#wild blue icons

[talkingsaxy]

please don't repost, requests open!

[ayatxt]

we're alive cause we are not alone

[draculasdaughterrr]

[spaceinvadeeer]

ska-BLAM!!!

[yotasukekun]

[mochilly]

(🌪) ᵎᵎ REVALI ICONS . ୨୧

— ʟɪᴋᴇ or ʀᴇʙʟᴏɢ if saving/using .

Check my list before doing a ʀᴇǫᴜᴇsᴛ: 💌

[ligbi]

300x300 Icon Bases // Wolf’s Rain // Men's Lament

[w0rldenough]

14th doctor // wild blue yonder icons

like if you use

[rainbowcrowley]

this episode was nightmare fuel (affectionate) and a lot of 'wtf did i just watch' but can we talk about the fact that fourteen thought isaac newton was hot

[iconsfinder]

[red-moon-at-night]

POV: one of your favourite vocaloid cover artists is getting a vocal synth made with her voice

(it's oktavia and the synth is called SELENA and im going to CRY AAAAAAAA)

(also obligatory link to video with the vocal demo:)

[incoure-art]

a little hatchling design, because i love them

[talyayet474]

Olivia Wilde

[omg-hellgirl]

And of course I love Mick and Keith's music, and their whole thing — I'm a Stones fan, not a Beatles fan; the Stones always seemed far more dangerous, therefore infinitely more interesting. On the whole the Stones are very nice guys, give or take a little kink or two.

Angie Bowie, Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie.

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Happy 77th Birthday to Honorary Academy Award Winning filmmaker David Lynch! ^__^

[iviarellereads]

The Shadow Rising, Chapter 39 - A Cup of Wine

(THIS PROJECT IS SPOILER FREE! No spoilers past the chapter you click on. Curious what I'm doing here? Read this post! For the link index and a primer on The Wheel of Time, read this one! Like what you see? Send me a Ko-Fi.)

(Harp icon) In which it still only counts as one!

PERSPECTIVE: Elayne disembarking from the Wavedancer. She expects more rebellion from Thom and Juilin: they've already had to threaten to transfer the men to another Sea Folk ship headed the other way once this voyage, when they decided the young women weren't competent to seek out the Black Ajah.

As they walk the dock, Bayle Domon recognizes and greets them excitedly, apologizing for leaving at Falme without them. He feels he owes them, so he'll bring them to an inn where his word might help them get rooms: Tanchico is full to bursting and beds are hard to come by. Only, what happened in Falme isn’t going to happen here, is it? Nyn hesitates, but El reassures him. As Thom comes up behind them, El almost thinks Domon recognizes him.(1)

Domon does, in fact, help them get the last two rooms at the inn in question, the Three Plum Court, and joins them for supper. Nyn asks if anyone here helps the poor, and the innkeeper, Rendra, mentions that Domon uses a good portion of his profits to give soup and bread to them.

When Rendra has left, Nyn says it's good he helps people, because they might need his help too. He asks how, and she says she doesn't know exactly but he clearly employs a lot of people, and they need to find the Black Ajah if they're in Tanchico. Domon gapes incredulously until Thom and Juilin nod, then pushes his plate aside and sets his head down on his arms on the table. It do be happening again, Falme all over, he says. Maybe he should take all his ships and go back to Illian. Nyn says he might not like Illian, with Sammael ruling, and Domon's eyes almost pop out of his head. Nyn says there are no safe places any longer.(2)

Thom (and Juilin via Thom, because of the Tairen-Illianer hatred) question Domon about all sorts of useful things. Where the thieves and cutpurses tend to gather, who the nobles are and what factions they belong to, etc. Eventually they get all the info they can. Nyn gives Domon descriptions of the Black Ajah they suspect are here, and he promises to pass them along to trusted subordinates to keep an eye out.

Juilin goes out to friendly up with the rabble, Nyn goes to lay down, and Thom goes to perform in the common room, so El follows him and sits in a corner, drinking wine. At one point, she swears she can remember hearing him recite some of The Great Hunt before, but in High Chant, not the Plain he uses here.

At the end of the night, she doesn't know how much wine she drank, because one of the serving men kept her glass full.(3) Climbing the stairs, she follows Thom to his and Juilin's room, not her own. She confronts him, saying she remembers sitting on his knee, pulling his mustache, and her mother leaning over Thom's shoulder to laugh at her. Thom tells her she should go to her own room and sleep it off. El demands to know why her mother would sit on Thom's knee when he's a simple gleeman.

