#that was their downfall i believe

[hannibard]

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

[yudol-skorbi]

worst tv marathon ever

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[lemonsharkgirlfriend]

so rhaenyra starts s3 with a god complex, believing herself to be the prince that was promised from aegon the conqueror's dream... but hugh and ulf will betray her, mysaria will misunderstand her, coryls will undermine her, bartimos will underestimate her, daemon will abandon her, her people will turn against her and burn her castle and kill her dragon. and when everyone who accepted rhaenyra as queen rejects her, the only person left to love rhaenyra will be alicent, who never loved rhaenyra as queen but rhaenyra as a person ("she was the vision that sustained him [...] it was his love for her that kept him resolute in his choice of heir."). alicent, who abandoned her gods and duty to go to rhaenyra on dragonstone and appeal to the person beneath the crown ("i cast myself on the mercy of a friend who once loved me."). alicent, who's made a god of rhaenyra, not as queen, but as the girl she read with beneath the godswood ("come with me.").

[floweroflaurelin]

METEOR SWARM!!!!

[gorgynei]

post asmodeus betrayal went like this

[ride-thedragon]

I love it when husbands and wives match.

[scattered-under-moonlight]

The change from “when does a man become a monster” while he begs for forgiveness to “What if I’m the monster” while spiraling to “Then I’ll become the monster” in the end is going to live rent free in my head all day

[zethdoesart]

“If it’s an end you seek, I can make that happen, I have ways, that’s my purpose. But I didn’t work an entire lifetime to have it end before I experienced the Infinite.”

[aalexan]

if I see any more americans saying they’re going to not vote for the only candidate who has hope of restoring roe v wade because because she’s not perfect (like every other goddamn politician) i am going to explode

[boxheadpaint]

so is twitter being purposefully run into the ground at this point

[dent-de-leon]

TALIESIN TALKING ABOUT HIS DECISION TO PLAY THE WILDMOTHER AND SAYING ORIGINALLY HE WANTED A BETRAYER GOD BUT ALSO, “I had a Moonweaver idea—I had a great Moonweaver idea, I’m saving it for later—”

SO THERE’S A CHANCE?? WE’LL GET TO SEE TALIESIN PLAY MOLLY’s MOONWEAVER ONE DAY?? 👀👀

[elijasz]

Oh my gods, Trists family members are potentially the ancestors of the Clay family. Which is why the Clays are descendents of champions of the matron of ravens. Purvan trained Trists children because Emhira asked him to bring them to safety. (Or they dedicated themselves to the Raven Queen because Emhira was the one to make sure they're safe or something)

Also Caduceus being a cleric of the wildmother is VERY meta in this instance. Like imagine playing the Cleric AND the deity while also being an elder god or something in the real world. Taliesin really does it all.

Like holy shit Trists children are the ancestors of the Clay bloodline. The Clay family now has connections to the Wildmother, Archeart, Matron of Ravens and Everlight. What else will there be in the future?

[alikandhoney]

Ok so

trist = Sarenrae

Ayden = Pelor

Emhira = my love the RQ

Asha = Melora

SILAHA = Corelleon

The emissary = Stand in for Erathis

This is an inside job— I said it to my partner before I started to be obvious but !!!!!! UGH I’m so excited — Aoer is about to be 1984 in this bitch and they’re about to heist it into the ground

Melora truly going to POUT at the reveal that her wife isn’t here is HILAROUS I’m OBSESSED Talisen playing a lesbian has me gagged I’m so hype

[wardensantoineandevka]

Downfall teaser like, "Mad fucked up of you to make a flying city and not put in any windows."

[kaleidoscopicbullettrain]

theres something incredible in terms of symbiotic symbolism for the betrayer gods and the primes. notably between asmodeus and serenrae is like. "your existence fuels mine. without you there is no meaningful victory for my domain."

in the face of despair, hope must be the strongest its ever been

the stronger the hope, the harder the betrayal sticks the landing