#daemon would start this podcast

[tweedfrog]

Men's rights podcast in Westeros where they talk about being "high valueryian men"

[multiplicity-positivity]

Info and Resources for Questioning Systems

Our old post with resources is out of date and doesn’t have that much information, so we’ve decided to put this together! Please let us know if we should make any corrections or if you have resource ideas you’d like us to add to this post.

NOTE: Before we get started, it’s so important to mention that every system should rule out trauma first before considering other origins. This is because complex dissociative disorders can present in covert ways, and function by hiding trauma from some alters. Even if you’re certain you’re not traumatized, please research and understand complex dissociative disorders before learning about other origin types. It’s possible to not remember or misunderstand trauma. Ruling it out first will save you a lot of difficulty and heartache in the future!

NOTE 2: As a system, we understand the terms “tulpa” and “tulpamancy” are cultural appropriation, and believe that as a community a different term for these systems should be selected. However, until that happens, we will continue to link handy resources for these sorts of systems.

Now, onto the resources!

This is not a complete list! If there’s any resource you’ve found useful and would like us to add, please get in touch!

Websites:

CDD (DID and OSDD-1) Specific:

Beauty after Bruises, and especially their article on myths and misconceptions about DID

Multiplied by One, a DID nonprofit that has a wealth of resources on dissociative disorders and CPTSD (and offering support for those in need!)

First Person Plural, another great nonprofit

ISSTD’s public resources

The Cleveland Clinic’s page on DID

Survivors’ Network (not to be confused with the Survivors’ Network Discord) page on DID

The National Alliance on Mental Illness’ info on dissociative disorders

DIS-SOS, a blog with tons of info on trauma, dissociation, and living with both

osdd.one, a site with information on complex dissociative disorders with a focus on OSDD-1

NAMI Michigan’s DID fact sheet

The Healthy Place’s blog on Dissociative Living

Non-CDD Specific:

What is Plurality/Multiplicity? by YoppVoice

More than One

Tulpa.io, Tulpanomicon, and Tulpa.info, all sites where tulpas, thoughtforms, willomates, and their creators can share their experiences

The Daemon Page

Daemonism 101

Manchester Metropolitan University’s Understanding Multiplicity

Plurality-Resources (traumagenic, not CDD, specific)

The Plurality Playbook, a resource for plurality in the workplace (for employees and managers)

Endogenic Hub

The Dissociative Initiative includes resources for both CDD systems and others who experience multiplicity

Soulbonding Info Carrd

Pluralpedia, a plurality wiki created and maintained by systems for systems

Podcasts:

The System Speak Podcast

The Bag System Podcast

Tumblr Blogs:

@pluraldeepdive

@system-society

@dear-systems

@plural-culture-is

@subsystems

@plurals-helping-plurals

YouTubers:

The Alexandrite System

FragmentDID

The Rings System

The CTAD Clinic

(psst! if you’re an endogenic/not-trauma formed system YouTuber, please let us know! we’d love to check out your videos and add your channel to this list!)

Other:

This Google Drive folder has 13 books on mental health, with a focus on dissociative disorders and trauma.

This Google Drive folder also has a bunch of great resources (keep in mind there are some repeats in both drives)

UTEP’s Mental Health Awareness Training infographic on dissociative disorders

Our own posts on Understanding DID, Establishing Contact with Headmates, Dissociative Amnesia, and Depersonalization vs. Derealization

Seeking help through therapy:

(specifically specialists in dissociative disorders)

Psychology Today’s search page for finding therapists who specialize in dissociative disorders

Carolyn Spring’s article, How to find a therapist for a dissociative disorder

The ISSTD’s Find a Therapist page

Websites we do NOT recommend can be found here! Note: some of the resources we’ve linked here have their own links to websites we don’t recommend. Please use your best judgement when visiting sites, and understand that we as a system DO NOT endorse the sites listed in the link above, even if we’ve included resources that link to those sites.

We hope y’all are able to find some of this useful! Again, please let us know if you have any resources you’d like us to add to this list. Thanks so much, everyone!

[writeyouin]

What His Dark Materials Daemons Would the Disney Princess's Have? Podcast

Hey there everybody, so as some of you know, me and my friend Suzie have started a podcast, Feline Opinionated.

This week, we talked about the Deamons of His Dark Materials and what Daemon each Disney princess would have. So please, help us reach a wider audience and reblog this.

It's a lot of fun for us, and if you like the podcast, then by all means leave a comment on YouTube and tell us what show you'd like us to speculate on in our next episode about Daemons.

Also, a massive shout out to @waveys-shenanigans who is our IRL friend and made this stunning artwork which will be used in all future podcast. Suzie is the larger cat with glasses, and I'm the smaller cutie pie (they would disagree about the cute part).

Major detail went into the pic, down to our favourite books, and our celebrity crushes.

[viscardiac]

Roadtrip

𝐃𝐀𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐄𝐍 𝐗 𝐎𝐂 𝐗 𝐑𝐇𝐀𝐄𝐍𝐘𝐑𝐀 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐄𝐍

𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘: Unfortunately for everyone, Hanna is easily bored and has exhausted her passtimes. All that's left is annoying Daemon and Rhaenyra on the front seat.

𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓: 2.113

𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒: Car ride, punishment, bondage, toy use, edging, pissing.

