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inevitably-johnlocked · 3 years

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hey you any canon compliant angst no happy ending recs

Hey Lovely!

Ah, you’re an evil one, aren’t ya, LOL LOL!! Hee hee! No worries! I’ve had this one waiting for literal years, finally going to use this post as an excuse to post it up! Enjoy(?)! LOL <3

UNHAPPY or AMBIGUOUS ENDINGS

See also:

Major Character Death / Heavy Angst

Major Character Death / Heavy Angst Pt 2

One Lives, One Dies

John’s Suicide Before TEH

Dies After the Fall and Becomes a Ghost

John Has Cancer

I don't mind by beltainefaerie (G, 221 w., 1 Ch. || Pining Sherlock, Stag Night, 221B, Post-TRF, Angst, Longing) – Sherlock is more vulnerable than he pretends. Part 4 of Bel's Tumblr Ficlets

Pervasive Quietness by LittleLongHairedOutlaw (T, 545 w., 1 Ch. || Angst, Friendship, Pining Sherlock, First-Person Sherlock POV) – The hollowness left in Baker Street seeps into everything.

Human Error by YakuzaDog (G, 571 w., 1 Ch. || HLV Missing Scene, Angst) – Sherlock goes on a brief shopping trip.

The Hollow Man by HHarris (G, 639 w., 1 Ch. || John’s Chair, Introspection, Sherlock’s Big Feelings™, Post TRF, Angst, Emotional Turmoil, POV Sherlock, Pining / Sad Sherlock) – Still reeling from the apparent loss of his one and only friend, Sherlock returns to 221B for the first time after the events of The Reichenbach Fall.

Five Seconds by xXLadyLovelaceXx (K+, 658 w., 1 Ch. || Friendship, Introspection, TGG Pool Scene) – In the half-second before Sherlock shoots the jacket, John notices something.

Promise of Sussex by LittleLongHairedOutlaw (T, 705 w., 1 Ch. || First Person POV Sherlock, Sherlock Whump, Angst, Pining, Ambiguous Ending) – John tries to keep Sherlock conscious after he's been shot on a case.

Message Not Sent by Queerasil (K, 762 w., 1 Ch. || Angst, One-Sided Texting, Pining Sherlock) - Sherlock texts John after the fall and during the hiatus. The messages are sent, but never received. Sequel to WORDLOCKED, TSTM, and Wait, How Do You Play This Game Again?

John Will Never Know by bloodsoakedleather (E, 775 w., 1 Ch. || Fantasy John, Masturbation, PIning Sherlock, Sexual Fantasy, Rimming, Cock Sucking, John’s Red Pants, Pants Sniffing, Coming in Pants, Mild Kink) – Sherlock indulges in a spot of self gratification with the aid of a stolen pair of red pants. Part 2 of Johnlock Porny Ficlets

Words Were Never Useful by Jenn1984 (K+, 819 w., 1 Ch. || Hurt Comfort, John Whump, Friendship, Ambiguous Ending) - ALLEY BEHIND THE BOOKSTORE, JOHN STABBED. HELP NOW. SH

The Other Shoe by thewaitwasworthitlove - (NR, 1,053 w., 1 Ch. || Pining Sherlock, Angst, URT, Post-TSo3) - Sherlock realizes how deep in love he has fallen for John. Only Sherlock Holmes would manage to be more shattered than crystal dropped on concrete.

The Signs of Loss by LitLocked (NR, 1,103 w., 1 Ch. || Post-TSo3, Pining Sherlock, Self Reflection) – Sherlock's internal monologue after he comes back from the wedding.

Velvet by headlessjess (G, 1,155 w., 1 Ch. || TSo3 Fic, Pining, Angst, Jealous Sherlock, Loneliness, Sad Fic, Friendship, Bi-Curiousity, Dancing) – It's the day, the wedding day - John and Mary, getting married. And then there's Sherlock, in pain and in love, without knowing how to deal with it.

Imminent by LoyalPaddler (K+, 1,187 w., 1 Ch. || Kidnapping, Open Ending) – What did it say about a person if he recognized the feeling of waking up concussed, blindfolded, and handcuffed to a chair? Probably not good, that.

The Simple Separation Will Not Come Between Us by The Circus (T, 1,278 w., 1 Ch. || Hurt/Comfort, MCD, Violence, Heavy Angst, Sherlock’s Mind Palace, Prose) – The choice is simple. Real, and No John. Or Not Real, and John. For a prompt that says 'John dies and Sherlock loses himself in his Mind Palace’

Hold On by Jennistar1 (T, 1,300 w., 1 Ch. || Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Post-TRF, Hiatus, Friendship) – Alternative ending to Reichenbach Falls - John knew all along.

