#waiting for the melatonin to kick in

[grismavessel]

I need to draw more of just Ingo and Gris being in love and dopey but also in that phase where their best friends and could not never confess their feelings for one another but will totally fight a Zorark by hand for one another.

[akumanoken]

Me thinking about a tag for Estinien: IF THAT JUST WHAT DRAGOONS DO WHEN THEY FINISH THEIR DAY JOB? JUST FUCKING GO ON TOUR?

[aspiringmilfmolly]

Eyyy no sleep gang 🙌

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[mugzymiik]

TPC SHOWDOWN - Round 1E

MAIN TERMINAL

LAST ROUND'S RESULTS

[borzoilover69]

Jane and dirk on an outing together and Jane leaves Dirk with her handbag while shes paying so Dirk rummages through her bag to find snacks and finds a pack of orange gummies. Not thinking much he starts eating them and they’re really good actually so hes casually munching them when Jane comes back and she stops in her tracks horrified. Dirk thinks its because hes stealing the candy and shrugs it off and thats when Jane tells him hes been eating her fucking melatonin gummies the entire time.

[navree]

ooh, pls expand on your dae/jae/aeg3 ideas! 😃😃😃

This is what happens when I wake up at 3am due to stubbornly persisting jetlag (pro tip, if you're gonna go to a country that's, like, sixteen hours ahead of your's, just block off a solid week of not doing anything when you get back because your sleep is gonna be FUCKED, my European jetlag has never been this longlasting or this bad), I create Ideas in my head and then use them to help me fall asleep. And it's honestly highly likely I'm actually gonna write something with this, it's quickly moved really high in my ASOIAF fics priorities list, just behind my Dance AU (I really should also write my version of Aegon's Conquest but it would just be so fucking looooooooooong and fall quarter is about to start for me at school anyway).

So, unlike most Greens, I actually quite like Daenaera, sue me, sometimes character are just Your Baby, and she's mine (I've enumerated why here for the curious). But I do understand the narrative issues some people have with killing off Jaehaera to make room for her, so I'm merging the best of both worlds here. A lot of the same things I talk about when it comes to why I like Daenaera's relationship with Aegon can also be applied to Jaehaera, she's also someone who likely would have felt lonely and isolated and deeply depressed after all she went through, and there likely wouldn't be many people she could try and connect with. There's Gaemon, her bastard half-brother, and there's Aegon. But can Jaehaera really bring herself to connect with him, or he with her? Aegon's father sent men to murder Jaehaera's twin and threaten to rape her; Jaehaera's father not only kept Aegon a prisoner but also made him watch his mother's execution via being eaten by a dragon. That's a huge emotional gulf for two children to overcome on their own, and that's where Daenaera comes in. Kids need socialization with other kids, we know this, and given that Daenaera becomes a ward of Aegon's half-sister Baela, her visits to King's Landing to see her brother often include bringing her young charge (I'm also reducing the age difference between Aegon/Jaehaera and Daenaera, because it is rightly weird as Hell that so much emphasis was put on six year old Daenaera being the hottest preschooler in Westeros). She socializes with both Aegon and Jaehaera, since she's on a similar social level, given not just the closeness between the Velaryons and the Targaryens, but her being kind of a member of Baela's family, and thus technically the royal family by extension. And Jaehaera is queen, so it's not unreasonable for someone to go "OK she needs some noble female companions" to allow her and Daenaera to hang out more.

In my head, the first closeness happens between Jaehaera and Daenaera, and not only as a meta-rebuttal to fandom weirdos who wanna pit two little girls against each other like it's One Tree Hill because you've all got big feelings over a fictional succession crisis. But I think Jaehaera would be more openly receptive to friends than Aegon. I mentioned it in my above linked post about Daenaera, but Aegon's one friend in his minority was Gaemon, and he had to be very careful about that friendship because of how Gaemon could be treated, so he was probably recalcitrant from getting close to anyone, along with his other issues. Jaehaera doesn't have that hangup, she's just a lonely girl without any friends, so having someone who's canonically sweet and charismatic enough that her sunny disposition uplifted the people around her would definitely help her out, and make her appreciate Daenaera as a person and want her around. It'd be almost something similar to what HOTD has between Rhaenyra and Alicent, close female companions bordering on homoeroticism and sapphic first loves.

