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squgs · 2 years ago

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HOTD and Ambiguity

So given that House of the dragon covers nearly 20 years of history (30 if you count the prologue), and a shit ton of characters in ten hours of television there's a lot of events that we don't see and ambiguities around characters. Characters rarely state their motivations and there are reasons to doubt them when they do. It is very easy to make wildly different claims about characters which, while incompatible with each other, can't really be disproved by the show so far. For example Daemon can be a pedo groomer abuser who just wants the throne, or a feminist malewife who will do anything for his queen. Neither of those are explicitly disproven by what we see on screen, though that is not to say that they're equally reasonable readings (I think that the 2nd is pretty ridiculous to be honest).

These different readings of scenes and characters and lines have contributed to the pretty ugly fandom discourse since there is enough evidence for mutually exclusive claims to argue extensively. Whoever your favorite character is you can twist the shown events in order to make them seem like a hero and for everyone who opposes them to be terrible. However I don't have anything worthwhile to say on that, so I want to talk about the writing on its own instead.

Now having uncertain motives can be interesting writing wise (show don't tell and all that), but I think that as House of the Dragon's first season continued it ran into more and more problems around this, especially with the time jumps and actor changes. When character's motives and wants are unclear after the time jumps first impressions are what will decide how most people view them. So when we first see Rhaenyra giving birth, and we first see Alicent trying to separate a newborn from her mother, and we first see Criston calling Rhaenyra a slur and we first see Harwin being a protective father and we first see Aegon bullying his brother, it adds up. Those first impressions are then applied forward and backwards leading to the idea that Alicent and Criston have been abusing Rhaenyra for ten years, and that in the training yard Criston the incel fucked around with Harwin and then found out (my read is that Criston the step-dad took advantage of Harwin being an entitled ass to get him fired).

(Side note about Criston: While the exact thinking behind his downward spiral in episode 5 is ambiguous, the scene between him and Rhaenyra in episode 4 is unambiguously rape given that he tells her to stop and she doesn't.)

In that way the show encourages very one sided readings of complicated and ambiguous scenes, leading to people either being annoyed that the show ignores all the terrible things that the greens are doing, or that it's unfairly biased against them. That's a problem, but things don't completely fall apart until episodes 9 and 10 when people start going to war. For all of the characters we still have no idea what they are fighting for. If we ask why Alicent crowns Aegon we have a bunch of possible answers:

Because she thinks Viserys told her to. This is stupid and I hate it.

Because she fears for her children's lives. This is a good reason, but it has not been brought up since episode 6 despite episodes 7 and 8 both featuring moments that would certainly validate that fear.

Internalized misogyny. This one makes no sense to me, and I haven't seen any convincing evidence for Alicent specifically having more internalized misogyny than any of the other women on the show. However it could be interesting if it was actually seen beforehand.

Ambition and pride. This isn't really seen in the show, but it certainly seems like an understandable feeling for Alicent to have after suffering through an abusive marriage for 20 years and being denied the two things that women are promised through marriage (her husband's protection of her and her children, and the inheritance of her son)

Now if we ask why Rhaenyra wants the crown enough to go to war for it (she agrees to lay siege to king's landing before Luke dies so I'm ignoring that) we have a similarly confusing list of possibilities:

Her dad told her to. This is the reason that I think fits best, but it isn't really delved into. I think there would be a lot of rich interesting stuff with Rhaenyra evaluating her father's legacy and whether she wants to continue it, but Rhaenyra never seems to acknowledge how much bad shit her father has done.

So she can fulfill the prophecy. This is stupid.

Ambition and pride. Also aren't really seen, but certainly understandable and believable.

She fears for her children. This also isn't really shown at all, but you could argue that she fears her children will be killed either to protect Aegon's claim or to put an actual Valeryon on the throne of Driftmark. However we don't really know Rhaenyra's view of the political situation.

To destroy the patriarchy. This would be interesting, but we don't really see her wanting to do that. We do see her usurp Baela's claim to Driftmark in episode 8 though.

These issues get even worse with the more minor characters, the worst example being Rhaenys for whom all her possible motivations contradict her previous actions and opinions:

To protect/honor her grand daughters: if this is what she wants why doesn't she take Alicent's offer of Driftmark, giving her granddaughters an inheritance and keeping them out of the war?

To protect Luke and Jace: she never shows them any affection except maybe in the background of the eye gouging aftermath.

Feminism: if she is willing to go to war in order to have a queen on the iron throne why didn't she fight for her own claim?

Because she wants peace: then why didn't she accept Alicent's offer which was made in the name of peace? Literally as soon as she and Corlys put their support behind Rhaenyra, Rhaenyra stops considering making peace.

Because she trusts Rhaenyra more than the greens: Why? She thinks that Rhaenyra and Daemon killed at least one of her children, she saw Daemon murder her brother in law and we have no reason to think she knows of any misdeeds done by the greens.

All these unclear motivations make the themes of the stories non-existent. The dance could have all sorts of different thematic meanings, all built around what is being fought for and against. It would be fascinating if Alicent and Rhaenyra were both fighting for ambition, making the show about how women are pitted against each other by patriarchy or if they were both fighting for their children and the show is about the cruelty of the system that doesn't allow power to be shared and forces branches of families to fight until one side is wiped out. However, for any meaning to be clear the writers have to know what it is and they have to write their characters with that meaning in mind. Hopefully the show can be more clear going forward, but I don't exactly expect that, and I think that without a coherent set up it's not going to mean much when bodies start dropping next season.

#house of the dragon #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #criston cole #rhaenys targaryen #hotd critical #pro team green

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snickerdoodlles · 2 years ago

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So interested in this so 📓 here.

😂❤.

i don't talk about it much on main, but i fucking adore Prapai/Sky's jealousy kink. i loooove me a good jealousy kink. Sky and Prapai love being possessive of each other as much as they love being possessed. Sky really said "i completely trust you, i just also like getting mad at you when your exes are annoying and fucking you over it" and Prapai really went "yes please, please use me any and every way you wish especially like this." WE LOVE TO SEE IT.

things i'm also immensely in love with: Sky doesn't think he's worth love, but then gets liberally drowned in affection and care from Prapai and soaks it up like a sponge. and equally, Prapai is so fucking excited to devote his everything to Sky. i have cried to great lengths in DMs about how Prapai is a very caring guy and obviously an excellent hookup, but...nobody really wants him for him. he has a lot of past hookups eager for another, but so many of them express extreme disbelief at the fact that Prapai likes being a total malewife when in fact Prapai is so eager to shower Sky with affection extensively and enjoys doing so immensely.

...i was going somewhere with this.

so! Prapai! my sweet darling boy. he has the vibe of someone who's always been very affectionate, but it was not always welcomed. not in a bad way, just that the people usually seeking his company don't like when he drives two hours for stewed eggs or showers them with flowers three days in a row. they might like it for a few days as a fun hookup thing, but its always on a (short) time limit.

so imagine one day, Prapai and Sky are on a date and one of Prapai's past hookups stops by to say hi. canonical jealous brat Sky is already planning out how he'll put this guy in his place now and fuck Prapai about it later, but then the ex-hookup wiggles his eyebrows at Sky and jokes how he'll have to bolt after lunch before the smothering begins.

and Sky's brain does a complete record scratch. total bluescreen, hackles raised, doesn't-realize-he's-hissing because fucking WHAT!? Prapai is the BEST BOYFRIEND in the entire WORLD, this man should be on his knees WEEPING Prapai is Sky's and not his, no one is even half as lucky as Sky is because none of them have a Prapai who showers them in love and affection and tiny kisses because there's only one Prapai in the entire world and he is SKY's.

Sky doesn't bother responding because honestly nothing can convey the depths of his contempt at that remark as well as his best pissed bitch face, he is wrapping himself in Prapai's arms and glaring at the ex-hookup until he goes the fuck away. then Sky rants that that man is a FOOL, why did you ever sleep with someone so stupid P'Pai, don't you have TASTE--

Prapai, grinning madly and holding back tears: i thought you didn't like when people hit on me

Sky: did you want him to hit on you! only i get to hit on you! why do you even want someone stupid like him to hit on you--

Prapai, clutching him: i don't!!!! i only want my Sky~

Sky, clutching back: you're embarrassing, i'm punishing you for this later

Prapai: :D! :D! :D! :D! :D!

tl,dr; Prapai is in love with Sky's prickly bitchiness, Sky is equally in love with Prapai's effusive affection, they engage in extensive amounts of PDA showing off just how much they adore each other at the expense of everyone else ❤

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#sorry this idea is not particularly polished #also why im not writing it #i just like jealousy kink #and the overflowing affection for things other people disliked in them #goes both ways #🥰🥰😍#didnt know how to fit it in but another play in their mutual possession kink #is sky dressing prapai up in his cheap clothes #which all of prapai's rich friends can smell and sneer at on sight #but prapai doesn't give a shit #he's wearing SKYS CLOTHES #everyone knows hes wearing SKYS CLOTHES #he is CLAIMED and LOVING IT 🥰🥰🥰#love in the air #ask game: fics im not writing

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cvbullshit · 1 year ago

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Simulacra(1, 2, PD) Incorrect Quotes Part 2

These mainly take as if it was somewhat the Content AU(their nicknames, genders, and other) and mixed slightly with canon, depending on the quote. I may do art of them at some point, feel free to do art of them yourself though, if you want, just tag me since I'd want to see it. For context: -The first Simulacra(from Simulacra 1) is nicknamed Phoney. -The second Simulacra(from Simulacra 2) is nicknamed Ripple Man, obv. -The Pipe Dreams Simulacra is nicknamed Flappee. -The MC from the first game is labeled MC 1, MC from the second game being labeled as MC 2. -The MC from Pipe Dreams is labeled MC PD.

