#danger jewels

[thesilverlady]

“There's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.” — Mitch Albom

#f&b #rhaenyra targaryen #pre asoiaf #aemma arryn #targnation #valyrianscrolls #valyrianladies #house targaryen #targaryensource #canon rhaenyra targaryen #book rhaenyra #asoiaf fancast #asoiafedit #fire and blood #my edit #thesilverladyedit #*my thought process on this: #[aemma's color pallette is purposely warm toned. indicating the prosperity + happiness + free of danger most of her life was] #[i made her hair a more honey colored similar to her mother & grandmother. Her eyes are arryn blue with a slightly hint of pale lilac] #[in the pic with Viserys the flowers are blue for her house + Vis' jewels on his clothes a deep purple - a color his daughter would wear] #[i also chose a pose that was more formal. with less evidence of personal feelings] #[in the final pic of baby rhae I made her dress a deep red.Both as a tribute to house Targaryen+as a hint for the blood she'd have to bleed #*now onto rhaenyra's side! #[her pallete is a cooler tone; opposite of her mother's as her life starts and ends grimly] #[i made her silver gold hair purposely a bit whiter because I headcanon her son aegon iii to have taken the coloring from her.] #[her eyes are a darker shade of purple but still very intense with their coloring] #[ the pose I chose with daemon is again the opposite of her parents; personal feelings are the heart of it & the passion is clear.] #[in the picture where she holds her baby her dress is dark so it's probably not very clear but the color is the same one as Viserys' jewels #[in the final pic we see the surviving children. On the left it's aegon iii & on the right viserys II] #the wall behind them is the same color as their mother's dress.The blood that has been spilled is now behind them&they have to live with it

[autisticalexturner]

every time i listen to all of humbug im like "omg this might be their best song ever" during every single song

#like... omfg #propeller... #crying lightning... dangerous animals #SECRET DOOR... #potion approaching #FIRE AND THE THID.... CORNERSTONE #dance littlr liar... pretty visitors.... JEWELLERS HANDS #even the b sides are insane #like alex having peak girl energy made this album his best work. by far

[alexis-royce]

🪞,🔥, and🐍. You said the Academic was kind of bad at Glasswork, didn't you?

🔥 — Least favourite Master of the Bazaar?

The Academic and Stones do not get on well. The Academic will occasionally do espionage chores for it in The Khanate, but by now, that’s more of a duty to the group as a whole. The Academic has had a few peeks into the pasts and inner lives of its colleagues, and while Pages, Wines and Spices took it relatively well (Fires is in there too, but doesn’t know), Stones merely re-experienced its trauma.

Even if we disregard biological reasons for hoarding, each of the Masters has an emotional reason for their favorite subject. It’s pretty obvious that Stones’ aggressive hoarding is either in response to or was exacerbated by getting collected itself. It’s not a hoarder of rocks, but a hoarder “of value,” which means that if unchecked, there is no way that Stones wouldn’t simply expand its own hoard to encompass everything else. The other masters have concrete-if evil- goals and interests. But Stones seems like it's trying to get all the value and power not out of enjoyment, but so that it can pin things up where they can’t hurt it. And Stones may no longer be called the Khan of Shackles, but we know exactly what it was known for collecting in the Fourth City.

Also, Stones’ manner of speech: its penchant for antiquated personal pronouns (thee, thou, etc) isn’t just a writing quirk to make Stones sound different, but means that The Academic can tell exactly when Stones means to talk down to them. Wines might use the Royal “We,” but it desperately craves jocular companionship. Pages might make up words to sound smart, but it does honestly want others to use them too. Stones uses language as yet another barricade. That’s a personal pet peeve of The Academic’s.

The Academic is also not a fan of Eaten. They turned away from the name when they realized that they actually could win the Marvellous. To seekers, mourning Eaten is all-encompassing. The Academic doesn’t know the whole story, but whoever Candles was is gone now. Seeking is an inadequate way of balancing the scales. And for their money, if you want to find meaning in nothing, The Discordance is a magnificent and rich expanse of the beauty of meaningful nothing. Seeking is a study closing your eyes very tightly and ignoring beauty.

