#a bigger dumpster fire

[noa-ciharu]

People are acting like it's the shipping that ruined modern fandoms (like shipping and fanfics weren't a thing before ffnet and ao3 even existed) when in reality it couldn't be more obvious it's actually lack of tolerance for opinions you disagree with

[palettepainter]

Amazon: HEEEY!~ Hazbin hotel is getting a second season!

Me: Oh okay, that's cool I guess.

Amazon: They'll be even MORE action this season!! We're gunna focus on Alastor's backstory, and Pentious will be a key character, and Vox is gunna be a more prominent protagonist, and we'll show off more overlords, and Vaggie and Charlie get a "sexy life"~

Me: Uh-huh. And I can only assume that this season has a bigger episode count so that any of those plot points you mentioned have time to breath for more then ten minutes unlike season 1?

Amazon:

Me:.....You're gunna give this season time to breath ri-

Amazon: WE HAVE MERCH AT HOT TOPIC NOW TOO!!~

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(Incase people don't read the tags: The reason this annoys me so much isn't because I hate the show, it's because I want this show to do well. I want this show to make me feel like I should care for any of it's characters and plot points because it's well made, not because it's been created by an artist who is already popular online. I truly believe the animators and voice actors are giving it their all for this show, the voice acting is honestly the best quality in my opinion and everyone nails their roles, but the writing and pacing has so far been a cluster fire.

This is a legit show now, it's being funded by Amazon's money with literal broadway stars as parts of the cast. If season 1 taught the people creating this show anything it's that there needs to be breathing time for the plot points and the characters, and I sincerely hope that season 2 takes this into account. I doubt it with how much they've said they're going to include, but I really hope that, for animation as a whole - cuz god knows Disney hasn't been pumping out good animated movies as of late - season 2 takes into account what season 1 did poorly and improves on it)

[morweneledhwen]

No, but what he's doing is he's redefining reality and the ignorant and/or less educated - of which there are many, sorry to say - will just believe his version without questioning it.

Those are literally Nazi techniques.

cfdgdgdv????

[princessofsunspear]

it's a little funny to me that there's so much speculation that naomi girma will leave for europe when there's no evidence to suggest she even wants to leave the state of california

[doux-amer]

[girl-lostconnection]

Watching cooking documentary on Netflix (“Salt fat acid heat”, if anyone likes them as much as I do) and it got me thinking about Simon Riley with S/O that brings tasty gifts from their travels.

Cheeses and cured meats and teas and full on recipes to try at home. The man comes home from deployment, sees his sweetheart’s bags and practically throws himself through the door because god, he’s eating GOOD that evening.

The house smells heavenly, there is already something on the stove and there are the array of cheeses and meats on the countertops, beautifully cut and presented with some cut fruits. And yeah, he feels a little like a toddler on whom you test drive taste combinations (not that he’s complaining), but the bigger part of him — the one that remembers food insecurity and the one that is very very responsible about food and generally food sensitive — is over the moon.

I feel like he’d be someone who would love to receive actual edible gifts that were bought with him in mind.

He starts dating and puts good ten pounds (some happy relationship weight would do him good), eyes crinkling with excitement when you urge him to take a bite or a sip. To taste for you and tell what he thinks.

I feel like Simon would enjoy a lot different kinds of food — he’s incredibly open-minded in that regard, he has zero allergies and insatiable appetites of a dumpster fire. He’s gonna finish it all.

But I could bet that meat is his favourite. Red meat — tenderly cooked, still a little bloody. Birds like duck or chicken, fish and seafood.

As long as it’s hot and hearty he’s gonna eat it all up.

[anxi04]

Tim deserves a pet dragon.

And no one can come tell me those don't exist, DC has magic, aliens, gods, and many other creatures that aren't the publicly known animals.

If they really don't exist or they've gone extinct, one will be made through magic or other means.

Either way. Tim should have a pet dragon.

