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Are you a fan of the absolutely ~god awful~ amazing youtube series "Good morning wood"? do you love laughing at others pain? or do you just want to watch the world suffer because you hate everything? if you answered yes, or no to any of these questions, then this is the subreddit for you!
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2010.09.05 15:50 admin36 Good Morning!

A place for Good Morning culture enthusiasts to share the best Good Morning Messages. Truly a Good Morning community.
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2013.01.15 02:42 DoctorTennant Good Mythical Morning: May Your Mornings Be Ever Mythical!

The unofficial subreddit for Rhett and Link's morning talk show Good Mythical Morning! On this sub, you will find tons of cool stuff for Mythical Beasts and the mythical at heart! Made by Mythical Beasts for Mythical Beasts! --- New Reddit + night mode recommended.
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2023.05.28 10:09 subreddit_stats Subreddit Stats: ProgressiveDemocrats top posts from 2022-11-20 to 2023-05-27 15:45 PDT

Period: 187.69 days
Submissions Comments
Total 1000 6982
Rate (per day) 5.33 37.12
Unique Redditors 48 878
Combined Score 25426 29352

Top Submitters' Top Submissions

  1. 8359 points, 357 submissions: FarPiano9575
    1. This was US Marine combat veteran Ruben Gallego as violent MAGA insurrectionists were overrunning the Capitol on January 6th. He gathered fellow Democrats to prepare to fight if necessary. "I would have killed motherfuckers to save this democracy. Fuck those guys." (638 points, 128 comments)
    2. Students from Nashville-area high schools and colleges, including Belmont University and Vanderbilt U, are pouring into downtown Nashville to gather at the Capitol for another rally to call for safe gun laws following last week's mass school shooting. (112 points, 20 comments)
    3. Sen. John Fetterman is back. “Great to be here,” he says. (77 points, 9 comments)
    4. My friend's late father, at 18, fighting the Nazis in France. He was ANTIFA. (74 points, 16 comments)
    5. Fun fact: Speaker Pelosi won nine consecutive leadership elections—on the first ballot. (71 points, 7 comments)
    6. This is historically important and this is the first step in holding Trump accountable for his crimes. (67 points, 10 comments)
    7. "We're literally building bridges, and they're literally banning books." - Pete Buttigieg (64 points, 3 comments)
    8. Insurrectionist Marjorie Taylor Greene has just been placed on the House Homeland Security Committee. Does that make you feel any more secure? 😱 (64 points, 29 comments)
    9. Trump hid in an underground bunker while Americans protested in the streets. Joe Biden flew into the middle of a war in Kyiv, Ukraine on President's Day and walked the streets as air raid sirens blared. One man stands for world freedom and peace, while the other stood only for his narcissistic self (61 points, 14 comments)
    10. 200 students walked out of class at an Alabama high school after they were reportedly told their student-led Black History Month program could not reference slavery or the civil rights movement "because one of our administrators felt uncomfortable" (60 points, 10 comments)
  2. 7529 points, 276 submissions: ProgressiveDemocrats
    1. Wow. Students are standing outside the Tennessee House right now and chanting, “Fuck you fascists.” Young people are absolutely pissed off & we are about to give Republicans hell like they’ve never seenZ We aren’t forgetting this. (814 points, 309 comments)
    2. President Biden just schooled Republicans by reminding them, “Ronald Reagan was doing the 28% tax rate, you know, that wacko liberal guy." Does anyone else love President Biden’s sense of humor? (122 points, 22 comments)
    3. JUST IN: Justin Jones has been voted BACK to the Tennessee State House by the Metro Nashville Council! The Council was responsible for choosing who would fill the seat until the special election, and they voted to select Jones. Right after the vote, Jones embraced the council members. (115 points, 14 comments)
    4. Holy shit. The former Lt. Governor of Texas, Ben Barnes, just came forward to say he was part of a secret Republican operation that convinced Iran to keep Americans held hostage in order to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s 1980 presidential campaign. (Link to the story in comments below) (84 points, 15 comments)
    5. As the Republican party tries to gaslight Americans into thinking Biden's State of the Union Address was terrible, note that 72% of Americans had a positive view of the Address. - That's leaps and bounds better than any Trump SOTU. - Joe Biden knocked it out of the park. (82 points, 6 comments)
    6. WOW. Absolute power move by Hakeem Jeffries. After Republicans kicked Ilhan Omar off of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Jeffries immediately put her on the House Budget Committee. Republicans messed with the wrong party and person. Rep. Omar won’t be silenced. (82 points, 19 comments)
    7. Way to go, Tulsa high schoolers!!🥳 (80 points, 9 comments)
    8. HOLY SHIT! Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin is about to put the smackdown on SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas after revelations that he's been accepting luxury gifts from Republican donors and not disclosing them. 📢 (71 points, 14 comments)
    9. MAGAs are attacking Arnold Schwarzenegger for posting a video in which he condemns anti-Semitism after his visit to Auschwitz. It was a 12-minute video that was powerful, uplifting, and inspiring -- and Arnold doesn't even talk about politics. Why are they offended by this video? (71 points, 29 comments)
    10. BREAKING: In a SHOCKING move, two Texas Republicans just joined the Democrats to PASS the “Raise The Age” gun control bill out of committee in the Texas Legislature! That's right – TEXAS! (more in the comments) (64 points, 11 comments)
  3. 2671 points, 84 submissions: Top-Bottle7403
    1. Jamie Raskin just destroyed Lauren Boebert with Donald Trump's OWN Words. Rep. Raskin is truly the greatest. (113 points, 15 comments)
    2. If you're randomly posting about World War III on Easter, you don't need to be running for the presidency, you need to run to a mental health provider. (99 points, 21 comments)
    3. BREAKING: Four members of the Proud Boys, including their former leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted today of seditious conspiracy for plotting to keep Trump in power after his election defeat by leading a violent mob to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (78 points, 8 comments)
    4. Jamie Raskin is owning MAGA Republicans, all while undergoing cancer treatment on a daily basis. He’s a true hero! Please drop a comment below ❤️ to show him your support. (72 points, 12 comments)
    5. Sometimes one image can say more than a thousand words (70 points, 6 comments)
    6. Wonderful people should get to hear the wonderful things about themselves while they're still with us. Jimmy Carter was the first President I cared about when I was a kid, and he's been an incredible human being ever since. Thanks President Carter, for living an exemplary life in service of others. (66 points, 7 comments)
    7. God has nothing to do with it. (64 points, 6 comments)
    8. Last month, DeSantis signed a bill that “will allow anyone who can legally own a gun in Florida to carry one without a permit. It means training and a background check will not be required to carry concealed guns in public. It takes effect July 1.” Get ready for more mass shootings in Florida. (63 points, 21 comments)
    9. The China spy balloon just sent back its first pics from Missouri (61 points, 8 comments)
    10. This 1977 image is of GOP Tennessee Gov Bill Lee dressed in drag. There nothing wrong with this, except for the fact that Bill Lee is about to sign a bill that will ban and criminalize drag in the state. - The image is from a high school yearbook. GOP hypocrisy just keeps getting worse and worse. (58 points, 11 comments)
  4. 2598 points, 101 submissions: In-The-Middle12
    1. Eight years. No scandals. No impeachment hearings. No drama. Just class and grace personified. Let's let them know we miss this wonderful family. (79 points, 14 comments)
    2. If Republicans in the TN House can expel fellow members of the opposition party simply for protesting gun violence, then surely Democrats in the US House should be able to expel members of Congress for taking part in or aiding an insurrection, right? (79 points, 7 comments)
    3. BREAKING: Tesla has fired 30+ workers at its Buffalo gigafactory, one day after workers there announced a unionization campaign. -Tesla managers announced surprise performance reviews, then fired 8x as many workers as usual. - Tesla is notorious for union-busting. (61 points, 6 comments)
    4. A five-hour police delay in alerting the public that the Monterey Park, California, dance hall killer was on the run is throwing a spotlight on the nation's flawed, patchwork system for warnings of mass shooters at large. (58 points, 7 comments)
    5. Can you find five people in any job outside of policing where one of them wouldn't have stopped the others from beating a man to death? There are no dentists or plumbers, or accountants who would've done that to Tyre Nichols. Only cops have been trained to think that's normal. (49 points, 10 comments)
    6. NEW: Some actually newsworthy footage that was just released in connection with a Jan. 6 trial of Ed Badalian, the InfoWars superfan whose buddy drove a stun gun into Mike Fanone's neck during the Capitol siege. From inside a trashed suite of Senate hideaway offices: (49 points, 7 comments)
    7. Texas Republicans just found out that if they secede from the Union, they lose all their government checks. Say what!! The right-wing Republicans are now double-thinking this move. (49 points, 15 comments)
    8. Oh my. A new video just surfaced that shows Rep. Nate Schatzline (R-TX), who wrote a bill to restrict drag shows, dressed in drag while skipping through a park wearing a black sequined dress. (48 points, 4 comments)
    9. When Trump was POTUS he was still renting an entire floor of Trump Tower to China’s largest state owned bank. They paid him 5.4 million while in office so y’all can STFU about Biden. (48 points, 3 comments)
    10. If you only share ONE post today, let it be this list of 156 House Republicans who voted to raise the retirement age for Social Security to age 70. -- Don't let them get away with it. - Make sure EVERYONE knows. (45 points, 1 comment)
  5. 1121 points, 37 submissions: Safe_Salt9663
    1. This is not normal (81 points, 20 comments)
    2. D.C. should be a state. What do you think? (80 points, 19 comments)
    3. A corrupt Republican lawmaker has just been EXPELLED from the Arizona State Legislature over ethics violations, including some relating to election misinformation. (62 points, 11 comments)
    4. BREAKING: Wall Street Journal drops bombshell, reveals that Elon Musk’s Twitter is now a whopping $13 billion in debt due to Musk’s failed Twitter Blue grift and the wave of advertisers fleeing to “protect their brands” from Twitter’s toxicity. (click for more) (61 points, 16 comments)
    5. Walker’s campaign paid $595,600 to a company called ‘Jetts’ to supposedly charter private planes. However, Fox has learned that ‘Jetts’ is a defunct car wash that was owned by a Walker donor. (54 points, 12 comments)
    6. The stacked Supreme Court… (49 points, 5 comments)
    7. Another war I must’ve missed. (44 points, 14 comments)
    8. MAGA world is sharing this photo claiming 700K migrants are on their way to the US border. This is FALSE. This photo was taken on October 27, 2018, of Honduran migrants in Arriaga, Mexico, heading to the US. Under Trump's presidency. Just another lie from the GOP. (43 points, 7 comments)
    9. JUST IN: Far-right extremist Riley Williams has been sentenced to 3 years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and directing a mob toward the office of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (click for more) (41 points, 5 comments)
    10. Happy Sunday to everyone who knows that no sitting US President has ever attended the coronation of British royalty, so if you're trying to shame President Biden for not doing so, you're a complete dummy... Get a grip. (37 points, 4 comments)
  6. 485 points, 17 submissions: Top_Bottle7403
    1. This is why every vote matters! (91 points, 18 comments)
    2. Thank you Senator Blumenthal for holding Clarence Thomas accountable — (49 points, 11 comments)
    3. Child labor is making a comeback in Republican-led states. That’s what THEY mean by “progress”. (47 points, 11 comments)
    4. A conservative city council has banned the LGBTQ+ flag from government property in Huntington Beach. Another attempt to marginal LGBTQ+ individuals. But hate cannot be allowed to win. Not in California. Not anywhere. (44 points, 13 comments)
    5. Donald Trump just called Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg "a Racist in Reverse," and claimed that Joe Biden pushed Bragg to prosecute him. He then made a call to “investigate the investigators!” (34 points, 13 comments)
    6. The Southern Baptist Convention decided Tuesday to oust Saddleback Church, the second-largest congregation of the convention, because it has a female pastor (34 points, 6 comments)
    7. I wonder what the MAGA zombies think when Trump says DeSantis is being disloyal. Do they then hate DeSantis? Do they think he’s part of deep state? Or do they think Trump is a senile, old man? There are no policy differences. So, do they weigh which one is owning the libs harder? (29 points, 9 comments)
    8. BREAKING: After taking heat for days trying to handle this on his own with Norfolk Southern and making it much worse, Gov. Mike DeWine finally relents and declares a disaster so he can get federal assistance. (25 points, 3 comments)
    9. Here’s my advice to everyone — like me! — who’s excitedly awaiting Trump’s indictment: Relax, and keep your popcorn ready. 🍿 (20 points, 9 comments)
    10. Good morning and Happy Saturday to everyone who agrees that it's better to be "woke" than to sleepwalk through life acting like a rude, obnoxious, selfish asshole. (18 points, 1 comment)
  7. 288 points, 10 submissions: SetMau92
    1. Sanders Counters GOP Giveaways With Tax Hike on Estates of UltraWealthy"Over and over again, Republicans in Washington have professed their deep concern about the national debt and yet virtually all of them have signed onto legislation that would provide a $1.8 trillion tax giveaway to billionaires. (43 points, 2 comments)
    2. Senate Finance Chief: Nothing Unites GOP More Than 'Helping Rich People Cheat on Their Taxes' "It's a centerpiece of the ransom Speaker McCarthy has cobbled together as he threatens to trigger a catastrophic default," said Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden. (43 points, 11 comments)
    3. Audio Reveals Top GOP Lawyer's 2024 Strategy: Make It Harder for College Students to Vote "Instead of fighting for the people or actually earning the votes, Republicans' only plan is to try to 'combat' voting on college campuses," said Rep. Summer Lee. (39 points, 5 comments)
    4. All is not well in Florida... (35 points, 1 comment)
    5. Darn those pesky facts.. (33 points, 4 comments)
    6. Sanders and others Ramp Up 14th Amendment Pressure on Biden to Counter 'Reckless' GOP "Republicans have made it clear that they are prepared to hold our entire economy hostage unless you accede to their demands to reduce the deficit on the backs of working families. That is simply unacceptable." (29 points, 10 comments)
    7. GOP Debt Limit Bill Could Put Over 10 Million at Risk of Losing Medicaid: Analysis "This agenda would narrow opportunity, deepen inequality, and increase hardship," said the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (23 points, 2 comments)
    8. GOP Readies 'Shameful' Vote to Oust Omar From House Committee "You cannot remove a member of Congress from a committee simply because you do not agree with their views," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal. "This is both ludicrous and dangerous." (17 points, 2 comments)
    9. Progressive Young Voters to Biden: Energize Us and Win or Ignore Us and Lose "We need you to deliver the bold ideas that our generation cannot live without—stop the climate crisis, fight for the rights and dignity of immigrants, impose real gun control—and run on a bold platform." (17 points, 4 comments)
    10. Whitewash is to “gloss over or cover up,” (9 points, 1 comment)
  8. 125 points, 4 submissions: blixt141
    1. Nebraska Republican Says Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Necessary Because White People Are Being Replaced (49 points, 9 comments)
    2. Supreme Court rolls back federal safeguards for wetlands under Clean Water Act (35 points, 13 comments)
    3. Where Things Stand: Biden Shreds McCarthy’s Performative Debt Limit Bill (33 points, 5 comments)
    4. Police: 11 shot, injured during mass shooting at South Carolina park (8 points, 1 comment)
  9. 108 points, 5 submissions: Smelly-taint
    1. I love how the GOP wants to destroy everything that their own constituents benefit from. (33 points, 7 comments)
    2. Can't think of anything better than a dictator. 🤦🏽‍♂️ (30 points, 9 comments)
    3. Yes! Yes! Yes! (21 points, 28 comments)
    4. Woke? (13 points, 3 comments)
    5. Fuck these Anti Constitutionalist. Attack the Capital then attack my rights. (11 points, 20 comments)
  10. 89 points, 6 submissions: Puffin_fan
    1. Idaho Republicans Deny Girls Free Tampons in School (28 points, 6 comments)
    2. GOP’s Proposed Expansion Of Work Requirements Targets Low-Income People In Their Early 50s Who Already Work (20 points, 3 comments)
    3. Finland's average electricity price slips into negative territory (14 points, 2 comments)
    4. 'I’m trying not to go into panic.' Review of millions of Medicaid enrollees plagued by error and confusion (10 points, 4 comments)
    5. After Signature Bank Deal, FDIC Is Left With $11 Billion in ‘Toxic Waste’ Loans (9 points, 3 comments)
    6. As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School (8 points, 0 comments)

