#and im not accepting criticism at this time

[incognito-lionbeast]

truly, the best things to come out of CQL are: live-action Lil Apple & the secret Lan bnuuy cave hidden under the cold spring.

[fox-guardian]

starting to feel like part of the reason that Sam and Celia's romance thing feels a little off rn is cuz like. what do you mean they're actually dating. he asked her on a date and she said yes. and it's working out so far. it's chill and fine. what do you mean they're not pining for 4 seasons, not communicating, and then getting together only after one of them walked through hell to drag the other out and make sure they know they're loved and wanted. they haven't even patched each other's wounds yet hello. aren't y'all moving a little fast.

[fossilizedhysterics]

guess who finished tlok tonight and immediately had this come to him in a vision!!!!

[hitmehardnsweet]

the amount of people i see saying shit like “i don’t wanna vote for a cop” or “but the genocide” or that it’s offensive to try to tell people to vote for harris because they don’t like her or whatever else yall are saying is making me incredibly anxious.

i don’t want to vote “blue no matter who”, you’re right that it shouldn’t be choosing between the lesser of two evils but you not voting is not going to “show them” anything. you’re going to get trump elected again and he’s going to end the genocide and not in the way you want. he’s going to take away every right he can from queer people and poc and women.

you are signing their death certificates right along with him if you allow this to happen because you have some sort of grandiose idea of how elections should be or the type of president we should have. it’s not going to be an immediate change and i want to grab you all by the shoulders and shake you until your little brains get it.

[milquetoad]

of the many injustices put forth toward the show by fans i think the most overall damaging and telling of a complete lack of critical viewership is the idea that sam riegel builds his characters with nothing more than the bit in mind. like you are only telling on yourself if you think characters like scanlan shorthalt and veth brennato are one-dimensional and depthless

[kanalaure]

(*i dont know what kind of dog huan is, but he sheds. a lot. caranthir just wants to have ONE (1) space thats not covered in shed fur)

assume this is in the context of a modern au, or else that everyone is miraculously back from the dead and generally getting along fine and in the interim aman has had its industrial revolution and produced a more eco-friendly equivalent to our technologies

dont take this too seriously or get upset if your blorbo isn't represented, i filled out the ballot on a whim lmao. if you have someone you are Convinced would have one that isn't on this ballot, please do mention it in the tags

[flysafepapi]

i need to talk about Rhaenys for a second, because i've seen posts about how it only took Rhaenyra one look to realise that Daemon was the one behind blood and cheese and the reason why people are cursing her name and saying she ordered it, but I think it was Rhaenys that made her realise it, it just took looking at Daemon for Rhaenyra to realise that Rhaenys was right.

That entire scene, while Rhaenyra is talking with Maester Gerardys and then having that little argument with Ser Alfred, Rhaenys doesn't look away from Daemon once. She's the only one who knows that he wanted to go to King's Landing at all, after he tried to order her to go with him, and she stares Daemon down during the entire exchange while he very deliberately avoids looking at her until she speaks.

"Mind yourself."

I don't believe she was talking to either Alfred or Rhaenyra. They both make valid points. Helaena was the only sibling that Rhaenyra liked, she never had an issue with Helaena, she says herself she would never have wanted Jaehaerys dead in retribution, and though I've never been a fan of Rhaenyra's, I believe her about that.

Alfred also has a good point, people in grief do things that aren't logical or wise, and it's not out of the question to wonder if Rhaenyra, in her grief, didn't blame Aegon for sending Aemond to Storm's End and want him to feel what she was feeling by having him lose a son too. We know she didn't, but it's understandable that people would wonder, especially considering up until this point, neither side have made it secret that they do not like the other.

But I believe, and no one will convince me otherwise, that she wasn't telling Rhaenyra to take a minute and calm herself because the little argument wasn't going to help the larger issue, or telling Alfred that he should probably shut up if he wants to keep breathing, she was speaking to Daemon, staring him right in the eyes when she did so, because with the exception of Rhaenyra (who we could argue only knows the parts of Daemon he lets her see), Rhaenys is the one who knows him best, she's known him all his life, she knows what he's willing to do if it gets him the results he wants.

It's only AFTER that, when Rhaenyra takes a step back and stops talking to Alfred and sits back down that she realises Rhaenys is staring at Daemon, and then she turns to also look at him, and that's when she realises.

"Mind yourself" was meant for Daemon.

[potatoesandsunshine]

"i have no interest in revolution" that's percy. that's percy to me.