Flappee: I woke up and chose VIOLENCE. I WILL COMMIT ARSON AND BURN EVERYTHING TO THE GROUND!!! I AM ANGRY- Teddy: Awwww, you’re so adorable! Give me a hug~ Flappee: Wh-What? nO, yOURE SUPPOSED TO BE SCARED OF ME! TREMBLE BEFORE MY WRATH- MC PD, recording: This is so cute.

Flappee: I dare you to kiss the next person who walks into this room. Teddy: Screw that, I’m not kissing any of you. MC PD walks in Teddy: Fine, I’ll do it. Rules are rules you know.

the Squad cleaning up MC PD: Pick up the nearest piece of trash and throw it away. Flappee, to Teddy: Aight, which bin do you wanna go in—

Arya: Imagine if someone handed you a box full of all the things you lost throughout your life. Rippleman: It would be nice to have my sense of purpose back… Rex: Oh wow, my childhood innocence! Thank you for finding this. Mina: My will to live! I haven't seen this in years. MC 2: I knew I lost that potential somewhere. Maya: Mental stability, my old friend! Arya: Jesus, could you guys lighten up a little?

Mina: Who the fuck added me to a fucking group chat? Maya: >:O language Rippleman: Yeah watch your fucking language Rex: Okay, who taught Rippleman the fuck word?! Arya: 'The fuck word'. MC 2: Are you stupid? You guys use the f word all the time Rippleman: Oh my god they censored it Arya: Say fuck, MC 2. Rippleman: Do it, MC 2. Say fuck.

Arya: Who else is hiding in the laundry room trying to listen to MC 2 and Maya's convo? Mina: Me. I'm in the laundry basket. Rippleman: I'm in the washing machine. Rex: I'm in the closet. Mina: We accept you Rex. <3 Rex: No I'm literally in the closet. Mina: Love is love. <3

Arya: She was poetry, but he couldn't read. MC 2: His name was Jared he's 19. Mina: When his parents built a very strange machine. Rippleman, singing: Watch that scene, digging the dancing queen. Maya, singing: Eyyyy, Macarena! Rex: Horrible job everyone.

Murilo, to Rippleman: Why is MC 2 not talking? Rippleman: I'm playing the silent game with them. Murilo: Well, then you just lost. Rippleman: I lost two hours ago. I gave them ear plugs and told them to close their eyes. It was the only way I could think of to get them to shut up.

MC 2: Why's it called an oven when you of in the cold food and you of out hot eat the food? Murilo: …What???

MC 2: I don’t think we can mansplain, manipulate, or malewife our way out of it this time. Murilo: cracks knuckles Manslaughter it is!

MC PD: I think MC 2 is in trouble. MC 1: Alright. Struggling to give a fuck, if I’m honest.

Rippleman: Hey bro, what do you want to eat? Phoney: The souls of the innocent! Flappee: A bagel. Phoney: No! Flappee: Two bagels.

Flappee: It’s impossible to make a sentence without using the letter A. Phoney: Despite your thinking, it is quite possible, yet difficult, to form one without the specific letter. Here’s one more to further disprove your theory. Rippleman: Fuck you.

Rippleman: Now, Flappee, all of us are doing this because we care about you, okay? Phoney: Except for me. I just wanted to see the look on your face.

Rippleman: Where is everyone? Flappee: Phoney had a nervous collapse, MC 2 is looking after them, MC 1 is trying to kill MC PD, so I’m in charge. Rippleman: Oh my god! Flappee: I know, right?

MC 1: Man, they look like a real handful. How do you deal with them? Phoney, watching Flappee screaming, Rippleman trying to set a sleeping MC PD on fire, and MC 2 choking on air: I don't know either.

Taylor: When Phoney was born, the gods said, "They're too perfect for this world." Anna: Please. When they were born, the devil said, "Oh, competition."

Anna: Hey, check out my Spongebob umbrella! Anna opens their umbrella while indoors Taylor: Anna, that’s bad luck… Anna: Chill out, Taylor! Phoney, kicking down the door: WHO SUMMONED ME?!?! Anna and Taylor: screams

Anna: How do you do that? Taylor: I'm fearless. Phoney: I saw you run from bees yesterday. You flailed around and tripped over a chair. It was both hysterical and sad. Taylor: I'm mostly fearless.

Mina: What do rainbows mean to you? Arya: Gay rights. Rippleman: There's money. Murilo: The sign of God's promise to never destroy the whole Earth with a flood. Rex: It is an optical phenomenon that separates sunlight into its continuous spectrum when the sun shines on raindrops.

Murilo: Anyone d- Arya: Depressed? Rex: Drained? Mina: Dumb? Rippleman: Disliked? Murilo: -done with their work… what is wrong with you people…

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somegurl8 · 1 year ago

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Ran my first ever TTRPG one shot today and here’s some highlights/notable facts:

- It ran for 6 hours on accident

- Most of the party when given the chance to interact early on simply didn’t /lh

- T4T girlboss x malewife secret villain NPCs were enjoyed, someone pointed out their relationship was just the "quit your job join my emo band" meme

- Before the game I joked my 3 NPCs for the one shot were that meme with the goth trans Ariel and Eric with communist Sebastian, and because my players never learned my third NPC’s name until the end of the game we jokingly called him “The Communist”

- One player kept having her PC threaten to or think about torturing on my NPCs, with the player notably saying "We'll put the waterboarding on the back burner real quick" out of character at one point

- Different player gave herself busted toughness and tanked a hit from a 16 wheeler truck, she also had 0 attack abilities

- Another player's PCwas just tired the whole time and was the person who touches the strange weird object

- The player with the 17 year old PC managed to be the one who took down the main bosses of the one shot by mind blasting them. Said 17 year old also gave major relationship advice to the malewife NPC to tell him that his relationship was probably unhealthy based on their situation.

- An earthquake happened in the middle of us playing and all but one person felt it (game was virtual and 4 of the 5 of us live somewhat close to each other)

- One PC had the backstory of formerly being a superhero who lost his powers after accidentally killing a bunch of people in a fire he caused. Another PC had the backstory of losing his wife in a superhero fight. When we talked about that post session the person who had the widower PC shouted "DID YOU KILL MY WIFE?!"

@gentlemanslime and @red-heart-sunglasses were both players in my one shot so if they would like to add to this they can, the other two players don't have Tumblrs to my knowledge but it was a blast playing with them and I couldn't wish for a better group of people to play with

#mutants and masterminds #ttrpg #misc posts #I love my friends so much they're so cool #they're all so creative and wacky with their characters #they let me GM for them despite having zero experience doing so #it was so much fun I hope I can do something like this again soon

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lilac-melody · 9 months ago

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Hii again!!

I'm the anon from last night (afternoon?), and thankyouthankyou so much for answering my ask haha. It made me excited when I saw that you needed two times to read it (when I read your answer I also needed some time to reread, I got up and even read while walking, couldn't stay put 😅)

And I wanna say, thank you for sharing them (your fics), and I mean sharing them, not just writing them bc I still think it's wonderful that you enjoy them, but sharing them is a lot other deal where you gotta be at the expense of hateful criticism and such, which I know can be ignored but it's still there, and is scary to open about you, about something that you made and people just being people don't understanding what a big deal is that, bc that way we got to read them and enjoy them and feel in general something whathever that is joy or sadness.

I specially enjoy those

I specially enjoy those fics of yours that are just for the lols haha, I get a good laugh without the urge of finishing a long one, bc once I start reading one I won't stop (except to attend the necesities that haha) though I also like your long ones, like Ikigai haha man that was a ride, I remember being at the edge of my seat just looking for their first signs of falling in love, and being exasperated at Yuujirou but also sad with him running away, I also loved Ken in that fic, even though I think he should have been there more for Aizou, just like in the canon but I understand that it was a lot to take and not anybody can do it, I also liked them being Prince x comoner, haha the change of peace was great bc Yuujirou is usually more prince like with his arrogant cute little attitudes and Aizou being like his loyal lovable idiot haha, right now I don't remember the name of the fic, but there was this one where Yuujirou and Aizou being both princes and Yuujirou is in this arranged marriage and Aizou is devastated about it and then true love (the kiss) saving the day, and the fic where Yuujirou is kidnapped, though I can't talk much about this one bc I don't wanna spoil anyone but the turn at the end was great haha 😆 Aizou is incredible, though poor Hiyori, suffering no matter the universe with those two around, though in a way still getting paid haha.

