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I’m so disappointed with Aemond’s storyline this season. It’s been so rushed and none of it’s really made sense when you compare it to season one (which was only ten days ago in episode one of s2!)
The first thing we should have seen is Aemond telling Alicent about accidentally killing Luke. Her being the only one that he admits to that it was a mistake and he regrets it, but Alicent is naturally horrified and rejects him, causing him to start to close himself off. He tells everyone else it was on purpose, putting on a front.
Then B&C happens. He finds the coin in his room but he keeps it to himself that he was the original intended target, because he’s afraid of being rejected even more by his family, who are already pissed about Luke. He goes to Helaena and attempts to apologise for Jaehaerys, but Helaena is too lost in grief to hear him out, making Aemond close off even more and become more stressed as the guilt builds up.
Rook’s Rest happens, and instead of purposefully trying to kill Aegon, Aemond is fully trying to take out Rhaenys and Meleys alone, thinking that if he kills them, it would help redeem him somewhat with his family. Only it’s bittersweet because while he did succeed in getting rid of Rhaenys and Meleys, he also accidentally gravely injured his brother and Sunfyre (like in the book). Now he’s fucked up again, and he’s spiralling. His mask becomes outwardly colder, but inside he’s a mess.
He’s Prince Regent now, but the guilt inside from his mistakes piling up is making him act out harshly as ruler in order to try and regain control, but it just makes things worse and the smallfolk riot against him, which his mother and sister get caught up in. He’s messed up again, and caused his family members to be traumatised once more because of his actions.
He finally decides to take Harrenhal, like Aegon originally wanted. He hopes this will finally be a win for him and Team Green, and earn back his family’s love and trust. Only this turns out AGAIN to be a failure. He captures Harrenhal, but King’s Landing falls without him and Vhagar there. His mother and sister are now prisoners of the enemy, his grandfather and uncle are executed, and his brother and niece have disappeared.
After an entire season of build up, where we see the stress and guilt and pressure build within him, he finally snaps. He executes all the men and boys of House Strong, and fully becomes book!Aemond.
I’m not saying any of this would be perfect or even good. I just think something like this would have given us more characterisation, better screentime, and his descent into ‘villainy’ would have felt more earned than what we got. And we wouldn’t have to rely on the actors to tell us what’s going on half the time, because the writers didn’t bother to show us on screen.
(Thanks for listening, feel free to ignore. I just needed to shout into the void.)
Oh my lovely anon this is so good!!! I don’t even need to add anything, this is what we deserved to see!!!!!!
Take your time and read this<33
#anon#this is the real show#i will ignore s2 completely and go with this version#anti hotd#inbox open
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(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)
#MY GIRLLLLLLLL <333333 you're doing amazing sweetie kill them all you deserve to#anyway. coping mechanism. the problems in my life i could solve if society just let me have a death note#this show really is an exercise in patience and suffering i get SO squicked out#by how much the horrible characters and situations mirror the insanity of what's happening in real life#also the revelation that some of the actors are Exactly as shitty as their characters are is. ugh.#but every time i'm like okay i can't take it i need to stop to protect my headspace#i think of kimiko and am like.... no... i need to see my gir....#hope karen gets jucy roles in other shows too PLEASE#the boys#kimiko miyashiro#karen fukuhara#theboysedit#tvedit
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fandom tumblr was another casualty of streaming services. we used to be on here posting about the episodes that were coming out weekly and posting gifs and writing insane shit about the tv shows we liked. now a new season of a show will drop and we’ll talk about it for a week. two weeks tops. and then that show will leave collectively conscious for 1+ year till the next season drops. there’s a reason succession sundays was a blast on here
we used to have real television
#we used to have shows with filler episodes. we used to reblog gifs and graphics#we used to be a real website
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even though its great that indie animation is on the rise, it honestly concerns me that so many people hear "indie animation" and expect 22 minute episodes with smooth animation and expensive/popular VAs.