The long whine overpowered the generic pop music on the radio. Hanna kept tapping her feet on the floor like a spoiled child, looking around again and again. Rhaenyra ran both her hands through her face on the passenger seat, growing tired of it. Daemon, beside her, said nothing, but the twist on his face was very much visible. It had been over four hours since they’d left the house, and one and a half since Hanna started to act like a child.

She had exhausted her netflix downloads, reading material, and could not stop rolling around the backseat without her seatbelt on. She’d finished with every snack they’d gotten on the last gas stop. Insisted she couldn’t sleep on the car. Played podcasts. Changed songs.

“Are we there yet?” She whined.

Rhaenyra sank on her seat with a long sigh, and Daemon gripped the steering wheel tighter. Hanna buttoned and unbuttoned her cardigan. Looked out the window again, took off her sneakers. 

“Is it going to take too long?” Hanna bounced, and that seemed to be the last staw. Daemon took a deep breath in, tapping the wheel.

“Rhaenyra, you get the bullet.”

Rhaenyra pulled up her sunglasses, sitting up. He was already switching lanes to stop the car at the first roadside restaurant he found.

“You sure? She’s only going to get whinier.”

“Yes, but then I’ll be able to enjoy it.” He huffed, parking on the furthest spot from the entrance. “It’s in the back. I’ll go get some drinks.”

“Get me some fries too. I’m going to need your belt.” Rhaenyra unclasped her seatbelt, and Hanna was already tying her shoes to get out too, looking very glad to get out. “Not you. You stay there.” He handed her the belt and got out of the car, locking Hanna’s door.

“But I wanna get out!” She bounced on he seat again, and Rhaenyra left her seat too, closing the door of Daemon’s large car and moving to the back. Hanna heard her open the trunk and scramble for something, then close it again. She wondered what. Rhaenyra wasn’t going to shoot her for being annoying, was she?

She didn’t, joining her in the backseat, belt in hands and not looking very happy. She pulled her legs to her lap, and Hanna leaned back on the door, waiting for something to happen, short tennis skirt rising slightly. Rhaenyra caressed her legs and proceeded to untie and remove her sneakers. But instead of doing anything to her feet, she removed the laces from the shoes too.

“Come here,” she called with her hand, and Hanna crawled over to her side.

“You’re not going to shoot me, right?” She smiled, leaning on her, her breasts pressed against Rhaenyra’s arm. She smiled back at Hanna, cupping her face delicately, and she pressed further against her arm.

“Of course not, honey. Why don’t you lay on me for a moment?”

“On your lap?”

Rhaenyra nodded, and she laid down, her back on her legs. Her tank top was pulled up, exposing the blue cotton bra Hanna wore underneath. It was properly unclasped, and slipped out easily, while Hanna watched, her brown eyes dark and mouth slightly open. Her nipples were caressed, pinched, and her breasts massaged thoroughly. From her breasts, she caressed her inner thighs, raising her skirt more.

“You’ve been incredibly annoying, you know.” She continued, her fingers hovering over the blue panties everytime they got too close.

“I’m just bored, Nyra,” she pouted. “There’s nothing to do.” Rhaenyra sighed.

“You do understand we have to punish you for it, don’t you?”

Hanna nodded shyly, wondering if there would be any touching involved. Rhaenyra smiled, running her hand over the panties slowly until she got to her behind. Hanna squirmed, and she used the moment of expectation to flip her on her belly, not sparing a moment to give her cheeks a playful slap. She squirmed once more, expecting a stronger slap, that came right after. Rhaenyra pressed two fingers against her cunt, over the panties, moving slightly. There was a small wet stain, and she could feel the slick under the fabric.

“So you like this,” she laughed through her nose, and Hanna nodded again. That time, she grabbed the belt, first hitting her lightly with it, but increasing strenght until she yelped, whining again. Rhaenyra only smiled wider when she looked up with pleading eyes, giving her ass a particularly strong hit with the belt.

“I’m sorry,” Hanna pleaded. “I’m not going to do it again!”

“We both know that’s not true.” She tsked, in the same tone one would use with a child who lied.

Hanna’s wrists were delicately picked up and bound together behind her back with the belt. The soft skin on the back of her legs was red, sensitive. She squirmed again, pressing her legs together. Hanna couldn’t decide whether she was in pain or wanting desperately to be touched, her nipples rubbing against Rhaenyra’s legs. It seemed to feel the same.

Rhaenyra had her sit again, moving her hips so she would be on the middle seat, where the cushion had a bump and she could be seen perfectly from the rear mirror. She buckled the seatbelt, keeping her in place, and parted her legs, pushing her knees up until her bare feet were up on the seat as well. Only then she pulled the black bullet vibrator from her pocket, with a silicon string on the end. Hanna bit her lip as her panties were pushed aside, and moaned slightly as the small device was pushed inside her with two careful fingers. After Rhaenyra decided it was deep enough, she pulled the panties over her again, only the silicon string poking out.

She cleaned her fingers on one of her nipples, caressing them over the wetness, and Hanna squirmed again with another small moan. But that was it. No more caressing as she tied Hanna’s shoelaces together and used them to tie her ankles. There was enough space between them so she could open her legs to her hips’ width, enough so they could see the soaked panties between them. With a fast kiss on her lips, Rhaenyra decided she was done there, and left to return to the front seat.

