#i miss snow already

[learnelle]

(3/30) my ideal study plan for the weekend would be to finish the biggest chunk of my psych assignment and my extra french delf B2 tasks before 4pm on Saturday so I could enjoy the rest of the evening watching the fake jury show in bed with my cat or bf or both :’)

#Also everything looked so pretty under the snow 🥰 I miss this kind of weather already ✨ #studyblr #light academia #studyspo #cottagecore #dark academia #100dop #30dop #30nym #winter #cozycore

[little-pup-pip]

Hiii I hope this okie to request but coud you maybe do a fox petre themed board with a paci n more mask leaning? I like both normal red foxies and arctic foxies so that can be up to you :)

Sure!!

#Arctic foxies #!!!!! #my favorite stuffie when i was a puppy is an Arctic fox #she was a Webkinz #anyway i really like doing moodboards with snow #i miss Christmas already #i hope you enjoy #sfw interaction only #moodboard #fox regression #petre moodboard #sfw petre #pet regression #pet regressor #petre #this could also potentially be #sfw agere #baby regression #age dreaming #age regression #arctic fox #fox moodboard

[lovestory]

i kinda feel like people are just missing the point completely when they talk about how we need a book and movie for the backstory of every victor in the hunger games (i hear this all the time about haymitch, finnick, johanna) 😭 suzanne collins won't write a book because you like a character and would find reading about their experience in the arena entertaining, she writes when she has something to say in a much broader context

#and i've spent the past few years hearing people whining about how TBOSAS was gonna romanticise snow....and did it? you guys are NOT smarter #than miss collins! like please #in the case of the victors i mentioned also....it would add nothing to the world that's already been built! we know it happened

[lindamarieansonsnaps]

#winter #winter photography #snow #sunset #sunlight #nature #nature photography #wintercore #winter aesthetic #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #I love spring but winter sunsets and sunrises are something else and I miss them already

[jorvikwildhorse]

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Honey: “Don’t spill that on me.”

Lakshmi: “Well, be careful then.”

#i don't know how many times ive drawn a snowy picture with a character holding a hot drink but its not gonna stop anytime soon probably #my art #ssoblr #please don't spill hot liquids on your horse they won't appreciate it #i miss the snow already im glad theyre bringing it back #this picture is actually super lazy but it's more for fun anyway <- trying to justify my laziness

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

It’s important that the first revelation of Nissa Nissa is accompanied by some level of skepticism from Salladhor Saan and aversion on Davos’ part. It doesn’t sound right that Azor Ahai chose to sacrifice his wife for a magic sword. It shouldn’t sound right.

“A hundred days and a hundred nights he labored on the third blade, and as it glowed white-hot in the sacred fires, he summoned his wife. ‘Nissa Nissa,’ he said to her, for that was her name, ‘bare your breast, and know that I love you best of all that is in this world.’ She did this thing, why I cannot say, and Azor Ahai thrust the smoking sword through her living heart. It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel. Such is the tale of the forging of Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes.

“Now do you see my meaning? Be glad that it is just a burnt sword that His Grace pulled from that fire. Too much light can hurt the eyes, my friend, and fire burns.” Salladhor Saan finished the last grape and smacked his lips. “When do you think the king will bid us sail, good ser?”

[…] A true sword of fire, now, that would be a wonder to behold. Yet at such a cost … When he thought of Nissa Nissa, it was his own Marya he pictured, a good-natured plump woman with sagging breasts and a kindly smile, the best woman in the world. He tried to picture himself driving a sword through her, and shuddered. I am not made of the stuff of heroes, he decided. If that was the price of a magic sword, it was more than he cared to pay.

Not only does it not make sense that Nissa Nissa would agree to her husband’s request, it’s also telling how Salladhor Saan expresses relief in knowing that King Stannis didn’t actually forge Lightbringer. Because forging Lightbringer means human sacrifice. And why should one be deprived of their life, even if it’s for a magic sword? Davos is very right to be creeped out by it.

The theme of sacrifice shows up quite a bit in ASOIAF and Davos I isn’t the first or last time. The very first chapter in the series, Bran I, tackles this idea with Jon and the direwolves.