That's all.

hi oh my god i don’t know how long this has been in my box but i didn’t see it til now

anyway yes he does. he absolutely deserves a little baby dragon. it’s tiny, adorable, and has a tendency of trying to set things on fire or bite them and he adores it

he either finds it in the weirdest place possible like a dumpster in gotham or saves it from Magic Rogue Of The Week. he finds it as an egg and hatches it and it’s his BABY. someone suggests giving it to a magic person who could probably take care of it better and for the next week every time they try to use sugar it’s salt and anytime they try using salt it’s sugar.

the entire time that it’s growing it is on his shoulder like pikachu with ash. then it gets too big and decides “hey i can’t ride on your shoulder or back. so obviously now you ride on MY back” and tim eventually has a rideable dragon purely cause the dragon thinks carrying someone is a love language

damian also adores the dragon and is very fucking jealous of tim

tim acquires the dragon shortly after bruce gets lost in the time stream so by the time bruce gets rescued he has to just reevaluate life cause what do you mean tim has a dragon? what do you mean he calls it his child?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS ALREADY BIGGER THAN TIM???

[solar4seekstron]

A Sparkling?!

Tf1!Elita, D-16, B-127, Orion Pax, Sentinel Prime with Sparkling!Reader

Content: SFW, Just silly situations with the bots with a baby you.

Introduction Movies Oneshot Masterlist

TW/Tags: Wholesomeness, B is a silly bean (He was my favorite part to write ngl), Elita is a mom/Auntie, Y’all know D and OP will be the best dads, Sentinel I doubt will do anything with a sparkling and his is defiently the funniest.

One day while Orion was just running from the cops in the city he passes an alleyway of some of the higher ups apartments.

When he was able to get to a good hiding spot, he took a moment to breath.

Until he hears and sees a dumpster moving around. He came up to it with caution as he slowly opens a dumpster. And when he peaks over it only to be confused.

“What?”

He didn’t expect to see a little sparkling. You.

You had bright yellow optics and blue paint. You were gently nibbling at you cervo as you looked up at him as he picked you up. He’d hold you with his cervos holding you like anyone would with a baby.

”What’s a sparkling doing in a dumpster. And a miner sparkling no less.” He looked in the dumpster for a note or anything. But you giggled and reached for him as he looked back at you. You had the biggest smile as your optics shine brightly as you continue to try to eat your cervo.

His optics soon tearing up. Holy Primus you are adorable!!!

And so he does tthe only most responsible thing a bot can do in his situation. He brought you home and said you were Ds and the mother died in the last accident at the other mining area or something. Nobody really questioned it.

D though was not too happy to pretend to be a sire.

”YOU DID WHAT?!” Orion has you facing him so your back is turned to D. Who didn’t give you much mind at the moment. “Come on D just give them a chance. They have yellow optics and they’re really good.”

”I could care less if some sparkling you found in the dumpster is cuuuuuu….” He couldn’t finish as Orion turned you around.

You reaching both cervos to his helm as your had your usual large grin as you got excited when seeing him. The miners around you in the quarters not paying much mind.

D just stared at you as you continue to giggle as move your arms around in Orions cervos.

He soon takes you from Orion and instantly starts baby talking to you as you kept giggling. At least that’s until Elita came to the three of you. “Orion Pax! D-16! You two better explain to me why you both have a…”

She looked at you as D still had you in his arms. Your cervos gripping his larger ones as you looked up at her. You four are silent for a moment. D and Orion looking at each other unsure as Elita just looks at you with wide optics. As you do a frog blink she was instantly smitten.

”Gimme them!” D was too scared to not let her. She took you into her arms and held you up in front of her. “You shall be my successor! Elita…um Two!!”

You’d just stare at her. Then you make a baby sound that sounds like an E making her optics grow bigger like as if she’s a proud parent. Which she probably is now. So she instantly started scolding the boys after as you tried to reach for D and Orion.

”And-……..Guess you two are dads now-“

If B-127 met you first-

B was working. Watching trash go to the fire slowly. All of a sudden he hears from the dumpster a sparkling go “weeeeeeeee”. You’d landed on top of some trash.

You giggled as you sat up and reached for B. He just watched you.

His frame still as his helm moved watching you. As you got closer to the fire.

“………..”

”………………”

”………………………………….”

