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[cerubean]

alice spencer-kim's second home

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friends au cherik in which they never break up but have loud arguments that drive their friends crazy

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[hellmandraws]

Mutant May 31/31 Nathan Summers | Cable

...aaand that's it! I actually managed to draw 31 characters in 31 days! 😩 The goal with this was to get me to draw regularly again, so I guess it worked.

[visenyaism]

Sorry if you’ve been asked this but what do you think of all the rot in asoiaf? Obv some of it is related to the problems with monarchy but I feel like a lot of it isn’t and it just leaves me curious. Like cold hands or people killed by the others idk what that symbolizes there. Jon is in a land in which rot is in stasis from the cold and it’s creepy as shit. And then there’s stuff that could have multiple interpretations like dany by proxy of selmy experiencing bio warfare with the corpses like I know some people see it as the fall of old ghis but I wondered if maybe it was a sign to dany about breaking the wheel and doing as her ancestors did. Idk I know it’s a nasty series and sometimes grrm is just doing stuff so that it’s gross but I feel like rot comes up SO much and I people are usually talking online about like Tywin when it comes to rot.

Oh one of my favorite things about the asoiaf series is how heavy-handed george rr martin is with the rot symbolism. and (at the risk of sounding like an mfa vomited on my keyboard) the way that the political, pestilential, societal, and climatological aspects of the rot symbolism all interconnect.

In a society founded on so many feudal evils that has perpetuated for centuries, something has to give. It is a recurring theme in these books that violations of human decency under feudalism cause cataclysmic societal collapse represented through literal and metaphorical pestilence.

There’s the sociopolitical collapse in the riverlands caused by war of human decency and norms like guest right and prohibitions on kinslaying or cannibalism just dedicating away as times get hard. broken men. bodies left to rot in the sun for the crows to feast on. There’s the fermenting wildfire under every major street in Kings Landing. There’s the familial/relational decay of incest especially the targaryens and the lannisters. The people who hold power and that society rot, despite everyone’s best efforts at keeping up appearances: Robert Baratheon the “war hero” dies of a very nasty festering stomach wound he got in a drunken hunting accident, Tywin gets shot on the privy and his corpse putefies in the sept.

The climate stuff is also very salient. The series starts during late summer and as things get worse and worse in the world declines into the autumn where the summer fruit and all of the abundance is literally rotting through the hands of the characters. (see: renly’s peach vs doran’s blood oranges!) The cold up at the wall keeps the rot at bay for a while, but it does not entirely stop it. Coldhands’ hands are still blackening. Things are still unraveling at the hinges of the world. that’s pretty representative of the way that the violence of the border wall and the penal colony stationed there to patrol it are not sustainable. The decline of the night’s watch from a once proud order to a penal colony full of cruel and often impoverished convicts dropped off there by circumstance is a symptom of the society that sends people up there. But something still has to give. The wall will fall down and the existential crisis will come, it’s just slowed.

Critically, there is also the forgotten parable of Old Valyria: a society founded on extreme cruelty and slavery which eventually experiences cataclysm coming up from the very tunnels they send the enslaved into to die for the empire. A lot of what Daenerys experiences in Essos is an extension of that commentary on slave societies to me. Like. as the slavers try and reconquer places dany has liberated, people fleeing the violence, bring disease like the bloody flux with them. The rot creeps back. (important: disease and rot in the series is not always something people get for being morally bad. it often happens to people who just have no choice but to live in these places.)

But that’s why I think the way Volantis is described really ties a lot of those elements of the rot symbolism together. This is a society that has founded itself up from out of the corpse of old valyria. The city maintains some veneer of old glory, but the fountains are dry and the paint is chipping. The people there eat food that is so sweet it literally causes your teeth to rot out if you were to consume it every day. In terms of climate, I think it’s relevant that it is described as extremely, almost disgustingly, humid, and everything is excessively perfumed to cover up a tangible smell of decay.The air is quite literally cloying and difficult to breathe. You feel dirty after walking through it. The evil of slavery is rotting the city to its core in the same way that the evil of feudalism and the wars for the iron throne is affecting the city of king’s landing.

To wrap allllll this up. Rot is a signal that obviously societal collapse is coming, but it’s also transitional: the empire of old ghis brought about its downfall, and then valyria found itself on the same principles which brought about its own downfall, and then the Targaryen went to westeros and engineered their collapse in Kings Landing while the freehold did the same essos. I think the climatological and disease aspects of it are really heavy-handed symbolism that something has to give in the societies and we’re at the point in the series where that’s about to happen.

I think the ultimate arc of the series ends in some form of significant societal collapse, but instead of building upon a rotten foundation again people are going to have try and hope for something new and gather the courage to build that.,quite literally dreaming of the spring.

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[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Maybe it is because I've been traveling a lot this year and dealing with visa shenanigans (nothing serious, don't worry), but every so often I think about how the modern world restricts ease of movement.