The Talons of Sentiment by dearcst (G, 1,463 w., 1 Ch. || First Person POV, Angst, Unrequited Love, Pining Sherlock) – I promised myself long ago I wouldn’t succumb to something so degrading, something so vicious. I promised I wouldn’t let myself fall. But that was before him. That was before I met John. In sleep there is such bliss and peace, and as John slept on my shoulder, it killed me inside to know I was so close yet I could never touch him.

Love and Bombs by Spark_Writer (T, 1,696 w., 1 Ch. || Angst, POV Sherlock First Person, Post-HLV, Pining Sherlock) – Love and bombs aren’t all that different, John. In the end, they’re almost indistinguishable. Part 3 of Human Error

BBCSH 'Poor Mary' by tigersilver (M, 1,839 w., 1 Ch. || HLV Fic, Canon Compliant, Sherlock Whump / Mary Shot Sherlock, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Pining Sherlock, Hospitalization, Missing Scene, Sherlock POV) – As the tin says above, this is a missing scene, set directly after Sherlock awakens in hospital after having been shot by his best mate's wife. Minor angst, some pining, nothing nasty; please don't be alarmed unduly.

Dying Changes Everything by whitchry9 (K+, 1,919 w., 1 Ch || Sherlock POV, Suicidal Ideation, Near-Death, Hospital, Sherlock Whump, Gunshot, Unhappy/Ambiguous Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship) – Sherlock is having an existential crisis and wants to have a near death experience like John did to gain some perspective. “Shoot me John!” he insisted, gesturing to himself. John just looked at him. “Are you completely mad?”

Love Hurts by Grac3 (T, 2,215 w., 1 Ch. || Magical Realism, Pining Sherlock, One-Sided Pining / URT, Sherlock / John Whump, Angst, Ambiguous Ending) – In a world where someone's physical injuries manifest themselves on the person who is in love with them, John didn't think that there would ever be anyone who was willing to risk falling in love with him - until he got shot on a case, and it didn't hurt. Unrequited Johnlock.

glimpses through a closing window by radialarch (T, 2,430 w., 1 Ch. || Hiatus / Post TRF, Vlogging, Pining Sherlock, Angst, BG John/Mary) – John starts a domestic vlog. Sherlock watches it on stolen phones, over flickering wi-fi, and aches.

It's After That Hurts by jonnyluvssherlock (T, 2,791 w., 1 Ch. || City of Angels AU || Fantasy, Fallen Angel Sherlock, Soldier John, Pining Sherlock, Friends to Lovers, Permanently Incomplete Fic) – Sherlock's an angel stuck as a guardian to danger addict John Watson. Everything is fine until he gets too involved. Now he has to make the choice, eternity alone or one life time with a man who may or may not love him.

You Paid Me Well In Memories by Ballykissangel - (K+, 3,149 w., 1 Ch. || Heavy Angst, Hurt, Comfort, Grief) – It's Sherlock's birthday and John is not doing well. No matter how hard he's tried to keep on living, he knows he is going to give up soon and he isn't going to make it. Today is his last and only chance to visit Sherlock's grave to talk and give him his gifts: His dog tags, a book full of notes and memories and the meaning of love as Sherlock watches on in grief.

Out of Time by westernredcedar (T, 3,163 w., 1 Ch. || Wedding, Angst, Pining John, Sad Ending) – Somerset is a lovely place for a wedding, but what John hadn't accounted for was the getting everyone there.

fulfilling for other people by missselene (E, 3,957 w., 1 Ch. || Post S4, Oblivious John, Pining Sherlock, Unhappy Fic, Unrequited Love Confession, Virgin Sherlock) – When Sherlock decides to act on John’s advice regarding romantic entanglements, the results are far from what John expected. Part 1 of fulfilling for other people

Sink Like a Stone by pennydreadful (T, 4,348 w., 1 Ch. || Angst / Dark, Cuddling/Snuggling) – After defeating Moriarty at the pool, life isn't quite the same around 221B Baker Street...it's more peaceful. And stranger.

The Dance Lesson by bittergreens (G, 4,596 w., 1 Ch. || TSo3 Missing Scene, Dancing, Pining Sherlock, URT/UST, Romance, Angst, POV John) – Sherlock teaches John to dip. Part 1 of Goodnight, Vienna

Anticlockwise (Ask Time) by TheBookshelfDweller (G, 3,752 w., 1 Ch. || Metaphorical, Angst, Time, Unhappy Ending) – "Let me tell you the truth: Sherlock Holmes cannot beat Time." Time only flows in one direction, and we are stranded in it, carried by currents we mostly never notice are whirling around us. No one can walk backwards along the timeline, and maybe that’s for the best, because what if someone could? Where would they go? Or, better say, to when would they go? Most importantly who would they leave behind (or is it ahead)? In the end, despite the truth, Sherlock Holmes decides to fight Time, for John, for himself - for himself with John.

On the Steadfast Approach of an Oncoming Darkness by 2bee (T, 7,772 w., 1 Ch. || Apocalypse, Minor Character Death, Sort of Parentlock) – The world is ending. Not fast, but slowly, like falling asleep with a fever.

