#nuclear dragon anon

[selfship-confession-box]

SSIIIIGHHHH I had a dream where I got SO MANY figures of my f/o but I woke up and I was SO UPSETTT....I need a figure of my love so bad......i did find out how to make keychains with a website called Vograce I think. with it you can basically make art of your f/o and buy a keychain with it for like?? 3 dollars from what I've seen? I plan on making one SOON that's what. I need to have my husband everywhere I go....blerggggg,,I will have in IN MY CLUTCHES in 5 BUSINESS DAYS

here's the link btw...take what I said with a GRAIN of salt cuz I haven't used it myself....yet,.,.,........ https://vograce.com/

-🐉☢

[lonesome-greenery]

ASKING YOU ABOUT YOUR NUCLEAR DRAGONS STORY!!! it sounds cool i wanna know!!

*rubs hands together*

So here's the hook of the story:

Tamarel is a magician who has never slain a dragon. She is trying to find/rescue her mentor, Zeka, who is a magician who has slain a dragon (this runs the risk of him turning into a dragon). He went missing recently and the circumstances of his disappearance are suspicious to say the least. She seeks out a mercenary, Icarion, who is a retired dragon slayer to help her find him. They are begrudging to do so since they specifically swore off everything to do with dragons, but after a fair amount of convincing and the reveal that Tamarel and Zeka had been working to find a cure to the effects of draconic corruption, they agree.

The world this is set in has what I like to call: nuclear dragons, as their deaths release so much magical energy that it wipes out the surrounding area and the residual magical energy mutates any living beings who come into contact with it, causing what is called, draconic corruption.

*throws some concept art at you*

World building tidbits on the Creeping Dragon's Forfeit!

Common to encounter magically mutated creatures in the shallower reaches of the forfeit, extremely rare to encounter the whales who have been mutated, but there is always that fear of them

Also referred to as the Dragon’s Revenge more often than not as those who travel it view it with an almost superstitious reverence and are afraid that if they speak it’s true name, the forfeit will look their way

Plenty of ship wrecks in the area, some more reckless magicians that don’t belong to a particular magician’s council sanctioned group tend to raid the wrecks and resell them to the dragon slayers and civilians

Those are referred to as dragon pirates by the dragon slayers but there’s relatively little known about them

Magic radiation levels are very strong here so it’s very rarely traveled and rare to find magic used in this area as it tends to spiral out of control and be much stronger than intended

And an excerpt where I play around with some POV stuff for Icarion and Tamarel

CW for body horror/dysmorphia, allusions to child soldiers and past injury

I was hired by you to find a dragon - not slay a dragon, get rid of a dragon, or send a dragon to sleep in the belly of your world. It was to be none of those clever euphemisms – just find a dragon. That would be the end of it.

When I first saw you, I thought,  Oh God. They’re sending children to kill their dragons again.

But then I stopped thinking that as you nearly tumbled down the hill, your skirts flapping in the gusts of wind like a white flag, barely regaining your balance before another gust came up again, and this one tried to steal your tightly gripped letter from your fingers. I almost laughed as you swore angrily at the skies, baring your teeth like fangs.

Then I thought that you were sent by the guild to beg me to leave behind my, quite frankly, well-earned retirement to stain my hands once more for the ‘greater’ good. I was going to hide away, already leaving my chair by the fire to slip upstairs, but then there was the scuffle with Ridley from down the hill, and I knew I had to end it before Amalee got hurt. So I did.

But then you were there, eyes wide, mouth hanging open as you watched the scamp run off, and I apologized to the shop keeper, tilting the shelf I knocked over back onto its feet. You were so quiet then I did not speak to you, rather wanting to pretend that you weren’t there.

I scooped up the beads that tried to roll away and dropped them back in their jar. The door slammed closed.

Just the wind, I told myself even though I felt the magic in the gust that said, I reckon she ought to stay.

“I’ll be by the fire if you need me,” I told Amalee though I could not tell you why. She knew where she’d find me because we were both creatures of our respective habits and refused to change no matter how many times the postman asked us to maybe move the carnivorous ferns away from the road. Granted, they weren’t actually carnivorous, and he was prone to exaggeration, but I could never seem to find the shears to trim it up with, Amalee tending to keep those wherever it felt right at the moment which was never where I felt was right. 

You stood there still, finally having remembered to blink as I left.

“Is that them?” You asked Amalee. “Is that the Dragonslayer?”

You said it like a whisper, some kind of taboo.

Amalee laughed, shaking her head as I flipped to a page in the middle of one of her garden books. “That one? They don't slay much more than weeds or the odd dust bunny now.”

I squinted at the fine print below a diagram of foxglove, doing my best to forget about the conversation at hand. Amalee and I had been exchanging notes and planning as best we could to fix up the garden. It would have to wait until next season as the fields had turned to gold, and the chaff of the grain would often blow in our direction at this time of year.