It kind of reminds me of when Webtoons became popular and then all of a sudden its userbase expected fully colored comics with 50 panels to come out every week. And you couldn't take a break for more than two weeks or else they'd complain.
#txt#you dont have real appreciation for indie animation unless you're willing to watch a show made by one guy who only has 3 vas#and one of those vas is himself
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One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.
Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.
It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?
Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.
#idk what to tag this#worldbuilding#writing fiction#historical fiction#fantasy#a real-life example: my dad (a pediatrician) was once entrusted with the care of a baby who was born with a rare condition#this was in a place without great hospital/medical access and anyway they were going to fly the baby over#and he specifically asked them to bring the mother and baby#they show up with baby and...the baby's uncle#and he was like. y'all. do you think I asked for the mom to come just for fun??? We don't have formula here. what is the baby going to eat?
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really funny that every website is in an arms race to make itself as bad as possible and immediately someone makes a firefox extension to fix it
#its not a real solution obviously like they should work properly in the first place#but it shows how all these changes are not for the benefit of the user and are always unpopular
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Jake is so real because if I had stretchy powers I'd be 100% doing stupid shit like this
#nom nom nom#mmm egg in me#adventure time#finn mertens#jake the dog#jake adventure time#finn the human#finn adventure time#adventure time quotes#jake is so real#i love this show
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game shows in 2024 are so fucking cooked
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The image used in the background of the Gravity Falls logo HAS BEEN FOUND!!
It's located in France!!
I made a thread on Twitter explaining the full story and how I even asked Ian Worrel and Alex Hirsch about it, but lemme run down quickly how it was found and where it is!
After 3 years of searching with some friends on and off, we had no real luck. I've been working on a video about it for a while but decided to try one more time. My friend @trickengf suggested looking at international logos as they may have more of the image available and sure enough...we found logos like the Japanese and Russian GF logo had more visible detail of the image.
From that, Tricken made a remake of the image and used it to find it. He ended up finding the source at about 3AM for me, lol!
My friend Fried Oreos then confirmed the image was old enough to fit the criteria of pre GF pilot, by determining the image was on the Textures website it was sourced from since 2008!
Then, my friend Alex M managed to buy the HD image and we were able to analyze its metadata for more info!
Turns out, the image, called "LandscapeMountains0009," was taken by a Nikon D70 camera on April 18, 2007!
THE GRAVITY FALLS LOGO IMAGE IS ALMOST 18 YEARS OLD!!
From there, we began looking for the location. The meta data had no location, but other images taken around the same time showed signs of maybe the location being in Europe.
After over a day of searching, Tricken, Alex M and Oreos FOUND IT!!
The location of the image is a mountain range near the town of Sers, France...near the border with Spain.
Exact coordinates of the closest viewable angle of the image is 42°54'23.2"N 0°06'05.6"E
This is a major discovery and one I cannot believe we did. While this search was started by me in 2021 with some friends, it was TrickenGF, Alex M and Fried Oreos who deserve all the credit for this discovery! They were the geniuses who tracked all of this down and were able to connect the dots to get to this point.
You guys are amazing and I am beyond grateful for all of this.
Finding this image means that fans can now recreate the Gravity Falls logo as they want with anything they want. For example, Tricken made this for me using the image :D
Or, you can do this, lol
We now have it!
For 12 years as we looked at the Gravity Falls logo...we were in reality looking at a mountain in France...NOT Oregon!
So, I guess this is a major W for France but sorry, Pacific Northwest, Gravity Falls is actually French, lol!
