#deliriousfaol

biceps and pretty eyes

He did it all while being the pretty fop he looks like haha

Maybe the college doesn't fund the women's hockey team enough so they're helping fundraise and they're doing it in a stereotypically sexy way as a way to stand in solidarity against bull$hit sexism?

I personally love the idea, but I'm wondering how you'd go about the "he looks exactly like Robert/renly" thing, I mean they can still look very alike but people comment on how exactly alike they look, don't they? Unless you also make Robert mixed, perhaps through his targaryen ancestor by making them poc too? (how much more interesting would it be if they were no?)

i think that’s part of what i like about it (it being gendry’s being biracial)--that it challenges the concept of what it means to “look exactly like” someone.  like, maybe the tone of his skin is different, but his facial features are roberts in their shape, or maybe people zoom in on the eyes and it takes a moment to shake that his skin color is different.  especially since you frequently have people who see race first and then facial features second, i like it as a subversion of that, a moment that demands to know in what way people do interpret visual similarity between family members.  (and especially it gets interesting given that the things that people associate in text with gendry’s similarity to robert are primarily colors: his black hair, his blue eyes.  yes there’s also his size, but it’s more frequently the black and blue.)

it’s a different ballgame if you have robert also be a person of color, of course, but i think what i like about the biraciality of it is that it challenges a lot and highlights prejudices and inconsistencies, which, of course, are so central to gendry’s experience in asoiaf as a (presumably*) white bastard.

*in which you are stannis*

I got u

really? :D

It’s been almost 7 years for me and I still feel some of that. But I’m getting better, very slowly, but I AM getting better. You will too. 4 years might seem like a long time, but recovery is a messy process and we all backtrack a lot.

deliriousfaol replied to your post This is kind of really personal and really dark...

I think it’s dangerous to compare one’s life to the “one day that I’ll be well.” Our time recovering is not a static waiting period. It is not wasted, or worth any less than when we are “well”. the past is wind and the future is mist, today is real.

Seriously you guys, I can’t tell you how much it meant to wake up to these two messages. maz737, it meant a lot to know that I’m not alone in what I’m feeling. I’m so sorry that you’ve been suffering too, but at least we both are trying to recover bit by bit right? Seriously thank you for taking the time to reach out to me it means so much and I hope you get to where you want to be soon:)

deliriousfaol this was.... honestly so helpful. I really really needed this reminder. You’re right, always comparing myself back to the past or to how i might be in the future isn’t going to help anything. I just can’t tell you how much your words hit me and thank you so so so so much for writing them.