#yaaay im so excited

[femmefitz]

I turned in my writing homework on time. Clap.

[lemongogo]

sry i dont know what 2 draw anymore T_T . elendira portrait #999

[catgirlkirigiri]

WELCOME TO 48 HOUR APATHY IS BORING LOCKDOWN

[elorne-the-grafted]

The response made him breathe out a long sigh. The urge to respond back with the same level of sass was so tempting, but his training kicked back in to stop him.

This is not for you. This is for Lord Godwyn. You must be strong and noble for Lord Godwyn.

"I bring good news and bad news, Lord Messmer. The good news is thy brother, Lord Godwyn the Golden, has returned to the Lands Between. The bad news is your mother is gravely ill, and has been so for a long time. Lord Godwyn wishes to speak to you on this matter."

He grabs a letter from his small rutsack, sealed with the symbol of the Erdtree and all. He offers it to Messmer, carefully approaching to be within a respectful distance.

There were some white lies sprinkled into his statement, all of it was rehearsed to make Messmer more willing to come through. Considering his banishment and erasure of his existence of the Lands Between, there wasn't much information to go on about him. So Lord Godwyn has chosen and specifically instructed his Elden Lord to pretend he was still Godwyn and Golden. Like little to nothing had changed since his banishment.

The letter read as follows in beautifully written black ink and gold leaf sprinkled in.

"Dear Lord Brother,

If this reaches thee, It gladdens me that we couldst finally speak again. This order has thrived for so long, creating an age so great that it's seeped into every inch and crevice of the soil.

But unfortunately, dear brother, our perfect order has waned, stagnated even. I was forced to leave very suddenly, and our mother became stricken with grief and illness that cannot be cured.

If thou art able, brother, I urge you to make haste to the Lands Between. I fear our time is finally running out, and I fear for the future of these lands if Mother is not able to continue her godly duties.

With much love,

Godwyn The Golden."

A cloaked figure entered his chambers, keeping what looks to be a death knight's axe low at his side. He was looking for someone, and it was apparent with his consistent pace, only stopping when nearing the middle of the chamber.

Adjusting to the darkness of the chamber, he looks towards the long-forgotten empyrean in front of him. Yet, his axe did not rise, only remaining at his side. He was no knight of Messmer, nor did he look like a man who would follow the Grace of Gold for that matter. Yet, he lowered his hood to reveal his face, and bowed reverently towards Messmer.

"Lord Messmer of Shadow Keep. Forgive my intrusion, I do not mean to interrupt you. I come here with news from outside this realm that is important to you."

@flameimpaler

[potatobugz]

more like Gillion HIGHstrider

[compher]

okay im going to make myself some tea and finish working on this donate-for-request page to get over my panic attack

[squishosaur]

the guys for your viewing pleasure & future reference

[fisherrprince]

can’t do a lateral raise because my shoulders pop so much and I don’t want to tear anything😔😔😔 I gotta un-tense these things

[oughhowo]

LOOK AT MY GELFLING BOY

finally finished the head so now u guys can see it :)

been working on a gelfling for the past few weeks, hes a dousan gelfling inspired by Dune (started reading the books & theyre good fun lol)

his bigass braids temporary itll come out when im done building the rest of him lol

[peach-teaboy]

If you want to make latkas you can cut out the onion no problem! It’s so cute that you support him like that ❤️

The onions add extra moisture (which gets squeezed out anyway) so you might need less flour or matza meal.

If you both like apple sauce you can grate in apples instead I suppose, but it can be just potatoes.

Also, you can make or get jelly donuts! Jelly donuts are traditional as well.

Thank you so much for this ask!!! Not to be gay but he's the light of my life so anything I can do to improve his life is worth it. We didn't make latkes this year because our inlaws came over from out of province and we didn't have time to make them but this year we will definitely be making them...I'm wondering if apple fritters count as jelly donuts because those are his favorites...something to ask a rabbi i guess lol

[sanchoyo]

&I CAN WEAR MY NEW COWBOY BOOTS TO SEE CHAPPEL ROAN . THE TIMING. the boots were LIFE FORESHADOWING

[puppetoffthehook]

@scarednotscary

“You’re friends with Chrissy Cunningham, right?”

