#the pain intensifies

[gloomy-prince]

why does the end of ch 2 hurt worse every time I see it that’s not how it’s supposed to work

[densewentz]

hey if you guys go back to the scene where the Cat King puts the truth compulsion on Edwin and, after removing it, asks him "now, doesn't the truth feel better?" if you watch carefully you can see Edwin give a tiny shocked and vulnerable little nod right before the Cat King nods back and you TOO can start screaming and crying inconsolably like I am

[nobleriver]

The dead stay silent...and we must wait.

[pinktrashgoblin]

I DID IT!

Blixer Fight Club, ya I added as many as I could. Please don’t feel bad if yours didn’t make it, I added as many as I could!

Idea from @nyazhi , thanks!

(if I forgot to tag you, please let me know!)

And now, go give the original artists all your love!

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And by demand of the server, including cameos by Dub (Pink Corruption) and the design belonging to @afrothunderxx96 !

(and mine, but you’re not here for him, are you?)

Anyways, this was loads of fun to work on, even at the expense of my hands. Hope you all like it too!

(no, im not going to be doing something like this again any time soon, wanna work on asks and the comic.)

anyways, if you wanna join the Discord, DM me for an invite!

Again, MASSIVE props to the original artists and all their wonderful designs, go show them your love!

[yuseirra]

and it took me forever to realize Don't and It's Going Down sound very similar to each other, it feels very interesting when you listen to those two songs consecutively

o<-< ohhh....

[bunnihearted]

🌙☁️🌌

[chunkypossum]

“… words that have no shape to them, only breath on the wind. Which is more than they can feel of one another…”

“Murmurs that bear the weight of the curse, crossing a threshold as unseen as the words written into its short existence.”

“A secret.”

I missed wip Wednesday but needed to unload little pieces of this. This fic might be a dead dove situation.

[creepyscritches]

So crazy how having a non-deficient vitamin D level for the first time in my adult life will having me doing shit like: deep cleaning my microwave at 8am

[vampyretaemin]

thinking about the physical toll being tortured by armand took on daniel's body, even if he doesnt remember it. the injuries, the blood loss, the pain, the bruises and scars he was probably never able to explain. even if he didnt remember what happened, that trauma was locked into his body, and its probably in part why his life fell apart the way it did over and over again. how can you heal from a trauma that you literally cant remember ever happening? no amount of therapy would unlock it, it was magically sealed away within him. and he couldnt tell anyone about louis biting him, let alone everything else that happened to him. that fear and anger and pain were locked away deep inside of him and hes just now realizing why his life has been the way it is. armand made him forget but the impact it had on him still exists today.

[onebizarrekai]

my copy of GC twilight princess from my childhood keeps erroring out… I wanted a replacement disc, but unfortunately they are all stupid overpriced :(

[brandycranby]

im so tired, so eepy, so stressy?

[thelustybraavosimaid]

Hey! i wanted to know about your thoughts about how Jon would be like post-resurrection with the time skip grrm originally considered?

So that really took hold of me for the first three books. When it became apparent that that had taken hold of me, I came up with the idea of the five-year gap. "Time is not passing here as I want it to pass, so I will jump forward five years in time." And I will come back to these characters when they're a little more grown up. And that is what I tried to do when I started writing Feast for Crows. So [the gap] would have come after A Storm of Swords and before Feast for Crows. But what I soon discovered — and I struggled with this for a year — [the gap] worked well with some characters like Arya — who at end the of Storm of Swords has taken off for Braavos. You can come back five years later, and she has had five years of training and all that. Or Bran, who was taken in by the Children of the Forest and the green ceremony, [so you could] come back to him five years later. That’s good. Works for him. Other characters, it didn’t work at all. I'm writing the Cersei chapters in King's Landing, and saying, "Well yeah, in five years, six different guys have served as Hand and there was this conspiracy four years ago, and this thing happened three years ago." And I'm presenting all of this in flashbacks, and that wasn't working. The other alternative was [that] nothing happened in those five years, which seemed anticlimactic. The Jon Snow stuff was even worse, because at the end of Storm he gets elected Lord Commander. I'm picking up there, and writing "Well five years ago, I was elected Lord Commander. Nothing much has happened since then, but now things are starting to happen again." I finally, after a year, said "I can't make this work."

