#adera

[rozechildz]

[Singkat Cerita: Muara.]

Di malam yang kelabu,

Aku berperang dengan pikiranku.

Banyak skenario yang belum tentu terjadi datang menghampiri, mengacaukan sanubari, dan merefleksikan hidup yang singkat ini.

Lalu, ditengah kekalutan emosi, muncullah lagu ini dalam rekomendasi

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Dan ternyata, versi ini sangat indah.

Instrumen yang dibawa, irama, nada, semua terasa begitu sempurna.

Dan tidak terasa, ada gumam yang datang dari harap yang sudah lama padam.

Bahwa... Penantian ini akan terbayar suatu hari nanti.

Bersama orang yang tepat, waktu yang tepat, dan rasa yang tepat.

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Semoga kamu jawaban dari doaku, yang akan mengakhiri penantianku.

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Dear my future wife,

"Kaulah matahariku dan kaulah samudera. Tempat hatiku bermuara."

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[Ditulis dimalam kelabu, saat masuk angin, rasa haru, dan pikiran liar berkecamuk di benakku.]

Ra.

[maidragoste]

Hope

Viserys Targaryen & Adera Velaryon

Summary: Instead of choosing Lady Alicent Hightower as his second wife Viserys Targaryen marries Corlys Velaryon's youngest daughter. On the day of their son's name Viserys and Adera have a conversation.

A/N: If you already know Sea Dragon you know that this is not romantic because she never wanted to marry him.

Adera watched Viserys alone in front of the flames drinking what she assumed was more wine, throughout the celebration she had seen him asking the servants to refill his cup every now and then. With all the wine he drank it was obvious that he was drunk and he shouldn't be alone in that state, especially near the fire. The last thing she needed was for him to end up losing his balance and burning to death. What the young queen wanted most was to be free from her marriage but she didn't want him to die yet, not when he hadn't yet declared Aegon as his heir. So she forced herself to go to her husband's side while she caressed her stomach trying to calm the baby who wouldn't stop kicking.

Viserys felt his wife's presence but he didn't take his eyes off the fire and decided to wait for her to speak after all she had been the one who came to him. But it was the wrong decision because it only made her more upset.

“You are acting pitifully,” Adera declared, and Viserys laughed in surprise, though he shouldn’t have been because he knows his second wife has a sharp tongue, but Aemma never spoke to him like that. “What is making you act so pitifully? If it is because of Rhaenyra…”

“You know I named her to protect the realm from Daemon” he interrupted her abruptly and on another occasion Adera would have been upset by that but now she concentrated on listening to him attentively feeling that this was not going to be just any conversation. “She was my only child, the realm's delight. I named her that out of love because I no longer believe” Viserys stopped talking and a tear escaped from his left eye. For a brief moment Adera felt sorry for him, there was no need for him to say out loud that he thought Rhaenyra would be his only daughter, but then she remembered how tired Aemma looked in each of her pregnancies and any empathy she felt for her husband vanished.

Adera instead of pressing him to continue, waited and watched the king take a few breaths as if he was gathering strength to continue speaking.

“Many in our line have been dragon riders but very few among us have been dreamers,” he said, looking at his wife.

“Did you have a dream?” the young woman asked, completely surprised, and without thinking she moved closer to him, wanting to know everything. Viserys had never impressed her before, except for that time when she was just a little girl and he had given her a dragon egg in an attempt to fix things between him and her mother after the council of Harrenhal had chosen him as king. If it hadn’t been for that dragon egg then Adera would never have had Nightwing and who knows she might not have even been a dragon rider.

"When Rhaenyra was a child I saw it in a dream as vivid as these flames I saw it" Viserys smiled at the memory and when he saw Adera's bright eyes his smile was more expanded, it was not usual to see that expression in her or at least not addressed to him.” A a male babe born to me wearing the conqueror's crown. I thought I would be a son of mine and Aemma but now. "

“You think you saw our son,” Adera finished for him, feeling hope. Perhaps her unhappiness was worth it in the end if Aegon ended up being king.

