#also dandelion duh

[juliettelime]

would you want me there?

where my mind's been the past few weeks leading up to this:

[daylighteclipsed]

Started replaying BBS and. Wow there’s a lot I don’t remember

[zigazone]

Decided to rewatch Tinker Bell (2008) to see what short cuts they took when dismantling Ring of Belief (ROB). So here are some of them. Tumblr won’t let me add more than 10 images so this isn’t even all of them.

So first off the little dandelion seed things are reused from ROB.

The barrage boat where Hook captures Tink and Silvermist in with Peter and the lost boys, makes an appearance.

Oh also George and Mary are in the film too for some reason in the background for like 3 seconds. They are like the only background people in the film, like WHY- waste of models imo but I think they were from the ROB draft so what can you do.

Hooks ship is also just chilling there.

I’m thinking this tinker bell model they used for one scene is also from ROB because her wings are very tiny, and we know newborn fairies were a thing (they still come from a child’s laugh but they’re like baby’s/younger, kind of like how everyone could tell Prilla was the youngest fairy in the Disney fairies books when she arrived because of her wing size and features) because of the flash game and young fairy concept art.

Yes I’m sure the concept art is fairies look at their ears and their dresses are made out of flowers.

I’m not sorry but Terence is just Peter Pan’s Ring of Belief Model with a tik tok filter slapped on it and a side identity theft.

They had a remaining budget of like 3$ and since Lasseter cut Peter from the film he was just extra so my guess is they reused him to make Terence, which is why Terence’s face is different from the books. Now don’t go hitting me with the “but all of tinks friends look different and they were in the books too”. Well duh, that was intentional, they were created in marketing, they were taken and made specifically for the film, Gail had no involvement with them. They were just added in later with corresponding designs to promote the films later on. That’s also why we never got tinks book friends in the movies because they were created for the books, they weren’t meant to be “movie marketable”.

Another case of identity theft. Like come on. They dismantled Victoria and turned her into Wendy. Wendy shouldn’t even been in this film because of the last line from Peter Pan where Wendy’s dad, George, says he’s been to never land before. That isn’t possible here because Peter isn’t even in Never Land yet, Tink was just born and Wendy exists. Would make more sense if they used Victoria instead and made her like Wendy’s grandmother.

Over all the Tinker Bell films we got feel like their own bad timeline. They threw almost everything out from the books in a way and called it a day. ROB was at least consistent with the books lore and timeline. We had the purple pixie dust tree, we had the ring of belief, we had mother dove references, we even could have had the book fairies at one point. Disappointed with the Tinker Bell films rn smh. This movie is a 4/10 at best and I’m mad at it rn because it’s just stolen scraps glued together with an Elmer’s glue stick.

[wardinespurrit]

havent posted in a while uhm. have a jared. yapping under the cut

SO UUHMMM i am a big flower language slash symbolism nerd. there is intent behind all of those flowers and today i am going to nerd out about that intent because YAY!!!!!!! hip hip hooray uhm. idk how to segway into this next paragraph just please bear with me here okay

so uhmmm. the flowers jared's holding in his hand are bird's foot trefoil and theyyyyy symboliiiiiise revenge n shit yeah n you know how jared. jared he uhhh he he killed his verbally abusive mom LMAO womp womp uhhh. yeah

those big poofy pom-pom flowers with the petals that look like pencil parings r carnations and theyre YELLOW so theyre yellow carnations which surprise! greatly changes the meaning of em. usually carnations symbolise love n devotion n all that jazz but YELLOW carnations symbolise rejection. jareds been rejected all his life basically thus explaining why theres a shit ton of carnations surrounding him so like yeah yeah ok

the other flowers are dandelions and rather than them being used in this little doodle i diddled by their literal symbolism i uhm. i put them in there because they are considered weeds!!! we all know what weeds are but ill explain what they are anyways weeds are basically just. unwanted plants. and jared is definitely unwanted methinks. and also jared smokes weed duh

that last part was a joke jared does NOT smoke weed. probably. maybe. unless?

end of yapping

[thelongestway]

This is a new problem to have, ahaha--several possible outcomes for the s5 prequel to s6 (which is most likely the format this is going to take!). And now I have to decide which of them works best story-wise, without having fully written it. :P

The bad news is, this is hard. The good news is: it is also resolved by writing!

