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We are Children of Dust and Ashes

@hero-ofbowerstone

Nick - mid 20s - they/them - dyke

why is it always the fancylad boy-king type whos the bottom. maybe his tough loyal knight who uses his body to protect and defend him and lives to serve him wants to get railed

maybe i just like it when masc dudes with scars and calluses and a devotion complex bigger than the moon get topped by troubled prettyboys with hands thatve never worked a day in their life. who said that

looking to hire a chivalrous young knight to assist with noble duties. responsibilities include loyalty till death and reaping what i have sowed. poor critical thinking essential.

"Medusa with the Head of Perseus" but make it transmasculine

I talked about transmasculine Medusa in this post (and also get into why I generally dislike these types of Medusa stories lmao) but essentially, the thing that interests me is the way Medusa can fit into stories of transmasculine corrective sexual assault & the views on transmasculine bodies as monstrous, specifically "monstrous women".

I decided to give him one breast and one w surgery, and do one version with phallo and one without, and one side with longer snake-hair to cover the myriad of ways transmascs transition.

I also chose to make the head more androgynous, to show how transmascs face corrective sexual assault from both men and women. The text on the side is "Medusa" in the Greek alphabet, with the feminine ending slowly being erased.

Something that I think gets overlooked about Arya as a result of fandom flanderization is that she didn’t set out with the desire to become an assassin. She loves swordplay, yes, and she has her list. But when she escaped king’s landing, she just wanted to get to family. She wanted to get to safety. She wanted to get to Jon. When she left for Essos, her intention had been to go to the wall, to find Jon. She only went to Braavos because she didn’t know what else to do. Arya has a strong sense of justice, yes. But her primary motivation hasn’t been revenge. She’s not the only character who, imo, is on a specific path because they don’t know what else to do. But that’ll have to wait for another post

giving myself heart palpitations by thinking about how arya thought her mother wouldn't love her after what she did to survive. questioning whether she would actually want her back when catelyn would have moved mountains to have her back.

(in any au where catelyn lives sansa and bran would ask these questions too. would you love even if i forced my mind on friends mind? if i commited a skinchanger' sin? would you still love me if i was the mastermind behind the death of your chilhood friend? if i was a part of reason why father died?

and catelyn would say that she would love them still.

catelyn would love them so much.)