365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 112
Adjective: Frozen
Noun: Sunset
Definitions for those who need/want them:
Frozen: (of a liquid) turned into ice or another solid as a result of extreme cold; (of something wet or containing liquid) become blocked, covered, or rigid with ice; be or feel so cold that one is near death (often used hyperbolically); store (something) at a very low temperature in order to preserve it; (of food) be able to be preserved by freezing; become suddenly motionless or paralyzed with with fear or shock; stop moving when ordered or directed; hold (something) at a fixed level or in a fixed state for a period of time; prevent (assets) from being used for a period of time
Sunset: the time in the evening when the sun disappears or daylight fades; the colors and light visible in the sky on an occasion of the sun's disappearance in the evening, considered as a view or spectacle; a period of decline, especially the last years of a person's life
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1, 3, 5, 15, A and B for Iovanna & Daemon 🥺
MARII ty ty for the ask of my babies 🔮✨😖 i at LAST finally worked out the essentials for them and their babies so i was like..... i gotta yell about them u know? without further ado here's them <3
SHIP QUESTIONS: PARENTING (x)
1. Who do the kids enjoy playing with the most?
so the nature of iovanna and daemon as parents to baelor and calla was..... interesting ajsnjka. interestingly enough, he had mused for the longest time that he wished he had met her before valerion (her late husband and the supposed father of baelor and calla) had? that he had thought (and maybe its him projecting kasmksj) as they had prior rendezvous in the past, that maybe that they were his? and ur hunch was right daemy bc..... yea jskjank. and with THAT out of the way and without further ado! it wasn’t to say that he didn’t spend time with them bc boy howdy he did <3 (especially following the passing of valerian u know?) baelor didn’t spend much time outside of Starfall with preparations to be sword of the morning and all, but he spent enjoyed playing with his mother iovanna the most growing up but loved to spar with daemy as he got older! calla was a royal daddys girl and enjoyed spending time on dragon back, racing and learning to fly and the like! when she and iovanna would visit him and in pentos she adored hearing his stories and seeing who could fly the circumference of pentos the fastest <3
visenaera has a different take and a less complicated tune! with no what ifs there was no question who was her parentage u know? and as she was born post dance as her and daemon are free to live their happy ending as they've wanted since 104 ac <3 she preferred them both! now living in essos, like what daemy did with calla, iovanna LOVED to race with vizzy on dragonback around places in essos! baelor and calla would join in part when they had down time from being lord of starfall/sword of the morning for bae and lady of winterfell for calla <3! she was all the best qualities of them both (they all are who are we kidding kasmjk) and adored sparring with her father and hearing his stories of his younger years! (and hearing his fairytale romance with vanna ✨😖) he even gifted her dark sister when she grew up to become sword of the morning!
3. Who does the baby follow around more?
baelor followed around his mommas iovanna the most often..! (he kept his distance with his father while at dragonstone as he became uncannily like daemy and he wished not to cause any questions to be raised that would question the honor of his mother u know? calla was not far behind daemy whenever she visited pentos or he visited her in norvos! best girl dad ever daemy taking his daughter out for joyrides with their dragons....... sobbing! actually, BOTH of his daughters bc though he was dragon-less post dance he'd take to horseback, and vizzy would take to her dragon and they would take rides around as he did with calla :'). and speaking of vizzy! she followed them both! iovanna and daemy were inseparable post-dance u know? and so if it was in cities or on her and iovanna and daemy on dragonback and horseback, she enjoyed shadowing them both <3
5. Who’s constantly up checking on the baby in the middle of the night (even when the baby is sound asleep)?
i would say daemon? when baelor was little, it was usually valerion who handled checking on him! and daemy would give his best friend and the love of his life iovanna time to rest and would handle checking on him when he visited! daemy took the parental role for calla as valerion passed a bit before(?) she was born (i haven't worked that part out yet asknkxj) and would check on her when he visited her in starfall or kingslanding! iovanna was a for sure night owl and while raising vizzy when she was awake at odd hours, she would insist to check on her every once in a while? daemon would insist insist he should :) of course in equal parts both endeared and like "if you insist" jasmkj she would let him check on vizzy <3
15. Who is better at comforting the kids when they’re scared?
THAT DELETED SCENE AFTER L*AENAS PASSINGG DAEMY COMFORTING HIS DAUGHTERS? that SOLD MEEE that he was the one to have a PhD in comforting the loved ones when scared u know? but it isn't to say that iovanna wasn't the best, she was often up to her shoulders in her work as she was a spymaster for two kingdoms (starfall and westeros at one point until post-dance!) so she was not the most available to be right? she would feel guilty about it but relieved that daemy (and rhaenys and corlys! and maekar when he was around! rhaenyra as well! iovannas babies were so loved AHH.)
a. Who do they think their child takes after? In what ways do they remind them of each other?
baelor is like....... there are aspects of his father in mannerisms, personality, tactics in combat and his features (the squared jaw? the athletic built-ish build and TALL, the silvery-blonde and violet eyes but iovanna has violet eyes and valerion had the silvery hair and violet eyes as well so in the period before they realized they assumed he took after valerion jsnakjnxd). Calla and Vizzy are MIRROR IMAGES OF IOVANNA..... the haunting violet eyes and the resting easiness/nonchalance in their demeanor are what was most resemblant of her? though for all three the hair was a dead giveaway resemblance to daemy <3. but vizzy has a near similar almost mirroring smile as her dad! equal parts both smug and at times intimidating if you're at the sharp end of dark sister or dawn! and the easiness and nonchalance of vanna! though all three couldn't hold a candle to calla who had the air about her that eases the hearts and minds of many like iovanna <3
b. What was their first night as new parents like?
iovanna was luuuucky to have so many loved ones and friends that could aid her in caretaking for both baelor and calla...... as she may have a PhD in spymastering, is the mistress of mists, and one of the most read that would rival a maester in how much she knows..... baby girl was like ????? parenting? SHE WAS LIKE HELPPP JSANAJKXS. their first night with vizzy iovanna had advice and knowledge from the best (her parents and her loved ones!) and her own trials and tribulations and thus had a better grasp of things! she also had more time to devote herself then no longer swamped to her ears! she was still the mistress of whispers in starfall but now that she had ample time....! she had a TIME......! and yet it was strangely exciting? she loved every moment <3 daemon has been super-dad from the BEGINNING which she has been eternally grateful for! they get their happy ever after at last with their babies <3
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i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".
it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.
do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.
but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.
do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).
you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.
walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.
no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.
do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."
you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.
there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.
i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.
he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."
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