#I’m still not over the house

[ixtaek]

I’m pretty convinced that Zelda pulled a Ravio on Link’s house post-BotW

“I dunno Link, it looked pretty vacant-ish”

[ophelieverse]

The symbolic bond between a dragon and its rider was something so beautiful and unique in this episode.

The exchanged looks between Meleys and Rhaenys really made me cry,especially the last one.It was like Meleys was trying to say “I did my best,everything that I could to keep you safe and I failed.I’m sorry,goodbye.”and Rhaenys answered “It’s alright.We did our best,together we fought and together we will go.Goodbye.”They belonged to each other,the hug before the war,and the way the Rhaenys would never leave her old girl made me cry.

Also the affectionate bond between Aegon and Sunfyre,really the only living being that shows him some love.The way Sunfyre nuzzled into Aegon chest as soon as they saw each other and the way Aegon smiled so much.Sunfyre who is still a baby in dragon years,that has never touched a battlefield but that tried his best and everything that he could to protect Aegon.Trying to run away from Meleys and sensing Aegon fear and panic.Using his wing to keep him safe from Vaghar fire and twisting himself so that he wouldn’t crush Aegon under him after they fell down.

Vaghar,the old war veteran lady,that couldn’t wait,just like Aemond,to get into the battlefield.It made me smile the way she “huffed” when Aemond told her to wait,that’s was very Visenya of her.Her and Aemond are just the same,literally made for each other.

The cgi in this episode was amazing and it broke my heart😭💔

[hellofellowneighborhoodnothings]

let him cook!!!

( may be hard to read, he’s saying: ‘wait!!! I got it now!! are you watching???’ )

[esouliie]

“evil witch” THIS IS MY LITTLE BABY HOW DARE YOU!!!😭😭😭

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

Why do you think the tides have slightly turned from "Elia deserves better than Rhaegar" to shipping her and Rhaegar together? Like what is the psychology behind these people because I've seen some of them like/reblog anti Rhaegar posts while also shipping Rhaegar x Elia at the same time.

hey anon! my thoughts are a bit messy, but i’ve done my best to explain them coherently :)

so, rhaegar was the best man anyone could have when elia was alive, and most people want the best for their favs. he was considered the most handsome, didn’t have a bad personality, and he was crown prince—meaning elia was almost queen, which is often seen as the greatest role a woman can have. the narrative also treats rhaegar as a beautiful, tragic, haunting figure, and elia actually had this very aesthetically pleasing man all to herself at one point! she was married to him, had children with him, and her life was so close to perfect! but rhaegar just had to go and ruin it. 😠

for many elia stans, if rhaegar hadn’t fallen in love with another woman (they want him to have been a completely different character), then everything would’ve been perfect, and elia would’ve had the best, most desirable life. however, that’s not what happened—elia met a very tragic end, and as a result, these stans feel double the bitterness. because of this bitterness, they blame rhaegar for everything (even though it’s not logical to do so), but he’s just too ‘perfect’ to let go of. so, for years these stans have made rhaegar revolve around elia, filling his tag with posts about her out of bitterness. so, i do believe that this obsession with rhaegar x elia has always been there, but i think it’s become a more favorable stance on the elia stan side of the fandom because of a mix of reasons.

plus, rhaegar is one of the few canon relationships we know elia had, since she’s not much of a character. because of this, and the fact that most people don’t like to stray too far from canon, most elia stans are forced to focus on rhaegar, which has created an echo chamber. basically, if a sentiment about elia and rhaegar’s relationship becomes popular, then the whole elia stan side of the fandom will likely regurgitate the sentiment. (also, this desire to stick close to canon is likely why the elia x arthur ship was so popular. while it’s a total crack ship, it had good aesthetics, and since elia and arthur at least knew each other, it allowed the stans to create their perfect fanfiction whilst sticking it to rhaegar. but remember, elia was actually married to rhaegar and had children with him, so while arthur is cool, rhaegar was always ‘top dog,’ meaning arthur would never be able to match up to rhaegar to most elia stans. also, the arthur x elia crack ship is likely her second most popular ship, which just shows how little elia stans have to work with, so they’re always forced to eventually return back to rhaegar for a lot of things.)

however, even if the elia x rhaegar ship gains more popularity, these stans will never stop hating rhaegar because he wasn’t ‘perfect’—and he wasn’t perfect because he didn’t love elia. plus, rhaegar loving another woman and supposedly kidnapping her is what began the war that led to elia’s tragic death. that’s bitterness times 1000. and while i don’t actually blame rhaegar for the war, i do think that this is how an elia stan sees it. i also don’t view rhaegar’s complex relationship with elia as a bad thing—it’s actually a very realistic take on an arranged marriage between two decent people. but most elia stans will never be able to get over the fact that they almost had everything, which is why many have it out for lyanna, as they consider her a thief who ruined their ‘perfection.’

tbh, that might be why so many elia stans are so obsessed with the idea that rhaegar only got with lyanna because of the prophecy—they don’t want to believe that rhaegar actually loved a different woman and not their perfect self insert elia. that’s a bit mean of me… but i don’t know what else one would call the ‘elia’ elia stans have created.

now that i’ve laid all those thoughts out, i’ll try to explain why the tides seem to be turning… i think it may have something to do with the ‘targaryens are all evil and bad’ sentiment losing popularity. i think this shift has occurred due to a mix of factors, such as years of fandom fights and fandom cycles leading to the targs being more liked now than before. it helps that canon doesn’t actually condemn the targs/favors them quite a bit, and the influx of new targ fans from HOTD has also contributed. this combination of reasons seems to have shifted the way the mainstream fandom discusses all the targaryen characters, including rhaegar. so, with this shift, it’s only natural that some elia stans/elia x rhaegar shippers—who’ve always been there—are using this opportunity to push their agenda. while these stans still hate rhaegar and see him as the bad guy, they just can’t let go of him. and as the mainstream fandom moves away from the anti targaryen sentiment, these smaller corners of the fandom, which tend to be echo chambers, are also affected, which has therefore led to a rise in rhaegar x elia shippers and the ‘shifting tide’ that you’ve also noticed.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

bird update!!

still cute!