In The End by whitchry9 (K+, 9,677 w., 17 Ch. || Memento Fusion || Amnesia, Growing Old, Hurt / Comfort, Friendship, Heavy Angst) – When a brain injury leaves Sherlock unable to make new memories, John wonders how Sherlock will cope, and what it will mean for The Work and their life. Because after all, how can you live if you can't feel time passing?

All the Times Something ALMOST Happened by allonsys_girl (T, 9,049 w., 6 Ch. || POV Sherlock, Pining Sherlock, Canon Compliant, Angst, Friendship/Love, UST) – John and Sherlock dancing around what they dance around in canon.

The Haunting of 221B Baker Street by earlgreytea68 (M, 10,388 w., 2 Ch. || Post TRF, Halloween / Ghosts, Pining Sherlock, Ghost Sherlock, Stroppy Sherlock, Sherlock POV, First Kiss/Time, Angry Sex, Ghost Sex, Love Confessions, Open / Ambiguous Ending) – In which Sherlock Holmes is a ghost.

The Five Stages of Mourning, Plus One by SunnyRea (T, 10,557 w., 1 Ch. || Major Character Death, Pining / Grieving Sherlock, URT, Heavy Angst, Sherlock’s Mind Palace, Drug Use, Graphic Death, Depression, Unhappy Ending) – Sherlock did not want this, did not want another stalemate with John in the middle, a gun in Jim's hand. This cannot have happened without a sign. There has to be something he missed anything which said today is the day I kill for real.

There's So Much Labour Just in Breathing Lately by Susan (E, 12,708 w., 1 Ch. || Post-TRF / Mentions of S3 Events, Romance, Angst, Grief/Mourning, Grieving John, Mutual Pining, Meddling Mycroft, Therapy, Ambiguous Hopeful Ending, Infidelity) – The dreams he hated most – the ones that left him a sweating, shaking mess when he woke – were the ones in which Sherlock was just Sherlock. Laughing or drinking tea. Sitting across the table from him at Angelo’s eating pasta. Trailing his open hand behind him on the way to the bedroom. “C’mon, John. I’m about to have my way with you.”

we have never seen a greater day than this by Lediona (T, 36,420 w., 7 Ch. || A Royal Night Out AU || WWII / VE Day, Prince Sherlock, Soldier John, Alternating POV, First Kiss, Bittersweet Ending, Homophobia, Dancing) – Peace. At long last. It’s VE Day and Prince William desires to join the celebrations. It is a night of excitement, danger and the first flutters of romance.

Impossible to Feign by achray (M, 49,204 w., 12 Ch. || TRF Rewrite / Reverse Reichenbach, Suicidal Ideations / Discussions, Drug Use/Abuse, Mutual Pining, Friends With Benefits, John Accepts his Sexuality, Anxious Sherlock, Meddling Mycroft, Depression, Hallucinations, Secret Agent John, BAMF John, Reunion, Make-Up Sex, Ambiguous Ending) – Sherlock leant forward, his long fingers curving round to grip John’s.“I won’t let him win,” he said, eyes hard. “I will do whatever it takes to get you out.”

The Hollow Woman by ScopesMonkey (M, 51,335 w., 22 Ch. || Post-TRF, Major Character Death, Mystery, Romance, Friendship, Family, Angst, Crime, Reunion, First Kiss / Time, Nightmares, Doctor John, Jealous Sherlock, Jealous John, BAMF John, Angry John, Dub-Con, Rough Sex, Bottomlock, Possessive John, Villain Mary, Open Ending) – Forced to return to London sooner than expected, Sherlock falls into a case too close to home. Part 1 of the Hollowverse series

The Gilded Cage by BeautifulFiction (E, 326,887 w., 31 Ch. || Omegaverse || Omega Sherlock / Alpha John, Friends to Lovers, Dub Con, Reproductive Rights) – In a world where Omegas are the property of the elite Alphas, locked away and treasured by those wealthy enough to buy them, John never questioned his flatmate's secondary gender. Sherlock Holmes was an Alpha through-and through. Wasn't he? A chance discovery turns the world on its head, and John is left grappling to come to terms with Sherlock's past as events conspire to threaten their future.

#steph replies #johnlock fic recs #angst fics #unhappy endings #my fic recs #69-toojay #long post

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crocusflowersandchocolates · 7 years

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What If? Sims OC Tag

Chosen OC: Freya Tharma

You can find the story here: Tharma Legacy

I was tagged by @simsoflove I love you btw<3

WHAT

What is your character’s favorite memory?: Her first kiss with her Fiancée. They’re so cute >\\\<

Who and what would your character give their life for?: She’d give her life for Lillian, for her twin Florence, her mom and dad. She would’ve given her life if she could have Fiona back, too.