Top Commenters

  1. SpukiKitty (2210 points, 453 comments)
  2. SqnLdrHarvey (1737 points, 394 comments)
  3. In-The-Middle12 (1456 points, 284 comments)
  4. Top-Bottle7403 (1301 points, 240 comments)
  5. SmylesLee77 (1147 points, 294 comments)
  6. ProgressiveDemocrats (1104 points, 204 comments)
  7. FarPiano9575 (1090 points, 205 comments)
  8. Alternative-Flan2869 (679 points, 178 comments)
  9. HillbillyEulogy (588 points, 124 comments)
  10. Biishep1230 (533 points, 101 comments)

Top Submissions

  1. Wow. Students are standing outside the Tennessee House right now and chanting, “Fuck you fascists.” Young people are absolutely pissed off & we are about to give Republicans hell like they’ve never seenZ We aren’t forgetting this. by ProgressiveDemocrats (814 points, 309 comments)
  2. This was US Marine combat veteran Ruben Gallego as violent MAGA insurrectionists were overrunning the Capitol on January 6th. He gathered fellow Democrats to prepare to fight if necessary. "I would have killed motherfuckers to save this democracy. Fuck those guys." by FarPiano9575 (638 points, 128 comments)
  3. President Biden just schooled Republicans by reminding them, “Ronald Reagan was doing the 28% tax rate, you know, that wacko liberal guy." Does anyone else love President Biden’s sense of humor? by ProgressiveDemocrats (122 points, 22 comments)
  4. JUST IN: Justin Jones has been voted BACK to the Tennessee State House by the Metro Nashville Council! The Council was responsible for choosing who would fill the seat until the special election, and they voted to select Jones. Right after the vote, Jones embraced the council members. by ProgressiveDemocrats (115 points, 14 comments)
  5. Jamie Raskin just destroyed Lauren Boebert with Donald Trump's OWN Words. Rep. Raskin is truly the greatest. by Top-Bottle7403 (113 points, 15 comments)
  6. Students from Nashville-area high schools and colleges, including Belmont University and Vanderbilt U, are pouring into downtown Nashville to gather at the Capitol for another rally to call for safe gun laws following last week's mass school shooting. by FarPiano9575 (112 points, 20 comments)
  7. If you're randomly posting about World War III on Easter, you don't need to be running for the presidency, you need to run to a mental health provider. by Top-Bottle7403 (99 points, 21 comments)
  8. This is why every vote matters! by Top_Bottle7403 (91 points, 18 comments)
  9. Holy shit. The former Lt. Governor of Texas, Ben Barnes, just came forward to say he was part of a secret Republican operation that convinced Iran to keep Americans held hostage in order to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s 1980 presidential campaign. (Link to the story in comments below) by ProgressiveDemocrats (84 points, 15 comments)
  10. WOW. Absolute power move by Hakeem Jeffries. After Republicans kicked Ilhan Omar off of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Jeffries immediately put her on the House Budget Committee. Republicans messed with the wrong party and person. Rep. Omar won’t be silenced. by ProgressiveDemocrats (82 points, 19 comments)

Top Comments

  1. 26 points: KayleighJK's comment in Wow. Students are standing outside the Tennessee House right now and chanting, “Fuck you fascists.” Young people are absolutely pissed off & we are about to give Republicans hell like they’ve never seenZ We aren’t forgetting this.
  2. 23 points: Similar_Candidate789's comment in Wow. Students are standing outside the Tennessee House right now and chanting, “Fuck you fascists.” Young people are absolutely pissed off & we are about to give Republicans hell like they’ve never seenZ We aren’t forgetting this.
  3. 23 points: SpukiKitty's comment in Wow. Students are standing outside the Tennessee House right now and chanting, “Fuck you fascists.” Young people are absolutely pissed off & we are about to give Republicans hell like they’ve never seenZ We aren’t forgetting this.
  4. 23 points: brotherstoic's comment in Should we be looking for someone other than Biden?
  5. 23 points: moreobviousthings's comment in Holy shit. The former Lt. Governor of Texas, Ben Barnes, just came forward to say he was part of a secret Republican operation that convinced Iran to keep Americans held hostage in order to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s 1980 presidential campaign. (Link to the story in comments below)
  6. 22 points: westofme's comment in Alex Jones transferred his assets to his family and friends, evading payments to Sandy Hook families. It should be illegal, but sadly, it's not.
  7. 20 points: Explorers_bub's comment in The city of Franklin, Tennessee is voting whether to allow a Pride festival. Someone during public comment says it will result in “a rainbow room where 8-12 year-old kids are given butt plugs & dildos.” --- This is what GOP propaganda is doing.
  8. 19 points: ProgressiveDemocrats's comment in Holy shit. The former Lt. Governor of Texas, Ben Barnes, just came forward to say he was part of a secret Republican operation that convinced Iran to keep Americans held hostage in order to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s 1980 presidential campaign. (Link to the story in comments below)
  9. 19 points: westofme's comment in Another war I must’ve missed.
  10. 18 points: HillbillyEulogy's comment in Please tell me whats wrong with this picture?
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2023.05.27 16:31 brock2344 (18M) currently confused on why my long distance girlfriend (17f) blocked me

2 days ago she told me, she felt lost and saying how she was dumb for jumping into relationships meanwhile our relationship has been going well and today we text each other our usual good mornings she asks how i’m doing and then i ask her how she’s doing then she sends a gif about feeling lost and stuff and needed time for herself and then i try to text back and turns out she un added me and blocked me from discord so now i’m just confused right now i’m thinking of just giving her space right now and waiting for her to text me.
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2023.05.27 00:16 JoshAsdvgi Song of Life

Song of Life

Song of Life
By Takatoka
It is said by the Elders that every person has a song.
A Song of Life.
This is a story about a long forgotten custom among our people that begs to be revived.

Noquisi was a young and beautiful Indian woman who was married during a fall gathering of the nations by the waters of Nowasalon at the sacred of mountain of Manataka.
After returning to her home lands, winter came and past as Noquisi happily informed Grandmother Wilnota and other women of the tribe that she was heavy with her first child.
The women and everyone in the tribe were joyous and began to make gifts and other preparations for the baby.
Grandmother Wilnota announced one day that it was time for the women to go into the forest to find a Song.
The next morning all the women gathered at the edge of the village and began a journey deep into the wilderness.
As they arrived at a stream near a waterfall, they made camp and a sacred circle in the clearing.
The women then prepared special foods and placed them in baskets around the circle.
At last, Grandmother called shy Noquisi to come forward and sit in the middle of the circle. The women gathered around as Grandmother announced the purpose of their meeting.
"We gather here to learn the Song of Life for the baby inside Noquisi.
We shall pray to the Great Mystery, the Creator of all things and listen carefully to Mother Earth to learn the Song.
We know every soul has a special vibration that knows its purpose and bears the unique character of its ancestors. Let us begin."
As everyone's eyes were closed deep in meditation and prayer, a small brown chipmunk sitting on a nearby stump smelled the wonderful food and slowly crept to one of the baskets nearest Grandmother.
Nervously looking from side to side the Little Chipmunk carefully slid into the basket and began to eat to his hearts content.
Noquisis saw the little chipmunk climb into the basket but was afraid to say anything during the prayer ceremony.
After many hours of prayer and silent visions, a strong wind began to blow across the camp. The women became attuned to the unique vibrations and light surrounding Noquisi. Grandmother Wilnota then called for Noquisi to stand and hear her baby's Song of Life.
The women began to loudly sing in one voice, one song of life for the unborn baby.
As Noquisi stood in the middle of the sacred circle, she could feel the Song of Life coming into her, giving strength and joy.
Loud voices outside the basket startled the sleepy little brown chipmunk but he was afraid to move.
Peaking out the top of the basket, Little Chipmunk decided he must escape before he was discovered.
But, it was too late, Grandmother reached into the basket as she announced it was time for everyone to eat.
Grabbing a small round ball of fur, Grandmother exclaimed,
"Ah ho, what do we have here?
It looks like we have a little thief in our basket!"
With a smile, she placed her hand to the ground and let Little Chipmunk scamper away.
During the course of many weeks to follow, Noquisi quietly sat alone in her lodge or walked in the forest as she sang the Song of Life to the unborn child.
Many weeks later when Noquisi's baby was born, the entire community gathered and sang the Song of Life to the new baby boy.
At the time of the full moon, the entire village again gathered to sing the baby's Song of Life during his naming ceremony.
The boy was named Uwetsi Ganolvvsgv (Wind Song), but not surprisingly,
The boy was given another name, Giyuga Usti (Little Chipmunk).
Years later, the boy grew and after successfully completing his first hunting trip, the tribe again gathered in the circle around Little Chipmunk and chanted his Song of Life.
After he passed all the necessary requirements to enter adulthood, the people once again gathered to sing his Song of Life.
At the time of his marriage, Little Chipmunk heard his Wind Song, his Song of Life sung during ceremonies.
Finally, when his soul was about to pass from this world, all the people gathered around his bed to sing his Song of Life.
Each of us know we have a song.
A beautiful vibration within as a reminder of our eternal purpose.
Those we love must sing that Song to us throughout our lives.
We all yearn to be loved, acknowledged and accepted for the person we are.
There is another event when the tribe gathers to sing the Song of Life to an individual. Whenever a crime or a serious anti-social offense is committed, the person is called to the center of the circle and expected to admit to the transgression.
Then, the village sings their Song of Life to the child within the person.
In this way, poor behavior was corrected by reminding the individual of who their real self in the Creator's eyes.
After the Song of Life is sung by ones family, friends and neighbors, there was no desire to do anything to disrupt the wonderful blessing given by the Song.
Our people did not have jails, prisons and insane asylums because there was not a need. Punishment was the extension of love in remembrance of the true identity within the person.
A friend and those who love you know your song and sing it when you have forgotten its vibration.
People who love you do not care about the dark and ugly things you sometimes become. They hear the beauty of your song, they remember your light and know the sweetness within you.
If your mother was not given a special Song of Life before your birth, then you must begin to search for it now.
Do not wait for the milestones of life to pass without this special recognition.
Walking the good Red Road means knowing your Song.
You can no longer be confused, lost, alone and depressed.
You must give your Song of Life a strong voice.
When you know your Song of Life, you have two obligations:
The first is to find people who have a similar song, similar vibrations, and sing it to each other.
The second is to pass this wonderful custom down to the next generation. In this way we support our brothers and sister in their walk and we provide future generations with peace and happiness.
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2023.05.26 22:19 NinjaInfoCards AITAH? I broke a communication rule and have been cut contact

(Please do NOT post this on any other social media, thank you.)
So my parents (50s) and I (20sF) have a rocky relationship a lot of the time. There are so many times something little like this have blown up directly in my face, but that’s such a long, long story— and why I’m turning to Reddit for this. I felt the need to say this as I know this will feel like it has a lot of missing context. However, I need opinions on this specific incident, as for now our relationship had been going very well.
Basically this months incident stems from me being incredibly antisocial. It’s something I’ve been working on but progress is very, very slow. My parents are actually antisocial too, and even raised me that way, so that’s why I can’t understand why I get no slack whatsoever.
So, I average a text to one of them once a week. It’ll usually be a conversation or a question since I still can’t really understand the need to just say “hi” or send a silly gif with no reason to talk (I realize this is a me problem, as they send me those type things almost every day) I also average a once a month visit. In my opinion, we have a great time! I’ll be over all day and we’ll just hang out or sometimes even go places together.
All this to say, this has never been enough for them and they always let me know. They do actively guilt trip me about it, and it got worse when I became pregnant. This did not cause my communication skills to get any better. About a month ago I was called, in tears, basically saying that if I didn’t text at least one of them, at least once a day they would be cutting contact. Now that was serious, as I’d been “put in time out” as she put it before for an entire year, and didn’t like it. So I decided to try my best to make a change in myself.
Then unfortunately, an attempt at an argument with me was started last week. (It wasn’t even anything big! An absolute nothing-burger! A misunderstanding of a comment!) I say “attempt” because I… don’t do arguments. especially over text. I WILL clam up, I WILL walk away, you will not hear from me until the coast is clear and I can crawl out my shell to apologize for whatever and move on. This is just something that happens sometimes, and as you can imagine I know I have my own problems that need to be worked on.
The anxiety from upsetting them caused me to not message either of them at all for three days. I tried several times but not knowing what they’d say back just sent me into a spiral. Basically a three day long anxiety attack. (Not great since preggo and all) Morning of the fourth day I’m sent a middle finger emoji. Obviously I didn’t respond to that either.
Welp, that’s that. I really put my foot in it and am now very stuck. Most of my people are saying “good riddance” if I’m not just getting sympathy pats. But I wanted them to be grandparents. I won’t even mention the message the day after that I got from my mother asking why I hated her. Which I think since I’ve been agonizing over this every single day, I clearly do not.
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2023.05.26 21:38 SKwiatks Written In the Stars Ch.13: Lay Your Healing Hands On Me part 2

