#it's snowing here btw

[missmichellets]

Sundress season is a mental state 😌

[xyl4-4444]

Dumping these doodles bcus Twilight Forest is STILL a GOATED Minecraft mod

[sonoftheria]

[dailynakaharachuuya]

(I'm back from holiday! I'm glad to be back to draw more Chuuya!!)

[asukachii]

Where Our Blue Is

(I don’t like putting watermarks so, PLEASE, if you want to post this gif somewhere GIVE CREDITS! Also, don’t use it in edits/videos. Thanks~)

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

i think its just a little funny when ppl say that jonsa is just shipping two characters who never interacted and then turn around to ship jonerys

[lesbianralzarek]

okay. so. for the sake of this question, you are in the leftmost lane, the road conditions are good, and traffic is sparse

*you dont have to agree. this is about your local culture more than personal feelings

[okaystoptellingmetomakeanaccount]

Theres no fucking way this is a real official novel

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

This isn’t really a fully formed thought or anything. But it’s interesting how Sansa, Jon, and Lyanna specifically factor into one of GRRM’s greater explorations on the merits of fantasy. More specifically, there is a common trope that connects these three characters: a princess locked in a tower transforming into a valiant knight/hero. Lyanna and Jon, for starters, are pretty obvious explorations of this. Lyanna is the reconstructed version of this classic trope especially as presented through Arthurian tradition; but the twist here is that the dragon/knight who “locks” her in the tower isn’t actually evil and she isn’t so much kidnapped but rather willingly chooses to go there with him. This princess in a tower directly results in the birth of the hidden prince trope, which is even older than Arthur. So one fantasy classic, Rhaegar and Lyanna, leads to another with Jon being Arthur (a hidden prince and destined king), Percival (a hero who grows up in obscurity but has a great destiny to save the land), and Galahad (a noble hero destined to be even greater than his father, Rhaegar/Lancelot, ever was) all at once.

This princess dies in the tower…but her spirit/ghost lives on through her son, who grows up to look and act just like her, eventually becoming the valiant hero you read in the stories (but again, a de/reconstructed version). Part of how Jon does this is by repeating Lyanna’s actions as the valiant “knight” protecting an innocent from bullies. So by making it out of that tower even though his mother didn’t, Jon becomes the survival and rebirth of the fantasy ideal. You could even make the argument that just because Lyanna died doesn’t mean fantasy died as well because it lives on through Jon, her son. And this is actually is aided by Lyanna’s pleading for her son’s life, so she has some agency in how fantasy is preserved in the same way she had agency in how it’s perpetuated when she protected Howland Reed and when she ran off with Rhaegar. The princess living on and becoming the hero/knight in the stories is thus taken on by two characters here: Lyanna and Jon, mother and son. Jon goes even further into the Arthurian-knight playbook by encountering and eventually killing another vicious bully, Janos Slynt, who was coincidentally had a hand in his father’s demise. Then enter princess in the tower 2.0, Sansa Stark.

Sansa is an interesting case because she’s not martial in the way Lyanna and Jon are. But she too encounters her fair share of knights and villains. Janos Slynt is one of them, and Littlefinger will be another. I’ve talked about this before but Jon becoming the valiant hero Sansa wished for is important because it directly plays into GRRM’s reconstruction and (imo) defense of the ideals of fantasy. It’s not so much that heroes don’t exist - they actually do. They just might be far away, or might be the ones you’d never expect. This is the opposite of the “fantasy is dead, stop believing because everything sucks” reading you might see in some sections of the fandom. This moment may not end up meaning much for Jon and Sansa and their relationship, but it means a lot to us readers who are audiences of GRRM’s conversations with the genre and his arguments for its appeal. But that’s not the only interesting thing because Sansa, unlike Lyanna, does eventually make it out of the tower. But she’s currently in the hands of Littlefinger who, like Janos Slynt, was a villain responsible for her father’s demise. In this scenario, will she have to wait for a valiant hero to come take care of him again? Or will she instead don the knight’s armor (figuratively) by enacting justice in her own right? Based on the GoHH’s prophecy, it looks like it will be the latter; and it’s important to note how often “armor” as a motif is repeated in Sansa’s chapters. Thus, the princess evolving into the hero is told through the arc of a singular character here. Sansa is the princess who makes it out of the tower to become a hero of her own making; important disclaimer though, Littlefinger doesn’t really play into the elements of knighthood but he does count as an evil lord holding a princess hostage so Sansa can still be a subversion of the knight rescuing the maiden - the lesson being that she is her own knight, her own salvation!

