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pinemai · 1 year

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After the River

- A Suspicious River (2000) oneshot.

Millie's POV of the ending, with emphasis on hurt/comfort. AO3.

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lepusrufus · 6 months

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Sometimes you talk about a really cool series with friends and you share analysis, theories, explain plots, all that good stuff. Other times it degenerates into whatever the fuck this is.

Featuring @zabouncer as the totally cool not at all creepy river god preacher, Sarah as the 100% willing sacrifice and saint, Kt as possible 100% willing future sacrifice and Saint, me as the confused newbie, and @ollie-ollie-oxenfreee as the innocent cultist who will absolutely not help in drowning you nono now please step into the water...

#the speed at which this rotted my brain is honestly impressive #even arcane and ow took a while to settle in #anyway we're all fine and having fun down by the river #please ignore any suspicious water gurgling noises it's nothing to worry about #the silt verses #but not really bc it's not any scene or characters just my friends and I being Silly #my art

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hollowwhisperings · 11 months

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Jojen is Fine, Actually: "Weirwood Paste" is Weirwood Paste.

CW: humanitarian diets, body horror, general blasphemy, mention of grooming (in the context of creepy tree wizards).

Okay so my being a HUGE Jojen (& House Reed in general) fan gives me an Obvious Bias against the idea of Jojen Dying Offscreen.

My being a huge literary nerd & lore geek, however, informs my Metaphor Senses that Jojen is Fine*, Actually.

The "Weirwood Paste" is Weirwood Paste: made of weirwood seeds, locally sourced. Said "Local Weirwood Tree" being. Y'know. Brynden Rivers.

It's Brynden Paste.

(*Fine: chronically ill, majorly depressed, freezing cold, surrounded by creepy tree people, stuck in a zombie wasteland, if he ever goes home he Dies, repeatedly dreaming of his own death... but, at least, Not Dead nor Being Eaten by the Prince of his Dreams? He's "Fine".)

First and foremost: storytelling conventions, even in a series as "deliberately unconventional" as ASOIAF, tend to tell audiences that NO ONE is genuinely "dead" until you see a body. And personally check its pulse. And test for rigor mortis. And maybe stab them in a lethal place, jusr to be Sure. And then burn the body, scatter its ashes, send couriers off in different directions to hide what remains in Remote Places never to be known of by the other couriers. Maybe Silence the couriers if they come back.

Er, you get the picture.

Most subscribers to "Jojenpaste" are in it for the lolz or assume The Worst due to Jojen's non-presence in the latest Bran chapters (aaand Jojen's being Very Permanently Dead in That Dragon Show). It's also an "easy" assumption that Since GRRM Is GRRM, any & all opportunities for Humanitarianism will be fully utilized.

Except... the weirwood paste is ALREADY "made of people" just because it's Weirwood (specifically, weirwood seeds) and the series has consistently described weirwood trees as "[human]".

Weirwood have "bone white" bark; they have Faces carved into them; they "Watch" and "Listen" and "Witness": this is consistent across POV characters, even before Jojen casually brings up "oh they're what Greenseers Become" or any meetings with a Literal Tree Man.

Weirwoods are described in human terms, doing human things, and at least 1 major character has been directly equivicated with Weirwoods for Plot Purposes: Ghost the Direwolf (and wolves, of course, are consistently used to mean "someone of House Stark" and the Starklings especially).

Then there is The Creepy Tree Man in the room: Brynden Rivers, called "Three-Eyed Raven" by Bran and Jojen (for that was how their Dreams interpreted him) or "The Last Greenseer" by the Singers (...despite BRAN very pointedly Being There To Prove Otherwise).

Brynden is also, as mentioned, a Tree Now.

A Weirwood Tree.

Y'know. Like the ones whose seeds make the Paste Bran's been eating.

So, unless the Singers have been sneaking about in Others' Territory to collect seeds from a different weirwood tree... that Paste is made of BRYNDEN.

Bran being fed "Brynden Paste' while Brynden Indoctrinates Teaches Bran to be a Tree Wizard makes far more sense, logistically & thematically, than Jojen getting shanked offscreen to belatedly be revealed to be "part of Bran all along".

