Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West (c. October 1928)
Phoebe Bridgers, Moon Song
Franz Kafka (misattributed)
Leo Brynielsson, The Moon Has Fallen
Mitski, Happy
Richard Siken, Anyway
Richard Monckton Milnes, Lady Moon
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hymn to the Moon
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra
Rumi, Some Kiss We Want
George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Margaret Atwood, Owl and Pussycat, Some Years Later
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Continuing to think about Dany's connection to her dragons. How she literally draws strength from them and how they are exactly what she wished them to be when she named them.
Viserion and Rhaegal do not reflect Viserys and Rhaegar. Viserion is what Dany needed from Viserys, loving and affectionate. He is the least aggressive of the three dragons. Dany had such a clear idea of what she needed from Viserion - to do what Viserys could not.
Rhaegal is what Dany envisioned Rhaegar (her valiant brother who died fighting) was. Viserys probably told her Rhaegar was a great warrior. Maybe Viserys also didn't know the true Rhaegar that we are introduced to by Barristan Selmy. Instead of reflecting the somber and reflective Rhaegar, Rhaegal grows to be the aggressive and willful warrior Dany imagined her brother was. He is the most aggressive of the three.
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Daenerys and Jon are Traumatized Romantics
Daenerys dreams of Daario after he’s left and increasingly romanticizes him more and more the longer he’s gone. When he finally returns she’s eager to see him, but is very upset upon discovering he really is a sell-sword that is ruthless and brutal. In her mind she had envisioned someone who was safe for her, who was romantic and sexy and shared her values. Upon discovering he is not exactly that person she becomes very upset.
I think Jon is also a romantic in his own way. He tries to re-contextualize his time with Ygritte as meaningful and tragic, similarly to how Daenerys looks back on her time with Drogo. However, at the time, Ygritte was simply just a person that Jon got caught up with. He was attracted to her and cared for her, but I don’t believe he was truly in love with her. Dying when, where and how she did resulted in her being martyred in his mind. Which again, is very similar to how Drogo is remembered in Daenerys mind.
Daario’s relationship with Dany represents seeing her lover as a person, but also a romantic figue. Daenerys and Jon romanticizing Drogo and Ygritte respectively, helps them cope with the trauma they dealt with during their time with their first “loves”.
Even how Jon thinks about Val is romanticized in many ways “lonely, lovely, and lethal” is so poetic. Jon does see Val as a person, but there is also that layer of romanticization there. Val and Jon are not explicitly romantic with each other, but there is a softly subtle undertone to their interactions that says otherwise. I also find it interesting that though Melissandre shares Ygritte’s red hair and forward nature, he isn’t particularly attracted to her in any way. He seems to prefer the boundaries he shares with Val to anything else. The boundaries he probably would have kept around Ygritte had he not been forced into that relationship so soon.
Ultimately, both Jon and Dany had their perception of sex and romance skewed early on in their lives by partners that were older, more experienced and uncaring towards their comfort. They were too young to have a good grasp on what a relationship should look like, and even if they did and even if Ygritte and Drogo were safe partners (which they weren’t), the fact that they were both so stressed and at such pivotal transitional times in their early lives when they first “fell in love” really did do a number on both of them.
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Otome Games.. I write for
Midnight Cinderella (Alyn Crawford: Rayvis Harneit (all characters]
Is it Love: Mystery Spell (Peter: Drogo)
Obey Me! (mammon atm)
The Arcana (Asra atm)
ikemen vampire (all)
mystic messenger (all)
Dangerous Fellows (all)
my horse prince (for the cursed fanfiction)
Royal Midnight Kiss (Prince Edward)
Sweet Scandal Returns (yoshioka shintaro)
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drogon is balerion reborn, he is a conqueror’s dragon. unlike viserion or rhaegal, drogon was not named in sentiment or memory of someone else, but named to strike fear. and to dany there was nothing scarier than khal drogo.
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I'm not religious, but...
Saint Drogo's Story
Patron Saint of:
Coffee,
those whom others find repulsive, unattractive people, Baume-les-Messieurs, bodily ills, broken bones, cattle,
coffee house keepers, coffee house owners, deaf people, deafness, dumbness, Fleury-sur-Loire, gall stones, hernias, illness, insanity.
Born the son of a Flemish nobleman in 1105 in Flanders, was the original multi-tasker—he could reportedly “bilocate” and was seen simultaneously working in the fields and going to Mass on Sundays. This undoubtedly took a lot of energy, which is probably one of the reasons why he is the patron saint of coffee and coffeehouses.
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Rewatching season 2 and yeah the changes made to the Qarth storyline were . . . not great. Like, outside of butchering Dany's visions (where is the Red Wedding vision? Where is Ser Willem and the house with the red door? Where is RHAEGAR?), the entire logic behind Xaro Xhoan Daxos and Pyat Pree's plot to kill the Thirteen makes absolutely no sense. The Thirteen are not the sole ruling body of Qarth; in fact, they're not even *the* ruling body of Qarth, that is primarily the Pureborn, who deal with civic aspects of governance within the city. But no single group has unchallenged control over the city, so killing the Thirteen would just raise the ire of the Pureborn, the Tourmaline Brotherhood, and all the other powers that contend within the city. There was no way they would be able to get away with that and make Xaro "King" of Qarth so the whole plot just falls apart the moment they commit that scale of murder and turn the rest of the city against them.
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very silly point of personal pride but lysa's crazy lady auburn hair, her only vanity, is described as being to her waist... and mine is longer
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