Viserys wished he could feel happier at the thought of his dream coming true, but he couldn’t stop thinking about Rhaenyra. He didn’t know what to do with her. He didn’t think she would forgive him if he disinherited her, and he couldn’t bear to have his daughter hate him.

“I have already declared Rhaenyra as my heir,” he said, as if he needed to remind himself.

“Because at the time you didn't have a son,” she replied, not willing to waste this opportunity to at least make the king reconsider. “I will risk speaking frankly and making you upset with me but I am only trying to help you, husband,” she declared as she took his hand and began to caress it. “I believe that you actually named Rhaenyra as your heir because you felt guilty about Aemma’s death.” Adera tried hard not to fidget when Viserys rested his head on her shoulder seeking comfort, she wasted no time and continued in a soft voice. “You were the one who chose Aegon’s name and you could have chosen any Valyrian name but you decided on the conqueror’s because deep down you know that it is right for your son to be king.”

“I don’t want Rhaenyra to hate me,” he confessed, and perhaps Adera would be touched by the love Viserys has for his daughter if it weren’t for the fact that she is the mother of his son. She didn’t wish the princess harm; they had been friends in the past and she remembers with nostalgia the moments they shared together, but Rhaenyra stopped being her priority the moment Aegon was born. Adera doesn’t plan on allowing her son to be robbed of his inheritance.

“She won't do it,” the queen assured patiently as she caressed his hair with false affection. “She didn’t even want to be queen. She didn’t want that responsibility, she just wanted to fly on her dragon and eat cake without worries,” she said, remembering when she used to spend time with the princess and Lady Alicent in the gardens.

Any response from the king is forgotten when the sound of a horn is heard throughout the camp. Viserys moves away from her shoulder and looks at her. Any sign of drunkenness seems to have disappeared with this conversation and now in his eyes she can see that he is really thinking about her words.

“Thank you for listening to me” he said surprising her and kisses her forehead. Adera concentrates on ignoring the discomfort of feeling Viserys’ lips and clings to the hope that Aegon will be king.

A/N: I never thought that the first thing I would post after months would be something with Viserys lol

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[sasster]

Aderae, what if the first thing you hope people notice about you?

“That I don’t want to be bothered.”

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Woodensday:

Fantasy coffin (abebui adera) in the form of an eagle, 2017

Crafted by: Joseph Tetteh Ashong (Paa Joe) (Ghanaian, b.1947)

Painted by: Jasper Mensah (Ghanaian)

Made in: Pobiman, Accra, Ghana

Painted wood,132.1×91.4×287cm (52 × 36 × 113 in.)

on display at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[roetrolls]

I know you’re not a betting man but wanna bet on who wins?

"In our youth Punnam could have bested even myself. I expect that is no longer true... But he is a force to be reckoned with, I am sure."

[varrekailior]

couple o' spooks in the graveyard

[indig0trolls]

chase channeling Orfusecore so hard rn

[lordtonic]

all animals love aderae

they just do okay

[nonaabuabu]

Rembulan Sebelum Fajar

Terinspirasi dari Lagu Melukis Bayangmu, Adera

mungkin sehari, seminggu, sebulan atau sudah setahun, sejak kehadiranmu melintang di titik hidup yang tak ingin kubiarkan siapapun di sana. tapi kau memberikan kehangatan yang membuatku berhenti menggigil. maka aku merela sebab petang tak bisa menghentikan malam yang datang. namun masa selalu berlalu, bukan?

kakiku sudah mulai basah, oleh embun dini hari meski nyalamu masih bisa kurasakan. aku seperti jatuh dalam kisah prambanan, tapi tak ada jin dan simsalabim, juga tak ada kau yang bersedia dimenangkan. aku hanya berkejaran dengan diriku sendiri, menangkap bayangmu yang semakin bias, menyimpannya dalam sekotak puisi.

ia menjadi kata, aksara, diksi, rima dan segala yang menyusun sajak. sebab kelak semua akan menjadi tiada, maka meski terdengar pesakitan biarkan aku menjadikan dirimu manuskrip yang bisa kubaca kapan saja. bahwa pernah ada masa di mana aku jatuh cinta dengan benar.

