#in all walks of life

[wolfspaw]

It is being overly exaggerated that the vice president's role was in addressing migration at the southern border. Harris was never put in charge of the border or made "border czar," immigration experts said. President Joe Biden tasked Harris with leading the administration's diplomatic efforts addressing the "root causes" of migration in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

[tubbytarchia]

so ranchers huh

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

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[girlwiththegreenhat]

team fortress 2 finally getting rid of the bots after 5 years

work on the team fortress 2 comic continuing after 7+ years

half life 3 development looking more likely than ever with legitimate code, file, and voicework leaks referencing a new non-VR single-player game from valve featuring a HEV suit wearing protagonist and Xen creatures and concepts

shoutout to the valve fan that found the genie lamp. you a real one

[gazpachoandbooks]

Currently imagining Arthur + Gwen + the knights asking someone (maybe druids?) who this famous "Emrys" is and they proceed to do a version of "We Don't Talk About Bruno" while Arthur, Gwen and the knights grow increasingly more distressed with each line and Merlin hyperventilates in the background

[paperglader]

they really put alicent in bridgerton blue on the reunion and genuinely expected me to think that she didn’t in fact march all the way to dragonstone to get wifed up? bfr

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Rhaegar Targaryen is easily one of GRRM’s best deconstructions of the genre and we don’t talk about it enough. He’s prince living in a world full of magic and wonder that has dwindled over time. His own family had a great monopoly on one of the most magical phenomena (dragons) to ever exist, but they lost this control over time and it was due to their own faults. But there’s an all encompassing hope that this magic, these dragons, will come back. They all live within the promise that it will all be back and with a huge bang. It’s all so romantic. Magical forces of ice and fire battling it out in a song.

Then there’s Rhaegar, a prince born for the sole purpose of being this song’s romantic hero. He already has his destiny mapped out and it will be a great one, greater than any other man who ever lived. It’s a song of ice and fire, and Rhaegar is its bard. You’d expect this to give him joy. Yet by all accounts, he was depressed as fuck. I think he’s unfairly earned the reputation of having an ego so big to think that he will be the hero….but that’s quite literally the point of his existence. He was born to be the hero. He paid the price at birth to be the hero. How can he revel and glory in this destiny when he has no say in it?

So it’s genuinely funny that when given the chance, Rhaegar immediately pivots to someone else taking on this burden. But how tragic for him that he cannot escape it too far. Because it will be none other than his own son who, under a “bleeding star”, is marked at conception for this great destiny without a say. More than his ego, Rhaegar is marked by the inability to escape this duty. His whole life is dedicated to fulfilling a duty he can never escape. He isn’t just a future king, prophecy dictates that the world’s survival is placed squarely on his shoulders. Even when he isn’t the hero, he’s now responsible for raising him…

…but then he makes one decision and it all comes crumbling like a pack of biscuits. He escapes this burden…but dies. And his successor dies too. And now the ones who will inherit his legacy are two people who never knew him. They never knew of his burdens, of this prophecy. But they too cannot escape its jaws. I think this does bring up some interesting questions about the nature of fate and destiny in the world of ice and fire. Can you really escape it? Rhaegar tried to, and paid the price for his defiance, but he never truly made it out because the burden instead jumped to the son (and sister) he never knew. Funny thing is that in a bizarre (and tragic, in its own way) twist of fate, this son was brought up entirely without the trappings of power that depressed Rhaegar. Rhaegar was a dazzling prince, Jon is a bastard. Rhaegar was marked by his great inheritance, Jon is marked by the lack thereof. Does fate say “well the first one got too depressed by having too much so let’s give the next one nothing?” Even Dany, who grows up a princess does not have the privileges that Rhaegar did. So how does upbringing craft a hero and the choices they make? Welll, GRRM had given us two versions of Rhaegar’s tragedy in Jon and Dany for us to see.

Rhaegar’s impact on the meta-narrative is honestly so massive. Like I’d put him right up there with Quentyn, Sansa, and Bran as one of the best genre deconstructions in the series and no one can tell me otherwise.

[artgletic]

case study of the self-identified god

[heartorbit]

revstar emu save me

[egophiliac]

What was your favorite of the flashbacks in Silver’s walk?

the acorn bracelet is VERY good, but I really really love Malleus humming (hummalleus? hummus?) to Silver. especially now that the song has Context. >:) we are in a soup of angst and I'm here with a spoon in each hand and a silly straw that leads directly to my brain.

[sunlit-mess]

I can only take so much, but lately, they have replaced my reflection. And realize I'm just as bad as them.

[blairespandora]

First Kiss - Daryl Dixon Imagine

Imagine Daryl’s breath hitching a little as soon as he placed his hand against your cheek gently moving his fingers along, like it was made of glass.

“God...”

He whispered while beginning to move closer to you barely pressing his lips against yours. Soon as your lips meet his you feel his body melt against yours gently wrapping his arms around your hips pulling you closer to him. A soft moan escapes from your lips and he lets his tongue glide across your bottom lip slowly slipping inside to explore the inside of your mouth. Taking his time to taste you and gently explore making sure you are completely taken by him.

As the kiss deepened, he began to guide your body backwards until you felt the harsh bark of a tree against your back, not a second later his body hovered right over yours gently keeping you in place with his hips as he continued to explore your mouth. His tongue twirling with yours occasionally sucking on your lips and every so often he’d bite down. His hands would be softly moving through your hair, his fingers pressing slightly on the nape of your neck, moving gently.

His kisses became slower, softer. After a few more moments of making out, his arms snaked around your body, his hands gripping onto you, holding you close as he broke the kiss and gently pressed his forehead against yours both of you looking directly at each other panting. In that moment, he let his guard down completely and allowed himself to be vulnerable with you. Softly whispering

“Damn you…”

“Ya’ makein’ me so damn weak, doll.”

Daryl managed to say once you both were able to breathe properly again before burying his face in the crook of your neck. His rough beard tickling you slightly, making you shiver as his hands moved down to your hips pulling your body closer to him. The feeling of just how vulnerable he was being with you made everything in the moment feel right.

A/N: I just want to hold him tight and protect him from everything in that goddamn world ;;;;

[tubbytarchia]

got an urge to design ponies oops

[fumifooms]

[nobleriver]

[punchitmrsulu]

"After I left here, why did you come after me?" "You know why." "Say it. I need you to." "You're the love of my life. I couldn't just let you go. It felt like my heart ripped itself out of my chest and walked out the door."