(Note: If you point out that Stones might have collected living humans, but Pages uh. Pages has some. Uh. You know. Bodies? You’d think that Happles would be the one to but we all know Happles just eats them. Anyway. If you point that out then The Academic will agree with you that Pages is an unforgivable monster but you’ll still see them a day later, humming merrily pushing a wheelbarrel full of proscribed material, even though their Connected: The Masters is maxed out)

🐍 — Snakes or cats?

Neither. Much better to keep playing both sides against one another. If they’re distracted at home, then they have less time to fuss about in Real business in London.

🪞 — Do they enjoy being in Parabola? Why or why not?

Parabola’s a necessary evil, and while there are interesting things to find, the Academic would tell you that directly interfering with the dreams of others is the greatest cheat of all: if we bypass a man’s conscious mind, we bypass rational discussion.

This is of course utter hogwash; The Academic’s real argument is “I don’t want these grapes anyway, they’re sour.” They barely made it through the parabola section of Heart’s Desire, and the whole place is quite a lot of nonsense to them. It’s like this tumblr post:

Also if word about Parabola got out, it could be a serious business competitor to the railroad. If there’s ever an exceptional story about someone trying to use parabolan mirror-jaunts as a fast mode of travel, expect the academic to shut that down immediately and with nasty, extreme prejudice.

#well that got pretty long #asks #fallen London #the ex-disgraced academic #If Stones is your favorite you have good taste though #Adornment and Sugarplum both really make it stand out as a strong character #I get the feeling that it was legit very very dangerous back in the skies #If it wasn’t so good at collecting then it wouldn’t have been such a crown jewel itself

[momentousnobody]

Videotape

floating on the surface of your pool

suspended between the stars and hell

swirling stars in galaxies far away

while you, my center, my hope, my mirror

fix me in your gaze, with greed, impatience

and superhuman self-control

you, knowing everything I ever wanted to know

breathing in love every breath I ever desired to take

pink and white and soft as a flower

big as a teddy bear given by the father I never met

the lover I waited ten lifetimes to meet

my window to God

This is where I go to find His arms again

where he holds me in a light

ensconced in darkness impenetrable

in the wings of angels whose wings

no eyes can penetrate

my home

.

calypso jewel strawn, 01/17/2024

#poem #original poem #poetry #Videotape #love poem #i make myself cry #i can't help but reveal my heart #the most dangerous game #home #love #calypso jewel

[anghraine]

I know Space Middle-earth has been done, but thinking Gondor/Númenor thoughts while also vicariously playing Mass Effect with my best friend suddenly got me thinking about LOTR/the Silm in space. More space fantasy than sci-fi, but still.

I've got a lot of ideas, but wrt Númenor specifically, I think it was another planet, part way between Earth and Space Valinor (I think Tol Eressëa is an asteroid or moon or something). Not particularly close as the starship flies. Humans who had fought in their psionic alien pals' epic interstellar war against Space Morgoth were (if willing) brought from Earth to Númenor, a beautiful garden world.

I don't think humans had the technology for FTL travel at the time or access to whatever they'd call hyperspace lanes in this AU. But they did end up developing FTL space travel later and all sorts of wondrous devices that blurred the line between technology and Space Elf magic.

This goes on over a much longer time than in canon, I think, and they functionally become aliens themselves. Some literally are descendants of Space Elves, but regardless of that, they're becoming increasingly like them, esp in regard to physiology and various psionic abilities.

But where Space Elves are immortal, Númenóreans are not, even if they live much longer than their ancestors did, and in their later years, there's a ton of dubious but well-funded immortality research.

They eventually develop their own interstellar empire. They even rediscover Earth in their travels, and although they don't initially realize what it is and Terrans take them for true aliens at first, both soon recognize their kinship. Unfortunately, the end result is that the Númenóreans fold significant portions of Earth into their empire (also as a consequence, Terran humans spread beyond Earth, though it remains their acknowledged homeworld).