Daemon came back shortly after, handing Rhaenyra a takeout container and a plastic bag with a few cans through the window before also heading to the back seat. He didn’t go in fully, though, only enough so he could kiss her slowly, pulling her face to him, his thumb caressing her cheek. Only then he held one of her nipples between his fingers, pulling it slightly.

“Is it deep enough?” He asked, loud, and though the question wasn’t for her, she nodded.

“Yeah,” Rhaenyra answered from the front seat. “You should’ve gotten more soda, most of this is beer.”

“They were all out, I’m afraid.” He shrugged, raising her skirt more around her hips and backing away from Hanna to close the door. He got in again on the driver’s seat, starting the car again. Hanna saw Rhaenyra hand him a small controller, in the same color as the bullet vibrator, as he left the parking lot and went back to the road. “You’ve been particularly terrible these last few hours.”

“There’s nothing to do out here! And we’re taking too long to get there,” she whined. Daemon pressed a button and the device came to life inside her. It appeared to be at a medium setting.

“Terrible girls don’t get to come,” he shook his head, pressing again, increasing the vibration. She moaned out, squirming on her seat. She tried rubbing against the cushion, but it barely worked, she couldn’t open her legs enough for it. But then the vibration decreased to the minimum, only enough so she would get wetter and needier. “No humping the seat, love.”

“But cumming would make it much less boring!” Hanna bounced again, feet on top of the seat. He shrugged. Rhaenyra pulled a can of cola from the plastic bag and opened it.

“Try to be good then, honey. The better a girl you are, the higher we can keep the vibe,” she smiled, taking a sip and passing another can to Daemon. 

Hanna whimpered, sinking back to her seat, and gave out a loud, surprised moan as the setting was increased suddenly, twitching her hips. It stayed like that for a few moments, then started to decrease. It stayed at its lowest for a few minutes and would suddenly go to it’s highest, only to start decreasing again. She whined every time it went down, squirming until it went back up with eyes closed. But slowly, the pressure started building up between her legs.

“Please don’t stop now,” she moaned, but to her complete frustration, it went out completely. She breathed in, opening her eyes, feeling teary. “You are so mean to me!”

“I said only good girls get to come. You’ve been terrible.” He raised his eyebrows, staring at her through the rear mirror.

“Can I at least have a drink? I’m so thirsty…” She pouted, legs shaky, feeling way too wet and squirming again. Rhaenyra looked back at her, eyebrows raised. The vibe came back, at its minimum.

“There’s only beer left, are you sure?”

She nodded, sinking back.

“Put it between my knees, so I can balance it.”

Rhaenyra shrugged, opening the can and putting it between her knees so she could pick it up. Hanna managed to balance it on her mouth and started drinking it down. It dripped from her chin when they turned to the sides, wetting her breasts.

“Go easy on that,” she frowned in concern, looking at Hanna. “We don’t want you to get drunk.” Hanna shrugged, finishing off her can and letting it fall to the floor.

“I can have more than that. It’s just one can.”

The vibe went up slightly, and she sat back again, trying not to do anything to be deemed terrible. But it went on like that again and again. Hanna almost came once again, but it got ruined again. Frustration was building up once more, and she was starting to actually feel uncomfortable. She ignored it for five minutes, ten before she bent foward, biting her lip.

“Can you stop the car a little, Dae?” She pressed her legs together, toes curling up.

“No, I don’t think so.” He raised an eyebrow. “There’s still too long to go.”

“Yeah, but I really need to go,” she pouted, urgency on her voice.

“I guess you’re just going to have to hold it in, love,” he shrugged.

He raised the vibration slightly, and she squirmed more visibly, whimpering. She continued to whimper for another five minutes, moving around as she could on her seat.

“I really really need to go. I’m barely able to hold anymore.” Hanna breathed in, squirming and holding her legs together.

“You should have thought that before drinking.”

“But I’ll mess up the seat!”

“It’s fine. I’ll just tell the cleaner we had a new, disobedient little dog on the back seat,” he stared through the mirror at her teary eyes. “Rhaenyra told you to go easy on the beer.”

“I was thirsty! I’m not joking, pretty please? I really, really, really need to go.”

Daemon amped up the vibration again, and she whimpered louder. He saw the wet stain on her panties grow just a little. She let out a little scream as a little more came out, legs pressed together. She was still trying to hold it, but it became harder and harder. When he raised the vibration again, she couldn’t hold it anymore, wetting her seat all over, a very large stain on the cushion forming as the stream she couldn’t stop came out. She had small tears on the corner of her eyes, her lower lip trembling, sinking to her seat in defeat.

Only then he turned the vibration to the highest setting again, and Hanna cried out, moving her hips as if that would help. It wasn’t long before she wet herself again. But he kept the device on, and her frustration started to ease little by little until she was on the edge of coming again. That time, he let her, smiling softly at her laid back on her dirty seat, too tired to protest.

“Do you think she’s going to try again on the way back?” Rhaenyra looked at Hanna over her shoulder, seeing her trying to steady her breath for long enough to say anything.

“There isn’t going to be a way back. She’s going on a plane,” Daemon sighed.

