#alice says stuff

[blueicealice]

Me on my way to reread @buginateacup fics once again

Pssst! You should go read them yourself!

Tea with Topsy: "A story of love, lust and colour coordinated calendars… and how Roxanne Ritchi became the Mistress of Evil"

God-tier. I dare you to find anything better.

Rings: "Roxanne Ritchi just wanted her shoes replaced. Marrying her Supervillain in a surprise Vegas elopement was not part of the plan. It wasn't part of Megamind's plan either… Unfortunately, all of Metro City is way too excited to finally see them together for them to admit the truth. But they can solve this…somehow"

Perfection. Stellar blend of angst and fluff and smut and tenderness and comedy and and and

[gretaforkbeard]

some random thoughts about pizzeria simulator and ucn

(because i’ve only just recently checked them out even though they’ve existed for a while now)

-  i agree that springtrap’s design is pretty subpar compared to the original. like, the original one was unique and iconic, while this one is kind of generic-looking

- cassette man/henry? is a huge badass and a magnificent bastard

-  also, this is related to sister location as well (of which i didn’t  know about the custom night cutscenes till recently) but michael afton is an absolute gigachad and the implication that he’s the protagonist of sl and ffps is pretty cool. the theory that he’s the protag of the first three games is interesting as well

- I WOULD DEFEND HELPY WITH MY LIFE, HE’S SO CUUUTE

-  the “who is yellow/orange man” debate: i think it’s just a random dude whose son ran away to the pizzeria and ended up being one of william’s victims. in fact, i reread the secret newspaper articles from fnaf 1 the other day and i think it said that two kids went missing first before the other five? if one of the first two was charlie/the puppet, then maybe the other one was yellow/orange man’s kid?

- i find cassette man’s voice incredibly soothing

-  speaking of voices, i’m impressed with all of the voice acting that has appeared in the later fnaf games, from william afton’s Creepy Evil Brit thing to funtime freddy being an absolute maniac to all the voices in  ucn. honestly, ALL of the characters’ voices fit them perfectly imo

-  ultimate custom night, as a game, is absolutely bizarre lol. as markiplier said, it’s not so much scary as it is a huge challenge of reflexes and multitasking. and yeahh i think it’s pretty obvious that it’s supposed to be william’s personal hell, given all the evidence from the characters’ quotes. i think that’s a neat way to explain how the game’s premise even exists in-verse

- meanwhile, the secret old man c game (mainly the audio) and the easter egg of the child’s face are a couple of truly unsettling things in ucn. why is it always the simplest things that are the scariest??

- it’s really cool that many of the classic characters from the older games, the characters we  fell in love with and know so well, finally have canon voices!

- the mediocre melodies, though. omg. mr. hippo. the dude actually provides some valuable insight to life??? also, i like his friendship with orville. who wants to sit on a park bench and  watch nature and talk about random stuff over glasses of lemonade with  me?

- i honestly do not know what to make of the furry anime/cartoon cutscenes. i just know that a) the games truly did get weirder and more surreal over time and b) lol at the idea that part of william’s eternal torture is being forced to watch these things

[blueicealice]

[theplaneswalk]

Went to an Asian Grocery store near me and got one of those cans of sparing fruit tea with pop/culture characters on it. I got Chun Li because the drink was peach flavored. Also the art is cute.

[fencecollapsed]

listen I get what people mean when they say things like "there are no happy endings in Hatchetfield" cuz yes the series does tend towards the bleak a majority of the time

but also does Watcher World mean NOTHING to you people???

[kazz-brekker]

hotd episode 2 thoughts

aegon screaming hysterically and smashing up viserys's model of old valyria…alicent unable to get through a sentence without sobbing…helaena staring blankly at the wall and clutching jaehaerys's blanket…i love acting but also that all kind of broke me.

genuinely i am enjoying tom glynn-carney as aegon SO much, he's quickly becoming one of my favorite actors on the show and gives his character so much nuance.

otto using his grandson's horrific death as a pr stunt…truly that man never stops working, he's always on the clock.

i also LOVED the big blowout fight scene between rhaenyra and daemon, it's about time someone dragged that man to hell and back. "the darkness you sheathe within yourself like a sword" and "i don't trust you" and "you're pathetic" go OFF rhaenyra!

criston please don't send someone else on a suicidal assassination mission because you were slacking your duty and banging alicent while the heir to the throne got decapitated. oh, who i am kidding, that man has never had a normal reaction to anything in his life.

i'm so glad we got an actual scene with baela (and the promise of more with her and moondancer in future weeks!) since she and rhaena have been horrendously underused so far.

aemond you have so many issues please go to therapy not a brothel. also i've blogged about this before but the idea that he really thinks he's an equal threat to daemon honestly is so silly.

alyn AND addam of hull spotted, we've got the complete set, and a little teaser of seasmoke as well!

the scene between corlys and rhaenys where corlys was like "if daemon would just submit to rhaenyra and enjoy being a bottom as i do on occasion" made me laugh so hard my sister asked me if i was okay.