And the kiss that inspired me to write and capture Violet and Maya's intimate moment kiss is from the film Pearl Harbor: Dog Tag pull kiss (Pearl Harbor)
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Maya was on hunting patrol and Maya is finding it harder to find any food. With the threat of snow on the way it is going to make things difficult to find food for everyone. And she doesn't even know how Violet's group is handling the situation.
Maya looks to the sky and feels a thunderstorm is on the way. And looks to Bonnie and her sister, "We should probably call it a day guys."
Bonnie turns to look at Maya, "But we barely caught anything. Surely there is more game around."
"I think all of our fury animal friends are in their dens because of the coming storm." Maya scans the woodland area.
"We hunted in the rain before," Bonnie said, making an observation.
"Not when it will be thundering and winds. Even wild animals flee from big storms like that and take refuge someplace safe and out of the storm." Maya said.
"As much as hate to agree, Maya is right. Animals sense a major storm on the way and they hide. We have to ration what we got Bonnie." Aniya said.
Bonnie pauses in her step and heaves out a sigh, "Alright, Shit. Well, I guess some people will go hungry tonight if this is all we can catch."
Aniya heard the frustration in her voice, "We will scout out tomorrow morning Bonnie it will be alright."
"No, Aniya it won't be. I'm afraid when winter comes, we all might not last as a group if we can't find things to eat. And winter months a brutal that what we have now." Bonnie feels a bit discouraged. She then picks up the pace and heads for camp.
Maya eyes her sister and walks beside her as they make it into camp. Bonnie and Maya lay their catches on the butchering table as Maya sees Alberto sharpening his knife. He looks at the killed animals and, with a disapproving scowl on his face, looks up at the two females. "This seriously all you girls can find! What am supposed to do with these animals with hardly no meat on it."
"Alberto we spent so many hours hunting..." Bonnie tries to explain.
"Well you didn't do a good job now, did you? Phff even Arvo has better success than this?" Alberto said.
Maya got a little fed up with his manly attitude, "We did all we could Alberto, in case you don't know a storm is coming, a big one and animals flee when they fear a bad storm is nearing."
"A little rain won't do no harm." Alberto dismisses Maya's warning.
Maya was about to lay into him when Bonnie places her hand on Maya's shoulder, "Maya go put your bow back and I will explain to Albert here as well as Robert what we are up against. You did well for what we got."
Maya looks to Bonnie then to Alberto and heaves a sigh as she walks away as she walks away she heard Bonnie laying into Albert on their task. Maya puts her bow in the armory tent, as Arvo was on watch. Maya then sneaks to her tent and opens the board to see if Violet left a message. It has become their new thing to get each other's attention when they are not on watch lookout duty. Maya sees a new message as she sees her code name Star Bird and a first aid symbol. Maya's heart sank as something was up with Violet.
Maya sneaks back through her camp's wall and goes into her tent. She grabs her bag and grabs whatever medicine she has on her side of the tent. Aniya looks up from her bed, "What are you doing."
"Violet needs me." Maya hisses.
"Is she hurt?" Aniya asks.
"I don't know, but packing this in case. Do me a favor, keep this to yourself the fewer questions you ask the better for the both of us." Maya said.
"Wait you're going to see her now!? But the storm, you will never make it back in time." Aniya said.
"I know...look when the storm passes I will come back, I will be back around dawn, and if Bonnie asks if I want supper, tell her Alicia should have my share. I can deal without for a day or so." Maya said.
"Maya...you are acting insane," Aniya spoke.
"Well, sis, love drives you a bit insane." Maya looks at her sister. "Look I will be careful it won't be like it was several weeks ago, I promise." Maya then disappears out of her tent and head to the border wall, slip right through the loose board, and gently places it back.
While Arvo is looking at walkers and killing them every now and then that got close to the wall, Maya slips in with the shadows of the trees to go find Violet who is waiting for her. It didn't take long to track her trail as her heart led to her.
Maya sees Violet by the familiar meeting place, "Vi?" Maya hissed in the darkness. "Violet? Are you here?"
Violet looks behind a tree, "Maya?"
"Are you okay? I got your message?" Maya asks as she comes closer.
Violet winces as she holds her right arm from pain. Maya stands before her girlfriend and sees she is injured. "What happened?"
"Dumb accident of me patching and boarding up a wall. My friend Ruby patched me up, but..." Violet looks into Maya's brown eyes, "I really could use your medicine." Violet sighs as she admits Maya does have a healing touch with her native herbal care. "I admit it, you do have a magic touch with your skills in ancient medicine."
Maya tilts her head to one side and smiles at her, "Are you a believer in my grandmother's secret of herbal medicine?"
"I didn't say that. Just....your medicine does have healing properties to the human body." Violet is still on the offense of trusting Indian medicine.
Maya looks at Violet's arm in the fading light, "Well...I haven't had time to scavenge for herbs. And the stuff I need is found by the water, like a small creek. You know where one is around here?"
Violet looks to Maya and nods as she moves a little forward, "Actually I do. Come on."
Maya looks at her and follows after Violet and walks by her closely, as Violet looks down and slowly and softly links her fingers to Maya's as she is taking her to the old fishing shack or near it close to Ericson as she is getting comfortable now with Maya and knows in her heart she trusts her. By the time Violet took to where Maya needed to go, it was night out and there were walkers nearby.
Maya looks to Violet, "I can't see what I need to find in the water without some light. You think you can distract that banshee...er..sorry walker, over there by the cluster of trees and I kill it."
"Why do I have to distract it?" Violet asks.
"Okay, do you want to kill it then?" Maya looks at her. "Someone has to distract, and someone has to kill."
Violet glances down at her arm and then back at Maya, "Fine...only because you are charming in trying to heal me." Violet mumbles and slowly stalks a male walker.
Violet was a few feet from him and whistled to get its attention. The zombie turns and a few more were behind it following the noise of Violet's whistle. Shit. Violet backs away and was thinking to herself come on Maya anytime. Violet has her meat cleaver handy as she tries to look for her lover, as Maya is nowhere to be found. Soon one of the walkers grabbed Violet and she kicks at the walker to get free. Panic floods her as she scrambles out of there. Soon the walker that grab Violet made a gargling sound as Maya slashed it with a knife Violet has never seen before.
Violet comes back to Maya's side and looks up and sees the other walkers dead, and she peers back at Maya, "How did you manage to do that?"
"Be one with the trees." Maya smiles.
"No seriously, like you were invisible, I didn't even see you." Violet looks at her girlfriend.
"I will tell you another time," Maya said as she cuts a piece of fabric off of a dead walker. Maya silently breathes in as she thanks the falling walker for its purpose and saddens that it died. Maya takes a stick that is not wet from the trees and rock, and she strikes at it to create sparks to start a fire. Once the fabric was ablaze with flames, Maya takes the stick of fire and hands it to Violet. "I need you to hold the light or fire while I go....fishing."
"Fishing?" Violet asks as Maya begins to roll up the cuffs of her pants. "Are you serious? Going in the water, it is freezing."
"Yes, it is one of the ingredients in my grandmother's stuff. I need a special root that is found in shallow waters. And for the record, I've been in much colder waters out west. Ever waded in mountain water before? It can't be worse than that." Maya said. Maya takes a deep breath and sinks her toes in the icy waters. As the cold water rushed around her ankles she braces herself against the cold water until she manages her body temp with the coldness. "Okay...give me the light,"
Violet hands Maya the fire torch as she sees Maya focused. Maya soon spots the root she is looking for and takes out her antler knife and cuts away at it. She leaned over to her bag and gets out a turtle shell she dips the turtle shell in the water and dumps water out of it until a small amount is in it, and soon climbs out of the water to work her skills of abstracting juices from the plant to make a paste-like substance. Maya then soon comes to Violet as they sat on the wooden bridge, "Okay, hold still, it will sting for a moment, but the healing properties of the lily root, will be a soother of the sting. It will help keep the infection from it."
Violet lets Maya unwrap her arm what Ruby did to patch it up this afternoon, and Maya very tenderly places the substance on her wound. Violet winces at the sing. Maya tenderly rubs the paste-like substance on Violet's skin and lightly blew on it to soothe it, and add a lover's feel to it. Maya soon rewraps Violet's arm as she looks at her. "Feel better?"
Violet had no words except for one thing on her mind as she leaned over and planted a kiss on Maya's lips and laced her fingers to Maya's. Maya was out of shock with that as she blushes big time for Violet and somehow Violet read Maya's heart the whole time she was patching her up. When Violet pulls away from Maya's lips and stares into her beautiful brown eyes and held her face in her hands. "Yes."
Maya's heart was beating, and she doesn't know if this is the right time to say those words her heart is telling her to say them. Maya looks into her eyes and melted in Violet's green pools. Maya swallowed hard as she bit her inner cheek to say it. "Violet, I love you." Maya looks down for a moment before raising her eyes to look into Violet's eyes as her cheeks blushed hard as she held Violet close to her. "You bewitched and captured my soul, that....I can't see loving or knowing a greater love than I feel for you. I truly with all my heart, fell in love with you." Maya searches Violet's eyes as Violet was speechless at what Maya just told her. Maya gently said, "Now would be a great time to say something."
Violet releases the breath she held as she was shocked by how well Maya spoke true love of words to her. Violet now blushes as she looks at Maya and feels love in her eyes. Violet reaches for Maya's tribal jacket, and instead of telling her through words, she showed it by the action of kissing her over and over with her kisses to let her know she fell in love with this rugged Indian warrior.
Maya melted in her kiss and felt Violet kissing her differently, and in that moment she knew Violet is communicating through her kisses she loves her back. Violet and Maya were passionately kissing confessing to each other the new love they found within themselves when the storm took flight, and Violet pulled Maya into the fishing shack to continue their passionate kiss. She knew the other kids will not worry and closed the shack up for the winter. This is the first time Violet let Maya close to the school. She fully trusts her now and knows she is good and has no ill intent to misuse her heart.
Once inside the shack and Maya and Violet are in and out of the rain, Violet pins Maya up against the door to the fishing shack in which closing the door with the force of Violet's action of passionately kissing Maya and making out with her new girlfriend. This shocked Maya Violet being this bold. But Violet is no longer driven by fear, only by love, as she locks her mouth to Maya's, letting her know she is in love with her.
Maya gulps and kisses Violet back and pulls her close to her holding her tightly and never letting her go. She has never been this close to anyone and for the first time felt weak in the knees which is something that doesn't happen to Maya. Maya felt Violet's hands on her chest as she makes her way to Maya's forearms.
Violet pulls back kissing Maya as she stares intently into Maya's rich chocolate eyes. She feels Maya's heart racing with her own, and Violet closes the gap and nuzzles her nose to Maya's before latching her pink lips to hers and holding Maya's face with her hands. Violet then slowly moves her hands as she deepens the kiss, inside Maya's soaked tribal jacket, and removes it, and lets it fall to the floor along with Maya's bag. Violet then moves her kisses off of her lips and moves her lips across Maya's check bone soaking in her beauty, before moving her lips down the slope of her neck, and tenderly kissing her there. She can hear Maya's shallow breathing as she knows Maya is in heaven enjoying this.
Violet subconsciously works her fingers to remove Maya's other wet clothes so she can feel her smooth wet skin. Violet has never been this far with someone, and she wants to share this moment with Maya.
Maya can't believe how smooth and open Violet is. And she was on cloud nine, enjoying her touches. She feels Violet is thinking the same thing she is, and although Maya has never been intimate with someone before, she wants her first time to be with Violet. Maya then felt Violet trailing her kisses up Maya's neck before crashing her lips to hers once more.
They make out by the door for a few more moments, until Violet leads both her and Maya to a more intimate spot. Still having her lips linked to Maya's, Violet guides Maya to the bed near the back. She never had sex with anyone before and came close with Minerva on several occasions back then, but this is all new to Violet. Violet slowly lowers her body down and lays on her back on the old mattress as Maya climbs on top of her. When Maya is hovering over Violet's body, Violet looked up into Maya's soft brown eyes.
She never envisions giving her heart to a girl like Maya before, until now. Looking at Maya and into her beautiful brown eyes, Violet knows in her heart she wants to. Violet reaches out, strokes Maya's chest, and sees her necklace dangling in front of her. Violet reaches up and feels the animal totem necklace she is wearing between her fingers. Without the words being spoken between them, Violet clasps her fingers around Maya's necklace, and softly tugged on it to signal to Maya of lower her lips to be close to Violet's and passionately kiss her
Violet crashes her lips to Maya's and feels Maya's body lowering down onto hers as Maya and her heavily make out and feeling each other out for a night of passion they both want to share together. If Violet ever wanted to give away her virginity to someone, she wanted it to be with someone who will go to the ends of the earth for her, and looking into Maya's eyes that night, she knew Maya would do just that.
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2023.05.26 18:46 M_Tootles Sweetrobin's Doll Isn't the Only "Giant" In The Snow Castle (Spoilers Extended)

(TL;DR in the conclusion at the bottom. But David Lynch fans will miss the Blue Velvet clue if they do that.)
Earlier this week on the ASOIAF subreddit, FROTHYxCOFFEE asked about the identity of the "giant" in the Ghost of High Heart's seemingly prophetic vision in ASOS Arya VIII:
"I dreamt a wolf howling in the rain, but no one heard his grief," the dwarf woman was saying. "I dreamt such a clangor I thought my head might burst, drums and horns and pipes and screams, but the saddest sound was the little bells. I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow."
The indefatigable BaelBard responded by providing what they called "the popular belief" (which was indeed proved "popular" when their summary comment got 300+ upvotes): that although the prophecy is apparently fulfilled by Sansa tearing the head off Sweetrobin's doll after he uses it to smash her snow castle Winterfell, thus figuratively "slaying" a figurative "giant"—
"Winterfell is the seat of House Stark," Sansa told her husband-to-be. "The great castle of the north."
"It's not so great." The boy knelt before the gatehouse. "Look, here comes a giant to knock it down." He stood his doll in the snow and moved it jerkily. "Tromp tromp I'm a giant, I'm a giant," he chanted. "Ho ho ho, open your gates or I'll mash them and smash them." Swinging the doll by the legs, he knocked the top off one gatehouse tower and then the other.
It was more than Sansa could stand. "Robert, stop that." Instead he swung the doll again, and a foot of wall exploded. She grabbed for his hand but she caught the doll instead. There was a loud ripping sound as the thin cloth tore. Suddenly she had the doll's head, Robert had the legs and body, and the rag-and-sawdust stuffing was spilling in the snow. (ASOS Sansa VII)
—this interpretation is "a red herring". The (demonstrably) "popular belief" is that because this is a minor, irrelevant event compared to the Ghost of High Heart's other prophecies, surely there must be a bigger pay-off.
That bigger pay-off, it's popularly believed, is that the "savage giant" Sansa will slay is Littlefinger, where Petyr 'is' the giant since his grandfather's sigil was "a grey stone head with fiery eyes" representing the Titan of Braavos — a kind of giant (the rationale goes):
The device painted on the shield was one Sansa did not know; a grey stone head with fiery eyes, upon a light green field. "My grandfather's shield," Petyr explained when he saw her gazing at it. "His own father was born in Braavos and came to the Vale as a sellsword in the hire of Lord Corbray, so my grandfather took the head of the Titan as his sigil when he was knighted."
"It's very fierce," said Sansa.
"Rather too fierce, for an amiable fellow like me," said Petyr. "I much prefer my mockingbird." (ASOS Sansa VI)
It's generally theorized that this will take place in Winterfell, since Sansa's snow castle is meant to be Winterfell, although some say it will happen in the Eyrie, which Sansa calls "a castle made of snow":
The Eyrie shrank above them. … A honeycomb made of ice, Alayne thought, a castle made of snow. (AFFC Alayne II)
I know many people believe Littlefinger will surely "get his" at Sansa's hands, and in saying what I'm going to say, I am not saying he necessarily won't. Prophecies can have multiple payoffs.
Nonetheless, I have to point out that when the "popular belief" focuses on and (probably rightly) dismisses the idea that Sansa tearing the doll's head off in the snow castle Winterfell could be Sansa "slaying the savage giant in a castle built of snow", it overlooks a more subtle reading of the doll-and-snow castle incident per which it is part of a far more significant pay-off for the Ghost of High Heart's prophecy.

"I'm a giant, I'm a giant"

I submit that if the Ghost of High Heart's vision of a maid "slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow" is indeed about the doll-and-snow-castle incident in the Eyrie, it surely isn't about Sansa figuratively "slaying" Sweetrobin's doll by ripping its head off, as most seem to assume when dismissing this as the possible 'pay-off', but rather about Sansa "slaying" Sweetrobin himself, because Sweetrobin is, in that very moment, 'coded' as a figurative "savage giant in a castle built of snow".
He's damned by his own words
"Tromp tromp I'm a giant, I'm a giant," [Sweetrobin] chanted. "Ho ho ho, open your gates or I'll mash them and smash them."
and actions:
Lord Robert's mouth trembled. "You killlllllllled him," he wailed. Then he began to shake. It started with no more than a little shivering, but within a few short heartbeats he had collapsed across the castle, his limbs flailing about violently.
Thus the doll-and-snow-castle incident establishes Lord Robert as a figurative "savage giant in a castle built of snow", not just because he declares "I'm a giant, I'm a giant," but because he 'is' a giant relative to the size of the "castle built of snow" he is physically "in" when he "collapsed across" it — i.e. he 'is' a giant in the exact same way his doll 'is' a giant, per the popular interpretation of these events that is generally at once accepted as 'correct' (in that it's intended) but dismissed as a sneaky red herring.
Thus the Ghost's prophecy may well be about Sansa killing Sweetrobin by (accidentally) poisoning him with sweetsleep ("the gentlest of poisons") to keep him calm during a feast, in keeping with the prophecy's referring to Sansa when she's "slaying a savage giant" as "that maid again", which points back to how she's first described, as a venomous "maid at a feast":
"I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow."
Note that it is apt indeed that when Lord Robert is established as a figurative "savage giant in a castle built of snow", he is having a shaking fit, given that it would be the need to quiet such a shaking fit that would lead Sansa to (inadvertently, presumably) "slay" him.

