#king of (in)fertility

[canacaeli]

gaze into the moon

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

I like Joesph: King of Dreams but I can't ever forgive how bad they sugarcoated Jacob's family issues. Joseph makes a big stink about being only the half brother like that's why his brothers resent him but meanwhile they're still behaving mostly like one big happy family and Rachel "loves them like they're her own" (ahahahahahahhh) and it's heavily implied Jacob's ~first wife~ died and he remarried and I'm like OH NAW HE DIDN'T. literally where are Leah, Bilha and Zilpa and why are they not even mentioned. They are still ALIVE AND WELL at this point and in fact it's Rachel who should be dead before Joseph is sold off. Also, Rachel and Leah were mean to each other, none of that "Joseph, you should get along with your brothers" cheesy stuff.

[foreverdolly]

yet another picture i enhanced. someone needs to go ahead and revoke my phone privileges.

@powerofelvis and @precious-little-scoundrel… am i the only one that quite literally foams at the mouth any time i see this man in the color brown? and the chain necklace dangling on his bare chest? someone needs to go ahead and euthanize me.

[redworld96]

Oloroso... relaxing waters... releasing the bonds on your heart...

Why do I have the feeling that King and Diane have visited that lake more times than we would ever imagine?

🙄

[puppyluvfics]

lee jooyeon in the love and fear mv. that's it. thats my post.

[7pleiades7]

Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs or Gabrielle d'Estrées and One of Her Sisters (c. 1594) by an unknown painter from the School of Fontainbleau (c. 1530 – c. 1610), oil on wood (oak), 96 x 125 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris

[novococain]

🦴

[raayllum]

headcanons about king harrow’s parents bc what is canon going to do, make them exist and tell me i’m wrong?

King Oren is a proud man, sturdy like the pine trees he’s named for, and third in line for the throne; one brother falls to in-fighting during a diplomatic mission to Evenere. A sister dies in skirmish with elves near the border. He is less proud of his crown than anything. 

It is this distaste for death that makes him peel back his father’s harsher laws and leave the death penalty for treason alone. Everyone is someone’s child. 

Future Queen to be Isolde grows up in the ornate courts of Duren with a Katolian mother who was a travelling merchant. She’s prim and proper and her father’s daughter, and just a bit cheeky when she catches Oren’s eye

They are married before he is king. They are married after he is king. She takes to being queen much more readily than he does.

One winter Isolde falls ill while pregnant with their first child. A dark magic remedy employed by a rare imported mage saves her life but not the baby. Oren never trusts dark magic (or magic in general) afterwards

Harrow is their only child and the apple of their eye. He grows up, charming and good hearted and popular. Oren does not understand why he prefers the bookish son of his High Cleric, Lilien, and a stern shoemaker above all other possible playmates. Isolde does.

(In their time together, Isolde has been the cunning one and she sees the same glint of cunning in Viren’s young eyes. Harrow is loving but overly idealistic, and he needs someone to temper him. Look out for him. A snake can be a useful protector - she would know)

Both boys are an expert at getting one another into trouble and then out again. A common prank is stealing Oren’s eyeglasses, as he hasn’t seen well without them since he was young. In a good mood, he chuckles and demands Harrow give them back. In a worse mood, he makes Harrow read draft legislation to him aloud until the punishment sinks in. 

Harrow and Viren’s troublesome natures are endearing, somewhat, when they’re young, and aggravating as they grow into grown men

When Harrow first begins to take diplomatic missions/meetings on his own as prince, Viren goes with him, book of magic tricks in hand. It never eases Oren’s worried heart. 

Isolde dies from ailment when Viren’s children are still young and one strong captain of the crownguard, Amaya, has left for the border to be replaced by her small town, recently widowed sister. Viren looks for aid from Kpp’Ar, but too late. Isolde never gets a chance to tell Harrow she thinks Sarai would be a fine, if unconventional, match for him

Oren does, his own mortality looming on the horizon (although he does not pass for another few years). He shares one awkward but well meaning family dinner with Sarai’s son in tow when the two are engaged, just makes it to the wedding, and passes a few weeks later.

“Above all else, you must be a just king,” Oren tells his son, tears in Harrow’s eyes. Better than I was. More prepared. Harrow grips and squeezes his hand. “Better sighted.”

“I will, father,” Harrow promises.

That night, he still chooses the blind fold and doesn’t bind it tightly enough.

[avetesketches]

Obscure Greek mythology on the mind 🏺

[elizabeth-halime]

Baal/Bael/Ba'al = It is a title meaning "lord" or "master", There were many local Baals. The greatest, known as the “Great Baal”, is Son of the Father of the Gods, El, and Brother of the God of the seas and rivers, Yam-Nahar. Baal, known as “Knight of the Clouds”, is a God of fertility who represents the beneficial aspects of water such as rain. His lightning and thunder represent his Power, and the fertile land his beneficence.

[somedaytakethetime]

Everyone say thank you to Mr. Anders for this 😌

[chasing-chimeras]

🐺🐺

Drienne breathed out a sigh, heavy with years of regret.

“I will take my leave now,” she said, mostly to herself. “I simply wished to speak with the two of you before you are killed.” Her eyes moved towards Liam’s leg, revealing that she's been aware of the knife the entire time. “Strike true. You will die regardless, but with any luck you might leave the world a better place.”

And then she was gone; before Liam had a chance to consider the consequences of letting her leave with the knowledge that he was armed. It was unlikely to matter either way. His odds of success were slim to begin with—that much has been made abundantly clear to him—and Drienne’s passionless resignation to her fate seemed reason enough for her to let things play out without interfering. Warning the king would do nothing to secure her station; she would remain unable to bear a child and the king’s gratitude—if it existed at all—would not last long.

“I think she likes us,” Theo mused and Liam scoffed in amusement, despite their bleak circumstances.

He might be right.

[corviids]

the streets are saying twitter is calling luke fertile 🤨

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

Just thinking about Summer being a representation of Bran, the Fisher King. Summer taking several wounds over the course of the story, notably one to the leg just as Bran did. Summer who goes beyond the ice wall to lands of snow (closer to lands of winter) and becomes emaciated…summer getting thinner and being wounded as winter nears/gets stronger. It’s almost like the changing of the seasons. We see that summer journeys to the lands of snow, biding his time before he returns - just as Bran will surely return. The return of Bran meaning the return of the summer. Have to wonder if we’ll see Summer (the direwolf) start to get bigger as spring is ushered in. Winter = death, but Spring = rebirth/growth. And after spring comes summer, when the summer king reigns.

[baileywicks]

Don't touch him, freak!!

[good--merits-accumulated]

reading about sacral kingship