”Ba”

“HOLY SPARK YOU’RE REAL!!!!!!” He was fast to pick you up as you giggled and reach for him. Luckily they gave him energon. It just means he’ll eat less then half of what he usually does.

But it was all worth it in order to watch you grow.

If Sentinel found you-

You just sat there as Sentinel looked at you. Being held by a officer. You just stared at him with wide optics.

”……………..”

”………………”

”Eh..Eh Ew.” You said.

I hope you guys enjoyed this I know I did. I’m slowly getting more use to writing shorts. Although I will still get pretty carried away at times.

As always a repost is appreciated and I hope you guys enjoy my other works and see you all in the next one. Hope you all are having a good rest of your day!

[dandylovesturtles]

kids are about 8/9 here. idk what this is. happy 10 days to Halloween?

cw: violence, blood, gore (not the turtles'), cussing

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Later, Donnie would say going to the surface was Leo's idea, but really, it had been an unspoken joint decision. He wanted to search the trash in the alley for building materials, Leo was just annoyed at being treated like a baby. Sure, it made sense why Mikey wasn't allowed to go to the surface without Raph, but why were the two of them subject to the same rules? They were a whole year older!

So when Papa fell asleep in his chair, and with Raph chasing an uncooperative Mikey around, begging him to take a bath, Leo looked at Donnie, then at the exit to the tunnels, and Donnie followed him right out.

At first it was exhilarating. He and Leo had been to the surface several times now, but it was always with Raph or Splinter, and that meant it came with rules. Don't touch that. Stay where I can see you. Don't run off. There's too many humans that way. No you can't take that back to the lair, it's dangerous. On and on and on. But this time they were alone, and Donnie wasn't going to stop Leo from climbing the fire escape and petting the cats sitting on windowsills as long as Leo wouldn't tell him to put the old, broken electronics and jagged pieces of metal he found back in the dumpster.

And Leo didn't say a thing about it, other than to call him a nerd. Of course.

It was a cool night, but not so cold that it made Donnie shiver. It had rained recently, so everything was damp and there was a fog that held in the air. The only noise besides what the two of them made came from an old pair of vending machines right by the entrance to the street, buzzing and humming with electricity. Leo had already asked Donnie if he could "hack it" to get them some drinks and snacks, and Donnie had shooed him off so he could get back to his scavenging. But he was seriously considering giving it a try once his work was done.

Leo dropped off the fire escape and wandered closer to the street. It was deep into the night, but when Donnie looked he could still see Leo in the glow from the vending machine, so he didn't worry too much. He'd just found a perfectly good toaster that someone threw out, and he absolutely planned to take it back with him.

He'd just ducked down to tug at a box sticking out of the mound of trash, when he heard a voice echo off the bricks of the buildings.

"Yooo, dude. Did you see that!?"

"Shhh, shhh, hold on," said another voice, followed by some quick footsteps.

And then Leo yelped.

Donnie's heart was pounding against his plastron as he slowly and carefully peeked above the rim of the dumpster. Two big humans stood in the light of the vending machine; one of them had Leo, holding him by the lip of his shell where it opened for his head.

"The hell is this?"

"Looks like some kind of fucked up turtle."

"I knew the Hudson was radioactive, man."

Leo squirmed in their grasp, but they were way bigger and stronger, and they kept him from escaping. He didn't have his weapons, because Dad only let them have them when they were training ("You'll poke your eye out," he'd said). Fat lot of good that did them now.

"What do you think we could sell it for?" asked one of the humans.

"Who would even want it?"

"Dude, someone's gotta. A zoo or something!"

"Damn, you're right. It's worth a try, right?"

Donnie's blood ran cold. They were going to take Leo away. They were going to take his brother away, and he'd never see him again, never get to talk to him or play with him again, and Donnie

couldn't

let

that

happen.

Before he himself even knew what he was planning, he'd jumped out of the dumpster and shot straight toward the humans. They'd only just noticed him when he launched himself at the one holding Leo and bit, directly into the hairy, exposed flesh.

An agonized scream filled the alley.