For one thing, Meera would gladly set the Cave & everyone in it on fire if anyone so much as looks at her baby brother suspiciously. For another, Brynden is Right There for the eating & is filled with all sorts of Prophecy Juice: he's a Blackwood, he's a Targaryen, he's a Royal Bastard, he was an Infamous Spymaster with "A thousand eyes and one", he's done weird sacrifice BS before, he's a Greenseer (Jojen "only" has Greensight), he's a Living God (as per Singer & First Men Lore), the Cave Cult is trying to turn Bran INTO him...

There is a lot more "logic" to Bran's Magic Lessons featuring his knowingly (subconsciously, at least) eating Brynden than his secretly eating his friend. Human sacrifice tends to require Knowledge of the cost being paid & being Willing to do it anyway: Bran might be too tripped up on Paste to consciously connect the "Weirwood Paste" he eats with "that Human Weirwood Tree i'm sitting next to" but the Singers explicitly tell Bran the Paste is made from Weirwood Seeds. Bran "knows".

Godeating (metaphoric & literal) is a trope that is most commonly found in JRPGs, nowadays, but it has Precedent throughout western mythology: the Titan Kronus ate each of his children as they were born, Zeus alone escaping, in an effort to Dodge Prophecy; Zeus inherited Said Prophecy and, being his Father's Son, ate his first wife. The details of the Titanomachy (the War against the Titans by their reasonably upset kids) are Lost but Zeus, at least, gained all his Wife's Wisdom (& her pregnancy too) after eating her: Athena may or may not have Taken It Back upon breaking out from her Eaten Mother & Dear Old Dad.

Consuming something in order to "become" what is eaten is Fairly Common, if not with that specific phrasing: vampires seldom explain their reproduction as "eat me to become me", whilst the adorable Nintendo character Kirby & his method of Powering Up via Playing Vacuum, is Rephrased out of Sheer Self-Preservation (no one, not even I, likes to admit that The Cute Pink Blob is an Eldritch Abomination). Many JRPGs & works in eastern media use similar themes of "monster eats monster" and "let's eat god" for the purposes of High Stakes Action. Japan & East Asia has a lot less "baggage" when it comes to utilizing themes from Abrahamic verse, meaning that western works using themes of [consuming the divine] and [apotheosis] use Vampire Methodology. Such is the case in the Dragon Age series & its Order of Grey Wardens (who are, From A Certain POV, dragon god vampires).

Within the ASOIAF series itself, Dany's eating a horse heart (raw) has Humanitarian Themes in service of Prophecy and [Divinity]: the horse heart to the Dothraki, a society of horselords, could be what weirwood seeds are to First Men (especially given Jojen's whole "btw, the trees are gods are former greenseers").

Brynden & the Cave's Singers (whom I dearly hope are some long-exiled Cult & not reflective of Singers as a whole) are not particularly subtle in their Intentions for Bran: he is to be their New "Last" Greenseer. Bran is to Become Brynden or Brynden is to Become Bran: either and possibly both are plausible, though how compliant with the Singers' goals Brynden may be has yet to be revealed.

(the Brynden of F&B and D&E strikes me as someone who would gladly bodysnatch some poor kid for his own Agenda: the Singers seem unlikely to support fire-breathing foreigners, not without a Contingency Plan; somewhat likely to want Bran for the purposes of installing a Tree Hivemind Police State; and maybe, possibly... "just" wanting a Second God for their Cult in Bran, who probably Smells Better).

SUMMARY

Weirwoods are Personified in almost every appearance. Weirwood Trees are considered Gods. Jojen (& some Singers) have stated that the Next Evolutionary Phase of a Greenseer is "Weirwood Tree". Brynden "the Last Greenseer" is part of a Weirwood Tree.

Brynden & the Singers are Turning Bran Into A Weirwood Tree.

Bran's current diet is Tree Paste. His magic teacher, Brynden, is Part-Tree. The Nearest Tree to make Paste from is Brynden. The Paste is made of Brynden.

(Let's NOT think too hard on which parts of Brynden: I've only gotten this far in this Meta by using "Hunanitarian" as a pun.)

