#❝ and we go to the stars ❞ → musings

[lets-try-some-writing]

Imagine if Titan!Moon has no idea what Speakers are like he's so old maybe older than concept of city speakers? And the way he and Earth communicate is maybe similar to how titans and speakers usually communicate.. So imagine him getting spooked when rando cybertronian randomly uses the way he and Earth use to talk.. Funny thought

Windblade: Greetings-

Moon: what the frag

No no this is a good thought. I agree with your assessment here. He fled Cybertron after the Predacons were destroyed. Prior to that I doubt he had much interaction with anyone aside from his few citizens before they were lost. Earth was an exception to the general communication issues that plague Titans and those who associate with them.

He would have long assumed that the ability to talk to Titans died with the Predacons since the few Cybertronians that came near straight up ignored him. Cue him being SHOOK when Windblade rolls up and very respectfully calls out to him. The poor thing is going to be terrified for a grand total of two minutes. Not talking to anyone but Earth and occasionally Unicron will have likely left him very poetic and formal.

I can already see it. He would likely cling to Windblade immediately since she would be the only one, to his knowledge, capable of hearing him. To him, Windblade is now Citizen #1. Its been far too long since he's had any of Primus's children to watch over. Having someone to hear him and bring new citizens? Well those long dormant Titan desires are going to come back strong.

Moon: Hail to you, child of Primus born of the stars. You call for me amidst the void. How have you pulled apart the veil to breech the whispers of my mind?

Windblade: Great Titan, I am a Speaker. I can hear all your kind and will speak on your behalf.

Moon: Blessed be to you child of Primus. Long have I lacked the companionship of young sparks under my watchful gaze.

Windblade: I can imagine it has been difficult for you without any citizens. I am surprised you have remained this sane.

Moon: My dear one whom l watch over had safeguarded my spark. She offers me her attention and I in turn grant her my devotion.

Windblade: Wait, she whom you watch over?

Moon: My darling Earth. She is so vibrant, like a supernova and a constellation of joy all combined into one. She is my muse and mistress. To her, I give myself freely.

Windblade, to everyone else: Guys, we may have more than just a Titan on our servos.

Earth is just happy her lovely companion is finally getting the chance to potentially rear children as well. She's had a lovely time with hers after all.

#transformers #maccadam #earth #unicron #moon #unicron and earth au #windblade #cybertronian worldbuilding

[starsinlegions]

tag dump

#❝ a trumpet-call and cry of triumph oft begin the rage of war ❞ → ooc; answered #❝ go whither love leads you ❞ → ooc; memes #❝ many are the strange chances of the world ❞ → ooc; mun speak #❝ it is not the destination that matters; it is the journey ❞ → ooc; starter call #❝ and slowly thither many years have gone ❞ → ooc; queue #❝ sink your roots into the rock and face the wind ❞ → writing tag #❝ as the grey sea sang and cried ❞ → aesthetics #❝ we also are daughters of the great ❞ → hcs/meta #❝ and we go to the stars ❞ → musings #❝ where the stars caught the sparkle of the seas ❞ → home; dol amroth #❝ proud walls and white towers ❞ → home; minas tirith #❝ between the mountains and the sea ❞ → gondor tag #❝ like constellations ❞ → style tag #❝ dance together then till dawn ❞ → interests tag #❝ wilt thou learn the lore ? ❞ → scholar tag #❝ seven stars and seven stones and one white tree ❞ → customs tag #❝ i don't keep water in my pockets ❞ → crack #v; within the lines of distant suns #v; when high above the morning sun arrives unbroken #v; to seek the sea no sail doth know #v; where doom hangs by a thread #v; and here the shadows lie

[ride-a-dromedary]

Astarion and Shadowheart: *collars undone, thoroughly debauched* Sorry we're late! We were doing stuff. Halsin: *a step and a half behind them* I am stuff.

