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My Queen.

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get to know me meme ♡ 2/5 favorite female characters: olivia benson (law and order: special victims unit)

you think i’m a bitch, don’t you? you’re not the first.

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This is also the difference between Hannibal with an audience and Hannibal with only Will. But no, Hannibal isn't scared of death or physical pain. Living without Will, though? "well the only solution is to turn myself in and hope he'll visit me one day"

It just hit me so hard that Hannibal was having the time of his life in Digestivo after being kidnapped and trussed up like livestock, yet was broken to the point of surrender by a few soft, cruel words from the mouth of the man he loves. While being threatened with a slow and painful death he was the happiest duckling imaginable; and while that mostly has to do with the fact that he’s, well, Hannibal, and ticked just about every box in his Super Fun Murder Times book, and also he still managed to maintain his dominance and control while naked and bound on his knees, there is a startling contrast between his emotional state before escaping with Will in his arms and after, when Will breaks up with him.

I mean, this is Hannibal’s face after Cordell explains how he is going to prepare his hands and feet for consumption:

and this is Hannibal’s face as Will tells him he never wants to see or think about him again:

And while Hannibal certainly doesn’t have a traditional perspective on life and death, I think it’s safe to say that for him the idea of continuing his life without Will in it is worse than the most painful of deaths.

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Hannibal: Will Graham is not a lesbian. Margot: He sure made a go at it.

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Achilles wished all Greeks would die so that he and Patroclus could conquer Troy alone.

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Didn’t I?

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Betrayal and forgiveness are best seen as something akin to falling in love.

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make me choose: daniels-gillies asked: will graham or marcus kane

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See, this is all I ever wanted for you, Will.

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“Strange seeing you here in front of me. Been staring at afterimages of you in places you haven't been in years. I wanted to understand you before I laid eyes on you again. I needed it to be clear… what I was seeing.”

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The moment i fell in love with Arya

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Hello. So, I know it's been a while since @hellsbellschime was discussed, but if you don't mind, I have a lot of tea I want to spill on her, because she just continues to show her true colors and ignorance. And it's just ridiculous how she loves to play the victim when she gets called out and refers to the people who call her out as "trolls in the dungeon." Also, this is gonna be a bit lengthy, so I apologize in advance for that.

The first point I want to make about her involves the topic of politics and the president and the current crisis with Palestine and Israel. So, I hope you don't mind, because it's a perfect example of how ignorant she is and just what kind of person she is. All I can say is this girl has no business discussing politics or anything related to Palestine and Israel, because she clearly has no freaking clue about either matter. I mean, the way she worships the ground Joe Biden walks on and swears up and down he's doing such a great job is beyond baffling. And when I pointed out how women's rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and basic human rights in general have been under attack since he's been president, how bills and laws have passed around left and right stripping people of their rights little by little, as well as the reversal of Roe vs Wade, how poorly he's been handling the situation with Palestine and Israel, and that Biden should be held accountable for his mistakes the same way every other president has been called out, she decided to be nasty about it and say no and called me a troll for that.

I also have it understood that she's been called out for having Zionist views in the past. Even Twitter was dragging her at some point. She claims her views have changed, but they remain the same and as ignorant as they were before. And she keeps using the excuse that she doesn't know much about the topic and isn't as educated. But she's had plenty of time to educate herself and make herself aware of the situation. And at this point, she's choosing to be willfully ignorant and purposely ignore it, all because she doesn't want to hold the president accountable. Oh, and she accuses people who are pro Palestine of being antisemitic and hating Jewish people, uses antisemitism as a weapon to justify her ignorance.

I also remember sending her a message about the sexism and misogyny within the TVD fandom and pointing out how Caroline is often the brunt of that sexism and misogyny. And instead of simply telling me she doesn't want to talk about it, she was a complete bitch to me about it and brushed me off and brought up Paul Wesley dating a woman in her 20s, which had absolutely nothing to do with anything that I said. And she basically implied Paul is a creep and pedophile for that. But interesting how she says nothing whatsoever about Ian Somerhalder, who is a literal abuser that threw out Nikki Reed's birth control pills without her consent, so that she could get pregnant. In other words, she picks and chooses who should be called out and held accountable.

If she doesn't want to discuss TVD or TO anymore, then she should just say that. She doesn't have to be rude and dismissive to people who are just simply giving their opinions and takes. Or just delete asks about TVD and TO. She seems to think she's better than everyone and is some kind of expert and knows it all, just because she has a degree in film critics. And she had no problem whatsoever harassing Phoebe Tonkin and Leah Pipes relentlessly, all because she didn't like their characters and acting skills. And I remember back then, people had the audacity to blame Phoebe and Leah for all the hate they were receiving, because they knew what was being said about them and they spoke up about it. And honestly, good on Phoebe and Leah for calling @hellsbellschime and everyone else who was bullying them.