[squidsmeister]

my truest most honest conspiracy theory that I fully 100% believe is that they put Scott and Courtney together in tdas 1. because they needed a romance between two characters from different seasons and those were literally the only two they could’ve picked because every single other woman was in a relationship and out of lightning Scott and Cameron it’s unfortunately predictable they’d pick Scott and 2. they wanted to downplay the extremely lesbian activities Courtney and Gwen were getting into by going But Look She Likes Scott (even though she really only thought about him passively AND EVEN ADMITTED SCOTT WAS SO GROSS GWEN WOULD NEVER STEAL HIM FROM HER)

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

why do u think people r so ashamed of loving danron??

I mean, honestly, there's a lot of reasons, which makes it kind of complicated to tackle. I can list out a few from the top of my head, based on personal experience Feeling the shame and observation of other fans

•The problematic content in the games themselves. People feel embarrassed to like the other parts of the game because of the amount of bigoted moments (and sometimes whole characters) within these games. They don't want people to think they like those parts too, so they couch their appreciation in embarrassment.

•The reputation of the fanbase. On tumblr at least, things have normalized significantly and I find this fandom a very chill place to be. But the danganronpa fandom at its peak (2012-2016ish) was RABID. Like any major tumblr fandom, there was tons of drama, discourse, and toxic fan behaviour, but DR was genuinely on another level. This is especially true because of the young average age of members of the fandom at the time. Even though thats not generally true anymore on tumblr, this fandom still has that reputation to non-fans, and so people don't want to be associated with it.

•Cringe culture. At its peak, the DR fandom on tumblr was made mostly of teens, especially younger teens. I think the earnest way young teens participate in fandom led to it being seen as cringe, just like many other fandoms. Also, even outside of its problematic content, DR's plot can be weird and, frankly, even completely ridiculous. Similar to hom/estuck, I think this esotericness adds to people's kneejerk reaction to it when hearing about it second hand.

•The tendency of tumblr to turn on popular media when the magic is gone. This is something I've noticed with a lot of tumblr's number 1 big fandoms. Once a lot of people's interest in it starts wearing off, for some reason people will pivot to hating it. It happened with T/MA a little, it happened with Und/ertale, it happened with S/U, and so many other fandoms that tumblr went crazy over initially. Maybe its because these fandoms became so vocal they started to annoy those not participating, so they started to meme and make fun of it and its fans. Then, when people start to leave as their interests change, they join in on the teasing to displace the shame they might've felt from being teased. Eventually, people usually turn around and come to appreciate the piece of media casually again. That didn't really happen with DR... probably because of the other three reasons.

DR gained this reputation of being "irredeemable, problematic, cringe media" with a toxic fanbase and never shook it off. Before I played DR, I knew nothing about it except that tumblr hated it, for some reason. I had learned literally nothing else through fandom osmosis! And I think that general feeling, that Good People who like Unproblematic Things* (*requirement of being a good person) would never touch DR with a 10 foot pole outside of to make fun of it, sticks with people.

So when people finally check it out, usually through irony-poisoned letsplays of it, and end up actually liking it, they don't know what to do with themselves. How do you balance genuinely liking this piece of media with the site-wide perception youve grown so used to? With the idea that everyone will hate you if they know you like it, that you are a bad person for even posting about it? And thats how you get everyone's first DR post having a caption essentially communicating "im so sorry for posting about dr- I know its terrible and associating myself with this game makes me look disgusting- people who've followed me up until now, please dont hate me!"

[ffsg0jo]

the aemond and daemon mommy issues divide is that aemond is anal retentive and daemon is anal expulsive.

[twin-fantasies]

if teenage-hood was an album it would be twin fantasy

[elisedonut]

Trans boy Percy can be a lot of fun

just a lot of people have a tendency to make it something he comes out about Pre-canon and that it changes nothing

while I'm over here like I firmly believe that Molly would not have continued having kids if she thought she already had a daughter

and i think she would be annoying as hell about him figuring himself out I just think she would be so disrespectful about it

Molly would be a "but your ruining yourself! you are my baby girl!" while crying type of parent and I believe that in my heart

She would guilt trip Percy like crazy about it while feeling 100% like she's doing the right thing.

Do I think that maybe she would realize after a few years that she's being absolutely terrible? I mean like I would hope so

[dent-de-leon]

hi I'm both overjoyed and yet also crying--

[bunnyreaper]

ch2 of collars and cages is already 3.5k words what the fuck is johnny doing to me!!!!!!!!