#idk this came to me in a dream

[brainfreeze27]

[headfirstforheelys]

fish want me. women phish me. please beware of beautiful women, for they have taken all my money.

[ouroboroy]

am i late to the trend

[sobbingstars]

marily + Jegulus angst

when you (Lily) wake up next to him (James) in the middle of the night, with your head in your hands you’re nothing more than his wife, and when you think about me (Mary) all of those years ago, you’re standing face to face with, I told you so.

or alternatively

when you (James) wake up next to him (Lily) in the middle of the night, with your head in your hands, you’re nothing more than his wife, and when you think about me (Regulus) all of those years ago, you’re standing face to face with, I told you so.

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

crying laughing at the pre-canon headcanon that patricia honestly thought fabian was gay bc he didn’t seem into joy and simply was also the way he is, so she kept trying to gently break the news to joy

[bonkobarnes]

Cam wonders if people thinks she’s stupid. That she doesn’t know. She can hear the whispers and the half suppressed laughs. She knows the rumors. Cam is more than aware of her reputation around the precinct. Scott doesn’t perpetuate the rumors but Cam hears him laugh with the rest of them. When they call her dyke or queer or fag and she pretends like she doesn’t hear it. Then she gets home and pretends like it didn’t hurt.

Cam wonders if the same thing happens to Rebecca. Idly considers what Rebecca’s reputation is. If she gets called names. If she ever feels the red hot burn of hate spewed at the back of her neck.

Cam wonders naively if it’s the same everywhere. If she will experience the same vitriol in Vancouver, or Seattle, or New York.

She considers asking Rebecca about both and ultimately decides against it. Cam won’t admit it out loud but she’s afraid of the answer. There’s not an answer that will placate Cam’s feelings. Because either hate will follow her everywhere she goes, or there is a safe space on this big green earth and she is doomed to never reach it.

So she tries her best to keep up appearances. Once a year will go on a date with a man. Just some sad fuck who doesn’t know any better. But she looks in the mirror and knows what she sees, knows she can’t fool anyone. So maybe they think she is stupid but she’s certainly not proving them wrong

[ellie-mars]

[valariemoon]

This is how I see Rosalina, Peach and Daisy btw.

[ruuinxs]

random question for the road…

[bobvelsebishot]

Sitcom character 1: "Umm, guys? You might wanna see this."

The camera pans to a dude just standing there. He explodes without warning.

Sitcom character 2: "How did you know that was gonna happen?"

Sitcom character 1 shrugs and turns to the camera, grinning while holding a remote control. A laugh track plays.

[orphetoon]

resident ghost hugger meets ghost boy

[monokuma-apologist]

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

We don’t appreciate enough how GRRM made House Targaryen the poster children for his de/reconstruction of the fantasy chosen family trope, and we don’t appreciate how Jon and Dany are the main lens through which he does that. House Targaryen is fantasy on steroids—magic swords, magic look, magic lineage, perhaps the most magic pet one could have in the genre, and a magic destiny that’s specific to them and only them. There’s a foretold magical conflict and its main hero (as many would think), “the prince that was promised”, specifically has to be a Targaryen. This House’s history is so rich, but from a genre perspective, it is Aerys II’s reign and Robert’s Rebellion that’s the most interesting to analyze. Aerys isn’t special himself, but he is to sire the future savior of the world. Then Rhaegar is born and tragic as they are, all the signs point to him being the promised messiah. And Rhaegar becomes THE fantasy hero on steroids. He’s the perfect heir to House Targaryen’s legacy because not only is he to be the best of them, and many think he would have been had he lived, but he is the most perfect manifestation of House Targaryen as the personification of fantasy. There’s absolutely a point to him living and dying as the heir, the inheritor, the eternal symbol of what could have been of the Targaryen’s old glory.

Part of Rhaegar’s legacy extends to his son Aegon. Aegon had everything Rhaegar didn’t. A comet was seen at his conception—and this is an most important herald for the chosen one. So he is given a song, “the song of ice and fire”, and a king’s name to match his status as the new messiah. He didn’t live long but he inherited Rhaegar’s look in his youth too; the fantasy protagonist look. But Aegon died before he could be the hero.

