#why are there no tags for hereos

[dollhousecrybaby73]

hear me out dude

hereos "the wall" x madoka magica "rebellion" with sylar as homura and peter as madoka

if you see this and feel inclined to write anything based on this i'm begging you to show me. i couldn't come up with anything good and i'm desperate for a hereos fic that ties in with the idea of rebellion. PLEASE I'M BEGGING

[larluce]

Arthur and Merlin travel back in time without knowing the other is from the future too AU

Tagging @aceauthorcatqueen , @fallenxjas , @smileytrinity ,@lucifertookmyshoe , @an-entity-i-think , @thecornerofbelu , @griffonskies , @odinjm , @cinnabon-sweetroll-tiramisu , @thelady-mary , @bennedict , @nightninjaboy , @st8-of-grace , @star-rie , @error-username-not-available , @dogberryrowan , @jamieweasley13 , @tansyuduri , @tercais , @robynnemrys I already had this part made, I may as well publish it ;)

LINKS TO THE OTHER PARTS OF THIS AU HERE: PART 1 , PART 2 , PART 3 , PART 4 , PART 5 , PART 6 , PART 7 , PART 8 , PART 9 , PART 10 , PART 11 , PART 12 , PART 13 (You're here) , PART 14

Arthur and Merlin first fight and a bit more of jealous Arthur

In Arthur's chambers.

Merlin: I'm telling you! He had nothing to do with Nimueh. He's innocent! It was all just a big misunderstanding!

Arthur: (not looking up from his papers) I heard you.

Merlin: Then why is Lancelot still in the dungeons?

Arthur: He could be dangerous.

Merlin: What are you talking about? He tried to help me! He saved my life!

Arthur: (finally looking up from his papers and standing up in anger) No, you put yourself in unnecessary danger again! After I told you not go alone, you did! Do you have any idea what could have happened to you? What's your obssession with confronting monsters and evil sorcerers all on your own?! You're no knight, no soldier. How can you be so ridiculously reckless?!

Merlin: (in realisation, indredulous) You're keeping Lancelot in the dungeons just because you're mad at me?

Arthur: (shouts) Yes! (thinking) Among other things (says) Maybe that way you'll learn your acts have consecuences.

Merlin: You can't do that!

Arthur: I'm the prince, so yes I can!

Merlin: (shouts, mad) You childish, spoiled, arrogant brat!

Arthur: Insult all you want. Lancelot is staying there. End of discussion.

Merlin: (pauses, disappointed) Then you're not the prince I thought you were (leaves).

Arthur: (affected by his words, makes a move to go to him, but stops himself, remaining furious) Childish he says. I'm mentally forty years old! I'm not childish! (sees a chair nearby and kicks it)

Time skip. Merlin venting to Gwen.

Merlin: That's what he told me! He's taking it out on Lancelot just to get to me! Can you believe it?!

Gwen: (sarcastic) On the man he found you with in his arms and alone in the woods? What a surprise.

Merlin: (doesn't notice the sarcasm and keeps on his rant) Oh, but let's see what he thinks when all his clothes are ripped and all his food ends up smashed on his face!

Gwen: Now you're being childish.

Merlin: Then what am I supposed to do? He's refusing to let Lancelot free no matter what I say!

Gwen: That's because you haven't tried everything.

Merlin: I did try everything!

Gwen: Really? Have you tried 'sweet persuasion'?

Merlin: ... What? 🤨

Gwen: Sweet persuasion 💁‍♀️. Is what we women do to get what we want and survive in a world ruled by men.

Merlin: But I'm a man.

Gwen: Doesn't mean you can't sweet persuade Arthur to get him to do what you want. 😏

Merlin: (unsure, but curious) What does it consist about?

Gwen: Well, first, you'd have to apologise and tell him that he's right for doing what he did.

Merlin: But he's not!

Gwen: You know that, I know that, but if we wait for him to realise that, Lancelot is going to stay in the dungeons till next solstice.

Merlin: (sighs) Okay, then what?

Gwen: Man love to be the center of attention, above all, they love to be their lov-people's hereos. Just play the defensless victim and act as he was your saviour. Praise him. And you'll have him at your feet.

Merlin: And then I'd ask him to free Lancelot?

Gwen: No, no, no. You shouldn't mention Lancelot all. You'd have to make this about Arthur and you alone.

Merlin: I don't know. That's sounds kind of humiliating.

Gwen: See? That's the problem with you men. You're too prideful to give in or recognise you're wrong, when actually success lies in knowing when to give in or better, letting the other believe he won.

Merlin: (still doubtful)...

Gwen: Just think about it (leaves).

Time skip. In the training grounds. Merlin goes to Arthur.

Arthur: (avoiding his eyes, still mad) Finally coming to do your chores?

Merlin: I wanted to speak with you.

Arthur: I'm not setting Lancelot free.

Merlin: It's not about that. I just wanted to say... that I'm sorry.

Arthur: (turns to him, surprised)... what?

Merlin: You're right. It was reckless and stupid of me to follow Nimueh by myself. I don't know what I was thinking. I guess I just wanted to be more brave and strong... like you.