Slaying By Poison At A Feast

The foreshadowing for Sansa poisoning and thereby slaying the boy who was for a moment "a savage giant in a castle built of snow" is all there, and rather blatant:
"Perhaps a pinch of sweetsleep in his milk, have you tried that? Just a pinch, to calm him and stop his wretched shaking."
"A pinch?" The apple in the maester's throat moved up and down as he swallowed. "One small pinch . . . perhaps, perhaps. Not too much, and not too often, yes, I might try . . ."
"A pinch," Lord Petyr said, "before you bring him forth to meet the lords." (AFFC Alayne I)
[T]he burden of getting Sweetrobin safely down the mountain fell on her. "Give his lordship a cup of sweetmilk," [Sansa] told the maester. "That will stop him from shaking on the journey down."
"He had a cup not three days past," Colemon objected.
"And wanted another last night, which you refused him."
"It was too soon. My lady, you do not understand. As I've told the Lord Protector, a pinch of sweetsleep will prevent the shaking, but it does not leave the flesh, and in time . . ."
"Time will not matter if his lordship has a shaking fit and falls off the mountain. If my father were here, I know he would tell you to keep Lord Robert calm at all costs."
"I try, my lady, yet his fits grow ever more violent, and his blood is so thin I dare not leech him any more. Sweetsleep . . . you are certain he was not bleeding from the nose?"
"He was sniffling," Alayne admitted, "but I saw no blood."
"I must speak to the Lord Protector. This feast … is that wise, I wonder, after the strain of the descent?"
"It will not be a large feast," she assured him. "No more than forty guests. Lord Nestor and his household, the Knight of the Gate, a few lesser lords and their retainers …"
"Lord Robert mislikes strangers, you know that, and there will be drinking, noise … music. Music frightens him."
"Music soothes him," she corrected, "the high harp especially. It's singing he can’t abide, since Marillion killed his mother." Alayne had told the lie so many times that she remembered it that way more oft than not; the other seemed no more than a bad dream that sometimes troubled her sleep. "Lord Nestor will have no singers at the feast, only flutes and fiddles for the dancing." What would she do when the music began to play? It was a vexing question, to which her heart and head gave different answers. Sansa loved to dance, but Alayne . . . "Just give him a cup of the sweetmilk before we go, and another at the feast, and there should be no trouble." (AFFC Alayne II)
It's unclear whether that feast ever happens, as they don't reach the Gates of the Moon until most are asleep. But Sweetrobin definitely attends a(nother) verbatim "feast" at which, Sansa presumes, he is dosed with more sweetsleep:
As they waited for the music to resume, Alayne glanced at the dais, where Lord Robert sat staring at them. Please, she prayed, don't let him start to twitch and shake. Not here. Not now. Maester Coleman would have made certain that he drank a strong dose of sweetmilk before the feast, but even so. (TWOW Alayne I)
We have not yet seen the end of that feast, but assuming Robert survives, there are sure to be more feasts soon. After all, that's just the welcome feast for the tourney. Doubtless there will be more feasting, and something tells me Sweetrobin and his sweet-tooth for sweetmilk—
"He had a cup not three days past," Colemon objected.
"And wanted another last night, which you refused him." (AFFC Alayne II)
No matter what you offered him, Robert always wanted more. (AFFC Alayne II)
—won't make it:
"If Robert were to die . . ."
Petyr arched an eyebrow. "When Robert dies. Our poor brave Sweetrobin is such a sickly boy, it is only a matter of time. When Robert dies, Harry the Heir becomes Lord Harrold, Defender of the Vale and Lord of the Eyrie. (AFFC Alayne II)

What About Littlefinger?

Some may think this sounds plausible enough, but that surely the Ghost's vision has to be about Littlefinger, given that his sigil is 'really' the Titan of Braavos.
I see two potential problems with this reading. They're not necessarily fatal, but they're not nothing. Certainly they're enough to consider that the doll-and-snow-castle incident may be at the core of this, after all, albeit not in the consequence-free way so easily and popularly dismissed.

Problem 1: Petyr Baelish 'Is' A Mockingbird, Not The Titan of Braavos

First, Petyr's grandfather's/father's sigil simply isn't his sigil. It's hanging up on the wall in a tower that seems more his father's than his own (consider the age of the servants) and he explicitly disavows it, calling it "my grandfather's shield" and saying the sigil is…
"Rather too fierce for an amiable fellow like me. … I much prefer my mockingbird."
People in Westeros might 'be' their sigils—
"You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions or dragons or eagles." (ADWD Tyrion I)
—but Petyr Baelish's sigil simply isn't a representation of the Titan of Braavos: It's a mockingbird. Making him if anything a figurative mockingbird.
(Petyr's disavowals of his paternal lineage dovetails with Petyr arguably seeming to care more about his mother than his father. [He names "Alayne" after his mother, but says nothing much about his father save to mock him for bringing Petyr to a hermit to have him tell his future when he was a boy.] Full disclosure: I happen to think Petyr's mother's lineage is very, very, very significant, so the idea that he cares about his maternal bloodline than his father's dovetails with my preconceived notions. But nevertheless.)

Problem 2: The Titan Is Not A "Savage Giant"

Second, the Titan of Braavos isn't "a savage giant". Indeed, it's neither "savage" nor a "giant".
It's not a "giant" because giants aren't titans. And not just because are titans and giants are totally different things in classical (Greek) mythology. The bigger problem is that titans and giants are cleary wildly different things diegetically (i.e. in-world).
A titan, in the world of ASOIAF, truly is a giant man:
The whole city is built in a lagoon on a hundred little islands, and they have a titan there, a stone man hundreds of feet high. (AFFC Samwell II)
A giant, in the world of ASOIAF (as contrasted to the "giants" of Old Nan's stories), is something else entirely:
In Old Nan's stories, giants were outsized men who lived in colossal castles, fought with huge swords, and walked about in boots a boy could hide in. These were something else, more bearlike than human, and as wooly as the mammoths they rode. Seated, it was hard to say how big they truly were. Ten feet tall maybe, or twelve, Jon thought. Maybe fourteen, but no taller. Their sloping chests might have passed for those of men, but their arms hung down too far, and their lower torsos looked half again as wide as their upper. Their legs were shorter than their arms, but very thick, and they wore no boots at all; their feet were broad splayed things, hard and horny and black. Neckless, their huge heavy heads thrust forward from between their shoulder blades, and their faces were squashed and brutal. Rats' eyes no larger than beads were almost lost within folds of horny flesh, but they snuffled constantly, smelling as much as they saw. (ASOS Jon II)
Indeed, while Old Nan's stories get this wrong, there seem to be stories told to children that understand this, judging by Shireen's reaction to Wun Wun:
Princess Shireen's eyes went wide as dinner plates. "He's a giant! A real true giant, like from the stories. But why does he talk so funny?" (ADWD Jon IX)
(Perhaps Shireen heard her stories from Cressen.)
It's true that in Old Nan's stories — whose version of a giant is totally debunked by reality, remember — the Titan of Braavos is a verbatim "giant" in that same "giant man" sense:
The Titan of Braavos. Old Nan had told them stories of the Titan back in Winterfell. He was a giant as tall as a mountain, and whenever Braavos stood in danger he would wake with fire in his eyes, his rocky limbs grinding and groaning as he waded out into the sea to smash the enemies.
And that much, at least, fits with the Titan of Braavos as he actually appears.
However, where the Titan of Braavos of Old Nan's fiction is clearly savage, per se, like the "savage giant" in the Ghost of High Heart's vision—
"The Braavosi feed him on the juicy pink flesh of little highborn girls," Nan would end, and Sansa would give a stupid squeak. (AFFC Arya I)
—the idea that the Titan of Braavos is truly a "savage giant" is once again not born out by the reality of an inert statue (even if you accept that the Titan 'is' a "giant" of sorts, even if only in a figurative sense). Maester Luwin was right, at least as regards giants and titans:
But Maester Luwin said the Titan was only a statue, and Old Nan's stories were only stories.
Indeed, given the banking industry, commercial orientation, and anti-slavery policies of Braavos, the Titan of Braavos is more like a sign of civilization than savagery by Planetosi standards: a kind of Colossus of Rhodes. Even its green hair, which might say "Incredible Hulk" to us, hardly has "savage" connotations on Planetos, where the brother of the Archon of Tyrosh has a green beard.
In sum: People might 'be' their sigils, but (a) Littlefinger 'isn't' the Titan of Braavos, and (b) even if he were, the Titan of Braavos isn't properly "a savage giant" unless you squint.
That said, make no mistake: you always have to squint a bit when it comes to prophecy, and I am thus in no way saying that Littlefinger is deductively ruled out as the referent of the Ghost's prophecy. I'm just saying there are good reasons to think he might not be.

More On Sweetrobin The "Savage Giant", Featuring A Reference To David Lynch's Blue Velvet That Supports This Reading

I want to close by drawing attention to a few more things that put the whiff of "savage giant" on and around Sweetrobin.
First, there's the simple fact that Robert lives in a castle in the clouds—
Seven towers, Ned had told her, like white daggers thrust into the belly of the sky, so high you can stand on the parapets and look down on the clouds. (AGOT Cateyn VI)
—reached by a perilous climb, which clearly recalls the castle in the clouds in which the giant abides in Jack and the Beanstalk.
Indeed, that climb is also giant-coded, in its way:
"Sweetrobin," she said gently, "the descent will be ever so jolly, you'll see."
Jolly, a la the [Jolly Green Giant].
Second, as Lord of the Vale and the Eyrie, Robert has dominion over the Giant's Lance (the mountain the Eyrie is built on), which can be seen as 'coding' him as "the Giant" in question.
Third, recall that young Lord Robert throws his chamber pot at Maester Colemon and shatters it (which is hardly a civilized thing to do, and arguably savage). In so doing, he creates a scene that recalls another scene caused by a (different) figurative 'savage giant': Shagga is a verbatim "savage" and a figurative 'giant' — he is "massive" per AGOT Tyrion VI, and his "hand was so big he could have crushed the maester's skull like an eggshell had he squeezed" per ACOK Tyrion VI — and he smashes in Maester Pycelle's door and causes him to piss everywhere:
Roaring, Shagga leapt forward. Pycelle shrieked and wet the bed, urine spraying in all directions as he tried to scramble back out of reach. (ibid.)
Setting aside the 'rhyme' Sweetrobin throwing his chamber pot sets up between himself and Shagga the savage giant (thereby suggesting that Sweetrobin, too, is a figurative savage giant), consider the language from the aftermath of Sweetrobin chucking his chamber pot:
"Might I let some sun in?"
"No. The light hurts my eyes. Come to bed, Alayne."
She went to the windows anyway, edging around the broken chamber pot. She could smell it better than she saw it. (AFFC Alayne II)
The noted verbiage 'just so happens' to be tightly reminiscent of what we're told about true giants, their squinty rat eyes, and their "smelling as much as they saw":
Rats' eyes no larger than beads were almost lost within folds of horny flesh, but they snuffled constantly, smelling as much as they saw. (ASOS Jon II)
Note the sympatico double entendre wordplay as well: Robert saying "Come to bed, Alayne" vs. the "horny flesh" of the giants.
And note that true giants "snuffled constantly". Who does that sound like if not Sweetrobin?
Alayne slipped into the darkened bedchamber. "It's only me, Sweetrobin."
Someone sniffled in the darkness. "Are you alone?" (Alayne II)
She went to the windows anyway, edging around the broken chamber pot. She could smell it better than she saw it. "I shan't open them very wide. Only enough to see my Sweetrobin's face."
He sniffled. "If you must."
The curtains were of plush blue velvet¹.
"I don't love her. She's just the mule girl." Robert sniffled. (AFFC Alayne II)
"He was sniffling," Alayne admitted, "but I saw no blood." (AFFC Alayne II)
Note 1: Those "plush blue velvet" curtains — combined with Sweetrobin's latent 'horniness' for "Alayne" — should jump off the page as a further reference to giant-like "snuffling" to anyone who's seen David Lynch's 1986 masterpiece Blue Velvet, a film in which the main villain Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) keeps a singer prisoner (a la Petyr holding Marillion prisoner!) in an always dark(!) apartment, infamously huffs gas out of a mask in a 'snuffling' fashion, gets horri-comically horny, stuffs his mouth with her plush blue velvet robe, which he parts like curtains before calling her "mommy" (regarding which, recall that Robert asks Sansa "Are you my mother now?" while laying his head between her breasts in AFFC Sansa I) and raping her. Literal curtains are featured prominently in the film as well, including in the singer's dark apartment. See here, and see the wikipedia page devoted to the character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Booth_(Blue_Velvet).
For what it's worth, I believe GRRM is clearly a giant (har!) Lynch fan and that ASOIAF is stuffed full of Lynch references. A book about Lynch [is visible] on a shelf in the background of a GRRM video interview. It's no surprise: Lynch directed Dune, and Twin Peaks revolutionized television when GRRM was writing TV. I actually have a huge essay written up about the what I see as the massive influence of Twin Peaks on ASOIAF. Apropos of the topic at hand, I'll just note that the Eyrie is full of "winches", and that GRRM gives us a Lord "Wynch" — it rhymes with Lynch — who is the first supporter of the BOB-like villain Euron and whose first name just so happens to be Waldon, a la Waldo, the bird that plays a key role in Twin Peaks.
Anyway, the point here, again, is simply that blue velvet curtains remind us of some of the most famous "snuffling" in the history of cinema, and thus further hint that Sweetrobin is, indeed, a figurative 'giant'.
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By the way, Robert abiding in darkness—
Alayne slipped into the darkened bedchamber. "It's only me, Sweetrobin."
Someone sniffled in the darkness. "Are you alone?" (Alayne II)
—sets him up as akin to Old Nan's version of giants as they appear in a story—
[Arya] remembered a story Old Nan had told once, about a man imprisoned in a dark castle by evil giants. He was very brave and smart and he tricked the giants and escaped . . . but no sooner was he outside the castle than the Others took him, and drank his hot red blood. (ACOK Arya III)
—that sounds like one of the stories Sweetrobin asks Alayne to read to him moments after she enters his "darkened bedchamber":
"I don't want food," the little lord said, in a reedy, petulant voice. "I'm going to stay in bed today. You could read to me if you want."
"It is too dark in here for reading." The heavy curtains drawn across the windows made the bedchamber black as night. (AFFC Alayne II)
Finally, as many have noticed, Robert's preference for the darkness, his pale skin, his red eyes, and his belief that he still hears Marillion singing—
"I want to go back to bed. I never slept last night. I heard singing. Maester Colemon gave me dreamwine but I could still hear it."
Alayne put down her spoon. "If there had been singing, I should have heard it too. You had a bad dream, that's all."
"No, it wasn't a dream." Tears filled his eyes. "Marillion was singing again. Your father says he's dead, but he isn't." (AFFC Alayne I)
—suggest he is is "gifted" in a weirwood-net-adjacent way similar to Jojen, Bran, and/or Bloodraven. Thus to a fellow clairvoyant like the Ghost of High Heart, he may truly seem like a 'giant' indeed.

