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Project Hail Mary // Incorrect quotes 3/?

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[Stannis, to Maester Cressen:] "Why should I avenge Eddard Stark? The man was nothing to me. Oh, Robert loved him, to be sure. Loved him as a brother, how often did I hear that? I was his brother, not Ned Stark, but you would never have known it by the way he treated me. [...] I sat on his council for fifteen years, helping Jon Arryn rule his realm while Robert drank and whored, but when Jon died, did my brother name me his Hand? No, he went galloping off to his dear friend Ned Stark, and offered him the honor. And small good it did either of them." -Prologue (Cressen), aCoK

[Stannis, to Catelyn:] "[...] Lord Eddard did his duty, I will not deny it. Did I ever do less? I should have been Robert's Hand." [Catelyn:]“That was your brother’s will. Ned never wanted it.” [Stannis:]“Yet he took it. That which should have been mine. Still, I give you my word, you shall have justice for his murder.” -Catelyn III, aSoS

[Dunk, to Egg:] "When the king named Lord Bloodraven his Hand, your lord father refused to be part of his council and departed King's Landing for his own seat," he reminded Egg. "He has been at Summerhall for a year, and half of another. What do you call that, if not sulking?" "I call it being wroth," Egg declared loftily. "His Grace should have made my father Hand. He's his brother, and the finest battle commander in the realm since Uncle Baelor died. [...]" -The Sworn Sword

with all of the talk of what stannis and maekar had in common as kinslayers who nonetheless loved the victims of their respective fratricides, let us not forget these prickly kings' even stronger similarity: being so resentful over an elder brother denying them the title of king's hand that each ran away from the small council in king's landing, where they had loyally served their family for years, to go brood and sullenly sulk in their respective targaryen-built seats.

from that i wonder if we can extrapolate about the kingly brother and the hand chosen in maekar's place during that earlier era. not that aerys i and bloodraven match up to robert and ned's characters personality-wise, but aerys i could well have thought of brynden as his best friend and even the brother he chose. after all, bloodraven was technically their uncle, but like most of the younger siblings of daeron ii (including princess daenerys and all the other great bastards), he was closer in age to the sons of daeron ii than to royal big brother himself. brynden rivers was born in 175 ac, while aerys i would have been born sometime from 172-177 ac, meaning he was at most 2 years younger or even 3 years older than the uncle he chose as his hand of the king. with a common interest in the arcane, those two could have been quite close from childhood, studying old sorcery scrolls while baelor, maekar, and the other male great bastards spent more time studying the blade. with a relationship like that, bloodraven may not have needed to do any cunning politicking to get that handship position after the deaths of baelor breakspear and daeron ii. (after all, he could have been well content to just remain a spymaster as it seems most of his time and talents were taken up with the magical surveillance state anyway.) maekar may have naturally expected to become king's hand when baelor became king, as they had long worked as a team. and indeed he may have assumed his accidental killing of baelor unfairly lost him the chance at handship, but that doesn't mean it was true any more than robert ever intentionally slighted stannis with his denials. if maekar and aerys i weren't close the way he and baelor were (and there's no evidence they were), it's likely enough that he was never going to be hand to aerys i no matter how baelor died. the king just chose his own friend from a shared childhood over a brother by blood for the sake of common interest as well as trust, and maekar, like stannis, still felt that the position was his due as an ever-dutiful younger brother, never mind the personal realtionship he did or didn't have with the surviving brother he'd have to work closely with day-by-day. brotherly blood and successful battle command outweighed all else in the views of maekar and stannis, and if they couldn't have what they felt owed in recompense for their duty that only meant it was time to go back home, all or nothing.

but if stannis and ned could have been strong allies had ned not died for the sake of stannis's claim before stannis even acted, i think maekar and bloodraven could have had even more common ground in the end. even in the mystery knight, where war was predicted between them, that was only heard from those slandering maekar. more objective accounts emphasize the rift between maekar and king aerys i over the handship, as stannis's true beef was with robert. not only were brynden and maekar kinslayers defined by their fratricides and facing inaccurate suggestions of further kinslaying, (both being seen as capable of murdering rhaegel and his children to seize the throne, though maekar only killed baelor by accident and bloodraven only killed blackfyres on the redgrass field in service of his legit royal kin), they were also both known as stern and harsh wrt treason. which is why i think the 3rd blackfyre rebellion was what brought them together, as something must have for bloodraven to continue as hand during maekar's reign. the 2nd blackfyre rebellion was over quickly before it began with just bloodraven in charge and only egg acting in maekar's name, but the 3rd rebellion would be the first true blackfyre war since the redgrass field, with prince maekar and the king's hand leading the royalist forces together as baelor and all the other generals from the 1st rebellion were gone. when bittersteel was taken prisoner and king aerys i allowed him to try to go to the wall against bloodraven's counsel, instead of being executed for treason, i bet maekar agreed with bloodraven about what a mistake that was, the first time we know of aerys i disregarding brynden. (proof imo that he was not just a puppet under bloodraven's control)

(This was imagined up in a universe where she made it)

- Olesya writes fanfic on Ao3

- she’s one of those authors that says “English isn’t my first language” because it’s not, and then writes the most beautiful heartbreaking fics, like Shakespeare could never

- when in space, she updates her fic (just imagine it could be uploaded)

- Grace thinks it’s hysterical and is also quite impressed

- in one of the videos sent back to earth, she says “I was writing up here! You can read on Ao3! It’s called (insert fic name here, something sciencey probably)!”

- Stratt decides to see what her engineer was writing, and looks the title up, and when she opens it, what does she find? DOOMED LESBIAN SMUT.

I say this as someone who sells pottery, and many people who see my art assume I am using art as an outlet to “express myself.”

I am not.

I use art to challenge myself. A lot of what I do is the equivalent of doing a hard sudoko or a half marathon, answering the question of “can I do this?”

I use art to question things and explore ideas. Finding physical synthesis between concepts and working out a design to its end state.

I use art to make money. I make some things just because I suspect they’ll sell well, and I keep making them when they do.

This idea that an artist is “putting themselves out there” every time they create is not only stupid, but harmful, and it kills critique and analysis.

Yes every creative work is influenced by its creator, but the most preliminary step of analysis is to define the purpose of a work of art (functional, narrative, entertainment, persuasive, decorative, ceremonial, etc.) and a vanishingly small percentage of that is self-expression. Even then, it’s generally tied to the self’s relationship with something else—perception, society, etc.

It’s very tiresome to have people assume they know you because they like (or dislike) your art, to make assumptions about who you are and how you approach the world. It’s nothing new— people called the Impressionists insane and the Fauvists degenerate. And now people are expected to hand out their identities and traumas to prove they have the right to explore certain subjects.

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

I think this ship (spaceship) is really funny