Arthur: (smiles smugly, flattered) You think I'm brave and strong?

Merlin: I've seen you fight (pats his arm). And you didn't hesitate to come after me, a servant. Nobody else would have cared. I'm so glad you did, Arthur. Fortunately, everything turned out alright, but what if it hadn't? If Nimueh had managed to kill me or do something worse to me? Or if nobody else had found me? (hugs himself, looking vulnerable) I was so scared.

Arthur: (puts a hand on Merlin's arm and begins to caress it with his thumb lovinly) Oh, Merlin. You don't have to be scared. I will always come for you. Always.

Merlin: (blushes a little, but keeps on his act) So you're not mad at me anymore? Will you forgive me? 🥺(puppy eyes)

Arthur: (smiles, touched) Only if you promise not to do it again.

Merlin: (celebrating inside, but disimulates) Of course! Thank you, Arthur. I know you'll always do what's right.

And shortly after Lancelot is set free.

Merlin: (in disbelief) I can't believe it worked.

Gwen: I told you. 😏

Merlin: Gwen, you're a genius! Where were this advice in my other life?

Gwen: What?

Merlin: Nothing. (cofs) Well, I'll see you later. I promised Lancelot I'll show him my room today.

Gwen: Why are you showing him your room?

Merlin: Oh, I invited him to sleep there since he doesn't have where to go.

Gwen: (scandalised) What?! 😨 Merlin, I don't think is a good idea to invite other man to sleep in your room.

Merlin: Why? He helped me and then spend days in the dungeons because of me. I think is the least I can do.

Gwen: I'm sure he's a nice person. (thinking) And a very handsome one. (says) I just don't think the prince is going to be okay with that.

Merlin: Why would he care who I bring to my room?

Gwen: Because he's...! very protective of you. And he is clearly not very fond of Lancelot.

Merlin: (skeptical) Right (rolls his eyes). I think I can handle one man and who I bring to my room is not his royal business (leaves).

Gwen: (puts a hand on her forehead, sighing) These two are going to be the death of me.

Time skip. In Merlin's room.

Merlin: (enters with Lancelot) Here. I know it's not much, but-

Lancelot: It's perfect (smiles, kindly) Thank you, Merlin. (looks at the lily near the bed) And that's a nice touch.

Merlin: Thank you! 😄 Arthur gave it to me 🥰

Lancelot: The prince?

Merlin: Yes.

Lancelot: Oh, you two are...

Merlin: (laughs) No, nothing like that. I told him there weren't many purple flowers and the prat just wanted to prove me wrong. It was a nice gesture though. (looks at the flower lovinly)

Lancelot: (thinking) Oh, gods, he doesn't know, does he? (says) Uh... Merlin? Does the prince know I'm staying here?

Merlin: Well, in fact-

Arthur: (suddenly enters) In fact, no. I didn't know. 😑

Merlin: (almost jumps out of his skin and smiles nervously) Arthur! What are you doing here? 😅

Arthur: You brought a stranger into your room?

Merlin: He's not a stranger, he's my friend.

Arthur: You just met him 3 days ago!

Merlin: (crosses his arms) Well, we got along quickly.

Arthur: I don't care if you're best friends now. He is not staying here.

Merlin: (raises his voice) You don't have a say in that! 😠

Arthur: (raises his voice too) I'm the prince!😠

Merlin: This is my room!😡

Arthur: This is my castle!😡

Lancelot: I'll just go. 😅

Arthur: Yeah, you better.😠

Merlin: No, you stay. 😠

Lancelot: (not knowing whether to stay or leave) Eh...

Merlin: See? Now you made him uncomfortable.

Arthur: Like he was going to be comfortable in this poky excuse of a room. There's barely space for one. Where was he going to sleep, uh? The floor?

Merlin: We were going to share the bed.

Arthur: WHAT?!!😨😤

Lancelot: (thinking) It's over. I'm dead. I need to prepare my will. "For the nice old man that show me the way to the citidel I want to...

Arthur: Over my dead body!😡

Merlin: Oh, come on. It's not so bad. If we snuggle together-

Arthur: NO!😡

Lancelot: (thinking) "...and for the lovily and kind maidservant, Guinevere, that brought me food while I was still in the dungeons, I know it's not much but I want her to have..."

Merlin: (remembering 'sweet persuasion') I get why you're worried, my lord. You only think in what's best for me and you don't know how much I appreciate it. But I also know you're a benevolent man who cares deeply for his people. You wouldn't leave a poor subject in need to fend for himself, would you? Please, let him stay.🥺(puppy eyes)

Arthur: (tries to resist the puppy eyes, but sighs) Fine. He can stay.

Merlin: Yay! Thank so much you, sire! 😊

Arthur: With one condition.

Merlin: Sure, anything!

Arthur: You'll move to the chambers next to mine.

Merlin: (in shock) ... what? 😧

Arthur: That way you can sleep more comfortably and Lancelot too. Problem solved.

