#till the end of the decade

[acixsm]

Kataow fanart ?? In 2023?? :00

[aheathen-conceivably]

🎶 Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans 🎶

At the end of Rampart Street stood New Orleans’ train depot, long one of the centers for the comings and goings of the busy city. It had opened in 1892, when New Orleans was at a zenith of growth and culture. Now it was beginning to show the cracks and wear of age, but every inch of the space still reflected the spirit of a bygone era.

It was filled with the comings and goings of businessmen, new arrivals, families, and those fleeing the city for greener pastures. Intermingled beneath the shadows of the glass roof, they vacillated between hope and fear, embracing in reunion or waving in farewell.

Near noon, a train pulled into the station and a shiver of anticipation passed through the crowd. A stream of passengers began to exit, filing into the gilded corridors into the city beyond. On the other side those waiting to embark sat at attention or stepped nearer to the platform, listening for the boarding call from the conductor. Amongst them stood a small family of four, each running through a kaleidoscope of emotions all their own.

It seemed positively surreal to each one of them that this was goodbye, that it was perhaps the last glimpse they’d have of New Orleans before it turned into nothing but a colorful blur outside of the steamer’s windows.

Perhaps it was easiest for Zelda and Antoine to board the train, for they both knew the moment they stepped off of it there was more promise for them than there had ever been. It was not the first time that Zelda had left her home on such hope, and a small spark of adventure flared up within her, imagining the towering orange hills of fantasy novels that she would get to see. It seemed like a whole new world, the mere thought of which made her feel young again.

Even Antoine, whose path to reach this point had been more difficult than he would ever admit, felt more excitement at that moment than sorrow. A burden had been lifted from his shoulders, one that would only lighten with each bump along the railroad track West.

His sister, although seemingly more willing to leave than he had ever been, held no illusions about what waited for her at the end of the journey. She knew that at the train depot in New Mexico waited a man she loved and who loved her in return, a man who had offered her a life that she was supposed to want, but that she had turned down once before.

But she had never left New Orleans, never knew what it might be like outside of this crescent of sin and memories surrounded by murky waters. She pulled her niece close and smiled down at her, entertaining for a moment that perhaps she was only afraid, and perhaps their lives would be better at the end of their train journey.

For looking down at Violette, Josephine was sure of one thing: her niece’s eyes held no fear. They stared at the steamer in unabashed, child-like wonder. It was perhaps the grandest thing that Violette had ever seen, grander even than the painted facades of her home city or the glittering electric lights shimmering off of her mother’s dress as she sang.

Why would she be afraid? She was with her family. Her father was with them this time, and he would never leave again, she was sure of it. And the train was there to take them all West, to the seemingly fabled land where her aunt promised her all of her dreams would come true.

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville] was the only member of [Crown Prince Edward of Westminster's] original 1471 council not already on the king’s council and her name headed the list of those appointed as administrators in Wales during Edward’s minority. [She remained on the council after it was expanded in 1473 and granted significant new governing and judicial powers]."

"In 1478 Prince Richard [of Shrewsbury] married the Mowbray heiress. Like his elder brother he had a chancellor, seal, household and council to manage his estates. His council, like that of Prince Edward, comprised the queen [Elizabeth Woodville] and a group of magnates and bishops, few of whom were Woodville supporters [...] It was Elizabeth who mattered, for Richard resided with her and Rivers treated his affairs as their own."

-J.L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 / Michael Hicks, Richard III and his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the Wars of the Roses

[on-leatheredwings]

Aegon is definitely not OOC. He shows off Jaehaerys like a pet but has no idea what time he should be at lessons. It's been three weeks since his coronation, three weeks since he raped Dyana. He hasn't grown as a person at all. We're just seeing different facets of him but people need to be spoonfed every trait of a character constantly to keep from spilling out of their brain. He appreciates the smallfolk because he's spent so much time drinking and whoring with them, but he has no respect for someone who obviously has more experience than him (Otto) and thinks he has more of an advantage being nice to people who were themselves forced to be nice to him when he was among them because he's a royal. He doesn't treat his mother's counsel with any respect either despite watching her rule the kingdom for years on her own. His weak moment of do you love me was just that, a weak moment. As soon as he gets drunk, he turns into a monster. He's stupid, clever, arrogant, predatory and a host of other things. People just don't think critically enough anymore in fandom.

thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. you put it perfectly into words. aegon is just acting like a child who's enjoying the novelty of newfound purpose in life. and like most addicts/abusers, he'll have his high days... then he'll have his LOW days. it's been one episode - we'll see him hit his low, probably even as soon as next episode.

this fandom makes me feel like i'm losing my mind like is it not clear that he's kind of doing a bad job at ruling/parenting? or at least, a very superficial job? is it "ooc" or are you not allowing the writers to portray him in anyway aside from the one dimensional image you already have of him in his head ??