Summary/TL;DR

So that's it. If the Ghost of High Heart's vision of "that maid again" — "a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs" — "slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow" is related to the doll-and-snow-castle incident, it's surely not merely about Sansa figuratively slaying Sweetrobin's doll, but about Sansa slaying Sweetrobin himself, who is 'coded' as a figurative "savage giant in a castle built of snow" during that incident—
"Tromp tromp I'm a giant, I'm a giant," he chanted. "Ho ho ho, open your gates or I'll mash them and smash them."
It started with no more than a little shivering, but within a few short heartbeats [Sweetrobin] had collapsed across the castle [built of snow], his limbs flailing about violently.
—and who is primed to die of an overdose of sweetsleep, a "poison" which would be consistent with the venomous imagery with which the Ghost's prophecy depicts Sansa.
EDIT: If this comes to pass, I do wonder whether the "purple serpents" motif may get another pay-off in the form of a purple ribbon in Sansa's hair, like the (notably velvet!) ribbon she tries on as Alayne here:
In the end she chose a simple velvet ribbon in autumn gold. When Gretchel fetched her Lysa's silvered looking glass, the color seemed just perfect with Alayne's mass of dark brown hair. (AFFC Alayne I)
It's worth noting that in the opening line of ACOK Ayra IV, we see a specifically colored "ribbon" deployed as a metaphor for a thing associated with snakes:
The river was a blue-green ribbon shining in the morning sun. Reeds grew thick in the shallows along the banks, and Arya saw a water snake skimming across the surface, ripples spreading out behind it as it went. Overhead a hawk flew in lazy circles.
If a river with a snake in it can figurative 'be' a specifically colored ribbon, couldn't the "purple serpents" in the maid's hair in the prophecy be a figurative stand-in for a literal ribbon Sansa wears to a feast at which Robert dies from sweetsleep she gives him (in addition to foreshadowing the purple wedding)? Indeed, a similar conflation is at the heart of one of the most famous murder mysteries in literature: The Speckled Band.
(Notice that the circling hawk recalls the falcons of the Vale, while "Reeds" recalls Howland Reed, who I believe attends the "feast" in TWOW Alayne I in the guise of Ser Shadrich of the Shady Glen.)
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Could the prophecy (also?) be about Littlefinger? About an Umber? Sure. But to dismiss the castle in the snow incident as if Robert's doll is the only figurative "savage giant in a castle built of snow" there is to dismiss a straw man. (See what I did there?)
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2023.05.26 18:45 M_Tootles Sweetrobin's Doll Isn't the Only "Giant" In The Snow Castle (Spoilers TWOW)

(TL;DR in the conclusion at the bottom. But David Lynch fans will miss the Blue Velvet clue if they do that.)
Earlier this week on the ASOIAF subreddit, FROTHYxCOFFEE asked about the identity of the "giant" in the Ghost of High Heart's seemingly prophetic vision in ASOS Arya VIII:
"I dreamt a wolf howling in the rain, but no one heard his grief," the dwarf woman was saying. "I dreamt such a clangor I thought my head might burst, drums and horns and pipes and screams, but the saddest sound was the little bells. I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow."
The indefatigable BaelBard responded by providing what they called "the popular belief" (which was indeed proved "popular" when their summary comment got 300+ upvotes): that although the prophecy is apparently fulfilled by Sansa tearing the head off Sweetrobin's doll after he uses it to smash her snow castle Winterfell, thus figuratively "slaying" a figurative "giant"—
"Winterfell is the seat of House Stark," Sansa told her husband-to-be. "The great castle of the north."
"It's not so great." The boy knelt before the gatehouse. "Look, here comes a giant to knock it down." He stood his doll in the snow and moved it jerkily. "Tromp tromp I'm a giant, I'm a giant," he chanted. "Ho ho ho, open your gates or I'll mash them and smash them." Swinging the doll by the legs, he knocked the top off one gatehouse tower and then the other.
It was more than Sansa could stand. "Robert, stop that." Instead he swung the doll again, and a foot of wall exploded. She grabbed for his hand but she caught the doll instead. There was a loud ripping sound as the thin cloth tore. Suddenly she had the doll's head, Robert had the legs and body, and the rag-and-sawdust stuffing was spilling in the snow. (ASOS Sansa VII)
—this interpretation is "a red herring". The (demonstrably) "popular belief" is that because this is a minor, irrelevant event compared to the Ghost of High Heart's other prophecies, surely there must be a bigger pay-off.
That bigger pay-off, it's popularly believed, is that the "savage giant" Sansa will slay is Littlefinger, where Petyr 'is' the giant since his grandfather's sigil was "a grey stone head with fiery eyes" representing the Titan of Braavos — a kind of giant (the rationale goes):
The device painted on the shield was one Sansa did not know; a grey stone head with fiery eyes, upon a light green field. "My grandfather's shield," Petyr explained when he saw her gazing at it. "His own father was born in Braavos and came to the Vale as a sellsword in the hire of Lord Corbray, so my grandfather took the head of the Titan as his sigil when he was knighted."
"It's very fierce," said Sansa.
"Rather too fierce, for an amiable fellow like me," said Petyr. "I much prefer my mockingbird." (ASOS Sansa VI)
It's generally theorized that this will take place in Winterfell, since Sansa's snow castle is meant to be Winterfell, although some say it will happen in the Eyrie, which Sansa calls "a castle made of snow":
The Eyrie shrank above them. … A honeycomb made of ice, Alayne thought, a castle made of snow. (AFFC Alayne II)
I know many people believe Littlefinger will surely "get his" at Sansa's hands, and in saying what I'm going to say, I am not saying he necessarily won't. Prophecies can have multiple payoffs.
Nonetheless, I have to point out that when the "popular belief" focuses on and (probably rightly) dismisses the idea that Sansa tearing the doll's head off in the snow castle Winterfell could be Sansa "slaying the savage giant in a castle built of snow", it overlooks a more subtle reading of the doll-and-snow castle incident per which it is part of a far more significant pay-off for the Ghost of High Heart's prophecy.

"I'm a giant, I'm a giant"

I submit that if the Ghost of High Heart's vision of a maid "slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow" is indeed about the doll-and-snow-castle incident in the Eyrie, it surely isn't about Sansa figuratively "slaying" Sweetrobin's doll by ripping its head off, as most seem to assume when dismissing this as the possible 'pay-off', but rather about Sansa "slaying" Sweetrobin himself, because Sweetrobin is, in that very moment, 'coded' as a figurative "savage giant in a castle built of snow".
He's damned by his own words
"Tromp tromp I'm a giant, I'm a giant," [Sweetrobin] chanted. "Ho ho ho, open your gates or I'll mash them and smash them."
and actions:
Lord Robert's mouth trembled. "You killlllllllled him," he wailed. Then he began to shake. It started with no more than a little shivering, but within a few short heartbeats he had collapsed across the castle, his limbs flailing about violently.
Thus the doll-and-snow-castle incident establishes Lord Robert as a figurative "savage giant in a castle built of snow", not just because he declares "I'm a giant, I'm a giant," but because he 'is' a giant relative to the size of the "castle built of snow" he is physically "in" when he "collapsed across" it — i.e. he 'is' a giant in the exact same way his doll 'is' a giant, per the popular interpretation of these events that is generally at once accepted as 'correct' (in that it's intended) but dismissed as a sneaky red herring.
Thus the Ghost's prophecy may well be about Sansa killing Sweetrobin by (accidentally) poisoning him with sweetsleep ("the gentlest of poisons") to keep him calm during a feast, in keeping with the prophecy's referring to Sansa when she's "slaying a savage giant" as "that maid again", which points back to how she's first described, as a venomous "maid at a feast":
"I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow."
Note that it is apt indeed that when Lord Robert is established as a figurative "savage giant in a castle built of snow", he is having a shaking fit, given that it would be the need to quiet such a shaking fit that would lead Sansa to (inadvertently, presumably) "slay" him.

Slaying By Poison At A Feast

The foreshadowing for Sansa poisoning and thereby slaying the boy who was for a moment "a savage giant in a castle built of snow" is all there, and rather blatant:
"Perhaps a pinch of sweetsleep in his milk, have you tried that? Just a pinch, to calm him and stop his wretched shaking."
"A pinch?" The apple in the maester's throat moved up and down as he swallowed. "One small pinch . . . perhaps, perhaps. Not too much, and not too often, yes, I might try . . ."
"A pinch," Lord Petyr said, "before you bring him forth to meet the lords." (AFFC Alayne I)
[T]he burden of getting Sweetrobin safely down the mountain fell on her. "Give his lordship a cup of sweetmilk," [Sansa] told the maester. "That will stop him from shaking on the journey down."
"He had a cup not three days past," Colemon objected.
"And wanted another last night, which you refused him."
"It was too soon. My lady, you do not understand. As I've told the Lord Protector, a pinch of sweetsleep will prevent the shaking, but it does not leave the flesh, and in time . . ."
"Time will not matter if his lordship has a shaking fit and falls off the mountain. If my father were here, I know he would tell you to keep Lord Robert calm at all costs."
"I try, my lady, yet his fits grow ever more violent, and his blood is so thin I dare not leech him any more. Sweetsleep . . . you are certain he was not bleeding from the nose?"
"He was sniffling," Alayne admitted, "but I saw no blood."
"I must speak to the Lord Protector. This feast … is that wise, I wonder, after the strain of the descent?"
"It will not be a large feast," she assured him. "No more than forty guests. Lord Nestor and his household, the Knight of the Gate, a few lesser lords and their retainers …"
"Lord Robert mislikes strangers, you know that, and there will be drinking, noise … music. Music frightens him."
"Music soothes him," she corrected, "the high harp especially. It's singing he can’t abide, since Marillion killed his mother." Alayne had told the lie so many times that she remembered it that way more oft than not; the other seemed no more than a bad dream that sometimes troubled her sleep. "Lord Nestor will have no singers at the feast, only flutes and fiddles for the dancing." What would she do when the music began to play? It was a vexing question, to which her heart and head gave different answers. Sansa loved to dance, but Alayne . . . "Just give him a cup of the sweetmilk before we go, and another at the feast, and there should be no trouble." (AFFC Alayne II)
It's unclear whether that feast ever happens, as they don't reach the Gates of the Moon until most are asleep. But Sweetrobin definitely attends a(nother) verbatim "feast" at which, Sansa presumes, he is dosed with more sweetsleep:
As they waited for the music to resume, Alayne glanced at the dais, where Lord Robert sat staring at them. Please, she prayed, don't let him start to twitch and shake. Not here. Not now. Maester Coleman would have made certain that he drank a strong dose of sweetmilk before the feast, but even so. (TWOW Alayne I)
We have not yet seen the end of that feast, but assuming Robert survives, there are sure to be more feasts soon. After all, that's just the welcome feast for the tourney. Doubtless there will be more feasting, and something tells me Sweetrobin and his sweet-tooth for sweetmilk—
"He had a cup not three days past," Colemon objected.
"And wanted another last night, which you refused him." (AFFC Alayne II)
No matter what you offered him, Robert always wanted more. (AFFC Alayne II)
—won't make it:
"If Robert were to die . . ."
Petyr arched an eyebrow. "When Robert dies. Our poor brave Sweetrobin is such a sickly boy, it is only a matter of time. When Robert dies, Harry the Heir becomes Lord Harrold, Defender of the Vale and Lord of the Eyrie. (AFFC Alayne II)

What About Littlefinger?

Some may think this sounds plausible enough, but that surely the Ghost's vision has to be about Littlefinger, given that his sigil is 'really' the Titan of Braavos.
I see two potential problems with this reading. They're not necessarily fatal, but they're not nothing. Certainly they're enough to consider that the doll-and-snow-castle incident may be at the core of this, after all, albeit not in the consequence-free way so easily and popularly dismissed.

Problem 1: Petyr Baelish 'Is' A Mockingbird, Not The Titan of Braavos

First, Petyr's grandfather's/father's sigil simply isn't his sigil. It's hanging up on the wall in a tower that seems more his father's than his own (consider the age of the servants) and he explicitly disavows it, calling it "my grandfather's shield" and saying the sigil is…
"Rather too fierce for an amiable fellow like me. … I much prefer my mockingbird."
People in Westeros might 'be' their sigils—
"You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions or dragons or eagles." (ADWD Tyrion I)
—but Petyr Baelish's sigil simply isn't a representation of the Titan of Braavos: It's a mockingbird. Making him if anything a figurative mockingbird.
(Petyr's disavowals of his paternal lineage dovetails with Petyr arguably seeming to care more about his mother than his father. [He names "Alayne" after his mother, but says nothing much about his father save to mock him for bringing Petyr to a hermit to have him tell his future when he was a boy.] Full disclosure: I happen to think Petyr's mother's lineage is very, very, very significant, so the idea that he cares about his maternal bloodline than his father's dovetails with my preconceived notions. But nevertheless.)

Problem 2: The Titan Is Not A "Savage Giant"

Second, the Titan of Braavos isn't "a savage giant". Indeed, it's neither "savage" nor a "giant".
It's not a "giant" because giants aren't titans. And not just because are titans and giants are totally different things in classical (Greek) mythology. The bigger problem is that titans and giants are cleary wildly different things diegetically (i.e. in-world).
A titan, in the world of ASOIAF, truly is a giant man:
The whole city is built in a lagoon on a hundred little islands, and they have a titan there, a stone man hundreds of feet high. (AFFC Samwell II)
A giant, in the world of ASOIAF (as contrasted to the "giants" of Old Nan's stories), is something else entirely:
In Old Nan's stories, giants were outsized men who lived in colossal castles, fought with huge swords, and walked about in boots a boy could hide in. These were something else, more bearlike than human, and as wooly as the mammoths they rode. Seated, it was hard to say how big they truly were. Ten feet tall maybe, or twelve, Jon thought. Maybe fourteen, but no taller. Their sloping chests might have passed for those of men, but their arms hung down too far, and their lower torsos looked half again as wide as their upper. Their legs were shorter than their arms, but very thick, and they wore no boots at all; their feet were broad splayed things, hard and horny and black. Neckless, their huge heavy heads thrust forward from between their shoulder blades, and their faces were squashed and brutal. Rats' eyes no larger than beads were almost lost within folds of horny flesh, but they snuffled constantly, smelling as much as they saw. (ASOS Jon II)
Indeed, while Old Nan's stories get this wrong, there seem to be stories told to children that understand this, judging by Shireen's reaction to Wun Wun:
Princess Shireen's eyes went wide as dinner plates. "He's a giant! A real true giant, like from the stories. But why does he talk so funny?" (ADWD Jon IX)
(Perhaps Shireen heard her stories from Cressen.)
It's true that in Old Nan's stories — whose version of a giant is totally debunked by reality, remember — the Titan of Braavos is a verbatim "giant" in that same "giant man" sense:
The Titan of Braavos. Old Nan had told them stories of the Titan back in Winterfell. He was a giant as tall as a mountain, and whenever Braavos stood in danger he would wake with fire in his eyes, his rocky limbs grinding and groaning as he waded out into the sea to smash the enemies.
And that much, at least, fits with the Titan of Braavos as he actually appears.
However, where the Titan of Braavos of Old Nan's fiction is clearly savage, per se, like the "savage giant" in the Ghost of High Heart's vision—
"The Braavosi feed him on the juicy pink flesh of little highborn girls," Nan would end, and Sansa would give a stupid squeak. (AFFC Arya I)
—the idea that the Titan of Braavos is truly a "savage giant" is once again not born out by the reality of an inert statue (even if you accept that the Titan 'is' a "giant" of sorts, even if only in a figurative sense). Maester Luwin was right, at least as regards giants and titans:
But Maester Luwin said the Titan was only a statue, and Old Nan's stories were only stories.
Indeed, given the banking industry, commercial orientation, and anti-slavery policies of Braavos, the Titan of Braavos is more like a sign of civilization than savagery by Planetosi standards: a kind of Colossus of Rhodes. Even its green hair, which might say "Incredible Hulk" to us, hardly has "savage" connotations on Planetos, where the brother of the Archon of Tyrosh has a green beard.
In sum: People might 'be' their sigils, but (a) Littlefinger 'isn't' the Titan of Braavos, and (b) even if he were, the Titan of Braavos isn't properly "a savage giant" unless you squint.
That said, make no mistake: you always have to squint a bit when it comes to prophecy, and I am thus in no way saying that Littlefinger is deductively ruled out as the referent of the Ghost's prophecy. I'm just saying there are good reasons to think he might not be.

