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Imagine being born without being asked to be born and then everyone telling you everyday that you have to earn the right to keep living (food, shelter, water) or else the entire world will collapse and thinking that someone shouldn't have to live under a bridge makes you entitled. Like sure if you want a mansion with 20 rooms that's one thing but imagine telling someone that a 1 bedroom with a leaky roof is worth their entire paycheck

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I love this

At last, my 𝐃𝐚𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is finished!

I'm super proud of the end result and incredibly grateful for all the support I've gotten during the progress! Prints are available here!

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I’m ngl as much as I love the characters of the college of Winterhold I kind of wish Savos Aren was the villain and Ancano wasn’t. Like Savos Aren’s backstory feels perfect for a tragic antagonist and Ancano to me doesn’t,,,have much depth to him? I like headcanons of the Thalmor finding him annoying af and marking him as an outcast, but unfortunately none of that is confirmed canon. Ancano just feels evil because he’s Thalmor, not because of anything else deeper than that. Would be nice if he were still a racist dick but was genuinely trying to make the college better while Savos (whatever his motives would be) was the villain of the questline

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I always think about this post

Things Katniss “I don’t know Peeta at all” Everdeen noticed about him before the first hunger games:

He’s strong and she’s hung around watching him lift bags of flour at the market.

He won a wrestling match at school.

He had a lot of friends at school because he’s fun and nice.

His mother and brothers don’t love him. His mother is straight-up physically abusive.

He’s kind and took a beating for her.

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The worst thing in the entire world is when you’re sweeping a big pile of dirt into a dustpan and it leaves that little coke line of grit behind. No matter how you position your pan or your broom and no matter how many times you sweep over it your outcome cannot change. As immovable as fate. I hate it so

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Skyrim giants yeeting you into the sky isn't a bug or a feature. It's about the anger these giants have I mean every time someone gets close they either get stabbed or shot or hit. So now anytime anyone comes close they just lash out out of fear. And when they finally win they throw you in celebration.

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The College of Winterhold survived the Great Collapse of 4e 122 because Urag gro-Shub was the librarian of the Arcanum and catastrophic waves or not his rules on books still stand.

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like if you want to eat the big glowing mushrooms in blackreach reblog if you would slice those bad boys up like a gigantic convex bioluminescent pizza and slam em back with without hesitation without remorse without dipping them in sauce

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Just reread and rewatched the hunger games. They are the most accurate book to screen adaptation I've seen, even if some characters or scenes are left out or the love triangle was blown out of proportion the first film was a wonderful recreation of how shaky and unsure Katniss was in the first games. She'd never been outside of district 12 except into a forest right outside home. Everything in the first book is new and terrifying and she doesn't know how to feel about anything. And that's shown in the movies not only through dialogue and acting but the shaking camera and weird edits. Also Jennifer Lawrence was a great Katniss

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I think in some way Allicent was doing what she thought her husband wanted. Because she didn't understand the prophecy with Aegon the conqueror she really thought that the king changed his mind. Now there is something to be said for like senile old man changing his mind last second not necessarily being a bastion of truth but she could not get what she wanted and it was her husband's idea now. Because she would not kill Rhanerya or Damon because that's not what the king wanted and she knows that so I don't think she would truly go as far as usurping the throne for her son, Otto absolutely would but I don't think she would have done it so willingly unless she actually thought it was what the king wanted

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So I got really busy and fell behind HOTD so I'm just now watching episode 8. But I haven't really seen anyone talk about just how decomposed Viserys looks. I've seen plenty of posts that perfectly encapsulate how I feel but I've not really seen anything about what all lays under that mask. WHAT IS THAT! I've seen the theories about the hightower's poisoning him and I don't think they're wrong but there is so clearly something else going on that I would dare say has something to do with magic. Maybe it's the dragons blood keeping him alive or something but he looks... Well he really looks

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I'm so glad that someone was able to not only see Otto for who he was but also what he was doing. Because at this point all of his schemes have worked and he got so power hungry and just openly deceitful. He didn't care about trying to be sneaky anymore because his daughter's Queen and his grandson "should" be heir so why should he have to hide anymore. I've seen a few people complaining about this as bad writing or they didn't know what else to do with the character so they just made him dumb in episode 4 but I think it actually was a clever way of showing that some people get a little bit too cocky when their plans succeed over and over and over again. It's implied that he killed Viserys' father so that he could become hand originally and we all agree that he had something to do with Queen Aemma's death not to mention getting his daughter on the throne, her having a son, and even initially getting Rhanerya named air to get Daemon out of the way, his successes are constant so him being a little cocky and not hiding anymore makes sense to me. But thank God he lost his power

