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icesalamander:

Huevember – Day 5.

“Sansa rode to the Hand’s tourney with Septa Mordane and Jeyne Poole, in a litter with curtains of yellow silk so fine she could see right through them. They turned the whole world gold.” ( A Game of Thrones – Sansa II )

icesalamander:

Huevember – Day 4.

Sansa is having a weird dream…

icesalamander:

Huevember – Day 3.

where-is-the-winds-of-winter:

Mya Stone & her mule

icesalamander:

Huevember – Day 2.

“Must!” She put her hand on his good leg, just above the knee. “A true man does what he will, not what he must.” Her fingers brushed lightly against his thigh, the gentlest of promises. ( A Game of Thrones – Eddard

XII )

The official chapter list for Fire and Blood has been released and all I can think is, THE HOUR OF THE WOLF BABEY!!!!

jodie-comers:

Dany stroked [Missandei’s] hair. “Say the word, my sweet, and I will send you from this awful place. I will find a ship somehow and send you home. To Naath.”

“I would sooner stay with you. On Naath I’d be afraid. What if the slavers came again? I feel safe when I’m with you.”

Safe. The word made Dany’s eyes fill up with tears. “I want to keep you safe.” Missandei was only a child. With her, she felt as if she could be a child too. (A Dance with Dragons, Daenerys II)

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nobodysuspectsthebutterfly:

joannalannister:

I wanted to make a list for myself of some of the various types of alcohol in ASOIAF (ABV = alcohol by volume, as measured in RL, which may not be indicative of the fantasy equivalents)

beer (2%-12% ABV)

mead (8%-16% ABV)

wine (9%-16% ABV)

strongwine / fortified wine (15% – 20% ABV)

spiced liqueur from Qarth, served in tall fluted glasses (15%-55% ABV)

brandy from Tyrosh (35%-60% ABV)

rum from the Summer Isles (37.5%-80% ABV)

(assuming absinthe is similar to) Shade of the Evening (45% – 90% ABV)

Other things in the category of “Just fuck me up”

myrish firewine – this person suggested it might be something like tequila with peppers, if so (30% – 60% ABV)

milk of the poppy / opiate / morphine

dreamwine – wine with sweet sleep (narcotic sedative)

I think dreamwine is wine + milk of the poppy – it requires sweetening
with honey to taste good, which wouldn’t be the case with sweetsleep.
Also people are given cups of it night after night, which also wouldn’t be the case with
sweetsleep. I believe it’s GRRM’s equivalent of laudanum, opium dissolved in alcohol, which is very bitter.

Shade of the evening is much more hallucinogenic than absinthe ever was. I don’t think there’s any alcohol in it at all, it’s not said to be distilled. It may be based on salvia divinorum, or maybe the legendary soma. Though if it is based on salvia, it might be a tincture (which can increase the hallucinogenic effects), in which case there might be alcohol in it… but the ABV strength would be irrelevant to the effects of the plant itself.

More drugs and alcohol if you need them. (Um, not if you need them. If you need them for writing. You know what I mean.)