@wow__then It's very difficult to do good Arya art. You have to make it believable for her to be mistaken for a boy, give her a long face, and still be pretty.
You did a great job with this! Kudos!
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Thom Crane
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Thom Crane
@TCraneB
Just a fella trying to make it through life. You feel me?
Katılım Şubat 2019
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@JadeAtrophis Is this the one that made Gawain brown or am I thinking of a different adaptation?
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Wow that’s so deep and subversive and absolutely worthless
scott 🌞@scottdomes
one of my favourite movies in recent years is the Green Knight; Gawain gets to the end and, facing his certain death, asks: “is this all there is?” the Green Knight responds: “what else ought there be?” you want the answer to be more than “be courageous and loving”; but…
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@SandyofCthulhu "He only shows up to church to pick up girls! What a creep!"
The longhouse is alive and well in the Church.
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Church serves many purposes but one important purpose is finding a compatible spouse.
Daddy Warpig@DaddyWarpig
Every single one of those commenters is wrong and needs to deeply ponder their wrongness.
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@SandyofCthulhu It's compelling because it combines two great aspects of an archetypal hero: cunning and bravery.
You have to be smart to think of making a bladed suit of armor. You have to be brave to follow through with the plan.
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I love oddball ways of killing "unkillable" monsters from legend.
A serpent dragon from England crushed you with its coils, so a knight made a suit with disk-like blades all around it, so when it constricted him, it cut itself into segments.
The Stoorworm from Scotland rejoined its parts together when chopped up, so couldn't be killed with a blade. They thrust a pole of burning pitch down its throat and roasted it from the inside out.
So often in our movies, the "unkillable" monster isn't killed by some clever means, but just by shooting it EVEN MORE until it is weighed down by all the lead I guess or being shot by a really big explosion.
And when I say "clever means" I'm not talking about a gimmicky trick kill that one-shots the monsters. Making a spiked suit and being swallowed, making a blade suit and getting constricted, and thrusting a pole of burning pitch down the horror's venomous throat are all hard tasks, but cool.
I think our screenwriters' imaginations are weak today.
The FolkLore Press@StephenGeoRae
A dragon terrorised the Dalry area. A local blacksmith killed the beast, he made a spiked suit of armour and when the dragon swallowed him, it was ripped to pieces inside, out from: 'Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror' by Stephen G. Rae art: Johan Egerkrans
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@VK_HM I'm sometimes hesitant to read very foundational books like this because it feels overly trope-y. I know it isn't fair because it's the one thay established those tropes but alas.
Are the Elric books worth the read?
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The amount of times some guy in a fantasy is an Elric cannot be understated. A lot of the Targaryens are Elrics. Anomander Rake from Malazan is an Elric. Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist is actually not an Elric but I believe that is where Arakawa got the name
Andrey 📚 - Fantasy Classic Book Club@zbogus77
This is your reminder that Elric of Melniboné is the most influential character in the history of fantasy media!
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I want to expand on this so here are my top 10 most influential fantasy (so no Dune, Odyssey or Arthur) characters of all time:
1. Elric
2. Conan
3. Ged
4. Aragorn
5. Grey Mouser
6. Corwin
7. Lestat
8. Rand
9. Croaker
10. Tyrion
Andrey 📚 - Fantasy Classic Book Club@zbogus77
This is your reminder that Elric of Melniboné is the most influential character in the history of fantasy media!
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@potterypannel @zbogus77 GoT is 30 years old and is the most popular work of fantasy in the 21st century.
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@zbogus77 tyrion as in tyrion lannister? i would have imagined that hes sorta "too new" as a character to be significantly influential to other works. i dont really know anything about fantasy literature though, what comes to mind as being influenced by him in your opinion?
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@SandyofCthulhu These meme also doesn't work because Martin never said that. He said he wished Gandalf the White was a more distinct personality than the Gray, which is totally a fair point.
There are plenty of resurrected characters in ASOIAF and I think Martin does the change very well.
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Gandalf's resurrection was one of the very few times that a resurrection worked in fiction. It worked in Narnia because it was a reflection of Christ's. I hated it when they resurrected Superman after his death, because I knew for a fact they wouldn't let him die so it was a stupid and moronic attempt to play on our emotions from the get-go. Let's not talk about Palpatine's.
memeslich 💀 dnd memes@memeslich
Should Gandalf have stayed dead??
