Lover of Tragedy

worst part of being the biggest fan of my own ocs is i have to come up with all the ship names. how am i supposed to know the optimal way to mash names together. whens the time for name mashing and whens the time for funny wordplay. i didnt go to school for this.

dont store a knife with the point facing down, it damages the blade. no, dont do that either. when you store it with the point facing up you might accidentally hurt yourself when you try to grab it. dont store a knife at all actually. your blade must never leave your hand, always ready, ruthless and waiting. you know deep down that ever since you learned the stench of blood you will never be able to cast it aside. or just get a sheath for it i guess.

Everybody say "thank you south america" for the humble potato

A trope that gets to me: 'guard dog' character and their partner who are both fully aware of it and honestly don't care/kind of like it. Someone says "call your guard dog off" and their partner does call them off. That person, their 'guard dog', is someone who is unreservedly, irrefutably loyal to them. Someone undoubtedly dangerous who is willing to kill, to maim, to obey, simply because of their love for one another. There's no manipulation involved— it is loyalty, brutal, dogged loyalty. And it goes both ways.

a little after Ned gets Jon he asks the wet nurse a bunch of baby questions and she casually mentions infants totally change eye and hair colors sometimes (Ned almost kills himself on the spot) so he and Howland end up frantically inventing mendelian inheritance genetics on the ride back home. except now Cat keeps catching him in the nursery with a tray of pea plants and a notepad staring at baby Jon with the intensity of One Thousand Suns and she’s like my lord is this some first men tradition? you do not perform this ritual for Robb :( and Ned just has to be like……aye tis a sacred offering to the old gods. for bastards only. no one else may witness, forgive me.

its been said but grrm timelines are wild as hell. The Starks have had an 8,000 year unbroken reign? For 8,000 years. 8,000. Old Valyria rose, made dragons, terrorized the world for thousands of years, and exploded in apocalyptic fashion, but before during and after all that the one constant in the universe was the stalwart guardian of the horrors: a guy named Brandon frowning dourly at his notepad as he counts grain being put away for winter

I really love the idea that Ned thinks he’s a gentle parent but like….by northern standards. He’ll be like ah I remember what this was like I can’t be as harsh as my father…..boy hostage fetch my sword I have decided you children will watch me perform a beheading instead of the traditional bloodeagle. I know I know I’m getting soft in my old age (27)

Like Robb is literally my baby and he has three friends his mom, his bastard brother, and the hostage they’re keeping in the household so that the hostage’s house stays in line and Robb has a weird situationship with him. And mom, bastard brother, and hostage situationship all HATE each other

re-reading asos and jon snow is the first pov to question that theon killed bran and rickon ???? he's drunk on pain and meds but 'They can't be dead. Theon would never do that' ??? he thinks that immediately, it's crazy, and in the next chapter he's using a bow and thinks about theon again. Is this a connection because they were both outsiders in winterfell and he can't believe theon would do that because it implies something about how treacherous winterfell outsiders are and he doesn't what to believe in that implication when he's struggling with his own worth ? or maybe he's just being gay,,,

Theon, looking at his uncle Aeron: man, you used to be young and loud and fun before the horrors™ good thing that will never happen to me, theon greyjoy, guy known for smirking and taking nothing seriously

Iron Islander voice: Theon you [19 syllable dolphin noise slur] I see you came back WOKE and GAY and a WOMAN from us leaving you as a child prisoner to the guy with an 8 foot sword that makes you drag it around to executions in front of his screaming faced tree gods as a daily reminder that he can and will kill you (a child) just like he killed the rest of your family (some of which were also children). Did you have fun polishing his sword? I’ll bet. Did you write this letter yourself? Knowing there’s a one person literacy limit? Should we call you Theon the Reader, you reading fuck? And standing here in a jean jacket you bought yourself, may as well be sucking dick at old navy. You know who’s NOT woke or gay or a woman? Your sister Asha. Why can’t you be less gay and woke and a woman, like Asha? I bet she could run a democratic election because you know what isn’t gay Theon? Democracy

I'm afraid you were operated on by a Minion

you may think that, but she was in fact a gorgeous human who spoke other intelligible words - it was just that one that unhinged us

Songs you always skip but never take out of the playlist are important parts of the ecosystem they need to be there