What is your character’s greatest fear? She’s a bit distressed about living appart from Florence. It’s not exactly a fear, but she will miss her sister.

What is your character’s proudest accomplishment?: So far, it was finding true love on a person who also loves her. And also being level 5 at her cheff carreer.

What is your character’s #1 insecurity?: She’s pretty confident at this stage of life.

What will/can break your character completely?: To lose her Lillian. They’ve grown really attached for the last few months and she’s never dated anyone before. I don’t think Freya would ever overcome the trauma.

What would your character make a scene in public about?: I’d totally picture Freya starting a fight in the middle of the street just because someone was being mean to her on purpose or saying bad things about anyone from her family/friends.

What can drive your character to do criminal acts?: I don’t know if it would be like hardcore criminal acts, but I think she’s a bit mischievous so yeah...Appart from that, maybe she’d kill someone over Lilly or Florence.

What Pet (mythical or not) would your character want to have?: A cat. No matter if an actual cat or a panther... She’s really catlike.

What is the cutest thing your character has ever done?: Proppose to her fiancée in the middle of the local park. There were people taking yoga classes there and they could see the whole thing.

HOW

How does your character feel about sexual intercourse?: She never really needed it until Lilly and her started dating. Now she thinks it’s a good way to spend her time. Lilly turned her into a perv tbh.

How close is your character with family and friends?: She’s completely out of her mind for Florence and she was the same with Fiona before she passed. They share this deep bond since they’re twins and Identical. She loves her mom and dad but her hero will always be Fafnir, her big brother.

How does your character react to pressure?: She’s never really been under pressure but I think she’d deal ok with it. She’s a cheff, afterall.

How religious is your character (if they believe)?: She never had the time to think about it, but she knows someone is on charge sometimes, specially since she met Lilly. Someone that perfect wouldn’t just come in her life randomly. (Actually, it was kinda randomly... And also my deed lol)

How does your character’s personality change when someone gets uncomfortably close (relationship wise)?: Let’s face it. She’s a young, interesting, pretty and smart girl. She’s always had guys trying to woo her and she wasn’t always the kindest to turn them down. Sometimes she doesn’t have the patience to be kind to some people.

How does your character’s living space correlate with their personality?: Her family is big, so their house is a mix of different vibes and stuff. Her bedroom is all filled with bright colors like yellows and greens (she’s aggressive but in a feminine way). She likes pretty stuff and we can see a lot of that in her bedroom, she loves makeup there’s also a lot of that through the house. And her bedroom has the darts which is a fun and social game and she’s both.

How well does your character act around with unknown and different people?: She’s rather welcoming, but in her own way. She’s so welcoming she just acts her normal life around new people and that kind of passes like she’s ignoring them.

How much does your character value money?: She couldn’t care less about money. She never had family and kids to feed, she never had any needs which couldn’t be met. Her family isn’t really wealthy, but they’ve been living comfortably for a few generations now.

How would this character cope with losing someone extremely close to them? She has already lost one of her triplets. She coped well since she was still really young but she preferes not to talk much about it. She can take the loss, but gets way more concerned how people around her will cope. I guess she leans on how people around her deal with the situation.

How long does it take for your character to trust others? She’s pretty comfortable around people, but she’s not naive. She gives everyone the benefit of the doubt but once you screw up, you’re over.

SCENARIOS

If your character could change one thing about themselves, what would they want to change?: She’s pretty ok with herself.

If your character could go back in time at any point in their life, what would they do to change the present?: She wishes she could go back to the day her sister died and be able to tell her not to cook or save her from the fire. It was all so soon and the girls were so young...

If your character was given a chance at fulfilling their dream, can they drop everything they have now to go pursue it?: No. She is walking towards that dream by herself and she will get everything she wants with time. She won’t need to give up on anything to persue her dreams and she can wait.

If your character’s current spouse or partner cheated, would they try to make it work or leave forever?: It depends a lot. You can’t see it yet, but Freya’s a bit jealous (not the trait) of Lilly at times. She’s not a control freak but I guess she’d get really mad at her girlfriend and herself if that happened. However, it’s her Lilly, so she’d probably only breakup if she knew there was nothing she could do to make her relationship work.

If a zombie apocalypse begun in the town your character currently lives in, what would they act like?:She’d be that crazy girl with the bazooka or something. She’s wild.

What if your character suddenly woke up to an unfamiliar place, and realize the life they lived was all a dream. Their family, friends, home.. all gone but still crazily vivid in their head. How would they react?: I think she’d end up completelly out of her mind. She’d be 100% unable to live without her people.

If your character was thrown in jail, what would they be guilty of?: Getting into a fight with someone in the middle of the street...

Rewind 10 years from now, what is your character currently doing?: *looks into the future of Velvet and cries silently* Nobody needs to see that yet.

Your character is in the movie SAW, facing their worst fear. What is that fear, and how does he/she react?: Seeing someone she loves get killed. She’d probably find the person, kill the person in the most terrible way she could think about.

