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By: Lennart Pagel

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East Glacier by Alex Strohl

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what role do you play in a greek myth?

the lover

look at you, covered in flowers, surrounded by love and sunlight. you're lucky, they all say, lucky to love and be loved. but there's a reason why so many tragedies are also love stories. that isn't going to stop you, though, is it? good. enjoy your days in the sun with the ones you love. hold on to it as tightly as you can. when the time comes, trust them. don't look back.

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you could show a person that you trust them when you stop && lower your guard.

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You are not your father.

You are not your mother.

You are your own person.

Their sins are not yours.

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Ask yourself inside: What do you LIVE for? What do you TRY for? What do you WISH for? What do you FIGHT for?

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why should we take when we could give?

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inbox call! like this post if you'd like me to hop into your inbox with some memes ✨️

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                                       and this grief                             that has no release—                          grows inward                          rooting into                                    my spine,

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𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍 : 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐓𝐖𝐎

Writing / roleplay prompts collected from the POV chapters of Daenerys Targaryen in A Clash of Kings , the second book of the ASOIAF saga. Feel free to adjust pronouns / etc. as needed.

tw: dark & mature themes, death, violence, suggestive / sexual content

❝ Every man who sees them will want them. ❞

❝ No man may take them from me while I live. ❞

❝ They are not strong, so I must be their strength. ❞

❝ I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt. ❞

❝ However frightened my heart, when they look upon my face, they must see only their queen. ❞

❝ I would name them for all the gods have taken. ❞

❝ Perhaps we are doomed if we press on, but I know for a certainty that we are doomed if we turn back. ❞

❝ I must be strong for him as well. ❞

❝ Do you know what this place might be? ❞

❝ When the gods are gone, the evil ghosts feast by night. Such places are best shunned. ❞

❝ Perhaps I should do the same to remind them that his strength lives within me now. ❞

❝ If I had wings, I would want to fly, too. ❞

❝ We should rest here until we are stronger. ❞

❝ There are ghosts everywhere. We carry them with us wherever we go. ❞

❝ It pains him to speak of her. ❞

❝ Was she beautiful? ❞

❝ I thought she was a goddess come to earth. ❞

❝ I did things it shames me to speak of. ❞

❝ He wants me. ❞

❝ He can never have me. ❞

❝ Seek no more. You have found them. ❞

❝ If you see anything here that you would desire, you have only to speak and it is yours. ❞

❝ Come with me and you shall drink of truth and wisdom. ❞

❝ The young queen is wise beyond her years. ❞

❝ The crow calls the raven black. ❞

❝ They shall come day and night to see the wonder that has been born again into the world. ❞

❝ When they see, they shall lust. ❞

❝ Dragons are fire made flesh, and fire is power. ❞

❝ She speaks truly, though I like her no more than the others. ❞

❝ My place is here at your side. ❞

❝ Only you can serve me in this. ❞

❝ I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by. ❞

❝ He will kill you, sure as sunrise. ❞

❝ He was a traitor to his true king. ❞

❝ Let the whole world know my purpose. ❞

❝ I am not the frightened girl you met once. ❞

❝ Dragons die, but so do dragonslayers. ❞

❝ I see a deep sadness written upon your face. ❞

❝ They listened, but they did not hear or care. ❞

❝ Tell me what they said to sadden the queen of my heart. ❞

❝ They said it with great courtesy, to be sure, but under all the lovely words, it was still no. ❞

❝ He distrusts everyone, and perhaps for good reason. ❞

❝ Will nothing turn you from this madness? ❞

❝ I have given you my home and heart, do they mean nothing to you? ❞

❝ He asked me to marry him again. ❞

❝ I am afraid, but I must be brave. ❞

❝ Heed the wisdom of those who love you best. ❞

❝ Warlocks are bitter creatures who eat dust and drink of shadows. ❞

❝ Let me walk with you in this dark place, to keep you safe from harm. ❞

❝ Take my arm and let me lead you. ❞

❝ If you value your soul, take care and do just as I tell you. ❞

❝ Our little lives are no more than the flicker of a moth's wing to them. ❞

❝ Listen well, and write each word upon your heart. ❞

❝ I am in the presence of sorcery. ❞

❝ Little princess, there you are. ❞

❝ Come to me, my lady. ❞

❝ You're home now. You're safe now. ❞

❝ Let him be the king of ashes. ❞

❝ The dragon has three heads. ❞

❝ Long have we awaited you. ❞

❝ The docks are no place for lady's finery. ❞

❝ They know who I am, and they do not love me. ❞

❝ You need not go alone. ❞

❝ You have seen dark visions. ❞

❝ I have dreamed brighter dreams. I see you happily abed, with our child at your breast. ❞

❝ I will not wed you. ❞

❝ But where am I to go? ❞

❝ You need only say that one sweet word. ❞

❝ Men have looked at women since time began. ❞

❝ Worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits. ❞

❝ Only fools would stare so openly if they meant me harm. ❞

❝ Pay him before he kills himself. ❞

❝ Did I break your hand? ❞

❝ Put down your steel! ❞

❝ Who is it that I owe my life to? ❞

❝ You owe me nothing. ❞

❝ I let each man cut me once before I kill him. ❞

❝ You will accord all respect to my people, or you will leave my service sooner than you'd wish, and with more scars than when you came. ❞

❝ He would have you. ❞

❝ I want every man who sees them to know the dragons have returned. ❞

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garden of earthly bodies.

dialogue prompts from garden of earthly bodies by sally oliver.

