#telling alice what to do

[paperglader]

they really put alicent in bridgerton blue on the reunion and genuinely expected me to think that she didn’t in fact march all the way to dragonstone to get wifed up? bfr

[danyyytarggg]

YOU can continue to treat house of the dragon as canon and YOU can continue to get upset with HOTD!characters’ actions, take them literally, and judge their characters off of said actions. ME, i will be MINDFUL of the unspoken OOC tag that this particular fanfiction has and will therefore not take any of their actions as canon

[endomentendo]

go back to digital circus jax...

He knows your sins, and he revels in it

[jubshead]

Sooo, I’ve finished my Agatha x reader and I’m wondering what would you guys like for me to do next

*READ ALL BEFORE VOTING*

If you reblog, you'll receive a fairy kiss from me 🧚🏻‍♀️

[otrtbs]

there's a thing in the summer evening, when the sun goes down and the moon is high and full in the sky, cooling everything off just slightly, where the surrounding neighborhood kids come out and play baseball in a makeshift baseball field and everyone gets really into it. like, really into it. they have to bring their own battery operated lights for the field, they have bets running on the different teams playing (a few dollars, baseball cards, packs of gum, coins, stickers, yo-yo's, single cigarettes (how'd those get in there?) sunglasses, watches, candy, you name it).

and no adults allowed. not that they encroach on the fun, but the first game starts at one in the morning so who's got the time?

and since sirius left to live with james, regulus is shut up in the house and has to hear about the great baseball extravaganza from barty in a "your brother is on the james potter all-star team i've got $50 in the pool, we have to go to the tournament" kinda way. and regulus is like "my mother would actually kill me and explicitly forbids it but i'll think about it."

but barty shows up just after midnight on game day and starts throwing rocks at regulus' window to get him to come out except he runs out of small rocks and moves to bigger ones and gets impatient and throws the big rocks harder and then oops, one went right through a window, except this house isn't regulus' house. regulus' house is two doors down, it's just hard to see in the dark. so barty moves two doors down and finds some smaller rocks and starts over again until regulus comes out. scowling, but he's out.

and they start the long walk to the makeshift baseball field and it's hot and the air is sticky and sweet with honeysuckles. and barty and regulus talk. and barty buys regulus boiled peanuts and crackerjack from a kid's makeshift concession stand and they sit in the makeshift bleachers side by side with their knees knocking together. and barty manages to make sly remarks that make regulus laugh. and regulus makes last minute bets and watches the game, and starts getting into it, and barty smiles at the way he's on the edge of his seat, brows furrowed in concentration. barty thinks he even sees regulus clap once, and it's fun watching regulus, more fun than watching the game, even.

so fun that barty says he'll get regulus the next night to watch the next two teams play. regulus agrees, and they make this a routine and barty thinks, finally.

but then it's james' team that's up next and james walks up to the plate and does a trick with his baseball bat with a grin so-wide and a wink, and regulus' eyes are as wide a saucers for a brief second before he catches himself but it doesn't matter. barty's seen it, and knows instantly he's made a mistake. he's signed himself up for a summer of looking at regulus look at james. and he's doomed.

[inconceptual-nonsense]

Born to draw podcast ship fanart, forced to be doing college algebra 2 as a junior in highschool :(

[jambamthepaperman]

AGATHA BACKSTORY I KNEW SHE HAD TRAUMA. Also she spared the daughters of her coven bitch she has empathy. Rio was annoyed by that choice but still.

[nyoclosmom]

i need aaa headcanons but it's y'all guessing their mario kart mains

[sunnylolli]

I found an old WIP of Amelia and Madeline and decided to go ahead and add their dysfunctional lesbian mothers as well

[a-vibing-potato]

Just finished The Magnus Protocol. Too many thoughts and feelings in my head, yet I'm at peace. Listening to Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell because that's THE song of the Magnus universe. But like...

What the fuck do I do now.

[valinoar]

the driftmark scene is so special to me for a number of reasons but the most underrated moment for me is when we see aegon standing up to his father, in his own way, for his mother and brother. he’s actively defying him and refuses to sell out his mother—to tell the king “everyone knows” when such a large crowd has amassed IS brave and extremely controversial when we’ve seen how strongly viserys ignores rhaenyra’s actions. it’s kinda sad to see people gloss over his bravery in this scene because of how he’s not the best character personality-wise, when this was such a defining moment for him in my eyes. we see that brief shine of, hey, you’re my brother. i push you around and i may not even particularly like you, but in the eyes of the world, i’ve got you. in my own way.

[normalpeoplethiings]

i hate it when people ask me what i’m like, because i don’t even know. all i know is that i have a crippling internet addiction and can’t communicate to the vast majority of people.

[tell-them-the-north-remembers]

You are so strongly in my purpose bred

That all the world besides methinks they're dead.

-William Shakespeare, Sonnet 112

[the-darkness-does-not-bargain]

Imagine a scenario where Otto is just as cunning but less of a dick, and he realizes that supporting Rhaenyra and keeping himself and Alicent in her good graces is the actual best way to protect his family's power in King's Landing.

His grand plan this time, instead of making his daughter seduce the king, is to marry her to Harwin Strong, with the intention of marrying one of their kids to Rhaenyra's with whoever she marries. Harwin is another close supporter of the princess, after all, so it makes perfect sense to entwine his family throughout Rhaenyra's base so they can't easily be removed or disrespected.

Oh, he thinks this is such a good plan. Practically foolproof. He has no idea the polyamorous trainwreck he's about to unleash on Westeros.

[edgelordtozier]

sorry but alicent hightower isn’t “ruined” this season. you people just never understood her in the first place and think of her as something she’s not lmao.

of course she’s a hypocrite, she has been the whole time. her holier than thou persona is a facade. she wants freedom of choice and, with that, sexual liberation. she gets that now with criston at the price of her own shame and guilt tied to her faith, which is real (criston’s faith, at least in the seven, is NOT, but yknow. for another time). her going for what rhaenyra got and what rhaenyra had the freedom to partake in is not character assassination lmao. It’s what’s been set up this whole time. she’s not this saint that she and her stans claim her to be. she’s variably flawed CLEARLY (which is what makes her a good character) but isn’t going to stray away from the exact thing she claims to hate.

“duty and sacrifice” and “honor and decency will prevail” are shown to the viewer to be hypocritical statements. fucking obviously. why did anyone take that at face value LMAO. All those things are what alicent herself has been forced to align with since she was a child made to marry viserys. she wants rhaenyra to ALSO fit that mould and to feel that misery that she’s felt, just as she wishes she had the freedom rhaenyra has. that doesn’t mean she believes in these ideas. she clearly goes against them; that’s her character. she believes that she believes them, but her desire to leave the mould outweighs that time and time again.

to say that she’s an outlandishly different character in s2 after seeing one singular episode is insane. she’s the same. she and criston is not a left field decision, nor is it a particularly bad one, even if it did feel abrupt (which is more a pacing issue). alicent and criston’s joint hypocrisy has been pointed out the entire time. to further highlight it is not bad writing or character ruination. you just didn’t understand them in the first place. Alicent isn’t a blushing nun. she’s a woman whose old decrepit husband is finally dead and now has the freedom she didn’t get at 17.

[catofoldstones]

I don’t know when this undercurrent of “it’s Rhaenyra v Aegon” rose and turned into the entitlement of “why is alicent still here weh weh” but it’s scary as hell. We all watched the same first season, right? What’s not clicking?