"I'm alive and drunk on sunshine"

When ao3 goes down, life loses all meaning

the secret lives of real birbs!

@elodieunderglass this is relevant to your interests.

so expressive! Thank you so much!

every opera production would be made funnier/possibly better if you had one of the characters give a powerpoint presentation

Litterally Leporello when he's explaining to Donna Elvira the statistics of Don Giovanni's seductions.

So i made a thing...

Two rules for creating anything.

1) Make it weird.

2) Make it with love.

the lannisters get a purple wedding in exchange for the red wedding (sansa’s word on joffrey is what condemns him finally to death at the hand of the tyrells). jaime pushes bran out of a window so he gets the hand he pushed bran with chopped off. ned stark unjustly executes gared and lady with ice, and his head is ignominiously chopped off by ice. sansa marks jon as her bastard brother, only to end up having to play a bastard herself. cersei uses sansa as a hostage by keeping her close and betrothing her to her son, and myrcella is shipped off to dorne to be used as a hostage betrothed to trystane. theon

theon subplot in adwd:

RIP Lydia Bennet you would’ve loved watching tik toks at full volume in public

Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

as a lawyer who’s been practicing for six years now I can say with certainty that this 100% applies to lawyers

George just told me what Littlefingers Winds of Winter arc is going to be btw. He’s going to try to fuck Stoneheart

#as soon as he learns about her he abandons the whole Alayne Vale plot#he spends the whole book making a pilgrimage to find her a la Quent#Stoneheart hangs him on sight

Thinking about the bear pit from Brienne’s POV and going a little crazy.

Like this guy who you never liked (the Kingslayer, the man who has twisted Knighthood and made it a joke) he saves you from being raped, loses his hand, and confesses to you the truth about why he killed the mad king.

And then he leaves.

He leaves you to go home and you’re stuck with the same horrible men who maimed this guy that has began to weasel his way into your psyche. But it’s fine because he’s gone now and you don’t have to deal with it.

And then he just freaking falls out of the sky and saves you from the bear. A knight saving the damsel. (And for once him the knight and you the damsel.) And when you ask him why he came all the way back just to save you he says, “I dreamed of you.”

Insane.

after my nigh twenty years of chewing on this series, i think the key to making any asoiaf prediction is to remember that george rr martin doesn’t consider anything to be set in stone until it is published. that man will change his mind on a dime. he will change course, he will add povs. he will drop time jumps. he will retcon. i don’t care what groundwork he’s laid. i don’t care what he’s sworn he will or won’t do. there are no guard rails with him. none

i promise you his ending is not the same now as it was in 2019 as it was in 2015 as it was in 2013 as it was in 2011 as it was in 2006 as it was in 2003 as it was in 1999 as it was in 1997 as it was in 1995 as it was in 1993

it’s in flux. it’s schrodinger’s endgame. even he won’t know what’s in that damn box until he opens it. as of this moment anything is possible

He puts stuff in just in case he might want to use it. Or he might not. We drive ourselves crazy trying to figure out what it all means, and it may end up meaning something, or nothing at all. Even George doesn’t know!