“Now?” You glanced over at me, taking in my scars where scales had fallen away, a crooked nose from a slogging match, and eyes that were no longer mine. You saw something there that I did not see, something that I refused to see. “And what about before?”

“Maybe she did, maybe she didn’t,” Amalee mused. “But if you’re wanting to see about a dragon, you’d have better luck at the guild than somewhere so far from the Moor realms.”

The pages of the book became blurry then, the voice of that magic that slept in my chest saying, You ought to see what that child wants.

That magic, that dragon’s heart, slipped over my skin, scales prickling along the back of my hands like warts. Not enough to cover them, but just enough to confirm your suspicions. 

“May I speak with them?” You asked.

I tried to shake my head when she looked to me, but the magic turned sharper, hissing something I could not hear. She turned back to you.

“What need have you of a dragon slayer?”

You whispered something in her ear, reaching up on the tips of your toes, saying something she has yet to tell me.

“You’re allowed five minutes, but if they tell you to leave, then you go.”

[hamsterclaw]

Bangtan Christmas 2023

It's my favourite time of the year again. Welcome to this collection of stories depicting Bangtan struggling to get into the Christmas spirit. Luckily you're there to help them.

Paediatrician Dr Jung Hoseok is beloved by all his patients and everyone he works with. Unfortunately his cheerful demeanour is only a front, underneath it all, he's a humbug.

Date of posting: 19th December.

In a post nuclear war world, all you have is your son Jiwon. You'd do anything to keep him safe, including putting your trust in your new neighbour Kim Namjoon. You hope you haven't made the biggest mistake of your life.

Written in response to an ask I got early in the year - a story I've kept chipping away at and now it's finally finished. Anon, I think about you often and I hope you and your kids are doing well. I hope you've had time to heal and no longer think of yourself as a heartbroken single mom, because you are and have always been more than that.

Date of posting: 20th December.

You find yourself on Earth, navigating life as a fallen angel with the help of Jungkook, who has his own problems.

Date of posting: 21st December.

A wounded man falls out of the sky and lands in your garden, plunging you into a world of danger and dragons. Part of the Royal Pain AU, featuring Jimin as a dragon rider.

Date of posting: 22nd December.

You know Kim Taehyung can't be trusted from the moment you set eyes on him, he's a rogue through and through. So why did you agree to work together?

Date of posting: 23rd December.

Kim Seokjin is a lot of things to you. The high school heartthrob you never got with, the fuckboi you hooked up with occasionally in college, and now the chaebol boss you didn't sign up to work for. Things he's never been? A man you can rely on.

Date of posting: 24th December.

Min Yoongi only cares about three things. The thrill of drifting, his friends and cars, in that order. Somehow, you've got under his skin.

Date of posting: 25th December.

[raidark]

The thing about Jacaerys not considering his half brothers threats and the difference between Jace/Babies and Rhaenyra/Aegon is that there's the assumption that they would all be raised by Rhaenyra with the knowledge/belief that Jace is the rightful heir to the throne after her passing. The one who would be most interested in poisoning the kiddos to get the throne would be Daemon, but even then there's a considerable chance that Rhaenyra would bring him into Jace's camp; especially after his loyalty was congealed by his Harrenhal ayahuasca trip. Aegon was easy to put against Rhaenyra because Alicent spent YEARS poisoning the Targtowers against them and Rhaenyra herself never made much effort to getting close to her siblings. Not only would the kiddos ideally be raised by people who mostly support Jace in the throne and would deter sedicious thoughts but Jace himself has been shown being a goos brother whenever he interacted with the siblings, I am sure he would be the same for them if given the chance. The dragonseeds plan as cooked in the show is different in context, it's like giving random people (including the town's drunkard) the nuclear codes that your family has been using to cement power.

I'm actually writing a VERY LONG post about how much the show has hurt the character of Jace and make him had a very inconsequential arc with artificial drama. In it I also talk about Show Jace's reaction and fears about his succession and I comment the very same thing you're explaining here. I do agree with you, anon. The situation with Aegon and Viserys is very different. Especially in the book where they're explicitly said to have adored his older half-brothers, and Jace is shown to be super protective of Aegon and Viserys. I truly think that it would have been impossible for Daemon to pull something in the book, and it would also be hard for him in the show.

However my post was about Show Jace's mind and his point, which wasn't precisely logic either. There's a lot of arguments against how he frames the Dragonseeds issue as a threat to his succession. The reason Hugh and Ulf are a threat is not because the nobles are going to support them in virtue of looking more Targaryen than Jace, or because they have the same claim. The threat they represent is merely because they have two of the largest dragons, because they have Vermithor and Silverwing. It's dangerous because they're giving two of the strongest nukes to unknown people, but not because they represent a truly political threat to Jace. I'm talking more about this in my huge post but realistically there's no reason to believe they have a claim or that nobles would wholeheartedly support them at all, if anything, they would see the danger they suppose and be glad to eliminate them, especially if that means being rewarded by the Crown. Hugh and Ulf can't always be with their dragons after all, and at those moments they're completely helpless.

