#also a very hungry boi

[cookkoo]

'Can you please not?💢'

[hinamie]

I'll rip in hands and teeth and take a bite

[bittasol]

smile, iruma! | hey ive been here before

[frog-in-a-dew]

A detective trying to uncover just what exactly is going on and where did all these magical girls come from VS his niece and her group of trouble making friends who are a tad bit too obsessed with an old cartoon for their own good, following him around like ducklings

[murdererofthumbs]

Listen, although I do find it pretty exciting to see Kendall entering his Evil Era and actually becoming a killer, I can’t stop thinking about the consequences of him leaking all the shitty mud information they have on Logan. Like yeah, PR-wise that might be a great idea, it might actually solidify his position as a CEO (and he is obviously going to try and fuck up Matsson deal and take over the Waystar - I don’t know why he would want to captain the fucking sinking Titanic, but okay). But on the other hand, all the dirt coming out about Logan will be potentially catastrophic for Roman. Apart from the fact that Kendall is very clearly betraying his brother, literally like 5 seconds after he preached about them being a team; Roman will very likely suffer the most if stuff about Logan being an abusive father comes out.

First, it will flip his whole viewpoint upside down - he is so deep in denial and so trauma-bonded to Logan that he doesn’t even acknowledge his abuse, not even when in happens in real time. He doesn’t want to see his father as a monster and as his abuser, because that would actually require him to accept that he was a victim, that he was this beaten dog that everyone already sees him as (to one degree or another). Not to mention all the lies he tells himself about Logan and him being a good dad will go straight down the drain, and can you imagine what happens when something you believed for 40-or-so years cracks down in front of you? Kendall is about to break his reality.

Another aspect is that exposing Roman’s abuse to the whole world will likely destroy any and all opportunities that Roman ever had when it comes to rising to power (even if I’m unsure how much he actually cares about becoming a CEO). He might get some sympathy points, although I very much doubt that he will ever accept that form of pity from anyone. His image will be forever tainted and solidified as “the abused one” or the “one that was hit by his dad”. Can you imagine Roman’s reaction when that whole shitshow leaks? He does say at some point in the preview that he is finished, and although it might allude to Gerri putting out the whole dick pic situation, it might also very well be that his public image will forever now revolve around how his dad hit and abused him (his dad who was essentially his god in more than one way, who he was, and is trauma bonded to, who he came back to time and time again).

Kendall has a tendency of using his siblings trauma to forward his own position (even when he wanted to one up Logan in episode 2 by bringing up Roman’s and Connor’s trauma) and this is no different. But it’s a very easy way for him to blow up whatever alliance was ever between sibs. So yeah, I think Kendall as a killer is a great thing to watch, but also… well, Roman girl in me is already screaming in the void from the possible pain we might come to watch unravel in real time.

[rachelchinouriris]

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[keeps-ache]

new oc :D

[reginaofdoctorwho]

watching a show from the 80s/90s and SOOOO fucki ng mad this would be controversial now. this shit sucks we went backwards

[automatonknight]

juuust realized that actually wx would probably also be a little bit jealous of walenty because as a werething she has connections to the moon

[mumfordanddaughters]

RONAN: *gay for Gansey*

GANSEY: *gay for Adam*

ADAM: *straight for Blue*

BLUE: *straight for Gansey*

NOAH: *dead*

[navree]

Do you think in the book that Daemon loved Rhaenyra genuinely or he just wanted power?

This is kind of a tough one for me just because I don't really ship Daemyra so I'm not someone who's going to be actively looking for the good sides of the ship. But I think, just looking at it objectively, it was a mixture of both.

Daemon is someone who is capable of feeling love, first and foremost. There are people who say he's a narcissist so the only person he can really love is himself, but I do think he loved Laena, I do think he felt some kind of way towards Nettles, especially considering what he was willing to do to help her escape, and I do think a part of him loved Rhaenyra. He was clearly sexually attracted to her, he clearly doted on her as a niece (and bad Targaryen boundaries/incest habits along with the way Westerosi society views women and their maturity), and they were very close in his time between coming back from the Stepstones and his marriage to Laena/exile in Essos. He spent time with her actually doing stuff, doing activities like hawking and just hanging out and talking about his life. He also did support Rhaenyra's claim during the Dance, when it might have even been more beneficial to him personally to support Aegon's side and the legal precedent of "male children above female children", especially considering the whole thing started due to him being displaced for Rhaenyra. But he stayed to support her, he fought for her, and even when Rhaenyra demanded that Nettles be killed, he was said to have responded sadly, not with his usual quick temper. There's also the fact that the consort of a monarch doesn't necessarily have a lot of power, and Daemon's role if Rhaenyra had actually reigned would have likely been that of "extra special Queensguard who's allowed to fuck the Queen" more than anything.

But there likely was a desire for power too. Rhaenyra could be molded by him to follow his way of thinking once she was in power, and Westerosi gender roles likely would have allowed him more influence than a queen consort would have to a male monarch. And with Rhaenyra as queen, and if anything Should Befall the Strongs I mean Velaryons, then it's his sons, his bloodline, that are in line for the throne, it's his line that continues House Targaryen. And of course, even without Daemon in King's Landing, it's still Daemon's people who had a lot of influence on Rhaenyra's queenship, like Mysaria, Daemon's former lover.

Ultimately, Daemon is written to be a person, not a black and white cartoon, and like most people, there are likely multiple motivations, often intertwined, for why he does the things that he does. I think it's not out of the question that part of his marriage and relationship with Rhaenyra was borne of genuine love, but while also thinking about what it could offer him and how it could advance his own power.

[otomedomme]

DUDE YES.

Idc if I love you when I wake up that's MY BED AND ROOM GET AWAY BEFORE I SPRAY YOU WITH LYSOL!

Let me set the scene for you .... Your favorite LAD LI is now self-aware and head over heels in love with you. You went to bed alone here in reality and you woke up in his bed in the game.

How you think you'd react

vs.

How you would actually react

[a-story-teller]

Had another dream story idea and it's BAD out here y'all. My subconscious said "you don't go for sad old white men yaoi? Well here's one and you have to care about it so much. Good luck"

[insanechayne]

~ ~ ~

[flannelepicurean]

a Very Good Boy, our lord and savior

we really don't deserve this sweet bean bun, but he don't care about that

he loves us

NOT "he loves us anyway"

he just loves us, that's how he is, that's just how he is

His child like smile 🥹 😍

[blueboyluca]

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)