#that's...a boy we watch growing up

[heavencasteel420]

It is amazing to me that the show has a character who:

Explicitly says “my father forced me to kill and I was good at it, but I hated it”;

Makes multiple efforts to walk away from a fight where his opponent is doing the absolute most to provoke him and, upon finally snapping, handily beats him;

Stabs a dude with a pair of scissors in self-defense and immediately looks horrified at himself; and

Can stomach all kinds of gross and scary shit unless it involves harm coming to his little brother, whom he obviously has a lot of baggage about protecting.

And a not-insignificant number of people are like “his neurosis is that he feels bad about not being a fighter or a badass.”

[sunnysideaeggs]

Black stans are justifying Rhaenyra’s blockade as revenge for the greens usurping her. So they are basically trying to say Rhaenyra is starving a bunch of innocent people because she wants to sit on an iron throne and tell people what to do. She had to slap her own advisor because he knows she’s nothing without Daemon

Rhaenyra knows nothing about being a Queen or politics in general. Her only hope is other people winning the throne for her. Daemon gathering an army for her, Mysaria’s plotting to get the smallfolk on her side, Corlys’ is refurbishing the ships for her and the dragonseeds will gain her more dragons. Even her own son made a plan to win the Freys over to her side behind her back

oh they will justify anything 💀 from their point of view, her actively starving a highly populated city, then creating riots with food as bait and ‘giving an opportunity’ to her less fortunate relatives that ends up with at least 20 deaths it’s okay because ‘they knew’ and ‘she needed dragons!’. she literally starved those poor people then gave them hope and locked them up with a beast. that is unforgivable.

i hate to say this, but they have succeeded in making another daenerys. she is a targaryen queen in a position of power, who knowingly killed a bunch of poor people to gain dragons. she even made the blood sacrifice! she sacrificed targaryen blood, king’s blood, but as the coward she is, she didn’t put her own life at risk.

rhaenyra is acting now, i just see that her actions are not heroic at all. it is so clear to me that i can’t even comprehend how can someone see this cruelty as heroism. this is kinslaying! this is a blood sacrifice! she is killing her blood for power, and she intends to kill more of them! the red sowing is named appropriately. the last frame of her unnerves me, she’s dressed in red, dyed with the blood of the nameless targaryens that died for her ambition, and she smiles.

[tytoalbatross]

loving kny so far

[milimeters-morales]

I don’t write Hobie as someone struggling with addiction because he’s black i write him like that because of nearly everything ELSE about him, both movie and comic-wise, but because he’s black he’s more likely to have be targeted by companies/people pushing/forcing more drugs onto him even if he’s trying to quit, and then denied the help he needs and demonized for it, which makes him struggle more with it. u get what i’m saying??? It’s like how i don’t write Miles G. as more aggressive and cold because he’s black, but because of his general life situation. But because he’s black, other people in his life might’ve reinforced these ideas that he was naturally going to behave this way, and you can only hear something about yourself so much (and at a young age too) before you begin to believe it, even a little, and then don’t see reason to fight it even if it’s not true. sorry if i’m not explaining this too well, but you see what i mean????

[theothermaidoftarth]

Baela and the Myth of the Child Fighting Pits

Not sure why I keep seeing from green-leaning accounts that in Fire and Blood, Baela visited the child fighting pits. But this is what F&B says about Baela post-Dance:

Nothing about child fighting pits. In fact this is what shows up when I search ‘pits’ in Fire and Blood:

The definition of a rat pit according to awoiaf:

Not the best of places, I’m not going to defend it but there’s nothing about children there (also lower down it’s stated Mushroom said these are the places Aegon II would frequent, which the show turned into child fighting pits).

Also saw it said on here that Baela celebrated Jaehaerys’ murder… Her reaction was not recorded.

Baela is many things and she is not perfect but what I’m seeing is just not accurate. And that’s not even getting into what I’ve seen on Reddit where they say she wasn’t faithful to Jace before his death and was kissing squires while he was in Winterfell. (Narrator: she wasn’t.)

[quillisadoll]

I just finished I'm assuming the main ark with the twins

If you don't want spoilers skip this post

OH MY GOD I AM SOBBING

HIKARU DIED HIS HAIR KAROU SACRIFICED EVERYTHING FOR HIKARU KAROU KISSED HARUHIS CHEEK?!?! AND THEY WENT ON A DATE?!?!??!

I just I just

This ark was beautiful I am so happy the twins are trying to be their own people now, well they still have a lot to learn but it's so :( I'm so happy for them.

And yes I knowww Tamaki gets with Haruhi in the end but I'm really hoping hikaru at least tries to get with Haruhi.

I am very attached to these characters and seeing them finally have character development is so nice. In the anime we had very little to go off of we had the Halloween episode and the summer eps AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH ALL WE GOT IN CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

I am very excited to write a essay and or make a YouTube video discussing these boys

(guys read my tags I'm funny in my tags)

[lecliss]

Sakura gets a second point for being the first to complete the tree climbing at being better at chakra control, but at the same time it just feels like she was made good at it so no extra training segment time would have to be put into her getting good at it and it can be all about Sauce and Nart. Idk that feels too pessimistic but also could totally be true.

[offyoupop-easypeasy]

[youngpettyqueen]

every day I have visions of transmasc Quark and transfemme Rom

[victimized-martyr]

Are you optimistic about season 26?

erm um… no?? 🥲

Season 25 and Streaming Wars had their moments, but overall the delivery of ideas felt lackluster. Much like the last 2 years, I expect a running theme. Essentially, the season won’t really be a season per se, but acts as narrative buildup interspersed with side episodes—though they will loosely connect to the season—leading up to the 2 specials airing later this year. It’s a solid game plan on paper, but s25/SW was super dodgy. I feel the saving grace was Tolkien’s renaming, and Cartman’s whole hot dog arc thing that just got set up. I know Randy was given competition (finally! the little resistance and pushback to his hijinks has done serious damage to his character) but really the biggest takeaway I’ve seen from fans/merch is stuff from Cartman’s arc. (cartitties).

However, I feel Matt and Trey have been revitalized by the concert, Casa Bonita’s opening, and their deepfake deal. It’s a double edged sword though, because now Mattrey are juggling the opening of a restaurant, production for the video game, their deepfake studio… I’m worried their attention will be divided and affect the quality of the story this season.

TLDR: Very mixed feelings, though not quite approaching cautiously optimistic… I expect the fresher ideas (HotDog) to get sidelined and Randy will remain in focus.

[dizzybevvie]

cant believe i havent made a single post about the Dab/Evan bachelor party who even am I

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

Pokémon Horizons Episode 33 spoilers under the cut!

RAYQUAZA STOP HE'S ALREADY DEAD !!! 😭😭😭💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[silverselfshippingchaos]

man.. shipping with characters from movies is so hard..

[belladonnaprice]

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[pankomako]

dude i swear if i actually make gang's bay a real show and i write a joke about being trans people are gonna be like "this is incredibly offensive to trans people" and im gonna have to come out and be like "yall im literally a trans person writing myself im just having a laugh why cant you too"

like seriously where's the line between a joke poking fun for laughs and a joke that's actually offensive? i feel like that's a little bit subjective dontcha think

[startistdoodles]

have you heard that Ash is going to leave the anime?

I did, I just heard about it not too long ago :') End of an era