#it’s them!!! the blokes!!!

[ash-and-starlight]

humble contribution

[sleepsucks]

[bronzeagepizzeria]

society if people understood what rose actually meant by “but he’s not you”

[hyolks]

drops my fursonas on u again

[dalbajobas]

I am actually obsessed with the recurring O’saa character quirk where he is just. A fan of making the lamest jokes you’ve ever heard. Everyone knows about the church interaction but ever since I saw this party talk it’s been living in my head rent-free. He’s so silly it is straight up comical 

[slavhew]

Be nice

late addition. existentialism

[honestlyvan]

If you're specifically looking to write Ahti, don't rely on machine translation. Finnish is a notoriously bastard language to approximate statistically because of our dozen noun cases, inconsistent and dialect-dependent spelling and extremely fast and loose compound word rules.

Rather, go on Wiktionary's Finnish Proverbs and Finnish Idioms pages, and look for anything that looks funny (with a side-order of mentioning that it's a western Finnish/Bothnian thing, for character consistency), because Finns are also extremely overrepresented on the English-speaking internet.

[vanitasaurus]

had this one cooking in my brain for a while now... 😮‍💨

sketch, wips and closeups below bc this was a very fun project :-)

love the rawness of sketches always!

rendering the fun stuff !

and daylight pic bc my scanner is yellow addicted LOL

[lives4lovesworld]

jon's "ice and fire" parentage argument for him to be TPtwp needs to die already:

George R. R. Martin to Adria's News: I mean… Fire is love, fire is passion, fire is sexual ardor and all of these things. Ice is betrayal, ice is revenge, ice is… you know, that kind of cold inhumanity and all that stuff is being played out in the books.

No house, no human, no fucking living sentient creature is "ice". It is literally the antithesis of it. They are all encapsulated under "fire" because it represent life. House Stark with its hot temperament "the wolf blood", the ones to "endure" winter, to be the North's Warden IS a flame, an ember, a part of that fire that burns against the Ice. More so than any other andal house, less so than any valyrian one.

You would have more a leg to stand on was your argument that Jon has been touched by ice as he has died but will be brought back but I guess that doesn’t make Jon ✨️special✨️ enough for numerous characters have been brought back; Beric, Catelyn, Drogo, Patchface, etc...

The Jon-is-asoiaf clowns are also the same ones to turn the goody snowflakes/grrm gift to the world/the most oppressive uwu puppies the Starks into Ice, the literal evil of this world, and the same ones who proclaim fire is as bad as ice, two extremes the world must be delivered of when talking about Daenerys but suddenly being the product of these extremes is the solution if its Jon. The brain gymnastics are on Simone Biles's level of wild. 🤡

[dragon-ashes1485]

Character Development

Elrond's character development is so important. Like here, in s1, he is agreeable with his king. But when it comes to matters such as Gil-Galad's treatment of half-elves, dwarves etc, he gently points it out.

BUT. Here Gil-Galad refers to Elrond as half-elf, as though that is his defining feature. He points out Elrond's difference, his separation to the rest of the elves in a demeaning and condescending manner to diminish his Herald's importance(yes I know Gil-Galad was not like this in the books but for TROP the point stands).

And Elrond is clearly frustrated by this, that figures of authority can use his heritage to undermine his opinion, his authority, his status as an elf and as a person. But he says nothing.

Then among the dwarves he uses his status for good, we see him rejecting elven prejudice against him and using that towards saving the elves. He tries to save those who overlook him by using the very means they overlook him for: his race.

So we see Elrond in season 1 growing in his status but he is still not listened to. In season 2, he jumps from the waterfall because no one listens, they don't want to. Then he goes from subtly pointing out elvish prejudice to becoming the LEADER of an army of elves because in war, as long as you have blood to spill to defeat the enemy, it matters not if it is half-elven. But is that character development or what?! And this eventually leads to the Elrond in the third age.

Sorry for the hyperfixation rant.

[lesbiangiratina]

Thinking about how testament was the first character to ever say flame of corruption but it was erased from the english translation thats kind of fucked up

[batsplat]

Former MotoGP winner Marco Melandri has had a pop at reigning world champion Valentino Rossi via his Italian online blog marcomelandri.it. Melandri believes Rossi was fed bespoke tyres by Michelin before the French company were ousted from the MotoGP series after Bridgestone tyres won the sole supplier contract. Moreover, Melandri believes this is the reason Rossi's domination of the series is slowly diminishing: 'This is down to the fact that they don't make tyres anymore just for him,' wrote Melandri. 'This statement is meant to say that maybe Michelin, in 2004, had more than a small hand in the results. More like an arm.' There's more: Melandri goes on to say he believes Lorenzo's 'armchair' celebrations at this year's MotoGP from Le Mans had a more sinister message: 'Taking a closer look at it, you start to see more: the chair was yellow... like Valentino's yellow... which would say: "I, Lorenzo, am taking your place on your yellow chair".' When questioned about the stunt at yesterday's MotoGP press conference, Lorenzo looked puzzled, replying: "But the chair was green."

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"Lorenzo's celebration was serious stuff, with a subtle yet biting message that only some will pick up on. Did you get it? Let's take a look at it together," Melandri wrote on his official website marcomelandri.it, with his words subsequently translated into English by Italian website GPone.com.

"When I rode by on the cool down lap, I saw Lorenzo sitting in front of the video screen and my first thought was: 'He is enjoying the sight of his own victory.' But noooooo!!!

"Taking a closer look at it, you start to see more: the chair was yellow... like Valentino's yellow... which would say: "I, Lorenzo, am taking your place on your yellow chair."

"Am I sitting down with the popcorn to enjoy my spectacular victory??? No, I am sitting here watching you cross the finish line, because I already passed it..."

Melandri also blasted Rossi for his response to the celebration and comment about the one-tyre rule.

"Valentino's statement: "I did it ten years ago"... Weak... followed by: "Now, with spec tyres, the rider can't make such a difference." This is down to the fact that they don't make tyres anymore just for him," wrote Melandri.

"This statement is meant to say that maybe Michelin, in 2004, had more than a small hand in the results. More like an arm.

"I don't want to say that anyone is right or wrong, but only put forth my theory that aliens don't exist," added the San Carlo Honda Gresini rider, referring to the label applied to MotoGP's present big four of Rossi, Lorenzo, Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa.

And Melandri wasn't finished yet. He also gave his opinion on Rossi's 2011 plans and thinks it is simply too dangerous for Rossi to leave Yamaha if Lorenzo stays.

"I really want to see Valentino on the Ducati next year, but I think it is more likely he would go to Formula 1!" he wrote. "Not because the red bikes aren't competitive; I actually think they are much more competitive than you think. It is just hard for him to leave Lorenzo alone on the Yamaha, now that the bike has an incredible balance. It is too, too, too large a risk."

The Italian Grand Prix, the home event for both 2005 title runner-up Melandri and reigning seven time MotoGP champion, starts on Friday.

"In Italy they have a unique way of presenting bike racing to the general public: when Valentino wins and stages a celebration, it is an incredible show. But when others do it, they downplay the whole thing... hmmm!!!" said Melandri.

[sometimesraven]

anyway i'm just gonna drop this here and continue my block-on-sight spree, I've said what I need to.

[hyolks]

sorry. furry ocs are on my mind..

[sleepsucks]

[starofhisheart]

I just saw these photos and I am going feral and eating the walls