[youleavethetardisbrakeson]

do you think rhaenys thought she was going to die while being held prisoner? i was rewatching the scene between her and alicent and her face when alicent says “and even [corlys] has abandoned you…leaving the lady of driftmark to chart her course alone” got me wondering what was going through her head and if she thought maybe she was alone or had no more moves left to play. anyways would love your thoughts hehe

Lol you know I love to ramble! Thank you for the ask ❤️

I will start with what director Clare Kilner said on the Official Game of Thrones podcast:

"I love the scene with Rhaenys where she's locked in her room and is completely helpless. And you just know when she's sitting on that bed, the machinations and she's just like putting everything together. And she's such a smart woman that she's gonna be concocting a plan as soon as she gets out of there."

I would say being locked in her room makes her feel threatened, and helpless as Clare said. BUT I think the Hightowers killing her would be an incredibly stupid move, and that must also be something she knows. If Corlys is still alive (which I'm certain she's clinging to the idea of; more on that later), he'd go after them. Borros Baratheon is her first cousin and they're also quite close political allies. And then of course Daemon and Rhaenyra would probably declare war just on principle alone. Alicent also states that they want her AND her dragon. As long as she's alive and tied to Meleys, they have some control over her remaining in the Dragonpit. So there are more reasons to keep her alive.

Also, the way she pauses and looks at the hanged body later on indicates to me that maybe she wasn't 100% expecting Otto to start executing people on the spot? Like she thought it was a possibility, but hadn't fully realized it yet.

So I would say the primary emotion she's feeling is trapped, hence her big "fuck you" display at the end of the episode. She physically breaks out of the Dragonpit, flexes her power, and flies away free.

As for what she was thinking when Alicent mentions that Corlys abandoned her... Clearly Alicent bringing up her children dying and her husband being close to death is a very upsetting, vulnerable subject. She's lost SO much and it clearly upsets her.

But her reply to Alicent is super interesting: "The word of my house is not fickle."

In a very simple read of it, she's asserting that House Velaryon is not traitorous. But I think it's also an interesting callback to episode 5 where Corlys says "you honor both me and my house, Your Grace." He says the latter part while looking directly at Rhaenys. The two of them together are House Velaryon. By evoking that phrase again, she is saying Corlys' word is not fickle. They are a team and she respects his word, and I like to think she may even be implying 'Corlys is alive and he promised to come back to me. He is not dead yet.'

[captainswanapproved]

HOTD & Daemon and Rhaenyra have been such a blessing.

Under the cut I get really sappy about this ship and the fandom.

I never thought I would be interested in House of the Dragon because I never rooted for Daenerys or a Targaryen restoration in GOT. My loyalty was to the Starks and they were my favorites. Because of this, I didn't hate season 8. For the most part, I enjoyed the journey of the characters in the final season. It should have been better executed with more episodes, but I more or less liked where the characters ended up. So when this show was announced, I dismissed it because if I didn't like the character that is arguably the most influential Targaryen, why would I want to watch a show about the family and its civil war.

So now here comes House of the Dragon. I tried watching the first episode, got to the tourney and I wasn't feeling it, despite my love of Matt Smith.

Then I listened to one of my favorite podcasts that was reviewing House of the Dragon. I wanted to see if it was worth giving another chance. Episode 5 had just aired.

I decided to give it a chance and I absolutely fell in love with Rhaenyra and Daemon and Syrax and Caraxes and Viserys (even though I was frustrated with some of his decisions.)

I love House of the Dragon because it is so character focused and feels more intimate than Game of Thrones. We get to know the characters better because there are fewer to focus on. We also get hints of a love story with so many high romance tropes, which is unusual for Game of Thrones.

I knew nothing about Fire and Blood except for the fact that it existed, but I picked up on Daemon and Rhaenyra as a future couple from episode one, and I started to root for them. Only after I was caught up after episode five did I actually look up Daemon and Rhaenyra and how their relationship happened in the book.

I decided to get back to tumblr and start shipping. And once I ship something, I am ride or die.

House of the Dragon brought me back to tumblr and fandom after many years and an accidental deletion of my blog sent me away.

This show is also important to me because right now I am in the hardest semester of nursing school, constantly being beaten down by how much material there is and how busy and draining it is.

Watching this show gave me what I desperately needed. An hour a week to just take some time for myself and obsess over a story I loved and fictional character that I loved. It brought me back to writing fanfiction again, which I honestly haven't done because I've been focusing on publishing my books (which granted are Jane Austen Fan Fiction, but that is a separate thing).

In writing for stories for Daemon and Rhaenyra I found a way to get back into writing post the release of my fourth novel and during one of the most stressful periods of my life thus far.

I love writing so much, but working on my novel during school felt overwhelming. It was much easier to write short drabbles and a short multi chapter story about Daemon and Rhaenyra.

I am so entirely grateful for this show, and even though it has only been a month, it brought me so much joy and helped me cope with my crazy and stressful personal life.

So no matter the questionable writing choices, I'm in. All in. Until the very end. Daemon and Rhaenyra have taken a part of my heart, and I will watch their tragic and beautiful journey together.

That being said, it will be nice when season 2 happens because I'll be done with school and hopefully I'll have more time to write some fix it fic, which we are going to need in season 2.

Thank you to everyone who has followed recently and interacts with my posts and supports my writing.

I love you, Daemyra nation. Let's enjoy this last episode, or at least enjoy all the discourse, fan edits, gif sets, and fix it fic that come after it!

[aboutdragons]

Hiya, I love your fic! I find it so amazing and I can't tell you the amount of times I've laughed out loud because of it. I find it really interesting that instead of Daelyra being close to Rhea and hating Daemon you took the opposite route. I don't think I've seen anyone do that. Your story has now made me want to write a hotd oc story of my own (though admittedly its still in the planning stages).