The Space Elves have some ancient holdings on Earth as well, I think, and Space Sauron is expanding his empire to all corners, with various bloody clashes until the Númenóreans apparently conquer Sauron's forces and take him as a prisoner back to Númenor. This goes about as well as in canon, and the end result is that Númenor is transformed into a total water world—I'm thinking rather like the one in Interstellar. (Still deciding if the "lanes" to it are destroyed or if you can go to the planet, but will find nothing except watery death.)

The death of the Númenórean high king, his armada, and destruction of the entire capital planet, its infrastructure, and many of its people nearly destroys the power of the surviving Númenóreans and certainly succeeds in breaking it into multiple states, many of which ultimately fall apart. I think there's some further disaster as Elendil's starship fleet escapes Númenor and it gets split up, with Elendil crash-landing on a Númenórean colony and Isildur and Anárion's part of the fleet ending up near Earth.

All three share incredible diplomatic acumen and are able to unite various factions and peoples behind them into two sprawling "quadrants," the Arnor and Gondor quadrants. The Arnor quadrant is the more remote from the Sol system, though a number of Terran groups have long-since settled there, and it does eventually shatter as a Númenórean quadrant under various pressures (the remaining Númenóreans there become helpful spacefarers, essentially).

The Gondor quadrant has a number of struggles—a disastrous civil war in their capital of Osgiliath that leads to relocating the capital to the Sol system, incursions that lead to relinquishing a major system, the loss of Elendil's dynasty. But they're fundamentally holding together at the time that Sauron's old empire reforms. Now they're struggling to survive and to keep Sauron's empire from total conquest of the known galaxy.

#there's a dangerous sort of borderland of contested systems between gondorian and sauronian space #including what used to be a jewel of gondorian space—ithilien #and all sorts of wild scouting and guerrilla missions are carried out there #i thought of having the minas tirith analogue be a different planet than earth #but idk i like the tower of the sun = the planet of the sun #though it's also the name of their actual capital city #anghraine babbles #legendarium blogging #fic talk #fic talk: space dúnedain #broader than that but that's what got me thinking about it! #ondonórë blogging #númenórë #long post

[eilooxara]

Throwing rocks at whoever popularized the concept of "healing crystals" to the extent that you can't find real information about minerals by just googling it

#I don't want to know what vibes it has I want to know if it's suitable for bezel setting #I want to know if it's prone to flaking I want to know if it's soluble in human sweat I want to know its Mohs hardness #I want to know where and how it's mined I want to know whether it's dangerous to work with I want to know if it can handle heat #Yknow. Jeweler stuff #eilooxology

[mariocki]

RIP Zia Mohyeddin (20.6.1931 - 13.2.2023)

"It would be foolish of me to say that my acting career began on the stage in a play, written by my father, at the age of 11. A lot of people who act as schoolboys become lawyers or accountants or insurance agents. But something happened to me during that first experience. I lost all sense of time and space. It was as though I had lost my sense of recognition. The people I had been rehearsing with were strangers whom I had never seen before. As for the actual setting, it appeared to be a space in another world, a dream. And although I spoke my lines, it was quite some time before I realized that it was I who was speaking."

#zia mohyeddin #death ment tw #rip #character actors #belated‚ but I only read of his passing this evening #lawrence of arabia #the hidden truth #the avengers #adam adamant lives! #the champions #man in a suitcase #hadleigh #danger man #gangsters #the jewel in the crown #khartoum #deadlier than the male #work is a four letter word #ashanti #family pride #an incredibly talented performer and a renaissance man in the arts; Zia came to the uk in the early 50s to study at RADA and quickly #established himself as a stage presence (including originating the role of Dr Aziz in A Passage to India). there followed an enviable list #of genre credits on tv‚ the roles he's probably best remembered for now in the uk‚ as well as a regular part on The Hidden Truth and scene #stealing appearances in The Avengers and Man in a Suitcase. returning to his native Pakistan‚ Zia had a very successful talk show #there were also films‚ directorships of Performing Arts institutes; clashing with the military regime in late 70s Pakistan he returned to #the uk where he produced Here and Now‚ an influential multicultural programme; he produced and starred in the first uk soap with a british #asian cast; he travelled the world giving readings of prose and poetry in Urdu‚ and he championed the arts in his home country when he #returned there again. finally he was asked to form Karachi's National Academy of Performing Arts in 2005‚ something he approached like his #life's work and of which he was immensely proud in interviews (and on which he worked tirelessly and passionately). a genuinely incredible #individual who's much more than some old tv guest spots; but i love him for those too. rip Zia.

