#BUT this is the north so??????

[patrocles]

LORDS OF WINTERFELL + THEIR BASTARD SIBING - Torrhen Stark & Brandon Snow

To say that Torrhen Stark's decision to bend the knee to Aegon I was an unpopular one was an understatment. The king had ruled for nearly twenty years by that point and had maintained a rare tenure of peace and agricultural prosperity before the arrival of the Targaryen invaders. But while the decision to give up his crown may have saved the lives of the people of the North, it cost him the respect of his sons, his lords, and his brother, Brandon Snow.

Brandon was nearly a decade younger than the king, only just older than Torrhen's sons. The two had been close all their lives, as Brandon was raised within the royal Stark family amicably. He was trained as a warrior, one of the finest archers of the land. And he was bold, too. But like the rest of the North, Brandon held on to his grudges. It would be many months before Brandon spoke to Torrhen again after bending the knee to Aegon, and many more years before he considered forgiving his elder brother.

Torrhen prevented Brandon from trying to kill the dragons of Aegon, Rhaenys, and Visenya. Before departing Winterfell, Brandon carved three arrows. He prayed over them, willed the power of the Old Gods to guide them true and slay the beasts. But Torrhen forbade him from using them. They argued and raged at each other before finally Brandon agreed to treat with Aegon, but left his bow behind. By the next morning, Torrhen handed his crown to the conqueror and Brandon spat at his feet.

It was not that Torrhen did not believe his brother could accomplish his mission, and for many years after it haunted him that perhaps he should have let the boy try. But he knew that Brandon would die a martyr in the attempt. Perhaps it as his selfishness to not see his brother, and eventually his sons to die pointless deaths. In the attempt to find a peace, he lost his brother's respect, and his sons struggled to even look at him. Brandon lived in his rage; anger at Torrhen's cowardice, anger at himself for listening to him. But Brandon could not fathom a king's responsability to his country, and did not bear the weight of it. Perhaps Torrhen was preventing his brother from an inevitable failure that which he would be blamed for. The bastard that could not kill a dragon. He gladly kept Brandon's resentment for the rest of his life, if meant saving him that.

#a song of ice and fire #asoiafgif #asoiafedit #valyrianscrolls #torrhen stark #brandon snow #siblingsgifs #celebrating my freedom from shadowban hell with Ultra Niche Content #pls keep in mind that all of this above is my own narrative creative liberty #but i am truly obsessed with bran's vision of brandon carving the arrows????? #SAY MORE GEORGE #is there something special about weirwoods that would have made it possible to kill them?? what would have happened if he did kill them? #aegon still had the bigger army and likely would have defeated the north's forces #BUT this is the north so?????? #maybe we should have let brandon do his thing a bit #wheres my stark history book george stop playing with me #i just want 1 detail #about any of them

[wombywoo]

civvies

#call of duty #cod #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #john price #kyle gaz garrick #my art #this is just after Simon's bi-yearly haircut by an actual barber #and not over the kitchen sink #is it any surprise that Gaz has the most style? no #Soap is somehow the least-douchey douchebag north of the border #Price is contemplating where his marriage went wrong despite being an eternal bachelor #and if my only accomplishment in this fandom is to defame Ghost for his unequivocal lack of swag #so be it~

[babygirlcowboy]

I desperately want to read fanfiction but the fanfiction I specifically want does not exist in the world,,,,so I now have to write fanfiction which is fine but no it's fucking not bc I want to read it

#gb cockwarming #the music video inspired fic that only north and ransom ((maybe??)) know about #my bruharvey angst fic #you are all so beautiful to me but i also hate you all

[redrobin-detective]

I can't stop thinking about how funny it is that Aang had all this secret lore on Zuko because of the Blue Spirit that he just, didn't share with the Gaang. That boy knew that Zuko was capable of fighting extremely well without bending, was excellent with swords and unnaturally good at infiltration and espionage. And then just never brought it up.

Katara's yelling at Zuko on how he thinks he'd be able to find and break into the Sun Warrior Temple while Aang is fidgeting in the background. Sokka starts giving Zuko a hard time about his swords, asking if a spoiled prince would know how to use them. Aang is vibrating unsure of how to explain that Sokka Might Die if he tried to swordfight Zuko unprepared but now its been too long and it'd be super awkward to bring up.