It's also not like Show Jace has ever interacted with his younger half-brothers so we could know what he thinks about them at all, and since they were made too much younger it's not like we know if they like their older brother either. We know Book Jace loved them, but nothing says the same about Show Jace. Show Jace didn't even say goodbye to them at all, only to Joffrey.

What I wrote in my previous post is that it doesn't make sense that Show Jace as he's written doesn't have even the slightlest doubt or repressed resentment about Aegon and Viserys. He's consumed by fear, doubts and self-loathing. He has two younger half-brothers who represent everything he was made to fear and be worried about in the show, who are a clear parallel to Rhaenyra and her half-brothers, regardless of the differences. They're undisputably legitimate, have the hair he wished he had and will never have to worry about rumors like he and his brothers did (or if anything, he could think there will be rumors about how Aegon should be Rhaenyra's heir instead of him). He also knows Daemon, who in this what if scenario would be the Otto/Alicent instigator, and Rhaenyra has been recently taken decisions that he didn't like and suppressing him, keeping him in the dark while she trusted and took the decisions with Mysaria.

But he never talks about what could have been otherwise a pretty legitimate issue and worry to Rhaenyra while he does snap about a very necessary decision during the war, with arguments that aren't that certain to begin with, even if pretty valid considering his psyche and humanity. If you are going to sell me this... arc, then make it better.

If you ask me this whole thing is stupid. I don't like this artificial and inconsequential drama, because it's inconsequential and won't go anywhere. We all know what's going to happen in early S3 unless they make yet another massive change. Book Jace's arc was stripped from him, given to other characters and instead they made up a filler arc for him that will have no different outcome and that no one will remember anyway. The fandom will barely remember him as the bastardy/mommy issues boy since he doesn't have anything else. The characters will forget him, just like they did with Luke and Visenya.

[warsofasoiaf]

On a scale of Little Boy the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Fat Man a nuke that stretches 8 km into the sky, B83 the most powerful weapon in the US nuclear arsenal equivalent to 1.2 mil tonnes of TNT, Castle Bravo the biggest nuke ever detonated by the US ever, and finally the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuke ever created and tested on earth equal to 50 million tonnes of TNT (but detonated at half its payload), where would you say dragons range? Thanks love your blog!

Smaller by a whole heck of a lot. Visenya was struck by a bow while performing draconic attacks, that puts a dragon's fire maximum range at roughly 1,000 feet if she was struck by one of the longest range longbows in existence (for the medieval time period). The fire is an incendiary, there is no detonation. This makes dragons far weaker than nukes, a testament to the awesome power of nuclear weapons.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[horizon-verizon]

They yell about dragons being nuclear bombs but at the same time stan the characters who do use them as weapons of mass destruction (Aemond and Daeron) while hating and despising a character who locks them away to rot after one of them kills a child.

A response to this post, which responded (I think) to this post.

(btw, the post all this is came from was written by a clear Rhaenicent fan who called dragons nukes, minimizes the white stag moment and the stag meaning that Rhaenyra was the rightful leader [according to the text of the show itself], says we can't take anything at face value in F&B at face value [which is true but doesn't mention that we must analyze the language and context to reveal subtext which is how people interpret anything even UnReLiAbLE texts/narrations, calls the textual and societal misogyny against Rhaenyra "latent", and writes that HitD is doing a good job of bringing that to life....)

Yeah, anon, the sense is not sensing. Misogyny never senses. Their hatred against Daenerys' altruism while believing Aemond is "just a boy/young man who makes mistakes" or Daeron similarly justified for burning down two towns (and one in stupid needless revenge) and letting troops rape 8 year olds is astounding.

Daeron was 16 when he died so he was about 15-16 when the Tumbleton disasters happens and when he moved against the town at Bitterbridge, thinking that Lady Caswell was responsible for his nephew Maelor's violent death (or so he claimed was his reason). Aemond was 18-19 in the beginning of the Dance. He destroyed an entire house and flamed many villages, towns, etc in the riverlands after he was tricked into leaving KL vulnerable for Rhaenyra's and Daemon's taking. And in the show, Aemond is supposed to be around 16 (if we actually do the math, not take the writers at their word) in the beginning of the Dance because they made Alicent younger/her kids younger for the sake of Rhaenicent. He is still older than Dany is, even with Daeron being the same age in the show.