On the Aegon front, a lot of what I talked about when talking about their canonical relationship can also apply here even before a marriage. Aegon's two main relationships to people his age are Gaemon, with the issues mentioned above, and Jaehaera, which does come with its own issues from the Dance. Daenaera would still be the first major guilt-free relationship in his life, someone he can interact with and be close to without feeling the burden of his own sins or the ones of those close to him on his shoulders. And again, along with that same temperament that endeared him to her in canon, and would endear her to Jaehaera in this AU, that's how they draw close and forge their own independent friendship. On all three sides though, it would likely be restrained to something like courtly love, where you can have concretely romantic feelings and even certain minor expressions of those feelings, but you can't ever really do anything, you just pine and have unspoken thoughts about everything. Aegon and Jaehaera are married, to each other, and they're also still growing, considering they get married when they're ten, so even if they grow closer and start communicating about shared desires more, it's still gonna take some time to parse out what it is they feel and what they want. Similarly, Daenaera would also need the time to grow and realize what she wants as well, and what her feelings even are, given that she's also young. And while I've talked about how Aegon and Jaehaera would grow closer to her, even beyond Daenaera being a naturally friendly person, there is something for her in those relationships as well. Companionship with people her age, for one, and a more calming presence from two people who do seem pretty even keeled, if melancholic, after the chaos of her own early life, and a measure of stability after going from two parents to just a father to orphaned to living with Baela.

One thing that would, in my view, firmly solidify the idea that Aegon and Jaehaera like having Daenaera in their lives and want to keep Daenaera in their lives is the secret siege. In canon, Daenaera nearly dies because of the poisoned fruit tarts, it's only because maesters give her something to make her throw up before the poison gets too much ingested into her system that it doesn't, unlike what happened to poor Gaemon. In my head, there's a period of time, probably a couple hours but still, where it's verrrrrrry touch and go for Daenaera and both Aegon and Jaehaera are really worried about her. Because they know death, they've seen death, not only have a lot of their family members died but they have personally witnessed someone not just die but be killed, be murdered. They know what it looks like and they both realize that they don't want that to happen to Daenaera, that she's important to them. After all, when I said "aegon and jaehaera and daenaera as the conquerors reborn", I wasn't just being facetious. I've mentioned in a lot of my Conquerors meta that Rhaenys appears to have been the glue that held her and her siblings together, and I can see Daenaera occupying a similar role. Like Aegon I and Visenya before them, Aegon III and Jaehaera are likely people who would be reticent in expressing emotion, though for different reasons (trauma vs just inherent personality), whereas Daenaera is not. And having kids socialize with someone like that, and learn to socialize with other people, including each other, like that, it's important, and it makes Daenaera important to them, along with the personal feelings that might become involved, especially with them all maturing emotionally and sexually at the same time. Post-secret siege is when I think things would take a concrete turn to the romantic, and given that the most successful Targaryens of all time were very famously in a polygamous marriage, that's when a plan can start forming about bringing Daenaera into the marriage, not unlike Rhaenys getting brought into Aegon and Visenya's marriage.

(though, unlike my headcanon where Aegon and Visenya never wanted each other romantically or sexually due in part to incompatibilities as Visenya was a lesbian, and they both wanted Rhaenys, all three participants in this poly couple would want each other. I think that Aegon and Jaehaera might like Daenaera individually more than they might like each other, cuz again there's a lot of baggage involved, but there's romantic attachment and sexual interest, though to varying degrees, from all parties to all parties)

A marriage including Daenaera also helps deal with the unseen faction of the Dance: the Velaryons. The Velaryons kinda got shafted by both sides in this war. The Blacks in general treated a lot of members of House Velaryon badly in the lead up (Daenaera's grandfather, again, is Vaemond Velaryon. That Vaemond Velaryon), along with Rhaenyra imprisoning and threatening the House head, Corlys, over her own neuroses. The Greens, meanwhile, not only kept a member of House Velaryon as a prisoner (Baela, who is also the current king's sister), but are responsible for the death of a member of House Velaryon through marriage, since Aegon and Aemond killed Rhaenys (fuck you HBO for ruining that team up, sorry I'm done now). The toll of the war on House Velaryon was pretty severe, with wrongs done by both sides, and there does need to be some element of House Targaryen going "my bad" and offering some kind of recompense, especially considering the ways House Velaryon helped both sides with the allegiance switch (also, if we're moving up Daenaera's age, you can have her father be a casualty of the Dance, rather than the Daughter's War). Having a Velaryon at the table, given a prominent seat at the table, can definitely be that, especially someone who is historically pureblood Velaryon, without major Targaryen ancestry who can clearly advocate for House Velaryon. So if the two Targaryen monarchs go "we want this Velaryon as our queen", that can work from a political perspective and allow the match to go forward.