#i understand why aang didnt bring up the blue spirit thing #just so funny that he has Zuko Lore expansion pack while the gaang just has the basic package #also tbf zuko ceased to be an issue from the north pole to bss #dude just wasn't around #until suddenly he helped collapse the biggest city in the earth kingdom and then wanted to join your cult #how exactly do you bring up he has sick sword knowledge #and that you sat on said information for months? #also if sokka knew zuko was a swordmaster he'd have tried to convert him ages ago

[smolmight97]

“Ceroba, are ya seein’ this?!?!?!?!?!”

#undertale #undertale yellow #uty #uty starlo #uty north star #starlo uty #undertale yellow starlo #starlo #north star #omg a Texas Roadhouse #ok but like their rolls and cinnamon butter are so good

[ostdrossel]

The Grackles for February are for one, yet another that came on a snowy day, and the judgy one with a very intense stare. Photos like the second one are why I decided to make a judgy Grack calendar, they just have the best poses, and the world needs to see them.

#birds #birdlovers #backyard birds #birds of michigan #birds of north america #nature #birdwatching #birdphotography #ostdrossel #Count Grackula #Grackles #so judgy

[skidcd-megamix]

Fists of the North Star (lo)

BTW THERE WERE ZERO SOLOMON REFS ON GOOGLE I HAD TO SCREENSHOT A VIDEO cmon dudes where’s the Solomon appreciation

#teehee #fanart #shitpost #doodles #undertale yellow #undertale yellow Starlo #starlo uty #north star #uty fanart #solomon uty #cmon bro I gotta make a tag just for him #I also don’t know how solomon’s mouth works cuz his sprite is so small #had to guess #undertale yellow fanart #headcanon #starlo is a goober to me

[candyje11yfish]

youve yee'd your last haw, pardner.

#“but the underground has no sky so there cant be-” Shhhh shhshshhhhs shhh #it looked cool ok ik Its literally called the Underground #Undertale yellow #uty #uty starlo #starlo uty #clover uty #uty clover #uty fanart #undertale yellow fanart #uty north star #i love them🫶 #clover undertale yellow #undertale yellow clover #starlo undertale yellow #undertale yellow starlo #undertale #mari's art

[northstarscowboyhat]

Stress relief doodles of the found Justice family ✨💖

Bonus: I HC that Clover snores loud enough to wake the dead.

#undertale yellow #uty #north star #starlo uty #north star uty #ceroba #ceroba uty #clover #clover uty #staroba #starlo x ceroba #the cowboy hat draws #Ceroba is only joking. Starlo just carried them back to their bed so the two of them could hear themselves think again #No weird tags on this please. Clover is their adopted child

[maskedinfinate]

I LOVE MY WIFE RAAAHHHHHH HE IS AWESOME HES THE BEST

#undertale yellow #undertale #uty #ut yellow #north star #starlo #undertale yellow north star #undertale yellow starlo #hooh these tags #uty starlo #uty north star #uty fanart #my art #i think root beer would be his favourite drink #i love him so much you dont undertsand #OH YEAH #undertale yellow spoilers #forgot that tag

[asphelissorcery]

UTY SPOILERS!!!!

showdown

#undertale yellow spoilers #uty spoilers #uty #undertale yellow #starlo uty #starlo #north star uty #north star #cw eyestrain #can’t tell if i like this or not rn #but haven’t drawn in a month and a half so. whatever #also tumblr screwed up the image quality.. sorry bout that

[ivelte]

I really liked the game <3

#undertale yellow #undertale yellow fanart #flowey #clover #dalv #martlet #starlo #north star #ceroba #too many characters so i won't put anymore name TwT #I reallyyyyyy love the game ! #I did all the routes in like 3 days #it was so fuuuun

[solkipp]

i really really like this silly guy .? //might render these later,,, i just think he's neat north star from undertale yellow

#lawful good done Extraordinarily well.... #the court deems he's really really pretty #thinking about how his voicebite is a lil crackly it's so awesome #north star uty #starlo uty #undertale yellow #undertale yellow spoilers #starlo undertale yellow #ut yellow #uty spoilers #uty #my art

[serv0z]

Farewell.