Canonically, both are older than Dany and by show lore, Aemond is older than Dany, yet Dany has the sense and compassion to not allow rape and punish rape, murder, theft, even punish her own scaly children when a child is killed during their hunts (as told). These dragons she literally breastfed after awakening them with magic and her will during a critically low and vulnerable moment in her life that transitioned into one of her greatest triumphs. Why in god's name should I Stan any Targ man over this woman, and do any of her female ancestors compare to her? The closest are Visenya I, Aegon V, Rhaenys I, Aegon I, and Daenerys II in terms of impressiveness and/or moral character.

*Dany isn't a woman except in her own world, so when I call her a "woman", I mean "active female participant/mover in society".*

Another rant's end.

[mamasplat]

scenario: Zinnia tries to take Courtney to see some meteor shower or space-related event at tbe Mossdeep Space Center but they’re both banned from there due to the Link Cable Shenanigans, so they have to use stealth and disguises of varying seriousness to get in

Oh anon, you bring me such joy with this.

They first enter like nothing ever happened and instantly get cornered by security. Zinnia shrugs with a barely dejected “awe man” and turns straight around to leave, expecting this outcome. Courtney…yeah she’s a bit more aggressive.

Fingers jabbing, flimsy defenses about champion pardons, out right threatening and rapidly progressing to hand to hand combat territory.

Zinnia ends up dragging her out.

Zinnia has a history with disguises, we all know this. But I think after the team magma grunt thing she becomes less serious with the whole- rethinking your life’s purpose and use humor to cope- thing. So like, fake mustache, monocle, suit and tie, clearly forced deep rich man voice. (Phantom imaginate….)

And Courtney has never worked in secret before, she will literally walk the city in uniform being shameless about her status as a terrorist- she will fight zinnia on wearing a disguise.

It will happen by force. The illusion of free choice is dead.

In the end they look like an old timey nuclear family except the wife is plotting the husbands death.

This, of course, would only fool a third grader.

They are turned away again, and now there is two options.

Zinnia is a dragon trainer, they only said they aren’t allowed IN the space center….they said nothing about not going ON the space center. The power of flight is literally at her fingertips in a pokeball. They can go to the roof. (Depending on your stance of Courtney and air travel this can be very comedic.)

They commit another crime against the moss deep space center forcing their way in with violence or passive ways of inducing unconsciousness.

[probablygayattorneys]

So, according to my text log, today marks my third Ace Attorney-versary (well, of rediscovering it, unfortunately we'll never know exactly when I originally got into it). Hard to believe that in just three years, I've played 22 puzzle games (and am in the middle of two more), made friends, got back into sharing my writing and have posted 31 fanfics for a total of 326818 words publicly (and that's not even counting my trio of secret fics that I published anonymously, or the ones I'm still working on), made a semi-successful blog dedicated to puzzle games of the early aughts (I'm sitting at about 400 followers, which is not nothing!), moved (twice!), watched my nuclear family start to fall apart (my mom’s receipt for the divorce lawyer’s retainer is on the fridge, being held up by a magnet of the attorney’s badge), even gotten a tattoo (and am in the processing of working with someone to design a second one), and got semi-engaged and my temporary engagement ring (unfortunately my man has the AUDACITY to live on the other side of the country so I have a different ring than the one he'll actually propose with to signify that I am officially off the market) is even based on Wrightworth colors.

I'm not going to lie and pretend all of the games were incredible feats of the genre (they weren't) or that I've had the best time (in fact, the lowest lows of my mental health have been in the past three years), or that everyone I've met has been so wonderful and welcoming (you asshole anons and certain characters know who you are) but considering that I didn't plan any of this, I basically just stumbled into owning a switch and then @vaptainhammer, knowing that I used to love Ace Attorney, bought me the switch port of the originally trilogy and shoved me down the rabbit hole in the process, I'm grateful I had the experience. Here's to Phoenix, to the Laytons, to Ashley and Kyle, and to Vivian, Abby, Zieg, Ash, everyone else that Sissel dragged in, and of course, my love, my first and my last, my alpha and my omega, my number one puzzle assistant, my personal google, the one who started all of this is the first place and has stood by my side through all the ups and downs that life has thrown at me over the past three years, Blayne. I love you so much, forever, and I can't wait until we're able to bring the government into our relationship and I can start the rest of my life as your hersband, Mx. Vaptainhammer.

Can't promise I'll be helming this blog for another three years, but thank you to everyone who had climbed aboard at any point, and welcome to everyone who will, I hope you've enjoyed the thoughtless shitposts and the thoughtful and deeply cared about edits and meta posts, and are ready for more because I've got a full queue that grows every day. I may not go down with this ship but for everything else, I've had the time of my life fighting (the Defiant) dragons with you.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

I'm bored and feeling destructive. My choice of video games is limited because of tendonitis. No rapid movements for my left hand. Soooooo nuclear war for Civilization VI sounds like a good time.

Please, send me asks. For the ask, send thr entire question. I'm not hunting down numbers or emojis.