i'm very intrigued by the scene between rhaenyra and mysaria (especially the mutual bonding over being exasperated by daemon) since they're technically on the same side but very much at odds in the book and i'm curious to know if this will continue in future episodes.

i really like that this season is emphasizing the perspectives of smallfolk like the hull brothers, hugh hammer, and the brothel mistress, it's something i felt was missing in season 1.

this really was an episode of targaryen men getting absolutely dragged by others for their poor political decisions. can't say i support otto's decisions most of the time but he was 100% correct about aegon.

also the moment where otto realized he had schemed for 20+ years to land a total idiot who just fired him on the throne…delicious, but rhys ifans played it so well i honestly still felt bad for him.

daeron mention! at this point i was honestly starting to think they had cut him from the show so that was a surprise.

as an identical twin i very much enjoyed the erryk and arryk drama but i must admit that i ALSO could not tell the twins apart when they were dueling. someone please revoke my twin card.

alicent walking into a room, seeing aegon crying, and just walking out was kind of funny ngl.

i really didn't expect criston and alicent's dynamic this season but i'm honestly enjoying it a lot. the mutual self-flagellation over their affair, alicent repeatedly slapping him and criston allowing it…really fun honestly.

caraxes is properly coming back next episode and it's true, i HAVE missed that noodle boy <3

also it looks like our first proper looks at harrenhal, moondancer, and a bracken vs. blackwood fight!

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Not to combine or compare wildly different shows but Alicent should have gotten with Viserys what Simon from Bridgerton got with his dad.

A scene with the patriarch on his death bed, asking for his final wish to be recognized (Rhaenyra on the throne/Simon's dad's bloodline to continue).

Only for the victims of their abuse to tell them in their final moments that their wishes will Not come true. That they will be enacting their own desires and spitting in the face of everything their abusers have ever wanted. And the final words they ever say to their abusers being something that their abuser told them, twisting their words and spitting it back in their face.

[aardvaark]

i was thinking about how i wished leverage had a birthday episode for some of the characters cause that would be sweet, but then i realised something and basically…. okay here’s my thoughts in quotes form, just for fun

hardison: so when’s your birthday? i could plan something for us and the team to do and-

parker: i dont know

hardison: you don’t know… your own birthday?

parker: no, how would i know? pshh, cmon, you’re telling me you remember EXACTLY when you were born? watch this - hey, eliot, do you know your exact birth date?

eliot, innocently passing by, who was canonically anonymously dropped off at a hospital as an infant: no, how would i know?

parker: that’s what i said!

hardison: excuse me?? what is going on right now

sophie, walking into the apartment: whats wrong?

hardison: parker and eliot- well, okay, when’s your birthday? i just have to prove something.

sophie: …….july 12th

hardison: why did you pause? wait, is that your birthday or sophie devereaux’s birthday?

sophie: ………… (guilty silence)

parker: see, no one knows their real birthday! haha you’re so weird sometimes, hardison

hardison:

hardison: what the fuck guys

[laurrelise]

fun tua spot the difference challenge!!! <3

[tweedfrog]

Been reflecting on why HOTD really noticeably dropped off in quality this season and I've been thinking - the central story of the Dance of the Dragons is supposed to be a tragedy right? A family tearing itself apart and killing off these powerful magical creatures they control because of a throne?

Except EYE think that the reason it's not landing well and that they've made weird choices for the main characters *who we should all care for* is because HBO is primarily viewing HOTD as an investment in the larger GoT show ecosystem franchise and not u know. A piece of art to be created.

Tragedy doesn't sell well. Letting characters sit in their grief and discomfort and pain won't help you flog your 18th show in production about idk the wives and adventures of Viserys Plumm. Telling a story where everyone is humanised to some degree and you encourage the audience to sympathise with them although they make bad or evil decisions but then still face consequences for those decisions won't lead to IG content creators making 10 REASONS YOU SHOULD STAN THIS CHARACTER reels. It might lead to critical acclaim like Succession but large numbers of customers are not racing to Target to buy a Kendall Roy FunkoPop.

Idk i feel like a lot of the gripes with ASOIAF adaptations and tv show adaptations in general these days are because studio execs don't view film and TV as an art form to be shown but as a product to be sold to a consumer ideally with tie in merch and brand collabs

[redrosesandcharmingsouls]

Basically what bothers me about the way this fandom and the writers talk about Alicent is that it sounds like “She’s a victim and it’s all her own fault 💖 because she didn’t fight back and that makes her extremely pathetic .Also she’s just awful and none of her motivations for doing the things she did are valid and all of what happened to her family or Rhaenyra is her fault”

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Requirements to be in the coven of Agatha Harkness, most infamous witch in the world:

gay

[purpletrashcans]

rereading heartstopper just reminds me of how sad i am that Aled isn't in the show, like i love Isaac don't get me wrong, but i still wish Aled was there as well

[vannss4206980085]

playing DBH again and i feel like nobody has really discussed the full range of implications that arise from how normalized child androids are in the world. like. it's wierd asf! and insane that they let cyberlife do that.