“Lord Stark,” Jon said. It was strange to hear him call Father that, so formal. Bran looked at him with desperate hope. “There are five pups,” he told Father. “Three male, two female.”

“What of it, Jon?”

“You have five trueborn children,” Jon said. “Three sons, two daughters. The direwolf is the sigil of your House. Your children were meant to have these pups, my lord.”

Bran saw his father’s face change, saw the other men exchange glances. He loved Jon with all his heart at that moment. Even at seven, Bran understood what his brother had done. The count had come right only because Jon had omitted himself. He had included the girls, included even Rickon, the baby, but not the bastard who bore the surname Snow, the name that custom decreed be given to all those in the north unlucky enough to be born with no name of their own.

Their father understood as well. “You want no pup for yourself, Jon?” he asked softly.

“The direwolf graces the banners of House Stark,” Jon pointed out. “I am no Stark, Father.”

Jon, though he may desperately desire to have his own piece of magic, would not sacrifice his siblings for it. He wouldn’t dare to deprave the girls, Arya and Sansa, of their own magic even when it might be very easy to do so. This is a pretty stark contrast (pun intended) to Azor Ahai and his Nissa Nissa. Azor Ahai’s first line of thought was to sacrifice his wife whereas Jon’s was to sacrifice himself. Sure Azor Ahai got his magic sword, but Jon’s self-sacrifice is not in vain either because he later earns his own wolf, who turns out to be even more special than the rest in the pack.

Bran IV kind of alludes to the idea of self sacrifice through Old Nan’s retelling of the last hero:

So as cold and death filled the earth, the last hero determined to seek out the children, in the hopes that their ancient magics could win back what the armies of men had lost. He set out into the dead lands with a sword, a horse, a dog, and a dozen companions. For years he searched, until he despaired of ever finding the children of the forest in their secret cities. One by one his friends died, and his horse, and finally even his dog, and his sword froze so hard the blade snapped when he tried to use it. And the Others smelled the hot blood in him, and came silent on his trail, stalking him with packs of pale white spiders big as hounds—”

Though the one we know is called the “last hero”, notice that it’s not a title but a mere descriptor; there were many heroes before him who died and he was the last one standing. There is a human toll in this legend, but it’s implied to be self sacrifice. It’s also interesting that though there is mention of a blade, it is the children of the forest’s magic that is key. This does kind of bleed into what we know about the Night’s Watch and its relation to the long night. The Night’s Watch victory was a group effort, rather than the actions of any one man.

We have several legends surrounding the long night that work, but only one involves the cost of sacrificing someone else (that we know of). This might be where GRRM is headed with Stannis and his creation of Lightbringer. Sure Azor Ahai did get his magic sword, but it doesn’t negate the steep human cost. GRRM has lowkey confirmed that Stannis is sure to burn Shireen. And rather than this sacrifice not working, I think it’s more likely that it does work. Stannis does indeed create the flaming sword. But this will be directly weighed by other (self) sacrifices made for the same purpose. Stannis’ sacrifice of his daughter won’t work any better than other characters who choose to sacrifice themselves even when knowing that they are not going to go down as individual legends; I think Jon Snow will once again be the prime example of this, as he has already resigned himself to being a shadow in history despite initially wanting the opposite. Maester Aemon was right in saying that

[…] all deceive ourselves, when we want to believe. Melisandre most of all, I think. The sword is wrong, she has to know that … light without heat … an empty glamor … the sword is wrong, and the false light can only lead us deeper into darkness, Sam

The sword is wrong. Azor Ahai is NOT one to be emulated. Rather, he should be a cautionary tale. He is not any more special for his sacrifice than what the last hero or the men of the Night’s Watch did, even though we know his name but don’t know theirs. GRRM answered the question regarding sacrifice before he even posed it. To make someone else pay the price is flat out wrong. The only true and worthy sacrifice is really that of the self.