Billy looked over at Eddie with a frown, blowing out the smoke from his cigarette. They were just sitting together while he waited for Max to hurry up. The months had passed for him in a flurry of hospitalization and recovery while the kids were all starting their freshman year of high school. Now they were coming up on the championships for the basketball team and Eddie was nonstop talking his ear off about his stupid fucking “campaign.”

“We were barely even acquainted, Munson. I only knew her at all because she was on the cheer squad. Why?” He kinda remembers the girl. Pretty in a delicate way and sweet from what he remembers of his only year at Hawkins High. The kind of person his dad always told him would get stepped on in life. “You lookin’ for me to be your wingman?”

Eddie gave him a pointedly unimpressed look in response. “No, jackass. I was hoping you’d know if she’s a normal user.”

“User? As in drugs? Little miss head cheerleader?” Billy chuckled. “No, I don’t think so. She’s a little too skinny but not in the drug addict way… Don’t tell me you’re trying to sell to her, man. She’s not the type.”

At least he thought she wasn’t. But Eddie tells him what happened when they met in the woods and how scared she seemed. Not a normal amount of scared, either. And she’d asked for harder shit than weed?

“I’m telling you, man, she was just looking around all terrified like she saw a ghost. Freaked me out a bit but I didn’t wanna scare her more. I offered to take her to my place after the game if she was really interested in something harder but I’m hoping.. maybe you can talk her out of it? We talked about the shit you’ve been through; maybe tell her it’s a bad idea!”

“Yeah. Yeah, I’ll talk to her.” He might have more than drugs to talk to Chrissy Cunningham about. “Actually, I’m gonna go find her. If Max comes out before I do can you take her home?” Once he got an affirmative response Billy made his way into the school in hopes that Chrissy hadn’t left yet. Hopefully she wouldn’t think he’s insane.

[tillman]

the vastedge book made it to the warehouse todayyy i can ship my packadge later todayyyyyyyy eeek

[appleimps]

Piccolo arrived so fast !?!?!?!? He's so small too 🥺💕 so I'm glad I held off of order Chives' standee, because I adjusted the size from 65x75mm to 50x50mm. I want him to be smaller than Piccolo LOL

[deviled-eggdog]

HEYY IM ON ARTFIGHT AGAIN THIS YEAARRR!!

please friend me ill friend u back :D

>>> my profile! <<<

[naggascradle]

i think my theorum of adaptation approval is got straight up did not have a theme and made its choices for changing things based on what would "look the best" or whatever (leading to the major issues down the road) whereas hotd's major decision changes seem to be in service of a greater theme or motif that makes the show more compelling to watch

i just finished hotd so im obviously thinking about it more but ive been really working to try to narrow down why i found hotd so much more fun to watch despite its flaws compared to my frustration throughout all of game of thrones with the character reductions and missing the point of the books.

first of all i think its down to the new showrunners understanding themes and like... what makes a story compelling in terms of characterization and what you can flesh out from a more barebones text. there's a lot to that you can have fun with & turning vague historical figures into a story to follow. i loved the alicent and rhaenyra background where we see them as children! episode one of season one is such a strong set up for the rest of the show and the themes it wants to deal with on the horror of motherhood and women being seen as vessels to carry children, which leads into the primary theme of the show and assumptions of people based on physical appearance.

which like, compared with game of thrones which seems sort of confused? about what it wants its themes to be for the show? like the books have a pretty major theme of the sins of the father sort of narrative and the cyclical nature of abuse and the way society pushes forward the abuse. the show removes most of these themes, oddly, like the biggest examples to me were tyrion's abuse by his father with tysha (this gets a mention in the show), the greyjoy family nightmare of abuse that just keeps going (the most we get on tv is theon being like my dad doesnt really like me :( and thats it but the books are pretty brutal in being like theon gets told someone's dad will beat them and he's like well my dad did that to me so idk what you want me to do about it.), arya's whole book narrative is how revenge begets revenge and in the process of revenge you will lose your own identity in pursuit of violence as a cycle, the point of the Others is to have the realms of men unite against an evil so great it will kill them if they keep doing petty squabbling, the list goes on. but the show doesnt really seem all that interested in playing with the ideas of cycles or what they mean? i honestly cant even tell you what i think the theme of game of thrones the tv show is. violence hurts people, i think?