So without further ado..

Chapter 6: Accomplice

One of Dr. Tenacious' accomplices?! Here? I could only hope my face was frozen enough to hide my bewilderment. But for once, the hacker seemed just as out of their depth as I was.

A Trellian agent? Ghostwheel repeated, their voice skeptical. Dandelion? Friend, I'm just a hacker with purely material interests. All I'm here for is some credits.

And that's why you're going after Encephalon, the Friend quirked an eyebrow.

The guys whose annual reports contain too many zeros and who never go to jail because they have sprawling financial empires are the easiest targets. Duh. It's getting involved with the small outfits which gets you busted.

…Which is why you're helping the Friends.

Like you said, we can help each other. But if you're not interested, we can just forget this conversation ever happened and go our separate ways.

The Friend cracked a smile. This Friend did not say it isn't interested. But most people with purely material interests stay well away from terrorists and their ilk.

Terrorists, murderers and drug dealers! Ghostwheel exclaimed in a cheerful voice that made my skin crawl. Just the kind of people who have a vested interest in keeping out of security hands themselves, which makes you my favorite people. But listen, Friend: this is getting fucking boring. Are you in or not?

This Friend is in, it nodded, then gave me and Zaharije a glance. But there is a number of operative problems we must resolve before we hit them.

Indeed, Zaharije said. Ghostwheel, you said you could help with the evacuation? We have two patients to handle, at least one of whom will need it--and with these news, I'd say it's both of them.

Oh, that's easy, Ghostwheel said. You have a stolen wormhole-capable shuttle, Friend, don't you? That should be able to take your patients just fine. And I'll cover for your departure.

You know it was stolen, the Friend said, its lopsided grin back on its face.

Ghostwheel gave a laugh, and the Friend's eyes glazed over as it appraised some sort of data the hacker must have sent it.

Presumably, the two of them made conversation Zaharije and I were not party to, so I turned to him and quietly said, "They're being very presumptious about the… About Luca letting us use his shuttle."

Zaharije answered just as quietly, "I think that aspect of the evacuation won't be a problem. The real question is, if it will fit everyone who must leave."

"I told you. I'll stay."

The look on my friend's face was as pained as it was affectionate. "I appreciate it, my friend. Really, I do. But no. With these revelations from Ghostwheel, you especially must go."

"What? Why?"

"It's no longer safe."

"It's never been safe! That hasn't stopped you!"

"Encephalon will realize soon enough that releasing the data to me was no error on their part, but an attack. And when they do, they will stop playing games and retaliate. This means both you and our patient's family are in danger. My friend, you said once that Preservation provides sanctuary to refugees? I was hoping you could vouch for them."

Light, Zaharije was starting to get desperate with this. We really were in trouble.

"Preservation is half a year away," I said as gently as possible. "We'll never make it that far."

"Or perhaps Luca has some other option? In any case, you must try."

"We must try, if that's the case. You can't stay either," Zaharije started protesting but I cut him off, "Zaharije, either Ghostwheel's cover works or it doesn't. If you're right about the retaliation, then Rive won't save you. The clinic is done for. What use would staying here be?"

"Having Rive is more than any of the patients have. I have the best chances--"

"Doctors," the Friend suddenly said, coming out of its trance. "Which of you is going down to Encephalon's fetid bowels together with this Friend?"

"Who said--"

"You need a ship--and yes, this Friend believes it can squeeze in a few more people. If we take your food stores, we will manage. This Friend needs data, and a companion competent enough to tell it which experimental data will be useful and which is garbage on a limited time frame, because its own expert is currently sedated in the medbay over there. All of us need to see Encephalon's experimental subjects rescued and, ideally, its operations stopped. Well, except for Ghostwheel, who needs credits. The solution is obvious, doc."