The leg Donnie was biting began to shake and kick, frantically trying to dislodge him, but Donnie only bit down tighter, sinking all his teeth into the man, his jaws locking and refusing to let go. There was a thud as something hit the concrete beside him; the man was still screaming.

"GET HIM OFF ME! GET HIM OFF GET HIM OFF- OH SHIT-"

Human hands grabbed at Donnie and yanked, but he didn't let go. A disgusting, metallic taste filled his mouth, and something chewy and unpleasant was coming loose between his teeth.

The men were both yelling now, kicking, hitting, but Donnie didn't let go, he wouldn't, he couldn't-

Until he felt a hand wrap around his. Small, three-fingered, and as familiar as his own.

Donnie yanked back. The chewy thing between his teeth came with him. The man was still shrieking in pain, blood pouring down his leg and staining his socks and sneakers, snot and spittle hanging from his face.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" yelled the man.

Donnie and Leo scrambled backwards, hands locked tight together.

"Dude, we gotta get you to a hospital," said the uninjured man, grabbing the other human's arm and tugging. For a moment, the injured man fought back, waving his fists at Donnie and Leo.

"I'M GONNA KILL THAT THING!" the man screamed. A light came on in a window above.

"Come on, man, it probably has rabies," said the other human, still tugging. "Let's get out of here. Call animal control."

For a second, Donnie thought he would keep coming, even with a limp, but eventually he relented, and went with his companion. They could still here the man yelling as they disappeared from sight.

Donnie and Leo watched, still and silent in the shadows beyond the vending machines, for a very long moment. The only sounds in the alley were the electric hum of the vending machines, but it was louder now, somehow, louder and more annoying and pressing in on Donnie from all sides.

He suddenly became very aware of a sticky substance on his hands and arms and shoulders and face. The unpleasant taste was still in his mouth, as was the squishy thing, and it filled him with revulsion. He spat it out on the ground, and saw skin and hair and red stuff and-

He wanted to gag, but he couldn't. He could feel his muscles shutting down, the way they did sometimes. He hated this feeling, but he knew from experience he couldn't stop it. It was out of his control now.

The whine started at the back of his throat and built in intensity until it drowned out the sounds of the vending machines. His hands moved to clutch his head against his will, and he sank to the ground, curling up over his knees and pressing himself against them in a desperate bid to get it all to stop.

"Shoot, Dee," he heard Leo say, and then he moved away. Donnie couldn't open his eyes to see where he went, but a moment later he heard the sound of glass breaking.

A few seconds later, he heard a soft fizz, and then something cool was being pressed against his arm.

Slowly, he squinted his eyes open. He could barely stand it, but he had to do it, to see Leo in crouching in front of him, holding out a bottle of cola and signing at him to drink.

Clumsily, he took it. The mix of cola and the metallic taste in his mouth almost made him gag again, and he spat that out, too. Somehow, it helped. He repeated this action several more times, until the bottle was almost empty and his mouth was free of that terrible taste.

Then, slowly, a little at a time, he drank the rest.

The world backed down to a manageable level. Leo was still in front of him, looking worried. His eyes and face were wet, and Donnie didn't think it was from the mist.

Still, he met Donnie's eyes with a wobbly smile and asked, "Ready to go down?"

Hesitantly, Donnie stood up. When he didn't fall over, he nodded. Leo nodded back, then went to the manhole cover and opened it up.

Donnie didn't go back for the toaster. He didn't even remember it, really.

Leo gestured for Donnie to go down the ladder first, then covered over the hole behind them. They made their way to the bottom more slowly than they ever did with Raph, neither of them feeling up to any tricks tonight.

They walked back towards the lair in silent for a few minutes, while Donnie got his voice back. Leo waited for him to talk first, and Donnie appreciated that.

"...Where'd you get the soda?" he asked, when he could.

"Broke the glass on the vending machine with a rock," Leo explained. He gave Donnie a playful grin. "It's faster than hacking."

Donnie rolled his eyes at that. He could have done it if he'd had time!

They walked a bit further. Donnie was still covered in the sticky, gross substance, but when Leo reached for his hand again, Donnie took it.

"Thanks," said Leo, quieter now.

"I didn't want them to take you away," said Donnie honestly.

