dropping in to say im not using this blog anymore, i think i refollowed all my mutuals? hope i didnt forget. anyway that’s what’s been up
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“…the perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.”
You can now check out my complete Bloody Chamber illustration series on my website : )
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Спокойной ночи
“Good night”
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Vikings challenge; 1/4 characters | Lagertha Sometimes they are much braver than the men. And the most fierce, her name is Lagertha.
Source: irobbstark
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Me: Les Rois Maudits 2005 has its flaws, but the costumes were so historically accurate and pretty Les Rois Maudits 2005: Here’s a witch doing witchcraft in a cocktail dress and rubber gloves, you’re welcome.
rereading acok and melisandre really is that character who i never expected to like as much. not because i ever thought she was “evil” but because i liked her, she was not nearly as bad as the real evil people of the series, and hey she was right about the impending apocalypse, but in the early part of the series we don’t really see her depth. at least we don’t see it for what it is.
when we get to adwd we not only see where she’s coming from, get her perspective and not the perspective of people who distrust her and what she does, when we see the horrific trauma that’s shaped who she is...it’s illuminating to everything before that we’ve seen of her. melisandre is that one asoiaf quote about some wounds no matter how old they are bleeding at the slightest touch, she’s “if i look back i am lost,” she’s “you have to remember your name,” her journey is similar to so many others’ in the series of suffering and salvation and the great and terrible power of faith and the unfathomable evil of society. melisandre, inside, is still melony, and going into my reread, now aware of that the way i wasn’t when i read this years ago, is really going to re-cast what i read
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I kind of never post about myself because I’m very shy, but tonight I’m just— trying hard to focus on good things so I wanted to show my little darling.
Name’s Nano (nickname Brioche), a Ragdoll baby (seal bicolour). He’ll come home in 18 days and I already love him dearly.
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Once I asked her if she wanted to bring the wolf to bed with us. I don’t mind, I said. It wouldn’t change anything between us. And she looked at me like she might say yes, like it might have been what she was waiting for, someone to pull back the coverlet and allow both her and her creature in, to love them both and not ask her to choose. She looked at me like she was afraid I would take it back, like it wasn’t possible that she could ever end the constant circle she ran, around and around, her and the wolf and the forest, her human mouth and her ferocious teeth. She looked at me like I’d offered her everything.
Catherynne M. Valente, from “The Red Girl,” The Bread We Eat in Dreams (via mortalpractice)
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You know you can talk all the shit you want about Madoka Magica, but you have to admit that the Meduka Meguca memes gave us so many valuable phrases and ways to express important emotions and concepts.
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Empathy is sometimes rage filtered By the desire to join with the lovable enemy
— Dara Cerv, from “Sometimes We Choose a Person to Perpetuate Familial Blanks,” published in The Shallow Ends
anyway as you might guess i started acok i love team dragonstone and my modern au Thought is that shireen ofc still exists bc stannis and selyse had a brief (like 1 year) marriage at a time when neither of them were really in a good place, they amicably divorced and share custody,selyse remarried to mel and stannis has conflicting feelings about his married bff davos, no one gets burned to death
patchface: appears
me:
"A man your age must look to where he steps," Melisandre said courteously. "The night is dark and full of terrors."
He knew the phrase, some prayer of her faith. It makes no matter, I have a faith of my own. "Only children fear the dark," he told her.
this is really sad because mel actually is afraid of the dark because of the things she experienced as an enslaved child....
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i just read the bloody chamber (the whole book)
-the title story&lady of the house of love were both pretty good, otherwise i...wasnt that into it
-the red girl by catherynne valente is DEFINITELY an “@ the bloody chamber” isnt it...
-literally everything i see about bluebeard convinces me grrm had every bluebeard version/retelling in mind when writing mr. ramsay bolton, like, the QUOTES in that title story...the one about the puppetmaster who loses control bc his wife has autonomy and stuff...hm