For example, one of the reasons people find The Return of Martin Guerre to be a fascinating book is because of how much that story couldn't happen now. Early modern people really could just pick up and start life over in another country just because they wanted to. Sure, technology limited how far you could go. But, it was possible.

Now I have to think long and hard about visas and citizenship and how long I've been in any particular place and report all of that to the government. And they can figure that out with the technology in my passport anyway, even if I didn't tell them.

There is much that I don't envy about the early modern world, or even the 19th century (which is my bread and butter), but they really don't make émigré life like they used to.

[nordsea-horizons]

working on a new garden area that’s gonna lead to a neighborhood! i also got stuck on a cliff while putting down shrubs!? that doesnt normally happen until im almost done with an island haha🌳✨ also someone seriously pissed off stella and she said it was rodney.. and i’ve been thinking i should get a sanrio move in soon.. good timing👀🫧

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[itsnevssin]

He doesn’t have anything else to wear but someone on the street has one shirt more.

We win some, we lose some.

[indigrassy]

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[huellitaa]

✧˚. ᵎᵎ 🎀 bee's perfumerie

i think scent is definitely one of the most important parts of a glow up or daily routine or wtv of any kind, esp if ur super into physical touch like myself cuz its the first thing people smell when they hug u!! plus nobody likes feeling and smelling gross ♡

🧁𓂃 ࣪˖ spray, don't rub!

do not. rub in. the scent. it will not last long. no more. i do not care what your parents told you. It Does Not Last

👛𓂃 ࣪˖ not just the perfume!

to be smelling good, you need to make sure ur hygeine is on point and ur using all the basics, and a few extras if you can get ur hands on anything else. BO + perfume = disaster!

🐈‍⬛𓂃 ࣪˖ opposites do NOT necessarily attract!

layering and cohesiveness to some level is so important w scents!!!! otherwise ur gonna pile all of these lovely yet completely opposing fragrances on top of each other n its not gonna be very pleasant.

of course, experiment! these things are supposed to be fun! try to keep everything in a sort of cohesion with each other, i.e. super sweet, super fruity, and maybe just throw something in there that makes your scent more you! i.e., if you have a generally sweet theme with your scent profile, maybe you could throw something more cinnamony or pleasantly bitter in there! have fun with it! ♡

🎀𓂃 ࣪˖ eating right

so you hear this a lot, but it is really important; do not underestimate the importance of eating right! junk food n unhealthy food is yummy in moderation!

💬𓂃 ࣪˖ making it stick

something that helps me so much is adding vaseline or any type of cream, lotion, jelly, whatever onto the spot ur gonna spray before you spray it! it is SO effective and i literally cannot use perfume without doing this. pulse points in particular!

🐧𓂃 ࣪˖ general maintenance n consistency

make sure ur doing the basics all day long! topping up deodorant, perfume, especially in the summer! regular shower routine, etc, etc. be on your a game ! ♡

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 where:

♡ on ur neck

♡ on ur wrists pulse points

♡ behind ur knees

♡ on ur inner elbow

♡ on ur ankles (so the scent travels up)

🗒🎀 note: more on this in the "resources" chapter at the end 💬🧁🧸

──★ ˙ ̟🎀 bee's favourites:

♡ jimmy choo, rose passion

okay jimmy choo perfumes are my favourite ever and this one in particular i got for my last birthday, and it smells absolutely divine oh my gosh ♡ it kind of reminds me of a more mature version of the avon far & away perfume (which i mention later on! ♡ 💬💝)

♡ miss dior (on special occasions)

♡ johnson's pomegranate and hibiscus body lotion

♡ vaseline cocoa body oil

so i generally like to have sweet, cocoa type of scents in any product i use, and yeah its a body oil but it smells SO good oh my gosh, n layered with similar scents its actually heavenly ♡

♡ avon far and away perfume

hands down the BEST perfume i have ever used. smells like a summer daydream ♡

♡ victoria's secret bare vanilla spray & shimmer lotion (especially when paired! ♡)

♡ skinnydip creamy vanilla body scrub ♡

literally the only body scrub i use 😓♡

♡ imperial leather rose milk & mallow body wash ♡

���─★ ˙ ̟🎀 recommendations:

PERFUME & SPRAYS

viva a la juicy, juicy couture (on my wishlist! ♡)

bodycology strawberry cheesecake spray (on my wishlist! ♡)

any ariana grande perfume ♡

sweet tooth (any variation), sabrina carpenter

miss so, twilight kiss (my favourite ♡)

body fantasies cupcake swirl

tubbees strawberry cheesecake eau de parfum (i dont care if its for kids!)

BODY PRODUCTS

kwailnara strawberry milk body lotion (on my wishlist! ♡)

eos shea better body lotion, vanilla cashmere (apparently super good? ♡)

any philosophy product ♡

skinny dip raspberry ripple body lotion (on my wishlist! ♡)

anything victoria's secret ♡

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