Leo's hand squeezed his. "I didn't want to go away," he said, his voice sounding strained.

Donnie stopped, and so did Leo. They turned to look at each other, as best as they could in the dark sewer tunnels.

Then Donnie launched himself at Leo, wrapping him in the tightest hug he could, and Leo hugged him back, burying his face in the soft place against Donnie's neck and shell. Donnie could feel something wet land on him, but he didn't mind because it wasn't sticky like the other stuff.

He just held Leo tight, and Leo held back, for a long while.

(They were still like that when Splinter and Raph found them. The blood freaked them out, and learning it wasn't Donnie's hadn't reassured them.

They were grounded for three weeks, but they still got to be together and read comics, so really, it wasn't too bad.)

[dramaticallytotal]

Accidentally Popular Headcanons: Part One

I decided to share headcanons for all my current ideas from my pinned:

List of Ideas/AUs.

Starting with Accidentally Popular since it was my first idea on here, I wanted to show it love! Yes, I will be going down my list alphabetically.

• As mentioned in the original idea post, Noah has learned to be less blunt due to his work as Chris's assistant and the unpaid and untitled production assistant. He constantly has to communicate with people, and he learned fast that being as blunt and sarcastic as he usually was was not helpful. This also helped him be more considerate when the staff or interns were having problems.

This whole experience was basically social skills training for him because in every au of mine, Noah had high functioning autism.

• Also, because of working for Chris for two years now, Noah's physique has changed from lanky to lithe. The amount of lifting, walking, occasionally running, and animal wrangling had him gaining muscle. But also Chris and Chef taking Noah out to eat a lot has helped him gain weight.

• He's still lazy, though. Of it was a choice to do something active or laze around. He will absolutely choose to laze.

• The interns and crew all respect him, even the older ones. He treats them like actual human beings, and they are endeared by him. Even with all the snark and sarcasm.

• They are also very protective of him.

• He implemented a new saying at work, completely on accident, but now everyone uses it to talk through things. It's: "I recognize and acknowledge that you're upset, I just don't understand why?"

HR bought him a cake because this helped stop arguments and bigger problems from happening.

• He has an IQ of 180 and an eidetic memory (Traits based off Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds. Y'all lucky. I almost made him OP and have Peter Parker's IQ of 250.)

• Chris introduces Noah to new people and says, "And this is my personal assistant Noah," which is the equivalent of a parent introducing their kid like "and this is my kid, Noah."

• Noah is called Boss by everyone, but when he's not around, he's called McLean Jr. or Baby McLean, especially when he ditches the sweater vest and is just in his button-up and undershirt.

• When the filming for the new season starts and the interns are already losing stuff and things are only on schedule because Noah emailed everyone an itinerary before he was "fired", Chris had to pull out the big guns. He told the crew and interns, if he saw them making mistakes or anything like that, "Noah would be very disappointed in you." And he laughs every time it works.

That is until Chef said it to him, and he immediately felt guilty about what he was doing. How dare his husband use his words against him!?

• Noah calculated how long things would fall apart without him once the season started and how long it would take before the producers and execs were begging for him to come back. He also calculated exactly when he should get himself eliminated so the producers and execs could get a feel of the dumpster fire that was their company without him and hopefully his efforts would get him a raise included with new pay and a title change to production assistant officially.

• As said before, Noah thought he would stick to Team E-Scope and Owen as his friends in the competition, but accidentally became friends with almost everyone on the plane. Which ends up messing with Alejandro's game and strategy. But he saw how popular Noah was and decided the best course of action was to become his friend until the time came to get rid of him.

• Alejandro and Heather fully believe Noah is just playing the game and creating alliances left and right.

• Noah is just accidentally clicking with people and solving problems. His whole job was literally solving problems or being prepared before problems happened. He sees a problem and, on reflex, has to solve it. Even if it's an emotional problem!

