Nikolai had tried his hand at poetry during his studies, sure, but he never wrote anything that felt very impressive. Perhaps he just needed to find the right muse...
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“What? Well, that’s fine, lad, fine. That’s the kind of girl you want, not some stuck up
fancy-lady who’ll look down on you, like that other. Ah! Here!”
(Northern Tidings, The Dragonbone Chair)
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Val looked the part and rode as if she had been born on horseback. A warrior princess, he decided, not some willowy creature who sits up in a tower, brushing her hair and waiting for some knight to rescue her. (Jon XI, ADwD)
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“The Dragonbone Chair and the rest of his famous ‘I four-book trilogy [were some] of the things that inspired me to write my own seven-book trilogy,” said Martin in 2011. “Fantasy got a bad rep for being formulaic and ritual. And I read The Dragonbone Chair and said, ‘My God, they can do something with this form, and it’s Tad doing it.’ It’s one of my favourite fantasy series.”
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Laid on the floor infront of an electric fireplace listening to a beautiful song in the dark, tracing the shadows of the trees against the mantle with my eyes.
Drove out to a field with my sibling, wearing my favorite nightdress and cardigan and just stared at the moon shining brightly upon us, casting shadows on the hardened ground.
We talked about what we thought the sky would taste like and stared at lights in the dark trying to figure out if they were aircrafts or planets.
Moments like this remind me that sometimes life isn’t always horrible. In the rare silence found in the cracks our chaotic lives create, onyx beauty draped in satin with find you. Reaching gently for your hand to pull you through.. will you take it?
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spock’s room decor is actually fucking bonkers. The weapons??? the big red velvet curtain??? like ok phantom of the opera go crazy.
for reference jim’s room has some photos and a plant so we can surmise this is uniquely a spock being a dramatic weirdo thing
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@knivesong 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈. ˎˊ˗
❛ i don’t necessarily trust lae’zel … ❜ the small githyanki begins , her soft voice quiet so only annie could hear her beside the warm crackling of their campfire , ❛ but i do regrettably believe she’s right — a zaith’isk is likely our only shot at purifying ourselves of this ghaik parasite , and the only place to find one is a crèche … ❜ a tense , heavy sigh falls from ruddy lips. she abhors this — this entire situation is really testing her hardened patience. of course , of course the one place she never wants to return to is the one place that now holds the only plausible solution to their problem , ❛ but — i think we should find this halsin that the people of the grove spoke of first. perhaps he will have a better solution ? ❜ she really , really , really doesn’t want to go back to her crèche.
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Like the majority of society I’m obsessed with Nimona
And I rewatched it a million times and one thing always sticks out to me
There are moments when Ambrosius is surrounded by light like a little protective bubble
That keeps him away from the man he loves more than anything
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Fun new game I'm playing while watching the new Percy Jackson show called "Was this actually different in the books or is my memory just shit"
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My take on the whole 'the JL gets mad at Batman for having a child soldier when he gets robin' thing goes like this:
The League is having a fight with Batman saying it's wrong to bring a child, especially with no powers, into fights with supervillains and it's irresponsible to put children in danger
And Batman interrupts with "so you take him then"
And the League just kind pause, like "huh?"
"One of you can babysit Robin for a week and then we can revisit this discussion."
They're a little confused but eventually Wonder Woman agrees to take him in.
She returns with him a week later. "I apologize Batman, we have misjudged you. I adore him but please take him back now."
(she couldn't get him to stop sneaking out to fight crime without physically restraining him)
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Some good gender feels today! My hair is long enough that when it's tied in a high ponytail, it still swishes
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reminding myself there are no truly "bad days", because every single day, someone somewhere in the world has taken a photo of an extremely tiny animal and shown it to someone else, and that's very good actually
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Tiktokers who beg people to like their videos because the algorithm "only" gives them 1000 likes would not survive a 0 note tumblr post
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