Merlin: (Between happy, stunned and conflicted) It's really generous of you, sire. But... I like my room. And... I'm also Gaius apprentice. He needs me here. (thinking) And how am I suppossed to practice my magic If I sleep in the chambers right next to yours?

Arthur: The distance you walk to attend me and then help Gaius would be the same. As my personal manservant, you should have moved there from the start, anyways. So, what do you say?

Merlin: (trying to find a reason to deny but he's actually quite excited to have a new room) Does it have a bigger bed?

Arthur: (smirks) It has a bigger everything.

Merlin: (smiles brightly) I better start moving then, my lord. (Picks up the pot with the lily and leaves, happily).

Arthur: (looks where Merlin went with heart eyes and then turns to Lancelot with a serious face)

Lancelot: (awkward and nervous) Ahm... your generosity knows no boundaries, my lo-Ow! (exclaims when Arthur punches him in the face)

Arthur: I never said you'll stay here for free 😑. You can start by cleaning out the stables. (leaves)

Lancelot: (rubs his face and sighs) So much for being a knight.

[angelynmoon]

I want a story where the villain is gay but all the heroes are straight and slowly through the course of the story the main hero realizes that he has a crush on the villain.

Trying to find a reason not to he researches the villain's past and he discovers that the villain offered a sanctuary to the people that were outcast, condemned, abused, and basically all the misfits of society.

And now the hero is in love but he knows the villain (are they really the villain here, they wonder) will never love them back, rightly so.

Instead he secrets the misfits away, subtly sabatogages the Hereoes' plans and hopes that the villain wins.

Until the day their fellow heroes find out about his crush, (now fully invested in love actually) and drag them to be killed as an example.

The villain has stopped the majority of these things the hero knows but they doubt they'll come for them, they are enemies after all.(Are they really?)

Anyway, the villain does come rescue them but has to do a double take once they are back at their lair because they recognize them as an enemy and why were his allies trying to kill them?

Basically a hero's decent into villainry, but are they really the villains of this story?

Also, after the former hero explains they become the main villain's sidekick/planner since they know the ins and outs of the Heroes and over the course of time the villain falls in love, deeply and dangerously.

The hero fell first, the villain fell harder.

And the villains win and live happily ever after.

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If you think this needs more tags let me know

[4ranghaes]

thank you bb😚😚

- jesus is a rochdale girl by elbow

- better way to live by kneecap ft grian chatten

- odoriko by vaundy

- if i say i love you by boynextdoor

- until the end of time by xdinary hereos

- down 2 by bessie turner

- cherry-coloured funk by coctaeu twins

- why do you let me stay here by she & him

- juna by clairo

- in the aeroplane over the sea by neutral milk hotel

no pressure tags!!!! (also sorry if you’ve already been tagged) @starrihan @ihangelic @hyuukas @blueberrybeomgyu @zynz0 @domoriu (i KNOW three of you have already been tagged but me and kati RUN IN THE SAME CIRCLES IDK ANYONE ELSE😭) and anyone else who wants to!!!!

Music Shuffle!

thank u for the tag @ebodebo and @lavenderdaisychain 😌💐

rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 songs, then tag 10 friends to do the same!

About You by 1975

Every Breath You Take by The Police

Til the sun goes up by So!YoON!

gloria by Kendrick Lamar & SZA

Strawberry Lemonade by j.pastel

yellow is the color of her eyes by Soccer Mommy

At Your Best (You Are Love) by Aaliyah

pueblo by wave to earth

CATFISH by Doechii

Come back to me by RM

no pressure tags: @indecisive-authors @heavysighing-dreamyeyes @batsycline69 @siddyyyyyyyy @in-som-niyah @justasimpleton-26 @sunnie-angel & anyone else who wants to join :)

[moeblob]

♥♥♥

[fehcanons]

Heyo! Can I get some trans woman Reinhardt headcanons please :3?

All these trans asks are so valid (and if y’all find any issues with my trans headcanons, pls let me know. Cause while I draw from my experiences with gender, I’m not trans so let me know if I do anything poorly/insensitive. I’m also kinda done with sad lgbtqia+ headcanons so none of these will be really sad unless specifically asked for)

During the time she serve under Friege, she’s too busy to even begin thinking about herself in ways that don’t deal with how she can serve the empire.

She definitely is inspired by Ishtar; she takes Ishtar’s ideals of duty over self and amplifies it

Whenever she first has doubts about her gender, she ignores it in favor of the upcoming battles and her training

By the time she fights the Liberation Army, she has an inkling of being a trans woman, but the thought doesn’t fully hit her, still identifying as a cis man

It isn’t until she’s brought to Askr where her responsibilities are much smaller compared to being the leader of the Gelben Ritter.