Like Tyler being said that Lindsay forgot him and how each time he failed to get her attention or for her to remember him, the more it hurt. He didn't really have advice, but he listened, and Tyler really appreciated that. Noah listened because the situation made him think of his sister Nadia, who had been seeing a guy, and she really liked him, and then out of nowhere, the guy ghosted her. Turns out they guy had a girlfriend and she had been close to finding out he was cheating (she found out anyway because eleven year old Noah let her know.) The situations were very different but similar enough that it caught Noah's attention so he sat to listen. Noah also may have out loud theorized that she was acting (she is), and thankfully, the cameras weren't on when he did because they were under contract not to reveal any deals they had with the show or talk about them in any way on camera.

Of course, Tyler believes him about Lindsay acting because Noah is the smartest guy he knows. This makes him feel loads better, and he still tries to get Lindsay's attention and memory on him, but now he's playing it up. If his girl can act her heart out, he can, too!

Also, when he doesn't understand something, he asks Noah. His new bro is teaching him so much!

• Noah connects with Bridgette because she was having a rough day of missing Geoff (when she wasn't being flirted with by Alejandro), and her expression just reminded Noah so much of his older sister Neelima and an intern names Stacy. Both of which are in long-distance relationships. He remembered the advice Neelima gave to him when he complained one night about how sad Stacy was about being long-distance and how it was affecting work. Neelima suggested he give Stacy the idea of writing letters to her girlfriend. Neelima swore it helped with her and her boyfriend and that there was just something about physically writing a letter and sending it out and getting one in return.

So Noah suggested this again to Bridgette and awkwardly added, "You can't send them now, but think of how happy Geoff will be when you give him a stack of letters when you see him next."

She's so excited that she gets started right away. Somehow, this idea led to her not being taken in by Alejandro. Instead, she gushes about Geoff to him and how they'd get along so well.

Alejandro counts this as another moment of Noah thwarting his plans.

That clever minx!

• This happens with basically the whole cast except Harold and Sierra.

• The crew and interns don't help Noah cheat by any means, but they do slip him little luxuries. Like how he gets extra blankets in first class that are weighted or heated. The extensive library in first class was Chris's idea. Somehow, his food is better than everyone else's, but not that they notice. Chef purposefully makes it look unappealing like the rest. In economy class, he somehow always ends up with the most comfortable pillow. (Yes, economy gets the single luxury of lumpy pillows... except Noah.

For stunts, Noah always ends up safe and relatively scratch or bruise free.

Little things that others don't notice.

• Noah regularly falls asleep in the cockpit with Chef. It's one of the only places that is quiet enough and one of the only places he feels safe enough to fall asleep without worrying about the show.

• Noah's still a snarky asshole but once he accidentally befriends everyone, they're like, "Yeah, but he's my/our snarky asshole."

• Owen is happy his little buddy is making more friends, but Eva and Izzy are a little jealous. Not that they'd ever admit it, though.

• Chris accidentally called Noah son during a challenge, and it's basically that one BB9 scene but reverse. (Noah gives me Kevin vibes funny enough.)

• Noah does help DJ with his curse in this au like a couple others, but while those started out as schemes, this one is genuine because DJ being so superstitious reminds Noah of his sister Nadia. He gives him the salt cleansing and the Araignan Kayiru (black thread) to which DJ is eternally grateful.

Heather and Alejandro curse at another pawn being taken from them. All the while, DJ now is very protective of Noah and starts to see him as a little brother. The two bond over their love of their family, and DJ can't wait to introduce Noah more formally to his mama.

Next

[beware-of-pity]

I need people who would die on the hill of "Fire and Blood is completely unreliable, therefore we cannot trust anything that's written in it" to open their eyes and read a book that is similar to the structure that Fire and Blood uses to realize how wrong of a statement that is. I know that this will probably be received as a very hot take but I do not believe that everything needs to be analyzed or has to have a deeper meaning behind it. The curtain can be blue and there doesn't have to be a reason for the curtain to be blue other than the fact that it's just blue (hope someone gets the reference). Ryan Condall obviously disagrees with that, because in his quest to recreate his own 'magnum opus' of a 'Shakespearian tragedy', as he always likes to refer to it as, he has instead created the equivalent of a dumpster on fire next to the other bigger dumpster on fire that was Game of thrones.

