oh nothing I’m just thinking about Alicent and Aegon again.
he's her baby. but not for very long because he's the firstborn. and he's not a child for very long because he's a prince. and princes have better things to do than cling to their mother’s skirts, no matter how strong their fists are.
and suddenly he’s not a prince anymore because he's a king. but she never had time to process having a baby, and so this thing that wears her face is not really a man but a boy. but he hasn’t been a boy for a very long time.
and she had him young. her belly grew bigger as she outgrew dresses and skirts and shoes because she was still growing. and when she had him, her father looked down and proclaimed him a conqueror.
but he wasn’t a conqueror, and she didn’t feel like a mother; they were both children.
a child queen and a conqueror's babe.
and all his memories of her are ones where she still had baby fat in her cheeks. she was a tiny mother and a small queen. and Aegon remembers.
he remembers her holding him; small hands and thin arms. but they held him, those thin arms held him up, and he always felt taller in his mother’s arms, he felt braver.
it's hard to know which one of them Viserys ruined more. Alicent doesn’t like to dwell on her fleeting girlhood, and Aegon doesn’t like to dwell on the shape of his father’s skeleton under his flesh.
it’s easier to pretend that he was never really wanted by anyone. (do you love me?) she thinks Aegon makes a horrid son but a dutiful legacy. (you imbecile.)
but they know each other more than they want to, and although the son is made in the image of the father, he cannot escape the blood of the womb.
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how do you think rod/clay/danielle would react to tiktok.
Rod: WHY ARE THESE WOMEN DANCING SO PROVOCATIVELY???
Clay: who are these men dancing so provocatively?~
Danielle: *is dancing provocatively*
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Love that my FP and my other friends are coming to my state for a small vacation and I can’t join because I have no transportation. Fuck this is going to be a long 4 days of them telling and showing me all they’ve done and I’m going to cry because i won’t be there 🙃 this is going to be painful
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Stuck in a public restroom with stomach cramps really is the best part of chronic illness
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just saw my seb tattoo on my arm and i'm crying again
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GUYS I"M LEARNIGN TOKI PONA GUYS
mi olin Sonic
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Tumblr, a poem
the place of art, the place of gays, the place of people who think they’re cool, the place of literature, the place of hate for twitter, the place of depression, the place of comedy, the place of apparently writing a movie, the place of inside jokes, and that creepy guy in a pikachu cosplay…
the place of friendships…sincere? Who knows? parasocial? Probably.
The place of shipping, and the place of peace and acceptance, tumblr.
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Drawing digitally is 10 minutes of drawing and 300 hours of trying to figure out why your eraser works with your mouse but not with your freaking pen that comes with your freaking tablet
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i finished my silly little paper, it went ~interestingly~ because they had us type it and i have never typed an exam before so i lost track of time and ended up having only 20 minutes in which to write my third essay. i don’t think i did badly though, it was just rushed. thankfully it’s just a mock exam
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Okay but the BBC i-player descriptions for Merlin hit so hard
Le morte d’Arthur
Friendship, loyalty and love are all tested to the limit as Merlin is forced to choose between those he loves most in the world. Just how far is the young sorcerer prepared to go to protect his destiny? And what will he have to sacrifice in order to do so?
Sword in the stone
Only Merlin can restore his faith
The Death Song of Uther Pendragon
Against all odds, Merlin must put right Arthur's mistake before Camelot and everything they have built
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