In responds to the ask game that you have up -

What inspired you to write the fic this way?

Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?

Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

What do you like best about this fic?

What scene did you first put down?

Ahaha thank you! I'm really happy it makes you laugh, I do my best to put a lot of levity in the things I write because, really, life is lived best when you find joy in the little things. And yes, I'm aware it's common for Daemon to not even know he has a kid with Rhea, but I felt it would make for a much more interesting dynamic if he was the parent taking care of her. Gives him more depth and an interesting dichotomy between a genuinely good father but still an overall shit person.

Ahh I love inspiring people, and if you have a story to tell by all means go tell it! As for planning; from personal experience, you absolutely must know how things start, how things end, and what important things happen in the middle. The in-between stuff is easy enough to fill in, and who knows - maybe interesting plot points will sneak up on you on their own. They have the tendency to do that.

Answers for the questions under the cut because I ramble:

What inspired you to write the fic this way?

Loaded question, because there are multiple parts to the fic. Lyra and Daemon's relationship was inspired by the multitude of father-daughter manhwa I read (very specifically, 'Male Lead's Adopted Daughter'). Also in general GRRM's work; mostly it's lacks, because I'm a fantasy hoe, and his stuff has fantasy as a sidenote most of the time. I wanted more.

Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?

Not necessarily, unless my friend throwing ideas at me to see what sticks counts.

Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

Kinda yeah but also no; there IS a Modern AU version of ttad in the workshop but it is, chronologically, the sequel to the current story. So on one hand it is an AU, on another it's a direct continuation so no clue if it counts.

What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

Either podcasts or lofi. I don't listen to get myself in the mood but to fill in the silence, so I don't really have recommendations except in one specific case where Lyra claimed the Cannibal and I was listening to How To Tran Your Dragon theme while writing it.

What do you like best about this fic?

I think Lyra, actually. She's one of my favorite OCs that I made, even though she's quite formulaic. I guess her face claim being Rhea Ripley helps in that lmao.

The plot is close second though, I just love me a good sandbox to throw some dragons, ancient lost cities, and civilizations-spanning mystery.

What scene did you first put down?

I genuinely do not remember. I have a whole doc file for unrelated snippets for future reference and I don't know which one came first, but I'm reasonably sure it was Lyra returning to KL circa 128 and interacting with Aemond. Kinda started braining the story ass-backwards lmao.

[bohemian-nights]

Btw an interesting note the HOTD podcast interviewed the actress playing older Laena and the actors playing Lyonel and Harwin Strong if you're intersted in listening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhjnz0m2lu4

Her part starts around the 40 min mark and she’s so sweet! like the poor actress thought fans were going to hate Laena for burning herself and thought it was crazy she was willing to do that.😂😫 She also thought she wasn’t going to get the role because she was Swedish and her English wasn’t very good and apparently the audition process was like super long around 4-5 months or something(I honestly feel for her she was very good with the time she got but why put her through that audition process when she was only young to be for one ep plus they already had a younger version of Laena who could have easily played her after the time jump as well) It’s interesting her talking about how she saw Laena as this young woman who got with the bad boy and had this exciting life for a while but then she ends up becoming kind of a housewife and becomes bored and starts missing the bad boy she married and also wants to go back home despite knowing he would mess things up there. Miguel also told her to approach Daemon as an addict in their scenes lol not that we didn’t know R and all that BS in Westeros affect him negatively but it’s good to know the writers at least didn’t see him staying away from that mess as s negative thing.

Thank you for this🙏🏽. I’ll definitely check it out. I think they messed up by having three different actresses play Laena. Like you said, they could have kept the second actress to play her since she was only there for one episode as older Laena.

She’s also supposed to be younger than Rhaenyra in the show so it really doesn’t make sense, but the older actress played her beautifully. It’s crazy though how they made her go through all that just for one episode. I can see how her approach to Laena at that point in her life checks out with what we saw on screen. She did a good job with what she was given.

Interesting how they wanted her to approach Daemon😬. He does seem like he’s really messed up in episode 6 (why they made him depressed negligent father/husband I will never know🤷🏽‍♀️), but Laena was vastly underused.

Honestly episode 6 is one of my least favorite episodes. I’d love to go back and analyze it, but I’m still pissed off🫠. There was a lot of potential there and the show writers ruined it.

[ppeuppeuppeu]

I can't stand people "theorizing" that jace is crispin's son just because they gave jace a straight hair wig and didn't show rhaenyra drinking the damn tea! there is so much proof that all 3 have the same father. to start with the chronology

nyra's involvement with crispin was before she was engaged, they ended their "relationship" back to kingsland because he didn't want to be "her whore" he even opened his mouth to alicent about it

her wedding was supposed to be 7 days of celebration, for that she has to have had a good amount of time to prepare. send crows and wait for the guests. Among the guests were Hightower's and Royces (two different regions)

rhaenyra wanted to run away with daemon to dragonstone so for sure she wasn't pregnant with crispin

and even after that, in episode 6 (Viserys and Harwin say that Jace and Luke are younger than aemond) and aemond wasn't born yet in episode 5, just helaena as a baby, so it doesn't make any sense. rhaenyra confirms to daemon her relationship with harwin in episode 7 and says that she and laenor tried to have a baby but failed. jace knows who his father is, he was mourning him but he had to keep up appearances.