And there are a lot other great fics I've read, though I must confess I haven't read all of them, I got those ones that I haven't read saved in a big group (in Chorme). And I'm just not deleting them for my life haha, though my Ram is mad at me😅.

And ohhhh your origin story in writing 😍 it's cool, I'm sure I would have just wrote the definitions haha, writing a short story is still being pretty creative, specially when you have to use some words in specific and not something in my opinion anyone can do

I still think you're pretty cool and amazing, (yeah I always read the tags), and it's cool being mean and antisocial (I mean, strangers are usually soo fake friendly, I've got people that are like this that I just have known them like less than two hours and bc I give the vibe that I'm smart?? I dunno 😑 try to take advantage of that, whan I'm usually more lost than them haha, but if I don't return the "gesture" of being friendly I got the "looks" of being strange and I guess antisocial?? I just want to being left alone to read in peace man, but it's imposible so I have just resigned to that destiny), in my book people will always suck, they lie, they brush others off, they seem perfect in a way I don't understand bc they are accepted with their peers even when it seems fake to me, and I will never understand that, and even some of them are infiurating being so much at their element (that element being great at socialicing, where I struggle) but the world is like that and if we (you and me, my dear author LStar-sensei, or femme-malewife-sensei??) ever where to be in the same place I think it would be nice to just being the both of us in our mental space?? (Dunno if this makes sense hhahaha) but being just there is nice (I guess in a way we are right now, interacting like this. Being antisocial and mean is fine, bc if you're being mean to someone, they must've likely did something deserved to be treated mean, no matter if that something is minuscule in theirs or other peoples points of view, only you know how you're feeling and getting others to get it is hard enough to explain, so in a way being respectful is enough for me)

And I wanna say that even though it makes me sad (to the point of crying a little sometimes) when an author delets or abandonds their works for wathever reason they have, I will always respect it. Bc it's something you shared with us, and you have all the right to feel how you feel towards something you wrote and act however you seem the best, and it's also fine to not finish everything you write, I'm not a writer, so is hard for me to get it, but I swear to you it's fine if you ever move on to other things or lost interest or motivation to continue writing soemthing (maybe we will cross paths in another fandom, one never knows) I just hope you continue with joy doing wathever makes you happy (though as a reader it really makes me sad when authors delete their works, and as a reader that has read some beautiful pieces of art unfinished, I still keep rereading them sometimes, even though they are not finished I still get the joy of the journey of the characteres no matter how short or long or even how crack it is haha, bc I remember them, those great stories that help me get through another day, week, month and even though I'm still hopeful I could get the joy of getting even just one chapter someday, I will always respect the author and hope they're doing well with their lives, even if it's short the time that we conected in a great story, I just hope that they're well and yeah I will feel that way towards you one day if it ever happens, bc you're great and don't let anyone let you the oposite, though it's also fine if you just ignore them hihihi )

And yeahhhh, origin stories of you getting into lipxlip and yuumori. 😆 I think I share with you almost how I got into yuumori, bc let's be sincere, it's hard to get that almost instantaneous click with every story one sees, the diference with me is that I got into it again bc you wrote a fic of them 😊 which I must confess haven't read it yet, but I will definetly do it when I have time, I just want to reread some parts of the manga (to get into the mood if you get what I mean haha😅)

And yeahsss, I think you answered everything of that ask of mine and even more, thank you so much!! And sorry if I extended more that neccesary My mind is rambling and doesn't know when to stop (or summarize) sometimes haha

- Saludos 🤗

Ahahahaha thank you! I'm glad you like them! Yeah out of all of my multichaps for lxl, I'd say Ikigai is my fav. Or The BL Experience, which focuses on new jobs for lxl to expand on...and my fic that focuses moreso on the mystery rather than the ship In The Pursuit of Happiness. I had fun with that one too. I'm quite proud of these ones, even if I still cringe @ some of the chapters on all of them lmao.

I hope you're reading my current wip Dream Faded !! I'm really excited for this one and I'm looking forward to being able to update it!

But thank you for your kind words! I'll do my best to be a decent role model 😭

#I just got home from work and im dead exhausted sorry for the wonky replies lolol #it is a bit late and I still need to get some stuff done so i wont be able to update tonight...but tomorrow for sure I'll update #anoask

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cherryanony · 2 years ago

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the great s3 SUCKED!!

diary entry #1 —

I've been meaning to rant about this ever since I finished s3 but the new season of the great sucked SO BAD!! obviously spoilers....

but the way they killed peter was SOOOOO FUCKING STUPID!!! Like a lot of fans are saying people who hated this plot twist just can't accept sad endings/tradgedy and although that might be true in my case, the way the writers went about peter's ENTIRE STORY this season was just FUCKING ASS!!! it's obvious the writers had no clue what to do with his character now that he's no longer emperor. But I can't even say that's 100% the case cuz they did just fine with his character last season when he was serving house husband/malewife vibes.

WHY COULDN'T THEY JUST CONTINUED THAT PART OF HIS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT?!

I feel like they went backwards on that front. Like why all of a sudden he cared about leading again and proving a point to his father when he spent all of s2 overcoming his mommy and daddy issues and realizing he never wanted to rule Russia nor be a leader...? They could've went down the obvious route of him focusing on being a good father to paul instead. They could've made he want to overcome and unlearn all his childhood trauma to be a good husband and father but NOOOOOOO!!

They honestly just made him a bit annoying this season. Stepping all over catherine's toes when she's trying to be a good empress as if we didn't already do this plot last season with peter having to accept that he isn't emperor anymore.

Enough about peter, I could talk about everything wrong with his story this season for hours, now onto catherine. Catherine also kinda pissed me off this season even though she's just like me fr. I love her a lot but she was really annoying me during the first half of the season. It just sucked that peter had to die in order for her to be a little less annoying this season. And if their plan all along was to test catherine's leadership as empress, I really hate the way to went about it.

First of all, they said FUCK ORLO FOR NO REASON. (I can't even get into orlo wihtout seething). I guess it was to add to catherine's fall so she can rebuild in the finale... ok....? (and that can't be the case because THEY FUCKING HAD HER KILL HIM WITHOUT KNOWING AND GOT RID OF HIS BODY THUS JUST GETTING RID OF HIS ENTIRE CHARACTER WITHOUT A PROPER ENDING AND FOR WHY !@?!#+) Then they're continuing this annoying plot with everyone in palace hating her which that plot line in of itself isn't the problem, it's — say it with me — the execution. The execution/writing was just confusing all season.

I just couldn't comprehend a single writing they made this season, NOT A SINGLE ONE. NOTHING this season nor last season ever even hinted at this being the outcome. It's one thing for it to be a plot twist but I feel like even when the plot twist occurs there should be an "ohhhhhhh...." moment where everything clicks and you start piecing together and understanding every plot and action that lead to the plot twist but that never happened this season. I was trying to think of all the things that lead to — not just the peter death — but every. single. plot. line. and I couldn't come up with anything.

NOTHING. MADE. SENSE.

It was like I was watching WHOLE. DIFFERENT. SHOW. 😭😭😭 I just could not believe I was watching HULU'S THE GREAT SEASON 3. It was a different show and not in a good way. There's a way to say "this is a different show" when referring to later seasons of a show (ie The Good Place) but no! I mean this is a different show (derogatory). It felt like different writers, producers, directors... SOMETHING!

Anyways, back to catherine. I really thought we would get more development on the court hating her but there was zero to no development on that. Instead we got this dumbass pugachev storyline that could've gone somewhere interesting but no.... they just kill him off way too easily. i was so over it at that point. Like what was the point!? It was just a MESS hunny OMG.... like all of a sudden they wanna be "historically accurate" in the worst way possible. like BOOOOOOO TOMATO TOMATO!!

They could've just kept up the "peter faked his death" storyline if they wanted to "kill him off" but just have him with Sweds if they so badly wanted to get rid of his character, write him off, and be "historically accurate". I'm sorry, killing him was so goddamn unnecessary, all I can do is laugh at this point. Like I literally laughed and looked at my imaginary The Office camera and said "this isn't serious, right?!" when it happened.

At first I thought they killed him off because nicholas (peter's actor) wanted to leave to pursue other projects (cuz I heard a rumor on twitter) but turns out in a interview he said he was sad that they killed off peter and that he loved playing him and didn't wanna leave so now, truly.... WHAT WAS THE FUCKING POINT!? HAJDKD!w&#t&!

In conclusion, I don't think I'll tune in next season (we'll probably have to wait EVEN LONGER bc of the writers strike). The show just went down in my ranking for my fave shows of all time but if I act like season 3 doesn't exist it can still remain at the top. In my mind, the show ended with peter realizing he doesn't need approval from his dead father and realizes catherine, paul and his friends are enough for him and they continue to be girlboss and her malewife. the end.

Yeah idk what the actual fuck the writers were thinking this season. Like LITERALLY what possessed their minds to write this season like this?!?! I'm genuinely asking 😭.

It's been WEEKS and I can't even fathom putting myself in their shoes and seeing how they thought this season was good and made sense. It was like watching a psychological thriller, like how far could the writers break and twist my mind before I completely lost it at the same time catherine did. If that was their intention well then good job, if not, FUCK YOU! 😭

like were they just trying to throw shit at the wall and fuck the show over before the writers strike era fucks them over or something?!?!??