It’s a very powerful meta-textual thread that exists between these three characters. They all fit into a wider narrative about fantasy and how it can live on, whether played straight or twisted a little crooked. So Sansa doesn’t have to be an overt in-universe parallel to Lyanna because that’s just not her role in the story. And I personally don’t think any “similarities” they have are actually important to Sansa as a person or to Jon because let’s face it, Lyanna’s primary (and most important) role is to be Jon’s mother and everything else informs on that. But both these women (and Jon) can be meta twinsies based on how they fit into GRRM’s wider narrative goals.

[nokk0]

(takes place a while before BOtE💦 - after Spotty meets Fal and Snow White)

Spotty wakes up with a rope tied around them.

They’re still a bit groggy.

"Oh, you're awake..."

Snow White watches Spotty carefully, her cold eyes holding no emotion. Same case with Fal, who is holding back from attacking them or doing anything to them. Both the young Star Warrior and Waiter made sure to tie the aggressor well, and both are armed, Snow now has a halberd instead of the fire extinguisher and Fal has shields

"Now... We need a bit of collaboration here... We are going to give you a few questions, so please, honesty is required here... Anything you say will be used against-"

"Snow, he's not under arrest, we are just looking for information, we are not working anymore, pon"

"... Right"

[every-sanji]

[questionable-idea]

"ooo i hate the summer it's so hot and sunny" well excuse me while i go practice photosynthesis you vampire bitch

[hawkwidows]

ohh oh!! I'm seeing hockey player mike and figure skater will back on my dash so I wanna share a couple of my fav thoughts that I've had for this au which areee:

will sitting in the spectator stands of the hockey rink wearing a nice comfy turtleneck and having big heart eyes the whole time even (especially) when mike body slams an opponent into the shielding boards ..and when he takes off his helmet and shakes his hair out

and then mike - who knows will's love for music, and that having the right songs for routines is important to him - just in awe watching will really compliment the music in every move he performs on the ice. he looks really good out there, if not just because will's outfits are really ,,tailored to him too

this au is always fun in fandoms I have many thoughts 🙊

[nokaru]

part 2 of the slavic village modern AnS AU

love being oddly specific and niche

Yuzuri: the girl that's always gardening in her little frontgarden who always says hello to you and chats you up

Suzu: the burned out student who comes home once in a lunar year

Kirito: that one kid who always shouts under your windows at the apartment complex so you come out and play instead of actually ringing the bell

Raji: lives in the biggest fanciest house in the whole town and everyone always whispers about it

Mihaya: a thief everyone knows steals but he thinks he's being so slick also the late night store employee who beefs with the kebab guy next doors

Kihal: the bird girl everyone knows where she lives only cause there are bird noises coming from her house day and night

Torou: the most fun girl that goes to every disco/house party/drinking event (which is all of them) without missing any. You won't see her anywhere else around the village tho (besides maybe the late night store or the kebab shop)

Garrak: the auntie that makes you feel SO welcomed in the pub

Umihebi: convicted murderer

Mukaze: the local kids football club coach, village drunk and the chillest bus driver all in one

Kazuki: a football kid who works part time at the pub giving out ice cream during summer

Izana: the mayor who puts all his work onto his subordinates

Haki: fiancee of the mayor who comes from a different town, oh my god ITS THE FIANCEE !! Who is sheeee??

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, ed. by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

This has a bunch of authors I already love in it (Stephen Graham Jones, Darcie Little Badger, Waubgeshig Rice, and Rebecca Roanhorse!!), and several authors I've been meaning to try (like Tommy Orange, Nick Medina, and Kelli Jo Ford, to name a few), so I'm really hyped for them all to be together in one volume! Plus dark fiction is very much my jam (especially when it comes in a bright and colorful package).

[winterlilyarts]

The enstars interest came back, so Mika cosplay! Ft my cat because she deserves to be a part of the photos :3