#because it's literally just so evil

[navree]

Honestly, what even was the point of having Criston kill beesbury? Why are they using ever bad thing Mushroom said about the greens when he wasn't even there. Honestly, I hope they do the brothel queens then, because it goes to show the Blacks cruelty (although they probably won't lol)

I think in the books it's to show how deadly serious the entire thing was, what with everyone swearing blood oaths and shit, but at least they provided a lot of ambiguity in how Beesbury died (personally I like the idea that he was arrested and then, because he's an eighty year old man, died due to poor conditions in the cells). It's especially weird because the two accounts of people who say that Criston specifically killed Beesbury right away aren't even people who were present, while Orwyle, who was, is the one who said that he was just arrested but then caught a chill and died.

Given how much they've softened the circumstances surrounding taking the crown for Aegon, I'm not entirely sure what killing Beesbury serves in the show, except to show that Criston has.......idk, anger issues??? Roid rage???? I appreciate that they tried to make it an accident but the whole thing was really weird and it does come off as "well the book said this happened so we gotta make it happen we just don't know how". It's really weird, especially when we know they start rounding people up and shoving them in cells anyway in order to keep things secret, so why not just do the same with Beesbury and then have him die due to mistreatment, or Larys killing him or something?

What I've found odd about the writing of the Greens, and I do stand by this, is that they've clearly put a lot of effort into developing these characters and giving them much more layers than they ever had in the book, and it's clearly come at the expense of the Blacks, which immediately became a problem in episode 10 when I cared far more about the stakes in Otto's one scene than I ever did for Lucerys who was literally going to die. But at the same time, they've paired that development writing with consistently choosing the worst option when it comes to canon things, especially for Aegon (it's OK honey, Tom Glynn-Carey and I share a hivemind and we understand you), so you've got good characterization on the one hand, and demonization on the other, which is especially galling when you remember that they don't even HAVE Mushroom in the show, so they're willing to take the worst things as objective proof without showing where those stories even came from. It's weird, they want the Greens to be more sympathetic so they put a lot of work into that, but they still want the Blacks to be the most sympathetic and in the objective right, so when they're not developing, they're taking every horrible story and treating it as fact even when it's stupid.

(I think this is emblematic of an issue I noted in an earlier ask, which is that this show has a much larger writers' room than GOT did and nearly every episode was written by a different person, who all clearly had different agendas, and it's made the writing a bit wonky).

Though I will say, I really hope they won't go with the brothel queens story. For one, I just really don't want to see it, especially since Alicent's already endured enough rape as it is, and Helaena's still going to be shattered, and the whole thing is just nauseating to even think about. I think there are other ways of showing the Blacks' cruelty, like if they go all out with Blood and Cheese, and maybe making the story about Mysaria's role in Helaena's death official. Having Mysaria also suggest the brothel queens idea wouldn't be beyond the pale, but I wouldn't want it to actually happen. I think there are ways to show how dark Rhaenyra and her side have become over the course of the war without resorting to gang rape.

[corviiids]

i still just cannot get over beyond birthday as a character because everything id ever seen in fanon before reading LABB indicated that he was some kind of dark spectre haunting L's past and then i read LABB and not only is he just a weird crawler freaking it crab style on the floor, L does not even interact with him one single time. he just makes naomi deal with it. like sorry can you fucking imagine being BB and spending your entire life obsessing the fuck over the guy you see as the bane of your existence and your eternal rival forever and you try doing murders so you can finally defeat him and he fucking delegates you. and then he goes and becomes eternal rivals forever with a gay high schooler

[drenched-in-sunlight]

saying this as respectfully as possible but. Do not put fandom content creators on a pedestal. We are also just fans contributing to a community just as you are. We have boundary on our own work and that’s it. What I say is not and should not be considered sth the whole fandom should listen to. I’m just a normal ass person ranting about things on my blog. If it does not have a fandom tag for others to engage in, do not make it out to be me trying to start fights or addressing the whole community. Because it’s not.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, my art, my lore talk, is biased. I’ve never tried to hide that I view Marika a certain way and will always develop my theory following that base assumption.

Aside from translation stuffs and pointing out in-game items, everything else I say you can look at it, agree or disagree, and move on to form your own opinions. Just because I draw stuffs doesn’t mean you get to saddle me with responsibilities about managing fandom expectations. What the hell? I’m a fan artist, I’m the last person who you should look at for “leaderism” (?) WHAT?

I can and will be a hater in my own space, like I know sometimes other artists will just post their stuffs and not engage too heavily with fandom, and for a while I did try to do that here (because I’m already a dramatic ass on twitter), that’s just not me though.

You will get art and you will get my opinions as well.

[sycamorality]

liking scavengers is the liking bugs/spiders of the rain world fandom

[rocketbirdie]

here comes trouble (make it double!)

[tangramkey]

i love my Basketbot Portal AU

[fairyroses]

He was about to kill you, Lex. Or divulge something you didn't want me to know.

— SMALLVILLE, "Forever" (4.21)

+ bonus from "Arctic" (7.20):

[greelin]

maybe if you didn’t have that damn bloodless debuff

[evilvvithin]

ALCINA DIMITRESCU

[critter-wizard]

ep 43 had me tearing up in a fucking shopping centre ‼️‼️

b+w alt version that I truly couldn't decide if I liked it more . Also I included a lot of thoughts in the tags but they're somewhat incoherent<3

[kyo-hiki]

babies are asleep, shhhh

[zaacoy]

The sillys!! Back at it again!!!

