#interesting lady

[avatarvyakara]

On a similar theme (a continuation of Crimson Shades):

5. Nourrir

(v) nurture, nurse, entertain, fill; 1st singular perfect j’ai nourri

Our baby.

We could lose our baby.

VILE is family. We watch ourselves, we work together to finish the mission. We protect each other. And that means we don’t go rogue.

And Black Sheep was one of us. Is one of us. Was going to be one of us, until Shadowsan put in her final grade.

Looks like he’s feeling as bad as any of us, though. Guess he has his regrets too.

If I’d gone to check on her before graduation, then maybe she’d still be here. I didn’t think she’d want to be coddled. Lambkins has grown up so fast. But if Mama Bear had been to see her then, maybe she’d be facing the night watching the globe, wandering through the library, spending time with the family we’ve tried to give her. Not God knows where in the world, all on her own.

It’s gotta be Morocco. It’s gotta be.

Or maybe we could have brought her case before Shadowsan, gotten him to redo her exam. Maybe it wouldn’t be with the others in her class, but she’d be out there soon enough. Snatching from the best, she’d be.

Now I’m worried I’ll never get to see those moments. Her first robbery, her first kill, her first big scheme on her own. And she’d be so good at it. All those pranks, the grin she got when she watched me beating up people who picked on her (steal a man’s phone? Well extra credit to her if she did, but Lambkins would never hide something like that from me…I thought), the way she threw that Crackle boy over her shoulder on the first day? She’s made for this life. She’s got the right kind of dark in her. Won’t let nobody get in the way of her fun.

She could still have that. Maybe this’ll be the test she needed.

And then we could have a talk, afterwards, about what evil means. The others wouldn’t. They like to dodge the concept. Except Shadowsan, but the man don’t seem to want our baby to grow up.

Not that I blame him, altogether.

Evil just means you know what you are. We’ve all got that drive inside us, to want to one-up others, make sure our spot’s secure. We’ve all got that part that just loves knocking the enemy to the ground with a smirk, breaking the symbol of what makes them them, ending their life one way or another. So many goodbyes. We’ve all got an anger in us, and that puppy needs a lot of feeding. And that’s why there’s the League. So we can do that, the best of the best, make ourselves better. Build the family we were never gonna have otherwise.

The honour among thieves is ours alone. We’re all monsters. Don’t mean we can’t love, have fun, do things for others. Just means we know we’re all we have in the world. Gotta make yourself comfortable in life. So what if strangers suffer? They’re just as bad. Just don’t wanna admit it—or can’t get at you first.

The world is ours. Not because others don’t want it, but because we’re the only ones in the shadows. And it’s always night somewhere.

Bellum don’t understand about the why, she just wants to play. Cleo, too, with dollies ‘stead of dynamite. Maelstrom loves talking about shades of grey. Shadowsan respects the dark, knows how to harness it.

Me, I love my family. And I love hurting people. That’s just me.

Just didn’t know Black Sheep would mix them up like this.

No, no, she don’t mean nothin’ by it. Lambkins wanted to see the world. Always has. She don’t wanna hurt us. Betcha she’ll be right back with a gem as big as my fist, snatching it before the graduates, big smile on her face…

God, I hope she’s okay.

I’d kill if something happened to her.

[luckydetectivelight]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

best thing about batman is that he's a superficially grimdark character, gothic & brooding & angst ridden etc..........but then it turns out he has a million hobbies, regularly goes on adventures with his besties, and has a dozen adopted kids he's raising with his devoted foster dad. good for him

[stil-lindigo]

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[shrooomcat]

“Paul has never killed a man.”

Dune dir. Denis Villeneuve

The mother and the son, watch each other kill.