We regret to inform you that your character is dead. Where do they end up? Heaven? Hell? And how the heck do they react?: She will die one day, it’s a legacy challenge? Well enough of that Christian stuff. She will go to Sim underworld and live with everyone she knows and loves.

I tag @simblob, @simlishanddreams, @kleptosims, @weepingsimmer, @simlydarling, @acoldcoffeebean, @alwaysimming, @glitchysims and everyone who follows me and is not listed because I’m a big doofus.

#tagg #thanks for tagging <3 #what if oc tag #tag

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sansa-hand-of-the-king · 7 years

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So according you Tyrion, aka the Lannister man who molested and lusted after his child bride and her claim and is currently a dark mess obsessed with his first wife Tysha while thinking his second wife had a hand in Joffrey's death and is pretty fucking bitter about it, will have a "tragic love story" with Sansa Stark. lol ok, sure. I can see D&D's flawless, Nice Guy™ version of Tyrion falling for her and vice versa maybe. But in the books? Nope. Most likely Sansa would have a romance w/Sandor.

Anon, first things first: Hello to you too!

As for the ask:

I think tyrion in ADWD is at this bottom, he is upset with the world and himself. Just like Sansa/arya/dany/jon/bran. In the books they are left at their lowest point in their narrative. Sansa seems to be following littlefinger steps (not a good thing), Arya seems to be deep in her “no one” training, dany is embracing her “fire and blood” stuff (which seems to lead her to the path her mad father has taken), Bran is losing himself becoming the three eyed raven and doing awful things to Hodor, and finally Jon has died (betrayed by his own brothers). So its not just Tyrion who is in a “dark mess” as you put it, its every main character in the story.

As for any Sansa and Tyrion possibile connection (or as I said in my tags) “tragic love”. I dont mean to imply it will be a passionate romance, my theory (well more like ramblings really lol) its that the relationship between them will be based on an understanding of sorts, a comfort betweeen the two of them, not sexual at all.

For me Sansa and tyrion have many parallels (and anti-parallels) with another (not really loved for a good reason) couple: Dany and Drogo. Both Sansa and Dany are forced into this marriage, they are afraid of the consumation of the marriage. Both these women later understand that they were lucky, and they were (are) worst men and even miss their husbands (this is a coping mechanism for both girls of course, just like the unkiss was for Sansa)

For me they will have the same ending: tyrion dead to defend Winterfell (his by right because he is married to Sansa), like drogo died after promising Dany the Iron throne (her (and his) by right).

Let see the quotes about dany wedding night, and Sansa’s:

“No, my -if He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “… abed, when the candles are blown out, I am made no worse than other men. In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers.” He took a draught of wine. “I am generous. Loyal to those who are loyal to me. I’ve proven I’m no craven. And I am cleverer than most, surely wits count for something. I can even be kind. Kindness is not a habit with us Lannisters, I fear, but I know I have some somewhere. I could be… I could be good to you.” He is as frightened as I am, Sansa realized. Perhaps that should have made her feel more kindly toward him, but it did not. All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire. He was looking at her, waiting for her to say something, but all her words had withered. She could only stand there trembling. When he finally realized that she had no answer for him, Tyrion Lannister drained the last of his wine. “I understand,” he said bitterly. “Get in the bed, Sansa. We need to do our duty.” She climbed onto the featherbed, conscious of his stare. A scented beeswax candle burned on the bedside table and rose petals had been strewn between the sheets. She had started to pull up a blanket to cover herself when she heard him say, “No.” The cold made her shiver, but she obeyed. Her eyes closed, and she waited. After a moment she heard the sound of her husband pulling off his boots, and the rustle of clothing as he undressed himself. When he hopped up on the bed and put his hand on her breast, Sansa could not help but shudder. She lay with her eyes closed, every muscle tense, dreading what might come next. Would he touch her again? Kiss her? Should she open her legs for him now? She did not know what was expected of her. “Sansa.” The hand was gone. “Open your eyes.” She had promised to obey; she opened her eyes. He was sitting by her feet, naked. Where his legs joined, his man’s staff poked up stiff and hard from a thicket of coarse yellow hair, but it was the only thing about him that was straight. “My lady,” Tyrion said, “you are lovely, make no mistake, but… I cannot do this. My father be damned. We will wait. The turn of a moon, a year, a season, however long it takes. Until you have come to know me better, and perhaps to trust me a little.”