#these elves are poly (for each other) GOOD for them #BG3 Musing #i don't have a ship name for them so i'll just tag #bloody heart and a bear #i am an astarion/shadowheart/halsin truther with sometimes karlach thrown in there if she's comfy because they all love her too #thinking about how shadowheart in EA was willing to join in with astarion's romance when he was ready #how halsin flirts with the two of them and accept their teasing good naturedly #and how the two of them are the only ones fully on board with bringing halsin into the fray (i know people read star's agreement as being #not into it but let's not take his right to consent to things and be believed away from him and devoid him of agency okay) #like how can you hear 'nature used all of its powers when it sculpted you astarion' and 'to watch a woman flush with pleasure #is one of nature's sweetest gifts...though perhaps you will prove even sweeter shadowheart' and not swoon and go WELL OKAY #halsin: i can make them better :3 astarion/shadowheart: we can make him worse! >:3 #this is an unserious post but one about a throuple i am serious about - i have a serious post about them earlier on my blog somewhere #i am so sorry minty this could also be you but larian playing #when your half elf girlfriend is the only one of you who has to sleep so you both let her sleep on you preferably at the same time

[kerorowhump]

I love assuming that keroro has been through this de-aging process countless times already but something went somewhat wrong this time (like maybe... acquiring the keron star which holds the history of keron?) and now he remembers, it really would explain many of his behaviors, from childhood to now. surely, knowing what keeps happening to you and all the friends you've already lost would make you more inclined to use people and make you selfish, and later down the line, would explain his paralysis (although that's already justified enough from the circumstances). I have this HC thought of keroro basically trying his best to break free of this... loop, basically. or at least postpone the inevitable. it must be SO hellish for the government to just own your dna and be allowed to make copies of you at will to replace you. fucked up

#musing #headcanon #if this doesn't make any sense with some canon piece i will personally walk into the sea #keroro #angsty tonight arent we #i am fascinated by keroro ok. cant help it. his situation is interesting. because of the star and because he's a leader #and because he keeps acting like everythings fine and NEVER shows he's faltering?? always like.. no im fine. i can take this. #i wont go down. that would be embarrassing. it's just a Little bit of pain. im fine #so my logical assumption is that he's doing that for everything. especially his position . like his friends just have No idea of the toll #i think about it...... #kururu has some idea but thats about it

[elen-aranel]

Leaving Lore plugged in/alone is EMBARRASSING FOR YOU

#picard #picard spoilers #Star Trek picard #I hate when the plot relies on everyone being stupid #we can’t reconcile these personas: MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE HIM OFFLINE WHEN TRAPPING THE SEASON’S MAIN ANTAGONIST AS A BASIC PRECAUTION #like wouldn’t shaw have asked for that?? even if laforge and Picard were too emotionally compromised to think of it?? #yeah I’m back on my Picard whining only a few eps to go I guess #musings of the girl from outer space

[procrastinatorproject]

On the Changing Nature of the Borg

I was thinking about Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard yesterday, and I was once again struck by one of the things that disappointed me about the show: The complete retcon they gave the nature of the Borg.

I'm far from the first person to make this observation, and when I complained to friends about it last night, I was a little worried I might be doing the S2 writers a disservice. Maybe I was misremembering the details from the show and putting too much of my own interpretation on top of it. Or I might have latched on to somebody else's criticism and not checked to see if it was supported by the text.

But then I rewatched episode 2x09, "Hide and Seek" today, expecting to have to look very closely for the details that support my reading - only to find that I didn't over-interpret some throwaway line, this is a key piece of dialogue.

So, here it is: my thoughts and feelings about what happened to the Borg in season 2!

Spoilers for season 2 of Star Trek: Picard ahead, obviously. Also quite a bit of saltiness. (I have tagged this post accordingly, so please take this as your sign to blacklist that tag and/or stop reading if you're not in the mood for saltiness ;) )

Let us begin with a quick walk through the history of the Borg. [Edit: That was a lie, I am incapable of "quick." Prepare yourself for a verbose trek through the history of the Borg.]

In TNG, they were introduced as practically a force of nature. They didn't hold grudges, they weren't ambitious or greedy or megalomaniacal. They didn't spread across the Galaxy because they wanted to be conquerors or rulers. They simply spread. Like a virus, or an invasive plant.

They added new technologies and biology into their collective to improve themselves and their chances of survival. Assimilation was akin to evolution for them. (I know this is not how biological evolution works. I'm using it as shorthand. )

These Borg didn't care that people might not want to be assimilated because for one, their objections would be overwritten once they were Borg, and for another, they had no chance of escaping their fate, anyway.

This first, original form of the Borg, in my opinion, was the most truly alien they have ever been.