BONUS, some things I actually liked this season: george's development was fun and enjoyable. not being able to tell if she was putting on an act or not was fun like where is her oscar!? I was genuinely waiting for her and catherine to become real bffs instead of marial (I DIDN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT MARIAL THIS SEASON BC SHE PISSED ME OFF SO BAD ALL SEASON, LIKE WHAT WERE THEY EVEN DOING WITH HER?!?!?). I'm rooting for catherine and george to be real friends. catherine and grigor being real friends is all I ever wanted, omg they were so cute. Even if they weren't REAL bffs, their little alliance for peter in episode 6 was so cute to see I love them so much.

I just loved grigor so much this season idk he was just so enjoyable this season. like poor baby he's been through so much I just wanna hug him after the peter thing happened and FUCK ASS MARIAL WAS BEING A TERRIBLE PARTNER AND DIDN'T SUPPORT HIM AT ALL THROUGH THIS. Like even if you hated peter's guts not comforting your partner during a hard time is so nasty and fucked like FUCK HER FR. i hope they aren't endgame, marial really doesn't deserve him and it seems like grigor isn't even all that into marial anymore anyways.

Velementov this season was great, a little sad so it pissed me off a bit especially when they revealed he's not actually sick anymore.... ok..., but he was serving father figure with catherine this season and it was so cute.

The Sweds were funny and interesting (despite hugo lowkey being the reason peter died but we MOVE).

also... kinda mad we didn't get pugachev and archie fucking like ....!??!>@ 😭😭 archie deserved to get LAID!! IM SORRY I HAD TO SAY IT!!! But also fuck him and fuck the writers for going backwards on his character. after all of that development in s2 and thinking he was fine all season, they all of a sudden made him betray catherine for whatever dumbass reason i don't remember and then catherine has him killed when i was just starting to really enjoy his character. well fuck me ig... (also he's not even actually dead, marial's bitchass dug him up so WHAT WAS THE REASON?!)

This post was very long windeed but all in all, this season was a mess. I couldn't believe what the fuck I was watching cuz this wasn't MY the great, certainly not MY SHOW. And I'm not excited for next season but I guess we'll see... s3 ruined my whole week and I'm done talking about it.

bye <3 🍒

#the great #the great hulu #rant #fuck this show #not season 1 and 2 though #petercatherine #cherryanonyshows

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getosgf · 3 years ago

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Geto Suguru relationship headcanons

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Fandom: jujutsu kaisen

Character: geto suguru

Just what I imagine a relationship with Suguru would be like

Cw: nsfw under the cut! Mentions of smoking, some curse words

An: finally done with assignments💀 gonna take the phattest nap after posting. Also currently working on some requests! These headcanons are so biased omg bear with me y’all

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SFW

I imagine him to be the sweetest, chillest lover imaginable

First of all, he thinks everything you do is amazing, mind blowing even

Even if it’s about the simplest tasks you manage to do, like making instant ramen

“Babe your cooking skills are amazing, you should work in a Michelin star restaurant”

Just loves to praise and compliment you, it makes him happy to see you smile

Such a good listener!

You could literally have mentioned you wanted a necklace for your birthday 6 months prior and guess what?

He got you that necklace for your birthday because HE DOES NOT FORGET!!

Malewife!geto will make sure you’re being taken care of

After a long and tiring day he’ll run a hot bath for you, will even light some scented candles for ultimate relaxation

Will wash your hair for you and give you a shoulder massage if that’s what you desire

Suguru is not at all the jealous type

He may get a little bit insecure from time to time, but he trusts you with his entire being

You guys rarely argue

But when you do, they aren’t really big fights, probably because he doesn’t see the point in staying mad at each other

Arguments are also mostly about stupid shit, like not changing the toilet paper roll when there’s no paper left

Regardless if it’s his fault or not, he’ll be the first to apologise just for the sake of keeping the argument as short and lowkey as possible

Now I know suguru canonically doesn’t smoke HOWEVER smoker!geto lives rent free in my head and it just makes so much sense to me so I have to get this out

He either smokes cigarettes or vapes, depending on what he thinks works best to erase the disgusting flavour of the curses he consumes

Would try to mask the scent of smoke on his clothes with like a cedar wood cologne if you don’t like the smell of it

I’ve said it in previous headcanons and I’ll say it again, HIS MORNING VOICE 😩

Like imagine you wake up next to him on a Saturday noon and he whispers “good morning” into your ear as he wraps his leg around you and just skdhdkjdkdj

He just looks so ethereal when he wakes up I JUST KNOW IT like that long hair in a bun all messy because of his tossing and turning in his sleep, those still half-closed eyes and that SMILE OMGGGGG

Anyway

Won’t let you leave the bed, he’s super clingy

If you do manage to escape, he’ll be the first one in the kitchen, already prepping breakfast for you both

A cuddle bear.

Look me dead in the eyes and tell me he isn’t a cuddle bear. I’ll wait.

Surprises you with back hugs, wants to cuddle on the couch while watching a movie, clings onto you when you try to do any sort of task

Unless you explicitly tell him not to, this man does not know personal space

Late nights consists of deep, philosophical conversations

Either that or you talk about the dumbest shit for hours, like “is water wet”, no in between. And no water isn’t wet

Lets you play with his hair and make it all pretty by trying different hair styles and placing cute lil clips

NSFW

Sex with him isn’t just sex

It’s about bonding, emotionally, physically, almost spiritual in a sense

Sex with him can be described as soft and passionate

Definitely into body worship, he wants to make it known that he loves every single part of your body

I personally don’t really view him as a dom, I think he’s more of a switch, maybe leaning to dom

Loves when you ride him, that’s when he can just stare at you in awe

Definitely the romantic type, likes to get extra by lighting candles, placing rose petals on the bed, putting on his special playlist

More of a giver, but doesn’t mind receiving

I don’t think he’s particularly kinky, but he would want to try everything at least once

One thing he is really into is mild bondage

Like just your hands or feet tied up, drives him absolutely wild

Probably makes a joke or two while you guys are going at it, to keep the mood light

Not really a loud moaner unless you ride him, that’s his only weakness, rather his moans are for the most part breathy and absolutely angelic to the ear

Doesn’t go hard, usually

Unless he needs to let go of some of his built up stress

That’s when he straight up wrecks you

After you’re both satisfied, he makes sure you’re okay and immediately grabs a towel to clean you up

Cuddles are a must

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#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk headcanons #jujutsu kaisen hcs #geto headcanons #geto suguru #getou #jujutsu kaisen suguru #geto x reader #getou suguru smut #geto fluff #geto smut #geto suguru x reader #geto

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astrozuya · 3 years ago

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☆ CHERRY !

#CHARACTERS: sakusa kiyoomi, miya atsumu, hinata shoyo, bokuto koutaro + male!reader. #CONTENT: cute things i think the msby 4 do. fluffy hcs. timeskip!characters, established relationship. #NOTES: (@bunniyoo) kiyoo u said u were sick so i wrote some msby hcs to make u feel (hopefully) better, i hope u like these !! they aren't specifically abt sick!reader but i included it in sakusa's part anyways. ilysm <3

☆ HINATA

if he hurts himself in any way he'll use it as an opportunity to get more kisses.

"hey, [name], i fell over and scraped my knee during practice :( when i get home can you kiss it better?"

"ahh, my forehead huuurts, d'you think you could kiss it?"

"hm, i think my lips hurt a bit, could you maybe kiss me there too?"

if you have some physical marks or body parts that you consider flaws, he'll kiss them, lightly tracing them with his hand and brushing his lips over them as he tells you what a gorgeous boy you are, and how he loves everything you consider to be flaws because they're all part of you.

there's a slight blush dusting his cheeks as he says, "don't ever say these parts of you aren't pretty, baby, i think you're really, really cute- and that means all of you!"

gets you flowers or other things you like for no special reason or occasion at all, he just thought of you and wanted to give them to you.

this often leads to him panicking when actual special occasions roll around, because he has no idea how to make things even more special.

"aaah, kageyamaa, what can i do that's super ultra special for [name]? i got him flowers already just last week; it won't be special anymore.. should i get him a ring? it's only our one year anniversary though- should i be thinking about marriage at this point? is it even legal for two guys to get married here? do we have a wedding abroad, then? what do i dooo-"

☆ ATSUMU

talks all the time to his twin and his teammates and friends and even relatives about how amazing you are. he's just so proud of you and all your accomplishments, and he adores you so much, he can't help but brag about his precious boyfriend to everyone.

when he's drunk or sick, he becomes extremely clingy, and literally cries if you leave him for even one minute.

"noo, baby, don't leave me please please stay here," he sniffles and clings to your arm.

he pouts when you respond with, "tsumu, i'm just going to get you something to help with the headache, it'll only take a second-"

"[name], do ya love me? :( then stay with me, don't go. 'm fine, don't need medicine anyways."

he'll keep whining until you give up and cuddle with him.

shit at cooking so he asks osamu how to make you your favourite meals.

he brags lies to you about the fact that he can make complicated dishes, then when you're not there he calls osamu in a panic and demands to be taught how to make it.