More On Sweetrobin The "Savage Giant", Featuring A Reference To David Lynch's Blue Velvet That Supports This Reading

I want to close by drawing attention to a few more things that put the whiff of "savage giant" on and around Sweetrobin.
First, there's the simple fact that Robert lives in a castle in the clouds—
Seven towers, Ned had told her, like white daggers thrust into the belly of the sky, so high you can stand on the parapets and look down on the clouds. (AGOT Cateyn VI)
—reached by a perilous climb, which clearly recalls the castle in the clouds in which the giant abides in Jack and the Beanstalk.
Indeed, that climb is also giant-coded, in its way:
"Sweetrobin," she said gently, "the descent will be ever so jolly, you'll see."
Jolly, a la the [Jolly Green Giant].
Second, as Lord of the Vale and the Eyrie, Robert has dominion over the Giant's Lance (the mountain the Eyrie is built on), which can be seen as 'coding' him as "the Giant" in question.
Third, recall that young Lord Robert throws his chamber pot at Maester Colemon and shatters it (which is hardly a civilized thing to do, and arguably savage). In so doing, he creates a scene that recalls another scene caused by a (different) figurative 'savage giant': Shagga is a verbatim "savage" and a figurative 'giant' — he is "massive" per AGOT Tyrion VI, and his "hand was so big he could have crushed the maester's skull like an eggshell had he squeezed" per ACOK Tyrion VI — and he smashes in Maester Pycelle's door and causes him to piss everywhere:
Roaring, Shagga leapt forward. Pycelle shrieked and wet the bed, urine spraying in all directions as he tried to scramble back out of reach. (ibid.)
Setting aside the 'rhyme' Sweetrobin throwing his chamber pot sets up between himself and Shagga the savage giant (thereby suggesting that Sweetrobin, too, is a figurative savage giant), consider the language from the aftermath of Sweetrobin chucking his chamber pot:
"Might I let some sun in?"
"No. The light hurts my eyes. Come to bed, Alayne."
She went to the windows anyway, edging around the broken chamber pot. She could smell it better than she saw it. (AFFC Alayne II)
The noted verbiage 'just so happens' to be tightly reminiscent of what we're told about true giants, their squinty rat eyes, and their "smelling as much as they saw":
Rats' eyes no larger than beads were almost lost within folds of horny flesh, but they snuffled constantly, smelling as much as they saw. (ASOS Jon II)
Note the sympatico double entendre wordplay as well: Robert saying "Come to bed, Alayne" vs. the "horny flesh" of the giants.
And note that true giants "snuffled constantly". Who does that sound like if not Sweetrobin?
Alayne slipped into the darkened bedchamber. "It's only me, Sweetrobin."
Someone sniffled in the darkness. "Are you alone?" (Alayne II)
She went to the windows anyway, edging around the broken chamber pot. She could smell it better than she saw it. "I shan't open them very wide. Only enough to see my Sweetrobin's face."
He sniffled. "If you must."
The curtains were of plush blue velvet¹.
"I don't love her. She's just the mule girl." Robert sniffled. (AFFC Alayne II)
"He was sniffling," Alayne admitted, "but I saw no blood." (AFFC Alayne II)
Note 1: Those "plush blue velvet" curtains — combined with Sweetrobin's latent 'horniness' for "Alayne" — should jump off the page as a further reference to giant-like "snuffling" to anyone who's seen David Lynch's 1986 masterpiece Blue Velvet, a film in which the main villain Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) keeps a singer prisoner (a la Petyr holding Marillion prisoner!) in an always dark(!) apartment, infamously huffs gas out of a mask in a 'snuffling' fashion, gets horri-comically horny, stuffs his mouth with her plush blue velvet robe, which he parts like curtains before calling her "mommy" (regarding which, recall that Robert asks Sansa "Are you my mother now?" while laying his head between her breasts in AFFC Sansa I) and raping her. Literal curtains are featured prominently in the film as well, including in the singer's dark apartment. See here, and see the wikipedia page devoted to the character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Booth_(Blue_Velvet).
For what it's worth, I believe GRRM is clearly a giant (har!) Lynch fan and that ASOIAF is stuffed full of Lynch references. A book about Lynch [is visible] on a shelf in the background of a GRRM video interview. It's no surprise: Lynch directed Dune, and Twin Peaks revolutionized television when GRRM was writing TV. I actually have a huge essay written up about the what I see as the massive influence of Twin Peaks on ASOIAF. Apropos of the topic at hand, I'll just note that the Eyrie is full of "winches", and that GRRM gives us a Lord "Wynch" — it rhymes with Lynch — who is the first supporter of the BOB-like villain Euron and whose first name just so happens to be Waldon, a la Waldo, the bird that plays a key role in Twin Peaks.
Anyway, the point here, again, is simply that blue velvet curtains remind us of some of the most famous "snuffling" in the history of cinema, and thus further hint that Sweetrobin is, indeed, a figurative 'giant'.
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By the way, Robert abiding in darkness—
Alayne slipped into the darkened bedchamber. "It's only me, Sweetrobin."
Someone sniffled in the darkness. "Are you alone?" (Alayne II)
—sets him up as akin to Old Nan's version of giants as they appear in a story—
[Arya] remembered a story Old Nan had told once, about a man imprisoned in a dark castle by evil giants. He was very brave and smart and he tricked the giants and escaped . . . but no sooner was he outside the castle than the Others took him, and drank his hot red blood. (ACOK Arya III)
—that sounds like one of the stories Sweetrobin asks Alayne to read to him moments after she enters his "darkened bedchamber":
"I don't want food," the little lord said, in a reedy, petulant voice. "I'm going to stay in bed today. You could read to me if you want."
"It is too dark in here for reading." The heavy curtains drawn across the windows made the bedchamber black as night. (AFFC Alayne II)
Finally, as many have noticed, Robert's preference for the darkness, his pale skin, his red eyes, and his belief that he still hears Marillion singing—
"I want to go back to bed. I never slept last night. I heard singing. Maester Colemon gave me dreamwine but I could still hear it."
Alayne put down her spoon. "If there had been singing, I should have heard it too. You had a bad dream, that's all."
"No, it wasn't a dream." Tears filled his eyes. "Marillion was singing again. Your father says he's dead, but he isn't." (AFFC Alayne I)
—suggest he is is "gifted" in a weirwood-net-adjacent way similar to Jojen, Bran, and/or Bloodraven. Thus to a fellow clairvoyant like the Ghost of High Heart, he may truly seem like a 'giant' indeed.

Summary/TL;DR

So that's it. If the Ghost of High Heart's vision of "that maid again" — "a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs" — "slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow" is related to the doll-and-snow-castle incident, it's surely not merely about Sansa figuratively slaying Sweetrobin's doll, but about Sansa slaying Sweetrobin himself, who is 'coded' as a figurative "savage giant in a castle built of snow" during that incident—
"Tromp tromp I'm a giant, I'm a giant," he chanted. "Ho ho ho, open your gates or I'll mash them and smash them."
It started with no more than a little shivering, but within a few short heartbeats [Sweetrobin] had collapsed across the castle [built of snow], his limbs flailing about violently.
—and who is primed to die of an overdose of sweetsleep, a "poison" which would be consistent with the venomous imagery with which the Ghost's prophecy depicts Sansa.
EDIT: If this comes to pass, I do wonder whether the "purple serpents" motif may get another pay-off in the form of a purple ribbon in Sansa's hair, like the (notably velvet!) ribbon she tries on as Alayne here:
In the end she chose a simple velvet ribbon in autumn gold. When Gretchel fetched her Lysa's silvered looking glass, the color seemed just perfect with Alayne's mass of dark brown hair. (AFFC Alayne I)
It's worth noting that in the opening line of ACOK Ayra IV, we see a specifically colored "ribbon" deployed as a metaphor for a thing associated with snakes:
The river was a blue-green ribbon shining in the morning sun. Reeds grew thick in the shallows along the banks, and Arya saw a water snake skimming across the surface, ripples spreading out behind it as it went. Overhead a hawk flew in lazy circles.
If a river with a snake in it can figurative 'be' a specifically colored ribbon, couldn't the "purple serpents" in the maid's hair in the prophecy be a figurative stand-in for a literal ribbon Sansa wears to a feast at which Robert dies from sweetsleep she gives him (in addition to foreshadowing the purple wedding)? Indeed, a similar conflation is at the heart of one of the most famous murder mysteries in literature: The Speckled Band.
(Notice that the circling hawk recalls the falcons of the Vale, while "Reeds" recalls Howland Reed, who I believe attends the "feast" in TWOW Alayne I in the guise of Ser Shadrich of the Shady Glen.)
END EDIT
Could the prophecy (also?) be about Littlefinger? About an Umber? Sure. But to dismiss the castle in the snow incident as if Robert's doll is the only figurative "savage giant in a castle built of snow" there is to dismiss a straw man. (See what I did there?)
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2023.05.26 09:52 JohnnyIsBravo Eternal Darkness in Barovia! (My CoS Horror Story)

