#dart madness

[apollos-boyfriend]

people have to stop looking at parallels/motifs in media and going “this is probably a coincidence BUT” unless the “coincidence” you’re bringing up is pure fucking luck like some random glitch i can assure you it was not a coincidence. writers character designers creators etc are not stupid. they put those in there for a reason. nothing is done without purpose. the reason the characters who were made to parallel each other parallel each other is because that’s what they were made to do not because of pure dumb luck. do you hear yourself

[pufffinn]

babysitting 🔥

[starry-bi-sky]

Sketch dump! I havent done one of those in a while. These are all from June-July while I was on vacation.

First we have Layal! The delightful Mother of Monsters, aka the Ghost Zone’s most evil mama bear AND my take on a fem!danyal dan! I like to imagine she could pummel Dan into the ground, but that stands true for any and all of my au Dans. Bc i am INCREDIBLY biased.

She mostly lives on her island in the Ghost Zone, taking in monsters of the Infinite Realms of all kind and raising them as her own. Surprisingly enough, she does genuinely love her children. That’s about where her love ends. She stole the minotaur, his name is Asterion.

Then we have Daini-Yel! He’s from an au i’ve never actually talked about on here. He’s literally just Danny for an Epic!-inspired au. He's an unknown entity in the newly released open-adventure, odyssesy-inspired game "Nautilus", and he is not a part of the game's code :). He showed up three months after the game's initial launch, and was discovered during a live when a streamer was on their way to fight a boss much similar to Circe and the streamer accidentally took a detour and found his pathway (of which did not previously exist).

He's very friendly! And offers you, the Captain, a strange liquid with even stranger powers called "Ektolai", in order to help you fight Circe. His whole vibe and creation is literally just the song "Wouldn't You Like" from Epic. If you run into him enough times at the start of the game, you can convince him to join you on your adventure as part of the crew. He's a powerful ally and a very good friend, despite his strange awareness of the world around him...

Oh, but be warned... just like the rest of your companions, your actions have consequences and what you do affects their opinion of you. Daini is no different! Your close allies can quickly become enemies.

[rise-my-angel]

How people hear the logo "fire and blood" and not think of fascism baffles me. Like it literally sounds like something the nazi's said. I know it might not be fair comparing real life history to fiction, especially in a medieval setting that doesn't match ...BUT THEY HAVE FLYING NUKES GUYS

Bear with me, but I think a lot of it stems from the dragons. In normal, or at least traditional fantasy, dragons are usually used differently in other stories. They can both be antagonists and companions to the hero. They are normally written to be while large and dangerous, also sort of majestic and awe inspiring.

So people see the dragons here, they see people riding them, and they think automatically it's cool. So if you're already someone more inclined to enjoy creatures like dragons, there's a perfect basis. A people whose culture revolves around dragons. It's an easy buy in to the Targaryean propaganda. You will automatically start seeing them in better lights because you like the dragons, whether you realize that or not.

But the problem is, grrm does not use dragons in the traditional sense. Grrm has been very clear that he has written the dragons as essentially, one for one metaphors to weapons of mass destruction. Grrm is also very anti war, a sentiment felt throughout all of his work, how no matter what justification one side or the other feels, it is the people, the lands, the smallfolk who suffer from war the most. So, the use of nuclear weapons in war, is essentially, the worst case scenario in terms of war. Which is what the Targaryeans use dragons for. Thats what Valyria has always used them for.

Fire and Blood sounds cool beacuse it is menacing, but it is more then that. It is the statement that they will burn the country to the ground so they can be kings of the ashes. Valyria used dragons to burn cities to the ground and were incredibly cruel to the slaves they took as a result that places like Bravvos are still massively anti dragon/anti valyrian. Two seperate people of Essos fled across to Westeros to escape them (The Andals and the Rhoynar), then the Targaryeans come to the same place and do THE EXACT SAME THING TO THE SAME PEOPLE WHO FLED THEM ORIGINALLY.

I am certain grrm is not writing dragons as "Its actually okay to use nukes if you're nice to them when you're building them." He's probably more likely to say "no matter what justification you tell yourself, access to such catastrophic destruction at your will and fingertips is a power no one should ever wield."

Yes the dragons are sentient creatures, but these are not like a creature such as a direwolf. One was sent to their human companion by a fate beyond them, and acts more like an extension of their identity and a friend as human and direwolf protect each other. Such as Nymeria biting Joffery to protect Arya, and Arya chasing Nymeria off to save her life for saving hers.

Dany murdered her own slave in order to use blood magic to force dragons back into a world after a peaceful number of centuries without them. Dany then uses them to burn her enemies alive, threaten those who stand against or disobey her and doesn't even consider taking steps to control them until after Drogon burned alive an innocent three year old girl, and even then all she does is lock them away in a manner that will no doubt only make them more angry and resentful of humans.