[edenstwiilight]

no bc darius would have to ask hunter where the new scars came from. he’d have to ask hunter where flapjack is and he’d have to ask hunter if he’s okay.

and he chose to ask hunter about his sewing skills first. about the new shirt he has. he chooses not to ask something that could upset hunter first.

no one touch me.

[fae-of-prey]

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY FUCKING GOD

AGATHA ALL ALONG SPOILERS even though i’m pretty sure basically none of my moots watch dhzbbz (i’m freaking the fuck out)

‘you’re so much like your mother’ FUCKING FLOORED ME AND I WILL NEVER RECOVER BC HOW DOES SHE KNOW??? i mean we all guessed it but like what divine knowledge does she have??? she knows things from on high i fear

AND HOW DARE YOU PLAY BILLIE EILISH WHILE SHOWING US BILLY KAPLAN BECOME WICCAN???

[drugsforaddicts]

[h-didanart]

Have any of you guys ever been doodling when suddenly you’re hit by the angstiest idea ever and so you start workshopping that idea into an au as an alternate timeline to see if it would fit with the au only to create an absolutely heartbreaking and depression inducing scenario, only for your brain to decide that’s not enough and end up creating that same scenario in your two other main aus so that you end up with three deeply traumatized versions of the same character?

Anyone?

No?

That’s fair

I call them the heartbroken trio.

We have a post-Everything Goes To Shit arc Scythe, around January ‘24 Bloody, and a post-Second Takeover Harvest. You may notice I called them by their actual names and not by their usual [insert trait here]!BM names, and that’s on purpose.

See, due to various circumstances in each of their respective timelines, their twins died.

They’ve all taken it very harshly, but express it in different ways, Scythe is more reserved yet more ruthless in her anger, Bloody has become extremely disconnected from everything, and Harvest is an anxious wreck. All their reactions are directly correlated to their twins’ death and how they perceived it.

Anyways, yeah.

New au//timeline thing. Yay?

Oh, and for your troubles

The guy who in his canon lost his twin being extremely conflicted about the newcomers. Cuz in one hand they are versions of versions of himself that he knows that he can relate even more to! But on the other hand they are versions of versions of himself that he knows that he can relate even more to.

Yeah :P

Might elaborate on these guys later

[caitlynmeow]

ugh gonna try to conjure my dimitrescu hyperfixation back by watching some videos and hoping for the best

[juniorfor2]

Desperately needing HotD to get their timeline together, because with all the time crunching and back and forth on what their canon is, it’s hard to understand how anything is happening.

According to a Variety article, Mizuno said that Mysaria and Rhaenyra have known each other for half a year, not a week or two as I had been assuming. This would be on track with Fire & Blood, unlike Alicent’s comment that her husband had been alive not even a month ago in Ep4/5.

I do find the events far more plausible in the context of 6 months - the time is stretched out enough that all of it could happen, even with such horribly crammed development. It is much easier to see how Mysaria gained Rhaenyra’s trust, enough that she felt comfortable keeping secrets from her son - which would never be advisable if you only knew someone like Mysaria, a spy, for just a week or two. It’s also easier to see how the kiss happened, because it’s the intention of knowing the two knowing each other for so long, being truly vulnerable with each other, and finding some sort of comfort through intimacy - not just a random moment that seems somewhat out of place with Mysaria’s vulnerability.

It also means that Rhaenyra’s thoughts that Daemon was separating from her finally make sense. If it’s only been a few weeks, the only way to communicate is by raven, and the two of them are having a marriage quarrel, it’s a big stretch to say that the two have broken up and aren’t getting back together, especially when he was already set to go to Harrenhal. However, 6 months without a single message means a lot more, and is a plausible enough reason for the events that happen - even if the writing and character arcs are still terrible.

HotD could you please get yourselves together. There aren’t even any time skips to deal with, how is this so hard?

[thatrandomblogsays]

Hiccup’s a better person than me for forgiving his mom, because if my mom, who I was left without and mourned my whole life, turned out to be alive and well and left me, a baby in the cradle to grow up without her all because she thought Vikings were being too aggressive to creatures that routinely burned down their houses and hated them for not changing, I’d lose my fucking. Wtffffff what was the point of having me if you weren’t going to love me

[angelnumber27]

*he spilled my cup of paint water all over everything idk why I said he spilled watercolors I just woke up girls

I literally walked away for two minutes tops to make coffee and came back to his ass sitting on this water color palette and my painting open after spilling my watercolor water all over it

Look at that face. He knows he did something wrong hahahha

[iloveandybiersackkk]

some of my fav pics of violet!🖤

[alatariel-galadriel]

finished dead boy detectives! first of all, what a fun watch. I loved the entire ride, and the showrunners did a fantastic job of bringing a rich and intricate world to life.

It’s not perfect—I think it has some minor issues with pacing and a bad habit of over-explaining via dialogue, but the actors did an *incredible* job and brought so much charisma and heart to the show that it was easy to overlook. there’s a brilliant balance of humor and genuine emotion that made it so easy to fall headfirst in love with the world and all the characters in it

I would really recommend giving it a shot if you haven’t already!