#or maybe theres no war at all

[forgaeven1]

❛⠀you may not know me, young princess, but i was once your mother's sworn shield. ❜ he was more than that, aye, though that is a position he has long lost. the princes, who were once naught but young boys by his hips, clutching at his side for a spar or two, are long grown now, heir to their mother's seat, and brilliant - beyond anything harwin could've anticipated. some part of him, the small part he never quite entertains, squeeze in heartache at the thought that he could not, for as long as he lives and breathes, claim them as his own. fatherhood will never be a mantle harwin can wear publicly, but it is still not pride in him that swells at the sight of them ? to see his sons former disciples grow well, and healthy, and sharp as anything.

they do not acknowledge him much, the boys. aye, jace was cordial and friendly, the only one out of the three who seems to have a proper inkling who he might be, and who invites him most to sparring. they do not talk about their relations, aside from the first moment jace had wanted him to know that he knew, though harwin needn't him to. this is enough, he's convinced. this has always been enough. it is only unfortunate that he must spend the last five years away after father's passing, aided even more with larys' strict recommendation from king's landing to not interfere anymore with princess rhaenyra's life and remains as he has as lord of harrenhal. which is perhaps why lucerys hadn't been so jovial at his return — possible, only, due to rhaenyra's summon — had he even knew who harwin was ? had he remembered ?

and joffrey ... oh, young little joffrey, not so little anymore.

regardless, harwin's attention falls on none of the boys, but the young girl instead. he smiles. ❛⠀i'm very glad to be here, on dragonstone. ❜

@wcrriorhearts ( for elaena ) — starter call.

[jekyllnahyena]

life as a motorsport fan in the year of 2024

(we haven't even reached the halfpoint of the season)

[shahrwrites]

This has been on my mind for a long time and i really need to get it out.

Jason is not as bulky as y’all make him out to be.

He’s just not a malnourished little kid anymore.

Ok, I can see people try to argue that even in canon, he’s like really tall and really bulky and yes I’m look at you Gotham War. ಠ_ಠ

To be honest, I was hysterically laughing for like. Fifteen whole minutes before I calmed down enough to continue reading. For the love of god, Selina looks like a little teenage kid next to him. And she’s got heels on.

And by the way, this is how she looks next to Bruce, which is way more plausible than. Whatever that was.

Never mind, I think they drew all the males ridiculously big in this comic. (Or is Selina just really that smol??? Not that I was under the impression that she was huge or something, but for a woman who used to be one of Batman’s most notorious villains?? Man, idk)

The point is. Yes, Jason shoot up a few inches after the Lazarus pit. And yes, he also gained a few pounds of muscle, too. But not over-night and not because he was dunked in a war-machine-making bathtub. It’s because he wasn’t malnourished anymore. His stunted growth was resolved in the aftermath of the Lazarus and he wasn’t a skinny short baby from then on, because whatever he ate, his body was healthy enough to directly absorb. Batman annual #25 and the rest of the comics will want you to think differently. But. Just. No.

As dislikable as The Lost Days artwork was, at least they didn’t grow him into a giant over night and I think it’s the only good thing they did in that comic, too, because it would give more depth to his character to say that in the years leading up to UtRH, in addition to everything else, he put in the effort to build his body for the big confrontation. To mislead and shock Bruce as much as he could. But even then, he’s not a tank of a man. He simply has an athletically pleasant body. And, you know, he’s, like, not fifteen anymore?? So it makes sense.

However, it’s not to say that I don’t enjoy reading (whether in comics or fanfics) about the disorientation it brings the batfam to conform the picture of this well-built man before them with their mental image of the scrawny little kid their sweet baby Jason was, in their heads.

If people write Jason’s growth compared to his fifteen self and how it gives the family such a hard time, as maybe a little bulky, sure. I can wrap my head around it and actually enjoy it.

Otherwise, I see Jason as a little taller than Dick and about the same height, if not a little shorter, than Bruce. Actually, Dexter Soy’s representation of Jason felt pretty accurate to me. Which is a shame that the story of RHatO as a whole was such a trash. Maybe for the exception of the Rebirth vol. 1. But I’ll get to that another day.

[ganondoodle]

im sliding right into that kind of art slump where you cant get past drawing a few blocks of color without getting bored and frustrated already, your head is empty, theres nothing that makes your brain go OOOH! DRAW!

like everything is uninteresting and nothing matters- i know very well this feeling passes but i hate that it is now, again, when i have a little more time than usual AND want to do nothing but draw

i also feel like i have asked too many times too frequently for encouragement, i dont really want to do that again

[fishbloc]

actually so funny how ive made so many stardew save files for rp reasons but i have not once recreated the flower valley in it

[graylinesspam]

The lights in the ship are turned low. Just the lights of the electronics fill the cockpit with any visibility. Well that and maybe the slightest glow of the stars, still and far away in the view port. Theres music playing low as well. Something slow and melodic with a raspy singer and bassy strings instruments.