Not all sentient creatures are the same, and dragons specifically within the world of asoiaf are symbols of the dangerous balance of the world tipping too far. The Doom of Valyria was the result of using blood magic and dragons to tip the worlds balance too far and there is nothing left but a cursed, blighted hellscape left behind to remind man not to toy with nature in ways they will never be able to control. I don't think it's a coincidence that some stories say they found the first dragons in the Fourteen Flames, and it was the eventual eruption of the Fourteen Flames that destroyed Valyria and its dragons.

The Targaryeans didn't need to die with them, it's probably good that at least one family managed to safely leave so at least some aspects of a long, forgotten culture can be remembered in the history books from somewhere. But they do not act like just people. The Targaryeans still see themselves as something like gods.

In their eyes, they are better then the people of Westeros, those people taint their bloodline. They used dragons to force them to be subservient to them when all of those Kingdoms ruled independently for thousands of years before. Then they used those same dragons to tear the country apart.

No one is looking forward to or likes talking about the storming of the Dragonpit beacuse we want to see animal death. We want to see it for what it stands for. An uprising of people pushed too far by a monarchy that uses weapons of mass destruction recklessly beacuse they see themselves as gods. They refused to be subjected to that anymore, and they knew doing it would kill more men then it would dragons but they did it anyways. They looked at the free use of nuclear weapons and decided they will not live in that fear anymore.

Fire and Blood is literally their dragons. It is why they call themselves dragons. They are the destruction of the world, and they see nothing wrong with that.

Dragons plant no trees, and neither do the Targaryeans.

[truths33k3r4]

DAY 14- Younger Sibling Uncharacteristically Fighting Back at Older Sibling - SIW - (Sketch version)

PART 1

(Tw for dizziness, nausea, drugging mention, vomiting)

(Part 2 will be linked here once I return to my computer and link it properly) :)

To God be the glory!

~ Melissa

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Not a question, but imagine if you will a Regina George esque tantrum that leads to Kipperlilly having a picture of riz on a dartboard. Like something happens in freshman year and she just stomps through her house planning his downfall

Oh my god yes she has a burn book that is literally just pages upon pages of stuff the bad kids have done and Riz is in there like 50 times

[dennisboobs]

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

↳ Chardee MacDennis: The Game of Games // The Gang Goes Bowling

[katnissandpeetamellark]

My favorite part is that Lucy gray is wearing her rainbow dress when Snow “shoots her”

[science-bastard]

hey i’m bored who wants to kiss over the petri dishes and beakers

[akkivee]

rei said the drbs were a test to find a bond shared between three people in order to wield the true hypnosis mic, and i love that they seeded out the idea of mic sharing via this moment between kuukou shakku and hitoya lol

[georgies-ftts]

everyday is another day that i wonder how Bradley James as King Arthur of Camelot was so good at dying

[salmondot]

I know I'm taking a swing at the hornet's nest with this one - but Astarion fans need to shut up, tbh. You're annoying little blorbo isn't that special, he's got the same shit going on as everyone else. "b-b-but, he was abused by Cazador for 200 years and he was turned as a little baby :("

yeah? Shadowheart was kidnapped as a child and physically abused. Lae'zel was literally born into her abuse. Karlach and Gale are physically bound to their abusers. We literally watch Wyll be disfigured by his evil and extremely powerful master.

This is an ice-cold take, I know - but like, could we not condense the obnoxious simping to the most tropey character, please?

[multidimensional-trashcan]

bloody darts?!??? these 'feminist' women are so deep in their 'women are inferior to men in all aspects (their definitions of women and men)' bullshit that they think a trans woman has unfair advantage at darts?? i'd argue that even if she were not on any gender affirming care she would still have no advantage.

[flufflecat]

happy pride month, im so glad to see people doing fun new varieties of ace discourse this year -_-

[3416]

i love people after a game like yesterday... who instead of embracing fandom for the leafs and saying fuck the refs or this league like... doing the thing that emboldens and bonds fanbases... are actually attempting to hold their team 'accountable' for an impossible standard that we see time and time again. like it's bananas some of you watch sports period and i'd fire you into the sun at the first opportunity.

[enigma-the-anomaly]

genshin impact leaks might just be my favorite subreddit. Sometimes it’s legit screenshots and videos of the next update and sometimes it’s 15 different people posting blurry concept art, with each claiming the character to be a different combination of element, weapon, rarity, and nationality. Watching things evolve from “momoka, the 5 star geo bow using cat girl from Inazuma” to “actually she’s kirara, a 4 star dendro sword using girl from Inazuma who may or may not be cat?” was magical