"oi, samu, i need ya to teach me how to make tteokbokki for [name], right now. i've got less than an hour to make it before he comes home."

he's greeted by osamu's weary sigh. "tsumu, that's a korean dish, i got no idea how to make it. why'd ya even tell [name] you could cook it, huh? good luck disappointin' your boyfriend."

shh tsumu means well <3

☆ SAKUSA

if you're sleeping/half asleep or too tired to stay awake, he'll brush stray strands of hair out of your face, make sure you're covered with a blanket, and he'll even charge your phone and make sure all your alarms are set.

does things like setting the dinner table, running a bath for you, cooking dinner on days you're busy, washing the dishes and cleaning if you're tired (no i will never stop pushing my malewife sakusa agenda <3)

he'll know if you're sick and if you're feeling even slightly unwell, even without you having to tell him.

he picks up medicine for you, puts on your favourite movie or show and makes sure you're comfy.

if you feel like you'll be okay without him, he'll go to work, but if you want him to stay he'll immediately call msby's coach and tell him he can't come in today.

while you're sick, he'll wear a mask around you but is fine with touching you and sitting with you (even if he's a little further away than normal).

☆ BOKUTO

can sense when you're sad or anxious, and when he does, he'll hug you really really tightly or put an arm around you and kiss your cheek or forehead. if you're in public and you're not comfy with pda, he'll just gently put a comforting hand on the small of your back.

carries you around all the time. loves having you sit on his shoulders or picking you up in his arms. he'll carry you around the house if you're tired, and even if you're fine he'll pick you up and twirl you around or randomly give you a ride on his back. he just loves being able to pick you up and show you how strong he is.

gives you his jacket or coat if you're cold, but doesn't stop at that. he'll give you his scarf, his mittens and his hat too. "i-it d-d-doesn't matter if i freeze as long as you're warm, babe. i'm t-totally ffffine."

"kou, you're literally shivering. take your stuff back."

he'll pout and be like "no >:("

"then.. how about we share? c'mere."

(he's ecstatic about that btw his eyes are literally sparkling ^^)

used to keep a diary about you; this started even before you two began dating, and he'd use it as a progress record. "today, [name] said my cross spikes were neat!!!!!!!! i think he is in love with me."

"akaashi says this doesn't mean he is in love with me. i think he's wrong >:("

"SUCCESS!!!!! [NAME] ASKED ME OUT TO A FESTIVAL!!!!!!!!! IM GONNA BE ULTRA SUPER COOL AND WIN HIM TONS OF PRIZES SO I CAN IMPRESS HIM AND MAKE HIM FALL EVEN MORE TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH ME :DD"

"[name] told me he likes me does he mean as a boyfriend or as bros can't think right now more later"

"HE MEANS IT IN A HOMO WAY YESSS!!!!!!!!!!"

#msby x male reader #haikyuu x male reader #bokuto x male reader #atsumu x male reader #hinata x male reader #sakusa x male reader #hq x male reader #anime x male reader #hinata shoyo x male reader #bokuto koutaro x male reader #sakusa kiyoomi x male reader #male reader insert #male reader #; the prince's library

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whoree321 · 3 years ago

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I AM HERE TO ANSWER YOUR PLEA FOR REQUESTS!!! How about some HCs for the tried and true love languages of the bad batch 👀

AHHHH YES THANK YOU I LOVE YOU!!! i did these in order of like most to least with their primary one in bold haha.

i also have a tech x reader fic in the works (prob later today) so gird your loins besties!!

the bad batch + love languages

Hunter: words of affirmation, acts of service, physical touch, quality time, gifts

Hunter is a smooth talker and def finds it easiest to communicate his affection with words. like not in a “giant poetic declaration of love” kind of way, but in more of a small but meaningful, regular way

like Hunter is huge on compliments. he’s never shy to praise you, and he enjoys the directness of letting you know verbally when he likes something you do or when you make him feel a certain kind of way.

and he likes it the other way as well. he doesn’t want to feel like he doesn’t know where he stands with you, so verbal affection and reassurance is a clear and concise indication to him that you feel the same

I also just know Hunter is such a flirt and the easiest way to rile him up is to get into a back and forth with suggestive comments. and don’t even get me started on this man in the bedroom. he is the king of dirty talk and you can’t change my mind

Crosshair: quality time, acts of service, gifts, physical touch, words of affirmation

I think when Crosshair loves, he loves so very deeply, but he is total shit at expressing it. like he’s just so aloof and prideful he would probably need to be held at gunpoint to verbally admit he loves you

but if you know what to look for, you can tell how much he loves you in the quiet ways

he will ALWAYS go out of his way to be around you. he might not say a word, but he loves to just sit with you and be near you for hours. like he’s the type of person where yall could sit in silence on your phones for 6 hours and it’s the most comfortable companionship in the world

and it’s not just physical presence. when you’re speaking to him or doing something with him, he is FULLY engaged, and nothing makes him feel more loved than when you do the same and give him your full attention and mental presence

in a verbal sense, you probably won’t get more than extremely rare whispers of “i love you” from Crosshair. but he is so loving in his quiet way, you’re never in doubt of it

Tech: gifts, acts of service, words of affirmation, physical touch, quality time

Tech is the king of giving gifts

he is constantly working on building things for you that would be helpful or that you would like. he always tries to bring back cool things from missions that he wants to share with you. he sees something that makes him think of you and he has to get it for you for literally no reason other than it reminded him of you

I think that once Tech is comfortable in your relationship he’s pretty attentive in all the love language areas (he calculated what yours are and tries to communicate his affection for you in ways that are most conducive to you), but sharing gifts is the way he shows love most naturally

and receiving gifts? oh my god he just melts. like he mentions offhandedly some part he would have liked to make a modification to the ship or his favorite flower or something and you get it for him? you’ve never seen him smile so wide before or stare at you with such admiration

he’s also such a flower guy. like Tech loves getting flowers for you, he tries to bring them back for you as much as possible, but he also loves when you do the same. you always try to find the most insane looking flowers or plants because you know how excited he’ll be to explain to you why it’s so funky looking

Tech is just such a sweetheart and nothing makes him happier than being able to make you happy

Wrecker: physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time, acts of service, gifts

Wrecker is loud and proud about how much he loves you. He is the CEO of bone crushing hugs and he will never let you forget that

I think Wrecker is very openly affectionate in a lot of ways, but it’s def easiest for him to convey it physically

he loves physical reassurance and comfort, whether it’s you holding his hand or kissing his temple or hugging him. that contact is what makes him feel loved more than anything else

there are times when he just gets so taken back and overwhelmed by how much he loves you that he literally can’t express it any other way than holding you close to him as tightly as he can without hurting you

(he’s very worried about hurting you at the beginning of your relationship, and it takes a while for him to feel confident that he won’t misjudge his strength with you)

i think Wrecker is pretty good at verbally expressing his love and showing it in other ways, but he’s just such a big ole teddy bear he’s gonna demonstrate it physically above all else

Echo: acts of service, words of affirmation, gifts, physical touch, quality time

if there’s one thing about Echo, it’s that he is a GENTLEMAN

like he’s such a open the door for you, pull your chair out, carry your bags in the mall type of guy

doing things for you and treating you like royalty is the most natural thing in the world for Echo

like he is such a malewife and i love it. he is making caf for you every morning (exactly how you like), he’s doing your chores for you, he’s filing your paperwork for you. you have to tell him to settle down a little bit because you have nothing left to do all day sometimes

and omg when you do things for him??? he is so heart eyes it’s not even funny. like he’s so not used to being taken care of and for you to care enough about him to go out of your way to try to make his day a little easier is just so incredible to him.

he just loves to dote on you and can’t believe how lucky he is when you dote on him

#the bad batch #bad batch #tbb #tbb crosshair #tbb hunter #tbb wrecker #the bad batch x reader #tbb echo #tbb tech #tbb x reader #the bad batch headcanons #tech x reader #wrecker x reader #hunter x reader #crosshair x reader #echo x reader

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markantonys · 3 years ago

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crossroads of twilight prologue-chapter 14

the opening prophecy says that mankind will come to the crossroads of twilight “when the right hand falters and the left hand strays” i’m thinking the right hand is perrin and the left hand is mat

i listened to the prologue on audiobook bc it was so boring and i wanted to play sims at the same time (i always do this for perrin’s chapters as well), and the prologue was 3 hours out of 26. that is almost 1/8th of the book. the PROLOGUE is ONE EIGHTH of the ENTIRE BOOK!! ENOUGH!!! wot prologues my DETESTED........

