I know you do a lot of ronnett, so'hara, soran, sonchez, and even a little... suerta? But you're one of the few writers who dabble in Lindsey/Rose (aka lahoran) and you do it so well. Not a lot of people ship them, but I love them together. I'm curious what you think makes them a good pairing?
Is this ask a thinly veiled attempt to sway people into liking them together? Maybe.
i looooove lindsey rose and it makes me sad when ppl don’t get it !
irl they grew up together and have always been competing for a spot in the midfield and they have every right to like, not really like each other (think christen and alex) but instead they’re obsessed with each other and it’s so cute
i love the like bully-flirting thing they do and have always done, they pull zero punches with each other but you can also tell how much they care about each other
If you ever find yourself thinking "oh, I can't write this Cool But Impractical thing into my story, it's just not realistic", here are a few perfectly realistic reasons why people and even whole cultures would rather do something in an impractical way rather than the sensible one:
weird flex
religious reasons
religious weird flex (someone decided that they are So Religious that they consider the practical method Sinful, and people got competitive about it)
tax reasons (some ruler put a tax on doing something the sensible way and people started doing the impractical alternative as a legal loophole)
someone wildly powerful and popular preferred doing it that way, and everyone adapted to it in order to look cool
someone wildly unpopular suggested doing the practical thing, and everyone went out of their way to avoid doing that in order to not look uncool
it just genuinely never occurred to them that there is a better alternative, and their current method has been honed to perfection/adapted to the infrastructure so deeply that at this point altering it wouldn't be sensible
'She wasn't wed and her weapon of choice was a short curved bow of horn and weirwood, but "spearwife" fit her all the same.' - A Storm of Swords, Chapter 15, Jon II
I know everyone is on a tortured poets binge but I’ve got the middle kids on repeat because faith crisis pt 1 is a perfect album and not enough people are talking about it.
I mean, they give us this
“I am one bend away from a break / I am one step away from the precipice of crazy / I am holding all the pieces in place / But maybe you’ve got to break me to see what I’m made of”