do you think this is a mistake?

i think you should say you changed your mind.

do you remember what we talked about?

i have endless stores of self-pity.

i feel less awful than before.

you're allowed to lose it now and again.

i don't mean to be horrible.

you can't adopt someone's pain to dilute your own.

stop being smart with me.

you'll give me a heart attack one day.

you're pushy.

life has a way of revealing the truth to you before it occurs.

how come you haven't said anything?

i wish you'd take things more seriously.

i wish i knew when i was going to die. then i could be ready for it.

i'm relieving you of your conscience, alright?

i don't want to write about it. i don't owe that to anyone.

nobody has seen your face in half a year.

i had a strange dream in the night. you were in it.

you probably won't remember most of it.

you need to look out for yourself. nobody else will.

can you stay in my room tonight? i don't want to be alone.

there's no point in being secretive.

you can't shut everyone out. one day they won't bother.

i don't think i'm really in myself.

i miss you all the time.

are you in any pain?

i'm bored of waiting for everything.

you're almost smiling again.

think more of yourself and less of others.

don't give away your thoughts. you won't get them back.

you don't have to say anything if you don't want to.

i wanted you to love me the same way i love you.

do you believe in god?

what can you not tolerate in others?

what is the quality you least like about yourself?

i love my parents, but i've never understood them.

this is the most alone i've ever felt.

i have to find something to wear.

hospitals manage despair, not disease.

it helps if you're stoned. only, don't do that.

i don't want to leave you if you're so unhappy.

watch the road, not me.

do you visit cemeteries often?

female comradeship is its own religion.

don't pull that sad, serious look you do.

i'm running out of ways to procrastinate.

i could like anything about you.

i wonder if you'll ever hate me.

life is too long and too brief.

i was always going to come home again.

you don't look like you.

you'll get back to feeling like your old self. just let it happen.

i don't even know what it means anymore. to 'be myself'.

i know who you are. i just can't believe it.

i'm not going to make this easy.

nothing is ever as sinister as you think.

i can tell something's not right.

we'll move at your pace.

i miss who i was. i don't feel like the same person anymore.

a life can end and not be over.

you had me. what about me?

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lead the way – to where I need to go.

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chewing on glass rn

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&&&. morinel's names.

Because Eldar have too many, and Morinel has opinions on all of them.

𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥/𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞. ( 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫-𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞). her father name was first given to her in quenya, though it was publicly announced in sindarin, and it means (roughly) 'dark-crowned star'. it refers to the fact she was born at night, with dark hair like her father's, and then as her eyes are grey, the starlight made her eyes look bright. very solid, middle of the road, doesn't call too much attention to her, she likes it. [the quenya nickname for this is morye which is very seldom used by her family since it is too close to 'moryo' which is her father's nickname.] 𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐰𝐞/𝐢𝐬𝐟𝐢𝐧. ( 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫-𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 ). this alludes to her heiritage as one of the house of finwe and also eventually her interest in fibercraft. it means 'knowing-finwë'. made of the components 'ista' as a noun meaning “lore, knowledge” or a verb “to know” and the suffix 'finwë'. (which is further glossed as '“clever, skillful; fine, delicate; skill, dexterity”). the (quenya) nickname for this is istye, which is usually only used by family/very close friends. she does not use this name very often after the war of wrath, as she feels it has… political connotations.... that she would prefer to avoid, thank you very much. 𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬/𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐡. ( 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 ) 'siryanis' (river-woman). given to her by an aunt for her love of the gelion/rivers in general. it changes slightly to 'river-name' to fit the phonetics of sindarin a little better. (in her years of the trees 'verse, 'naltanare' (radiant-fire) takes the place of 'siryanis'. and she uses the combination of 'naltanare istafinwe' until it is time to translate her names into sindarin, in which she goes more by morinel.)

tldr;

morínellë istafinwë/morinel isfin - her name in quenya/sindarin until the war of wrath.

(her parents tend to use the quenya versions of her names in private, and occasionally in public, depending on how much of a fuck they gave about the quenya ban on any given day.)

morinel sireneth is how she will address/introduce herself post war of wrath.

of all many names she has, morinel is by far the one she prefers most.

istyë is a nickname only her family calls her.

her father also occasionally called her 'cirincë', which is a kind of red bird because she loved birds growing up and was also often dressed in red.

in her Years of the Trees AU, naltanárë takes the spot of most preferred name (she is Very Proud of it), and the nickname for that is naltyë (also only called by those close to her).

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An elf’s hair | martina_dorta

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&&&. 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞

when she first starts training with weapons -- post-bragollach, in amon ereb -- young morinel insists on being a miniature version of her father, and insists on learning duel wielding. her father agrees, on the condition that she masters single-wielding first. her training is a very trying process as she tries different swords until she find the type that balances properly for her. once she is proficient at single-wielding, her father allows her to start her dual-wielding training by adding in a parrying dagger, and when she masters that -- several years later -- she is finally allowed to learn dual-wielding. it is harder than she first thought it would be, but feanorian stubbornness is her life-blood, and she doesn't give up. this remains her favored fighting style for years, with only mild and exceptional departures (ie, when on 'stealth' hunts after the nirnaeth arnoediad, or in the woods of taur-im-duinath after the third kinslaying). then the early second age, she picks up rune-keeping as more... hobby isn't the right word, but it's the closest... than anything, and she only uses rune-keeper as something serious post-war of elves & sauron. although, her sword is still her go-to for something when she needs to fight right now and doesn't have time to 'set up' her runes.