#THAT DRAGON FUCKING DIED

[minionsuncle]

Blarmy!

[silllypigeon]

nothing more frustrating than something really cool happening but no one in your circle cares about it and if they pretend they do to be polite they will quickly learn not to again

so anyways, hi internet

(feel free to rb and put your nerd shit in the tags)

[snacobie]

It’s cute when he gets all confident 🫣

[turtletoads]

i am so normal about them

[wyrmswears]

jay dump

[saturnniidae]

Big fan of Hiccup got kissed by his long time crush and was just kinda like 'well that just happened' Haddock and the idea of Astrid being the one getting kind of flustered bc she's not used to such open displays of affection and really took a leap with Hiccup

[daeneryseastar]

jace is not ‘pushing for war’ in the same way aegon and aemond are, and to insinuate so is ridiculous 😭

aemond specifically started a war because of his butthurt ego and inability to control his dragon, aegon celebrates this fact with a party. jace just doesn’t want his brothers death to be in vain and knows that his and his families lives are forfeit if they don’t fight back. he’s one of the only male characters in fire and blood that has to deal with the repercussions of misogynistic attacks; his mother is usurped (on account of her gender), loyalists at court (that he surely knew) were put to death for supporting his mother, she loses his baby sister in a traumatic stillbirth because of the usurpation, his brother is murdered in cold blood (he most likely blames himself for the plan that sent him to storm’s end), he’s going to die thinking he failed to save yet another brother. why would he not push for war? and why are violent misogynist one and two (who STARTED the war in the first place) allowed to react, to want revenge, to want to hurt others in response to their losses, but jace isn’t?

we can complain about the way the show frames women as the pacifist pushovers to the men being violent warmongers all day long but jace of all the male characters on screen is *not* included in that, come ON people 😒

[lucaanis]

We need to talk about Illario.

[baejax-the-great]

The storytelling just doesn't care. It doesn't care! It doesn't care why the venatori would have fallen in line under Elvhen gods--something that must have involved a power struggle of some sort and a complete realignment of their beliefs. Or why the Antaam would be okay with this particular brand of magic, or how they would feel about allying with the venatori. For that, they'd have to show the antaam being people at all--which they don't in an overtly racist way.

The enemies are faceless and they are bad simply because they are bad. It's easy to do that with demons or the new "mechs" that now exist for no reason. But then every "bad" person just falls in line and says, sure, yeah, I'll align myself with the blight, a monstrosity that everyone in Thedas has been brought up to fear and revile.

Even Isseya, whose (terrible) storyline is that she became corrupted by her obsessive need to "protect" the griffons has a random line about how Ghilanain is good actually. This one could have made sense! She was an elf. She cares about creatures. She could have been manipulated into believing that Ghilannain would bring back the griffons. But they didn't develop it that far. They didn't do anything. Her story was just "evil woman bad" stab stab. Isseya and those wardens being alive brought up a million questions about the calling and the blight, and not a single person thought to ask them. Just, whelp, glad that's over with.

A compelling villain makes a compelling story. It's not the only way to make a compelling story, but it is one of the dozens of strategies they didn't use in this game because it would have required in engaging with their own setting in a way they absolutely refused to do.

[acoraxia]

// Dum, di-di, day

[ale-y6]

So about the new Ninjago season trailer

[kradogsrats]

afraid of him

[spinjitsuburst]

listen. it’s probably nothing. i know it’s nothing. but i just can’t stop thinking about this since i noticed it the other day and

anyone else… a little alarmed that Jay and Nya’s climber gi are crossed wrong?

[puffpal7]

do you guys see my vision

[rin-hanarin]

Once Illario stops crying after meeting a very much alive Lucanis (unless he's an accomplice in his whole "dying" situation), he and Rook join forces to bully Lucanis together. For some reason flirting in front of him is very effective, I wonder why.

This is like. "Why aren't you calling this Rook guy babygirl?" "How about we stop talking for a little while."

[todayisafridaynight]