"Yes, it is," Zaharije nodded. "Dr. Mrinal, if you will help prepare the patients for depar--"

There was only so much of this I could take. I didn't know how this turned out to be my fucking life, but by light, I no longer cared.

"No," I cut Zaharije off again before he could speak. "No! Because Rive or not, you are the one our patient's family knows and will trust, and because I am in far better shape than you are, and because I have no idea what's going on here any more, but--" I turned to the Friend and met its damned grinning eyes, "--but I'm going to trust Zaharije that you're not some kind of weird Encephalon plant that's a pawn in a fucked up pile of internal corporation politics which I don't understand, and that instead you actually are working to take them down, and that your fucking terrorism is for the greater good!"

"So you're going," the Friend clarified, its voice almost amused.

I stood my ground.

"Yes! Of course I'm going! It has to be me! But Friend, I fucking swear: if I die out there, and if you don't keep your word, I--" I swallowed. I wasn't going to do anything when I was dead, of course. I wasn't smart enough to set up dead drops, or to have handed over my revelations to a trusted journalist, or to have readied any kind of blackmail, or--or to have done anything in advance that could have an effect on the heavily armed mercenary.

That I was screaming at. While it stared at me.

Fuck.

The Friend said nothing. Neither did Zaharije. I turned to him and said, "Zaharije, please. I can't be out alone with the patients at the Friend's light-forsaken mercy! I won't make it past one system jump! You're the one who understands what he's doing, who has the contacts and the experience! You have to go!"

That look on Zaharije's face. I stared down on the ground, because I couldn't bear it.

"It is the better option, doc," the Friend supplied from behind my back. "If we do not make it back and Mrinal pulls a stunt like this at a corporate checkpoint, they're all dead. You, at least, know how to hold your tongue."

"Not when I had been as new at this as Dr. Mrinal is I didn't," Zaharije sighed. "But that is neither here nor there right now. You two are certain?"

The Friend nodded. So did I.

"Then let us get to it. We are losing starlight."

Yes, you fucking are! Ghostwheel suddenly hissed into our feeds. And I really didn't like the way they sounded--no longer confident, but tense, and I wasn't sure if they were angry or scared, or both. Friends, the Platinum Drama Chit performance has been great and everything, but can you all please, please shut up and get moving?

The Friend was suddenly on its feet and clicking off the safety on its weapon.

Status, Ghostwheel?

Unclear. But something weird is moving down at my Encephalon taps, and I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this whole thing. If we want to get this done, we have to do it fast.

[gellavonhamster]

Thoughts on The Witcher now that I've finished the books (or rather, finished the main saga - I'm aware there are some prequels? side stories?? but idk when I'll get to them, definitely not now)

On the whole, it's great! I think what I enjoyed the most is how... experimental it felt? I went in convinced it's going to be classic high fantasy, but it starts out already as a very different thing, namely fairytale parody/retelling, and then it accumulates progressively more and more various elements - non-linear narrative, different framing devices, time jumps into the future, time travel, parallel universes, the-butterfly-effect kinda thing with that disease from another world, even a crossover with Arthuriana. And all that with drama and humour going hand in hand - here's a description of a bloody battle, it happened next to a village called Old Bums (I don't know how it's called in the English translation but in the Russian one it's Старые Жопки and I laughed so fucking hard). It sounds like it's too much, too eclectic, and it shouldn't work, but holy shit it works. I am very impressed.

(Regarding the crossover with Arthuriana, my first instinct was to grumble that this Galahad doesn't feel like Galahad at all, but then I decided it's another deconstruction like with the fairytales in the first two books. What if the Beauty was more monstrous than the Beast? What if Galahad was a normal lad?)

