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"Why shouldn't I marry Cersei openly and share her bed every night? The dragons always married their sisters. Septons, lords, and smallfolk had turned a blind eye to the Targaryens for hundreds of years, let them do the same for House Lannister. It would play havoc with Joffrey's claim to the crown, to be sure, but in the end it had been swords that had won the Iron Throne for Robert, and swords could keep Joffrey there as well, regardless of whose seed he was. We could marry him to Myrcella, once we've sent Sansa Stark back to her mother. That would show the realm that the Lannisters are above their laws, like gods and Targaryens."
-- A Storm of Swords, by George R. R. Martin
A recurring plot point in several plot bunnies I am too lazy and / or shy to write. As well as one I'm currently writing, but that's for a fandom where the wincest is canon. Beside the personal turn on, there's the Übermensch-ish bit that fascinates me -- though it stradles the line between Übermensch and a Byronic Hero / The Unfettered, two of my favourite character archetypes: the difference being that the Byronic hero has various additional traits; and that his choice is driven by sexual desire and/or stubbornness, whereas the Übermensch does it just because, to reassert his superiority. You see how much the archetypes overlap.
For some reason, both archetypes are usually male. It might be interesting to see an example where the male archetype does his thing only to be refused by his sister -- in the example I cite, Jaime/Cersei from A Song of Ice and Fire, their relationship practically ends when she ridicules and humiliates him after he proposes to her; but she is unable to comprehend. They then proceed to have sex over the corpse of their eldest son. She was always a bit of a bitch. (The order may differ, it's been a while since I read the books.) Here, however, I'd say it's mostly due to Cersei being a paranoid wreck. Personally, I'd like to see an example of the above where the sister refuses for practical / political reasons (this type of pairing almost always takes place in spheres of power, often in a time of chaos).
-- A Storm of Swords, by George R. R. Martin
A recurring plot point in several plot bunnies I am too lazy and / or shy to write. As well as one I'm currently writing, but that's for a fandom where the wincest is canon. Beside the personal turn on, there's the Übermensch-ish bit that fascinates me -- though it stradles the line between Übermensch and a Byronic Hero / The Unfettered, two of my favourite character archetypes: the difference being that the Byronic hero has various additional traits; and that his choice is driven by sexual desire and/or stubbornness, whereas the Übermensch does it just because, to reassert his superiority. You see how much the archetypes overlap.
For some reason, both archetypes are usually male. It might be interesting to see an example where the male archetype does his thing only to be refused by his sister -- in the example I cite, Jaime/Cersei from A Song of Ice and Fire, their relationship practically ends when she ridicules and humiliates him after he proposes to her; but she is unable to comprehend. They then proceed to have sex over the corpse of their eldest son. She was always a bit of a bitch. (The order may differ, it's been a while since I read the books.) Here, however, I'd say it's mostly due to Cersei being a paranoid wreck. Personally, I'd like to see an example of the above where the sister refuses for practical / political reasons (this type of pairing almost always takes place in spheres of power, often in a time of chaos).
War ... war never changes.
~sumenya (https://www.deviantart.com/sumenya) is evil.
1. If you got offered a free holiday to anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Venice :)
2. Coffee or tea? What kind?
Water, sparkling.
3. What's your favourite BioWare romance?
BethanyEither FemShep x Garrus Vakarian or Male!Inquisitor x Ashara Zavros
4. Which historical event would you like to witness?
The Holocene Uh, the first mission of Francis Xavier to Japan or Gutenberg's printing press.
5. Robots: cute or scary? (Or something else? All robot opinions welcome.)
Depends on the robot, I guess? They range from cute to uncanny to industrial.
6. Which Mass Effect 3 ending do you prefer?
Destroy. Contr
Qual honor di te fia degno ...
Here's some baseless speculation on the next Mass Effect (which, we know, won't be called that way).
Setting. Prequel, sidequel or sequel? All three have their own problems. They're largest in a direct sequel: no matter one's personal opinion of the endings of Mass Effect 3, all of them have a tremendous impact on Earth, humanity and the galaxy as a whole. The differences between them are so vast that accounting for all possibilities would be a considerable effort for Bioware, and of course directly invalidate the Refusal ending (your Shepard refused to fire the Crucible? Tough job! Your game's going to be spent on the run from the Reapers a
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I was not-tagged by kamiiyu (https://www.deviantart.com/kamiiyu) -- won't tag anyone else, naturally, because that's always annoying. Leave me to my social apathy, dammit.
Rules~
1) Write down every letter in your first name
2) Write down a song that pops into your head beginning with each letter.
3) Count the number of letters and TAG that many people. (if you want)
B -- Bella figlia d'amore (from Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi)
E -- Empio diro tu sei! (from Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Georg Friedrich Händel)
N -- Nothung, Nothung, neidliches Schwert! (from Siegfried, Richard Wagner)
That's a bit little, innit? I don't know any songs that begin with a hyphen, so here
Questo e un nodo avvilupatto
REALISING that this journal has been sorely ignored,
RECOGNISING that it would be beneficial for the informational value of this site to update it,
DETERMINED to break with past habits and not neglect my online presence,
I am RESOLVED to state and declare to all and singular to whom these letters shall come the following:
Mass Effect is amazing. No, like, seriously. I spent some seven days doing virtually nothing else but play Mass Effect.
With that out of the way, there's some new work coming up any time between a few days and three months. Primarily I'm thinking of the next chapter of The Flight of the Eagle, featuring a dinner party a
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I'm currently reading Game of Thrones, it's interesting, and I gotta say, Jaime has gotten better while Cersei has only gotten worse and worse