[nickalart]

Free TTRPG Art - Puppeteer Spider

I appreciate the patience!  I am working on this month’s monster now, but in the meantime, have last month’s - the puppeteer spider!  It has a bit more narrow usage, but spiders lend themselves very well to traps and lair setups.  This one could have an extra hypnotic flair.

This illustration is under a CC-BY license, and is therefore free  to use in private TTRPG games and commercially for independent content  creators! If you want a transparent .png and other full-resolution  files, please visit my Ko-fi shop where it’s pay-what-you-want.

#NiCCalart #Free TTRPG Art #creative commons #spider #puppeteer #puppeteer spider #marionette spider #web #puppet #peacock spider #peacock jumping spider #jewel spider #ttrpg #dnd #pathfinder #monster #enemy #foe #giant spider #danger #trap #tabletop rpg #rpg #art #digital art #illustration

[marinecorvid]

Brock Dawn n Ash arriving in machina town: ahhhh you can feel the positivity of this place!!

Arceus:

#sorry rewatching Arceus and the jewel of life and the fuckign cut from the gang having a grand ol time #to gods most explosive alarm clock going off and immediately causing violent mortal-danger dimensional schisms. #got me in the knees

[tranquilitybasehotelcasino]

extremely awesome record store find

#i got a couple of cds and a queens of the stone age vinyl for my uncle’s bday but this. THIS is the jewel #exclusive splatter vinyl no less… #still no luck with danger days sadly. in vinyl OR cd form #also no fall out boy whatsoever and only new panic stuff

[votava-records]

Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Strangers (feat. A$AP Rocky and Run The Jewels)

"WARNING: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised."

#Danger Mouse #rap #Run The Jewels #A$AP Rocky #Black Thought #underground hiphop #Youtube

[zestyderg]

I wonder how many beings that in our world are myth/legend/cryptids etc. are straight up real in fossil fighters. Like we know some things in ff exist like ghosts, zombies, skeletons, dragons, whatever the fuck oonga oonga is, prehistoric giant whales, and planet-eating space monsters, but what about shit like mothman? Fresno nightcrawlers? Bigfoot?

Imagine if some cryptids in the ff world are actually just wild vivosaurs that were mistaken for monsters, like maybe a rogue plesio or elasmo is responsible for loch ness monster sightings, but shit like the jersey devil is just real. I think It'd be pretty funny.

Anyways you guys like sandworms?

#fossil fighters #fossil fighters champions #zesty's ramblings #my doodles #ignore the non sandworm doodles they're irrelevant to this #sandworms in ff would probably either be hazards of some kind or they're dig sites like the bonehemoth is #the sandworm in the pic is an example of the latter actually #it eats rocks #especially fossil rocks #it lives on cranial isle and had been asleep until joe's island sinking attempt disturbed it #it's kind of grouchy but not inherently dangerous to humans #hacking away at its insides for rare fossils doesn't hurt it tho #maybe if you give it a ton of jewel rocks to eat it will find an exceptionally rare fossil for you in return

[todayisafridaynight]

The bookmark tag was #holder until i think of a tag for these asks but To Be Real even I forgot what it was...

BUT YEAH thanks so much for reading and I'm glad it's :] Intelligible At Least :] obviously I would be up for reading anything that came to mind after putting you and your followers through All That but understandable... A lot of people I've shown the checklist items or pointed out specific behaviors to have actually said similar [i.e. I'm In This Picture And I Don't Like It], so I totally get what you mean, too!