Bland, whitewashed characters with little to no turmoil or agency going on are revered as complex and nuantical on Twitter. And if you even dare to disagree, you're immediately sentenced to the stake. Characters like Alicent and Rhaenyra could literally not even be in the episode and nothing would change. Rhaenyra was in episode 4 for not even 5 minutes and with everything going on in it you wouldn't even have noticed that. She should have been there, leading the council as Cole marched on rook's rest, her only available connection to the mainland in the crownlands, apart from Claw Isle, after duskendale fell to the greens and instead her only scene in such climactic episode is her walk of shame returning home and her, rightfully, getting scolded by her son for thinking that she could still sue for peace with Alicent, the mother of her son's murderer. The show makes the decision to have Rhaenys volunteer instead of having Rhaenyra send her there so that later when Rhaenys dies Rhaenyra cannot be blamed for it. The fundamental changes of characters like Alicent don't work because the writers are not able to sustain such changes from the source material they are deriving the story from. Going from leading the council that would place Aegon on the throne, to never even being in on the plan to usurp Rhaenyra, that her father created, is such a letdown for such a political savy character like book Alicent.

Aging her down, to Rhaenyra's age, and making these two childhood best friends, was a mistake.

What is very evident is that the showrunners have no clue, so far, what to do with a character like show Alicent. If she's not going to lead the council when Aegon is bedridden and Aemond is off to fight in the Riverlands, why doesn't she just leave?

Going from an active participant in a usurpation from somebody who needs to miss-hear or misunderstand her dying husband for her to get in on the plan, only so there is an excuse to get her on the war council is bad writing.

Making people believe that Rhaenyra was usurped because of a misunderstanding, and not only because she was a woman, is bad writing. And going to the extremes, of having these two 'betray' each other in order to have a reason to make Rhaenyra look bad in the eyes of her rivals is bad writing. Rhaenyra could have been the perfect heir, and even only because she was a woman, Otto and Alicent would have usurped her either way.

Going back to the point of this post; Timelines, ages, events, who got married to who, how many kids they had, things that you can quantify are not something that can be made up, used as rumors or form of propaganda in a history book. What you make up as a rumor is sexual escapades and a young girl seducing her sworn shield who has watched over her since she was seven. Things that can make a person look bad to glorify or uphold the good of someone else alongside all the other stuff that happens behind closed doors and makes you question where the information is coming from.

I find it so odd that the aggressive marketing team for the second season was all about choosing your side. Lol, what is there to even choose? Choose between the overly sanctified Rhaenyra, who god forbid is still searching for the peace that has already been thrown over the cliff long ago, and is not allowed yet to make a mistake. Or, Alicent, the pathetic hypocrite who made her bed and is not willing to admit it. Anything interesting about these two women is completely being cut so that Ryan Condall and Co. can continue to spread the "men are bad and violent, women are the gentle peacemakers that don't want war." which is leaning a little too heavy for my taste into gender essentialism which would make every choice they have ever made about these two characters more misogynistic than any of the action of the actual misogynistic characters in this story. Taking away the very little agency these characters had and constantly making them the perpetual victims of the patriarchy and completely sidelining any sort of character traits that they may actually develop through their actions had they actually been taking any, doesn't work for me.

This show was a mistake.

[dreadfuldevotee]

What have you said about loumand's intimacy? 👀

man...what HAVEN'T I said?

They have an active sex life through out their entire relationship, and both are getting off

Sex and Sexuality isn't the same corner stone of their relationship the way it was between Loustat. Which is part of why it is not played out on screen in the same manner.

The other reasons for them not getting naked on screen is that they aren't trying to convince Daniel they're fucking. The charade is that Loumand isn't some different dumpster fire of a relationship. Which is why playful exchanges, holding hands, stories of romantic date nights are given more focus.

Most importantly, I think, Is that Armand's relationship to sex is intrinsically tied to his traumas. And knowing that the writers want to do better by his character, It makes sense that no ones going "lets blow his back out and then 15 minutes later give the scene where he talks about how he was sold into sex slavery as a child"

CONTINUED HOT TAKE: There's no reasonable place for a sex scene between them anyway. the ending of ep 3 is about Claudia joining the coven as it is about Louis choosing Armand. And while they are both bedding down that night with something they want and fear. Loumand don't get jiggy for the same reason we don't see Claudia rehearsing with the Theatre. and by the end of ep 5 we have literally bigger fish to fry.