Eating Gods to Become A God is an existing Trope. Brynden is a God, by Singer & First Men definitions. Bran is being Groomed to Become Brynden, a God. To Become Brynden, Bran must Eat Brynden.

TL;DR

The Weirwood Paste is Weirwood Paste and Brynden is the Weirwood: the Paste is not "Jojen", it's BRYNDEN.

Jojen is Not Paste: Jojen is Alive but Not Well & Very Depressed.

#bran stark meta #valyrianscrolls #jojen reed #brynden rivers #the last greenseer #asoiaf theories #cw cannibalism #methodology of apotheosis #suspiciously remote tree people cultists are suspicious #i think i forgot to add back my theory that meera is overdue for some arson and jaywalking #the title is the last greenseer not three-eyed crow #three-eyed crow is just his default avatar in the minds of telepathic children #jojen doesnt go around calling bran winged wolf and expecting others to know what that means in his dreams #jojen goes around calling bran his prince #because bran could become the literal man of his dreams #i imagine jojen was disappointed to discover his prophetic dreams were emphasis prophetic

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quietwingsinthesky · 2 months

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doctor who human!au with multiple doctors but they’re all named by their numbers because they’re all trans and picked them out theirselves.

#they’re NERDS.#and then across the street lives their older neighbors. the normal sounding professor yana (<- also trans) and. War. (<- very obviously #trans.)#akdjjflfj i think if i wrote a fic like this i would genuinely just end up using their numbers as names #and give this as the in-universe excuse to do so. maybe they collaborated.#if they’re siblings in it then they definitely did #ten voice: you know we should probably also have normal names if we change our birth certificates. something people won’t raise an eyebrow #at just so that we can go stealth if we need to. || eleven voice (<- married a woman who named herself RIVER SONG.): sorry i can’t hear you #ive already changed mine and i gave myself sixteen new middles names #(thirteen: you know john smith isn’t a normal name right? it’s too normal. it’s suspicious. || ten: >:( || twelve: (the only person trying #to sleep at the sleepover voice) Please Shut The Fuck Up)#human!sibling!doctors au

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sidesteppostinghours · 24 days

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having a normal time this fine morning <- is making up an au for an au

#sorry im currently lying in bed merging the becker siblings with my “doesnt jump out the window during heartbreak” au and sobbing violently #that was a solo au for just cyrus and that was bad enough but inserting the siblings into it will genuinely be ruining the rest of my day #ok well. its way happier if all the becker siblings survive #but what Im thinking of is just one/two of them surviving #for cyrus specifically if he survived heartbreak he would keep being a hero #his suicidal tendencies would just be going 📈#god. ortega finding the two of them again #iirc fawn was found first?? hed lose his shit about it #i think hed still have the puppetmaster scar bcs he was still touched by beartbreak #so hed. probably be equally insane about the two of them as ortega is. maybe more #MAN. HE WOULD HATE THE NEW SIDESTEPS WITH A BURNING PASSION #AND THERES TWO OF THEM. THEYRE MOCKING HIM. WHAT HE FAILED TO SAVE #he wouldnt try to kill them(bcs he still has a strong sense of justice in this au) but hes not above beating the living shit out of them #but like. if cyrus was one of the steps that “died”? hed still be a villain but i genuinely dont know if hed still be a hero hunter #too much pain attached to actively seek out the other sibling #i think people might be a lot more suspicious than they are currently because of his avoidance of the hero step #anyway. @ gideon and idle if you have any thoughts on this. please #i have to know what revenge scar river and present rivalry fawn would do in these situations #cyrus becker(s)#keeping up with the beckers #pulp speaks

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ringompreg · 9 months

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Wet Beast

#guy who hates bath time but loves swimming in suspicious puddles and rivers

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theriu · 1 year

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Random late-night revalation: a superhero whose superpower is growing mushrooms, any kind, very fast and in huge quantities. Think about it. If you need to get into a building, grow a mass of mushrooms that instantly decay the wood of the door. Be a travelling herbal potion supplier, making your own super-fresh ingredients. Grow a cool giant mushroom umbrella cap on top of your head. Undercut the truffle market. The possibilities are endless.