This characterization started to collapse a bit once First Contact decided to introduce the Borg Queen as a weird psycho-sexual horror component, making the Borg less of a force of nature and more of a nominally collective hive-mind that operated like a person would.

Voyager definitely added to this interpretation of the Borg, making them more beholden to the moods and wishes of the Queen. They were no longer simply a dispassionate alien organism, moving through the galaxy in a quest for self-improvement because that was their nature. Instead, their characterization became more human, pursuing specific goals, strategies and motivations.

On some level, I completely understand this choice. Making your main series villain a force of nature rather than a character with personal motivation is difficult to pull off, especially when that isn't the main story you're trying to tell. But it did end up taking the Borg one step farther away from their original alien-ness.

One thing Voyager added to the mythos, though, that I find deeply fascinating is that instead of having the Borg Queen lust for power and control, or having her act out of fear and self-preservation, they instead focused on the concept of Perfection. In "The Omega Directive", Seven of Nine explains that to the Borg, the pursuit of Perfection is almost spiritual.

According to this interpretation, the Borg don't simply search out and assimilate new species because of an "evolutionary" drive for self-improvement. Instead, they are on a quest to reach a state of absolute perfection. They add new technologies and biological diversity in the hopes of coming closer to this goal and one day finding this most ideal state of existence.

These Borg don't care about your objections to assimilation, because they are convinced that their vision of perfection is universal. Every species must obviously strive for perfection and they can offer that, so why would you ever want to resist? They have no concept of the fact that others might not define perfection in the way they do, might not strive for it at all, or that "perfection" at the cost of giving up all individuality and sovereignty might not be an acceptable trade-off for people.

(And no, Voyager is not internally consistent about this. Barely any long-running tv show is entirely internally consistent. But the point still stands.)

On some level, this drive also brings the Borg closer to humanity: less dispassionate virus and more colonizers who come to extract value from “lesser cultures” and impose a more enlightened way of life on them because They Know What's Best. Still, I think the relentless, uncompromizing pursuit of a nigh-spiritual ideal of Perfection and utter disinterest in personhood and self-determination of other people make the Borg into a formidable and, at the end of the day, alien villain.

Which brings us to season 2 of Star Trek: Picard.

The thing that rubbed me the wrong way about the way the Borg were characterized here is summed up in an exchange between Jurati and the Borg Queen:

Jurati: "Millions of species, planets, and still you always needed more." Borg Queen: "Perfection takes time, dear." Jurati: "This was never about perfection or evolution or any of that bullshit. It was never enough, because you're just like me. Lonely."

And that's it. In all of five sentences, we have retconned the entire history, motivation and fundamental nature of one of the main alien species of the Trek universe.

Everything we have been told about the Borg, everything they have said about their reasons and their character, none of it was true. They have been lying to all of us and to themselves this entire time. They aren't a force of nature or a people/collective organism in pursuit of a higher ideal. Instead, it was all a single woman's misguided quest to not feel alone anymore.

Now, I understand that for some people, this revelation adds a new layer of complexity to a villain that had grown somewhat stale. And I have seen others argue that they like the idea that the Borg collective is actually all about connection. If that's you, I'm not saying you're wrong or trying to ruin your enjoyment of these characters.

But personally, I find this development rather disappointing. This plot twist retroactively changes not only the philosophy, psychology, and raison d'être of a fascinating alien culture but also the narrative significance of the Borg in the Trek cosmos.

Before, they were in conflict with the Federation because they refused (or were unable) to look outwards and see that there was more than one "correct" mode of existence, and that the life of people different than them had worth. Now, the conflict arises because they refuse to look inward and acknowledge that what they are really looking for cannot be achieved through conquest.

Where before they assimilated civilizations in a quest for utmost perfection no matter the cost, now they are assimilating masses of people in the hopes of creating a chorus that will drown out the loneliness.

Don't get me wrong, that sort of twist can make for an intriguing villain arc, but firstly, it needs to be executed with a lot more care than season 2 made room for, and secondly, it works a lot better for individuals or groups of individuals than for a species that is ostensibly a telepathic hive-mind.

(Seriously, the in-universe implications -- for the Prime-timeline Borg, the Federation, the xBs -- are staggering and are glossed over completely on the show. Then again, this is the same season that doesn't bother to show (or tell) whether Agnes Jurati chooses to remain with the Borg Queen out of a genuine desire to create a new collective or as a desperate bargain to save her friends. You know. The culminating moment of her character arc in season 2. But that is another rant.)