His smile might have been meant to be reassuring, but without a nose it only made him look more grotesque and sinister. Look at him, Sansa told herself, look at your husband, at all of him, Septa Mordane said all men are beautiful, find his beauty, try. She stared at the stunted legs, the swollen brutish brow, the green eye and the black one, the raw stump of his nose and crooked pink scar, the coarse tangle of black and gold hair that passed for his beard. Even his manhood was ugly, thick and veined, with a bulbous purple head. This is not right, this is not fair, how have I sinned that the gods would do this to me, how? “On my honor as a Lannister,” the Imp said, “I will not touch you until you want me to.” It took all the courage that was in her to look in those mismatched eyes and say, “And if I never want you to, my lord?” His mouth jerked as if she had slapped him. “Never?” Her neck was so tight she could scarcely nod. “Why,” he said, “that is why the gods made whores for imps like me.” He closed his short blunt fingers into a fist, and climbed down off the bed.

and here we have dany (the same fear that Sansa has but a total different ending…)

Khal Drogo stared at her tears, his face strangely empty of expression. “No,” he said. He lifted his hand and rubbed away the tears roughly with callused thumb.

“You speak the Common Tongue,” Dany said in wonder.

“No,” he said again.

Perhaps he had only that word, she thought, but it was one word more than she had known he had, and somehow it made her feel a little better. Drogo touched her hair lightly, sliding the silver-blond strands between his fingers and murmuring softly in Dorthraki. Dany did not understand the words, yet there was warmth in the tone, a tenderness she had never expected from this man.

He put his finger under her chin and lifted her head, so she was looking up into his eyes. Drogo towered over her as he towered over everyone. Taking her lightly under the arms, he lifted her and seated her on a rounded rock beside the stream. Then he sat on the ground facing her, legs crossed beneath him, their faces finally at a height. “No,” he said.

“Is that the only word you know?” she asked him.

Drogo did not reply. His long heavy braid was coiled in the dirt beside him. He pulled it over his right shoulder and began to remove the bells from his hair, one by one. After a moment Dany leaned forward to help. When they were done, Drogo gestured. She understood. Slowly, carefully, she began to undo his braid.

It took a long time. All the while he sat there silently, watching her. When she was done, he shook his head, and his hair spread out behind him like a river of darkness, oiled and gleaming. She had never seen hair so long, so black, so thick.

Then it was his turn. He began to undress her.

His fingers were deft and strangely tender. He removed her silks one by one, carefully, while Dany sat unmoving, silent, looking at his eyes. When he bared her small breasts, she could not help herself. She averted her eyes and covered herself with her hands. “No,” Drogo said. He pulled her hands away from her breasts, gently but firmly, then lifted her face again to make her look at him. “No,” he repeated.

“No,” she echoed back at him.

He stood her up then and pulled her close to remove the last of her silks. The night air was chilly on her bare skin. She shivered, and gooseflesh covered her arms and legs. She was afraid of what would come next, but for a while nothing happened. Khal Drogo sat with his legs crossed, looking at her, drinking in her body with his eyes.

After a while he began to touch her. Lightly at first, then harder. She could sense the fierce strength in his hands, but he never hurt her. He held her hand in his own and brushed her fingers, one by one. He ran a hand gently down her leg. He stroked her face, tracing the curve of her ears, running a finger gently around her mouth. He put both hands in her hair and combed it with his fingers. He turned her around, massaged her shoulders, slid a knuckle down the path of her spine.

It seemed as if hours passed before his hands finally went to her breasts. He stroked the soft skin underneath until it tingled. He circled her nipples with his thumbs, pinched them between thumb and forefinger, then began to pull at her, very lightly at first, then more insistently, until her nipples stiffened and began to ache.

He stopped then, and drew her down into his lap. Dany was flushed and breathless, her heart fluttering in her chest. He cupped her face in his huge hands and she looked into his yes. “No?” he said, and she it was a question.

She took his hand and moved it down to the wetness between her thighs. “Yes,” she whispered as she put his finger inside of her.

In the wedding night of drogo and dany there was passion while in Sansa and tyrion night there was pity and awfulness all around, and yes I agree with you tyrion bahaved badly in that charapter. BUT later tyrion was way (WAY) better to sansa than Drogo was to dany. (LIKE MILLIONS TIME BETTER…) As these quote show:

Khal Drogo ignored her when they rode, even as he had ignored her during their wedding, and spent his evenings drinking with his warriors and bloodriders, racing his prize horses, watching women dance and men die. Dany had no place in these parts of his life. She was left to sup alone, or with Ser Jorah and her brother, and afterward to cry herself to sleep. Yet every night, some time before the dawn, Drogo would come to her tent and wake her in the dark, to ride her as relentlessly as he rode his stallion. He always took her from behind, Dothraki fashion, for which Dany was grateful; that way her lord husband could not see the tears that wet her face, and she could use her pillow to muffle her cries of pain. When he was done, he would close his eyes and begin to snore softly and Dany would lie beside him, her body bruised and sore, hurting too much for sleep.