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Lord Lyonel might be the only character in this show that comes even close to the honorability of Ned Stark. Obviously no one will come close but Lyonel could have put either of his son's forward for Rhaneryas hand in marriage but he knew that wasn't the best match politically for the crown. I'm sure he would love for one of his son's to be the Queens husband but he instead puts toward the son of another man he doesn't really like in favor of making the other man happy and making stronger allies for the crown in the long run

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Lord Corlys being out for his house and his house only makes a lot of sense and is so interesting. Most houses focus on strengthening themselves first but the way the Velaryons are going about building their station is different than anyone we've seen before because Corlys believes he has the best claim. Leanna is a great match for the king in theory. As everyone loves to point out she comes from the right stock, uniting the Targaryen and Velaryon houses would be a fantastic show of strength, and it would keep Lord Corlys happy. But what no one really points out is that she's 12. And I could go on and on about how gross the idea of marrying a 12 year old is (even Viserys look uncomfortable talking to her) but I think we all already know that so what I want to point out is something Leanna pointed out. She doesn't have to/won't bed him until she's at least 14. That means 2 whole more years before the king can even think about producing heirs, let alone how long it could actually take to get pregnant. And that's banking on the fact that she's had her period by 14. She could be a late bloomer and take longer which usually is fine but when everyone's main focus is creating more heirs and strengthening the bloodlines.... Maybe the 12 year old isn't such a great choice. Also just to say it one more time.

MARRYING A 12 YEAR OLD IS FREAKING GROSS!!!

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So I was thinking and I've decided I'm ok if the show House of the dragon is different from the book because Fire and Blood is supposed to be an inaccurate history book. It contradicts itself constantly calling someone bloodthirsty and violent one page and then peaceful and war weary the next. There's even an excerpt at the beginning saying that the character within the world writing his world's history is old and forgetful relying on 2 sources who can't disagree. So I'm thinking while the book probably isn't to far off from the actual history (like certain battles definitely happened and we know who becomes king/queen) it probably also got a lot wrong and the show is going to show us the truth.

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Otto Hightower is 100% a conniving, power hungry, spiteful man. That's not a new thought though, most people realized that but that's not what I want to talk about. What happened to Alicent's mother?

Clearly the death is recent enough for Daemon to make a jab at Otto thinking it will hurt and Alicent is upset which makes perfect sense since that's her mom. But, we haven't heard what happened to her. Otto doesn't look old enough to have a wife who died of old age, and Alicent is old enough that clearly her mother didn't die from childbirth or childbed fever/infection.

We only really hear about her after the queen dies and Otto is sending his daughter to the king. When he asks how Rhanerya is doing, Alicent's response to me is telling. She says that Rhanerya lost her mother. Basically saying that she's upset like Alicent used to be or still currently is. But it's Otto's reaction that confused me. To me the look on his face looked like a grimace. Almost like he doesn't see why that would matter or make someone sad. That or he doesn't like thinking about Alicent's mother. And then he tells her to wear one of her mother's dresses to see the king.

He clearly doesn't miss his wife or is incredibly good at hiding it. All of this to say, I think Otto Hightower, Hand of the King, Lord of Oldtown poisoned and killed his wife. I think he wanted full control over Alicent's future and who she ends up with and her mother would have never accepted his choice. Clearly this plan has been in place for a while. Some people have even posited he had something to do with the queen's death so it's not too large a jump to believe he killed his wife.

He is making a plan for the throne via his daughter and he knew his wife would never have approved so he got her out of the way. People keep saying his Littlefinger and I totally think that parallel holds, especially if I'm right. Littlefinger killed Lysa and Otto killed Alicent's mother.

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The scene when the Small Council was discussing King Viserys successor makes me feel things. You can tell that he does not want to have this conversation right now and when he can't take it anymore and lashes out at all of them for having this discussion right after his wife and newborns FUNERAL you really feel his pain. The king isn't in that meeting. Instead we have Viserys, father, husband, and human. He is raw in that moment and can't/shouldn't have to hear people discuss what is best for the kingdom now that his wife and newborn are dead.