Even crispin himself knows that jace is from harwin "thought as much"

wearing the wig they gave harry as "proof" is so absurd. Luke has straight hair on the timeskip too, joffrey too. the color is exactly that of harwin and lyonel, that of crispin is much darker.

this supposed resemblance to crispin only exists in the minds of fans. podcasts always highlight "he's obviously their father"

the way he acts with jace is especially affectionate and proud. he promised him he would come back touching his chin in a way only a father would.

laenor, alicent, crispin himself, lyonel, larys, vaemond, daemon, aemond, jace himself. everyone knows whose blood runs in the 3 boys' veins. the opening credits say so too

may i just say, i love you for this?

POINT AFTER POINT AFTER POINT. i was about to throw hands bc of a guy friend who was goading me (on purpose), sending me posts about how crispin might be the father, and i had to explain that it was not possible. my other irls were like, jace “looks like crispin” and has straight hair and nyra didnt drink the tea? come on, be serious. also, im tired of arguing with irls that NO, JFC, HE IS NOT THE FATHER.

i also do not want to imagine any possibility that maybe, just maybe, they would adapt this theory in the next seasons, so that it would be such a fvcking “beautiful tragedy” if crispin were the dad. no. just no.

harwin is the dad. period. dont do our man dirty.

[allyriadayne]

Thinking about all the people who thought the conflict in show would be between Daemon and Rhaenyra. I was going back listening to some hotd podcasts and there's one where one of the hosts has read f&b and the other hasn't and so he guesses the plot and it's so funny. This was such a thing I remember seeing so many tweets before hotd started airing.

I remember the first trailer dropping and looking like the conflict was between rhaenyra and daemon and many many people complaining lol esp if the show was making them enemies and ruining how daemon supported her during the war

[aizenat]

So after watching some podcast talks about episode 6 and 7, I guess Alicent’s beef with Rhaenyra is that she had to be the perfect noble growing up while Rhaenyra “gets away” with everything. Like the oldest sibling pissed watching the younger sibling get away with all the shit they know they would be punished for. And as an oppressed eldest daughter, I totes get that.

But god was that not expressed enough.

I think the story honestly is moving too fast leaving certain things not to be developed. This show is huge and considering the fuckery of the og show’s ending, HBO knew this show would be a hit. We’re obviously going to get more than one season. So you could have spent the first season fleshing out the relationships more and slowing the action.

We introduce adult laena and then kill her off that episode? Harwin (???) is barely seen in the entire show and then he’s introduced as not only Rhaenyra’s paramour but the father of her children and then he dies that episode? How did that relationship even start? What was the dynamic? Even with laenor and qarl (or whatever) we get nothing from them for me to not immediately believe he would totally kill laenor for some coin. Like build that relationship up so that when daemon approaches him I’m like “what what what??!!!!!!!” Instead of being like “oh, I guess he was an opportunist.”

As much fun as this show is, I think it would really have benefited from slowing things down instead of trying to rush to hit certain plot points. Alicent is obviously supposed to be a sympathetic character and yet the story does nothing to make me feel bad for her. I have to hear fans discuss the psychology probably influencing her that the show itself barely touches. Why is it that I don’t understand Alicent until I hear fans talk about it? Fans who read the book and so have more details and backstory and history to pull these conclusions from????? Why is it not obvious? The interaction between Rhaenyra and Alicent when they were kids was mostly then getting along. We don’t see Alicent looking at Rhaenyra doing as she wants and looking frustrated. Other than her father pushing her on the king, we don’t see him constantly chastising her every move talking about “remember you are the Hands daughter and a lady act like one” or something. They give us nothing other than her nail picking and her dad telling her to stop that then he pushes her on the king and I’m supposed to conclude she’s had to be perfect her whole life and resents Rhaenyra for having more freedom despite being a princess and heir apparent?????????

The writers need to develop these characters better. I’m not getting enough from the show itself.

[yes-i-write-fanfiction]

In your TFP Human Daemon AU what are the Decepticons Daemon favorite thing about Earth?

For Megatron’s daemon its the weaponry. Sure, it might not be as advanced as cybertronian ones but there’s a certain beauty to them. Also, on Cybertron all of the weapons that are made for daemons are just scaled down regular cybertronian stuff but on Earth they are actually made for humans.

Starscream’s daemon actually really likes rain and thunderstorms. While yes, Starscream loathes to fly in weather like this, they find it... kinda soothing. The pitter patter of rain and the rumbling of thunder is a wonderful background noise. That being said, they hate being outdoors when it rains.

It might be a tad cliche but Soundwave’s daemon can’t get enough of music. Loud music at that. She is constantly wearing headphones and there’s a 50/50 chance that they are listening to the most bass boosted music imaginable. Loves her nose cancelling headphones.

Obviously Knockout’s daemon adores Earth’s fashion. She is never seen not wearing designer clothes and beautiful jewelry. Yes, there was fashion for daemons back on Cybertron but it all kinda looked the same in the end. On Earth there are so many different styles to try out!

Breakdown’s daemon likes the animals, especially pets like dogs and cats. If she was allowed to then she would totally adopt and bring back one. Or two. Every time she’s out with Breakdown she will start smacking him in excitement when she sees an animal.

