#he deserved a more painful death :)

[dragonworshippersblog]

the fact that otto hightower, a second born son of a vassal house that will inherit nothing whose power is based on manipulation , command that the heir to the throne, the future king consort and their royal blood children should not have a greeting upon their arrival according to "their station" is ridiculous, as every choise of him during the season

[persephryne]

Making Aegon a rapist was straight up bad and lazy writing.

Let me elaborate.

In the show, the first thing we learn about Aegon as an adult is that he is a rapist. We haven’t seen him yet but still we already know that he is an horrible despicable rapist, especially since Dyana is so young, which pretty much makes him a pedophile too. How could anyone root for a man like that ? And that’s where the problem begins.

Rhaenyra had already been established many times as the rightful heir to the throne in season 1. It has been made obvious that she would make a decent Queen too. In the meantime, it had already been shown that Aegon is not even a good person. He’s selfish, inconsiderate, a bully, and does not act like a prince at all. To put it plainly, he sucks big time and we as viewers already know it. Add what we saw in season 2, how reckless he gets, how he’s an alcoholic immature asshole, how he obviously knows nothing about strategics nor how to rule efficiently, or even how bad he is at high valyrian, and you can’t have anyone tell you in good faith that he would’ve been a better ruler than Rhaenyra.

However, had Aegon not been made a rapist, you would still feel for him even though he is not cut out to rule. Because he knows it too and tried to escape it and he was forced to attend his own coronation . Because this crown that he did not want does not fit him, even though he really tries to show that he is not as worthless as everyone seems to think and he just keeps failing. You would feel for him because the war ,that he has started when he was made an usurper by the people around him, has cost him his son’s life. Because the brother, who is partially responsible for his son’s death has now betrayed him and tried to kill him with dragonfire. Because the injuries he suffered make him look more and more like his father who never cared for him, never loved him and that he definitely hates. Which also probably why he tries so hard to make his mother proud of him and love him but he can’t and his main attempt has left him half-dead, half-burn. Not only that but his dragon, with whom he has the strongest bond known in Targaryen’s, history probably died during this futile attempt to prove himself. The only thing about his Targaryen’s heritage that he seems to care about has been destroyed all because he wanted to prove himself. Because he truly resents his Targaryen’s, his father’s heritage, it’s obvious, just as it is obvious that he didn’t want to marry his own sister but was forced to. It’s completely legitimate of him to want to distance himself as much as possible from everything that is Targaryen related. He is indeed more of an Hightower than a Targaryen, but can you really blame him for that ? Would you not try to fit somewhere else too, if you were in his place ? It’s all absolutely and undeniably tragic.

I wholeheartdely believe that, even if you would’ve root for Rheanyra to be Queen, you woud’ve probably still thought that Aegon, as bad as he is, did not deserves this much pain.

But because he is a rapist, well, he honestly does.

By not trusting the audience to see that Aegon is not a good person, nor a good a king, without having him comitting a literal crime, by making Aegon a rapist, the writers have annihilated any possibilities for an internal conflict regarding Aegon and Rhaenyra. The whole concept of « teams » just goes down the drain because of this lazy, manichaean, writing. And that, my friends, is bad writing at its peak.

[eternallovers65]

Whatever the outcome of this whole jon vs oc I know yuta will suffer regardless

Whether he ends up helping mox or betraying him over oc, yuta will know pain. that's part of his character already

[taxidermy-tuesday]

ranking my favorite mouthwashing characters!! :3

SPOILERS

#1: anya

i love her so much :((( she deserved so much better,,,ive been meaning to draw her but i cannot get her right for some reason???

also i love the design choice of her perpetually sad eyes...im spinning her around in my brain rn

the dead pixel scene......hhrrggfffh

#2: curly

very close 2nd!! very complex character who is very inch resting to analyze and his design is cool asf. im a sucker for characters with guilt complexes

going back to the dead pixel scene again anya noticing the pixel but curly looking it over....such good writing man

#3: daisuke

he shouldve been at the club!!!!!!

i love him sm, that scene where he talked about his mom made me sob. poor guy

was watching a playthrough of mouthwashing where someone (not naming names) kept hating on him and it pissed me off so bad

#4: swansea

just because he is low on the list does not mean i don't like him!! i didn't at first but he's really grown on me!! hes such a complex character and that one scene near the end is so powerful

also i love his swan keychain <3

#5: jimmy

send this guy to the penis explosion chamber

[babybluestan]

Just finished watching JJK and I am going to hunt down Gege for the most traumatizing and stressful series I’ve watch to date

BRING BACK MY BABY DADDY NANAMI😭😭😭

[triglycercule]

horror bragging about he's immortal and allat to killer and dust (because he genuinely thinks he is. like he literally came back from the DEAD that is a proud accomplishment!!!! bro probably brags all the time about it like "heh even if you hit me hard i'll just get back up. bitch")

and then killer's like alright bet! let's test that out! and then he starts going on an all out chase for horror's head. and dust just follows along because hey why the fuck not it sounds fun and it would be nice to knock horror down a peg or two :3 frantic running from horror ensues because as much as he'd like to stick by his claim he REALLY cannot be going around risking to see if him being immortal is actually true 💀

[caffeine-high]

honestly, the finale of rvb s13 permanently altered my brain chemistry at 13 y/o and since then i have never been normal about heroic sacrifices

epsilon's speech is just ingrained in me and i think something about that makes up a core part of who i am as a person and what i like in stories

i dont know how to deal with that

[margindoodles2407]

blame @seeking-elsewhither for this one. it's echo time and i'm having thoughts (tm)

[orcelito]

Man though like having now gone through such a major personal loss, writing Vash having Wolfwood around again is... interesting.

It's like. You go through hell, your heart's been shredded by a scalpel, just the thought of this person is painful, not to mention any active reminders... and then in comes Wolfwood, the living breathing reminder of Vash's loss.

It'll get better in time. Easier. But at the same time, Vash is always going to remember Wolfwood dying, and that's just gonna have him fucked up forever, huh?

[kitash]

💔💔

[creativesplat]

Fell Xenologue Alfred.

[huldrabitch]

Can we talk about playing as Jason in Gotham Knights and getting the ends scene? I would fucking love to talk about that and see more art and writing inspired by Bruce going through the exact same effects of the Lazarus pit as his son, and going from blind aggresion to primal protectiveness for his kid. Literally almost killing the person manipulating him, anything to protect his son, never letting the past repeat.

[poisonousquinzel]

y'all ever think about how in Sandboy Adrien's fear was being locked up and he yelled and screamed for his father to help him, to save him,,,, and now in the episode with a Season 5 equivalent of Sandboy, it ends with him locked in a pure white room with no windows or anything aside from a foosball table.

something that's directly Gabriel's fault (tho so was the first time), but this time Adrien's fully aware of his role in this imprisonment. Like,,, he can't yell and scream and hope his father saves him because his father is the one who did this and he knows it this time....

[dnangelic]

'why do the women always have to save the monster' 'why is it the girl always accepting the ugly guy' has anybody ever considered i want dai to have an evil monster auntie too who he does his best to help and love and therefore he's treated really nicies

[lentilsguy]

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[cyclist-of-guilt]

I won't believe prigozhin is dead until I see the body and even then we all know he had at least one double (that one who was used for taking photos in countries actual one was banned from) but it's fucking hilarious with the coup d'byat only killing airplane staff