#the books are superior to the show

[reignof-fyre]

The argument/excuse that Alicent was too young to be a good mother is such garbage.

Catelyn Tully was 14 when she had Robb, and despite how I feel about her attitude towards Jon, she loved her kids. She was the best mother toward her kids. Was she flawed? Yes.

Rhaenyra had Jace at, like, 17 -18. She's a flawed person but a brilliant mother and adores her kids.

My mother was a teenager when she had my oldest brother, and she refused my grandparents (her mum and stepdad) offer to adopt my brother. She has been the best mother ever. She was a single teen parent.

But what most don't seem to understand is that in The World of Ice and Fire, which is based upon medieval England, a female came of age when they bled for the first time. It was proof that they were ready to bear children.

In our history, one of my favourite bamf mothers is Margaret Beaufort. She was thirteen when she gave birth to Henry Tudor, later the first Tudor king of England.

So many women in our history were expected to, once they menstruated for the first time, marry a man - no matter their age - and bear children.

That's what a lot of people seem to forget when it comes to AGOT and HOTD.

These worlds are not based upon the 21st century and our own society and what is acceptable. It's based upon medieval England and yeah childbrides are gross as fuck and make me sick, but in this fictional world it's their normal. In actual fact, Alicent is actually weirdly old to have married at 15 when she likely bled earlier - but Otto wanted his blood on the throne and waited to use her.

Not to mention a lot of mothers in this time period foist their kids off to nannies, governesses, and maids to raise. Royal mothers rarely had much to do with their children's rearing until they hit 5 or so. They didn't even breast feed their own kids. It was very hands off parenting.

So, no, Alicent - according to the time period she's in - is not a child bride. She was raised with the expectation that she would marry for alliances, likely to a man older than her and someone she wouldn't necessarily like. She knew this, and she likely accepted and agreed with it.

Hell, in the books alicent gladly and eagerly becomes queen-consort because of the power it affords her. In the books, she wants that power and status so much she goes against a nine year old girl (rhaenyra) to gather sycophants and followers. The show ruined Alicent's character so much.

In the books she's a worthy, almost Cersei-level antagonist.

In the show she's just a pathetic, victim-complex, child abusing, treasonous bitch.

[lunamond]

Love it when a modern "progressive" show makes all the evildoers physically disabled.

Larys has a Clubfoot, Aemond gets his eye cut out, and now Aegon is burnt and missing appendages.

Isn't it convenient that we can immediately tell a person is bad because their body looks different?

And of course, we don't explore any discrimination against these characters because they're horrible, and we shouldn't feel bad for horrible people.

People were mean to Larys because of his Clubfoot? But don't you know he has a gross foot fetish?

Aemond has impaired vision? But his eyepatch looks cool, and he is still a good fighter, so what is he even complaining about?

Aegon has been severely burnt? But he is a rapist and so let's make jokes about his dick burning off, lol.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Reminder that the Dazai's Entrance Exam audiobook comes out tomorrow! It's narrated by Patrick Seitz, Kunikida's English dub voice actor!

Here are all the places you can buy it:

Barnes & Noble

Audible

Google Play

Apple Books

Libro.fm

[francy-sketches]

'why does show joffrey look like that he's supposed to be handsome' no sorry there's so many ugly/not conventionally attractive characteracters being prettywashed I think the rare cases of deyassification are based as hell. I like his weird little face ❤

[dykedvonte]

I think it’s so ironic that the Pony Express escapes a lot if not all blame in discussion. I can’t even say I am excused from it but it’s just how hard people circle back to the characters alone without considering the environment they were made to be in.

Why would they design a ship where only two of the rooms lock? Not the bathroom? Not the sleeping quarters? We assume that all the companies in the universe are this shallow and careless to their workers but we explicitly know the Pony Express in extra vile. They are fed processed slop pack they can’t even really cook and the ration of those pack is meager at best. They hired and made people with a plethora of conflicting demeanors and beliefs work together on a mission where cohesion is important if not an outright necessity and punish them for not being happy about it. There’s no social protocols, not chain of command other than Captain’s word/choice and the only way to enforce that is with a literal firearm. They don’t allow them to celebrate freely and even took away leisure activities that would make them less stir crazy. They are only allowed a few hours of sleep despite their being no other real responsibilities or work on the ship, no matter the position or its importance. With any crew, with any level of synergy, this was a powder keg waiting for a spark.

I’m not saying characters that made mistakes didn’t make huge ones, but I think part of the horror is that at least for some (this is targeting Jimathan) those mistakes are partly made by a force of the hand. There’s a running theme of lack of choice and being forced into something and the very nature of how The Pony Express expected them to function plays a big part.

[stevenrogered]

DAISY JONES & THE SIX   ↳book > screen

GRAHAM: Karen and I left her place that morning. I said to her, just as we walked out of the door, "Can't we just drive over together?" She said she didn't want people thinking we were sleeping together. I said, "But we are sleeping together." She still made us take two cars.