[hinamie]

*catboys ur shounen protag*

[ladystoneboobs]

so, one aspect of catelyn which i think is underrated (certainly the biggest adaptation loss which nobody talks about) is her, let's say superstitiousness, or better yet, let's call it genre-savviness, being one of the few adult characters open to magic and the supernatural in this fantasy world. we first meet her in the godswood, home of gods which are not truly hers, yet she is still very aware of their power. when she and ned talk of the deserter he killed, he hopes he won't have to go with the nw to deal with mance rayder, but she has even more fear of that idea bc there are worse things beyond the wall than just wildlings. ned scoffs and says she's been listening to old nan too much, but she's right. we already know from the prologue that she's right! and here she is, understanding the genre of their world better than her husband, who was actually born and spent his earliest years in this northern land of deep magic, listening to old nan's stories. same with the direwolves, where she was uncomfortable with them at first, but later believed in them as guardians from the old gods even after robb had lost his own faith. and once again, we know she's right even if she doesn't know the evidence to back up her instincts, bc summer and shaggydog did not fail bran and rickon and robb was almost certainly a warg like his brothers. (perhaps making it more fitting that she's the one brought back as a fantasy vengeance monster, not ned and robb, the most unbelieving dead starks.) and in her 2nd agot chapter, everyone focuses on her ambition in wanting ned to agree to the hand job (pun intended) and sansa's betrothal, and while she does recognize the value of their daughter being a future queen more than ned does, that's only her stated argument bc she thinks it's rational enough for ned to listen to. (if ambitious matchmaking were as important to her as to her father she never would have made those frey betrothals fandom loves to blame her for.) in her own head there's a deeper urge driving her. she keeps thinking of the dead direwolf with antlers in its throat, an omen which filled her with dread from the first she heard of it, before robert's arrival, and thinking of it again is what makes her desperate to convince ned not to refuse robert. she had to make him see. and really, she's not wrong, as jon snow would say. the dead direwolf was an omen of ned and robert getting each other killed. it's just one of those misread portents, with no way of knowing the danger to ned was in his loyalty to robert, not conflict with him. BUT the next time she's dealing with baratheons, she knows exactly what she's talking about. it's catelyn, not brienne, who sees the shadow slaying renly, and explains that it was stannis who did that through some dark magic. with no way of knowing how it was achieved and no prior expectation that such a thing were ever possible, she realizes with no hestitation that stannis was guilty and that his red witch was capable of pulling this off somehow. really, the only instinct of the supernatural she's wholly wrong about is her insistence that varys gathered his knowledge through some dark enchantment. however, though that might offend varys, given his own personal experience with a sorcerer, i'd say it's a reasonable assumption without knowing the dude had children moving through walls everywhere like oversized rodents. and imo it just shows she had a healthy respect and awe for varys's power which most other characters lack.

oh, oh, and let's not forget that she also believed in the curse of harrenhal, from her own childhood and the stories old nan told her kids. "and every house that held Harrenhal since had come to misfortune. Strong it might be, but it was a dark place, and cursed. 'I would not have Robb fight a battle in the shadow of that keep,' Catelyn admitted." sure, that wasn't enough to save robb, but he did not die from the curse of harrenhal. that doom was meant for his enemies from tywin lannister to roose bolton.

[asouwan]

Wait a minute…

[queerpanicking]

oh great the demonic baby loves Celia

I’m really not surprised by that at this point

[zoe-oneesama]

A lack of confidence hits everyone a bit differently.

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Speaking of having zero confidence...

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[salamispots]

first 3 rug hooking things I did haha

[kaybebop]

I made this on P but since I printed out artwork for this month today to send out- I’ll post some of the prints I have & below is what’s left: 🗡️✨

#1. Garden Faerie 1 💖

#2. Faerie Queen 1 🧡 (3 new available)

#3. Chainmail Warrior ⛓️ (2 available)

#4. Lae’zel (1) 🗡️

#5. Lae’zel (2) 💀

#6. Stagnation 🍊

#7. Sun Elf ☀️

#8. Garden Faerie 2 💗

#9. Morrigan 1 🖤

#10. Dark Forest Faerie 🌿 (3 new available)

#11. Sea Siren 💙

#12. Sassy Nazgûl ⚔️

[luckydetectivelight]

[nogoodsheepstealing-greatgrandma]

Book Jeyne Arryn, fresh from the latest attempt by male relatives to usurp her: "She remains our rightful queen, and mine own blood besides, an Arryn on her mother's side. In this world of men, we women must band together. The Vale and its knights shall stand with her".

vs

Show Jeyne Arryn: I don't have time to consider familial ties, solidarity from shared experiences or the wider ramifications for female succession, where the fuck is my dragon?

Rhaena: Should have read the fine print bitch.

Tyraxes: I was bigger in the book 🙁

[flying-ham]

sansa and lady in the godswood at winterfell

[livelovecaliforniadreams]