We're just seeing different facets of him but people need to be spoonfed every trait of a character constantly to keep from spilling out of their brain.

genuinely i don't know why people just aren't using context clues anymore. just not thinking. or, holy fuck, just WONDERING? 😭whenever a character does something "ooc".... why not WONDER why they're doing it, rather than reacting so shallowly ??? some good writing advice i once saw was "don't ask 'is this action out of character for x', and rather ask, 'what would drive x to do this action'?" people are complex plsss 😭😭😭

also you make an excellent point about aegon aligning himself with smallfolk b/c he was more at home amongst them than with his noble family.

and tbh this is feeling like specifically a hotd issue? every tv show has bad takes but hotd has been genuinely unbearable. i watch other prestige tv or 'layered' shows and people seem to generally have the idea of the characters? succession, interview with the vampire, breaking bad, ozark, etc.

wondering if GOT S6-8 PTSD genuinely has made this fandom lose faith in the writing and they're choosing to take everything so face value now.

[queer-enderdragon]

i think i forgot to post this..

anyways, stampy <3

[kuromi-hoemie]

i think it would b so encouraging to know how many artists i follow who haven't always drawn and had to learn as adults.

u see ppl who r really good and they've never stopped drawing, i stopped drawing at 18 bc reasons and barely got back into it like a year ago at 28. even then i was always more of a music person, but i want to draw n do my silly little comics now. but there's sm to learn..and im trying fr but augh

[cosmogyros]

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[quietblissxx]

[mostlylurkinbarelypostin]

You don’t give a character this much trauma…

…just to end their story in more heartbreak and tragedy.

[carebooks]

where is my lockwood & co. crossover with bridgerton in which lockwood & co. somehow time travel to the regency period and now have to deal with the time era’s bullshit whilst also figure out how The Problem is a thing in the early 1800’s when it hadn’t even existed… this is exactly what george wants to investigate. they get dragged to a time where The Problem was active and yet it has never been documented. meanwhile, locklyle were just getting their footing and being semi-more-flirty each other and now they can’t interact in private without a goddamn chaperone. do you think that stops either one of them— fuck no. but it creates so many fun situations. and in total, the trio goes out nightly more or less every time there’s ghost activity.

[lae-zels]

ai art on my dash again, with op's blog deleted i cant block it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck offf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wanderingblindly]

heyy i love all your fics so much!! do you still write sebchal cos origins of want and till the end of the line are stuck with me for good so much lovee :)

Ahhhhhh thank you so so so much!!!!!!!

I do still write sebchal, just not as often as I’d like. For some reason, my ideas for them are so specific and — unfortunately — few and far between. I have a piece I started writing for them in the winter that I’d love to finish one day 😭 Now if these fucking twinks would leave my creative brain ALONE,,,,

I’ve written two sebchal drabbles somewhat recently!! You can find them here and here 💖💖

[octarineblues]

not to doxx myself but ive just seen player kings (with ian mckellen!!) and uhhhh it was so good. brb gonna explode.

[treecakes]

i AM anime critical of so much stuff lol i love to complain abt how stuff is adapted but truly i love it. even if they change so many seemingly minor but important details. and even some clearly extremely relevant ones. would love to see how they fix all of that if they ever adapt the whole series. s15 and they go ah shit. that was actually relevant 13 seasons later. or whatever. because midorikawa IS really good at doing that.

[crowcryptid]

lol my job must be dropping people like flies they just gave everyone making under $20 a raise

mine was only 30 cents though

I mean I used to work in the department making IDs for every new hire/deactivating IDs for everyone who left and it was a lot and that was a year and a half ago. I’m sure it’s worse now that things have only gotten more and more unaffordable

This place actually pays more than pretty much anything else here so idk where these employees are going tbh. Take me with you. Please. Maybe they just move out?

[batslime]

Yeah just so everyone is aware. Almost a decade ago to the month a dumb doodle I drew between classes (I would have been a sophmore in high school I think?) with colored pencil and sparkly nail polish was featured on the Rammstein website. I almost wanna redraw this lol