01 Agustus 2024

[ilreleonewikiart]

TDIOBCB challenge - day 9:

Arranged Marriage - The Marriage of Alyn Velaryon and Lada Rogare in 142 AC

"Regrettably, despite his spirited and enterprising nature, Alyn was ill-prepared to manage a noble house of such importance.  His unexpected rise to Lordship of Driftmark, combined with a lack of specific upbringing due to his dark lineage, led to important challenges, as he found himself in possession of unparalleled wealth without proper guidance - and perhaps feeling the need to prove himself equal to other Lords despite his status as a bastard son - squandered a considerable sum on futile and reckless activities over the years. Despite being a skilled navigator and ship captain, Alyn proved to be a terrible merchant with a poor sense of business. Numerous unfortunate investments led to substantial losses and debts with the banks. To redeem these debts, the Lord was forced to accept the proposal of House Rogare, with whom the young Lord had contracted a large number of debts due to his great passion for the young women of Lys, who agreed to turn a blind eye as long as he married the young Lada, once a priestess of the Goddess Adera, and promised not to obstruct their commercial plans with Westeros. Of that day, those present at the event mainly remembered the beauty and elegance of the young bride, dressed in a precious silk stole, but above all, the gloomy and despondent expression of the Lord, who, as a bachelor, finally surrendered to becoming a married man. However, the tranquillity of married life seemed not to be for him, so as soon as he managed to impregnate the young Lady of Driftmark, Lord Alyn set sail with his ships on another expedition, and then another, and yet another, until the end of his long and tumultuous life. From his wife, he had 3 children, Leanor, Marirlda, and Corlys, but it is believed that countless others were born from the many lovers he encountered in his travels through the Known World."

- from TDIOBCB chapter 1

(warning: these illustrations are inspired by an AU Divergence and have nothing to do with canon (book or tv show) events and are not meant to be reposted outside of their contest)

[maidragoste]

Of course I had to edit them with this song

[sasster]

HARLAN HAD A CRUSH ON THAN?

"From what I know the two of them were fully in love."

[byrdtrollsunoreversearchive]

Imagining orfuse looney tunes running back and forth between his seperate quadrant day dinners with thanat and aderae, switching outfits

[roetrolls]

Sayyy Kenshe!

[varrekailior]

I do not apologize for trying to catch up to the prompts lmfao.

Fluffvember prompt 3: Nameday Surprise! Could've gone numerous directions but instead Varrekai felt it was Very Necessary to add to the Shark Son army.

 Get yo' man a Blahaj.

[mariacallous]

In November 2022, Dominique Lazarski stood among a small crowd of people on the Pontoise airfield near Paris, watching a flying taxi trace wide circles in a clear blue sky after it took off for the first time from a working vertiport in France. Airborne, the vehicle looked like a giant quadcopter; its rotors spinning rapidly to keep a small taxi cab aloft. Yet Lazarski, who lives in the city part time, was thinking only about the whirring sound coming from above her head. “I thought it was quite, quite noisy,” she remembers.

What Lazarski—who is president of ADERA, a group that campaigns against increased air traffic at Paris-Beauvais Airport, north of the city—had witnessed was the beginning of a campaign to get Parisians excited about the prospect of flying taxis in the skies above the Summer Olympics.

“The development of low-altitude aviation for urban air mobility is an adventure full of promise—for employment, for the environment, and for the lives of Île-de-France residents,” pledged Valérie Pécresse, president of the regional council of Île-de-France, the region which includes Paris, that same year. The first airline ticket might have been issued in Florida, she added, but the first flying taxi would take off from French soil. “The Olympics are an incredible opportunity and showcase to launch this project.”

Yet after years of planning, the project failed to convince Parisian politicians, the public, and safety officials that the technology was ready for widespread use at the Summer Olympics. A sole flying taxi ascended over Versailles for five minutes on the last day of the Olympics, but it had no passengers. The promise of tourists traveling over Paris in flying taxis failed to materialize, and instead the technology suffered a high-profile setback. Volocopter declined WIRED’s request for an on-record comment about what went wrong.