Have you ever read a story where the BBEG wins? This is the case right here as i'm about to tell you my version of the event that lead to our party's downfall both IC and OOC.
We played at 08/19/2021 and it ended at 11/13/2021.
[The Cast]
Me=Jenny (Variant Human Noble Female Divine Soul Sorcerer), My Dad=Collin Belasco (Variant Human Haunted One Male Twilight Domain Cleric), The DM (Martin), David=Lt Bucket (Variant Human Urchin Male Gloomstalker RangeAssassin Rogue), Ken=Kevin Ethan Levin (Variant Human City Watch Male Barbarian/Battlemaster Fighter).
To clarified on PC appearance: Me=Lulu (FFX). My Dad=Elijah (Bible OT). Ken=Kevin (Ben10 Alien Force). David=Just a guy wearing a bucket on his head (Joke Character).
There were supposed to be 4 more players to join in however each of them didn't stay for too long.
Tony=He's a nice guy to hang around with and this is his first time to be in Curse of Strahd. He played as Leliana from Dragon Age (Variant Human Acolyte Female Assassin Rogue) Unfortunately he left the group in halfway through the story due to important irl stuffs.
Terrance=He always play at Johnson's table. He brings out his character (Winged Tiefling Acolyte Female Light Cleric) i forget his character's name but we'd all nicknamed him "Demon Cleric" or "Mr.Demon Morning Glory" as Terrance posts a comment before leaving the group. "New rules have dropped, and while they're an improvement in a lot of ways from where they were before, they also happen to be incompatible with my playstyle. So I'm stepping down as a player for the foreseeable future."
Ledbetter=He was invited to Martin's house and was about to be apart of the team but he forget to bring his own character sheet & dices which ultimately lead him to be kicked out of the house. He's known to be the drug addict and walks with his own very long carved wooden stick.
Marcus=He refused to come play with us (Thank God!) as he states "Nah i'm not playing Horror games. I rather play my Nintendo Switch and Disney Mirrorverse." (Pussy... 🙄*eyerolling emoji* Who would dared to ever play video games own by the EVIL corp of Disney rather than play AMAZING dark gritty fantasy stories like Curse of Strahd?)
[Session 0: Kidnapped by the Mists!]
We begin our story with Jenny & Collin walking on a road to a nearby town. Suddenly mists starts to form around the two as they'd disappeared. At the same time, on a different road leading to the same town a painted green wagon dubbed 'Rustbucket 3' with a mule in front.
(Cue 'You're finally awake' meme!)
"Are we there yet?" Lt Bucket asked. "We're almost there." answered Kevin Levin. Just then mists appears in front of the mule, engulfing them.
As the mists settles down. all 4 of them are next to each other. Jenny instantly dislikes Kevin and was mocking him, calling him "Foul Peasant!" as this ticked Kevin off as he's going to give Jenny a 'Royal Beatdown' until they were both stopped by Collin. "Knock it off you two! This childish act will get us no where." "Speaking of no where... Where are we anyway?" Lt Bucket questions the realm that all 4 were in. Just then the Burgomaster Ismark Kolyanovich arrives to offer a ride to the Village of Barovia. The party accepts the offer, stepping inside a Carriage expect for Kevin as he follows behind with his mule & wagon.
Before they make their way to the village, they encountered a series of Wolves and managed to defeat them. Afterwards they encountered a strange old lady who's been selling 'Dream Pies' near the village. The party buys pies and were told to eat them before going to sleep. They'd all eaten dream pies as everyone is having good dreams.
At morning the party wakes up to see Ismark introducing them to his sister Ireena Kolyana the twice bitten lady who is the reincarnation of Tatyana. Jenny became enraged and jealous of Ireena who's getting an attention from the Count of Barovia... Strahd von Zarovich!
[Session 1: Vallaki]
After the party settled for a while at the Village of Barovia, they decided to move onto the village of Vallaki where they could find some answers and ignored the direction that leads to Madam Eva. While traveling to Vallaki through wagon, the stubborn Jenny continues to mock Kevin, trying to goat him into attacking her. Collin does his best to keep Jenny in check. Kevin doesn't mind or care about as long she doesn't get in his way. Lt Bucket meanwhile is quietly observing the surroundings as he spots someone or something is watching them from afar.
"Uhhh... Guys? What the hell was that?" Lt Bucket pointed his finger at the direction where he spotted the stalker but it wasn't there anymore. "Nothing." Collin muttered. "Don't try to distract us again Bucket boy!" Jenny didn't bother to look and mocks him. "You could at least try to be nice for once? You're starting to become an annoyance." Kevin said while focus driving what's infront of him. Jenny was about to say something back at Kevin until Collin shuts her up by covering her mouth with his hand, ending the conversation momentarily.
After entering Vallaki, the party went to a Church of Saint Andral as they'd met with Father Lucian Petrovich who tells them to go find the stolen enchanted bones. Milivoj the Gravedigger tells the party that the Coffin Maker had the bones they're looking for. After breaking into the Coffin Maker's Shop, the party discovers that the coffins he made had each four of the party member's names written in stone! Henrik tries to ambush the intruders but was easily beaten into submission as Jenny drags Henrik into a private conversation away from the others. "Y...you not going to kill me?" Henrik asked. "I want you to send a message to the big man himself. Tell him that i Jenny Maidcourt the Third is the true reincarnation of Tatyana! Not that pig whore Ireena!" she lets go of Henrik as he runs off to send word to Strahd. The others (IC) don't know this and retrieves the bones as Collin returns them in person to Father Lucian. Collin was rewarded for his efforts as he'd been given Staff of Healing. After exiting the church the others waited patiently for the Cleric's return. Seeing the staff in hand Jenny starts to mock her companion. "You good for nothing holy man! How dare you get a fancy reward and i don't?" Collin simply silences Jenny with a Silence spell. The others walking off laughing behind Jenny's back as she now plots for her revenge...
[Session 2: Invitation to Castle Ravenloft!]
This is the part where Terrance and Tony left the group as both of their characters are killed by Rahadin in combat as their bodies are sent in the middle of Vallaki where everyone including our party sees a sign post top of they're corpses that reads in Infernal language that nobody expect Jenny understands it. "The Count is watching you." a sinister smile formed in Jenny's face as she doesn't tell anyone about this. Kevin went alone outside of Vallaki to chop some trees down, basic lumberjacking to upgrade his ride with some gps we'd all earned throughout the story. Kevin then hears a howl of a werewolf as five seconds later he'd been surrounded by werewolves encircling him as their leader approaches Kevin and challenges him in a 1v1. Meanwhile Jenny is approached by a wolf that carries both a letter & a special briefcase on it's backside. I rolled a natural 20 on my Animal Handling to calm the beast and take both of the items to inspect. The letter itself reveals to be written by Strahd himself!
Letter from Strahd: Dear Jenny Maidcourt the Third. I know of you're falsehoods of claiming to be my beloved Tatyana. Ireena is the one i'd desire more than you. However i've admired your determination and your willingness to betray your companions in pursuit of great power which lies here in Barovia. The Dark Powers that be is what you'd seek. They will come to you in your dreams as whispers of the damned. I have already sent my servant out to escort you and your companions to my castle for dinner. See you in person. --- Strahd von Zarovich
After reading that, my character goes to open the briefcase to reveal a party dress in all black color and perfectly fits. The only downside is that the dress itself is a 'Sleeveless Bodycon Maxi Tank Dress Club' type. (The DM also informs me that when wearing it my Sorcerer gains +5 any Charisma skill checks and gains the following spells 'Charm Person, Enthrall and Dominate Person' for one use each as it recharges at dawn)
Jenny closed the briefcase and casts 'Burning Hands' to burn the letter. She plans to wear it before coming to the castle. I then cast 'Fireball' upon the Wolf when it's about to run off in 120 feet.
Collin and Lt Bucket rushed over to see what Jenny just did. "What the hell Jenny! Why did you do that?" Collin notices the briefcase in Jenny's left hand. "Who gave you that?" Jenny makes up a deceptive story to tell on why she'd killed the wolf and gotten the briefcase. Collin failed his insight, however Lt Bucket succeeded his insight and tells Collin that she's lying. "Okay Jenny please be honest with us and tell us where did you get that briefcase." No point in hiding it as i'd tell them the truth.
Meanwhile Kevin came back to Vallaki and walks behind where Collin and Lt Bucket were with a werewolf pelt around his waist. We'd all knew what that meant. Just as Kevin about to say something added to the situation, we'd all suddenly saw a carriage coming by and stops in front of Jenny as we'd all look up to see Rahadin with two Nightmare Horses strapped front of the carriage.
"My master has sent me to come pick you guys up." the carriage door opens as the butler beckons us to get in. Kevin and Collin considering saying no, however after witnessing the deaths of Terrance & Tony's characters and the DM does the 'Are you sure?' moment. 30 seconds later of reconsideration they both go in. "I had a bad feeling about this..." Collin said in worrisome. "Same here old timer." Kevin muttered. "Hopefully Strahd is a nice host." Lt Bucket said. Jenny slowly smile wickedly to herself and said nothing while were escorted to Castle Ravenloft.
(Cue 'Spooky Castle in Thunderstorm' image!)
The DM private message me after the session on what type of Dark Gift that my character gets. I replied back after few days of researching and deep thinking as Jenny gets 'Vampirism' as i'd told Martin that i wanted my character to become like Strahd in equal level. The DM warns me that if i do this, then she becomes NPC as AL rules out 'No Evil PCs' as i went through my commitment. No turning back as already planning to bring out my backup character.
[Session 3: Dine with the Devil!]
Martin told everyone expect me that i went through my decision as both Ken and my Dad just facepalming and sighs. David on the other hand is eager to kill my character as soon the betrayal starts.
We all arrived to Castle Ravenloft as Rahadin guides all 4 of us inside to where we meet Strahd von Zarovich himself at the dining hall. The DM describes of Strahd playing pipe organ before the party enters the hall.
(Cue 'Davy Jones pipe organ' scene!)
"Welcome, welcome!" Strahd gestures to the dining table. "Please take your seats."
Collin, Kevin and Lt Bucket seated next to each other on the opposite end as Strahd, me and Ireena seated the other end. Ireena's legs were strapped with chains onto her chair to prevent escaping. My character lets out a harsh laughter at Ireena. "Game over wench! You lose! I win! Strahd, will you marry me?" rolled a high persuasion with +5 due to wearing the party dress. "Hmmm... I would love to, but you are not Tatyana. She is." Strahd points to Ireena whom quietly eating without looking. "Betrayal!" Lt Bucket stands up and screams while pulling out his longbow readying to shoot an arrow aiming for Jenny's head. However Rahadin pulls out his scimitar and slashes Lt Bucket's longbow, breaking it, slams the arrow down onto his knee and forces him down at his seat.
(Cue 'Took an arrow to the knee' meme!)
"Rahadin do take out the trash." Strahd ordered as the butler drags Lt Bucket out and tosses him outside the castle. Kevin was about to jump on Rahadin to go save Lt Bucket but was told to back down by both Collin and Strahd. "It's not worth it." Collin said. "Please do sit down like a good boy or you'll join your friend in the dirt." Kevin reluctant sits back down and angrily eats with glaring at Collin, Strahd and Jenny. Rahadin came back afterwards.
"Now then. I would like to discuss with you." Strahd points toward Collin. "What sort of Deity do you worship?" 7 seconds later Collin replies. "Selûne" he answered. "How unfortunate for you... The Moonmother won't save you." with a snap of a finger, the Twilight Cleric is surrounded by mists and was gone. Kevin immediately gets up and shouts "Okay count chocula it's go time!" as he jumps onto the dining table, grabbing a nearby metal plate and starts absorbing the metal to his body (Ken reflavoring it as his Barbarian rage) and starts charging towards Strahd as Kevin readies his fist to connect (He took Unarmed Fighting as his Fighting Style) however Kevin feels slowed down as he's almost within Strahd's reach. "Na uh uh uh!" Jenny made a 'tsk tsk tsk' sound while wiggle her index finger in a 'no no no' gesture. "Rahadin please take this filthy peasant to the dungeon!" the butler looks to his master for an answer as Strahd nods. Despite in a 'Slow' spell effect Kevin fights back but was ultimately subdued by Rahadin as the butler drags him into the dungeon level of Castle Ravenloft.
Strahd looks at the two ladies as he thinking who to choose to marry. Who did he pick? That's when the session ended on a cliffhanger note. (The answer is in the next one) Afterwards i have texted on group chat about my TPK plan that never happened. (In my opinion it could've had happened!)
My TPK plan script: Jenny tells Strahd that she wants her companions to be they're latest supper before marriage... Starting with Collin, followed by Lt Bucket and lastly Kevin. ☠️ They're all go to Skully as the story ends with a Fireball to Kevin's Rustbucket 3, Followed by Jenny casts "Alter Self" to becoming like Tatyana (Strahd's original bride) and thus Strahd von Zarovich wins and all citizens of Barovia suffers for all eternity under the reign of terror of Jenny von Zarovich! 😈 (Evil Laughter)
Martin: Your son has now enter dm level evil.
My Dad: *Facepalming gif*
Ken: You've thought this through clearly... So sad for you.
David: *Pulls out Buffy the Vampire slayer kills vampire gif*
Me: It's what my char-
My Dad & Ken & David: Shut up!
Martin: *Adding Jenny's name to Skully while chuckling in the background*
[Session 4: The Arrival of Virtue!]
I bring in Lt Colonel Dagsten "Virtue" Hopebringer (Variant Human Soldier Male Oath of Devotion Paladin) as a replacement from Jenny since she's now a NPC Vampire with lvl 9 Divine Soul Sorcerer class.
(Cue 'You must be the Paladin' image meme!)
Virtue's PC appearance: Talion (Shadow of Mordor & War)
My character's backstory & introduction as follows... Virtue is a soldier who serves under Sergei von Zarovich up until Strahd kills Sergei as Virtue went into hiding to stage a revolt that ended in failure by Strahd's loyal followers and undead minions. Virtue died from his wounds but his soul is now reincarnated as he's repeating mistakes of his every failed attempts of defeating Strahd and free Barovia. Reincarnated the seventh time, he finally decides to change his game plan as Virtue bent the knee to become a castle servant as Virtue being constant monitored for any signs or hints of his treachery by Rahadin.
Kevin was tossed to a cage by Rahadin as the butler locks it with his key. That's when my character comes in as he walks to the dungeon floor, summoned by Rahadin. "Keep him locked tight until my master had plans for him." Virtue nods as the butler leaves the dungeon. "You took one helluva beating. Can you walk?" Kevin grunts in pain as he silently nods as Virtue unlocks the cage with a successful Thieves Tools roll as the two sneaks out of the castle to find Lt Bucket with some stolen goods he found that may either prove useful or to sell for more gps. Collin was seen far away from Castle Ravenloft as it is presumed to be that the mists teleported him just outside as the party regroup then running off to find Madam Eva as she gives them fortune telling and hands out each party member 1 legendary item to aid them in their quest to defeat Strahd von Zarovich and his chosen bride Jenny von Zarovich.
Virtue was given the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind. Kevin was given the Sunsword. Lt Bucket was given +3 Longbow and 9 blessed arrows. Collin was given Scarab of Protection. Armed to the teeth, they were about to go back to kick some vampiric ass and take names but they were informed by Madam Eva that they should go to light a beacon that'll help them on the long run. We then heading off to where the DM marks the map.
(Cue 'LOTR Return of the King The Lighting of the Beacons' scene!)
[Session 5: Beacon of the Silver Dragon!]
We head out to The Temple of the Silver Dragon and lighten the beacon to gain +1 AC & saving throws as long the beacon stays lit. We'd been told by the DM that three events occurred after finishing beacon quest.
1: The Church of Saint Andral has been destroyed by Strahd's fireball as everyone there died of either burnt alive or killed by Strahd's minions.
2: Ireen's brother Ismark is kidnapped by Rahadin as he's been taken to Castle Ravenloft & the Village of Barovia has a new Burgomaster that keeps the entire villagers in line to offer tribute to Strahd.
3: The Burgomasters of Vallaki and Krezk are slain by Jenny and her small band of undead assassins. (Two Zombies and Skeletons with 3 lvls of Rogue class) Fiona Watcher assumes control in Vallaki as the village turns into full blown Strahd fanatics. Meanwhile Krezk is being torched by Jenny spamming fireballs at least five times to make her point on instilling fear into the hearts of anyone in Krezk who would dare challenge hers and Strahds rule.
We feel like the hopes of Barovia is slowly snuffed out one by one. As it became clear that we're the only ones fighting back against the count and his bride.
[Session 6: Have fun storming the castle!]
Our goal is set as we travel on foot (Kevin's Rustbucket was destroyed by Jenny) it took like 2 or 3 days making our way to Castle Ravenloft. As we reached near the castle, a sounds of screams is heard. "That's Ireena and Ismark!" Collin exclaim with his successful perception. "This is it... Remember the objective guys. Kill Strahd and Jenny!" said Virtue. "But what about Ireena and Ismark?" Lt Bucket asks if there's any hope of saving them. "I doubt about they're chance of survival. If i were Dracula, then he's gonna turn them into vampires." said Kevin in doubting tone. Turns out? He's right! Why? Because as soon we make it to the rooftop after killing off Rahadin who's been blocking our way, we find out right away after bashing down a locked door that the two Zaroviches was waiting for us as we fell into their trap!
A sound of wall crawling is heard as we all turned to see both Ireena and Ismark as Vampire Spawns. "She's my bitch now! A fitting irony isn't it? To be killed by someone you barely knew and couldn't be bothered to keep them safe?" Jenny von Zarovich said condescendingly with a cruel laughter. "Deal with them my love." Strahd said as he gets licked then kissed in the cheek by his bride before disappearing. "With pleasure."
Kevin quickly vomits at the sight of that happening. Collin feels both absolutely disgusted and betrayed by the woman he travels with. Bucket finds it kinky. As for Virtue? The Paladin ran to his target near at 20 feet as he pulls out the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind and yells "May the Morning Lord's wrath fall upon you traitorous harlot!" 5 charges spent for Sunlight effect as Jenny's skin starts boiling and her hair started burning. She hisses and casts Telekinesis to push my Holy object out from my hand as my character watching it falling all the way down as a loud glass shattered sound is heard. At that point i became angry both IC and OOC.
We managed to kill Ireena and Ismark, however Jenny is wounded and wasted all her spell slots escapes from us via Spider Climb (Vampire trait) as we debated weather to pursue her or travel back to Madam Eva to seek further guidance. I was the only one who voted to chase Jenny while everyone else voted speaking with Eva.
Martin: Last Session, see you all next week. *logs off*
Me: Ken. David. You guys are fucking cowards! We could've kill her before she recovers all her hp and spell slots. Now? It's all pointless! You let me lose my Holy Symbol of Ravenkind! The key to win over Strahd and Jenny! Such pussies man! You call yourselves men? Shame on you! If i were the DM you two be pimp slapped for such cowardice! Man up! Grow some backbone! You two are lucky that i'm not born as a Female, otherwise i would've castrated you both for ignoring an obvious logical choice of winning the game! A 5 year old is smarter than you two will ever be! Why do i even bother playing with a bunch of useless retards? Why God! Why me? WHY!?
(Cue random 'Rage Screaming Gamer' video)
I'm not too stupid to insult my dad. (Honor thy father) Ken and David were taken aback from my sudden rant of inventing my frustration of the situation. Everyone in MRRAL always seen me as 'Fun player with Autism who is always remain calm under bad circumstances' as tonight the two see the bad side of me. I hear my Dad coming to my room as i'm typing in a quick apology direct messages to the offended party. I spent 2 hours arguing with my Dad back and forth on my angry rant at 10:00 PM. Afterwards went to bed with tears in my eyes, sleeping in great sadness for my words brings pain not just to Ken & David, but to myself and my dad. (One week later me and dad reconcile)
[Session 7 the Finale: Ruination!]
Next week came by as my Dad was unable to attend due to disagreements between me and him. Martin asks if i'm feeling alright since he's been informed of what happened after he left.
Me: I took a chill pill. Sorry for me shouting at you Ken and David, you guys didn't deserve it. We're cool?
David: It's okay Johnny.
Ken: (Said nothing, just glaring at the webcam)
Martin: You guys want to continue? Johnny's father refuses to come play with us.
Me: Did he tell you why?
Martin: No. Do you?
Me: Yes. It's because we we're having disagreements last week. It started after Martin left. As i recalled you all want to go back visiting Madam Eva rather than chasing down and possibly put an end to Jenny to increase our chances of winning against Strahd.
David: Oh... crap! I was wrong to vote against you buddy.
Ken: I don't and i'm still standing by my decision. Probably your dad shared my sentiment.
Me: Why leave when we could've had her cornered and killed? My dad never gave me a straight answer. Will you tell me why Ken?
Ken: I'm not going to bother giving you my answer.
Me: Okay... Well... FUCK YOU!
I left the group call but not before hearing and seeing their reactions on my final say to Ken.
Martin: Woah! Woah! Woah! WTF Johnny!
David: Bruh! Not cool dude.
Ken: Tch... Your loss.
Martin posts his version of the Campaign ended in tragedy with me acting like a 'spoiled brat' as i would go on to write my version of how this Campaign should've ended as i've envisioned. Strangely enough though is that i'm still part of MRRAL facebook group despite the fact that both Ken and Martin hated me. Later i found out that It was Johnson and Thomas (Alive at the time) managing to convince Martin not to outright ban me as a sigh of relief came under my breath. Martin message me about inviting me to his 'Call of the Netherdeep' Campaign he's setting up in next year. I answered yes and formally apologize for my act at Ken.
Martin: Let Bygones Be Bygones.
Me: Agreed. Can you tell Ken that i'm deeply sorry?
Martin: I'll tell him that next time he shows up.
One month later Martin messaged me that Ken still holds a grudge against me, but was willing to play with me, David and 3 other players in the next Campaign...
My ending script: Evil triumphs! As Strahd prevails over 4 pesky Adventurers. Jenny is now officially married & rules with Strahd over Barovia forever. Ireena & Ismark died as Vampire Spawns. All 3 Villages submitted to the tyrannical rule of both Vampiric King and Queen. Virtue & Bucket died in their final battle against the Zaroviches. Collin fled from an unwinnable battle as he fell into deep insanity, spend rest of his days as a shell of his former self, begging off the streets and tries to spread the gospel of Selûne to rekindle hope as Collin meets his death by his former companion Jenny. Kevin is now the sole survivor after leaving Barovia by accepting Strahd's offer as he goes back to find his way home to reunite with Ben and Gwen Tennysons to resume their adventures of saving the universe from Vilgax.
TL;DR: Campaign ended on a sour note with me rage quitting on the group's voting decision that could've gone differently if we just find and kill my former PC instead of running from the problem. Reconciles & Let Bygones Be Bygones after one month. (AITA?)
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2023.05.26 06:22 limache Had an amazing connection really fast…and it just died I think ? Would love to hear your thoughts