I consent to Dragon Age smut bombs.

Anon is available until someone gets rude. If you have something cruel or ride to say, don't be a coward. Say it with your whole chest and not behind the grey face.

My mood is craptastic. Why? Tendonitis, which means I can't do any sewing or quilting. I have no paint, which leaves me with no creative outlet. We have $700 to get through the month, which means we don't have enough to cover all our bills, good, fuel, and laundry.

If you would like to cheer me up, here are options:

Buy my work.

Donate. If using PayPal, mark it as a gift.

Purchase something from my Throne wishlist.

Thank you.

[cellsshapedlikestars]

Don’t worry about answering this is you don’t want to. I know you don’t like fandom wank. But, if you feel like it, do you think someone could make those endpoints work? Bran as king and Jon at the Wall even though there’s a big old hole in it and Dany deliberately burning King’s Landing before Jon or Arya kills her, is that an ending any writer, no matter their skill, could sell to the hardcore fans? I don’t think the fandom would accept it even if GRRM wrote it.

lololol I deleted my post already anon, so for those of you who didn't read it - I was once again whining about how d&d fucked up the last bunch of seasons and every character. it's not a new take, just something I was high thinking in the shower, so I deleted it bc it wasn't productive.

But I'll answer this, because I think it's interesting.

In short - no.

(Beneath the cut for a longer explanation and just a whole bunch of my ranty thoughts. pls remember I am no asoiaf scholar and I haven't studied every aspect of the books or read every meta. These are just my opinions.)

Longer - at this point, too much time has gone by, there is literally no way George can please... probably even half of his fanbase, no matter what he does. From what I can tell, the fandom too divided and there's so much hatred between stan groups (which I do find ridiculous, but it is what it is). People have cemented their own ending in their heads after decades of the fandom existing without an official ending, and I can see a lot of them not liking that they're wrong. Some people have spent 30 years with their theories, it's sunk cost fallacy. Case in point, the show ending being written off as fanfiction by a lot of fans.

which, tangent, I get. I GET why d stans don't believe the ending, because it was so poorly executed. I truly do understand their denial, because the show gaslit the audience for soooooo long that she was the girlboss hero and then seemed to do a 180 at the end. What was that post I just reblogged the other day? I don't hate villains, I hate when the narrative tries to convince you the bad person is actually good.

now, you asked if anyone could make those endpoints work, but I don't actually think most of them are the real endpoints? I think they were D&D giving up and not trying, or going for Shock Value™. But for fun, I'm gonna go by endpoints I think are most to least likely, and my thoughts on how they could happen and how D&D fucked them up.

Bran as king: Confirmed by grrm. How he'll make this work, I have no idea. I genuinely didn't see it coming tbh. I thought the "bittersweet" ending would be Jon being forced to take the crown in KL. like it's a good ending for everyone else, but for him it's misery. I'm sure grrm has his plans, and I'd be interested to see how he pulls it off. This end point does not disappoint me and I'm not mad at being wrong, but I can see a HUGE swath of people HATING it. specifically D stans.

D&D blew this hard. They cut Bran out of an entire season, making him seem to the audience like a lesser character and not important. They made him a robot. Why am I rooting for show!Bran? Also, I will never, ever get over that line - who has a better story than Bran the Broken? I don't know Tyrion, literally everyone else?? JON DIED AND CAME BACK TO LIFE. ahem.

(as far as I'm aware, Bran as king is the only ending grrm has confirmed?? correct me if I'm wrong.)

D as the big bad: I guess grrm hasn't officially confirmed this, but... he's sort of confirmed it, riiiiight? He compared dragons to nuclear weapons. The show has her as the villain (poorly executed or not). When I gave hotd a shot, literally the opening lines were about the Targs bringing themselves down immediately after name dropping her. Seems pretty solid to me. D&D just refused to commit to her villain arc because they didn't want to alienate their audience that they'd gaslit into thinking she was the hero, and they were seemingly obsessed with Shock Value™ twists.

Dany burning KL: I think the burning of KL is going to happen, and it seems like Dany is the only one to really do it? Unclear how it will happen, I'm sure people have theories. What the show didn't have was Aegon, so who knows how he'll factor in.

Arya sailing west: I think there's a lot of foreshadowing for it. It fits her nature. I think this is very likely to happen and I guess D&D handled it ok. They did ruin her character, though, by making her a literal mass murderer. But yayyyyyy feminism I guess.

Theon sacrificing himself for Bran: Theon's was the only arc I think the show did well. They ruined it at the end by having Theon literally throw himself onto the Night King's sword, which was so fucking stupid, but the arc itself is poignant and fits his character. While he can't ever redeem himself to Robb, he can redeem himself to Robb's siblings, and considering he once pretended to kill Bran, I think this is solid.