#spoilers #undertale yellow spoilers #undertale yellow #uty #serv0z art #undertale yellow fanart #fanart #clover #undertale yellow clover #undertale yellow starlo #undertale yellow north star #undertale yellow martlet #undertale yellow ceroba #uty ceroba #uty martlet #uty starlo #uty clover #this was silly nd fun so erm #please reblog #this game made me cry for 20+ mins #cant wait to do it again tmrw #paci all the way fr #uty spoilers

[communistkenobi]

The deeply moralist tone that a lot of discussions about media representation take on here are primarily neoliberal before they are anything else. Like the shouting matches people get into about “purity culture” “pro/anti” etc nonsense (even if I think it’s true that some people have a deeply christian worldview about what art ought to say and represent about the world) are downstream of the basic neoliberal assumption that we can and must educate the public by being consumers in a market. “Bad representation” is often framed as a writer’s/developer’s/director’s/etc’s failure to properly educate their audience, or to educate them the wrong way with bad information about the world (which will compel their audience to act, behave, internalise or otherwise believe these bad representations about some social issue). Likewise, to “consume” or give money to a piece of media with Bad Representation is to legitimate and make stronger these bad representations in the world, an act which will cause more people to believe or internalise bad things about themselves or other people. And at the heart of both of those claims is, again, the assumption that mass public education should be undertaken by artists in a private market, who are responsible for creating moral fables and political allegories that they will instil in their audiences by selling it to them. These conversations often become pure nonsense if you don’t accept that the moral and political education of the world should be directed by like, studio executives or tv actors or authors on twitter. There is no horizon of possibility being imagined beyond purchasing, as an individual consumer in a market, your way into good beliefs about the world, instilled in you by Media Product 

#just saw a very stupid post. but I will endure #these discussions also remind me of anti-vaxxer discourse #which in North America for Covid is framed as simply wanting to make the best informed choice as a consumer in a market* #ideas about public goods or civic responsibility towards others are incompatible with this consumer-citizen view of the world #like legitimately the idea of the consumer as the base civic unit of north american society is catastrophic for public health #and produces these interminable discourses about ‘media consumption’ #which itself is a neoliberal framing! I think ‘media’ as a catchall term is neoliberal because it links all art with the commonality of #being a good sold in a market #*outside of outright fascist anti-vax beliefs I should say. Although from my research so far these things seem to overlap heavily lol #which is not surprising but the distinction is worth teasing out #.txt

[comradekatara]

aang and sokka have by far the most underrated dynamic in atla. they’re very cute and silly together, but they’re also insane. like, aang’s central tension concerns refusing to let his values be shaped by war and the imperialist logic of his oppressors, whereas sokka’s entire value system has been defined by war, by his experience as a colonized subject. in many ways, the ultimate tragedy of aang’s character, that he may become too cynical to appreciate his cultural values of joy, friendship, freedom, harmony, and peace, is the tragedy that he might someday become what sokka already is.

if aang is a force for good in sokka’s life, showing him how to play, to appreciate living in the moment and connecting with others, then sokka is quite literally a corrupting influence. “there, that’s how it’s done,” he says, and you know he’s not just posturing, because you’ve already seen him kill people before without remorse. sokka is aang’s big brother, his friend, his protector. he plays his games, makes him laugh, shows him kindness and undying loyalty. but he is also everything that aang must constantly strive to never become. he is a ruthless tactician, a hyperlogical cynic, a killer.

sokka would do anything to survive and protect his loved ones against the cruelty of the world. so he chastises aang for refusing to kill, for being soft and idealistic. he in fact almost kills aang after he accidentally hurts katara. while aang can never let himself sink into despair, to adopt the colonial mindset of his oppressors, to close off his heart to hope and feeling, sokka already has. yes, aang shows him joy and friendship and the potential for freedom, but in truth, it’s too late for him. and perhaps if katara cannot retrieve her brother’s humanity, his very soul, from the hollow shell of who he has since become, she has a second chance now, with aang.

#i have an even longer post about this in my drafts if you can believe it #but like. they’re so crazzyyyy #real ones know the best aang&sokka episodes are the deserter the siege of the north the serpents pass (!!!!!!!!) and sozins comet #aang&sokka #aang #sokka #katara&sokka #aang&katara #analysis #god 😭😭 #the way aang represents who she wishes sokka COULD be just breaks my heart #SHE JUST WANTS A FRIEND SHE CAN PLAY WITH!!!!!! #fucicuccuucucjkkkk !!!