At the end of the day, I don't feel like this newly-revealed secret motivation adds a fresh layer of complexity to a well-known villain. Instead, I think it takes away many of the aspects that made the Borg intriguing, both narratively and as an alien species, and turns them into something much more human and, frankly, much more banal.

#take 2 #the first time round tumblr somehow published the previous draft from before i deleted all the outtakes at the end 🙃 #star trek picard #star trek picard season 2 #the borg #borg queen #agnes jurati #star trek meta #star trek picard meta #meta musings #picard saltiness #long post #i worked very hard to avoid the phrase 'the power of friendship' in this rant and i want you all to know that #i'm trying to show a modicum of respect over here! #seriously though. i was a little shocked when i rewatched the ep and heard that bit of dialogue #it feels a bit like such a cheap shot at all the writers who created and shaped the borg #'WE are going to tell you what's ACTUALLY going on with these characters. #and it's not this evolution or perfection bullshit' #i know agnes is trying to provoke the queen #and other shows (not to mention season 1) have also turned established canon on its head #but again: it's a question of intention and care. and i don't feel like the writers gave that development enough room and respect #to make such a line seem like anything but a 'your ideas about these caracters were *dumb*' type callout to previous creatives #also doesn't help that it's not the only time in s2 where it feels like the writers are being mean spirited about previous characterization #anyway #/salt

[despairforme]

ready to invade.

#[ MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU !! ] #[ star wars day star wars day star wars day ] #[ i want to write for nnoitra's alien!au sooooon ] #[ - honestly all of his aus - ] #[ it's mermay so........... merman au game is also strong ] #[ then there is my star wars oc story that i'm really into ] #[ AND i have lots of muse for doflamingo these days ] #[ thankfully today i have lotssss of time to write! ] #[ let's go! ] #[ hope you're all doing good <5 ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #we come in peace. ╱ au.26.

[lover-cook]

Sometimes I forget how evident it is the types of characters I gravitate towards f/o wise like. Romantic, Platonic, Familial, no matter what their are certain characters I tend to feel that connection with that tend to have a visualization or connection to one of four things You've got The Sun/Day - Sun, Gojo, Jackie, Nemona, Astrid, Luffy, Shanks, Wukong, Mari The Moon/Night/Stars - Moondrop, Cassandra, Howl, Stardust Cookie, Moonlight Cookie, Stardust Cookie, Luna, Nebula, Carol, Jim, Arvin, Silver, Giovanni, Mihawk The Fire - Sanji, Red Son, Axel, Capsaicin Cookie, Ember, Mei, Ace, Toriel, Asgore The Neurodiverce - Axel, N, Metal Sonic, Thistle Whistle, Link, Robin, Hifumi, Penny, Tails, Sunny/Omori, Mihawk

Like. I can't complain but it's kind of funny how frequently these kinds of characters are ones I look at and have interest in sknglkndsk

#ollie musings #☀️sunnyside up🌈 #🌥️a world of our creation🩵 #🌸smile so much our cheeks hurt🍫 #🌕moon and stars✨ #💎i love all the light that is within you⚔️ #🌟looking for you in every universe💖 #🪻all that glitters💫 #🌙dream a little dream of me🍪 #✨i fell in love with the mare in the moon🌕 #🚀the equation of love💛 #🌟you're something out of a dream🎆 #💕a dish made with love🥘 #🔥spice of life💕 #❤️i've got you memorized🗝️ #❤️‍🔥eternal flame baby💀 #🌺you set my heart ablaze🧡 #♟️you’re as strange as me🎡 #💙jumpstart my heart⚡️ #🪁you make me just a little bit braver🎶 #platonic #🏆battle buddies #🎇unmapped stars #🥪come on now we found every herba mystica we can do anything! #🐉dragon horse bestie #💣besties through time #🌷 for the record i trust you #🖊️my go to muse #📱more in common than you'd think #familial

[berylcluster]

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ‎Stars are pretty, aren't they?