She still is very busy at Askr, her strength in magic being a necessity to several teams

It isn’t until Ishtar is summoned that her thoughts really come back full force

She realizes that she models herself after Ishtar in terms of ideals and personality and soon that idea solidifies to her that she doesn’t identify as a man

She’s very much a person who follows social conduct, and the idea of going against that unnerves her

Olwen is the one who notices a difference and confronts her

Olwen is very different in thought, doing what she feels is right to her rather than what’s expected in her

Eventually Olwen is told and while Olwen doesn’t 100% understand, she helps her older sister

With help from her younger sister, she’s more comfortable with transitioning 

No one gives her any trouble; all knowing that her magic has saved them countless times and it’ll continue to save them

Being able to transition lets her feel much more at ease and whole than she was before

[dhr-ao3]

Illusions

Illusions https://ift.tt/WA9oEHS by Karima_Si Draco Malfoy is opening up a sex club. He is also set on hiring the perfect therapist for his club. Luckily, Granger is available. I suck at intros but it's a love story with lots of sex. It's why we come to Ao3 anyway. Words: 1863, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, George Weasley, Bill Weasley, Fleur Delacour, Charlie Weasley, Narcissa Black Malfoy Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger & Draco Malfoy Additional Tags: Clubbing, Sex Club, Explicit Sexual Content, Rough Sex, Sex Toys, Public Sex, Semi-Public Sex, no beta we die like hereos, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn With Plot, Slow Build, Boss/Employee Relationship, Dominant Draco Malfoy, Submissive Hermione Granger, Kink, lots and lots of kinks, Therapist Hermione Granger, POV Hermione Granger, POV Draco Malfoy, POV Alternating, Slytherin, Slytherins Being Slytherins, hermione adopting slytherins, Gryffindor/Slytherin Inter-House Relationships, Size Kink, Praise Kink, so much praise kink jesus, i need jesus, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, What Have I Done, I'm Going to Hell, Character Death, Character Study, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Harry Potter Has PTSD, Draco Malfoy Has a Large Cock, Anxiety, Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety Disorder, Shameless Smut, Fluff and Smut, Dom/sub via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/BxWNEjd November 11, 2022 at 10:22PM

[chishiio]

find the word tag game #?? 

thanks for the tag @neshamahs !!

my words are color, fall, street, and above.

color

Slowly, she commanded herself to move to the swirling shape of the sink and grip its cool edge. The pulsing thud continued to grow, vibrating the colors of the walls so hard they were fusing. Pru’s mind was cracking beneath the onslaught, her emotions bubbling so frantically within, she could scarcely breathe.

fall

She hung her head, hair falling forward as she slowly blinked away the blur that burned behind her eyes. Everything was draped in the dim light of twilight - the full moon outside the windows casting mercurial shadows across the room. It softened the grey of the walls and gleamed off the scrubbed floor. Del stared numbly at the washed stone, the bitter scent of vinegar burning her nose.

street

Pru wasn’t sure how to respond, reluctant to confirm such a thing even though it was the truth. Dominion over life was a rare magic even among witches and could sow envy between the closest sisters. If strangers could whip themselves into a violent frenzy at the thought of her magic, crazed as they dragged her through the streets, why would these girls be any different?

above

Sighing in bliss at the damp grass beneath her feet, she turned the corner and the maze sprung to life before her. Dark green leaves made up the hedged walls towered above her head, winding and turning in on itself as far as she could see. In the moment she stood, gaping at the creation, a familiar pale, dark haired girl exited the maze. She was walking along the wall away from Del, her head bent in thought.

i’m tagging @asablehart @space-cadead @starry-sky-stuff @hereos @wizardfromthesea​ ​

your words are quiet, sneak, want, and high

[asablehart]

narrative style tag game

thanks for the tag @jauntymushroom !!!

rules: there aren’t any strict rules, but it’s a chance to talk about your narrative/pov choices for your various wips (or just focus on one wip if you’d like)

Meridian

Meridian is very focused on the setting, which is probably why the word count got away from me so badly. There’s lots of drawn-out descriptions. Many scenes don’t rely on dialogue at all, especially since there’s several times when the POV characters are isolated from their friends and therefore don’t have someone to talk to. Dara especially is acutely aware of his surroundings and draws most of his conclusions based on careful observations.

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The Third Son

Writing TTS always brings me back to my old drafting habits, where I write all the dialogue and then fill in the descriptions later. Scenes are driven primarily by the dialogue, and really hone in on Roslind’s relationships with all the side characters. Roslind has a very straight forward, concise style of narrating that doesn’t waste a lot of time. If he’s going on about something, it’s usually some kind of repressed catholic bullshit. 

TTS does feature sections from narrators besides Roslind, but I haven’t explored these much yet. In general, Malory has a more formal style of writing. Eabva exclusively writes while stoned, so it’s just really weird. Sericho is even more understated than Roslind, and usually kinda mean too.

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tagging: @junekinn @clypso @nectargrapes @space-cadead @kessler-writes @chishiio @hereos

[kweebtrash]

Messy (NCT) Masterlist-Completed

Pairing(s): OC X Johnny 

Features Full Sex Scenes/Implied Sex Scenes with: Johnny, Lucas, Taeil, Yuta, Ten, Taeyong

Genre: College AU, Fuckboy AU

Summary: Fuckboys are basically good for one thing. You hit it and quit it- except when his voice draws you in, his body keeps you there, and dumb ass feelings linger making things particularly messy.

