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Delenn

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  1. I know, you never intended to be in this world. But you’re in it all the same. So why not get started immediately. I mean, belonging to it. There is so much to admire, to weep over. And to write music or poems about. Bless the feet that take you to and fro. Bless the eyes and the listening ears. Bless the tongue, the marvel of taste. Bless touching. You could live a hundred years, it’s happened. Or not. I am speaking from the fortunate platform of many years, none of which, I think, I ever wasted. Do you need a prod? Do you need a little darkness to get you going? Let me be as urgent as a knife, then, and remind you of Keats, so single of purpose and thinking, for a while, he had a lifetime. ~Mary Oliver (Book: Blue Horses)
  2. *said around a mouthful of chocolate covered marshmallows* Wait what happened the last time an Ashaman was fed sugar exactly? 🤨
  3. Dear Narg, Our cat has begun laying stretched out full length between my partner and I on the couch, pushing me over to the cushion at the end of the couch. She's very scrawny and won't taste all that nice... What should we do? Del~ the Sparkliest Trolloc
  4. *passes the PG13 sign on the way in* Going back a bit. I think this storyline is going to point the focus on a more intense issue in Perrin regarding whether he can control his temper and emotions around Faile, who does test him constantly. This will be especially highlighted after the set up with his wife at the start. The conflict between if he can trust himself with expressing his feelings as intensely as he wants to and the fear he constantly has of harming her will really become focused in his story now. But to her credit, I also don't think Faile is acting just to provoke him for no reason. I think the deeper issue is she wants to see something in him other than a suffering, brooding victim ~ which will now be particularly intense. Later, she starts to want someone who can match her. She's going to lead and in one form or another she needs a partner who can stand with her. She sees the potential in Perrin to be a great leader and sets out to bring that out in him and uses everything at her disposal to nurture it. Of course those are also some of the same qualities that are attractive to her in the first place but she also won't be giving her heart to someone who isn't strong enough to hold it and keep it safe, while still managing to respect her (as she is constantly demanding with her knives). As far as Berelain/Perrin/Faile. Yes, this is used to show Faile's personal issues around jealousy but also shows that Perrin doesn't quite know how to actually reach out and clearly grasp and choose what he wants. It's even taken to the extreme with the dream trap where he has to literally throw himself at the hedgehog and grab it to go after Faile. So while he might hold his limits with Berelain, he doesn't allow himself to then truly turn to Faile and make her feel wanted. And while this bothers her on a personal level it becomes even more of an issue in the need to have a man at her side who can lead with her, rather than just being dragged along. And it also shows that Berelain, who's main draw is men who have the ability to be politically powerful, sees that in Perrin as well. And in defense of Berelain ~ She has a country to run and advisors and others who seek to run her. Why wouldn't she want the most powerful person around to help her regain control? RJ seemed to want to use relationships to stimulate the best in people. He wanted to build partnerships that showed how complimentary various relationships could be with different types of power balances within them, and even how that dynamic could move without it being harmful to either party. I think it's why he only hinted at the ultimate power couple in the books. Rand and Berelain. He's the Dragon Reborn. She's got power, money, resources and the knowledge to rule taught to her from an incredibly young age. Together, she insulates him from Lanfear and Aes Sedai and he frees her to rule. But that takes away all the other interesting dynamics that RJ liked to explore in writing relationships, in general. He may not have always written the best love scenes themselves and the awkwardness can be a little bit too awkward sometimes but the concepts he presented were ahead of their time.
  5. Someone please post sigs that have nothing to do with me before this is really just the "Who is Del" thread! Edit: Oh Light, Top! rofl
  6. Thank you so much, Cross! Both for this lovely idea and for helping us send our very own DM Valentines. And for the perfect image and lovely message! 🤍🤎 I wish it wasn't done. I had more to send! Cairos, Dar'Jen, Eirik, Boopsy, Seb, so many others 🤍 .... I will be quicker next year!
  7. Oh! I know! But I can't run a game.... This should do it... Could I have a B please?
  8. I think the mystery is likely as simple as my account got deleted for space during one of the great migrations. lol At least SD managed to restore the vast majority of emails people sent me! 🤍 I have those going all the way back to 2007. And there is still a join date for me in the MoN books.
  9. LoL I was referring to my favorite eyebrow suddenly appearing. Wait.. It's not Delenn?
  10. Actually, I am pretty sure I made them for all the full ranked Warder's that wanted them at the time and gave them each the .gif so they could insert it in their sigs. So it's possible they are out there. They were the shifting cloak sigs back around 2007. I made more than a few for different people and gave them the image. I can't even remember my old photobucket sign-in. Though I did find a picture that I'd put up from it in an old archived thread. Had the whole photobucket will delete across it but... And SD 🤍
  11. That wasn't my fault! I didn't realize 20 people loading pages with those at the same time would overload the server. 😅
  12. I am hoping someone has some of the ones I made for them way back when... Especially if someone still has one of those shifting Warder cloak sigs I made once.... ? 😁
  13. Oooh! *feels her inner sparkly trolloc come out and pounces on all the chocolate*
  14. Hello! Could I have an L please?
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