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the Gwayne and Criston scene was just. Look man I was trying to act normal by making brash paternalistic threats about the virtue of my sister who I haven’t seen in 20 years and expressed her unhappiness to me so I figured I could try to fix the problem with violence as is expected of me as a chivalrous lordling but you started monologuing about the futility of existence and how being raised as a soldier in a feudal system means dehumanization because we are all acting as cogs for a machine which can only be lubricated with blood and which offers brutality as both punishment and reward and thus cannot be used as a moral guide and as a man who fills a very similar role to yours I have never considered this and I don’t want to and actually you’re such a fucking bummer it seems crueler to let you live so if you must keep sniffing my sister’s underwear do it somewhere else. Asshole.
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Gwayne spent like a week at most in the red keep and then thought “this place is toxic as fuck I think I’m going to go back to battle and possibly die for the sake of my mental health”
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you're serving. your father is unemployed and you're serving
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I fear nobody will ever be able to match the dead stare standard criston has managed to set this season. gwayne accused him of fucking his sister and he said alicent is the Virgin Mary i keep trying to kill myself and she won’t let me. btw i hope we both die. and then he looked at him like this
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She did it right there out on the deck Put her canine teeth in the side of my neck.
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I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.
Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.
It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.
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Team Black this, Team Green that!
You bolt awake at Ashford Meadow. It is 209 AC. You are Raymun Fossoway. The past does not matter, but the future honor of House Fossoway does. Your rotten cousin must be struck down.
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Ive seen people be like in modern fantasy like "oh the pritagonists can just look up spells on their phone how do you solve that"
Imma be honest most people who go on recipe websites and book every recipe they see don't even use them lmao why would with be different
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Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I hate it when people say Merlin and Arthur are black cat × golden retriever (respectively), because have you seen Arthur?? That's the most cat-coded human I have ever seen.
He's weird about touching and emotions, he's bratty and arrogant, and he thinks he can beat big scary monsters all by himself—exactly like those videos of orange cats attacking bigger animals.
I headcanon him as a pretty blond cat whose owner spends a lot of money on him, basically living like The Aristocats movie.
And for Merlin, he's a frail-looking street dog that someone thinks is so adorable and takes pity on him, so they adopt him.
He's friendly, loyal, and his owner swears the dog doesn't bite (he hunts 'bad' humans and sometimes eats their flesh), but his owner doesn't know, so it doesn’t count. Also something about Merlin still waiting for Arthur to return for 1500+ years is too similar to Hachi the dog who waited by the train station for his owner until the day he died.
But in this case the dog is unfortunately immortal, so I guess he will wait forever.
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You know what I want out of a Buffy reboot? I want a trans slayer. I want someone assigned male at birth but pre-transition to show up with all the slayer abilities and everyone to be like “a boy slayer wtf???!!!” and then she’s like “oh I’m a trans woman” and everyone is like “ohhhhh.” I want the slayer line to transcend biology and genetics. I want slayer powers to be something so innate that it’s tied into one’s own gender identity. Please. Give me a trans slayer.
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