Warnings: drugs, alcohol, anxiety, night terrors, sexual assault (not in explicit detail; Ch 5),use of the word rape, descriptions of sexual assault, toxic “relationships”, “controlling behavior” (Non consensual), physical/emotional abuse, physiological self harm/unhealthy coping mechanisms, severe depression, anger issues, minimal violence, beginnings of codependency, jealousy, talks of death and suicide, description of panic attacks, aggression, intimidation, mental illnesses/self deprivation, lots of crying and feelings of guilt

Features:  multiple sex partners, public sex, kink scenes, fingering, blowjobs, anal fingering/mentions of buttplug usage, rough sex, threesomes FMF, choking, overstimulation, edging, daddy/princess kink, Mommy/prince kink, hair pulling, scratching/biting, spanking, unprotected and protected sex, creampie, sex toy usage, cockwarming, bondage, multiple orgasms, cumshot, slow/romantic sex, sad sex, gentle thrusting, body worship, thigh high fetish, heavy make out sessions/tongue sucking, riding, doggy style, sex in public places, a bit of deep throating, 

Chapters (Subject to Change)

1. Messy (M)- Lucas/Johnny

2. Or Nah (M) - Lucas/Johnny

3. Do It Well (M) - Johnny/Ten

4. Feels Right (M) - Taeil/Johnny

5. Alive (M) - Lucas/Yuta/Johnny

6. Can I Love Like This? (M)- Johnny

7. Just Say Goodnight And Go (M)- (mentions of Taeyong)/ Johnny

8. Eres Mia (M) - Johnny

9. Crawling (M) - Johnny

10. Duality (M) -Johnny

11. Love is (Not) Easy (M) -Johnny

12. Cupid’s Chokehold (M) -Johnny

After Story: hate u love u (M) -Johnny

After Story 2: Tidal Wave (M) -Johnny

Bonuses:

Kinky Headcanons For Messy

Ask the Muse Game

Messy Tag-Updates, Q&A, Games

Messy Question Masterlist

Fetish/Kink Game

Time Stamp Drabbles Masterlist

Eri’s Instagram Posts [1] [2]

Johnny’s Instagram [1]

JnEri Instagram Couple Posts [Slutty] [Cute]

JnEri Thirst Snaps

Messy Playlist/Lyrics:

1. Messy-Kiiara

“ Last stop before it gets messy/last stop before it gets heavy/it’s not too late to say you never met me/Let’s stop before it gets messy”

2. Or Nah (Remix)- Ty Dolla Sign ft. The Wkend

“Can you lick the tip then throat the dick or nah?/Can you let me stretch that pussy out or nah?”

3. Do It Well- dvsn

“And you tell me just lay back while you go to work...you’re the only therapy I know.”

4. Feels Right- Alina Baraz

“Don’t know what I’m doing but it feels right...tryna keep it going cause it feels nice..if you wanna stay here we’ll call it paradise.”

5. Alive- Alextbh

“I know I shouldn't fall for you/But who gives a shit/About what people think... Let me love ya/Bring your body close to mine/Hold me and just/Breathe me and make me alive.”

6. Orion’s Belt- Sabrina Claudio

“I know that you're not used to this/Boy will you let me teach you/your mind is asking for my love/And you just need to hear it .”

7. goodnight n go- Ariana Grande

“Oh, why'd you have to be so cute?/It's impossible to ignore you, ah/Why must you make me laugh so much?/It's bad enough we get along so well/Just say goodnight and go”

8. MIA- Bad Bunny Ft. Drake

“Dile que tú eres mía, mía/Tú sabe' que eres mía, mía/Tú misma lo decías ... A nosotros ni la muerte nos va a separar (nah)/Bebé, yo soy tuyo na' más (na' más)/Diles que conmigo te vas (¡wouh!)/Que dejen de tirarte (prr)/Que a ti nadie va a tocarte”

9.Crawling- Bullet For My Valentine

“I can't cope, now I'm down on my knees/I'm crawling, crawling/I meltdown as everything around is falling, falling... Under this pressure/I want to dissapear... So overwhelming/It's bearing down on me/And when it ends all this weight is crushing me..”

10. Synthetic Love- Motionless in White

“I want to hurt you/I don't deserve you/...submit and fuck until we overdose/...Swallow the pain, relive and fuck until we feel like new/...I wrap my hand's around your throat/Bury your face, remove all your clothes/We're both just slaves that can't refuse/And everything that we have loved in the end we will lose”

11. Love is (Not) Easy- Chase Atlantic

“I replicate emotion/Medicate in doses that can help me feel the same way/It's easier to say we're just friends/Our generation made us that way/The type of friends who fuck/But when they fall in love they're too afraid to stay.”