The ship shifted as Anakin steered it through the traffic lane. And the jostle of movement made her come ever so slightly further into consciousness.

Her eyes burned with sleep and her lids felt heavy. The position she was sprawled in, low in her seat with her head hanging heavily and the straps digging in under her chin. But she was too asleep to adjust her position and the prospect of waking anymore was something she quickly decided against.

She just turned her head to rest on her shoulder and closed her eyes again.

The song shifted to something else. A deep almost sensual string of cords followed by a singer whose voice sounded smoke burnt and saddened.

A flash of bright lights invaded the cockpit and her eyelids as other ship traffic moved around them. She winced her lids inadvertently prying open as darkness returned. Through the dimness she could see Anakin's hands as he flew. Watched the gleam of light over one crest of pale knuckles and the duller cast from the dusty leather covering hid servo-hand.

There was no tension in his hands and the slightest reassurance let her relax back into that state of almost asleep again. She grasped for that unconsciousness, trying to drag it back before she woke up too much.

As soon as she was on the edge of it again, her eyes were assaulted once more, the brightness growing as they passed a busy spaceport. Ahsoka huffed in annoyance as she struggled to sit up in her seat. Her neck burning at the place that the belt had been pressing into her.

Her whole body was stiff with discomfort as she unbuckled the straps and turned in her chair. She grabbed hold of the robe laying across her lap as she sifted pulling it up until the hood covered her face.

Anakin chucked once and flicked his fingers over the slider that controlled the music volume, it became barely perceptibly louder. The rasp of instruments and voices somehow soothing in their rough vibration.

The air under the robe grew hot with her breath but not even that could keep her conscious as the ship rocked her slowly back to sleep.

A moment of consciousness, barely a memory. But one she will hold close for all her life. And visit often in her dreams.

[other-peoples-coats]

hey also on the force as all emotions at all times thing.

Obi-Wan infinite sadness Kenobi and growing up feeling there's just. grief under every relationship. his master and his padawan and his grandpadawan and his men and his friends and his fellow councillors and Bail and Breha and Padme and Satine and the crechelings and the Jedi he just passed in the hall and his neighbours and the temple itself --

[lixbf]

i recently started another hades 2 playthrough and idk if im just delusional but im just becoming more and more convinced that youll be able to meet ~certain~ gods once youre getting closer to a ~certain~ place

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

overthinking it

[rexscanonwife]

IT'S....MY TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH REX NEXT MONTH??

[hoapes]

all of the bad stuff about the acolyte is starting to pile up idk the hot ppl and the action scenes and the interesting ideas aren't enough for me

[joznii]

Sorry I have to send my ask through my main blog, but it is soooo nice to see more Sven and Faendal shippers out there. I hadn't ever thought of it until a couple years ago when someone here posted their fic and it was only the 2nd? or 3rd fic for the two of them to ever go on ao3, BUT IT JUST MAKES SENSE!!!! They are the PERFECT enemies to lovers!! I can't see it any other way anymore tbh. Your art and ideas are great and I can't wait to see what you do and who you convert!

THEY REALLY ARE !! Their dynamic lends itself to SO MUCH i honestly thought i was going INSANE when i looked for content of them and there was so little like HOW!! Tailor made enemies to lovers like AHGGGHHHH

Im glad u enjoy my art, i hate to say they single handedly pulled me out of a YEARS long artblock its so embarrassing lmao

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Stuck on the first few eps of Farscape after finishing up Fantasy High s2 and maybe its the whole most recently consumed bias but I'm really struck by how much it feels like a dnd game??? Bunch of weird lil renegades slapped together and put in weird situations, honestly it would make a really interesting starting point for a game

Anyway John Crichton is a bard/wizard; he does a lot of persuasion as performance and that scene of him collapsing to the floor to write slingshot equations is THE most wizard shit- perhaps Artificer would be more accurate to him but it's not a class I'm familiar with.