I think a lot of my picks wound up being generalized trauma responses/aftereffects of abuse or neglect [hence I meandered off into just talking about Jo's father half the time], so I guess it's to be expected a lot of them don't read as being CSA-specific or are broadly relatable; it's not like he's supposed to be read that way, after all. I just wasn't able to zero in on many of the more specific ones because I've Never Seen Jo In This Situation Chief I Don't Know What He Thinks About His Name Or His Body Or Mirrors Or Sex Or Affection I Don't Know How Well Or Poorly He Sleeps [Presumably Poorly Though He Has The Second-Reddest Eyes In The Whole Game]

I don't really think I'll have anything to add though unless Infinite Wealth goes off the rails or I actually continue reading the book... so that will have to do... I originally was just riffing on RGGJo's attachment issues, self-destructiveness, and specific entwinement of sexuality/aggression/romance, and his portrayal in my fic lined up pretty closely, so I thought it'd be interesting to apply the same lens to Y7Jo...

But Yeah x2 thank you for the opportunity to talk about it and I'm Glad It's Intelligible At Least x2

THANK YOU i really should change that tag to something better... <- i will immediately forget to do so like a jackass

BUT YA OF COURSE OF COURSE i was truthful when i said it was a real good read (but once again. i have -5 speech skills so i can't properly word SHIT) and was a thorough examination of jo's trauma and how it manifests in him and how it's exhibited through his actions. ALWAYS a big fan of that :)

#snap chats #IN REGARDS TO Jo In Situations that is. VAGUELY my specialty #ive at least thought of jo's attitudes towards affection/relationships #and i Do Not Think he sleeps AS adequately as he should whether it's due to just. Overworking or #If I May Dare To Think he might be prone to night terrors #the Danger Zone of me thinking of Jo In Situations that dont have a lot of background is that i end up projecting a LOT of my issues LMAO #i dont know what it says about me when a lot of those issues seem to fit him #i do try my best NOT to over project of course i try to keep everyone relatively in the bounds of believability to their charas #which is why its funny when i do end up doin a lil projection it works out. Apparently #not sure i could do the same when it comes to jo's POV on his name and body tho. i hate those things bout myself for uh #VERY different reasons LMAOO tho i could imagine jo harboring some feelings of. hm. whats the word. #not Total Disgust But Some and Some Agitation whenever he has to acknowledge he exists outside of being a tool. To Put It Bluntly #cause we know he sees himself as a tool in some aspects- a bullet more specifically. so i can imagine instances where he has to Be A Human #its just. Ew Whats That LMAO YK WHAT I MEAN i do. i know what i mean. mirrors are evil #SORRY IM RAMBLING i shouldnt be.. i got gameritis <- i fucked up my wrists playing sonic riders somehow and it hurts to move #point is i very much enjoy thinking of jo and i enjoy looking at him through a multitude of lenses so AGAIN #thank you much for writing in :] im sorry i have three jewel beetles and a cicada shell for a brain #i am always interested in reading what you have to say tho... cant stress that enough.. #truly curious for how jo will be in infinite wealth now that he Doesnt have to be a bullet anymore. what are you like my guy.. lemme see.. #now pardon me while i fuck up my wrists more. i do not want to do my job today (i will soon im just delaying the inevitable. as a treat)

[orpheusdrinkinga40inadeathbasket]

#danger mouse #black thought #a$ap rocky #run the jewels #strangers #music

[shironezuninja]

I never stop trying to understand the conflicting rules of the internet. Whether the algorithms shun me for being too wild, or how I receive hostility from strangers when I only try to sort out inauthentic Hacker Warning posts on DA, I’ll try to keep my head up high.

#stickers #collage #layout #hobby #habit #danger mouse 2015 #shirakage mouse #santa hat #kiss #romance #former fanfic writer #nezu chan #family #old friend #medieval fantasy #dragons #jewels #bears #armor #potions #love potion #alien #motorcycle #self love #pep talk #self esteem #dungeons and dragons #london #bleeding #steampunk masks

[chrishinxmcgee2]

#strangers #black thought #danger mouse #a$ap rocky #asap rocky #run the jewels #el-p #killer Mike #SoundCloud