And if we keep the dragons around, which I want to, because I like dragons, that's something that can also connect Daenaera and Jaehaera. Say Morghul never dies in the storming of the Dragonpit, now Jaehaera has a dragon, and we know Daenaera loves dragons, whereas Aegon can't stand them (reasonable, given what happened to Rhaenyra). So Jaehaera can't bond with Aegon about dragons, but she can bond with Daenaera, who'd be very interested in hearing everything about it. If Daenaera wanted to claim a dragon herself, and we know she expressed the desire to have one after seeing Rhaena and Morning in canon, Jaehaera could be the one to help and facilitate that. Not to mention, I put in a response to someone asking who might Sunfyre have allowed to be his rider if he survived Dragonstone (can't find it for the life of me tho, sorry!) that Daenaera was a likely candidate, given that they're both pretty sweethearts. So if I get to be self indulgent and have Sunfyre survive for a bit, Daenaera can connect with him and Jaehaera can have some link to her deceased father, Sunfyre's original rider.

So yeah, these are just a couple disjointed thoughts I had based on that idea, but in my head that's how it should be. I'm sure I'll think of more about them as actual proper adults and reigning monarchs, cuz right now a lot of this was childhood and teen years focused along with a spotlight more on how they got together than how the relationship unfolded into adulthood, but hope you enjoyed the expansion anon!

[half-giant]

Made a crop top today.

[bonyfish]

I become so intractably stressed during election season and it's especially frustrating because there's nothing I can do about it. When something is bothering me, what usually helps me the most is to do something to try to make it better. Unfortunately for me, I have essentially no outlet by which to make this problem better. I've already voted early, but also I live in Indiana so I have limited confidence in how much good that can do on a grand scale. Typically my options for Things To Do to make myself feel better would be donating to campaigns that matter to me or doing some kind of voter outreach to make it so it's not just me making the problem better. Unfortunately for me, I'm flat broke and also when I try to talk politics with people I stop making facial expressions and start saying things like, "I believe the American people should enter a Dionysian frenzy and tear [name of conservative politician redacted] limb-from-limb in the streets" and that is typically not conducive to productive discussion.

[queermentaldisaster]

Hey hey hey hey @myriadblvck @forestshadow-wolf @the-starry-raven

What dragons do you think Farah and Alex would be/would ride?

[rockingego]

12 am Doodles

[wroteclassicaly]

Thinking about the only reason the D bros decided to have Steve simp for Nancy, is because they couldn’t decide what to do with him after their failed idea for him to become Robin’s love interest (bless your insistence Maya). They have forgotten how to write for several characters, and don’t know what to do with Steve other than to plot device him as a romantic counterpart. Joe has put more into him than they anticipated and can carry a strong storyline for Steve, but they’re not giving him a chance.

[akumanoken]

"..." He was really hoping for an anonymous lover like last time... But perhaps not. "Damn today was a bust..."

[sludgekludge]

this is a nothing burger but after we watched mastermind me and the buddy who strongarmed me into watching this shithead show did a tierlist of the characters and why does every single one include every single background character who has ever taken a breath. girl i can barely name every recurring character who are these people

[moe-broey]

To simultaneously simplify and complicate things, Moe is fully aromantic now. I think it has to be. At this fucking point.

[strayspider]

/// some ways I intend for RP to happen if it's serious;

Pete is in your muse's universe due to an accident involving him designing his own spider-verse teleporter and it's broken/malfunctioning or by other means we can discuss in IMs/DMs.

The reverse, your muse is somehow in Pete's universe and after we establish your muse is not from there we can figure out why they're there and how to send them back to the right one.

Some sort of weird mishmash is happening, our universes are fusing together. Who/what caused it, we gotta work together to fix it. can we fix it?

If you're an OC, would you like to have a verse for my blogs canon? we can plot it out.

Its sort of a staple for all my blogs because i adore crossovers but also my muse being stuck in your muse's universe or vice versa for a verse is always on the table. having your or my muse get accustomed to a new home with nobody they know. the angst and interesting ways they adapt are always fun imo.

Your muse has their own verse that could mesh well? Let me know. Same if you wanna play as my blogs interpretation/concept of a character and flesh them out yourself.

Any of these ideas with Peter as Parker or Spider in any sort of setting; at the lab, swinging around NYC, at the X Mansion, in the middle of a fight in any of these locations, some other location of your choosing. It's all acceptable.

My IMs are always 100% open to plot in. Even a tiny bit to get a concept/start down. You can suggest some ideas you have as well and we can go from there. Don't worry if I don't immediately respond either, I'm probably asleep if I don't and I'll get to it when I'm up again.

If you give me an ask starter or like a starter call with no prior plotting I may choose one of these ideas at random, but if that's not to your liking please let me know and we can try something else.

[skateironicallycantskate]

am I genderfluid or is it my apathy towards my gender that’s fluid