Cersei and Jaime dying together: this was my theory even before the show ending, and I think it fits their characters. They cannot live without each other, no matter if they hate each other. They're too deeply entwined in each other. Now, I personally wanted Cersei to be taken captive and put in the black cells to be publicly burned later, and then Jaime shows up and mercy kills her and then himself bc he can't live without her.

But I guess getting bonked on the head by some avoidable rocks is also a way to do it

Sansa as QitN: I'll be honest and say I hated this ending because she ended up alone. Sansa, who has wanted nothing more than family and safety since book 1, ends up completely alone. Even Brienne, her sworn shield, leaves her. but she's a queen, so yayyyy feminism I guess.

I can see her as queen, but I can also see her ending up as queen regent for Rickon, because I'm not totally convinced Rickon dies? like in the show he just randomly shows up and gets captured by Ramsay and it just feels like that isn't his arc in the books. Maybe I'm wrong. But I could see D&D having the endpoint of Sansa as regent, but they killed Rickon off already for Shock Value™, and so they went oops! and made her queen.

Now, there is a part of me that thinks she will not be queen or queen regent, because how does one break off and declare independence from their own brother? Feels like that would destabilize his rule and not give people much faith in him. It just seems really strange to me, but I guess it could happen, since Northern Independence is such a huge theme and it would be weird if it didn't happen?? Does Bran just let her secede? And it doesn't make Dorne or the Iron Islands try.... That's the part in the show that literally did not make sense to me. Sansa was like bye, I'm taking the north, and no one else spoke up about that.

I'd be totally fine with her as queen (if she has someone!!) but I can see a gooooood chunk of the fandom absolutely hating this. surprise.

Brienne as Kingsguard: while I like it for narrative purposes, because she deserves it, I just can't see her leaving Sansa, if she becomes as close to Sansa as she does on the show? If Sansa is queen, I could see her as Sansa's Queensguard. But what does she have in KL? The south didn't ever respect her, why would she want to go back. I think D&D put this in so they could have the ending shot of her writing in the book about Jaime for the shippers

Jon at the Wall: the only reason he went to the Wall in the show was because Grey Worm demanded it? And then left. So. You know, real enforceable. So stupid. Genuinely the worst writing of all the endings, I think, the logic made zero sense there. Now, that could be because they'd written themselves into a corner, but knew Jon ended up at the Wall, and had to force it?

But to me, it's like - what was the point of his resurrection, then? In the show, he doesn't even kill the Night King (we'll get to that). He kills D, sure, but... He's also the reason she succeeds in Westeros to begin with. So what, he gets resurrected, causes havoc, fixes the havoc he caused, and then is sent away to a Wall that serves no purpose anymore? WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE WALL SERVE. The Others are defeated, there's a big ol' hole in it, and they've allied with the Free Folk to an extent. How does the Watch continue on?

I guess he could self-banish. I know the show sort of makes the implication that he goes off with the Free Folk, but in the books, he doesn't really like FF culture? He's appalled by a lot of the violence in it. I can't see him wanting to live that way.

Brai.me: don't get me wrong, I like Brai.me. I think it's cute, in fanon. In canon, I think Brienne is too good for him. I don't see their relationship going romantic or sexual. I think Brienne is who Jaime desperately wants to be (but Cersei is who he keeps being pulled back to). Them having sex was 100% for the shippers

Jo/ner.ys: I'm putting all the punctuation in that. don't need them finding me somehow. Anyway. I don't think this happens, at least not as a true romance. They're on opposite continents and there's not a ton of time left, but more than that - and I know I've said this before - I can't see Jon "hates seeing people burned alive" Snow falling in love with D "loves to burn people alive" T. Could it be a political thing? Maybe, but I also could see her having an alliance with Aegon.

I think there's 2 possible reasons for this being in the show and presented as an actual romance. 1) it was supposed to be that pol!Jon theory, but they chickened out (same with jonsa & a love triangle, I think they chickened out bc of the incest. I think now with hotd being incest central and fans loving it, they wouldn't balk anymore). 2) just the spectacle of it? people have been theorizing this for years, why not give it to them? see above, brai.me

Tyrion as Hand: bleh. I know the fandom loves him and he was clearly D&D's fave, but grrm has said Tyrion is the most morally gray character, and I can't see him letting Tyrion get everything he's always wanted, you know? People think asoiaf is grimdark, but I can't imagine grrm punishing Jon with banishment while giving Tyrion a cushy position with lots of power.

I've read the theory that Tyrion ends up at the Wall, which I like thematically, but again, WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE WALL SERVE. Is it just a penal colony at that point?? someone smarter than me, tell me.