12. Cupid’s Chokehold -Gym Class Hereos

She's got a smile that would make the most senile Annoying old man bite his tongue (I'm not done) /She's got eyes comparable to sunrise And it doesn't stop there (Man I swear)/ She's got porcelain chocolate skin, of course, she's a ten And now she's even got her own song (but movin' on)/ She's got the cutest laugh I ever heard And we can be on the phone for three hours (not sayin' one word) /And I would still cherish every moment /And when I start to build my future, she's the main component /Call it dumb, call it luck, call it love or whatever you call it but /Everywhere I go, I keep her picture in my wallet like here

[occupyvenus]

On why Dany should be an antagonist ( ≠ villainy villain )

Season 7 is right around the corner and I have some thoughts, opinions, speculations and theories I have to get off my chest. I will try to keep any book-specific analysis out of this discussion. This is (as much as possible) show only.

Something that always struck me as odd was the existing controversy sorrounding Daenerys’s character in the fandom. With all other characters, the audience can generally agree on where they fall on the “morality-spectrum”, so to say. Jon Snow is an unproblematic fave, if there ever was one, Joffrey and Ramsay are among the most evil characters to ever grace our TV screens, the Hound made a text-book antagonist-to-protagonist transformation (even receiving in-show absolution via Arya taking him of her kill-list) and show!Stannis - before the daughter-burning incident - was clearly planted in the middle. People liked him and even rooted for him, but no one’s arguing that he was involved in some very dubious, evil, amoral shit. Show!Cersei was ripped of most of her book-counterparts cruelty, but the fandom generally agrees that she is one of the clear antagonists / villains of the series. 

The point is that the audience - minus some radical stans or antis - can generelly agree on where characters are on the good-evil, protagonist-anatgonist chart at any specific time of the story or during a particular arc. If not on the exact point, at least on the general vicinity. 

But Daenerys? Her placement jumps all over from divine saviour to unreedimingly mad queen depending on who you ask, unlike any other character on the show. 

In the end what’s really important isn’t to wether a character’s behaviour is 100%, 75% or 50% evil/good but wether we - the audience - root for them (protagonist), root against them (antagonist) or aren’t really sure about it.  

If there are any clear protagonists, or hereos if you will, in GOT and ASOIAF it is the Starks. There is nothing they could do that would actually turn the audience against them. I know I promised to keep any book stuff out of this, but there is a reason A Promise of Spring’s original title was A Time for Wolves. The Starks are the heart of the story.

A little sidenote on starkbowl and Sansa becoming an antagonist (which I really can’t see happening): Sansa turning into a villain also comes at the cost of her being a Stark, just like Tyrion tuning into a good guy severed him from the Lannisters. When talking about “the Lannisters” you mean Cersei, Jaime and Tywin. Tyrion and his family have become two separate entities in the collective mind of the fans and show watchers. If Sansa really were to team up with Littlefinger and turn into an antagonist/villain she wouldn’t be ‘a Stark’ anymore. Even now, with her clearly being a protagonist of the series, anti’s will always fall back on the ‘she isn’t a real stark anyway’ rethoric. A Stark simply cannot be evil. (grr martin and D&D might let me fall straight on my face with this prediction, but I’d say that its veeerrrrryyyyy unlikely.)

But Daenerys? There is no other character in GoT who’s ultimate and inherent good-ness or evil-ness is so bitterly fought about. While misogyny definitley plays into it, I think it would be false to see it as the sole or main source or reason. Her character is set up to be ambigious. I disagree with those who accuse her of being a ruthless tyrannt, willing to do anything to achieve her goals and those who see her as a benevolent messiah who can’t do anything wrong. She is - at the same time - both of those things and neither. 

To the general audience she is very much set up as a protagonist. It’s easy to root for her when she overcomes her abusive brother, fights for agency in a partriarchal world, destroys slavery or is on a subjectively honourable quest to restore her families legacy and reclaim her home.   

But what happens when her goals and desires clash with those of our other protagonists? If the Starks are our heroes and her enemies/rivals, what does that make Dany to us, the audience? 

But why can’t she just team up with the Starks and be a good guy ???

Two reasons: Drama and avoiding a clear good vs evil dichotomy.  Going into season 7, our main-ish characters are set up as follows: 

The Protagonists / Camp “Good Guys” Team Stark (Jon, Sansa, Arya, Bran, et al), Team Targaryen (Dany, Tyrion, Theon et al) 

The Antagonists / Camp “Bad Guys” The White Walkers, Team Lannister (Cersei, Jaime et al) & Euron, Littlefinger

Has Game of Thrones really introduced us to some of the most sympathatic villains, problematic heroes and placed almost every character somewhere in-between only to have it end with various constellations of Camp “Good Guys” batteling differing fractions of Camp “Bad Guys”? No, I don’t think so. (Unless D&D stray faaaaar from grr martins original plans and intentions, which could happen, sure....) In order to prevent merely explicit good vs evil fights one or more characters/parties have to move towards the opposing camp. In my opinion, the most likely candidates for that are The White Walkers turning more good-ish -or less less bad-ish, if you prefer - and/or Dany expiriencing a similar shift in the opposite direction. 

