She Splashed Noisily Through The Shallows And Threw Herself Into The Deeper Water, Her Legs Churning.

She splashed noisily through the shallows and threw herself into the deeper water, her legs churning. The current was strong but she was stronger. She swam, following her nose. The river smells were rich and wet, but those were not the smells that pulled her. She paddled after the sharp red whisper of cold blood, the sweet cloying stench of death. She chased them as she had often chased a red deer through the trees, and in the end she ran them down, and her jaw closed around a pale white arm. She shook it to make it move, but there was only death and blood in her mouth. By now she was tiring, and it was all she could do to pull the body back to shore. As she dragged it up the muddy bank, one of her little brothers came prowling, his tongue lolling from his mouth. She had to snarl to drive him off, or else he would have fed. Only then did she stop to shake the water from her fur. The white thing lay facedown in the mud, her dead flesh wrinkled and pale, cold blood trickling from her throat. Rise, she thought. Rise and eat and run with us.

Arya pg 889

As Nymeria In her wolf dream, Arya drags her mother's body out of the Trident. I’m quite pleased with this. I think what made it work for me was when I accepted Catelyn was nothing but a corpse. So, there was no need for Nymeria to be gentle in dragging her out of the water. campsite.

SUPERNATURAL -> 4x20 ❝ the rapture ❞ / 15x6 ❝ golden time ❞

Why Daenerys Targaryen and Cersei Lannister are foils + Relationship with the common people (4/?)

Cersei and Daenerys are intended as parallel characters – each exploring a different approach to how a woman would rule in a male dominated, medieval-inspired fantasy world.—GRRM

Unpopular opinion

I don't think Dean would ever call Sam "Baby". That's what he calls his car. But Dean 100% does have a pet name for Sam that means what fans seem to mean when they use the term baby in regards to Sam... Sammy.

When Dean says Sammy, he is referring to his baby brother.

Yep yep yep.

I remember when the #weirdchesters tag was floating around. (At the time I was on hiatus, so I was just perusing and observing.) It was a relief. That tag was approaching something defined within the fandom. You guys have finished drawing the boundary lines for us.

Thank you. 💐

Regarding your post about gencest/weirdcest, I just reblogged a post with those tags yesterday because I got confused and just could not tell the difference between them anymore. Your post probably wasn't about my tags (I promise I'm that that self absorbed that I think every post is about me I was just thinking about it when I saw your post) but please don't feel awkward about correcting someone if you see them using something incorrectly, I'd appreciate someone taking the time out of their day to correct me! <3

Eheh... I just don't wanna sound gatekeepy 😅 But thank you, I guess I should reach out to more people and let them know. Phyn has a pretty solid definition of things here but I'll give my two cents too while I'm here.

Gencest is where they're emotionally intense about each other and still platonic. They can be weird/obsessive but it's not always relevant and rarely goes beyond the emotional connection. (You can also shortcut to calling them qpr/life partners, even if that won't always apply in earlier seasons where they haven't quite realised it yet)

But if "physical affection =/= sexual intent" and "dedicated love =/= romance" and "kink =/= sex" then technically ANYTHING can be platonic...

(Indeed, the Platonic Sex tag on Ao3 has over 700 works. Sadly I never got around to my platonic sex fic for Sam and Dean 🙁)

So I wanted a term to refer to "Sam and Dean are platonic, but they end up doing kinky/sensual/sexual things with each other despite not being attracted to each other at all"

But I didn't want to use Gencest because no one is going into the Gencest tag looking for kink/smut and it would absolutely be annoying to people (I would personally hate it too). And I didn't want to use Wincest because I would be (and in fact, was) annoying people by constantly saying my ideas weren't Wincest*.

Then @prince-of-elsinore started the #weirdchesters tag, and from this post inspired "Weirdcest", which I kept as a tag and used to post non-sexual kink between Sam and Dean. and then it accidentally became an actual thing oh god

So I guess, in my eyes, Weirdcest is where they're platonic, they're not attracted/horny about each other, but they do cross lines into kink or sex, for whatever reasons.

* = At the end of the day some might look to my Weirdcest stuff and say it's just Wincest with the attraction part missing, and that's fine really, I've grown (read: calmed down... so much...) since 2021 and I don't mind what people call their own content or my own. The people who understand my "they're not attracted to each other" intent will get it, and everyone else can enjoy the oddly-restrained-horny content.

But if people are gonna use the Weirdcest tag I do hope it doesn't end up becoming redundant with Gencest/Wincest... There is overlap but I didn't use Gencest/Wincest on purpose 😅

“I am not a wolf, no matter what they call me.” Robb sounded cross. “Grey Wind killed a man at the Crag, another at Ashemark, and six or seven at Oxcross. If you had seen—”

— ASOS, Catelyn II

None of them wanted her around. They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry. I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all.

— ASOS, Arya XIII

The taste of hot blood filled Jon’s mouth, and he knew that Ghost had killed that night. No, he thought. I am a man, not a wolf. He rubbed his mouth with the back of a gloved hand and spat.

— ADWD, Jon III