#sage archives

[lothricsage]

Lord Gwyndolin for the moon festival 🥮🌕

[orchidbreezefc]

ok. years have passed and we've had some distance, so i'm finally gonna take the leap of faith that tma fandom is finally ready to hear me on this. let's talk about tannins.

161 was the first tma episode i heard on early release, and i felt the bit where martin declines wine and cites tannins was pretty obvious in its implications. cool, got it, say no more.

imagine my surprise when i was one of maybe three people i saw read between the lines there, in a fandom famous for red stringing--a fandom that immediately caught the much less obvious thread of ignition sources in the same episode. i'll spell it out: alcohol is an issue for martin.

maybe it just felt obvious because addiction is a pet issue for me--as it is for jonny, who has said everything he writes is filtered through a lens of addiction. i don't know if that's due to his own experience or a loved one's, and i won't speculate; i also don't know if martin personally struggled with drinking or just avoids it for fear he would, but alcohol would fit what we know of his family. his dad walking out and his mum spiralling into bitter wallowing and verbal abuse? i'd bet one or both of them drank, yeah.

on a basic level martin tries to decline alcohol, and that alone should have raised eyebrows given what we know of martin and, again, a fandom that dissects everything. we already knew martin "K" blackwood lied about his personal life and his family in particular, especially pre-canon, which is when this flashback took place. i was shocked that everyone took his flimsy excuse at face value with no further questions.

and the excuse is flimsy. martin turns down wine by--nervously--exclaiming tannins are "a proven headache trigger!" which sounds like trivia from a magazine cover and not the words of someone who actually has headaches--and it hasn't come up before or since. jon, confused, points out that tea, a drink martin consumes to a degree that is memetic both in- and out-of-universe, also contains tannins, and martin squawks a panicked, "what?!"

if tannins are enough of a concern for martin that he knew they're in wine and so avoids it, why didn't he know they're in his drink of choice? why does he still drink tea at the time of canon, and why doesn't he struggle with constant headaches from consuming 'a proven headache trigger' day in and day out? why, indeed, would someone avoid wine and not tea?

when sasha insists martin drink he caves and agrees to 'just a drop'. i imagine him pouring it in a plant, which admittedly he could have done if tannins really were the issue. i will say that i, for one, would be less likely to falsely agree to something that makes me physically ill than to a private issue that i'd rather not be pressed on any further. this scene also establishes martin's birthday was an ice cream party instead of the more traditional visit to a pub.

also, this scene was in the first episode of the final season, as one of three flashbacks that could have been to any pre-canon event in the archives. prime narrative real estate. not really time one would waste on establishing the important character context that martin has... headaches. which never comes up before or after, even regarding the week he spent in spiral town. but you know what is pretty crucial character background...?

it felt like a no-brainer, and yet all i saw was h/c fluff about jon attending to martin's headaches. and i hate feeling bitter about disability representation. i want folks with chronic headaches to feel seen and have fluffy escapist fantasies. i don't want to be mad about people portraying a character with a disability. but, guys? you got the wrong disability. jonny sent a clear message, and it went over fandom's head.

[lvioung]

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[aeraras]

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[y-unrei]

ˢʰᵉ ˢᵃⁱᵈ ᶜᵒᵐᵉ ᵒᵛᵉʳ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ'ˢ ⁿᵒᵇᵒᵈʸ ʰᵒᵐᵉ ᴵ ʷᵉⁿᵗ ᵒᵛᵉʳ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ ʷᵃˢ ⁿᵒᵇᵒᵈʸ ʰᵒᵐᵉ

ᵇᵘᵗ ʰᵉʳ ˡⁱᵍʰᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵒⁿ ʰᵉʳ ˡⁱᵍʰᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵒⁿ ᵃⁿᵈ ᴵ'ᵐ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵃˢ ᵈʳᵘⁿᵏ ᵃˢ ᴵ ˢᵉᵉᵐ

ᵇᵘᵗ ˢᵗⁱˡˡ ᴵ ˢᵗᵒᵒᵈ ᵒᵘᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ ⁱⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵗʳᵉᵉᵗ ᵗʰʳᵒʷⁱⁿᵍ ˢᵗᵒⁿᵉˢ ᵃᵗ ʰᵉʳ ʷⁱⁿᵈᵒʷ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ᴵ ˢᵃʷ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵇᵒᵈʸ ᵈᵒ ᵒⁿ ᵗᵛ

ᵇᵘᵗ ʰᵉʳᵉ ⁱⁿ ⁿᵉʷ ʸᵒʳᵏ ʸᵒᵘ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ⁿᵉᵉᵈ ᵉˣᶜᵘˢᵉˢ ᵗᵒ ᵈʳᵉˢˢ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ᵃ ᵍⁱʳˡ ˢᵉˣ ᵈʳᵘᵍˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵈᵉᶜᵉⁱᵗ

ᵃⁿᵈ ᴵ'ᵐ ᵍˡᵃᵈ ˢʰᵉ ʰᵃᵈ ᵗᵒ ᵐᵃᵏᵉ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᶜˡᵉᵃʳ ˢᵐᵒᵏⁱⁿᵍ ᶜⁱᵍˢ ᵒⁿ ʰᵉʳ ʳᵒᵒᶠ ˡᵃᵘᵍʰⁱⁿᵍ ᵃᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖᵉᵒᵖˡᵉ ᵒⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᵗʳᵃⁱⁿ

ᵇᵘᵗ ᴵ ˡᵒˢᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᵈʳᵘᵍˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᴵ ˢᵗᵃʸᵉᵈ ᵗᵒᵒ ˡᵒⁿᵍ ᴵ ᵍᵒᵗ ᵈʳᵘⁿᵏ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵐᵃᵈᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ʰᵉʳ ᵇᵃⁿᵈ

ᵇᵘᵗ ᵗʰᵃⁿᵏ ᵍᵒᵈ ⁱᵗ ʷᵃˢ ˢᵘⁿᵈᵃʸ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ'ˢ ᵐᵒʳᵉ ᵗʰᵃⁿ ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵒⁿᵉ ʷᵃʸ ᵗᵒ ʳᵘⁱⁿ ᵃ ᵒⁿᵉ⁻ⁿⁱᵍʰᵗ ˢᵗᵃⁿᵈ

[ask-the-fallen-sage]

Harpuia, why didn't you tried to convince more humans to leave Neo Arcadia when Weil appeared? Don't the Guardians have a great influence in the city?

✧ ❝ Propaganda is a powerful tool — the guardians are meant to know their place below X, and the people even lower. Nobody would dare step out of line, lest they have a death wish. ❞

[secret-sageent]

Who is Kaladin?

(You have many posts with this name and I am intrigued)

AJSGAKDGA

ASJDHALHDLA

I am so glad you asked! Kaladin Stormblessed from the book series The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson! He is the mentally ill character of all time to me. He’s got clinical/seasonal depression and a saviour complex and enough guilt to put a queer person raised in a Christian household to shame. He would die for his friends and would also kill himself if anything happened to said friends

He somehow manages to perfectly blend “cringy depressed nineteen-year-old” energy with “the baddest bitch in the land” energy. I would die for him

[et2rnity]

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⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⋆ ˚｡⋆⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ . ࣪𓇻 ݁ ⠀⠀ ⠀ 𓈒 ˙ ⠀⠀ ♡ ͎⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ 🪧 ꔫ

[cowboy-by-proxy]

So I realized that my design for John looks a lot like my design for my oc Sage, so I decided to make this drawing to compare them.

For similarities we have:

Wavy hair in half buns

Silly mustaches

Fancy clothes

Ear rings

Green eyes (not shown)

[sage-thee-herbmaster]

Joined the club~!

[sead-sarchivist]

(authors note: so hey I am going to put this RP with my blank for now. This app won’t let me switch to my other account to ask questions. just know that I will be using an rp account for the rest of this thank you)

(Allen enters your vicinity)

hello dear human, may I please ask some questions.

Sage looks up from their desk, a bit alarmed and confused, yet they remain as close as they can be to calm. Through nervous laughter they squeak out a shy;

"S- suuuuure? Hhhhow. Did. You. Get... in here though?"

[lothricsage]

Warm up doodles of DS3 pretty boys

[sagescider]

love his dumb ass

[headache-haven]

thinkin abt voidwelt again ... the day we see va in star rail is the day i fall over and die i think

[aeraras]

　　　　　　　yeah,　my　boyfriend’s　pretty　cool,　but　he’s　not　as　cool　as　me

[kingggoat]

doodle dump 1

(alt text under cut)

[Image 1: A tall, short-haired person in flannel and jeans enthusiastically hugging their friend. Their friend, a shorter Black woman in a sweater, hugs them back with an endearing smile.]

[Image 2: "I didn't say anything weird while I was drunk, did I," Esker asks Jett. Silently, Jett recalls the time Esker was drunk, where he had leaned on Jett, mumbling: "I'm so lucky to have you."

"What?" Jett had laughed.

"You're the best girlfriend I could've asked for."

"Esker, you're drunk."]

[Image 3: Fade from Valorant, kneeling and slouched with a gloomy look on her face.]

[Image 4: A chibified version of Fade from Valorant with an exasperated expression. Beside her, two cats sit with cheeky looks.]