[ganondoodle]

this isnt as long as before but i just cannot stop thinking about this, why i dislike story and lore boils down to these main point

--the ending feels unsatisfying as hell even if i ignore everything i dont like about how the game treated zelda and ganondorf, the ending itself just feels, despite being presented as super epic an touching, incredibly empty to me and part of it is that it feels like an unearned return to status quo of course i didnt think zelda would stay a dragon and i actually wanted to help her, which is why i kept trying to hunt down impa since she said shes gonna search for a way for us to help zelda, bc i wanted to!! i was eager to help her!

i fully hoped and kinda expected that thered either be some kind of dragon dungeon (think, the water dragon from okami) tho that would be difficult since you can get items from her so i ended up thinking before going into the end thered be a mission with impa (or at least given to you from her) where she found answers in ancient scripts (that she told you she would look through) and that you need to find a special lil thing that will help zelda undragonfy, like some sort of ultra secret forbidden enigma stone able to reverse dragon transformations kinda deal (golden opportunity to make you go and talk to the yiga bc they might know or even own some ancient texts) that youd keep in your inventory until the very end and after you kill dragondorf (pretty mortal for becoming an immortal dragon huh) you take it out and use it, undragonfying zelda and ending in a similar epic falling and paralel to the beginning way

... and instead impa stays in the house and only has a few repeating dialog boxes and does nothing and you cant do anything bc in the end you just get randomly teleported (and stripped of your clothing AGAIN) into some weird ethereal plane somehow?? with the ghost of long ass dead sonia and apparently not as gone as i thought rauru (seriously i felt sad when he went poof at the end of the tutorial but i guess i shouldnt have) awkwardly blasting dragon zelda with some magic tm and its all reversed no problem (heck me for caring i guess) turns out helping her was killing an evil guy we never really knew and mineru just kinda says lol its bc time and light magic i guess lol as an explanation

like i really wanted to go and help zelda! i was motivated to do it and spent HOURS trying to find impa again but i wasnt allowed to do anything bc zelda gets saved by some deus ex machina bs in the end anyway, what a fool i was, of course killing the evil guy is the solution to everything >:( (and no i dont care if its meant as in uwu sonia and rauru wanted to help one last time uwu bc it doesnt change how unsatisfying it was to watch it all just kinda happen)

--point two is just how much totk feels like its trying to REPLACE botw instead of being a sequel, its not building on anything of it its ripping out the fundation and building its own thing in its place, like i was so excited to see what happened to the titans, and all the sheikah tech what they mabe had done in all that time now that theres a tech enthusiastic girl as the head of the monarchy, maybe even find out more about them and instead its just all ... gone with not explanation? theres isnt even a LAME explanation, its just gone?? you never find out what the ancient energy actually was, and why there were concentrations of it in the regions with the ancient furnace (well heck it didnt even have anything to do with ganondorf actualyl bc that would have been too interesting) bc that was so intrigueing?? like yeah where DID it come from and why is it there ?? and oh suddendly hey look theres an even MORE ancient and even MORE advanced civilization thats way COOLER and BETTER than the ancient sheikah now, they also built stuff everywhere and have been here ALL ALONG cant you see its everywhere!! and its the only thing everyone cares about all of the sudden, all evdidence of the ancient sheikah tech was scraped of the earth so there literally only being some guardian parts on top of the hateno lab feels like an oversight now bc everything lese was to thourohgly wiped of the map- for no reason even?? like im totalls fine with it being useless and not working anymore but .... why remove it like it was wiped from history?? and then they have the gall to mention the happenings of botw like, twice in the entire game but still just give you the most basic summary of it mentioned on a sidenote with again not even a hint what happened to all of it

wouldnt there have been the golden opportunity to use it to access the new parts and map points that changed?? like a shrine thats fallen into the underground, an access to caves and the underground in the broken and collapsed elevator tube of a sheikah srhine?? maybe even a broken interior of an old shrine, like the room you get put into with the puzzle and where the monk once were broken and half overgrown in the udnerground? some left over construction site where you can see oh thats how the ancient sheikah got all that tech underground, bc they all had access to it and built it there to then rise up when its needed? maybe even making use of the old sonau sites since they frequnetly built their srhines within those ruins?? that the ancient sheikah found em and put the ruins to use? to research it and built their own stuff from it? it wouldnt have to have any focus, literally just part of the enviroment even

really everything totk does is like -forget botw ever happend, look how much cooler and better i am, who cares about sheikah stuff sonau are the new cool guys that came out of nowhere but now apparently have been everywhere all along actually-

i LOVE botw and with it feeling much more like its attempting to replace botw instead of building its story and world further every reference to botw i found felt like a slap in the face instead, oh look where the shrine of life used to be isnt even a hint left of sheikah tech somehow, and also right under it is the lake of healing filled with sonau structure bc ACTUALLY they were here FIRST bc they are so cool omg you guys

dare i say it feel a little like they wanted to make an entirely different version of botw basically, but wanted to reuse the map and models so they just said yeah uhhhh its totally a sequel yeah yeha that makes sense, its not erasing botw and doing essentiall the same thing again but bigger cooler and better (tm) its just uuh a ...sequel ye.

[themyscirah]

I love problematic women

[no-light-left-on]

hot take but taking every hearsay or rumor or book in a fictional universe for fact is bad understanding of the world as the story presents it, actually