While they don’t have a lot of time to enjoy what humanity has to offer, Dreadwing’s daemon appreciates the culture and history of humans. She finds it fascinating to observe how humans have managed to survive on Earth and how and why it has been shaped into what it is today. Totally listens to podcasts.

Airachnid’s daemon loves humans! Or rather, how many of them there are. So many people to play with and with no cybertronians to protect them. It’s so easy to lure them into secluded locations and then hunt them down. Oh, it’s all so fun!

[daemonstodust]

I am once again asking for blogs to follow that are daemonism/HDM related! Go ahead and reblog or shout-out your favorite blogs 😊 I also recently started the Her Dark Materials podcast, so posting about that would be great too! Søren and I are lacking community 😩

[ejunkiet]

Hey Ejunkiet,

If a person were intrigued by your many ‘redacted asmr’ posts, where would they start?

Thanks!

Hi!!! I can GLADLY be of assistance here, thank you for messaging me!! 😚😚

SO, the primer! Redacted ASMR is an audio anthology series on youtube with overlapping storylines and characters. The format is that the character is in a dialogue with the listener, and each character has a different playlist that navigates the development of their relationship with the listener (or in the case of the D.A.M.N. series, the storyline of the listener who recently discovered their own more-than-human abilities and has just joined an academy for similarly 'empowered' humans.)

There are demons (and daemons), werewolf and vampire characters, and the listener is always gender neutral! The world building and relationship development is EXCELLENT. I love audio dramas and podcasts and the supernatural, and this was a very fun, delightful discovery 😚

OKAY. So, I'd recommend starting with the two earliest character playlists:

Davey/David Shaw, werewolf and pack leader. (He is my favourite, ngl - the character development is *chefs kiss*)

Vincent Solaire, flirtatious vampire. (Another fave, although keep an eye on the content warnings in his playlist, as they deal with some darker subjects!)

Once you have the introduction to the world through either of those playlists, I recommend checking out the Freelancer/D.A.M.N season one, as the lore is EXCELLENT, and you will fall in love with all of those damn boys okay.

(These are also asmr videos, so there are the occasional sleep aids - my favourite is in the davey playlist, comfort after a storm. I really recommend listening to that point, as that's when you really start to dig into the characters, and it is wonderful.)

[acaciapines]

I started listening to wolf 359 so I could read your daemon au and I'm having a great time, the podcast is amazing in and of itself but it's also fun seeing the daemon side of things while the episodes are still fresh in my mind. plus hera my beloved, I love the way you write her POV. cannot wait to see Kepler, jacobi, maxwell, and their daemons

also what's your meta take on bat daemons / what bats symbolize? I changed one character in one of my own AUs recently from a bat to a mantis because I didn't have a concrete idea of what a Bat daemon would mean beyond surface level… which is a shame because his specific bat species paralleled two other characters' daemons and the whole dark creature of the night thing contrasted with other parts of his story

okay first off: YES! ANOTHER ONE!! wolf 359 is such a good podcast and i am so honored that me and ada's fic got you to listen to it. in an ideal world the fic would be a podcast but alas. we are just the one person and cannot make an entire podcast. i hope you enjoy it!! no idea where you are but oh BOY does wolf go some places.

the hera stuff is all ada <3 she works out her shit and i get amazing banger fic content to read. hera's story is proooobably one of my favorite parts of the entire thing! it intersects with a lot of other things i love (it is. obvious that hera was a big reason we started writing this dfkjgdfg her and lovelace both)

we will be seeing out besties the si-5 soon...i think we get a peak at like, 3/4 of them in the next chapter!

as for bat daemons, some of this is nemiza-specific (brandt's bat) since that's where all my research went, but specifically i picked bat because they have a lot of conflicting portrayals across cultures: there's negatives, sure, but there's a lot of places where they're portrayed in a more positive light. so, someone who can be viewed in different angles: it's up to the audience to decide which portrayals they want to take, and which they want to discard. for hilbert specifically bats also have their tie to being reservoirs for pathogens (aka decima). brandt's bats also USED to be known for their long life expectancy, but apparently since finishing the fic that particular trait has been split off into a new species. who knew. but wolf takes place in like, 2014ish, so, yknow. still stands for hilbert.

im glad youre enjoying the fic! im always happy to talk about my daemon choices, though some of them are more spoiler-y than others djkfngdfg.

[lucky-sevens]

mechanisms fanfiction recommendations

this began as a compilation of my own works for my about, but i decided to recommend some others as well!

i have kept this list to 20 of other people’s + all of my own, because i have a lot of mechanisms fanfiction saved and didn’t want to go overboard! in addition, i’ve made sure that everyone i draw from is a different author, vs. several by the same person, for the sake of variation and giving more people a spotlight! i’ve also made sure everything is complete, which sadly means i’ve left out a few of my favorite longfics. i’ve also tried to have a decent balance of album-focused things vs crew-focused things.

a note; i’ve tried to have a variety (of both genre and length), but my tastes skew towards angst and longer oneshots, so that’ll be a lot of that sort of thing. (please mind the tags on some of these fics!) this is also all sfw, as i’m a minor, but it’s not all gen.

edit: i copy-pasted the summary from each of these works over to this post!

no matter what you do it won’t go away by AssyEr

Brian coming to terms with being made of metal.