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #azor ahai #the last hero #stannis baratheon #jon snow #the night's watch #didn’t put in the post but if Jon’s ADWD dream turns out to be true and he does gain his own flaming sword i tend to think he’ll get it #by giving up himself or part of himself in the process #jon is perhaps the most self sacrificial character in this series #which is why theories that dany will be his nissa nissa miss the mark almost entirely #if jon is to be a hero he will do it by sacrificing himself not someone else #he already demonstrated this in agot when he refused a direwolf and again in adwd when he refused winterfell #stannis is meant to be his foil so we could see them being weighed against each other #not to mention that jon’s adwd dream is very much a last hero retelling with references to his companions falling #and him outlasting them though there’s a really interesting reference to him killing robb and ygritte #but I think it’s more to do with killing his own desires to remain at the wall - in addition to his feelings of guilt and abandonment

[ladysansa]

Daenerys Targaryen & Jon Snow, Game of Thrones 8x05, 8x06 // Matthew Stover, Blade of Tyshalle // Aoko Matsuda, The Woman Dies (trans. Polly Barton)

#missing daenerys targaryen hours are 24/7 my friends #this is a different version of a ww post I already made but whatever. plagiarising myself ig #daenerys targaryen #jon snow #matthew stover #the blade of tyshalle #got #gotedit #aoko matsuda #web weaving #post*

[samarecharm]

Ryuji my boyyyyyyy……..

#chattin #strikers liveblog #he is just so cute in strikers #i mean i loved him already but hes way more of a good boy here #hes less ‘dumb’ and more loud about things which fits him way better #making more suggestions to the team thats good? #im really appreciating him being treated as less of a shit comic relief #cause now its split between him futaba and yusuke lol #its not laid on as thick u know? theyre treated as serious characters…..i miss it…. #also not related to the comic relief but like #sophia doing the WHOOOOOSH and WOWOWOWOOWOWOWOWWOWOOOOOOW sounds #w ryuji going ???? at first #and now he makes the sounds too LOL….it is so easy for him to get used to the weirdness and get along #ALSO #im in the snow city; thinking of his cute comment about sitting next to the heater- #cause its so toasty….. comfy lil mans….

[stukky]

#hangman adam page #aew #gif set #mine #for snow #goddamn i miss him already

[emilys-locket]

It’s sleepy autumn Joxter hours.

#it’s summer vacation! sweet freedom! #I already miss the snow and autumn in general and I was in a cottage core mood along with a Moomin mood so Joxter! #this was originally a sketch but I didn’t want to do line art and I liked the sketch. then I remembered I could just clean the sketch up #moomins #the joxter #joxter #my art #the moomins

[geminison]

overwhelming desire to fall face first into moss

#why must it be January now. why must it snow outside. i want my green friends back #gems' talking #oh. it’s February already huh. missed that

[szczylpierdolony]

the passage of time,,,, it’s crazy out there,,,

#the ones on the left are from june and the ones on the right i just took :(( #i never feel more like time is slipping through my fingers as when i look out of my bedroom windows #like. wdym there’s snow it was just summer i blinked and it was gone and even fall ended fast #altho ig it always does same with spring #and then summer and winter you await and they simultaneously end in a second and last for years and years #long enough for you to get sick of them but i still always start to miss them while they’re still here #born to experience present as if it was already a memory huh #📓

[timeisacephalopod]

This winter (the season not the me) has been unseasonably and terrifyingly warm, like it's 10 degrees (Celsius sorry Americans) out today and I'm reminded of an article I read in the news a couple years ago about how Canada was baking at twice the rate as the rest of the world and go 👁️👄👁️. In my youth snow where I live would be probably a foot high in the lowest snow areas of snow drifts and up to my waist (in adult height) in the high parts, and every year I see less and less snow ☠️☠️☠️

On one hand despite my namesake I actually loathe the season winter, I'm extremely sensitive to the cold and getting brain freeze because the wind is blowing against the direction you're walking in sucks booty hole. But like NO snow is extremely bad. VERY bad. Do not like living out the consequences of climate change because uh. Canada just does not seem to have winters like it used to and hasn't in years. It's like watching all the corn crops stop growing like they used to because the summers are so much dryer and hotter with the exception of last summer, which was almost wet enough to kill the corn with that. But they survived and grew bushy like they used to and it was kind of terrifying to acknowledge I hadn't seen a crop that good in years.