This is NOT ok! Drogo was an brute and yes he assulted her. Lets see tyrion what does:

Sansa’s misery was deepening every day. Tyrion would gladly have broken through her courtesy to give her what solace he might, but it was no good. No words would ever make him fair in her eyes. Or any less a Lannister. This was the wife they had given him, for all the rest of his life, and she hated him. And their nights together in the great bed were another source of torment. He could no longer bear to sleep naked, as had been his custom. His wife was too well trained ever to say an unkind word, but the revulsion in her eyes whenever she looked on his body was more than he could bear. Tyrion had commanded Sansa to wear a sleeping shift as well. I want her, he realized. I want Winterfell, yes, but I want her as well, child or woman or whatever she is. I want to comfort her. I want to hear her laugh. I want her to come to me willingly, to bring me her joys and her sorrows and her lust. His mouth twisted in a bitter smile. Yes, and I want to be tall as Jaime and as strong as Ser Gregor the Mountain too, for all the bloody good it does.- Tyrion about Sansa.

No. He was only… he was…” Kind? She could not say that, not here, not to this aunt who hated him so. “He… he had whores, my lady. He told me so.”- sansa about Tyrion

As for Sansa and Sandor, I love thier relationship, how Sandor is (like Tyrion) a way for Grrm to make her face that awful truth and stop lying to herself. He is (much like tyrion) disillusioned about life and songs. He wants her to wake up and finally understand that life is not a song, that knights are about killing and that she needs to be more mature.

Sansa inspires to Sandor a sense of chivalry, but thats her character. Sansa is the maiden in the tower, the survivor, her “power” is her compassion, her vulnerability, her charms. She brings out this sense of protection from people, she make man want to defend her, to be honorable: she does it with Dontos, with Tyrion, and with Jaime too. Its how she goes on (and how i think she will make it to the very end).

As for Sansa she in no doubt attracted to Sandor, she admires how strong he is, how fierce (and the unkiss proves that). But no I dont think Grrm will make them endgame. Sandor destiny for me is to die saving one of the stark girls from the others (a dog will die for you, but never lie to you) (my theory: Sansa).

Besides Sansa is too much like her father, she is too dutiful to ever marry for love. She will do her duty until the very end. (her relationship with Sandor is the opposite of Dany relationship with Jorah: there is attraction but not trust).

In conclusion imagine tyrion like Icaro (the myth) flying (with his dragon Rhaegal) and falling down. Think of the roles both had in the battle of the blackwaters: Tyrion the (unexpected) commander and Sansa the one who consoles and protects the civilians (the women and the children), but in Winterfell fighting the others. It will be their moment to shine, without Cersei around or tywin. But no sexual relatioship between the two, just a union based on two hurt and vulnerable people who lost a lot and need someone who understands.

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Food and eating under quarantine

I used 3rdeyeinformation.com to do a little social listening, surveying the landscape of Twitter conversations about Covid-19 quarantining.

I found five big, broad themes:

Eating

Music

Routine

Sleeping

Learning

In this article, I’ll take a closer look at Eating.

Methodology Search date: March 27, 2020 Search terms: quarantine AND (eating OR food OR breakfast OR brunch OR lunch OR dinner OR dessert OR meal OR snack OR cooking OR baking) (-Filter:links) (-Filter:retweets) Note: I removed Tweets with links to avoid promotional articles, and I removed retweets to stop celebrity posts from dominating the data set.

Here’s what rose to the surface:

Personal finances

Learning to cook

Cheese

Ice cream

Junk food

Body image

Bunch Mimosas

Personal Finances

Some people are realizing how much money they can save by eating at home. Others, unfortunately, are worried about how long they can continue putting food on the table without working.

Some people are gaining a new perspective on dining out

Quarantine has taught me that I would have saved a lot of money if I just stayed the fuck home and cook

This quarantine making me want to save my money instead of eating out all the time. Quarantine mentality when this over 😭

this quarantine has proven to me how much money i waste on eating out AKA the only thing i do AKA the only thing i live for :’(

Other people are trapped in a serious, evolving tragedy

idk how we’re gonna get through this quarantine shit man, food’s running out and all the money i have currently is already going into paying bills

@adifishman I badly need this one. I’m from Philippines and my family are really broke right now. Jobs are cancelled till I don’t when. We are in community quarantine and we have no money left to buy food for us. Please help us. Thank you.

@tanamongeau we weren’t able to leave the house for 2 weeks because my mom was under quarantine while waiting for test results for corona, she missed a whole 2 weeks of work and now we don’t have money for food :( she’s a single mom of 3 kids, we would really appreciate it ($sugabbyari)

(Income and food security are major consequences of this crisis, and at the end of this article you can find a list of vetted charities.)

For those with an income, the experience of eating in quarantine is a lot different …

Learning to cook

Lots of people are viewing quarantine time as an opportunity for self-improvement. Some could emerge with a brand new confidence and interest in home-cooking.