Grey Worm & Missandei condoning/encouraging D: hated it. Take the only characters of color to have speaking lines (i'm 99% sure) in the last season and turn them vengeful and murderous (especially grey worm). Throw their characters under the bus to absolve D of blame

Arya killing the Night King: no. he doesn't exist in the books, first, and even in the show it made zero narrative sense. It was just a Shock Value™ twist. You thought it was gonna be hero Jon, hmmmmmm? WRONG. I've said it on here before, but my hope is that it's Sam that brings down the Others in the book somehow.

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Did I forget anything, anon? This probably veered wildly from the point of the ask, but oh well, it was fun. (I had a jonsa section in here at first, but then I remembered this is show canon ending stuff and that was not canon sorry fellow jonsas. I obvioulsy want it to be the ending bc the shipper brainrot is real, buuuuuut...)

[selfship-confession-box]

where r all the selfship imagines with ppl wit straight up monsters as f/os. like. cmon. not talking abt ur average hot boy demon or sexy slime girl no go away where are the fuckign kaijus mf, give me actual monsters and with that dangerous monster, you are its favorite and it would never harm you because you are theirs just like they are yours.

where are the monsterfuckers but not really fucking but monsterfucking in the way you just wanna kiss their weird looking face and take them on a date. SFW monsterfucking, I dare say (what would it be called then???? Monster dating doesn't ring well) I need the people who make these f/o imagines to fucking COOK with more ACTUAL monster prompts.

-🐉☢

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[lonesome-greenery]

I have come on anon to start asking you questions about your nuclear dragons story and the world building surrounding that.

:D Thank you anon!

It's dangerous to travel on the forfeits without a magician to speak with its magic, and the Bowery clan of dragon slayers has just lost their magician. Tamarel, half-trained and nowhere near ready is thrust into the position of magician and made to guide them across the Splintered Forfeit.

Tamarel knows something wasn't right about how the magician was sent off because there had not been a storm the night before. She starts asking questions, but no one answers them. As soon as they make it across the forfeit, Tamarel bolts. She knows that a mercenary lives nearby. She plans to ask them to help her.

But as fate would have it, this mercenary used to be a dragon slayer and wants nothing to do with the Bowery clan and their ships that belch toxic smoke and herald death. Icarion is done with that and would much rather build and heal than entertain the idea of dragon slaying again.

Tamarel spends days trying to get Icarion to even glance in her direction and is practically begging them to help. It doesn't work. Not until the Bowery clan's fleet leaves the port and Tamarel behind. There are other magicians they can use. But none with as strong of a connection to the magic of the forfeits because Tamarel is the sole survivor of a reckless dragon slayer's battle that destroyed her city and slew a dragon that had not been categorized as dangerous by the dragon slayer's council.

The explosion of magic that comes with a dragon's death often creates such high levels of magical radiation that it kills whoever it comes in contact with and leaves the surrounding area as a deadzone that mutates the land until it becomes a pool of magic waiting to reform as a new dragon that is called a 'forfeit'. When a dragon slayer kills a dragon, it is only as a last resort after desperate attempts to negotiate or drive off a dragon that has proven itself to be a threat, and even then, there are month's worth of preparation that go into it. They evacuate the towns and worlds between forfeits and they have armor they've built to hold against this radiation. It protects them enough to prevent death, but it's not enough to stop some of this dragon's magic from latching onto them and starting the corruption of their soul.

Most dragon corruption is slow, and it takes at least three dragons before a dragon slayer starts showing signs of this corruption. Usually by then they'll retire from dragon slaying and rip out the physical manifestations of this corruption. They'll take on the mantle of magician with their soul bound connection with the magic of the forfeits to guide other dragon slayers to their destinations or take young travelers across to a new home. Those who do not are considered selfish. A magician is more likely to die in a storm than by old age or a dragon slayer's hand, as out on the forfeits, magical storms are common and hungry. This magical entity is the breath of a dragon that will claim whoever has the highest magical bond as part of the required material to rebuild itself, which often leads to magicians leaping into the forfeit to distract the storm from the vessel they are guiding across. Those who do not often turn to dragonhood and the dragon slayer's council keeps close tabs on them.

Icarion realizes that Tamarel isn't asking them to slay a dragon (they slew seven, a high number for a dragon slayer to have retained their humanity), but rather find one, as Tamarel explains that she suspects the magician before her may have turned to dragonhood, and she wants to find a way to turn him back before it's too late.

I have more that I want to say, but this is already getting long so I think I'll leave you with that.

[aegor-bamfsteel]

Hi! Merry late christmas and happy new year!

Why was important to the targaryens to have a magical bond to dragons when they could bond the same way with sheepstealer?? Is bcs they were afraid to loose the bond or something? Does this bond(🐑) works the same way one bonds over a loyal dog?

Also, i have to congratulate Grrm with the targs, bcs the way he show them, with their superficial "splendor🌟" and the other real putrid side of them, is honestly simple but very... effective and great!

