#old sorcery

[str1xaluco]

Realms Of Magical Sorrow - Old Sorcery

2018

[chapollynh]

Chez le Père Lathuille by Édouard Manet, but make it Good Omens! Muriel is very confused but she's investigating them because she is a human police officer

[bull-shit-suji]

actually no i need to talk about the green witch arc. ciel and his band of merry fools go to germany and learn that this forest is haunted by WEREWOLVES and in it is a village full of WITCHES with cursed amulets and potions and whatever

and the immediate vibe is "lol what a bunch of bogus" which is really just batshit coming from the kid with a demon butler

and then woah big reveal! it wasn't werewolves or witches it was a covert military operation REPLETE with radar tracking (not a thing until wwii) and electronic displays (most likely crt screens, which again weren't fully developed until the 1930s) and TANKS. for reference the first "tank" was put together by a guy in 1899 who mounted a machine gun to THIS

absolute paragon of engineering. the panzer (the exact model of tank in the arc) was not a thing until wwi.

and. and ciel and ESPECIALLY the Demon Butler in question are like. ohhhh yeah that makes more sense. the amulets were just transmitting our exact locations through technology that won't exist for another three decades. whew glad we sorted that one out. man wouldn't it have been CRAZY if it really was werewolves.

[vosus]

Interior Illustration for 'Old Moon' Volume 7

oldmoonpublishing.com

Mark Jarrell

markjarrellart.com

[thewatcher0nthewall]

In the dungeons of Gogossos, torturers devised new torments...

...In the flesh pits, blood sorcery of the darkest sort was practiced, as beasts were mated to slave women to bring forth twisted half-human children.

[jon-sedai]

And remember kids, the next time someone tells you, "George R. R. Martin wouldn't make Jon Snow the typical fantasy hero because that's cliche".....

Oh yes he would!

One viewer wants to know what character would you play (on the show)? GRRM: If I could magically clap my hands and become a different person, it would be cool to play Jon Snow who's much more of the classic hero. Everybody wants to be the classic hero! ABC Interview, 2014

GRRM: And the character I’d want to be? Well who wouldn’t want to be Jon Snow — the brooding, Byronic, romantic hero whom all the girls love. Meduza Interview, 2017

In fact he already has ☺️

[fyllophobia]

[itsallaboutbl]

Iwase Yoji as Shiga Takara Takara's Treasure, ep. 1

[unbaed]

[mfelewzi]

Land without a king

Art by Todd Lockwood

[rabidoyster]

[archi-pelago]

Now it thickens on my tongue Now it quickens in my lung Now I'm stricken, Now I'm stung-

[eerieayres]

Aequitas contra legem

My OC Judge Tiernan and my new dragon OC, Cruel Existence.

His dueling heads of fire and ice represent all the moral contradictions with the world, and he wants you to know it (and despair!).

Characters, Artwork © EerieAyres  

[horizon-verizon]

@saintjustitude asked me to relate HallowedHarpy's First Video abt Dragons and Targ Women fertilizing them.

Basically, with all the knowledge of Septon/Barth and the dragons' sex is changing as ""flame", Harpy posits that dragons have no real gender and all are capable of laying eggs at some point, but their eggs can only be fertilized once they have a bond with a female dragonrider.

it cannot be possible that every dragon is a male until "proven" female, bc other dragons out of sight of human eyes have laid eggs (Cannibal, Sheepstealer, they came from somewhere) -- female-proven after the fact of eggs laid

Septon Barth-Maester Aemon -- dragons don't have a fixed gender and can change genders (Barth was around Jaehaerys when dragons were around; info he wrote destroyed by Aegon III, Dragonsbane to prevent dragon reproduction...which seems like Barth was telling some truths)

all dragons have the ability to lay eggs (however you wish to conceptualize that) & are genderless

some dragons will go their entire lives laying no eggs bc their ability to lay eggs will depend on size, environment, health, etc.

not all eggs will hatch bec we know from the series that they are laid but never hatched...so that means that they might not have been fertilized

since dragons are not strictly sexed male-female and thus their eggs aren't fertilized by "males", the dragon has to be bonded to a Valyrian-descent/dragonlord-descent woman

in recorded history, there was no dragon bonded to a male Targ or otherwise who produced any known offspring OR EGGS

again, people have assumed that the dragons laying eggs were female AFTER THE FACT

so the "male"-thought dragons may have laid eggs...but they just never hatched

Rhaenyra and Daenerys had hybrid human-dragon babies/stillborns reinforces this idea of bond-w-human-woman-influencing-dragons-fertility -- fertility connection goes BOTH WAYS, dragon affects woman, woman affects dragon

all a consequence (whether intention or not) of all the blood magic to create this bond in Old Valyria

[kattitude130]

saw someone suggest it so i think some people misremember that hakuri wasn't abused for his whole life, and it's so heartbreaking that for a good part of his childhood he was told he was important and special and loved and he really believed it, and then suddenly the same people who hugged and kissed him yesterday are beating the shit out of him the next and they never stop. and he can never go back to those happier days