to catch a king is to claim a kingdom. to claim a king means the forfeiture of all they are, sundered unto your hand. oh, what a game it would be, to win a king. but what monstrous game, that could be played, to be so won? let kings keep their kingdoms, it is easier than keeping a king ( Read more... )

Some women cannot understand the ways in which a lady may take a knight into her favor. Some of them watch from the side as he rides in favor of her name, in hopes of a kiss or a smile. But some knights find that a lady is like a king, and that sometimes, one's lady is a companion, not placed upon a lofty pedestal or in an observer's box, but ( Read more... )

My dreams are symbolic and colour-themed lately. They're mostly gray, gray like an ivory sky, dripping and drizzling with slow, dull rain. Rain, more rain, gray, dismal, and the shiftless, shapeless wars that I fight there mean almost as little as the rain itself ( Read more... )

( The right of kings, and the power dynamics of deliberate suffering. )

The skein of my life may be spun up before me. And, indeed, I know this to be so -- I have no more or less time than anyone else. The colour of my thread has been dyed before I was set into the world (and it is blue, moody, powerful, sad) but that does not mean I cannot fight to make my mark in the weaving what I want it to be ( Read more... )

In a foul mood. Not angry, just aggressive. Very aggressive. A bit like a cat feels, I imagine, when it's pissed off. I want what I want and I want it now and what I want is company, or a walk, or something suitable to burning off this ferocious urge to be terrible, and mighty, and dangerous ( Read more... )

I know a spell to acquit you of your curse of sadness, but I am afraid it will cost me dearly to set you free.

But I have that right.

I've grown as a person since I first heard this song. I don't know, I used to think the poem was pointlessly sad, you know, like "what the hell did she die for", but lately I've found myself thinking I know what she died for, and it wasn't a man ( Read more... )

It is the right of kings to pay for the life of another. It is the right of kings to make knights and lift them up. It is the right of kings to give life and to take it, to end life or preserve it. It is the right of kings to decide these things ( Read more... )

This icon makes me -very very happy-. I have not been this happy in ages. I feel light and carefree and aptly namedThis is one of only two titles that has made me feel like a complete picture. I wish the person who gave it to me knew how it made me feel. Come hell or high water I'll tell him soon enough, at any rate ( Read more... )