I met a girl last Saturday night at a bar. She’s 23f and I’m 34m.
I went up to her and we actually hit it off because I talked to her about astrology and tarot cards. I told her I thought she was attractive and if she thought it was mutual and she said yes.
The next day I was actually worried about how to contact her (phone call vs text) and I got caught up in a really long convo that I didn’t even have time to do either because she reached out to me first!
She sent a chess game and I was shocked to find out she loves chess!
We started chatting and we quickly moved over to FaceTime. We ended up talking like 3 hours straight and then decided we want to hang out in person to keep talking so she actually came over at 9:30 and stayed until 1 am.
While she came over, I made us a dinner for 2 and we were just bonding and talking about a variety of topics. We had so much fun.
We got physical and kissed immediately within the first 5 minutes. She said she did not have sex on the first date and I said that’s fine. I told her if I had to choose between having sex with her and not see her again or not have sex and see her again, I would choose the latter.
She was shocked and was like “really? Do you mean that?” And I said yes.
Later she actually said she would have sex with me if I told her my kinks. I told her I didn’t really have any so we didn’t have sex.
We were talking about how we could hang out this summer and check out so many amazing places together etc. I even gave her a tarot necklace that I have because I know how much she likes tarot. She loved it.
She ended up leaving to go home and I had to sleep. She said she wanted to come over the next night and hang out with me.
Next day I find out she feels super sick and having issues sleeping and hasn’t slept for days.
I briefly called her on Monday and she said she wanted to hang out on Tuesday night and she would text me after she got off work
Tuesday comes and I sent her a nice good morning message and some funny gifs. Then I haven’t heard from her since
Either something really bad happened to her or she has completely changed her mind. I’ve been a bit concerned about her since she mentioned she hasn’t slept for days. Which is pretty wild.
I just tried to FaceTime her tonight an hour ago and sent her a text asking if she is okay.
Thoughts?
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2023.05.26 01:59 Luxray2014 I only asked for the notes because I don't know anything about music theory

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2023.05.25 22:39 psshdjndofnsjdkan 230526 Haruto's replies under his post compilation

i've been refreshing his post every once in a while bc his replies are hilarious so i decided to (try and) compile them all
i'm gonna try to do this in chronological order but it might not be perfect
👤: Nct Japan needs you
tru
👤: [ngl i don't feel like typing their comment all out but tl;dr they saw haruto in the prerecording for supercharger and at kuanrui's fancafe event]
omg I remember you !
👤: [gif of yang jun clapping during his hot performance]
I used to be his roommate for like 3 days
👤: i think u left smth behind 👉👑 here u are
I prefer a tiara but that can do
👤: Is it true that you are now a new member of lesserafim?
that's fbi kinda info how did u—
👤: you're such a slow typer
I'm working on it
👤: no but how did you manage to get THIS username u r incredible
ikr I was like insta really gonna let me ??? ok—
👤: that shitty company didn't deserve you BETTER OPPORTUNITIES WILL ARRIVE SOON‼️‼️
why does this comment have so many likes lol i mean I clicked too but—
👤: haruto im here commenting for a reply during math lecture PLS
sure why not
👤: haruto you SUPER what?
🔌
👤: your debut in besserafim when
tell me
👤: ruto did we scare you off of twitter 😭
no i was lured even more
👤: Actually omg why are you up so late friend
idk people losing their minds about me starting insta again is kinda entertaining lol
👤: haruto accept this ring will you 💍
i'm taken
👤: HARUTO, HURRY UP, SOMEONE IS TAKING OUR HUSBAND AWAY.
our?
👤: I hope this doesn't mean you'll stop trying to become an idol..😢 The stage needs you 🤧🤧🤧 just know we'll support you and whatever decision you make ❣️
nope
👤: haruto when is the insta live so you can spill the tea 🍵
omg that is a good idea it's been so long ever since I was last here I forgot such a thing existed
👤: Last question: I NEED to know your favorite Pokémon
kangaskhan
👤: 너바께없어🥹🥹🥹💓💓💓💓
wait I recognize are you Olivia from the cafe last week?
👤: YOU ARE A BIRD HARUTO, NOW FLYYYTTTT
aight
👤: HARUTO YOU'RE A BIRD 🐦😢
I love how that became a meme I was super hyper that day lol
👤: I wanna sleep but i feel like you're coming again should i wait or sleep
you have summoned me
👤: WAIT BRO ISNT IT LIKE SUPER LATE AT NIGHT
yeah it's 5am but these comments are cheering me up 🥲🥹😭😭
👤: what happened to 10pm bedtime king
todays a special day it's independence day
👤: haruto are you still in touch with seunghwan :(( do you guys talk
yeah fact is we were close from loud so when I saw him at bp I was like 👀👀 wtf why u here?! Lol
👤: I LITERALLY JUST WOKE UP WHAT 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️
morning
👤: are u not replying to any of the dance battle comments on purpose🤨🤨
you caught me I just don't know if I'm allowed
👤: haruto im your sleep paralysis demon watch out
RYOUIKI TENKAI!
👤: [supercharger lyrics]
the good times...
👤: BALD HARUTO WHEN ?
WAT
👤: [long comment in japanese but tl;dr they've been rooting for haruto since loud and they'll continue to support him]
(in japanese) please!
👤: now debut with NINTYSIX
if only 😢
👤: a place just opened up in nct why do i kinda see the vision hold on
that's what I was thinking yesterday but we'll see
👤: what time is it in ur place bro
5:33am I love reading comments and feeling loved lol
👤: so we lost you to university or?
nah I'm a really good multitasker so
👤: Haruto I beg you join redstarz I swearrrr u will be loveddd thereeee
I'm already loved there
👤: haruto please reply it'll be a dream come true really
BOOM dream come true
👤: PLAYING SUPERCHARGER AT FULL VOLUME IN CELEBRATION RN 🔥
SUPERCHARGER SUPER SUPERCHARGER
👤: ok haruto we need to see you and matthew acting tho why did they cut it 🤨🤨 were u too good?
maybe we were actually pretty good I'd say
update: i think he finally went to bed lol so that's it for now!
update 2: babe wake up new haruto replies just dropped
👤: WAIT HARUTO WHATS YOUR SUBWAY ORDER? IM AT WORK RN AND I WANNA MAKE IT
turkey with olive oil oh and flat bread is a must I love chewy
👤: but tell me you did eat hanbin up on the dance battle didnt you
ye
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2023.05.25 22:25 the_angriest_bird Dev Diary #37: Слово "дневник" и слово "обнова" для вас означает... Одно и тоже

Dev Diary #37: Слово
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. Time to talk about Russia. That is coming out on Saturday with v1.8.3.

https://i.redd.it/9f5musk2e12b1.gif
Hey! It’s Heastel, your local Russian, and I’m here to present you with a diary about (obviously) Russia! Russia already had a focus tree, but we did its overhaul, and that is what I want to show you guys.
First, Russia starts the new millennium in a state of war. However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian military has not recovered its previous might.
Outdated Army
The airforce doesn’t feel good either.
Outdated Airforce
These problems can be solved by several reforms implemented in the early 00s. However, it’s a hard thing to do.
The Russian economy isn’t doing well too, and you will have to solve that to bring back the might of Russia.
https://preview.redd.it/dd0w38v1d12b1.png?width=439&format=png&auto=webp&s=f517d6f1f1f6e3be193d6bbb10bf21ca3427f816
You can also go the historical (the notorious Vladimir) path, with the opportunity to choose which political powers will dominate in the Kremlin. It involves either stepping on the oligarchs or creating a full oligarch state!

https://preview.redd.it/mpwrmhe3d12b1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=5265eb3a11ee6e2dcebd33557de50cd84d6c1934
Or even choose the radical paths of nationalism and communism? It is always good to return to the previous ideologies and avoid making the same mistakes (or doing them again)

https://preview.redd.it/jqtm3ct3d12b1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=b23604e2babf3006966530195e05916c34c7862d

https://preview.redd.it/xr5vxi64d12b1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=0cbafdb361f74d1156364dfcfc2b34db717f88c7

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Sometimes, you can even do a mix of these.

https://preview.redd.it/bpmbmm15d12b1.png?width=433&format=png&auto=webp&s=77b326be5d89e8ffadff3713a1a9412375a1d692
After fixing the internal problems, Russia can finally look abroad! And, of course, not with just boring intentions. Depending on your chosen path, you can silently eliminate all of your competitors by expanding your economic and political influence.

https://preview.redd.it/g13464m5d12b1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=37b13b02e59ea39cf27bb1473c779b27e84e5f12
Or do the traditional “funny Russian” way of becoming influential!

https://preview.redd.it/9nbcno46d12b1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=a546da4f869dbc4ef9ed9d70be8b8ed1a1bef6aa
In the previous tree, though, you couldn’t change the path throughout your game, but now it is possible. You can go with simple elections (if you haven’t suspended them already) or something more interesting…

https://preview.redd.it/dv2pugd8d12b1.png?width=489&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e60fadc3cbd2533279d396c5d24637a4b41d909
Hopefully, there’s a lot of content you can try except the path you chose first.
Very yes very tree
Made by heastel, f_ritz, alexmarkel0v, crocomoth, BoNDeX ,LordBogdanoff, Reid and BirdyBoi
Thanks for reading our dev diary. Saturday, Russia comes for you to enjoy!
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2023.05.24 17:00 _call-me-al_ [Wed, May 24 2023] TL;DR — This is what you missed in the last 24 hours on Reddit

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worldnews

Shell’s annual shareholder meeting in London descended into chaos with more than an hour of climate protests delaying the start of a meeting in which investors in the oil company rejected new targets for carbon emissions cuts
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France bans short-haul domestic flights in bid to reduce carbon emissions
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Netherlands will hold 3M liable for PFAS "forever chemicals" in Westerschelde
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news

E. Jean Carroll adds Trump’s post-verdict remarks to defamation case, seeks at least $10M
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Do not call: States sue telecom company over billions of robocalls
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Donald Trump criminal trial is set for March 2024; judge informs Trump what he can't say about hush money case CNN Politics
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science

New research shows that the 1987 global treaty, designed to protect the ozone layer, has postponed the occurrence of the first ice-free Arctic by as much as 15 years
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A new study shows that Alzheimer’s model mice exposed to 40 Hz vibration an hour a day for several weeks showed improved brain health and motor function compared to untreated controls
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Mice breathing only 11% oxygen — equivalent to the base camp of Mount Everest — live 50 percent longer than those kept at ambient levels: Hypoxia extends lifespan and neurological function in a mouse model of aging
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space

Virgin Orbit shuts down after selling assets in bankruptcy auction
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A Mission to Uranus Could Help Find Planet 9
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It's hard to imagine how old the universe is, so we built a scale model of time.
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Futurology

More than two dozen cities and states are suing Big Oil over climate change – they just got a boost from the US Supreme Court
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France bans domestic short-haul flights where train alternatives exist, in a bid to cut carbon emissions.
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Biodiversity: Almost half of animals in decline, research shows.
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AskReddit

What's the worst thing you can say in an elevator full of people?
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Why cheat when you can leave the relationship?
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If you were to eat the same thing for breakfast every morning what would it be?
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todayilearned

TIL the cookies that Cookie Monster eats are just painted rice cakes. Real cookies would damage the puppet because of the grease.
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TIL A Japanese YouTuber sparked outrage from viewers in 2021 after he apparently cooked and ate a piglet that he had raised on camera for 100 days. This despite the fact that the channel's name is called “Eating Pig After 100 Days“ in Japanese.
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TIL the navigator Henry Hudson was cast adrift by mutineers, along with his son and six others in 1611, in Hudson Bay. They were never seen again.
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dataisbeautiful

[OC] Visualising China's export and import in 2022
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How Many Humans Have Ever Lived?
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[OC] A 3D visual mapping -- and flythrough -- of a human brain.
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Cooking

Is it worth buying the more expensive bottles of soy sauce?
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I find most Western style curry powders to taste overwhelmingly of turmeric. So after experimenting I now mix my curry powder with Garam Masala and I really love this mix, so much more flavorful.
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What’s your cooking “secret weapon”? Mines preserved lemon .
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food

[I ate] a foot long hot dog with Old Bay chips
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[homemade] Chicken noodle soup!
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[homemade] Breaded chicken sandwich with refried beans, queso, pickled red onions, tomatoes, and avocado.
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movies

Netflix Launches Paid Sharing in U.S., Will Start Blocking Users With Unauthorized Passwords
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The new "Max" streaming service doesn't credit the director and writer
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Jay Baruchel on His ‘Stupid’ Attempt to Become a Movie Star
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Art

My kids by the river, phamtuanminhmeo - me, Oil on canvas, 2023
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Edgedancer, Michael Whelan, Acrylic on Gessoboard, 2002
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Iridescence, pyromaggot, pixel art, 2023
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television

Max Removes Adult Swim Classic 'Space Ghost Coast to Coast' Amid Rebranding
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Netflix Launches Paid Sharing in U.S., Will Start Blocking Users With Unauthorized Passwords
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Steve Burns Solves a 'Blue's Clues' Mystery in New 'Blue's Clues & You!' Episode Written and Directed by the Former Star
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pics

USA's Anita Alvarez sank to the bottom of the pool, and her coach immediately dove in to save her.
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St. Liborius Church, purchased by skaters and turned into a dream park
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Sophie Wilson. She designed the architecture behind your phone’s CPU. She is also a trans woman.
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gifs

Some Yankees fans meet a squirrel
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Flowing Glitter
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Such a beautiful moment
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educationalgifs

The cardiac cycle
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Beans' tendrils slowly rotate to find solid supports to climb.
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mildlyinteresting

Ziploc now gives you fewer bags but puts them in a larger carton
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Dairy Queen sign informing people to not do drug deals in their parking lot.
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I found this box of fentanyl test strips in the local brewery’s bathroom
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interestingasfuck

Using my hand to demonstrate how mosquitoes use heat to track prey
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Tattoo that will give you a headache
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Two engineers sharing a hug atop a burning wind turbine during their final moments.
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funny

“I’m on top of the liquor” - Mr. Lahey
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IMHO, the most underrated scene in Scary Movie 😂
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I just Wile E. Coyote'd myself in the face with a dolly.
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aww

Did you know giant tortoises love head scratches?
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Thankfully I saved this little guy from my lawnmower today.
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View of dogs getting their picture taken mid-walk and the POV of their dog walker
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