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I’m starting a collection.

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a redraw...

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TES Summer Fest: August 14th – ghost or hungry

Ghost loving ghost.... @tes-summer-fest

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does Abaddon serve more cunt than Horus? like what do we think ?

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do you think cersei or Tyrion is more like Tywin?

i've always thought Cersei, though ig GRRM probably disagrees - he contrasts Cersei's 'wildfire' with Tywin's 'glacier', and there's ofc the 'Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you' line by Genna Lannister.

but in my mind Tyrion is kind of what Tywin could be if he weren't so.... Tywin lol. Tyrion is pretty adept at strategy. he knows how to make allies and work with his enemies. he can talk his way out of almost anything, and when he can't he generally has the right allies to help him out of it. he's good at what he does, but is simply hindered by society's attitudes towards his disability, and ofc Tywin's own. Tywin could have the perfect heir in Tyrion, but Tywin is genuinely too hateful to make use of that, and sabotages himself instead.

i've written a lot more in this essay about how Tywin kind of botches his own legacy by ruling with fear, clinging to Jaime as his heir and disdaining Tyrion, ultimately leaving his house an unsalvageable mess. Cersei was never going to be the one to turn it around because she has absorbed so much of Tywin's worldview, but again, he's left it in such a state that there's not really much anyone can do. Jaime has better instincts about how to restore some level of peace, but the damage is truly done, so that peace could only be short term.

and as I say, Cersei is the one who has absorbed much of Tywin's worldview. like Tywin, she has defined herself by her name, and has little concept of herself outside of it. she has a scorched earth approach to her enemies: people will quote Tywin with the whole 'when your enemy is on his knees you offer him a hand' or whatever, but lbr, the fear Tywin ruled with was the Rains of Castamere. he is not known for making peace with his enemies. and he is a brutal man who thinks little of hiring men like the Brave Companions, Gregor Clegane etc, who ofc are so fucking rabid that hiring them constantly comes back to bite Tywin - Gregor goes beyond orders and destroys relations with House Martell, which will contribute to House Lannister's downfall. the Brave Companions maim his heir. this man is not that fucking smart lol, he's just brutal. and Cersei is the same: she ofc brings Gregor straight back into her employ, hires hits out on children, cannot make an ally to save her life, etc.

and like. IS Tywin a glacier to Cersei's wildfire?? their anger may present differently, but both are obsessed by vengeance, and pay no heed to what they destroy in its pursuit. the Red Wedding will be revisited on the Lannisters, just as Cersei's attempts to destroy Margaery are already being revisited on her. it's all circular, but Tywin and Cersei are too short-sighted to see the same patterns repeating again and again. they do not adapt, they do not change their approaches, they just dig their holes.

and Tyrion is not self obsessed in the way his father and sister are. Tywin is intensely preoccupied with self image, to the extent he can't tolerate any slight against it. his whole worldview is shaped by the fact that he can't stand being laughed at, and a sense of entitlement to power. Cersei's pretty much the same, but ofc differs in the sense that as a woman, she hasn't been able to claim that power and respect in the same way Tywin has. it's the same kind of shit though.

they ofc differ in lots of small ways, but I think Cersei as a person is ultimately much more like Tywin than Tyrion. Tyrion has modelled parts of himself on his father, but critically. he adapts and makes changes where he sees fit, and as a result is much more capable than his father ever was. and having the ability to adapt and change in the first place is how he differs substantially from Tywin and Cers.

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I really wish that the actual newspapers would adopt this model.

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#i am absolutely certain tywin would have victim-blamed cersei. completely and absolutely no doubt about it #jaime however would not have “confronted” robert. he would have killed him. which cersei knew#and since y'know kingslayer once shame on me kingslayer twice you get fucking executed #she did not want that to happen and thus hid the abuse from jaime

#note olenna also knew that if joffrey abused margaery and loras found out *he* would have killed him #and so for kingslayer grandson prevention purposes she handled it herself in a way that no tyrell would get caught or blamed for

#alas cersei not quite as well covered with the boar due to involving lancel (a teen who has since become unstable. because of cersei 🤦‍♀️) #mind you if cersei had provided lancel with the spiked wine and not *told* him it was spiked she would have a much stronger defense #(cf olenna having an unrelated unknowing party deliver the poison) #but oh well murder plot hindsight is 20/20 i guess

How do you think Robert would have reacted to being confronted about his behavior towards Cersei? By like, a Tywin that actually cared about his daughter being abused.