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@TheFarRightSide @FrenlyOfficer The political stuff is kino and this is part of the problem. It is so compelling that it has to be the new focus. ASOIAF would not be as beloved as it is if it were purely about the fight with the Others and the WOTFK was merely a distraction.
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@FrenlyOfficer In my genuine opinion he got overly invested in the historical fiction element and it drifted so far away from the actual fantasy before he realized it that he just got to a point where he can't bring it back around in any coherent way.
The Others are in like two scenes.
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The Others in A Song of Ice and Fire are allegorical for global warming.
Everyone is bored of global warming now including GRRM which is why he can’t write about it.
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@floatovertrees @bo_austin_ "Oh yeah haha that reminds of this funny story! So my sister and I were at the beach and-"
"I don't care about the beach. This conversation is over. Bye."
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yeah, that’s called being bad at socializing — socializing is predicated on pretending you think something is meaningful because it might be very meaningful to the person you’re talking to
Libriscent@libriscent
Autistic people aren’t bad at socializing. They’re bad at pretending a conversation is meaningful when it isn’t
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@B1irl @ShortcakeStar Normal type is genuinely my favorite type. All these trite new type ideas are Normal erasure!
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@ShortcakeStar People hate normal and mono typing so much they make up new self description types that make everything worse.
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eople dont like sound or light type but they dont know the perfect solution. slime type. goo type.
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@FrenlyOfficer For someone who is "equal parts white and black," it's strange that Daemon does nothing morally righteous with the possible exception of killing a character way more memorable and likeable than he.
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@FrenlyOfficer GRRM's opinion on Daemon Targaryen is the greatest support of The Death of the Author in recent memory. He is as charismatic as a petulant child who stamps and whines when he doesn't get his way and is one of the least heroic characters in Fire and Blood.
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I knew what the answer was gonna be
Daniel@General_D__
George R.R Martin on his favorite character
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@naerysthinker "I have done my duty by you, and given you an heir. I beg you, let us live henceforth as brother and sister."
"That is what we are doing."
:(
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"Aegon could have easily ended the marriage by allowing Naerys to join the Faith of the Seven as she wanted, and then married any other woman of his choosing. Why he never did this is cause of much speculation among the maesters. The answer most likely was simple cruelty."
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@FrenlyOfficer Apparently the Yronwoods also fought for the Blackfyres which I don't get.
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Daemon tried to save us from DOG (Dornish Occupation Government).
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@redgriff1992 @FrenlyOfficer His hair looked really good in Season 2 and it was still pretty blonde then
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Having his hair color swapped? Or being an American?
Hair: a necessary compromise because he looked ridiculous.
American: he’s an Anglo-American, same race
Andi | |praytowin 🏳️🌈@praytowin1
@FrenlyOfficer Noone cared when it was Tyrion🤷🏻♂️
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@CatstackCvltvre @FrenlyOfficer The Dothraki are way more retarded than the Mongols were.
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@FrenlyOfficer Yeah, but the dothraki are a horse-mounted force. The mongols are a rough approximate and never had any problems dealing with castle-bound forces sallying out. Ambushes are easy if they stray too far.
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This misunderstands the purpose of castles. You can leave them and attack and then come back for safety. Requires a much larger force to keep the men in a castle from doing damage.
𝐅𝐄𝐍✦@CatstackCvltvre
@FrenlyOfficer @Carcrashwhite Castles don't really mean much if you control basically ever other part of the land including all the parts that produce food. Starve em out just by existing.
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@TheFarRightSide @MiddleearthMixr I definitely think GRRM was planning on the series happening over a longer period than it ended up being, which accounts for why a lot of the characters are unbelievably young.
But Dany's dragons are also magic prophecy babies so we can let it slide.
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@MiddleearthMixr The funniest part is that Dany's dragons are like two years old and are as big or bigger than ones that are like 80
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Not even dark spiritual entities who have read Nietzsche
Tolkiens dragons absolutely mog these pets
Dragonstone@1Dragonstone
VHAGAR #houseofthedragon
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@MiddleearthMixr Alright bro we get it, you like LOTR more than ASOIAF. I like you but it's getting annoying. Have you even read the series you continue to criticize?
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