[trappedinafantasy37]

Since Minthara presents an exterior shell made of steel, and she's sometimes mean, and is an absolute badass in battle, she is often treated and perceived as someone who feels no emotions. And this often occurs to individuals who do put on such a tough exterior. It also does not help that many people perceive evil characters as incapable of doing or feeling anything other than evil. That love and evil are innately incompatible.

But Minthara is not emotionless, she does feel things. Sadness, grief, fear, loneliness, anger, anxiety, paranoia, vengeance, love. She can laugh, she can tell jokes, she can cry, she can smile, and she does get upset at things. If anything, she is emotionally repressed and emotionally guarded and the times where she does really express her more negative and vulnerable emotions is when it becomes too much to hold back and it comes out a little over the top. We have to remember she comes from a society in which such outward emotional expression would be rewarded with social punishment, religious scorn, or even death. So she really doesn't have the healthiest mechanisms to express her emotions.

She hides what she feels all the time as a means of keeping herself safe from punishment. She keeps it to herself cause she does not want you to see her as weak, as she would have been in the past. And she certainly does not want you or anyone else to punish her for it either. She hides behind little pet names and even using words from languages she knows you don't understand as that is the only way she feels safe being vulnerable with you. In her past, her love was rewarded with new wounds and new scars. She is terrified to open up to you, fearing that you will hurt her because she loves you. That her love for you won't actually be enough to stop you from hurting her. And she will only ever admit she loves you in contexts that have a high risk of death because there's really not much for her to lose at that point so she may as well tell you.

She also has a habit of intellectualizing what she feels and experiences so that they appear as "rational" and "logical" rather than emotional and to distance herself from her emotions. She says it takes a sharp mind to have sympathy for someone who suffers unnecessarily. She is trying to make it appear that emotions like sympathy is a matter of the mind, not the heart. That it is a mark of intelligence, because otherwise it would be the mark of weakness.

She blames herself for her own torments, like she deserved the awful things that happened to her. She frames the situation like she is more at fault and more deserving of blame, than the people who hurt her. It is the only way she can find any reason in what happened to her and any reason in her tormentors actions. That she did something wrong and induced someone's wrath upon her, rather than acknowledging that the person who hurt her is just a bad person.

She deserved what Ketheric and Orin did to her because she was "weak, passive, proud". That her emotional state had blinded her from the trap that was set, giving Ketheric and Orin ample opportunity to attack her. That if she hadn't felt those exact emotions, then it wouldn't have happened. She could have seen the trap coming, or she could have fought back.

Or if you attempt to tell her that her childhood was rough and her mother abused her, she immediately deflects by saying, "it could have been worse" and therefore, what she did actually experience wasn't really that bad. And yeah, sure, maybe she needed certain lessons given that she lived in a cruel and dangerous society like Menzoberranzan where she had to be prepared for violence at all times. But trauma is not born of love, it is born of fear, of pain, of agony, and her mother still tried to kill her. Regardless of her mother's intent, it was the first broken bond of trust and it left a mark on Minthara. Where she began to believe that her mother would torment her for torments sake, and she had doubts on whether or not her mother actually loved her.

When you encounter the first Orin imposter, it's pretty damn obvious she is terrified. And you kinda gotta squeeze it out of her to admit that she's afraid. Where it's "I'm afraid of Orin because she is capable of this, this, and this, and you should be too" rather than "I am afraid of Orin because she hurt me." And she begs you, BEGS, to keep her safe because she knows her fear makes her vulnerable to Orin.

She doesn't even truly acknowledge that she wasn't at fault for what Orin did to her until Orin is dead. She doesn't start putting the blame on Orin until Orin is dead. She doesn't go through the emotional process of sympathizing with herself until Orin is dead. And she doesn't admit that she undoubtedly has trauma, until Orin is dead. She gets so wrapped up, and so lost in her own fear and paranoia that she never has the room to properly process the things that happen to her. That her primary concern right now is keeping you, the others, and herself safe and her emotions can wait because wallowing in them will only make her weak. Only does the distance of death give her the room to start healing. Only problem is that there have always been threats and they never end, they never stop. So it is rare for Minthara to ever have a moment of peace and safety to work through what she feels and they just get backed up. Ignoring your problems does not make them go away.

So you wanna know what will happen when an embrace Durge betrays her? She will fall to her death, a knife in her belly, blaming herself for your betrayal. All her worst fears have come to pass and you were indeed a lover who hurt her because she loved you, and that she was a fool to ever trust you at all. That if she didn't love you, maybe you wouldn't have hurt her. She doesn't understand your reasoning, she can't make sense of it, she doesn't know why you'd betray her, so it must have been her fault for thinking you'd be different. That if she hadn't been so loyal, so devoted, that she could have been spared. That her belief that you would rule together is what damned her. She will die blaming herself for her own murder before she ever gets a chance to start blaming you.

[wu-does-art]

decided there wasn't enough RK charms in the world (none), so im making one and putting it out there later for anyone who might want one too!

heres the concept.

[trickstersaint]

fr though you have to write bad poetry. poems are not handed down to you fully formed by god they are things that you have to work on and practice your skill at creating. nobody would expect you to sit down at a pottery wheel and end up with a perfect vase with no practice. it's a skill! art is a learned thing!! you have to make the shitty little pots with dents and marks and your fingerprints all over them in order to get better. and you're allowed to be proud of those first little pots you made too

[worstloki]

there is a difference between being born to a throne, maliciously vying for a throne, stealing a throne, and having a throne thrust upon you when you are already in the midst of an identity crisis. And I fear Loki's place in the line of succession has people unable to differentiate between any of these