The show already laid the groundwork for the first option by revealing that the White Walkers originally were first men, who were turned into ice monsters by the children of the forest. [ The Youtube-Channel “A Theory of Ice and Fire” has some really good videos on the Origin of the White Walkers and the True Colors of the Children of the Forest. I recommend everyone to watch them and his other videos. His analysis and theories are very insightful and definitly worth a watch.] But humanizing the White Walkers can only go so far. It will be really hard, if not impossible, to make us actually feel any kind of remorse over their demise. They are such big threat to all of humankind, that any moral ambiguity about destroying them is lost and any question wether our heroes should oppose them becomes obsolete. Comparisons that come to mind are eradicting a virus or putting down a rabid dog. The dog isn’t responsible for the state it is in, but ultimalty it is for the best.

I will go into Daenerys transformation from pro- to antagonist at the end of the post.  

To make for some interesting drama we also need tension and conflict between characters that are on the same side. Finding possible sources for this within Camp “Bad Guys” is pretty easy. Jaime is probably going to turn on his sister at some point and every alliance with Euron is going to be fragile at best and will turn into chaos for one or both parties at worst. 

What about Drama within Camp “Good Guys” and it’s individual fractions?

Jons parentage is going to cause some tension within Team Stark, yes, but I don’t see any of the remaining stark children ‘throwing him out Winterfell’ because of it. I don’t see Jon discarding his identitiy as a Stark neither, especially after Arya and Bran come back into the picture. His relationship with sansa is so controversial that I don’t want to touch on it, but he isn’t going to go full Targaryen with his little sister and brother around. Can we at least agree on that? They will insist that he still is one of them and so will he. (I stand by my opinion that R+L=J and more importantly Jons reaction to it will cause a rift between him and Dany, not him and the starks).

The Dothraki and their way-of-life are probably going to cause some conflict within Team Targaryen. Dany isn’t as ruthless as some parts of the fandom make her out to be and she will be conflicted about bringing so much destruction to “her lands and people”. She might try to silence her conscience, because the ends justify the means, but she and her allies will have to face some really difficult choices. Tyrion might feel just a bit bad about attacking his home as well. 

It’s as good as impossible to predict or speculate on Bran’s or Arya’s story line, since they are kept top-secret, but I don’t think they involve one of them turning bad.

Sure, Sansa and Littlefinger could team up and cause some drama in camp ‘Good Guys’, but they simply don’t have enough influence to put the stakes sufficiently high. Seriously, against a Jon&Dany tag-team, what could they - or anyone really - do to oppose them? What use is an antagonist if he doesn’t pose a vital threat to our protagonists?   

Daenerys turning into an antagonist ( ≠ ultimate evil villain) simply makes the most sense from a storytelling-perspective. Both to cause tension between our  protagonists, shake up Camp “Good Guys”, color our final conflicts in a nice shade of grey and lead us toward a bittersweet ending. Why is Dany the best character to “break bad”? She is the most powerful human character right now. (With the threat of the White Walkers looming over everything, any secondary antagonist/”villain” will have to bring a lot to the table to form a interesting, engaging plotline. I think it’s safe to say that Dany’s help against the army of the dead will be crucial. Keeping her allegiance unstable or it coming at a great cost would be substantial enough to stand on it’s own, while still being connected to the bigger arc surrounding it.)   She is allied with some shady characters (As stated above, the Dothraki aren’t going to magically turn into peaceful people. Bringing an army whose entire culture revolves around raiding and raping and pillaging could be seen as a questionable move. Also, I do not think that her alliance with the Greyjoys is a coincidence. Yes, we all need to put our differences aside to face the White Walkers, but the Iron Born have caused so much havoc in the north, so recently, that their presence NOT causing any issue for a Dany-North alliance is hard to imagine. Specifically putting established enemies of the North - including Theon with his very complicated relationship to House Stark - on Danys side has to have some significance. As for the rest: I honestly believe that Olenna is going to kick the bucket very soon, she’s only still around because she’s so good at sassing people. I refuse to waste any more thoughts than necessary on the Sandsnakes, but murdering your family in cold blood isn’t exactly nice? Tyrion might be the only person on Team Dragon that has any kind of positive connection to the Starks. show!Tyrion, at least, does have a rather agreeable relationship with both Jon and Sansa.) Her political goals stand in direct conflict with those of the Starks (The Seven Kingdoms vs Northern Independece - and yes northern independence is actually important to numerous characters on the show) Jon’s parentage will cause some tension between them (some people believe that she’ll see him as a potential rival to the Iron Throne. I disagree. I believe the reason for Dany ‘turning against’ Jon won’t be him being a Targaryen, but him not wanting to be one. I am pretty sure that Jon’s initial reaction to R+L=J will be to utterly reject his Targaryen heritage, to get through this majore identity crises. And Dany will, understandebly, feel utterly betrayed by that. She won’t see him as a threat, she will try to persuade him to become ‘the man he was always meant to be’, she will want him to be a Targaryen and she will want him by her side -wether in a romantic way or not- when she takes the Seven Kingdom. And this is something that Jon will not give her. He will choose to be a Stark and that will be a hard blow for Dany. Her beloved brothers, Rhaegars son calling the “usurpers dog” his father. I don’t know who much this will influence the overall plot but it will definitely strain the relationship between Jon and Dany.) The North, Vale and - presumably- Riverlands allience (Having the same regions rally behind Jon/House Stark “against” a Targaryen queen smells of Rebellion 2.0 ~with a twist~ this time opposing a conquerer, not the established ruler. I admit that this leaves out the Stormlands but with Gendry coming back, who knows? He has a friendly - possibly romantic, *wink* *wink* -relationship with Arya and if he’s put in any position to make such a decision he will ally with her side.) She has shown the compasity for cruelty & violence (You can argue wether or not her opponents had it coming - yes for Kraznys mo naklos , no for the randomly crucified & burned masters of meereen, mayybe for the khals; but the fact that she’s willing to use such questionable, violant measures while having giant fire-breathing dragond at her disposal opens her up for a very dark path. Someone with nothing but swords going a bit too far wouldn’t have the same consequences as the mother of dragons stepping over the line. Speaking of dragons) Her dragons are a ticking time bomb, she can’t properly control (At one hand they will play a crucial part in defeating the army of the dead, but on the other hand they are fucking dangerous and Danys ~varying~ inability to control them is a well established plot point. Reducing their final role to being magicals weapons bringing down the big evil would be so chliche and go against many of the problematic themes concerning them. Btw when has one person having so much power ever ended well?) There will be no Iron Throne or Targaryen Restoration (I don’t believe that ASOIAF or GOT is about Dany restoring the Seven Kingdoms to it’s “ideal” previous state of absolute Targaryen rule. Not only would this render Roberts Rebellion meaningless, it would portray it as a mere temporal disruption of the rightful order which is just... no. The rebellion was a justified uprising against a tyrannical king, it’s the event that started the story and it should still have significance at the end of it. Sorry, not sorry, but Dany isn’t simply going to press the ‘reset button’ on Westeros. The Iron Throne is doomed, so is House Targaryen and so is Daenerys - unless she peacefully settles down as Lady of Dragonstone, which is ... rather unlikely.) The controversy about her character is exactly what grr martin wants (This whole long-ass post started with the extraordinary discrepancy concerning Danys position on the evil-good spectrum. People can’t seem to be on the same page when it comes to her. And you know what? That’s the point. No ones objectively ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. Characters are on opposing sides for their own reasons, not because they are inherently evil or good. Everyone can either agree or disagree with those reasons and form an opinion accordingly. Having the audience “choose sides” between two fractions we both rooted for when separeted, once their stories collide would be an appropriate ending for the story. 