Flying cars have been mythologized by sci-fi, featuring in movies from The Fifth Element to Blade Runner as a symbol of the future. But what happened in Paris shows the barriers that stand between the technology and its modern-day debut. Their supporters have yet to find a way to effectively sell them to the public or even decide what—or who—exactly flying taxis are for.

The idea of Olympic tourists soaring over Paris in flying taxis was initially greeted with enthusiasm. “Paris Dreams of Flying Taxis for 2024,” read a 2021 headline in the news outlet Les Echos.

By 2023, a year after the demo in Pontoise, the two companies behind the project, German flying taxi developer Volocopter and French airport operator ADP, remained bullish. The noise wasn’t going to be a problem, they said, claiming the flying taxis would not be audible from the ground when flown at an altitude of around 500 meters. Edward Arkwright, ADP’s deputy CEO, acknowledged in June 2023 there would be challenges ahead. But he insisted: “All lights are green for us to be there in the summer of 2024.” ADP did not reply to a request to comment.

Six months before the opening ceremony, Dirk Hoke, CEO of Volocopter, was still hopeful. “[We’re] making people aware that this is not science fiction,” he told WIRED in February, touting the flying taxi as a sustainable, safe, and quiet mode of transport that would become normal in just a few years. “It works and it starts this year.”

Flights on Volocopter’s VoloCity model would be free-of-charge, and initially three routes were planned across Paris. But even as those plans were made public, Hoke had yet to travel in one of his own vehicles. “I would love to,” he said, “but so far, according to the regulation, only test pilots are allowed.” Still, his tone was optimistic. “We will hopefully start flying in July and then start also with passengers, probably in August.”

But just two months later, Hoke started expressing doubts in German media. After being rejected for a state loan, the company was facing the prospect of insolvency “in the foreseeable future” if its shareholders would not agree to more financing, he told the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.

At the same time, backlash to the project was mounting, with critics complaining the VoloCity (which could transport only one passenger at a time) was more akin to a private plane than any form of public transport. “We don't need them,” says Lazarski. She believes the flying taxis would create visual and noise pollution in the skies above Paris, without giving its residents anything back. “It’s not mass transportation,” she says, claiming the vehicles would be used by only the most privileged. “They’re for business people.”

Lazarski was not alone in her concerns. Seventeen thousand people have signed a petition so far calling for the project to be scrapped, and politicians in charge of Paris also joined the backlash—pitting politicians in the capital against the wider region and government.

Dan Lert, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of the green transition, called the VoloCity an “absurd gadget” that will “only benefit a few ultrarich people.” His colleague David Belliard, deputy mayor in charge of mobility, echoed that sentiment. “It is useless, it is anti-ecological, it is very expensive,” he said in July.

Volocopter, however, defended its product as affordable. “We strongly believe that when we go into the hundreds and thousands of these vehicles, that we can easily reach a price per equivalent seat which is only a bit higher than a taxi on the street,” Hoke said in February.

Yet other flying taxi executives have acknowledged that getting to that point will take time, and that first there will be a period where these vehicles cater to the wealthy. “A lot of the initial use cases will be first- and business-class passengers connecting with flights,” Michael Cervenka, chief technology officer of UK-based flying taxi company Vertical Aerospace, said earlier this year.

By late July, it was clear that Volocopter’s plans for the Paris Olympics were being scaled back, even as the company claimed its immediate money problems had been solved. “It's a technological advance that could be of use,” transport minister Patrice Vergriete insisted, acknowledging the flying taxis might not be able to welcome any passengers in time for the Olympics. Publicly, Volocopter was careful not to credit the public backlash with the setback, instead blaming an American supplier for “not [being] able to provide what it had promised,” as well as its failure to win approval from the EU Aviation Safety Authority to operate commercially.

Lazarski does not consider the failure of flying taxis so far a victory. “It's more relief,” she says. But for her, the battle is not over. As vice president of UFCNA, the French union against aircraft nuisance, Lazarksi is involved in a legal challenge against plans to operate a vertiport on the river Seine for flying taxis to take off and land from central Paris. That launchpad has already secured permission from the government to operate until December. The race for the Olympics may be over, but the dream of flying taxis over Paris is not dead.