Hatter and Hare Top 5 Gay Moments!! [NOT CLICKBAIT!!!] by shella688

Majors Hatter and Hare grinned at each other as they shook hands.

Then, all of a sudden, the grins faltered slightly as a realisation went through both their heads.

Oh no, the realisation went. He's cute.

Date Night: New Midgardian Prison Edition by OnceAndFloral

The Mechs cordially invite Lyfrassir to date night in their prison cell. And by "cordially invite" I mean "orchestrate an elaborate scheme".

eternity will see her dead by Garecc

Rose Reds are made to die, and eternity will see them dead, sent off to another bitter end.

cold as numbers by alderations

Ivy starts at the beginning.

Every morning, Ivy starts at the beginning. Rubbing alcohol, scalpel blades, sensations that should be twisting and cutting and crushing, if the words could coalesce into feelings. A subdued voice, a cool hand on her forehead. She is Ivy Alexandria. She starts at the beginning.

beat inside your heart by zinabug

Jonny and Nastya sibling oneshots part two. (Note from @lucky-sevens- they all function on their own.)

And Sew by fracnkie

The benefits of teaching your Toy Soldier to do the following: sew, do makeup, how to cure a sore throat, and how to shoot a plasma blaster.

Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust by CloudDreamer

It was the two of them against the world. But then the two of them against each other, and that seemed so much harder than fighting all the worlds combined.

Wayfarers by Oblivion_Wanderer

Nastya and Lyf meet in the cold of space; Nastya adrift after leaving the Mechanisms and Lyf fleeing from the destruction of the Yggdrasil system. Each feeling lost in their own way, they decide to travel together.

No Heart To Break by meteornight

The Toy Soldier was not real. It could never be real, not if it had any say in the matter. The widow had said that the toy was real, that it had once been a real man with a real heart. The toy knew that was a lie, for if it was a man, why would she treat it like a toy?

is it piety is it purity is it virtue by consumptive_sphinx

“Percy’s blunt, not stupid,“ Mordred says when Kay asks why they’re even friends, “and anyway she’s great, she never calculates anything, she just says stuff and makes everyone else deal with it. I could never be brave enough.”

This is because Mordred absolutely does calculate every word that comes out of his mouth, except sometimes when it’s two in the morning and everyone except him and Galahad and Percival has gone to sleep and he can argue as passionately in favor of peace as he wants with the only two people who won’t call him a traitor for it, and while he doesn’t not appreciate this trait of Percival’s, like hell is he going to admit to his real reason.

orpheus, the soldier, and the short-billed dowitchers by alexsandr

orpheus finds rest with an unexpected friend.

No Violins Allowed by Alienea

Lyf had been having a very peaceful and fulfilling few decades, at least in terms of work fulfillment and being able to afford to bail out of the system at the very first moment anything happened.

So of course that was when the Mechanisms appeared over the horizon.

Labyrinthine by DuskDragon39

Your story is a labyrinth.

Your story is built along wandering lines and windings so vague that you, its architect, cannot trace your way out. It is your scream at its center, your pain that fuels it.

(Or: Daedalus and the stories they tell about him.)

Baking With Goggles (Safety First!) by eminorseven

Marius tries to justify bringing Jonny and Tim to the kitchen. Brian daydreams. Jonny stabs many walnuts. Tim gets locked out and explodes things.

Typical baking stuff.

Surprising Salvage by OddmentsAndTweaks

A normal boring morning is made infinitely more exciting by the prospect of a ship boarding. The Mechanisms prepare for chaos and murder and some really good violence. What they get is one very defiantly defended ruined vessel and a morning no one expected at all.

I wanna stay here with you by SnailArmy 

Loki and Sigyn get to be wives, in stolen moments. 

As It Was by i_am_made_of_memoriies

Jonny walked down the corridor, his steps burdened by an invisible force. His face was passive, and where there was usually manic glee, there was only a hint of curiosity–someone was trying to enter through the airlocks, and he was going to kill them.

Nastya returns to the ship formerly known as the Aurora to find the mechanisms at the end of their time.

burned out from a joyride by spiralingcosmos

ashes has a nightmare; as a result, they make a new friend.

In Which Nastya Is The Narrator Of The Deaths by nonbinary_frog

(Note from @lucky-sevens: There is no summary included, but I feel like the title works well enough.)

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my heart in your hands

How Jonny d'Ville's mechanization came about.

i’ve got a map of your eyes (but i’ve never seen your face)

That’s not the real Rose. All the memories and feelings were merely planted in her head.”

 “Very true.”

 “And given the effective age difference, it’s unlikely they’ll have much of a life together, not to mention the massive amount of trauma they’ve both endured.”

 “Absolutely.”

 “Not only that, but everyone else they’ve ever known or loved is dead and they’re trapped on a planet full of corpses in a vast interstellar empire that is going to suffer the most horrendous power vacuum and associated bloodshed the galaxy has ever seen. Oh, and they’re both known war criminals and will likely be on the run for the rest of their lives.”

“Like I said. I love a happy ending.”

-Ever After

the death of a phoenix

You are Ashes O'Reilly, and you are twenty-three, and you are dying.

an exercise in futility

Post-Lashings.

ballast

The Aurora doesn't have a daemon, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have a soul.

marching ever through the black

Whoever’s uniform you wear No loyalties to hold or share No burning hate, no bitter fear No heart to break, so shed no tear

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thank you for reading! i’d highly suggest trying these!