........except for when they give me a glimpse of gawyn! recalled as shouting thank god it is my boy! i paused the audiobook and picked up the hard copy to read his portion with my full attention. a book or two ago egwene was wondering if he was well and if he was warm, and tragically he is neither. he and the younglings have been banned from tar valon but they didn’t leave quickly enough and are now stuck living in a barn due to the winter and the besieging army, which little does gawyn know belongs to egwene. “he did not know where egwene was, or whether she was alive. or whether she could forgive him.” forgive him? she already knows he sided with elaida, so forgive him for dumai’s wells and the box maybe? since she made him promise not to hurt rand, and he didn’t, but he didn’t stop him from being hurt either.

i am looking forward to egwyn? gawene? reunion, whenever it might happen. i think they’re cute! it’s just a shame that rj didn’t decide he wanted them to be together until like 1 chapter before they got together lmao but the premise of the ship is good. huge girlboss/malewife rights.

gawyn also worries about elayne and hopes that her being only accepted will prevent her from being held accountable for having become “entangled” with siuan. he doesn’t know whether she’s in tar valon or heading for caemlyn (confirmed that elayne’s attempts to send him messages in tar valon have failed, since he’s been kicked out of the city). “she always dove into a pond without checking the depth” that’s my girl!

“he was mired in a hopeless snarl” gawyn: a summary. now i am going to list some quotes of gawyn being mired in a hopeless snarl that i find very sexy.

“‘why would elaida send me orders? why should i obey if she did? she disowned me, and the younglings.’ ...the younglings did not share gawyn’s belief. aes sedai did what they did, and no man could know why until a sister told him. the younglings had cast their lots with the white tower wholeheartedly, embracing fate.”

“‘elayne is sealed to the white tower. so are you, for all your talk of disowning. the history of andor seals you to the tower.’”

“the younglings were sealed to the white tower. no one would ever forget that they had fought, on the very grounds of the tower, to stop the rescue of a deposed amyrlin. for good or ill, the tale would follow them to their graves. he was marked by that, as well, and by his own secrets. after all that bloodshed, he was the man who had let siuan sanche walk free. more importantly, though, elayne bound him to the white tower, and so did egwene al’vere, and he did not know which tied the tighter knot, the love of his sister or the love of his heart. to abandon one was to abandon all three, and while he breathed, he could not abandon elayne or egwene. ‘you have my word that i will do all i can,’ he said wearily. ‘what does elaida want of me?’”

aaaaaahhh gawyn you’re so trapped and alone and conflicted and sexy aha

no for real i LOVE conflicted characters and i am absolutely feasting on this! there have not been nearly enough sexy conflicted characters in WOT thus far, everyone is always so certain of what side to take since most conflicts our mains face are Obvious Good vs. Obvious Evil and not gawyn’s more nebulous conflict between two sides that both want to fight the shadow yet still oppose each other (i’m hoping galad might face a similar conflict among the whitecloaks if we ever fuckin see him again. homeboy’s been missing for 5 books.) once gawyn finds out egwene is the rebel amyrlin and is leading the besieging army, i know he will betray elaida to side with her. i am planting that seed and i will see the harvest. surely the fact that he’s the most universally hated WOT character means nothing. this can’t possibly end badly.

“elayne trakand would not like that, bael, and if you’ve forgotten what it’s like being a young man, that means rand al’thor won’t like it.” thank you bashere for providing me a scrap of randlayne content! elayne’s like “no one can know i’m dating rand!” but apparently Everybody knows jkfgh or at least bashere and bael do.

“[bashere] knew [deira] would die one day - they both would - but the only thing he feared was living without her.” bashere loves his wife, he is a short king, he is a dilf, he truly has it all. he, rhuarc, and lan are in a deadlock over the WOT dilf crown (and will soon face a new challenger now that rand is a dilf-to-be)

in general, and i can’t commit to this because there are so many characters so there’s probably ones i’m forgetting, but off the top of my head i would say that bashere and lini are the only characters who were introduced after tfoh who are valid and whom i care about. they just managed to squeeze in before i reached my full capacity of Characters I Can Be Invested In and closed my doors.

i forgot that women in cairhien are falling over themselves to wear tight pants and fancy coats and heeled boots to imitate min. words cannot express how much annoyance and secondhand embarrassment that brings me.

if only elayne already had the throne secured so that she could reveal close ties with rand without seeming to be his puppet. i want ELAYNE to be rand’s Public Girlfriend, not min! the queen of andor and the dragon reborn dating and expecting a baby together would be THE hottest gossip topic in randland! randland social media would blow up about #RandLayne on the daily! everybody would be extremely scared of and/or desperately horny over their relationship! the bisexual population would be in shambles! they would be a phenomenal Power Couple, but they never get the chance to be one!

mat has successfully escaped ebou dar (at least the city itself), but for some godforsaken reason we did not get to actually see him do it (aside from a brief flashback later in the chapter). that same night, there was a big battle between the seanchan and the escaped sea folk, during which hundreds of people were killed, but for some godforsaken reason, we did not see this onscreen either. rj really just went “i’m gonna make all the actual action happen offscreen so that there will be plenty of screentime available for brooding and worrying.” like, mat’s entire plotline in the last book was building towards getting out of ebou dar and freeing the sea folk, and we just?? don’t actually see the climax??? make it make sense.

noal is doing a great job carrying out the age-old literary trope, What If Some Weird Guy Just Showed Up

from what little we know so far, seanchan sei’mosiev seems like an interesting similarity to aiel toh

mat is in ebou dar being egeanin’s fake boyfriend when he could be in caemlyn being elayne’s fake babydaddy 😤 why would you waste fake dating on characters who aren’t going to end up real dating? a crime.

in our brief flashback to the escape we learn that tuon was smuggled out rolled up in a tapestry! cleopatra vibes!!!!

mat keeps going “aaaahh i don’t want to marry her” my brother in the light YOU chose to bring her along. you could’ve just left her there and never seen her again.

later in the chapter he explains his decision to bring her to someone else by saying that she would’ve raised the alarm if left behind, which is fair enough, but in the actual moment that was definitely not the reason he decided to bring her. if he had already decided to bring her bc leaving her would be a risk and then found out she was the daughter of the nine moons AFTER having already made that decision for unrelated reasons (and after they’d made it far enough that it was too late to ditch her) i would’ve been fine with that because it wouldn’t have violated his established “as soon as i find out who the daughter of the nine moons is i’m running as fast as i can in the opposite direction” characterization.

“his luck really was still with him. at times he thought that was all that kept him from bawling like a baby.“ 😭😭😭 i am picking up mat, rand, and gawyn, wrapping them in warm blankets, and depositing them gently into the palace of caemlyn where elayne will care for them.

juilin’s girlfriend is amathera the panarch of tarabon. whom he met for like an hour 6 books ago yet apparently fell madly in love with. you know those days where you’re like “this might as well happen, WOT romances are already so goddamn weird.” also why is this relationship between a secondary character and an extremely minor tertiary character even necessary jkjfg what kind of pair the spares shit! rj cannot see a character without needing to find a nice heterosexual relationship for them!

“‘and put your coat on, it’s cold,’ [mat] added as [olver] ducked past thera into the tent...for all the care anybody but mat cauthon took, the boy could catch his death.” mat is SUCH a dad.

our first scene between mat and tuon this book is her throwing pottery at his head and spending the entire conversation calling him Toy, ignoring the three (3) times he tells her his name is mat 🙄

and mistress anan gives tuon another cup to throw at mat if she wants to???? and spends the scene “behaving as though she were guarding [tuon] from him.” robert i’m sorry but Women Having Solidarity Against Men just does not extend to a woman taking the evil tyrant who invaded her homeland’s side over her friend’s. it just doesn’t. real women do not behave like this.

the saga of “people hogging all the seats and forcing mat to stay standing when he is injured, limping, and in chronic pain” continues

when mat seals a bargain by spitting into his hand and holding it out: “‘your customs are...earthy,’ tuon said in a dry voice, but she spat on her own palm and clasped his hand.” pleasantly surprised she Lowered Herself to partaking in mat’s (extremely unhygienic yuck) customs, 1 point for tuon

“just because he did not want to get married did not mean he wanted his future wife to think him a fool” okay that was cute and made me laugh jkdfg

thom brings the news that tylin was killed by the gholam. woohoo! completely understandable for mat to feel guilty, since he’d tied her up and the gholam only got her bc she associated with him and he’s the true target, but “did you care for tylin so deeply?” “yes. no. burn me, i liked her!” ..........ugh

tuon says “i’m very happy that you show loyalty to tylin” and sounds jealous that a woman (joline) wants to see mat. she DEFS had a prophecy that he would become her husband and has been scoping him out all this time.

“besides, the [rainy] weather fit his spirits” gave me an INSTANT flashback to “rand chose the black coat to suit his mood” which was way back in tgh but still has to be one of my top 10 funniest WOT lines jskdjfg we love 2 emo melodramatic bisexuals

“this time he had not thought of either of his friends, but the colors had suddenly been there, a fan of a thousand rainbows. this time they had almost formed an image, a vague impression that might have been a man and a woman seated on the ground facing one another. it was gone in an instant, but he knew as surely as he knew his own name. not the forsaken. rand. and he could not help wondering, what had rand been doing when the dice stopped?” okay now in addition to seeing rainbows mat is having visions of rand and seeing what he’s doing at the current moment? FELLAS

much as i love mat having a psychic connection to rand, he wouldn’t NEED to have magic vision of rand’s activities if he was physically with him 😤

tuon once faked her own death and allowed it to get as far as funeral preparations purely as some sort of political power move LMAO queen shit. she’s been facing assassination attempts since the day she was born and at age 6ish she gave her doll to the guard who saved her to thank him 🥺 my feelings for tuon are that meme of the metronome with its pendulum swinging violently from side to side.