I propose the theory that this contradiction (rooting for the Starks and Dany) and Danys role reversel when switching from her own separate to the shared storyline (from protagonist to antagonist) is already in full effect within the more obsessed part of the fandom (who loves to speculate and “think ahead”) and will hit the the casual viewer in season 7.  

Last, but not least having all of our protagonists team up after meeting for the first time and descending on the evil dudes with immense force just feels so ... boring, predictable,anticlimactic, lord-of-the-ring-sy? Everyone coming together and defeating the White Walkers after having some serious beef with each other (sometime mid to end seaon 8) would be way more dramatically satisfying. I think that Daenerys will take a clear antagonistic role against the starks until the very end when she comes around to save the day. 

Since I know someone is going to bring it up: I am not saying that any of this would be an impregnable obstacle for any romantic relationship with Jon. It would complicate things, yes, but also make them a lot more interesting. Neither am I saying that Dany will turn bat-shit crazy and burn down all of Westeros just because.

In the end, these are only my thoughts and opinions. Maybe I’m wrong about all this and the show will move into a completely different direction. We won’t truly know until the last episode, will we? 

Thanks for sticking with me until the end, you’re a champ, and tell me what you think. 

[asablehart]

17 questions, 17 people

thanks for the tag @atelierwriting !!

nickname: fer or lo

zodiac: cap sun / aquarius moon / libra rising

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number of followers: ~880

amount of sleep: regrettably only 7 hours

lucky number: 11

favorite song: mother superior - coheed and cambria

favorite instrument: i’m p sure im tone deaf, so i’m gonna pass on this one

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aesthetic: skulls, magpie clutter, succulents and pink grow lights, long nails, flannel

favorite author: roger zelazny, madeline miller, mary renault

favorite animal noise: when cats go “mrr?” and when ferrets go “oot!”

random: look at this facebook emoji

how it started: jesus christ why is this question so ominous. i’ve gotta put the  endosymbiotic hypothesis here because my sister and i were talking about it last night (she is irrationally afraid of being endocytosed by a larger organism).

how it’s going: it’s been a weird one.

tagging: @junekinn @clypso @castironbitch @hereos @kessler-writes (im not tagging 17 people, sue me)

[dollhousecrybaby73]

i forgot that i can literally write. im literally a writer.

bc nobody is going to do this better than i can. nobody else is gonna be able to give me exactly what i want. expect a crapton of posts about madoka magica rebellion and the wall

hear me out dude

hereos "the wall" x madoka magica "rebellion" with sylar as homura and peter as madoka

if you see this and feel inclined to write anything based on this i'm begging you to show me. i couldn't come up with anything good and i'm desperate for a hereos fic that ties in with the idea of rebellion. PLEASE I'M BEGGING