I still can't believe we found this. I'm so happy :P
#gravity falls#gravity falls fandom#mabel pines#dipper pines#alex hirsch#mabel#grunkle stan#dipper#that gf fan#dipper and mabel#trickengf#Gravity Falls logo#Gravity Falls logo image#Texture#Gravity Falls is real and it will never die#2024 has been a great year for Gravity Falls#Sers France#France#French#Oregon#pacific northwest#Lost Media#Found Media#Bill Cipher#the book of bill#vive la france#I wonder how Alex Hirsch will react to finding out his show's logo is of a hill in France
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aang haters are so insane cause you’re literally hating on happiness personified????????
he is literally just a guy
who is five apples tall
and needs his sleep
#idk if yall know this but he is my child#that’s family right there#my own flesh and blood#atla#avatar the last airbender#aang#avatar aang#best character in the show let’s be real#aang they could never make me hate you
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Finally got the time to fuel my new hyperfixation yippeee <3
#my art#tlok#legend of korra#korrasami#asami sato#I love Korra so much I am NOT immune to powerful women…..#I watched the show like 4 months ago and I already have like 50 wips 😶#really loved it tho#some real good ships over there#:3c
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Luke being given a quest at 17, feeling like there's no glory in it because it's a quest someone's already succeeded before, but then failing that very quest he considered to be beneath him, getting a permanent scar, "ruining it" for the rest of the campers because now no one else can go on quests and earn glory in the eyes of the gods, so he turns to Kronos, and years later here comes a possible candidate for the great prophecy, 12 years old, gets the first quest the camp has done since Luke's fucked it up, and Luke is actively ensuring this quest is an impossible quest!! he's literally rigged it so Percy's gonna fail (the shoes, the bolt appearing in his bag) and then this kid somehow succeeds still??? and not only that, Percy got the unique quest Luke wanted in the first place and achieved feats no one else had and earned glory in the eyes of his father, all because Luke created the circumstances for that to happen??
oh my god yeah I don't think I'd ever recover from that either
#too bad the show didn't understand the delicious dichotomy of this: Luke failing his quest vs Percy succeeding his#pjo#percy jackson#luke castellan#mine#Luke beefing with a child was so real of him#trainwreck Luke they could never make me hate you
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"why should I get invested in shows if they'll just get canceled" I was deeply invested in Heroes (2006) and it was not canceled, it just got really terrible. I also got really invested in the sandwich I had a few weeks ago despite it only lasting like 15 minutes. You must embrace the ephemeral. You must be willing to love things that may not love you back, that might betray you, or that may die an untimely death. As the great philosopher Mr. Mitchell Lee Hedberg said "I'm not gonna stop doing something because of what happens at the end."
#now granted he did die of a drug overdose but you know. one can take the good lessons#anyway. point being i understand being deeply frustrated with the state of the tv and film.#but also we can admit that for every gem canceled there's like three real duds too#idk if you want something that's guaranteed to have a bunch of seasons and you know the ending for go watch shows from the 70s#the number of adults on this site who lack the emotional wherewithal to watch an ongoing narrative is. yikes.#queue
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Every time that the stakes are now So So So high in Doctor Who I'm like. Congratulations to Fourteen for well and truly fucking off. His ass is NOT dealing with death gods his ass is trying to get rid of the spider mites on the basil
#doctor who#it's so funny. to be clear i dont want him to show up. it's just so goddamn funny to be like theres another doctor out there#and he is not doing SHIT#other! peoples! problemssss!!!!#meanwhile fifteen is like hey. im doin real bad :)#what if the doctor just keeps bigenerating to go retire with donna. fifteen is like im out sixteen this is your problem now
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it is definitely cannon that everyone at camp calls Percy "Annabeth's boyfriend". They'll be showing a new kid around the place and be like "oh yeah, that's Annabeth's boyfriend, Percy. He's also the hero of olympus, beat the god of war, and a child of poseidon or whatever."
#this is real#totally happened#tbh rizzing up annabeth was the biggest accomplishment#everyone at camp knows it fr#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#pjo tv show#pjo#pjo series#pjo spoilers#annabeth chase#percy jackson spoilers#poseidon#camp half blood
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forgor to post… chekov & sulu helm shenanigans at buttfuck o’ clock ^_^
#star trek#star trek tos#my art#hikaru sulu#pavel chekov#silly bridge moments#unserious sulu is real to me and you#the background looks like asscrack bc i am asscrack at backgrounds#a 60’s scifi show got me actually ekeing out BGs its crazy in here
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