You see Jon and Dany as chosen ones only works so well because of their House’s history, especially as (anti)parallels to Rhaegar and Aegon. They are the unexpected inheritors and challengers to their house’s legacy but in different ways.

Dany is the most immediate and obvious heir. There’s a beauty to her being the last of them and thus, the one bearing the entire house’s legacy. Dany is THE Targaryen. And in being that, she becomes THE hero. She’s got the hero’s look, the hero’s magic and destiny, and better yet, she got the hero’s sword and pet all in one. And, she’s legitimate! She is House Targaryen. But there’s a problem….shes a girl. And we all know House Targaryen’s history with girls.

Maester Aemon’s “no one ever looked for a girl” is quickly becoming my favorite Dany-related quote because it pretty much encapsulates her entire arc, especially as an inheritor to her house’s legacy. The hero they died knowing and expecting was the boy: first Rhaegar, then Aegon. But father and son are dead. Yet Daenerys lives. She inherits everything else they did and more! The Targaryens tried and failed to bring dragons back, but it was Dany who ultimately did it.

Now, Jon is Dany but flipped. From a meta point of view, he’s more fantasy protagonist than she is. He’s a boy, he’s got a big magic sword that he can swing about, and he’s perhaps fantasy’s most prolific trope in action—the magical hidden prince. But within this story, GRRM flips these two characters. Jon’s fantasy protag-ness doesn’t go away, it just morphs into something else. Unlike Dany, he may be a boy and he may have a sword, but he lacks literally everything else. He doesn’t have the look, his magic powers are from his other family, so is his magic pet, and his magic destiny has thus far developed outside his immediate association with House Targaryen. Dany is “what if Rhaegar was a girl?”, but we can’t even begin to ask these types of questions with Jon because there’s so much that precludes him from the fantasy hero role in story. He’s Rhaegar’s heir…but he doesn’t look like him…and he’s not even legitimate. So what do we do now?

GRRM destroyed his fantasy protag house and decided to build up again from the ground up, but did so by challenging the two most critical points—primogeniture and exceptionalism. With Dany, he makes a girl the Targaryen’s outward successor. This works really well because the Targaryens have a history of denying their female heirs. But now what’s left of them is a girl, and she is literally everything they could have hoped for. And she is a a reflection of her house, but her arc has at many times seen her be the antithesis of her ancestors. And I can’t help but think of the oncoming meta-textual showdown between her and Young Griff. On the surface Young Griff, a boy, is the preferred heir. But Dany is, in truth, the one.

Jon is interesting because, in my view, he challenges the Targaryen idea of exceptionalism. He’s easily the fantasy protagonist from the outside looking in. But he doesn’t have the Targaryen name, nor does he have the look. He has the blood, but what makes him special is that it is mixed with the other major fantasy protagonist house’s blood—he’s special in that he’s a hybrid. And this is interesting because if Aegon conquered the seven kingdoms because of a prophecy regarding him or one of his princely descendants, it’s quite the twist to have this messiah not even be a Targaryen prince (not in name anyway). That’s why all the hand wringing around “is Jon legitimate?” or “no one cares because he doesn’t look like Rhaegar” really isn’t the point. The point is for Jon to be the manifestation of the hero—the king—outside of that narrow framework. And if he succeeds, then GRRM would absolutely still be subverting prophecy and genre conventions.

There’s something to Jon and Dany being born as or after House Targaryen falls. House Targaryen has no crown, no throne, and their prophetic mandate has been usurped. But GRRM is so attached to them, and he certainly wants to rebuild them and hold fantasy to account. But to do so, everything we know about the Targaryens, everything the Targaryens knew about themselves, has to be challenged and put to the test by the personifications of all that a Targaryen hero couldn’t be: a girl, and a bastard.

[venomgaia]

gal who calls you girliepop and collects bugs

[0scinine]

I present the Mighty Nein in cropped sleeveless tank tops because I had nothing better to do with my time

[coffbeanie]

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir Season 5 Episode 24 “Representation”