KAREN: You know how easy it is to screw up your entire life by sleeping with somebody in your own band?

[im-out-of-it]

this is soooooooo much better than simon’s pov of watching Malec kiss in the accords hall or wherever they shared their public kiss. say what you want about the arranged marriage but Lydia stood by Alec. she told Alec about his parents past, something they didn’t think was necessary to share, admired Alec for his family duty, and never forced anything on him. I loved the mention of Henry. he’s very underrated in TLH and TID.

the way that Magnus knows alec says it all. I’ve seen book fans saying it’s creepy (as if Magnus not communicating and following teenage alec isn’t creepy??????) but it just shows that alec doesn’t need to say anything and nothing is being forced on him. no one is saying “OMG ALEXANDER JUST COME OUT ALREADY BECAUSE IF YOU DONT YOU ARE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT ME- YEAH ALEC JUST COME OUT ALREADY HOW HARD COULD IT BE (Magnus and jace basically in the books)

I sincerely and seriously love that show Magnus isn’t like that. he’s not trying to force a decision on Alec. he’s not pushy, but he just knows he feels something for Alec and Alec feels it too. but he’s not making Alec come out to the clave. and as we can see, Alec is clearly struggling with his parents expectations and what he truly desires

I don’t know, I’ll always love the iconic wedding scene and the parallels that are attached to it. I think this is one of the many reasons people fell in love with Malec to begin with. I loved them from the second I saw Alec and Magnus but this just made it better. and yeah I will shit on the book because book Malec was done dirty. there was no reason for Simon to have a pov for most of their important discussions and moments. like the fact that he has that pov- when they’re fighting and saying ooooo they’re so dramatic and extra, and to their first public kiss is insane to me. it’s an inappropriate pov that has nothing to do with Simon.

ALSO JUST LOOK AT THAT MOTHERFUCKING KISS AND HOW MAGNUS NEEDS MORE SO ALEC GIVES HIM MORE LIKE THEY ARE SO FUCKING CUTE WE ALL LOVE SHOW MALEC

Magnus and Alec deserved to have a better story in the books but cc didn’t care about them until it made her money. so with everything they did for show Malec, THANK YOU SO MUCH ✨🥹 AND WOW MATT AND HARRY HAVE SO MUCH CHEMISTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MAN I LOVE SHOW MALEC SO MUCH 😭

[everlusts]

sometimes the whole tolkien rolling in his grave comments from both lorebros & fans alike gets me laughing because im sorry i didn’t treat this man as jesus reincarnate or seat by his grave reciting his works

like i know of casual viewers who frankly speaking don’t know and care for the lore but they’re watching the show regardless (because it’s a piece of media put out for them to consume without needing to pass some test) and they’re all joking about the messy divorce of two immortals who are still in love anyway so where do we go from here

[toweroftheeye]

Idk if I’ve posted about this already but I completed the Interview with the Vampire novel a few weeks ago and I can’t stop thinking about it. I definitely recommend to fans of gothic stories or have seen the adaptations 🧛🏼‍♂️

[electricmaimer]

"i dont care if people who havent read the books get spoiled for the show" <- words of a person i now want to bite and yell at

[myheartburnsthere-too]

to all my new luke girlies book readers or otherwise who are simping after charlie bushnell's portrayal, welcome to the pain train!!! (will not elaborate or spoil), but to all of my og luke stan babes who read the books any amount of time ago, i think it will be fun to watch the show only luke lovers lose their minds as we all did, many years months or days ago. to cry with them, laugh with them and cheer on our sinnamon roll. til elysium do us part.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

One pet peeve I have with battles in movies and TV shows is that they tend to be single engagements that are over in a matter of hours. I know a lot of it is to do with time and budget limitations, especially on TV series where battles are often confined to a single episode, but real battles can often last for days, weeks or even months. Which is why I'm excited for the Battle of Eregion because it has been described as something that is spread across multiple episodes and will last for days and take places across different fronts.

[food-forever-friend]

While I had my editing stuff up, thought I'd make myself a new profile pic.

Feel free to use, but please reblog and credit if you do.

[claudiaeparvier]

really do not agree with some of these takes from the vc fandom concerning the show only fanbase

[brionysea]

this man is pissing me off

[redhotchilipepper1]

Annabeth Chase is the type of person to randomly quote TV shows, Movies, and Books at random just for the sake of it. Like, the gang'll be singing I Want It That Way, and Annabeth will say "Now number 5" in the chorus, and nobody knows what she's saying (except maybe Leo), or Nico will be sitting in the dark, Annabeth will walk in, turn on the light and say "happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light" and Nico will just look at her like "bro what the fuck?"

That is all, thank you