Lady Visenya

No probs, I love me some elephants. :) And I know you do too. :D

Yeah, that's Leonyra's job.

No problem. I'd love to commission again! #OurQueens It's nice to see artwork of the girls without Aegon around. :D

actually like the idea of baela’s burn scars being very fucked up and disfiguring but rhaena steadfastedly going ‘my sister and i look just alike’ and ‘can’t you see we’re twins?’ and never for a moment hesitating to embrace her sister

It's how I pictured it. She has burnscars on her back, and some on her face. One eyebrow will never grow back, a finger or two will never have full feeling and sensation ever again. She has aches and pains from it that never go away. But Baela's beauty is not in how "sexually desirable" she is to some random people. it's in how bold she is, how brave and daring, her presence. She is strong, she suffered, and she hasn't let it beat her down. And without her sister that would not have been possible. When Alyn dances with Baela, it's not his "handsomeness" that the room is focused on, nor is Alyn struck by Baela's beauty. He feels awkward, as though she makes him feel like an awkward boy whose gangling steps are wrong. In those moments, the entire room can look at Baela and see a woman beyond her past injuries. And Rhaena is there, with her Corbray love, and her movements seem synced not with her partner, but with Baela. Her mirror, her twin, her sister, and the person she values more than anyone else in the world. Poorly written and sappy on my part, but I have a difficult time articulating myself. :)

i have such little patience for academic theorists writing in deliberately obtuse manners. ‘my theory isn’t meant to be accessible to everyone.’ okay well have you considered that it’s also annoying as fuck to read when you write like you whipped out a thesaurus in order to choose the most over the top words possible for what should be a simple statement.

Academia has that issue as a whole. I was trying to read books on fairly straightforward topics and kept getting bombarded with not only archaic words and overly fancy ones where simpler ones would have sufficed, but then they dropped a bunch of German and French words which had me needing to look things up while reading. It turned what should have been leisurely reads into genuinely uncomfortable slogs.

My lovely ladies

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Kitty! :D