#river nightblogs #mushroom powers #superpowers #story prompts #I want this now #and also now I’m hungry.#btw Im sure someone out there is gonna be all haha DRUGS and HORRIBLE MURDER OF ENEMIES #And I would like you to please calm down now and not ruin my great cottagecore superhero concept #Theyd probably be immune to negstive mushroom effects anyway #river writes #also I know why truffles are so expensive #but I refuse to believe they are really That Good until I’ve tried them #suspicious of any food thats popular for being rare #anyhoo thats enough rambling #if you read this far thanks youre a cool dude #dude is gender neutral btw

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aiiaiiiyo · 2 years

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#Anita Ekberg #1960 #Suspicious-River-998 #oldschool

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magisshit · 6 months

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@staff

I find it interesting that Palestine tags seem to have disappeared from the trending page, despite a lot of activity still happening and people constantly boosting coverage of the current genocide being underway. I also find it interesting that, despite having added Ukraine and other major movements to work towards equal rights onto their "things we care about" section (so that their constant trending doesn't overtake the trending page), Palestine's current struggle has yet to make the list.

Staff, what is going on? The coverage of the war crimes and disaster being committed right this very moment, the bombs going off, the fact that the US itself is funding it, is imperative information that everyone on the Internet needs to be keeping up to date on if we want to be able to put pressure on our governments to stop funding Israel and demand a cease fire.

We need you to stand with us to support the people of Palestine. If you don't, you're abandoning one of the very causes you claim to care about fighting for so much, right at the peak of when pressure is needed. Get your act together. Please. If you are going to do nothing else for them, at least let their pain be known.

#palestine #israel #I don't even know what tags to use. All I know is that this is incredibly suspicious and we need to do everything we can to #ensure the resources for Palestine are available and easy to find #if they truly are being suppressed and brought off of the main pages...#I don't want to think about what this could be doing for all the people currently trying to document their own experiences during #israels assault on palestine #the survivors need to be able to find hope and strength in knowing that people are hearing them and that the world has not forgotten them #free palestine #ceasefire #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

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queerqwertyto · 1 month

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Can you help me spread and donate so that I can get my family out of Gaza after I lost 2 of my brothers? I want to treat my nephew and his wife and continue my education. My full story is in the gofundme link. Please help us. Everyone needs help in Gaza. I used to live in Khan Yunis and now in Rafah we live in a tent without The lowest necessities of life, the prices are astronomical, and there is no source of income, since everything has destroyed our house and everything, we need your help. https://www.gofundme.com/f/assist-my-family-in-getting-out-gaza-2024

Your account, as far as I could scroll, had its first post on Oct 1st, so it's unlikely you're using the current bout attention for scams, but every post before 2024 and sometime after has links subtitled in Arabic, which I do not understand. I am putting this answer out because I want others to see if you are actually in need. I don't doubt you, but you must understand why I don't trust strange accounts online. Either way, hopefully all goes well for you as a person, no matter the reason for the ask: even scammers need to eat

#palestine #gaza #scam alert #vetting #caution #donations #suspicious #boycott israel #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #if your are a scammer from palestine who needs to get out but doesnt have a sob story for views #i understand completely and would still be willing to donate if i could

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neriumxoleander · 2 months

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I know it is BTD antis. It is always antis. Look at the situation and tell me it's not them. They use brainwashing techniques for this

I... wouldn't call it brainwashing...? But I do see what you mean. I can understand why content like btd upsets people, but it's 'dead dove' for a reason. I do believe this person that has the gatobob url wasn't in the patreon server, otherwise they would have more screenshots, and the chances of them being an "anti" as you put it are pretty high in my opinion.

#Talking to the River #it's really suspicious but it has been less than a day. I'm willing to wait and see what happens

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singswan-springswan · 2 months

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favorite batfam au is Talia Al Ghul Wayne. Shrike. butcher bird. she becomes a cryptid but she is not a poor little meow meow unlike her husband and his furry friend burglar. batfam at peak functionality. Damian is soooooo unstoppable