#winters ramblings #on one hand it genuinely is SO NICE to not deal with snow seriously it is SO inconvenient #beautiful to look at for sure REALLY stunning when its not literally blinding you but omG snow on roads #in the cities where i live leave HUGE slush puddles and the snow is so MUSHY and WET from cars #pulverizing it to a fine icy slush ready to SOAK your feet in freezing water. shit is inconvenience powder #but the environment is in NEED of the snow that is how this country works environmentally NORMALLY #but no now we have consistently spring weather and ever less snowy winters #although we did have a shitty winter a couple years ago but thats not exacy indicive of much when it goes against prior patterns #and also that shitty winter STILL wasnt the winters of my childhood. the snow was ABSURD then #and yes its because drifts were the size of ME but even the massive piles of snow plowed from side walks are so much smaller #IF theres snow pules at all weve BARELY got snow this year and none of it stuck!! #like damn its been gone long enough ill miss it exactly until i have to walk to a bus stop in it #when i was 13 ill never forget my parents making me return a movie in a snow storm and it took me FORTY MINUTES #to complete this task because the snow NO JOKE was up to my wasit the whole way and i was my full 5'6 then #the snow was HORRIBLE. and for reference how long it USUALLY takes me to walk uptown and back? #roughly 15 minutes round trip so it took longer to walk ONE WAY than it took me to do a round trip no snow #and thats the last time i remember having a REALLY bad winter on account of walking to school was ALSO hell if the sidewalk #wasnt already plowed and usually only the main streets got that and i was Middle Street so id be done when id be going HOME #but not when i was going TO school. that winter blew ASS butlike it was normal bring them back 😭😭

[boyentity]

how do i tell my manager that i dont feel comfortable driving a half hour or more to work bc of the snow and the laughably shitty job my town's borough does of plowing snow and treating the roads 🧍🏻

#i speakin #i mean she said she'll work smth out if we dint feel comfortable abt it... #plus i work 6-9pm tonight and thats already not great already without the snow #like i dont feel comfortable driving with the weather like this but i dont wanna like. make it look like im biting at the bit #to miss a shift :/

[d144-catzie]

hey Hey HEY!! POKEMON FANS!!

Cyllene made an appearance in Hisuian Snow!!

Ngl, they did a great job choosing her VA!

Nice to see how Jubilife Village used to be very cautious about Pokemons and (possibly) how Survey Corps. It's clearly visible here that our best mom used to be in the Security Corps, because back before the Survey Corps was established the people only thought about safety first

And Zisu too!

Gotta love the woman who helped my team learn and master their moves

And look, we have Beni as a cameo now (and Kamado again)!

Kinda sad that it's the last episode of Hisuian Snow, I really love Hisui! It's one thing so far that gave my love for Pokemon back!

So yeah, hopefully we get more like this small series, waiting for 3 and 2 weeks were worth it

And have an alpha Garchomp to traumatise y'all in the wilds

#pokemon #Pokemon legends arceus #pokemon hisuian snow #pokemon cyllene #cyllene #Pokemon zisu #security corps zisu #captain cyllene #pokemon beni #commander kamado #I miss this series already #Hisui

[elegyofthemoon]

ill just post it here too:

so my longtime family dog skippy passed away. he was always considered my dog and i took the most care for him. he recently got into a bad accident and we tried to tend to him but he passed away while trying to take him to a hospital.

so i'll be very up and down with my mood in the process of handling this. i might be far slower in replies but ill still try my best to get back to you. you might still see me online though mostly bc thats me trying to find a distraction in the meantime. so im really sorry if i do not respond sooner than you would hope. take care in the meantime

#tw vent #vent #snow speaks #my head hurts a lot rn and this was pre written bc i knew it was coming #im kinda between feeling nothing feeling everything and just pissed at the situation #so. sorry if ill be kind of a mess from here on #ill get better soon #animal death #i already miss skippys smile so much i miss him laying and sleeping on top of me