@hellsbellschime needs to just learn how to read them room, but it's doubtful she ever will, honestly. She can play the victim all she wants and make all the excuses she wants, but no one is blind to her BS. We all see right through her.

Hi nonnie! No problem at all. Honestly, I'm not interested in discussing this person because... well, engaging with her is just pointless as you say yourself. People who still agree blindly with someone who showed so many red flags must agree with those views, or are just willing to put up with anything as long as she says shit about Daenerys. On both cases, we can't do anything about it. I'm not gonna tell anyone what to do, but it seems every person who has tried talking to her has been called names so I would encourage encourage people to not engage. It's clearly what she wants. It doesn't mean you can't speak the truth elsewhere, of course - people who don't know yet can be warned this way and those are incredibly sensitive and important topics.

About TVD, I only knew of her bullying of Phoebe Tonkin. Ian Somerhalder has been saying shit for years - I absolutely love Damon and am so glad I can not think about him when I rewatch the show...

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Back from the dead, I guess? Ever since I moved to the countryside, a little more than a year ago, I've been doing better. Things are different here, as well as people, and I haven't missed tumblr drama even though there are also wonderful and interesting posts and people here. Am I back? Yes and no. I'm definitely not interested in any House of the Dragon discourse anymore. I'm not even interested in posting about A Song of Ice and Fire again, not yet. It doesn't mean I'm leaving fandoms, just putting my mental health first.

On another topic, I finally watched the TV show Hannibal in January and holy hell. This is one of the best shows ever, with an amazing creator and a great fandom, making me even less interested in talking about GOT and HOTD. No one is arguing about murder husbands. Go watch this show and spread the love.

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Fuck this misogynistic fandom

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Ser Jorah lowered his eyes respectfully. Illyrio smiled enigmatically and tore a wing from the duck. Honey and grease ran over his fingers and dripped down into his beard as he nibbled at the tender meat. There are no more dragons, Dany thought, staring at her brother, though she did not dare say it aloud.

Yet that night she dreamt of one. Viserys was hitting her, hurting her. She was naked, clumsy with fear. She ran from him, but her body seemed thick and ungainly. He struck her again. She stumbled and fell. “You woke the dragon,” he screamed as he kicked her. “You woke the dragon, you woke the dragon.” Her thighs were slick with blood. She closed her eyes and whimpered. As if in answer, there was a hideous ripping sound and the crackling of some great fire. When she looked again, Viserys was gone, great columns of flame rose all around, and in the midst of them was the dragon. It turned its great head slowly. When its molten eyes found hers, she woke, shaking and covered with a fine sheen of sweat. She had never been so afraid …… 

until the day of her wedding came at last. (AGOT Dany II) 

Dany has her first prophetic dragon dream before her wedding day. She dreams about Viserys abusing her like he always does, of blood between her thighs (early foreshadowing for her miscarriage of Rhaego), and of a great dragon, emerging from a crackling fire. 

I did wait. For my crown, for my throne, for you. All those years, and all I ever got was a pot of molten gold. Why did they give the dragon’s eggs to you? They should have been mine. If I’d had a dragon, I would have taught the world the meaning of our words. Viserys began to laugh, until his jaw fell away from his face, smoking, and blood and molten gold ran from his mouth.

When she woke, gasping, her thighs were slick with blood. (ADWD Dany X) 

When Dany miscarries a second time, she has a fever dream of Viserys screeching at her about betrayal, a reflection of her guilt at his death. This time, she actually does wake up with blood between her thighs, instead of just dreaming about it. In both dreams, Viserys appears and fades away before Dany wakes up, and in both dreams Dany feels the sensation of a miscarriage, with her second one being the actual miscarriage taking place. Her second miscarriage also happens before her second rebirth on the Dothraki sea. 

Viserys stood before her, screaming. “The dragon does not beg, slut. You do not command the dragon. I am the dragon, and I will be crowned.” The molten gold trickled down his face like wax, burning deep channels in his flesh. “I am the dragon and I will be crowned!” he shrieked, and his fingers snapped like snakes, biting at her nipples, pinching, twisting, even as his eyes burst and ran like jelly down seared and blackened cheeks.” (AGOT Dany IX)

Dany has fever dreams as she miscarries Rhaego, and those dreams include Viserys screaming at her, his eyes bursting and running down his face. This is the same imagery of Viserys in her fever dream that she has while miscarrying her second baby (likely a daughter), with his jaw falling from his smoking face and blood and gold oozing from his mouth. Thighs slick with blood are associated with miscarriages. Both miscarriages are spurred on or catalyzed by betrayal, which is why Dany dreams of Viserys in both contexts, because he betrayed her, and she still feels regret over his death. 

I also find it interesting that Viserys shows up in both dreams because Dany was raised to believe that she might have married him if they grew up normally in Westeros, because Dany saw him as her rightful king, and because Dany wanted her brother to be her hero, and he could not fulfill that. Motherhood is influenced by the mother’s experiences. Dany wants to be the kind of mother she never had, the kind of ruler Robert could never be, and the kind of protector to her children that Viserys couldn’t be for her. This is probably why Viserys keeps appearing in conjunction with her guilt and her rebirths and her miscarriages. He is a reminder of what she could never have, and what she now can give to her people and her children. 