hotd does a better job with picking a theme and running with it (the theme being what the assumption of a person means based on their physical traits; societally, politically, and personally). this is a major focus of a song of ice and fire as well, so it lends to the story of house of the dragon in a great way! we get larys who is disabled and his explicit discussion with aegon about how people will underestimate you and it will be your advantage (great parallel to doran martell in the books), the bastardy of jaecerys and his disgust with himself and following it up with him meeting the dragonseeds who have an entirely different view of being bastards (something id love to see more of in season 3, despite knowing jace's eventual end), rhaenyra & alicent obviously and the way people treat them as women. rhaenyra's conversation in episode one with aemma is suuuch a haunting one by the end of the same episode. alicent of course with her discussions about being undermined in front of her sons and how no one will be able to control them if she is continued to be shown as incapable in front of them.

anyway apart from themes hotd does also play with the concept of what adapting stories means, and how they'll play out differently on the screen, especially in a context of an adaptation along the lines of a historical fiction sort of show, as f&b isnt a chapter novel, more like an outline of how the history went. historical adaptations can be fun too in how the narrative is told, like giving nuances to characters when we just have their actions on paper. aemond unintentionally killing luke is up there for me in terms of "this is a really fun way to interpret the text" because all we know is that aemond killed luke when pursuing revenge over his lost eye, having their dragons act like actual animals with minds of their own in that moment was a strong choice! like of course vhagar will turn and try to kill a much smaller dragon for attacking her head on, she's a three ton massive sky beast. luke is a 14 year old with an adolescent dragon that's much more nimble, it makes total sense he could outjuke vhagar for a moment to get a direct fire shot on her. and it makes sense for aemond in turn to try to get control back of vhagar and fail. those are all incredibly compelling character choices to do when the accounts are so vague.

the other historical adaptation moment i really enjoyed was the dragonseed storylines (...enjoyed is a bit of an overstatement, i thought some of the dialogue for these scenes couldve been better.) where you can be like ?? who are these guys why do i care. until addam gets seasmoke and its like ohh those other two are the other two dragonriders ulf and hugh. got it.

honestly this is a very low bar in most shows but game of thrones really, really hated doing things like this except like once or twice (the only example i can think of is olenna tyrell getting a bunch of camera shots with the goblet at joffrey's wedding). game of thrones removed most of its foreshadowing in the tv show for major events that are borderline told to the reader that will happen in the books, and it makes the show a lot worse because it means it doesn't trust its audience can still be compelled by the story if they can figure out what will be happening (leading to like everything from s6 onward in terms of plot decisions lol), as well as made characters like ridiculously stupid in terms of their plans from the start because the show didnt seem to trust the audience in understanding what was happening in the story either? like the whole sansa being snuck out by dantos is... there for like one scene, but the book version makes it a whole shock twist that it was littlefinger arranging the whole thing (which was something you could pick up on beforehand, but from sansa's point of view she had no idea who was doing all this for her.), the show changes it to have petyr straight up tell sansa in the middle of the red keep "i'll sneak you out of here" and its like ?? people can say the characters got a case of the stupids in the later seasons but they definitely had the case of the stupids in early seasons too. why the fuck would littlefinger straight up tell her where everyone can hear him. this successfully lowers the stakes, makes littlefinger look like an idiot & everyone can guess who has sansa. like do varys's little birds mean something in this show or do they not.

i do think hotd leaves room to be desired with not making rhaenyra nuanced enough, but i can see where they really want the audience to root for her. regardless i dont think there's much where i was like "wow this character is ooc" its been pretty decently consistent about every character being consistent, and i do worry about if they start making rhaenyra have bad decisions itll be weirdly ooc lol. she's been shown to be prideful and wanting to be the only person making decisions & getting annoyed at others without her approval which i think is a pretty decent flaw to not make it overkill in making her an incapable ruler. idk i think rhaenyra is like. fine. as is. if she becomes bad at ruling id rather it be a slow progression over her control issues stemming from the way people treat her like she doesnt know anything and doing things without her approval. because it looks like they might lean into that and especially so after jace's and joffrey's deaths.

generally ive been reading everything hotd chooses to do as like this is a historical adaptation and some things will get changed for adaptability reasons. yes some things wont hit as hard if you loved them in the book but for the most part the changes have been in service of the themes i listed before, making the show feel like it has a purpose and wants to try and say something, so im more willing to forgive a lot of things in service of that.

anyway i wish we did have halaena's choice & nettles </3 those are the only two i dont really understand yet but im willing to wait and see how they play out