“it was a fault aram had, looking after him too much, unasked” “selande or any of her ridiculous friends” perrin is constantly so mean and judgmental about the people who are willingly serving him (granted i also think the cairhienin wannabe aiel are ridiculous, and granted perrin is not exactly in a positive mindset right now, but still, even before faile was kidnapped he was always like this)

“as always, thought of rand brought colors whirling through perrin’s head, more vividly than usual this time, but anger melted them to vapor” jhkdjg perrin has SUCH an easy time ignoring rand and the colors meanwhile mat’s like AAAAAAHHH RAND AND THE COLORS I GOTTA STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM for an entire paragraph every time it happens

mat upon seeing the vision of rand and nynaeve: “he knew as surely as he knew his own name. not the forsaken. rand. and he could not help wondering, what had rand been doing when the dice stopped?”

perrin upon seeing it: “he had no time for rand, not now. not now!” “‘it’s rand. his business. he’ll take care of it, whatever it is.’” jkdjfgkh get fucked rand (by mat, since perrin has no time for you)

perrin was supposed to be dealing with masema and mat was supposed to be helping elayne get to caemlyn and then helping rand with military matters. i feel like both of them are just stuck dicking around in books-long sidequests and being forced to avoid the main quest, even with the pattern sending them psychic visions of rand desperately trying to get them to go back to him.

the pattern trying to corral mat and perrin back into the main plot is like when you get up from your sims game but forget to pause it and then you come back and your sims have all gotten themselves killed and burned the house down.

faile pov: “someryn’s over-large bosom, plump sun-dark cleavage” rj pulling r/menwritingwomen shit so strongly that his female characters end up sounding gay as hell is my favorite thing

the city of MALDEN HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA i am a massachusetts resident and i am absolutely delighted by this. will be hooting and hollering every single time this oh-so-exotic fantasy city name is mentioned.

“perhaps he did not like women in that way” is this the first acknowledgement that gay men exist in wotworld?? nice! i mean, it’s in the context of faile thinking “if this aiel guy who captured me didn’t check me out while i was naked then maybe he’s gay” so let’s not get too excited

elayne pov, thank god! “[the maid] stepped back breathing heavily, though whether from the effort of concentration or just from being in the presence of the daughter-heir was hard to tell” i too would breathe heavily in elayne’s presence

i love elayne being so aware of the power of clothes and the different messages various outfit choices could send, and crafting her own image accordingly. we love to see soft (and stereotypically feminine) power treated as legitimate and effective in fantasy books!

elayne describes the maid as “plump-bosomed” that’s gay elayne

“[elayne and avi] would have shared a room if not for the implication that matherin could not provide adequately for two visitors of note” they want to share a bed so bad! even when there are other options! and they’re sad about having to sleep in separate rooms! they’re married!

we learn that avi is 1 year older than elayne, interesting. from what i've heard of specific ages, elayne is 18, avi and tuon and i THINK egwene 19, the boys 21, and nynaeve 25-6 (i forget exactly what number she said), although i’m not sure when it was in the series that elayne and mat gave their ages as 18 and 21 so they could have turned a year older by now. literally insane to think that elayne is a pregnant almost-queen at EIGHTEEN lmao i assume the show will age her up a few years as it did egwene (who in the books is 2 years younger than the boys) which i’ll be glad about.

“everyone in the royal palace knew she was pregnant - a good many had known before she did, courtesy of min’s viewing and min being too free with her tongue” so apparently min can tell everyone BUT rand that elayne is pregnant 😒 min really did violate elayne’s privacy all over the place by blabbing even just to avi and birgitte about that viewing (before elayne herself had any idea), and she hadn’t yet drunk a single sip of alcohol at the time of telling those two so that’s no excuse. and drunk as they got, avi and birgitte did still remember elayne was pregnant if not the details, so i don’t buy that min got too drunk to remember any of it. i just bet that she does remember but isn’t telling rand bc she doesn’t want elayne to have a greater hold on him than she herself does.

“shaking with mirth, [elayne and avi] hugged one another and hung on. life was very strange. had anyone told her a few years ago that she would share a man with another woman - with two other women! - she would have called them mad.” Oh, And Min instance #1. “but she loved aviendha every bit as much as she did rand, only in a different way” no homo, of course “and aviendha loved rand as much as she did. denying that meant denying aviendha, and she could as easily step out of her skin.” they are literally the PERFECT throuple and min is so shoehorned in and contributes nothing positive to the relationship, and i’ll die mad about it. “aiel women, sisters or close friends, often married the same man and seldom gave him any say in the matter.” that’s not the truth, elayne. women give the bridal wreath but the man can say no. although granted i’m not sure if that’s the case for taking a second wife, i feel like i remember with melaine that they said bael didn’t have a say in it as long as dorindha wanted melaine as her sister-wife. anyway, once again rand is being left out of decisions about his own relationship smh. “she was going to marry rand, and so was aviendha, and so was min.” Oh, And Min instance #2.

“‘he is well, and he will be well,’ aviendha whispered fiercely, as if she intended to assure his survival by killing anything that threatened him. with the tips of her fingers, elayne brushed a tear from her sister’s cheek. ‘he is well, and he will be well,’ she agreed softly.” THE PERFECT THROUPLE!!! GODDAMMIT

also, it’s so sad and shitty to see how much elayne thinks about rand in her pov vs. how little he thinks about her or avi in his. granted rand is not in his prime of mental or emotional health right now and has other matters weighing on his mind (as does elayne though), but still. min’s thoughts are nothing but rand, elayne has a respectable paragraph of thoughts about him every so often, but rand thinks about her and avi for like, a dispassionate half a sentence mentioning all 3 women together.

“[when the door opened] they quickly moved a little apart, just holding hands.” and elayne worries about the rumors if someone were to see “the daughter-heir huddling in the arms of her companion” because it would make her appear weak and cowardly. but also because her ““companion”“ is actually her wife and andor is not ready for that, you can’t change my mind.

“[master ros] included aviendha in his courtesy. he had been startled by her at first, but surprisingly quick to catch their friendship, and if he did not entirely trust an aiel, it meant he accepted her.” master ros said gay rights!

“she did not insult matherin, and [master ros], by promising to remember [their loyalty] or offering rewards...matherin would receive rewards, if they were earned, but they could not be held out as if offering to buy a horse.” again, elayne is so smart about maintaining the proper appearances and understanding how various actions of hers would be perceived! she would have been such an enormous help to rand if they were allowed to interact!

“women were uncommon in jobs that required using weapons, just the occasional merchants’ guard or a rare woman who turned up in an army during time of war” this is just such a weird worldbuilding thing, especially since it seems pretty much universal across all cultures, aside from aiel maidens and saldeans (but even then warrior women are an exception rather than the rule) and seanchan. you’d think that since men are the ones who broke the world, in the ensuing 3000 years there would’ve been a cultural shift towards not trusting ANY man with weapons, not just men who can channel. i’ve seen some readers argue that randland is a matriarchy, but it really isn’t. female channelers having the power and a small number of nations having SOME matriarchal customs (andor’s succession, far madding’s women-only rules for trade and banking, and whatever the hell ebou dar has going on) hasn’t trickled down to other aspects of society at all, and the other “matriarchal” things are just men going “ugh my wife is so mean and doesn’t let me do fun stuff!” which doesn’t count. what do you want to bet that the “randland is a matriarchy” takes just come from male readers unused to seeing women have equal power in a fantasy setting rather than less power lmao

“smiling, aviendha touched elayne’s cheek. ‘i think i will learn a great deal about being a wise one from you.’ to her mortification, elayne blushed in embarrassment. her cheeks felt on fire! maybe the swings in humor were worse than the cosseting.” elayne getting blushy and flustered when avi compliments her and touches her cheek: it’s just the pregnancy mood swings, obviously.

“let him [rand] dart from giddy to weepy every other hour and see how he liked it!” i would pay all my money to see rand near enough to elayne to experience pregnancy effects via the bond 😭😭 it’s not faaaaaaiiiiir

elayne wondering if channeling could harm her baby: “surely one of the aes sedai in the palace would have said something if channeling was to be avoided in pregnancy. then again, very few aes sedai ever bore children. they might not know...it seemed very strange that they might be ignorant of something so important to most women.” a sad parallel to the poor understanding of basic aspects of women’s health throughout much of history (and still today) in our own world. thinking about ancient greek Wandering Womb lmao. and yet another example of how randland definitely isn’t a matriarchy.

elayne and avi sense nynaeve’s massive channeling to cleanse saidin and are both certain rand’s involved (and possibly under attack by black ajah or female forsaken), elayne wants to rush to his side but avi persuades her that it’s too risky since they don’t know what they might be walking into and could end up distracting/harming him rather than helping, and that from what she can recall of her visions in rhuidean she has a sense something bad will happen if the pair of them go to him now. a convenient way to keep rand in only min’s clutches, if you ask me! it’s so frustrating and shitty that rand didn’t even tell the two of them what his plan was. if they’d known he was going to cleanse saidin, they’d be able to guess that was what was going on right now and would be less worried and in the dark and would know that it would be dangerous for them to interfere. rand’s relationships with all 3 are supposed to be equal, yet he takes min everywhere and tells her everything but sneaks out on elayne and avi in the night and doesn’t tell them jack shit about where he’s going or what he’s doing. does he think they would’ve tried to go with him and Be Endangered if they knew? if so he doesn’t know them at all, because elayne has her duties to andor and avi to the wise ones that they would never just up and leave, even for him. unlike min who has nothing better to do than follow him everywhere.