and rationally i know it isn't really discussed in game outside of the two magazines (only one you can actually read) and the little boy in jericho bc (idk if this is confirmed but) i think alice and kara's storyline had a lot of changes in dev and was probably pretty rushed. but i have so many questions. like why does the other alice in jericho at the enr of the game have the exact same outfit? how did the little boy android even end up in jericho (surley there's some kind of return protocol for parents who got a child android to 'trial run' parenting or for other temporary reasons. or maybe there isnt which is insane). i would just like to know more about all of it.

and the fact that a SELLING POINT of the child androids was that they were customizable to be more lifelike, yet had no real needs and literally only existed pretty much as an accesory. not to be morbid but if we had something like this even now people would make it wierd asf really quick.

also the question of alice being a deviant at all or if child androids can deviate in the same sense. or, in a world after androids succeding in a revolution, what happens to the child androids?

idk DBH is one of those games that throws a bunch of things at you at once but never really dives deep into any of it. the subject matter is pretty dark no matter how you play it as long as you think about it for a few seconds, but nothing more than surface-level stuff is really fleshed out. makes me mad

[completely-real-and-normal-human]

fellas i am galaxy braining rn

alice and gerry would be such fucking besties man. theyd love each other. alice would get such a kick out of burning leitners

i need to write/draw them rn im going insaaaane

[backjustforberena]

Rhaenys Targaryen being perceptive as HECK:

Devotion has never sat well with him. Where he goes, he wishes to be his own master. [...] Not as such (will he challenge her). But neither can he allow her to command him.

"Neither can he allow her to command him." - We never see Rhaenyra actually order Daemon's flight to Harrenhal. Not directly. It was his choice to go when he did, it was his plan to being with, at the start of the whole thing - to create a toehold in the Riverlands. It was Daemon's instincts and feelings. He follows his own path.

Again, Jaehaerys's murder was done without Rhaenyra's sanction, he chafed against staying on Dragonstone whilst she searched for Luke's remains, and he took charge of the war council and drew his sword against Otto without waiting for her leave to escalate. He addresses Otto's terms before she does. Whilst he shows loyalty and believes his motives to be selfless and his allegiance as true, it's not true deference. He seeks power/independence where he can.

Devotion and love don't sit well with him, though he has great capacity for it - we see him struggle with those feelings and the warring sides of his nature during Harrnehal: his brother, his niece, his second wife. His ignorance of his daughters. There is a corruption to his love. An acidity.

"Where he goes, he wishes to be his own master" = he goes to Harrenhal, and wishes to be his own master, and even King.

He doesn't not challenge her "as such" = he never raises banners against her, never pushes for his own claim other than in private conversations. Still, his behaviour causes Rhaenyra to have doubts in herself as Queen and others to have doubts in her as well.

It absolutely challenges outside perceptions of her rule - his lack of communication creates fractures in her council, leading, amongst other things, Alfred to question her suitability. It also makes her strategy wayward as they cannot be sure of ground support for any campaign. She's doing things she shouldn't have to do because of his behaviour.

His behaviour also challenges her because the things that he does impacts how her cause is received. Her name is cursed in King's Landing because of what he enacted, leading to the death of Jaehaerys. They blame her for what he did in her name.

Otto Hightower would never have allowed this. Hotter blood has prevailed, I think. The young men have taken the bit in their teeth. They wish to punish, to avenge. Soon they will not even remember what it was that began the war in the first place.

Otto Hightower did, indeed, not allow or know anything about sending Arryk to assassinate Rhaenyra, leading to the death of both twins. In fact, Otto was appalled by the scheme.

It was, as Rhaenys surmises done on the orders of the "young men" (Aegon, and the less young Cole) - as punishment and revenge for the death of Jaehaerys.

Aegon has "declared" war following the death of his son and has seized on offence. He did this whilst his blood ran hot: a scene where he is smashing up Viserys's model.

We teeter now at the point where none of it will matter. And the desire to kill and burn takes hold and reason is forgotten.

The deaths of the children (Luke & Jaehaerys) in the scene with Alicent and Rhaenyra, ultimately don't affect the idea of peace or war. Alicent does not change her behaviour due to the loss of a grandson, and Rhaenyra does not for the loss of her son, either to make war or peace more or less likely. The road is already set. They reach a point where it doesn't matter.

Rook's Rest represents a point of no return. They pass the point.

Rhaenys sees "the desire to kill and burn" take hold over reason in close quarters - she sees Aemond burn his own brother. That is the kind of savagery: the unforgivable. The bloody war between dragons and the hateful act of kin against kin. It's chaos.

Rhaenyra’s council is wayward. She has a hard task. I must hope she will rise to it, but I fear she’ll need you by her side sooner than late.

After Rhaenys dies, Rhaenyra has one council session, where each of the men around her have individual ideas - they argue amongst each other but none of them have no true plan to offer her. There is no progress.

Nor does she rise to command them: they continue to ignore her, shoot her down, not work with her, leaving her isolated. As Rhaenys fears, she needs Corlys. Rhaenyra soon offers Corlys the role of Hand.