I think the way people tend to talk about Armand in general is racist. But like, some ppl live and die on the hill that Armand is this sort of incel cuck and act crazy someone whips out the papers on asian male sexuality. like. okay.

on a unserious note- LORD let me find some more Loumand fics that are not secretly about one of those white men, I am not here for them. and free yourselves from dom/sub = top/bottom, find the joy and whimsey in bossing him around when hes got you bent over the counter. amen.

[ninjamelissajulien]

I will never forgive everyone who had a hand on the absolute dumpster fire of a so-called “20th Anniversary” for Barbie Nutcracker

I have never seen a bigger downgrade in my life

[stylerm2world]

Episode 7x5 was… boring. Once again, completely underwhelmed. I feel like the writing has taken a nosedive from seasons 1-3. Nolan and Bailey feel like caricatures and not real people. I feel like they are trying to make Celina, Seth and Miles similar to Lucy, Nolan and Jackson, but they have none of the same depth or chemistry. Why does Miles all of the sudden have a girlfriend when he has made moves on almost every girl he’s met? Just another example of the writing being so poor. I just imagine the writers sitting around going let’s give him a girlfriend with no acknowledgement of how he has been written prior to that moment.

Chenford, ugh! Make it make sense! They have left them hanging so long, I am apathetic at this point. Their emotional content or really their lack of emotional content for this many episodes is just so incredibly shitty. I am fully convinced Alexi did this on purpose because he hates shippers. Their interactions make no sense based on what happened last season. Their breakup made no sense emotionally either and it’s continued in this season. Which tells me, they are going to prolong them getting back together all season, if ever, or they are going to force them back together without it being earned. They have laid ZERO emotional groundwork for a reunification. There is no emotional growth on screen, especially from Tim. They are acting like colleagues. Tim has not even attempted to make a repair at all considering he destroyed their relationship in 60 seconds in a parking lot. Lucy, who could barely stand to be around him at the end of last season is fine with it all and asking him for advice. WTF? I know it’s a ship, but it was the one little spot I had in this dumpster fire of hell.

I see people hanging onto little moments and turning them into bigger things than I think we see on screen. I think people read interviews and add that to their character interpretations. I think little moments work when building a ship but not after you’ve obliterated it. Not only have you demolished the ship and completely regressed one of your characters, you choose to not let the characters have a cathartic conversation in order to let your audience figure out what to do with the end of the relationship. Also, this idea that he didn’t break up with her because he didn’t love her but because he hates himself is the biggest piece of bullshit. Please, for the love of God, stop making excuses for emotionally immature men, even if they are fictional. How you treat someone is just as, if not more important than how you feel about them.

This was Alexi’s big f*%# y&$* to shippers. It is cruel and purposeful. Just think about Grey’s comments about internet people.

Basically, Alexi ruined Castle and now he’s ruined this. Explains why I couldn’t get past the first episode of The Recruit. I used to love Nathan Fillion from as far back as One Life to Live, but Nolan is so sanctimonious and one dimensional he’s not interesting anymore.

Melissa O’Neill is the only reason I still watch.

I am gutted at what they have done to this couple I used to love. Tim isn’t even attractive to me anymore because his character is so awful now.

[gremlin-boah]

I saw the “I found a child” can we see Feral Wild 14 year old Arthur being grabbed by Dutch like a stray feral bear cub out of a dumpster.

It’s the “husband didn’t want the dog” and now it’s attached and it’s mine now.

Pan to Hosea with wittle feral Arthur sticking next to him as he reads. “It’s just for tonight.” He says. (He was lying)

Pan to weather BIGGER slumped against Hosea as they’re sitting somewhere by the fire. “Awe. My sweet big bear.” *head pat*

T.T I love Papa hosea!!! He loves his boys.

A LITERAL WEEK LATER...

Awwweee Hosea will always be a father.

This is my most longest drawing yet.

And I love it sm.