It's just him saying "it doesn't matter if you have a friking-amazing-dragon who can conquer a continent, you can still be a piece of shit". Personally, I love them for being an entertaining but insane house just like the Lannisters!

Hey there, anon! Very merry belated holidays to you as well.

The Valyrians required a magical bond with dragons—which they gained through magic horns and very possibly blood magic—rather than just gaining their trust with food because it’s quicker (Sheepstealer was tamed over many days), doesn’t take as many resources, can happen at any age (Targ infants were able to bond with their hatchmates, while taming through food means you have to be at least a teen), doesn’t need to take the dragon’s personality into account (Sheepstealer was more interested in eating sheep than attacking humans, but other dragons like Cannibal and Vhagar were more vicious), and probably most importantly, preserves the myth of Valyrian blood supremacy. If they were known to just tame their dragons by giving them meat, people would realize their blood doesn’t make them special and someone with enough patience, courage, sheep and a dragon with the right temperament could do it. I don’t think they were afraid of losing the bond, since Nettles and Sheepstealer seemed emotionally very tight with him agreeing to fly her anywhere; the bond only ends after the rider dies. I agree that at least what GRRM initially set out to establish with the Targs (before he let his fascination with them take over the story and retconned some sympathetic traits/people) was interesting. They believe themselves above other people due to their special blood/looks/ability to control dragons, which led them to unite much of the continent…and yet were done in by this arrogance, insularity, and general refusal to learn or consider other perspectives. And what he said about dragons as the nuclear deterrent, how they can conquer and force people but they can’t help a ruler govern wisely, is pretty good. My personal problematic fave house is the Baratheons because their flaws aren’t put on a pedestal and they have understandable context for their actions (Rhányra vs Aegon wishes it could be Stannis vs Renly), but I’m not gonna criticize you for appreciating some bombastic cartoon villains (my second favorite problematic house is the Greyjoys, many of whom have the same campy evil as the Targs) when you clearly understand that’s who they are.

[todayisafridaynight]

The fights in 7 did happen in real time but the nuclear grade autistic giga-chad energy of Ichiban made us see it through his dragon quest fantasy induced eyes.

Kiryu is just so serious and cool it breaks Ichiban's concentration on his schizophrenic induced fantasy to witness the reality of this beast of a man just go to town on the morons who decided to FAFO today.

yeah what anon said

[annyankers]

Having a shit family drama week. Full of religious misogynistic asshats laying some "woman's place in the family" bs on me. My head is spinning and all I want to do is fight them and throw up. I don't know why you laughing at stupid anon hate has healed the raging beast in my chest, but fuck if your beautiful dismissal of it hasn't fixed me. Love you. Fuck the haters. You help make this corner of the fandom livable and lovely.

I know how frustrating and helpless that can feel bruh. like the primal urge to physically attack people who’re out here actively threatening your continued safety and sanity with their bad takes while being trapped from action with yuletide peace on earth shackles is too real. i’m endlessly glad my chillbro cool buy vibes have helped soothe the dragon gnawing at the roots of your mind tree my homie.

papa love and papa bless you lil angel you. i’ll continue to both be a retarded cunt and a silly little fun time boy and lighten up this comm with my apparently next level seethingly nuclear angel takes and subpar memes lol

[horizon-verizon]

“Ned Stark may have been naïve, but there was a clear-cut morality to his initial search for truth that’s less applicable to Rhaenyra, a flagrant philanderer — just like Ned’s adversary Cersei Lannister!”

They’re really acting as if Ned wasn’t best friend with Robert Baratheon, A NOTORIOUS AND SERIAL PHILANDERER AND CHEATER WHO FATHERED 8451973 BASTARDS.

Aegon II is a literal rapist who sired multiple bastards and at least one was left abandoned to be raised in a fighting pit where adults gamble on children who’ve had their teeth and nails filed to put on a “better show”. Even worse, Aegon is a frequent patron of the fighting pit and his bastards are unwilling participants.

The entire fandom really said, “sexual autonomy but ONLY for men.”

Anon refers to an article la-pheacienne posted and criticized HERE.

🔗And this is the actual Variety article, titled ""‘House of the Dragon’ Hits Its Stride in a Bigger, Bleaker Season 2: TV Review"

Excerpt:

The point is bluntly put, and only reinforced by grim spectacles seemingly designed to refute the apocryphal Truffaut quote that there’s no such thing as an anti-war film. (Or TV show with the budget of a box-office tentpole.) A dispute between two squabbling teens cuts directly to a battlefield strewn with corpses; a humble family in a blockaded city worries over the spiking price of food. These exchanges take place not between our primary antiheroes, but minor, even anonymous, characters we may never hear from again. Cumulatively, they stand in for the masses who stand to gain nothing from two sides armed with the magical equivalent of nuclear bombs engaged in mutually assured annihilation.

Yes, it's disgusting to see.