefs that I took in deeply.

The seeds of my self-limiting beliefs germinated as a result of her often repeated, kind of joking? phrases such as: "Children should be seen and not heard.", "Never have children because they are ungrateful and they ruin your life.", and her favorite saying if I asked for anything was "Want in one hand and shit in the other. See which fills up faster."

Hearing these phrases every day, one's brain starts to turn them into truths: don't be loud, only be present when you're needed/wanted, don't ask for anything, don't want anything, don't need anything, I'm ungrateful, I'm a burden, I ruined my mother's life because she was too scared to get another abortion.

I did my best to be unseen, unheard, and want nothing. I became self-sufficient, I needed no one, and I completely isolated myself from humanity.

Some things I learned: being unobserved or unheard is nearly impossible in the age of smart phones and the internet, and if I really think about it, privacy is a rather privileged thing to ask for or demand, in the sense that total privacy is really only available to the wealthy. The rest of us live amongst each other, sharing walls, sharing space, keeping ourselves small so we don't bother anyone else.

It's one way to live, but it doesn't bring happiness or freedom or peace. The secret really is in letting go. Giving in. Taking up space. And that takes me to some fear.

The fear for me is not wanting to bother others (be a burden). What if what I'm doing is disturbing someone who I can't even see?

I dislike being disturbed by others. I feel so helpless in wishing they would stop doing some annoying thing. Can't they understand they are affecting others??

While I simultaneously believe everyone has a right to do their thing, and I'm awful for being annoyed at them. What a paradox!

I don't have the answer on which is right, to be silent and never risk annoying each other or to freely express to our heart's content. Both are valid, and it depends on the context. It's a debate for another day.

All this rambling is to show, by way of my personal example, that fears can be overcome, and if a fear of being heard is something you struggle with, you are safe in this group. Here, we invite and encourage you to discover and explore your voice. True joy, bliss, and calm are just one shrutibox session away!

Let the vibration of your voice reawaken you to your body! Come sing with us!

Ps: You don't have to sing to attend a Sound & Shadow Ceremony! ❤

[silvermoon424]

Hi Katy, long time follower here (I think you were one of the first blogs I started following when I joined tumblr what feels like an eternity ago lol) As someone who hasn't slept in days now thinking about her family hiding in bomb shelters all these days, just wanted to say thank you for your post. I do agree with you completely, the world needs to show more support when there is war in non-white countries, but people being like "lol we were told you guys are racist/homophones etc. so why should I care about your suffering?" as a sort of gotcha is making me really sad. First of all there's a reason why a lot of LGBTQ+ people from Russian speaking territories were escaping to Ukraine in the past decade. I'm not claiming that every small town or village is super LGBTQ+ friendly there, but are they in the US/UK or anywhere in the west? Same about racism. Also a lot of what Americans don't tend to realise, cause you don't live here, that Eastern Europeans themselves are not everyone's favourite people in Western European countries either. I'm saying this as an Eastern European living in the UK. This does not excuse racism either here in the UK or in Eastern Europe in any way. To be honest the whole don't support Ukraine cause they're racist sounds suspiciously similar to Russia's "Ukraine is deserves being bombed cause they're nazis torturing Russians there", only slightly changed in a way to appeal to US/Western leftists. This does not mean that there's no racism or homophobia in Ukraine. But can the West/UK/US say that about themselves?

One other reason why white Europeans pay more attention to this conflict is cause most of us realise that if it gets out of Ukraine, it will go further. And if there's war in Europe that's probably gonna affect the whole world. 

Sorry for my rambling, like I said thanks for your post, means a lot. Wishing you all the very best and sending you lots of love. 

Ps. Team Minako is my favourite senshi 4ever ✌🏻❤

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I'm glad you liked my post! It's interesting to hear the perspective from someone who has family in Ukraine. I truly hope your family will be safe throughout this conflict and you'll be reunited with them soon! Sending you lots of love as well ❤️

[tatakaeeren]

Please oh please stay safe my friend! Rebelling against an oppressive government is always admirable, but who can help feeling scared and protective for the innocent civilians who might be hurt by these actions? I hope you manage to avoid the worst of the effects. Please keep us updated if you find it possible. Much love to Chile! ❤❤

I’ll try my best! don’t worry , at the moment I am in a safe place, i have everything I need and my family is also ok. My main worry is everyone else who is out there, exposed to danger and all the ones who have been affected. Let’s hope everything will get better and no one else suffers. I will keep you updated! thank you very much for your concern and good wishes ❤