Dany is the child of three, as stated by the Undying. She’s had two unhappy marriages, two traumatizing and ultimately unsuccessful pregnancies, and two rebirths, both contextualized by blood between her thighs and fevered dreams of Viserys disappearing and Viserys melting and Viserys yelling at her. No one can convince me that this set up isn’t deliberate––that GRRM isn’t intentionally creating a parallel of threes so that Dany will one day have a successful pregnancy and marriage, and give birth to a child who survives and whom she can love the way Viserys never loved her. 

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Reddit, where most people love their Dark!Dany foreshadowing, defend slavers by saying how cruel and bloodthirsty she was to kill them? Yes, excellent source, way more reliable than the books. Daenerys has stopped caring about fighting slavery? When? She came to terms with the fact the peace in Meereen was false and that fire and blood was necessary to fight it. You’re literally making her last ADWD chapter into something it isn’t, like every anti Dany.

A little disclaimer: It has been a time, about a year, since I last read A Dance with Dragons — thus about a year since I last read Dany's chapters. Please bear with me. I am not even sure fellow stans will agree wholly with me.

Many have analysed Dany's arc in A Dance with Dragons in the light of a supposed internal (and why not external) war versus peace conflict. Pointedly her antis.

In my opinion, though, that's not an accurate assessment of her arc in ADWD, because what Dany strives is peace. Period. There is no conflict here, because Dany herself rules out the option of war (and violence).

When she takes Meereen, she takes the political decision of staying and ruling, thus securing the safety and freedom of the freedmen. She does not want it to go the way of Astapor and Yunkai. Yet ruling is tricky, for Meereen's economy and politics have a deeply ingrained slaver roots. The nobility will not stand by and lose their power and wealth. They take reactionary actions against Dany's rule and reforms. A war in the shadows against the freedmen and the abolitionist policies.

As the queen, Dany has a duty to her people: to offer justice, freedom and peace. That sums up pretty well her goals in Meereen. To achieve these goals, at first Dany tries to adapt. She makes concessions. She marries Hizdahr, a nobleman that promises stability and peace in Meereen, though in her own terms. However, that does not come without a cost. Dany despises the slaver culture and symbols around Meereen. And making those concessions disturb her. Thus, what we really have in her ADWD arc is a duty versus wants conflict. She wants to abolish slavery in its totality, yet she finds herself having to compromise in order to keep a semblance of justice, freedom and peace in Meereen.

Compromising with the meereenese nobility can only take her so long in her goals, because as we have established, they will react in order to keep the status quo. The apex of her arc is Dany realising this truth. She can compromise no more of she wants justice, freedom and peace in Meereen.

Daario is an interesting character to analyse in this context, even though I admittedly dislike him. He proposes violent measures against the meereenese nobility (which Dany remarkably rejects, by the way. Many have said, therefore, he represents war, whilst Hizdahr represents peace. They are supposedly the embodiment of the supposed war versus peace conflict (yes, I am being repetitive). That could not be further from the truth. Hizdahr is duty, with his promise of peace. Daario is love and longing for a simpler life. A duty versus love conflict, then.

Dany is a very duty-driven character. Missing out on this fact can lead, in my opinion, to misunderstandings about her arc and its nuances. At the end of A Dance with Dragons, she reaches a very climatic moment in her journey. No more she can compromise with the very thing she has been fighting against if she wants to do her duty to her people. It is a change in the means to an end, so to say.

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Okay, what makes you think about Sansa and this passage from ACOK - Sansa I when you read the post about Ned’s temper, how he insulted the King, how he tried to murder LF because he thought he had insulted his wife, etc?

Joffrey frowned. Sansa felt that she ought to say something. What was it that Septa Mordane used to tell her? A lady’s armor is courtesy, that was it. She donned her armor and said, “I’m sorry my lady mother took you captive, my lord.”

Ned is wild. No, seriously.

He's constantly in a fury or his temper is noted as rising or he's going cold with anger

He's constantly voicing his distaste for people with only the barest filter

He tried to murder Littlefinger in broad daylight in full view of witnesses bc he thought LF had insulted Cat

He repeatedly insults and challenges Robert, often in front of rooms full of people

No, but for real, he insults Robert's masculinity at least twice and gets away with it

He's stubborn as hell

He tells the king that he's too fat to fit into his armor in front of his squires and the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard

He disobeys his king a couple times and even tells him what he should and shouldn't be doing

He flips like a switch and goes into a rage at the mention of Jorah who he wants to kill

And I can go on and on. Ned is considered passive, but he's a pretty strong personality. He just happens to be surrounded by other strong personalities like Cat, Robert, Arya, and Littlefinger so it's easy to overlook.