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤ multi-muse ✦ selective ✦ 18+ written by captain

my stars: Jim ★ Dean ☆ Holden ☆ Cleon ✦ Paul ★ Clint ✦ Jughead ☆ Bruce ☆ Steve T. ✦ Sylas ☆ Joel ★ Mutt ★ Sally ✦ Frenchie ☆ Hank ✦ Johnny ✦ Lee ★ Geralt ✦ Bill ☆ Hannibal ★ Michael ☆ Tyrion ✦ Charles ☆ Gabriel ✦ Wash ☆ Domino ✦ Antonio ★ Hercules ☆ Din ★ Jennifer ✦ Steve H. ★ Barbara ☆

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ☆✦★

#rp promo #multimuse rp #multifandom rp #multi muse blog #indie rp blog #indie rp #roleplay blog #rp blog promo #the promo is ugly but eh we going #works so much better on the web sadly #the stars link to their tags and the bottom link is memes #minors dni #the first link is my carrd #do not reblog #like if you’ve read

[mundanemiseries]

// am....probs gonna fiddle with this more cause i feel like i have to add more but base idea at least 🤔

#● | ooc | stars above that we can't see | #// look i can't unsee a.venturine hsr as my particular josh t.wewy so #sliding this into my back pocket for whenvever i go back to that sideblog #nothing too fancy but at least it'll work for all my muses on that multi #just gotta tweak colours :3c

[scoopstrooptm]

maybe i want to write here again soon ( even though it's currently robin fighting for her life against many other louder muses ) and maybe i've made a start by adding robin's d&d verse and wwdits verse to her page

#&. which star wars? / the one with the teddy bears duh ( ooc. ) #i'm in love with both of those aus for her for the record dfkjgdfg #i feel like there are a few more things i need to do here before properly returning #i need to go through my drafts and my inbox and generally just freshen up things here #but i miss robin in particular #i miss dustin and erica too but they are very much secondary muses and not so loud #so we will see ! #i am always here to plot with all three of them though #and that goes for any and all of my muses tbh

[hamadacare-xoxo]

tag dump! because tumblr is not saving my tags anymore and I hope this helps and if not, well ... idk :')

#‘⠀I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ( IC ) #‘⠀I AM SATISFIED WITH MY CARE ( OOC ) #‘⠀WHAT IF WE REWRITE THE STARS? ( HEADCANON ) #‘⠀SWEET ATLAS ( SELF ) #‘⠀THIS CONSTANT COMPROMISE BETWEEN THINKING AND BREATHING ( MUSINGS ) #‘⠀WE WERE FREE TO BE EVERYTHING WE DREAMED ( BEHAVIOR ) #‘⠀WEARING MY HEART ON MY SLEEVE ( PROMPTS ) #‘⠀I'LL GIVE YOU ALL I HAVE‚ AND ALL I HAVE TO GIVE ( ANSWERS ) #‘⠀YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS YET BUT PEOPLE NEED YOU ( ANON ) #‘⠀UNFORGETTABLE IN EVERY WAY AND FOREVER MORE ( PROMO ) #‘⠀MY NAME IS TADASHI HAMADA ( SELF PROMO ) #‘⠀IT’S SO HARD TO NOT BE HARD ON YOURSELF ( DASH GAMES ) #‘⠀FEEL YOUR STRESS MELTING AWAY ( AESTHETICS ) #‘⠀COME IN MY BED‚ COME BACK TO HEAVEN ( DESIRES ) #‘⠀LOVE CAN TOUCH US ONE TIME AND LAST FOR A LIFETIME ( SAVED ) #‘⠀CHAMPION ON‚ ARES ( HIRO HAMADA ) #‘⠀GUIDE ME‚ ATHENA ( AUNT CASS ) #‘⠀TOUCH ME‚ MIDAS ( FRED ) #‘⠀BRIGHTEN ME‚ APOLLO ( HONEY LEMON ) #‘⠀MOVE ME‚ HERMES ( GO GO ) #‘⠀CHARM ME‚ APHRODITE ( WASABI ) #‘⠀HEAL US‚ PERSEPHONE ( BAYMAX )

[starikune]

Tag Dump Part 4.