Thom sighs and admits he was Caemlyn's Court-bard, for a time. For Queen Morgase. El says she knew about Gareth Bryne, and Lord Gaebril from Mat, and now Morgase has been with Thom too... what makes her any better than Berelain, taking every man who catches her eye to bed? Thom slaps her, and says if she ever says anything like that about Morgase again, he'll put her over his knee. El realizes she's crying and asks why her mother would-- she can't finish the sentence, but Thom says it's lonely being a queen, and most men see only power, not a woman. Everyone wants someone in their life who cares for them.(4)

She makes her way back to her own room without help, and Nyn knows something's up. She tells El to come over and kneel down so she can look at something, and dunks El's whole head in a bucket of water. Twice, for longer than El thinks she can stand it. Then El pukes into a basin, and Nyn washes her face.

Nyn asks if El can stay awake, because she wants to try to find Egg in TAR, but she's nervous to go in without someone to wake her. El agrees, sure she can stay awake, and Nyn falls asleep with the stone ring.

PERSPECTIVE: Nynaeve searches the Heart of the Stone for Egg, to no avail. She feels eyes on her from the darkness. She thinks how Egg must be in the Waste, and ends up in the Waste herself, watching a man in a blue coat test the limits of the fog at the edges of Rhuidean. Then Birgitte Silverbow shows up and tells her she should leave this place before "he" sees.(5) Nyn flees, ending up at Emond's Field. Birgitte seems to have followed her there, launching an arrow at an unknown assailant.

Nyn chases her, demanding to know who that was. When she turns a corner instead of Birgitte she sees a man, and she almost thinks it's Lan for a minute, but his face is just a little wrong. He raises his bow and shoots at her, and she wakes screaming.(6)

PERSPECTIVE: Elayne asks what happened, and Nyn says “He looked like Lan. He looked like Lan, and he tried to kill me.” Her arm is cut, and she says if she hadn't jumped, he'd have hit her heart. Nyn tells her everything, including Birgitte, and they both worry over Egg, but decide they both need some sleep.

In the morning, she wishes she were dead. The hangover is horrific.

Juilin returns at breakfast with good news, for a certain value of "good": at least one thief he spoke to last night had a credible story of a woman matching a description. They very well may be here.

The women arrange with Rendra for new clothes and for their hair to be done up in the local style, to blend in better. Nobody mentions the problem that still remains before them: if the Black Ajah are here, then so is the item that endangers Rand, something able to bind him with his own Power.(7) El finds her appetite gone at the thought.

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(1) I'm just drawing attention here to remind us all that the narration is deeply unreliable. RJ got something right about this: we can know only what is in our experience. But sometimes, he got it too right, and he made it easy to forget that the narration is not omniscient. (2) Well, she's not wrong. Can you think of a single place in this world that's actually safe for anyone right now? Seanchan's a fascist state, the Aiel Waste is the sort of inhospitable desert that gives rise to warrior cultures at least in fiction, the whole of Randland's main continent is under siege on all sides from Forsaken, Trollocs, and Seanchan. Even the Two Rivers is being occupied by Whitecloaks. Goddamn, nobody can catch a break and there are ten books left! (3) Another eternal joke in the fandom, the one (endless) cup of wine. (4) A moment everyone needs to have as you grow up: seeing your parents for the humans they are. It's too bad she's drunk for the whole thing, but it's sweet that Thom defends Morgase without casting any aspersions on Elayne for having perfectly normal feelings. (5) Who might that man in the blue coat be? Well, that gleeman was just asking questions about Rhuidean, but surely he couldn't be in TAR testing it? How could that be? Why would he be worth fearing so strongly? (6) This one, we know. That's Slayer, and somehow, he can use either of his constituent faces. (7) Well, last chapter seemed to confirm that they're here on legit orders to find something to bind him with. Only, they're not very competent at it. That's what you get, I suppose, for organizing only with the self-interested. But, what sort of relic could bind him, and why would it be found here? Have we seen anything that might hint toward such an item? What did Egwene see in the museum in her TAR visit at the beginning of the book, what might be relevant that's already been set up?