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Adding an inconsequential, undeveloped character from the 2001 horror flop Thir13en Ghosts? More likely than you think.

ive& been thinking about this for a hot second but for dani's asoiaf verse, house ardor is definitely from the reach. idk maybe she serves as one of margaery's handmaidens & eventually gets swept up in the sparrows & the faith militant & the high sparrow's bs after they murder her cheating fiancee & sb gets her out bc when she tries to help margaery she's imprisoned too ??

What do you like about the Diasomnia boys if I may ask?

I always love hearing about the different reasons people enjoy characters.

I mean, c'mon. he has split custody over Sebek okay

also, Lilia in particular has maybe the best timeskip character development of all time

Bloodborne bone ash set and yuria demons souls crowfeather cape have a death grip on me

You did very well today, Dan. Don't forget to clean yourself up, we don't want any cross contamination.

1x04 - What We | The Ones Who Live

An important aspect of youth liberation is not tying the idea of later adult care with having children.

The broader attitude that only your children can ensure that you get taken care of when you grow old is not a good precedent to set. Having children should not be what ensures that you can live through old age, and fear mongering people with the idea that nobody will ever take care of them (or, rather, shouldn't) is such an awful motivator to have children.

There's always those stories of Fae would have a fuck ton of kids with humans and I can't help but think it's a breeding kink. Like maybe fae pregnancies are really long, especially in comparison to human pregnancies (9 months is nothing to a fae) so when Fae realize that they just can't stop themselves from grabbing the first pretty fertile human they see.

Just imagine it; being some pretty young girl who happened to catch the attention of a fae and getting whisked away to be treated like a prized broodmare, constantly being breed. If your fae gets really attached they might just use their magic to keep you young and fertile forever.

I need to brush up on faeries 1000% because I did not grow up with them and did NOT know that lol. How... curious... 👀👀 I am very intrigued ehe

tw.yandere, noncon, pregnancy, minors dni, as always my shitty version of being kidnapped by ... something not human

You know, right now I'd walk straight into any otherworldly little trap, so let's follow that thought for a bit. You're stressed, you feel like you're absolutely drowning in responsibilities, work, a million deadlines - so, so sleep-deprived and mentally exhausted that your judgment softens, your senses dull, your mind grows hazy. And while it will pass (all things eventually pass, don’t they?) and you’ll be fine some weeks, months from now on - the way through it all is grueling and hard, mundane and repititive. Wouldn’t you be fortunate to catch the eye of someone out there? Someone, something who thinks you’re quite charming; soft and human and almost clumsy in the way you putter about and oh, you’re so weak. Some beautiful stranger who whisks you away, to somewhere so odd you think you’re dreaming at first. It’s so surreal, you have to be asleep, right? And how harrowing it has to be to wake up for the first time, realizing that you made a stupid mistake some weeks ago, something you can’t even quite remember. Maybe the stranger caught you sometime during the dawn when you were half asleep- maybe they got you when you wandered too far into the forest on one of your nightly walks- it doesn’t matter, really, does it? Your head feels as sticky as cotton candy and heavier than a brick, and they keep you in a bed of soft linen and way too many pillows, and fuck you so full you can’t make out left from right- You can’t fight against them, and your rational thought is merely scratching at the door to your consciousness - but that underlying dread mixed with too-sweet dreams and kisses has to be terrible. Every passing day turns sweet to sour and when your stomach swells you finally manage to break away from the spell, if only to vomit out the food the stranger has stuffed you with... I feel like they’d basically keep you drugged and pliant for all eternity- with you just being able to feel that foreboding sense of ‘something is fundamentally wrong’ but not able to formulate a single clear thought. Any time you manage to free yourself from their influence, you’re immediately pulled back into it; and the memory erased. I can see them not even really talking to you - you’re like a sweet little pet to them, stupid and only there for what you can provide for them. Kept happy and dumb and pregnant, doomed to be a drooling broodmare...

i'm starting to sense a certain pattern here...

inktober 11: have i ever mentioned how i think about rukkhadevata and nahida constantly? because i do. every day of my life. anyways. rukkhadevata deserves to be incredibly tall. just an absolute tree of a woman (pun intended). towers over the entire archon meeting :)

HOLD THE FUCK UP

I know we're well past the "that's his boss bs"

HOWEVER I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT WITHIN THE SHOW ITSELF BASICALLY SAID THAT DOESN'T MATTER BACK IN SEASON 3

like in this scene the whole joke isn't oh it's weird that nandor likes guillermo cuz he works for him

nah nah nah

that part gets brushed aside very quick cuz of the actual joke being nandor being confused that the apparently was talking about guillermo

SO YEAH EVEN THO AGAIN WE'RE PAST IT THE BOSS SHIT REALLY DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER

thank you and good whatever time it is for you

I'm about halfway through A Storm of Swords, which 1) is a lot further in ASOIAF than I ever thought I'd get when my students browbeat me into this (affectionate) and 2) means it's time for a roundup of things I have found annoying recently.