“‘i don’t have anything to teach you about being a wise one, aviendha,’ she said quietly. ‘you are already much wiser than i. not to mention braver and more coolheaded.’ aviendha colored faintly under the praise - she could be very sensitive at times” aviendha praise kink? lmao. instead of blushing at every compliment from each other why don’t you two just make out and maybe you’ll calm down.

“birgitte had a headache and a sour stomach, not unusual occurrences of late, but they suited elayne’s mood all too well” elayne completing mat and rand’s holy trinity of emo melodramatic bisexuals

“i must leave him to take care of himself, she thought as she rode through. light, how often had she thought that? no matter. rand was the love of her heart and the joy of her life, but andor was her duty.” elayne and rand, my dutiful babies 😭😭😭

i really feel for elayne’s frustration over avi, birgitte, and others in her life fussing so much over her pregnancy and dictating what she does and eats and making decisions together about her behind her back and generally seeing Person With Babies In Her rather than Person when they look at her. that must feel pretty dehumanizing and condescending (and i would imagine people who’ve been pregnant irl can relate to it, unfortunately)

“she and birgitte all too often mirrored one another, physically and emotionally...she thought the mirroring must occur because they were both women.” it makes absolutely ZERO fucking sense that a warder bond would be different depending on the people’s genders!

when mellar appears: “aviendha gripped the hilt of her belt knife” she is soooo jealous of him being elayne’s fake babydaddy

“aviendha tried to wrap the towel around her own head three times, and only after the construction collapsed down her neck for the third time did she allow naris to do it, muttering about getting so soft that she soon would need someone to lace up her boots until elayne began laughing and she joined in, throwing her head back so that naris had to start over again” PURE!!!

and so we get to elayne’s infamous multi-page bath. i have absolutely 0 problems with this scene and cannot believe it’s lambasted so much lmao fandom really does love to hate anything elayne does! on the contrary, i actually really liked this scene because a) elayne has been so stressed that getting to watch her have a nice bath was very satisfying, b) she had lots of interesting thoughts about various things that are going on, and c) i find How People Bathe In Randland a much more interesting bit of worldbuilding than some other tangents rj likes to go on. it’s helpful for fics! and we learn that a) the word and concept of shampoo exists in randland and b) aiel make shampoo out of a certain plant in the waste. that’s interesting, you guys! i’d wondered before if aiel had a way to wash their hair besides sweat tents!

the most interesting of elayne’s thoughts are about her brothers! i’ve been hoping for a long time to see her think about them more. “it would be the cruelest spinning of fate for gawyn to be caught between his oaths to defend the tower and his love for egwene.” oh, wouldn’t it be, elayne? “elayne did not resent his decision to aid elaida; he could not have known enough then to make any other choice. a good many sisters had been confused over what was happening too. a good many still seemed to be. how could she ask gawyn to see what aes sedai could not?” yes! that is near verbatim EXACTLY what i’ve been thinking and saying this whole time! vindication! if no one else has got me and gawyn i know elayne’s got us.

“she had grown up unable to like [galad], sure he must resent her, and resent gawyn most of all. galad had to have thought he would be first prince of the sword one day, until gawyn was born...she remembered [in her earliest childhood memories] being afraid he would break open gawyn’s head with the practice blade.” interesting to get some more insight into elayne’s deep-seated mistrust of galad. and a small parallel to tuon being plotted against by her own siblings, tho ofc galad would never actually do any harm to elayne or gawyn and so elayne’s worries aren’t justified. still, royal families are complicated!

“galad fancied nynaeve, or had for a time” HOLD UP WHAT let’s play a game called “am i misremembering again, is rj relationship retconning again, or is our narrating character misinterpreting someone else’s romantic situation again” jfkgjh

“she could not condone him being a child of the light, she could not like him, yet she hoped that he was safe and well. she hoped he found his way home to caemlyn too. news of him would have been nearly as welcome as news of gawyn. that surprised her, but it was true.” ❤️❤️ trakand family reunion when??

“[some sisters were] waiting to see whether egwene or elaida would end with the amyrlin seat before they declared themselves. that was wrong - an aes sedai should stand for what she thought was right without worrying over whether she was choosing the winning side!” elayne! baby! ❤️❤️ she is so good and principled and courageous!

“not that elayne had concerns about rand and any aes sedai” oh boy elayne lmao this poor woman has been given 0 information about her boyfriend’s life and it hurts me so bad!

the sea folk interrupt their baths and aviendha just stays naked for the entire meeting with them jdkfjg queen shit

“i was taking a bath. i will be taking a bath again as soon as you go. i will speak with you when i have finished taking my bath. if it pleases the light.” let elayne take her bath 2k22

“‘my sister has you by the ear, zaida din parede,’ aviendha chortled, slapping her thigh. ‘hung up by the ankles, in fact.’” and after elayne successfully out-bargained zaida (that’s my girl!) “aviendha grinned, obviously impressed.” aviendha is such a THAT’S MY WIFE sort of person, bless her!

awwww aviendha drinks a cup of elayne’s pregnancy-mandated gross weak bitter tea in solidarity with her and later on sneaks honey into elayne’s tea behind birgitte’s back ❤️❤️ wife behavior!

elayne’s mad because the bathwater’s gone cold and it would take too long to get new hot water. can’t she just channel it to heat it back up??

we have another maid Breathing Heavily in elayne’s presence, nice, mood

aviendha wears a wetlander silk dress to accompany elayne to meet with high seats as a favor to elayne and so she’ll help elayne make a good first impression 🥺 wife behavior! [elayne speaking] “‘those colors look beautiful on you.’ it was true, but aviendha blushed. compliment her on how well she shot a bow or how fast she could run, and she took it as no more than her due, but she had difficulty coming to grips with the fact that she was beautiful. that was a part of herself she had managed to ignore, till recently.” a) aviendha Once Again blushing at compliments from elayne, b) elayne canonically thinks avi is beautiful, c) this is fueling my demi aviendha headcanon (in a previous book elayne had mentioned how she had to teach avi about flirting and romance since avi Didn’t Understand Those Things and had never had any interest in them before rand. wait a minute i am just now realizing the implications of elayne teaching avi about flirting and romance jkdfjg LADIES)

“[dyelin] was bemused by aviendha and elayne adopting one another as sisters, by elayne having an aiel friend in the first place. that elayne chose to include that friend in their counsels was something she tolerated. though not without letting her toleration show.” dyelin did not say gay rights

“‘one of the men he hands his reports to left the city and hasn’t returned yet, while it appears the other broke his leg. the streets are always icy where a fire has been put out.’ she said that so blandly, it seemed more than likely she had engineered the man’s fall somehow. hard times uncovered hard talents in the most surprising people.” GODDAMN MISTRESS HARFOR she’s joining verin, lini, and sorilea on the list of Iconic Old Ladies Who Get Shit Done (cadsuane is excluded)

“tracing that gold back to arymilla or elenia or naean would require mat cauthon’s luck.” elayne thought about mat! if only he were here to contribute his luck to her cause.

“sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying” and now elayne is showing some Mat Life Philosophy :’)

“elayne reached out and took her sister’s hand, and when aviendha tried to let go after one squeeze, she held on. after a brief hesitation, aviendha clung, too. in a strange way, having aviendha there had comforted elayne for the loss of rand; she was not only a sister but a sister who also loved him. they could share strength and make each other laugh when they wanted to cry, and they could cry together when that was needed.” THE PERFECT THROUPLEEEEEEEEE also, i don’t know how many layers of sand someone would have to bury their head under to see avilayne’s relationship as entirely platonic and heterosexual at this point like good GOD and also #2, it’s SUCH a glaring contrast to their relationships with min, and a sad one.

monaelle the wise one comes in and conducts a magic ultrasound on elayne. good to know that prenatal care does exist in wotworld, if only among wise ones. and elayne finds out she’s having twins! “two! elayne shared a wide smile with aviendha. she could almost feel her sister’s delight. she was going to have twins. rand’s babies.” 🥺🥺❤️❤️

i’m at the point where i feel like i’m experiencing homophobia every time rj calls them sisters jfkgjh

apparently the ability to channel protects you from morning sickness? that is very weird and just feels like Plot Convenience so that elayne can be pregnant while still carrying out her plotline unencumbered by morning sickness lmao

“sumeko’s massive bosom heaved as she drew a deep breath” elayne notices bosoms almost as much as mat i swear to god. and that’s the end of elayne’s portion, so i will leave you with that observation hfgjh

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