#there's a metaphor in there somewhere

[ingravinoveritas]

Really need a reenactment of this at the BAFTAs (in black and white), but with Michael and David together under the same umbrella...

[sargentcat]

and yet someone will eventually change the psychologically more challenging version in to a much faster one by some technique that let's them jump under all the platforms and straight to the other side

[pharmasrightarm]

separate ways

[fairsweetlonging]

imagine if after the transmigration shen qingqiu became a combination of shen yuan and shen jiu, not in a "second person living in my head" kind of way, but a "this house is haunted and carries the echoes of the dead" kind of way; imagine shen yuan having nightmares about a house, a fire, a faceless boy behind a door he can't remember; imagine him having flashes of emotions he doesn't understand, rage at a name he doesn't recognize, helplessness when yue qingyuan apologizes for something he won't mention, nausea when ning yingying says the name "a-luo"; imagine parts of his own self have changed too, how he now likes bows in his hair, pretty flowers and flowing robes, but can no longer stand a stranger's touch, a man's touch, yet he longs for the brothels, but never sexually, only fondly, like there's something there he misses. there are many empty spaces in his heart where he feels something is missing

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Oh you have a first edition! Yes, Viserys II was originally Aegon III's son rather than his brother. However, this was corrected very early on (in 1998) when a fan pointed out the math didn't make any sense. See the interactions here and here - the fan's email is not included, but I'm sure it would have to do with the ages of Aegon IV and Daeron II.

This, by the way, is why in the rewritten family tree, the 13-year-old Aegon III married a 6-year-old (and didn't have children with her until she was 16 and he was 23), whereas the 10-year-old Viserys II married a 17-year-old and had his first child at the age of 13. Because even with the corrected arrangement of birth dates, the ages of their respective children and the kingship of their sons still didn't make any sense otherwise. Sometimes the fact that GRRM can't math has big effects on the plot.

FTR, the current version of that page in the AGOT appendix looks like this:

and it's been the standard in everything related to ASOIAF since GRRM made that change back in 1998.

Ok just saw this when rereading A Game of Thrones:

Like wtf???

This baby was originally meant to be Aegon III’s son, not Rhaenyra’s??? 😱

[pokeberry5]

something like tim convinces himself that robin has to be a Boy™ and then steph becomes robin and shatters that conviction and all his repressed gender feelings come spilling out, but actually letting go of that conviction isn’t all that easy

if there's no homoerotic tension between you and the manifestation of your alter-ego that you’ve constructed in your mind, do you really have identity issues?

closeups + refs (leyendecker) + bonus:

[snipdoodle]

Aaaaaah I love drawing my fursona!!! I love them!!! She's like me!!! But not really but in spirit I suppose!! I wish I was a vaguely feminine but overall ambiguously gendered feline creature!!!

[notcruvusmemes]

Naturally, even though I worked hard to fix all the ways my phone autocorrected "boop," I still missed the first one

Me opting out of hoops but reblogging all the memes about booping: "I'm not a booper, but I believe in their beliefs."

[formulanni]

Bite me!

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[thankstothe]

The real plot of season 7

[beneathsilverstars]

been thinking about the differences between SASASAP and ISAT lately. because looking just at ISAT and the two hats ending, you'd think loop went through the exact same house as our siffrin, but looking at SASASAP, it's different. it's mixed up. it's obviously a condensed prototype.

but. that doesn't have to mean it's a different universe entirely.

maybe that's just what happens after a thousand loops.

the house warped in act 5. siffrin lost their shit and the house got changed and corrupted, far past its baseline king uncanniness. so it wouldn't be too out-of-the-question for it to be able to warp in more subtle ways as well, due to a more subtle breakdown.

like a jpeg uploaded and downloaded a thousand times, siffrin changed, and the loops changed. over a thousand loops of efficiency, the house got more efficient. rooms combining. items moving. data compressing. and of course, run in a changed house, the script changed as well. it did so slowly, one bit at a time, over a thousand loops of zoned-out half-listening – and by the time siffrin would have noticed each difference, they were already used to it. (and in the moments that they did look at a room that was less familiar than it should be and realize that they had no idea where to find the key, well. that's just classic siffrin, isn't it.)

through sheer repetition, siffrin was corrupted, and the loops and the house along with them. all purpose lost, all signals distorted, until finally they couldn't recognize the meaning in any of it. it was all noise and despair.

so they made a wish. and the loop restarted. not just a reboot, but something more complete.

the data was backed up onto a star – a guide, a warning, a reference – and the loops were factory reset. and for the first time in a thousand loops, siffrin woke up to a clear mind and the crisp sound of birdsong.

[brainrotcharacters]

Sorry it's giving Lord and Lady Death

[placiotrash]

A shared meal

I tried to do something different with the backround this time. It's a bit unpolished, but I knew i couldn't spend more time on this or i'd get tunnel vision and never finish.

[sternentreue]

Not me thinking about Bellara and Davrin teaching Lucanis some basic elven to impress an elf Rook and it's all a mix of very cheesy, romantic lines (Bellara) and phrases that would make even the Dread Wolf blush (Davrin).

[tagerrkix]

back with my astarion bullshit again

[camarilla-arts]

Thinking about Sandra Lynne and Sklonda friendship. Sandra had to catch the Kalina-plague from somewhere. 👀