George R. R. Martin — The Complete Unedited Interview

You know, this is something that I haven't really thought about. I only haven't thought about it because there's something we just don't know: when was George planning to kill Jon with the gap in place? A year or two into the skip? Later? Earlier, or even after the skip, when he's had a few years of rule under his belt? It's probably more likely that it was going to happen after the skip, so I think the end result would be the same as the current book!Jon.

We know that death changes a character to the point where in some ways, they're not that character anymore:

And as I got older and considered it more, it also seemed to me that death doesn’t make you more powerful. That’s, in some ways, me talking to Tolkien in the dialogue, saying, “Yeah, if someone comes back from being dead, especially if they suffer a violent, traumatic death, they’re not going to come back as nice as ever.”

George R. R. Martin on the One Game of Thrones Change He ‘Argued Against’

And we have this, from Varamyr Sixskins:

"They say you forget," Haggon had told him, a few weeks before his own death. "When the man's flesh dies, his spirit lives on inside the beast, but every day his memory fades, and the beast becomes a little less a warg, a little more a wolf, until nothing of the man is left and only the beast remains." (Prologue, ADwD)

Jon's connection to Ghost takes the front seat in ADwD, so we have moments like this:

Jon expected hot mulled wine, and was surprised to find that it was soup, a thin broth that smelled of leeks and carrots but seemed to have no leeks or carrots in it. The smells are stronger in my wolf dreams, he reflected, and food tastes richer too. Ghost is more alive than I am. He left the empty cup upon the forge. (Jon II, ADwD)

--

He was walking beneath the shell of the Lord Commander's Tower, past the spot where Ygritte had died in his arms, when Ghost appeared beside him, his warm breath steaming in the cold. In the moonlight, his red eyes glowed like pools of fire. The taste of hot blood filled Jon's mouth, and he knew that Ghost had killed that night. No, he thought. I am a man, not a wolf. He rubbed his mouth with the back of a gloved hand and spat. (Jon III, ADwD)

--

Jon smelled Tom Barleycorn before he saw him. Or was it Ghost who smelled him? Of late, Jon Snow sometimes felt as if he and the direwolf were one, even awake. The great white wolf appeared first, shaking off the snow. A few moments later Tom was there.

...

The shield that guards the realms of men. Ghost nuzzled up against his shoulder, and Jon draped an arm around him. He could smell Horse's unwashed breeches, the sweet scent Satin combed into his beard, the rank sharp smell of fear, the giant's overpowering musk. He could hear the beating of his own heart. (Jon VII, ADwD)

So ultimately, I think the five year skip!Jon would have the same outcome as the Jon we have in the books: a little ruthless, a little different, and far more closer to Ghost.

[23y]

Depression physically hurts I will never get tired of repeating it, my head and face hurt, my stomach and sternum hurt, getting under the sheets hurts it’s like a thin sheet of pain you’re wearing

[byanyan]

[ 𝒔𝒎𝒔 📲 ] stop whining like a bitch [ 𝒔𝒎𝒔 📲 ] i got u ur own bike

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[robinsnest2111]

yeah, grandma won't make it long. the carers have already cleared all the shelves and such in the bathroom.

my aunt was in tears again during the visit. it must be so fucking painful to see your mother just vegetating in bed, barely able to move, unable to speak, or eat, or drink. just waiting for death.

still don't know how to behave or offer comfort...

on a lighter note: my aunt told me we'll keep up the meeting every two weeks even when grandma has passed. maybe then I'll find the courage to tell her about me being trans and wanting to be called a different name. hearing my birth name so often is really grating on my nerves lately....

[blazingblorbos]

They were positioned like this when I found them,,