History is still in a blender, so apparently the Sacred Band of Thebes is here, sort of

Also janissaries exist and Daenerys has bought them all (from a despotic and exoticized civilization incapable of self-governance, YIKES)

I've said this before but the fact that the Orientalism and racism are -- at least arguably -- worse in this series than in iconic fantasy series written by men born in the 19th century in the British Empire is Not A Good Look

The creepy cult with the Sacred Heart of Jesus as its emblem also uses the language of 20th-century American evangelicalism? Hm.

This tends to confirm my sense that while the belief systems of this world have cool aesthetics, they have approximately zero theology AND no discernible impact on most people's moral behavior

I think this matters because if one is intending to base a fantasy on premodern Europe, taking out any substantial influence of either institutional religious teaching or individual belief is. Um. That's a choice

Relatedly, if you're going to be in a world where clandestine and semi-licit marriages are A Thing and consummation has legal force and annulment is also A Thing, you need an in-world version of canon law!!

I am not (perish the thought) saying that every fantasy system needs canon law. But come ON.

A main character losing a hand is what it takes for us to learn that this has been a world with available high-quality prosthetics this whole time????

Make this world's treatment of disability and impairment make sense!!

Qyburn clearly subscribes to Galenic theory because he is prescribing sex as a form of mild exercise to regulate the non-naturals, I love him so much (not annoying)

I don't think his understanding of STDs is period-accurate though

GRRM has wildly miscalculated how average life expectancy works; bad medievalism bingo, take a shot!

hello! do u have any new music recommendations?

of course!!! going to throw some general pop/indie/rock/instrumental all over vibes at you? these are some of the ones that i've been having on repeat a lot lately because they bring something bright and fun into my days - hope you enjoy them !! 💛

if i'm honest (trousdale) – oh the absolute vibes of this one. the harmonies. the beat. the slow downs and build ups? that ending? it's like easy, slow, growing ease and joy. that point 3/4 of the ways through the song, that building of things? the payoff? those background horns? the drums? i cannot sit through it without some kind of air guitar / drums / chair dance type beat. it's too good that you cannot help it, it just goes so hard.

close one (fizz) – i have been writing so much love poetry to this song. it is soft and slow and serene like light, all golden hour, the soft golden hues of almost, of here, like this, with me? that little 'fuck it' before the chorus is so fun. this group is made of insanely popular individuals (dodie/orla gartland/greta isaac/martin luke brown???) and together .... they are so powerful. cannot wait to see what they create next !!

run (maisie peters) – there is such a fun vibe to this song. that line of the chorus, that 'i've been lied to / i've been cut and deleted / i've heard some things i will leave unrepeated' is sooooo good, that rhyme scheme that syllable count balance? it immediately went onto my writing playlist w/ that fun beat, that synth, that catchy repetition? the whole album this comes off of is so very good too, esp. 'the band and i'? i really enjoy her sound!!

like a brother (hey, nothing) – this song feels like a lullaby, in the way of being swung in a hammock? all late summer, early winter winds? but there is such a lyricism that gets stuck in my brain, the whole layout of the chorus and is just so soft. i feel so many things. another easy one for the poetry playlist.

margo (sally boy) – oh the orchestral, string opening? the easy flow of it, instrumental and light, before hitting that small bit of silence before the guitar and lyrics come in? and then the absolute hit that is the beat of the chorus hitting? obsessed. phenomenal. i love the balance of gentle, light instruments and the slow instruction of the drumbeat, it feels like a whole story that you can experience, the flow of it!

eightball girl (maddie zahm) – i can leave this song for a few days and then out of nowhere it'll just be in my head again, the vibes of it, that beat of the chorus? the layered voice effects? sometimes songs have this balance to them that my brain just sucks up like a sponge and this is one of them. soooo good. i'll be in the supermarket and my brain will just go eightball girllll, tell me how you feel about meeee and it's perfect.

snow angel (reneé rapp) – this was one of the first ones i found on my daylist that was just like, how did i go so long without you. how did i not know about you. and since then it's been a daily listen. the slow, gentle breeze of that beginning? there is such a rising and falling to this song, like seasons, like the breeze? all tide, all here and there and back again, all resilience and ferocity, softness and violence? that electric guitar and the piano and the feedback just makes me want to just. aaaaaaa. this whole album is just banger after banger too!!

grace (henrik) – it's so fun!!! it brings me so much joy and energy, the easy breezy pop vibes, it's so hopeful and gentle and loving. i have it set as my alarm rn because i really do think it'll last through the sisyphean task of getting me out of bed in the mornings, it just feels like sunlight.

so have you heard about the ride kamens app game? seems like it's gonna be a twisted wonderland like game with all the riders being hot anime guys now, and it's also gonna be written by yuya takahashi and produced by naomi takebe (apparently it was in development before geats), with designs by the person who did sk8 the infinity, so take that for what you will

have you ever gotten the feeling that a piece of media came into existence just to appeal to you specifically, or

(brb preregistering immediately)

(as far as I can tell you play as an agent who maintains a secret superhero base for riders in the basement of the rider-themed cafe that you run with your butler, and there's some other plot stuff going on but honestly I'm way past sold at this point, this sounds amazing)

Forgive me if I missed a post or something but is Croissant Ace?

(That comic with Mizora and the Emperor is a damn MOOD)

Asking for a friend.

(It's me, I am ace, and a Gale lover ^_^)

They are! This game has been a wild ride for them lmao