During this quarantine I’ma finally learn to cook lmao

This quarantine shit got me learning how to bake and shit 🤣

I saw mad cooking videos on snap today😂😂 bouta learn how to cook with the friends I got on snap during this quarantine

This quarantine got my brother tryna learn how to cook from my mom… keep in mind that this foo resfuses to learn whenever my mom tried teaching him but he deadass asked my mom rn to teach him how to cook, HUH?? 🤨

How about the food itself? In this first inning of the quarantine life, people were kicking things off with their old favorites.

Comfort Food

Cheese

Happy Friday everyone I’m testing out a new quarantine activity that I like to call the “All Cheese Weekend” I just eat only cheese! Thanks

@BethLynch2020 @BenjaminPDixon I’ve been eating too much cheese and this quarantine is constipating me. Well, on the bright side, the TP shortage hasn’t been too much of a issue. 😃😎

I am sorry to anyone that has to live with big, hangry men during this quarantine. We are obviously eating modestly and trying to go to the grocery store as little as possible….and my dad has the audacity to put FOUR cheese slices on his damn sandwich today. Oh my gawd

Baking cookies, eating pizza, and watching movies by my lonesome. Quarantine isn’t that bad lol

During quarantine I work out, make cookies, eat the cookies, work out some more to burn off the cookies, make more cookies… I think I’ve created my own economy over here. That’s how it works, right?

I’ve been eating cookies everyday since this quarantine started… soon I’ll need someone to roll me around. #QuarantineLife #QuarantineSnacks

Day 12 of Quarantine: We are now singing DayO by Harry Belefonte and baking cookies. I drank wine again and I added too much brown sugar, but the cookies still slap.

Ice cream

I just want to eat all the ice cream during this quarantine. Ice cream heals all, right?

quarantine day ???: I’ve used up all the spoons eating ice cream throughout the day

I’m in the phase of quarantine where I just walked around the house holding a half gallon of ice cream eating out of it. So there is that.

I have ice cream, plenty of food I stole from my parent’s fridge, a freezer full of food, and Disney plus. I’m set for quarantine man

Tonight I had ice cream for dinner and tacos for dessert. I don’t make the quarantine rules.

Junk food

@phrasalverbdmon Richard, you’re not pigging out on junk food during quarantine, are you? LOL @ricatoct

People are tagging me in fucking exercise challenges for quarantine. Fuck off. I’m living in my pjs and eating junk food.

@BernieBroStar Celebrating my youngest 21st birthday at the ol quarantine apartment. We loaded up on junk food and booze and going to order a movie

And when people indulge, it’s usually not hard to find some self-consciousness …

Body image

Routines have blurred, anxiety is high, and eating habits are getting completely disrupted. As people observe their new patterns, they’re also imagining consequences (which is probably compounding their anxiousness).

Just woke up from my second nap of the day and now I’m gonna eat my body weight in carbs in one sitting, so that’s how my quarantine is going 😅🤷🏼‍♀️

I swear this quarantine is making me gain so much weight😔. All I do is eat, get high, & sip wine

I wish I was gaining weight like everyone in quarantine who are eating all their quarantine snacks 😭

(Thoughts like these are normal and can be totally harmless. But, for anyone with deeper, more persistent concerns about body image and eating behaviors, this organization offers a great set of resources.)

And … brunch mimosas

People are stress eating cheese and ice cream and baking cookies to pass the time. But people are missing brunch mimosas. This might be the unofficial mascot of social eating.

after quarantine i need a bottomless mimosa brunch fr

I want hibachi. I want sushi. I want Mexican w margs. I want mimosas and a variety of brunch options. I want a good Cajun pasta dinner served to me… I- I want this quarantine period to end.

after this quarantine, i’m having brunch. bottomless mimosas for the win

For the most part, I’m seeing coping mechanisms here. Comfort foods are dominating chatter as people look for something stable and familiar in this weird and daunting time. Let me know your thoughts in comments below!

And if you’d like to do your own social listening and analysis, head over to 3rdeyeinformation.com.

Organizations taking donations to help with corona-virus response:

Food access in the United States

Feeding America helps local food banks respond to the outbreak

No Kid Hungry sends emergency grants to food banks and helps communicate with families to make sure they can find a hot meal until schools open again

Meals on Wheels helps older and homebound Americans access food

Covenant House helps young people without homes

Support for New York City

Citymeals is taking donations to help older people in New York City

God’s Love We Deliver is looking for both volunteers and donations to sponsor their emergency meal bags for vulnerable people around the city

Invisible Hands is looking for volunteers to bring vulnerable people necessary supplies

Health aid and protection for the front line of medical professionals

CDC emergency response fund is a catchall for giving to local health departments, global response efforts, protective gear for medical workers and general response.

Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund supports the World Health Organization in a global effort to help at-risk countries track the spread of the virus, testing and vaccine development, and protective equipment for medical workers

Partners in Health provides long-term, dignified care to patients in developing countries. It will use donations to test more than 200,000 people for coronavirus, help international governments coordinate and help local community health workers find the treatment they need.

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