#hope that makes sense lol

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

This isn’t really a fully formed thought or anything. But it’s interesting how Sansa, Jon, and Lyanna specifically factor into one of GRRM’s greater explorations on the merits of fantasy. More specifically, there is a common trope that connects these three characters: a princess locked in a tower transforming into a valiant knight/hero. Lyanna and Jon, for starters, are pretty obvious explorations of this. Lyanna is the reconstructed version of this classic trope especially as presented through Arthurian tradition; but the twist here is that the dragon/knight who “locks” her in the tower isn’t actually evil and she isn’t so much kidnapped but rather willingly chooses to go there with him. This princess in a tower directly results in the birth of the hidden prince trope, which is even older than Arthur. So one fantasy classic, Rhaegar and Lyanna, leads to another with Jon being Arthur (a hidden prince and destined king), Percival (a hero who grows up in obscurity but has a great destiny to save the land), and Galahad (a noble hero destined to be even greater than his father, Rhaegar/Lancelot, ever was) all at once.

This princess dies in the tower…but her spirit/ghost lives on through her son, who grows up to look and act just like her, eventually becoming the valiant hero you read in the stories (but again, a de/reconstructed version). Part of how Jon does this is by repeating Lyanna’s actions as the valiant “knight” protecting an innocent from bullies. So by making it out of that tower even though his mother didn’t, Jon becomes the survival and rebirth of the fantasy ideal. You could even make the argument that just because Lyanna died doesn’t mean fantasy died as well because it lives on through Jon, her son. And this is actually is aided by Lyanna’s pleading for her son’s life, so she has some agency in how fantasy is preserved in the same way she had agency in how it’s perpetuated when she protected Howland Reed and when she ran off with Rhaegar. The princess living on and becoming the hero/knight in the stories is thus taken on by two characters here: Lyanna and Jon, mother and son. Jon goes even further into the Arthurian-knight playbook by encountering and eventually killing another vicious bully, Janos Slynt, who was coincidentally had a hand in his father’s demise. Then enter princess in the tower 2.0, Sansa Stark.

Sansa is an interesting case because she’s not martial in the way Lyanna and Jon are. But she too encounters her fair share of knights and villains. Janos Slynt is one of them, and Littlefinger will be another. I’ve talked about this before but Jon becoming the valiant hero Sansa wished for is important because it directly plays into GRRM’s reconstruction and (imo) defense of the ideals of fantasy. It’s not so much that heroes don’t exist - they actually do. They just might be far away, or might be the ones you’d never expect. This is the opposite of the “fantasy is dead, stop believing because everything sucks” reading you might see in some sections of the fandom. This moment may not end up meaning much for Jon and Sansa and their relationship, but it means a lot to us readers who are audiences of GRRM’s conversations with the genre and his arguments for its appeal. But that’s not the only interesting thing because Sansa, unlike Lyanna, does eventually make it out of the tower. But she’s currently in the hands of Littlefinger who, like Janos Slynt, was a villain responsible for her father’s demise. In this scenario, will she have to wait for a valiant hero to come take care of him again? Or will she instead don the knight’s armor (figuratively) by enacting justice in her own right? Based on the GoHH’s prophecy, it looks like it will be the latter; and it’s important to note how often “armor” as a motif is repeated in Sansa’s chapters. Thus, the princess evolving into the hero is told through the arc of a singular character here. Sansa is the princess who makes it out of the tower to become a hero of her own making; important disclaimer though, Littlefinger doesn’t really play into the elements of knighthood but he does count as an evil lord holding a princess hostage so Sansa can still be a subversion of the knight rescuing the maiden - the lesson being that she is her own knight, her own salvation!

It’s a very powerful meta-textual thread that exists between these three characters. They all fit into a wider narrative about fantasy and how it can live on, whether played straight or twisted a little crooked. So Sansa doesn’t have to be an overt in-universe parallel to Lyanna because that’s just not her role in the story. And I personally don’t think any “similarities” they have are actually important to Sansa as a person or to Jon because let’s face it, Lyanna’s primary (and most important) role is to be Jon’s mother and everything else informs on that. But both these women (and Jon) can be meta twinsies based on how they fit into GRRM’s wider narrative goals.

[soaps-mohawk]

I was re-reading the latest chapter and I wondered something about when reader went in distress...When did Ghost follow them? Did he try to call out to them or grab them and reader just couldn't notice because of the distress?

So, idk if I explained it very well in the fic when reader first went to the gym, but it's set up less like a standard gym where it's just basically one big open area, and like a pool maybe in a separate area. It's more set up like a community center than just a gym. So the weight room is in a separate room, the pool is in a separate space, there's other training areas in separate spaces. They don't just use it to exercise, they also do training in there too so that's why I decided to have it set up that way.

So, Ghost just kind of went into a different area to clear his head but also so he could keep an eye on the reader if they decided to run (which they did.) I like to think he did plan on going back for the reader when he had calmed down a bit, and the reader had calmed down, but of course the reader didn't know that and things kind of spiraled. As soon as the reader went for the emergency door, he was right behind them and watched them until they went into the med bay, knowing that was a safe area. Reader was already too distressed to notice, and even if they had, it wasn't likely they would have even recognized Ghost, nor felt safe enough to stop, especially since he was the one that caused it in the first place.

[seasononesam]

what does stackednatural mean ? 🤨

It’s this like thing where people watch each episode of spn on the day that it originally aired, but I’ve been using it as a gif challenge to post a gifset of every supernatural episode on the day that it aired :)

[legendofthe3divas]

If I had to dedicate one song that just represents Perrie it would most definitely be shout out to my ex. She’s so cute in it, she vibes with it so much and it’s just her song!