#kaleidoscope of memories ✧ beatrice headcanons #maybe sometimes‚ we feel afraid‚ but it's alright ✧ beatrice musings #everything about her is defiant and whimiscal ✧ beatrice aesthetics #i still have proof in the form of scars ✧ shaun headcanons #take a breath and take a chance‚ and let it take me away ✧ shaun musings #burst of paper birds‚ this picture paints a thousand words ✧ shaun aesthetics #melodies and memories; stories that sound absurd ✧ lia headcanons #so i tell myself when i sleep at night‚ don't lose sight ✧ lia musings #pretty face and electric soul ✧ lia aesthetics #for he had a great variety of selves ✧ marcus headcanons #don't let them look through the curtains ✧ marcus musings #i can see all that you want from me ✧ marcus aesthetics #been through some bad shit‚ i should be a sad bitch ✧ isabella headcanons #there she was; bathed in moonlight and silhouetted by stars ✧ isabella musings #we are living in a material world‚ and I am a material girl ✧ isabella aesthetics #travel far enough that you meet yourself ✧ kendall headcanons #burn like a flame‚ no we're never going out ✧ kendall musings #we might laugh‚ we might cry‚ middle fingers to the sky ✧ kendall aesthetics #you built up a world of magic because your real life is tragic ✧ jasper headcanons #real darkness was more than just a lack of light ✧ jasper musings #clever as the devil and twice as handsome ✧ jasper aesthetics #every word like water color on a canvas ✧ vincenzo headcanons #you raise your hopes and pray it will last ✧ vincenzo musings #crooked smile reminding you of an empty blue sky ✧ vincenzo aesthetics #tag dump

[simptasia]

personally i don’t think anything should cost money. if it were up to me, we’d star trek this shit up and do away with that needless cause of so much suffering

however. bare min? we should at least make it so things that humans (and animals) literally need to live? that should be free. so that would be: food, water, medicine, housing, and the means for temperature control

those five things, at the very least, should be an undeniable right to all living beings. the fact that so many people can’t wrap their minds around that baffles me. and tells me my dream of No Money is a long way away

#sigh #''but people have to EARN these things!'' you're sick and demented #why should a person have to earn being alive #''but resources!'' we no longer live in a time when any of these things are rare #we don't HAVE to make the tough choices about who lives or dies gosh damn it #there is enough food and water and housing. the idea that there isn't is a fucking lie #to keep the rich cunts in power #they want us to think food is rare #''but some people don't deserve food'' 1. ur evil and 2. it's not a matter of deserving #fact of the matter is people literally have to eat and drink and be warm #we DIE without those things. and fun fact: living organisms tend to wanna avoid death #so starvation is such a painful way to die. fuck you #i was talking with my friend the other way and something obvious came to mind: #and that's ''gosh damn humans have to eat a lot. we gotta do that every day. multiple times. it's such a constant thing'' #and i didn't mean that in a bad way. i was just musing. Bitches Gotta Eat #sure you CAN go days without eating but you fucking shouldn't #i'm annoyed #i'm so annoyed by capitalism and money and i yearn for star trek :( #oh also entertainment and art and creative expression are totally human needs too. like we'd go insane without them #but i was going for the basic physical needs. sustenance. means to correct aliments. a home base for living. warmth or coolness #like. the You'd Die Without It needs

[gcuienveres]

who: @falcxnking​ where: the vale lodgings, follow the second death of king rowan arryn, first of his name

A veiled figure in black silks had remained stood beside the casket of the late King for what felt like hours; hands clasped before her, though they were not clutched in desperation, but in acceptance; as the Knights of the Vale stood vigil around the drapes of navy and silver. The room was dark, and candles burned; soon they would prepare to send Rowan Arryn to rest, thoroughly this time. 

She prayed the second time would hurt less, and yet, it was this time she would finally look upon his face; her tears were silent beneath her veil as she muttered her prayers, prayers that the love of her life would find some peace and some rest, all he had never had in life. 

There was much Guinevere Lannister had learned from Rowan Arryn, most of all being that love was not something that was easy; it was not as easy as it was in the ballads and the poems, those ballads and poems that never spoke on the growing distance between a man and his wife once the drama and the theatrics were over. Once the wars had been won, once the wedding had been done - what then? 

Her ladies and attendants remained by the walls and by the doors, and her eyes burned and blurred as she thought of the small piece of him the Gods had blessed her with before taking him away; the son that had been born with his dark orbs and even his freckles. Her hand reached out to gently touch her husband’s freckles now, and a broken smile came across her lips as she remembered being so captivated by them the first time she laid eyes upon him. 

How she had never imagined him to have freckles, in all their years; how she knew his handwriting, but never knew his face. 