So one of the biggest points of the books is that feudal society and the systems that comprise it are evil and pretty categorically unable to produce a Woke Tywin like you are describing. Robert is a violent delusional misogynist because he is a product of this society.

Women do not have rights in feudal westeros. Once you get married you belong to your husband. Domestic violence against your wife is considered common and acceptable. Especially if the king does it because the king has near-absolute power. If confronted I do not think Robert Baratheon would care for longer than a few hours and then might lash out after and nothing would change. He committed an act of violence westeros considers taboo (murdering royal infants) and experienced no consequences or real shaming for it because he is the king. Committing an act of violence Westeros does not consider taboo is even less impact.

I think the Tyrells probably had the right of it in that if you are putting a daughter in an unsafe marriage and you do not want this to happen to her you do just have to kill the king.

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you're so beautifol :) may i sense you with my feelers

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Desperately want to be in Sandor's head when Sansa told Joffrey "You can't!" and then he lied to back her up.

Like that was definitely a canon event for him he just happens to have the thickest poker face in Westeros

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I honestly find it pretty funny how often people mix up Raziel with Erebus :D And I'm ABSOLUTELY sure the apostle himself would be super pissed about those comparisons, haha.

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there's an extremely niche plot in romance fiction wherein our invariably heterosexual leads fall in love after a night of passion leads to an unplanned pregnancy and they're now bound together by an impending child. I cast no judgment on anyone who enjoys this, but since I'm an evil gay and this is my personal nightmare scenario I want to see a zany romance novel premised on the opposite resolution: a couple falls in love while on a whirlwind roadtrip to obtain a legal abortion

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speaking of the painted colours of classical statues. there is actually something very haunting and melancholic about how we know the ghosts of these colours – and in some cases have an incredibly rich language to describe all the different shades of them – but only a small handful of archaeologists and scholars got to actually see them. the pigments were too fragile, had been subjected to too much, and couldn't stand the sunlight of a modern world thousands of years past their own time. And now the rest of us are left with old sepia/black and white photographs from late 19th century, drawings, and a body of reports that are extensive but never quite extensive enough

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Craftworld Civilian Clothing

Trying out some designs for Eldar civilian attire.

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What's the difference fandom wise between today and ten years ago?

It’s on Tumblr instead of LiveJournal and people argue illogically and insincerely to “prove” that their preferred reading is morally superior instead of arguing illogically and insincerely to “prove” that their preferred reading is canon.

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the scariest thing about the generative AI thing is how quickly people have accepted it as an indefinite, irrevocable part of their reality. people have genuinely convinced themselves that ChatGPT is the only solution to most tasks - tasks they did with their own brain without any large effort two years ago. like you know damn well all of us used to write emails ourselves why are we pretending like this is an impossible task to do with your own two hands. what's with the fucking. AI revisionism. i feel like i am going insane.

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looks like i have the gift of prophecy because....

AO3 got fucking scraped again for gen AI purposes!

AO3 got scraped for gen AI purposes again, a ton of works were included.

There's been DMCA requests and it looks like some/most? of it has been taken down, thankfully. Still. I highly highly recommend that everyone lock all their works to the archive right now. I can't force you to, but I strongly suggest that you do. Don't let them scrape your work in the future. It sucks losing guest interaction but. Would you rather feed the AI slop?

For people who guest comment: Make an AO3 account! You have to wait a bit for an invite but it's worth it i promise!!

For artists specifically: I recommend that you look into Glaze and/or Nightshade. There's also these disruption filters, it's not clear how well these actually work, but you're welcome to try them. Glaze is supposed to work best, though.

It looks like you can see the status of the datasets here

And how to submit DMCA or copyright violation

I'll say it again: FUCK AI THAT STEALS PEOPLE'S ART AND WRITING!!!!