[yea-baiyi]

Look I'm sure it doesn't matter but I just woke up and I'm not sure I can agree with you about washing xie liana personality in the donghua like... he's shown very expressive and cheeky like his banter with Ling wen I thought was spot on all while still keeping him as incredibly competent. You obvi don't have too but can you elaborate on where it washed out his personality??

oh you definitely have a point there, the donghua worked some of xie lian’s personality into the details. but i’m referring to the general tone of the donghua, which generally presents things as calm and pretty (compared to the mood of chaos that i feel when reading the book). much of it is from not having xie lian’s narration, making the experience less hilarious. i suppose that’s just a limitation of the medium since idk how the show could convey the visceralness of the book in animated form.

my point tho was that i attribute the donghua to xie lian’s bland fanon characterisation, because when i first watched the donghua before reading the book, i definitely didn’t come away thinking oh my god his guy is a huge goof and a bitch as i should have

[levmada]

i read some levi multichapter fics and im like 'how tf do they manage to balance so many supporting characters and still maintain the focus on levi x reader??' — so, gee, do you have any tips for successfully incorporating supporting/side characters into fics? (for a novice writer)

i suppose that would depend on how many side characters u have and how important they are to the conflict/plot. like u can have side characters that are static and are just 🧍🏻🧍🏻there to support the setting or main cast. however you want some of them to make an impact on the story even if it’s a small thing. their existence can’t be for ONE plot thing or for a main character. they are characters too.

obviously keeping track of them is easier if you have less, and even less you want to be directly involved in levi/reader’s/whoever’s lives. and having too many becomes distracting + it’s hard for the reader to keep track of who everyone is.

either way, this is one of many good reasons to plan plan plan your fic. plan your chapters. take some note of what the side characters are like, what they’ll do per chapter / what part they’ll play, how they change or don’t change, motivations, etc. side characters are JUST like the main cast, just with less focus placed on them. they’re still characters. u don’t want them to be flat, or work only as decoration, or no one will care about them, and the other characters suffer at the expense of the bland one.

but also don’t let place TOO much focus on them, because main characters are the main characters lol.

tldr; plan ur fics. do not forget about the side characters. also don’t have too many.

[chaoticgenders]

if anyone has any aldernic terms or genders about dolls, robots, computers, and anything off of this google doc along w/ prns to match i'll love you 5ever. /p /nf

[kookingtae]

How could Tae see that she did a video chat with koo??

he can see what her last services were! so when oc switched from text, to phone call, back to text, to video chat, then back to text again, her subscription settings within EC change each time. and there’s a record of that kept, which each service provider can see. he knew she did a video chat last time, but he didn’t know it was with jk until she told him she’s been with jk this whole time!

[amphihare]

why the move :0

ive been using tumblr a while and a few years ago i had barely any regard for things i posted or interacted with but now that im older and the career path of "internet artist" requires me to be more careful about what i post ie personal stuff or problematic shit from when i was younger and stupider i thought it would be best to just remake

[spibder]

made some lil sticker designs of fnaf movie human/animatronic duos :3c they r on my redbubble if u wanna stick em anywhere lols

[astermath]

WAIT just realized the enemies to lovers fic has sunshine!reader x blackcat!carmy energy omg

but anyway amazing fic and i hope carmy come to his senses that he actually likes reader, and not hate her

ZGDHQGS YESSS

usually I prefer writing for black cat readers but with carmy's personality it just like,, makes sense to put a sunshine reader yk

yeah the vibe I was going for is like,, carmen's life was so tumultuous and he didn't know how to control his feelings at all, so he confused the strange feeling in his stomach and his jealousy when you were around for something bad and upsetting, when it was really just a budding crush

but it was way easier for him to hate you and deflect those feelings than to admit to them and possibly get distracted from his career

[legendofthe3divas]

how long have you and @thegayestfrog been dating ? <3

We aren’t actually dating. We’re friends. Very good friends for what it’s worth.

We have done lots of things where I can tell that you might’ve got the idea but we both can’t stress enough that it’s all in the most platonic way ever.

We are best platonic bros. Nothing more. Nothing less.

[bookishjules]

the stark contrast between sally's you are not broken. you are singular. you're a miracle. you are my son, to chiron's as a forbidden child of the sea god, you are singular amongst demigods...

whole. singular. alone.

perfect in the eye of his mother, and a tool in the eye of his father. his existence is his mother's world and his father's ruination... unless he can do something about it, but why would he want to do that? poseidon left him alone. to hollow out and fill with godly power and dictated direction when the time came. meanwhile sally was filling percy with love and acceptance. for who he already was and for whoever he would become.

[justonefeather]

Found a picrew. I'm OBSESSED it's "pre cracked maker" so here's my transition in a nutshell i suppose!!!

Me at 13 immediately before transitioning -> me now (26) after ~8 yrs T, top surgery, hysto, and finally feeling semi comfortable in my body -> further transition goals (depending on if my body and confidence levels are gonna work with me or not)

[yardsards]

laios when his party needed more members:

[buglaur]

sims character page code

hii, ages ago i made a simple but customisable character page to try and get the hang of html and css, so i thought i'd release it. all of the instructions are within the code! the code will look like the first pic when you put it in your page but you can play around with it to get different looks. i tried to make it as beginner friendly as possible so even if you have no code knowledge you should be able to follow it :) but if not, don't hesitate to send me an ask!

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