They were such different people, herself and Rowan Arryn - and no doubt they were different in regards to what they would have done now. She could almost feel him beside her, his hand on the small of her back, urging her to be strong; to stand by their son as he took his place on the throne and secure his safety. But she did not want that; she did not want her son upon the Mountain throne. 

It was a land where his name alone would see him butchered on his own roads; a name that held much weight, but held much risk too. And that was not his true name, in the end, was it? The Gods knew this; she could not continue to test them, not when he was gone. Not lest their fury turn to her son, the only piece of him she had left; Jasper need not be King to be special to those who mattered. She needed him close to her; she could not leave him amongst the mountains if she was on the ground, within the grasses of the lions. 

Jasper was a Lannister. He was no Arryn. The Gods knew this. She could only pray they would understand and accept her sins, and the lies she would continue to tell, for the sake of love. The things she did for love. 

The young falcon had approached her, and she turned to look upon him; his face was darkened, no doubt disturbed by all that had happened. His own family had been ripped apart, and if the rumours were true, then he too nearly found himself dead by the hands of his own blood; if it were not for the Hand of the King. He needed to secure himself, secure his reign; it would make it all so much easier for him. She did not lift her veil as she spoke to him. 

“My son is not of Arryn blood.” 

And so she chose to damn and curse herself; knowing entirely how her words sounded, what assumption one would make of her. She would fall from grace time and time again for those she had sworn herself to, even in their death. Should she call him brother still? Were they still family? How did this work? 

“Do with that what you must to secure yourself.”

#c: rhys #rhys 002 #here we go pain #memories from the top of the world ; how many lives will you live until you've had enough? #constant as the stars above; always know that you are loved. (guinevere&jasper) #i was buried underneath and all that i could see was white ... my salvation my my (rowan&jasper) #right now i need you here ; to remind me where i came from and where i belong...are you with me? (rhys&guinevere) #god this is an essay i am so sorry pls do not match length iuhewhfur. #i had muse and context was needed

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: bail organa ( i take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover ) : leia organa ( she will be loved with us ) : winter retrac ( little golden moon and stars ) : fess ilee ( if anything ever happens to me and you’re in trouble go to fess ) : ferus olin ( only twenty minutes to sleep but you dream of some epiphany ) : deara antilles ( when the words of a sister come back in whispers ) : padmé amidala ( i wish more than anything that you could see her grow ) : alderaan ( alderaan is peaceful; we have no weapons ) : visage ( gleaming twinkling eyes like sinking ships on waters ) : canon quotes ( the stuff of legends )

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r: family ( loving someone deeply gives you courage ) r: breha organa & leia organa ( my daughter is a miracle who never ceases to be miraculous ) r: breha organa & bail organa ( life was a willow and it bent right to your wind )

#v: princess of alderaan ( please picture me in the trees ) #v: before the wars ( now come the days of queen breha; may they be blessed ) #v: the clone wars ( i will not change our traditions for a repellent regime ) #v: an imperial galaxy ( we can outlast the empire ) #v: imperial occupation ( i was a queen and you took away my crown ) #v: surviving alderaan ( is a queen still a queen with no planet and no people ) #: bail organa ( i take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover ) #: leia organa ( she will be loved with us ) #: winter retrac ( little golden moon and stars ) #: deara antilles ( when the words of a sister come back in whispers ) #: fess ilee ( if anything ever happens to me and you’re in trouble go to fess ) #: ferus olin ( only twenty minutes to sleep but you dream of some epiphany ) #: padmé amidala ( i wish more than anything that you could see her grow ) #: alderaan ( alderaan is peaceful; we have no weapons ) #: visage ( gleaming twinkling eyes like sinking ships on waters ) #: canon quotes ( the stuff of legends ) #: aesthetics & wardrobe ( with beauty or the appreciation of beauty) #: art ( some people are so talented ) #: musings ( take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die ) #: headcanons ( my mind turns your life into folklore ) #r: family ( loving someone deeply gives you courage ) #r: breha organa & bail organa ( life was a willow and it bent right to your wind ) #: imagery ( slow motion double vision in rose blush ) #: wishlist ( first star i see tonight ) #tagdrop #r: breha organa & leia organa ( my daughter is a miracle who never ceases to be miraculous ) #: my edits ( liesl makes things )