Another thing I enjoyed was the focus on ordinary people (a word which here means "all humanoid races that exist in a given fantasy story"). When I was reading it, I couldn't help comparing it to A Song of Ice and Fire - not in order to pit two bad bitches against each other, it's just that, y'know, it's two long iconic fantasy series and so on. And I came to a conclusion that to me personally, ASOIAF feels like a more fantastic one, even though it has less magic, less magical creatures, less fantasy races. Because most of the POV or otherwise important characters are royalty/noblemen (even if the circumstances force them to live like the common people) and/or some kind of (potential) chosen ones and/or otherwise unusual. The only such character among the main cast of The Witcher is Ciri (and she fights against those roles, and in the end she's finally not a royal and not a chosen one, and it's for the best). Everyone else, for the most part, is just a person with a job. Geralt is a mutant but he's not the only one of his kind, and his life (and his mutation) is defined by his profession as a witcher. Yennefer and other sorceresses are not as unique as, say, Melisandre in ASOIAF - sure, it's magic, but it's quite a widespread profession, you can learn it at a special school. Dandelion is a nobleman, technically, but he doesn't live like one, he earns a living as a bard and a poet. Regis is a vampire but it's not like "what do you do?" - "duh, I'm a vampire", he's a herbalist. The dwarves' experiences are linked to their usual jobs in mining and banking, etc. Am I making sense? (I just remembered Cahir is a nobleman. The point still stands)

Also, a lot of attention is paid to the plight of common people such as peasants and workers during the Great Historical Events, and I loved that. (The best chapter? The one about the field medics' tent during the Battle of Brenna, hands down) The politics/worldbuilding are also great and well-constructed, but I think I've mentioned that at some point already. I had trouble keeping all the character names in mind but I always felt very proud of myself when I recognized a name/character I've already encountered. Like, hey, we've briefly met this sorceress as a little girl! This guy from the future is a descendant of this guy from the present! Made me feel like I'm putting a puzzle together.

And the ending! Ohhhh it broke my heart but it felt so appropriate. I know it's Avalon and Arthurian motifs again, but the thing I was immediately reminded of was *guy who's only read Nilfgaardian literature voice* The Master and Margarita... a little afterlife for two, not light but peace. Ciri finally free to build her own life without anyone trying to make her into a pawn or a saviour or a womb on legs or any combination of the three. Dandelion doomed to be the storyteller. The world remains cruel and unjust even though the great war is over, honour and kindness are still not rewarded, but also it's not worth living without honour and kindness. Yeah.

There were also parts I didn't like. I think it's a pity that the series begins with the short story collection because I can totally see people picking it up and then DNFing because the short story collections are. Well, they're not terrible, but imo they're worse than the novels, especially when it comes to female characters, which I think would be a dealbreaker for a lot of people. I don't mean the mentions of sexual violence - it is a series about the horrors of war, after all; I mean all the She Breasted Boobily Down the Stairs. When there's no POV of female characters to counterbalance that, it does seem like the only role of women in the story (unless they're old enough to be a mom figure like Nenneke or young enough to be a daughter figure like Ciri) is to be a sexual object. And sure, it might be mentioned that she has some backstory or some trauma or some ambition on her own, but the most important thing is that she's beautiful and she wants to bang our protagonist sooo much. Which is another thing that annoyed me. Look, I get it! Geralt's a great guy! He's an honourable man in a dishonourable world! He can't get you pregnant and I'm pretty sure he can't have STDs either! But when there are so many Bond girls it does become laughable. TO ME.

Also, this is stupid, but, like. I always feel a little bad when I just can't connect to female characters 🤦‍♀️ and it's not like I didn't like any of them, I absolutely loved Ciri and Milva and Angoulême and Nenneke and Calanthe and I eventually grew fond of Yennefer when I got to see more of her on her own when she's actually a person and not a Protagonist's Love Interest. I just really, really wanted to like the Sorceresses' Lodge, but most of them just feel like the same character to me, with only some minor tweaks, and I find that boring. It's not like this character type can't ever be interesting, it's just. They all feel the same! I had hopes about Assire and Fringilla but then they also turned out to be the same. At least Triss is pathetic and sabotaging her most important relationships in a way that feels realistic, that's interesting. RIP Tissaia de Vries, you were a real one.

In conclusion, can't say I liked each and every detail about these books, but overall I think they're really, really good, and I'm glad I read them! And now I'm gonna stick to ignoring all the fandom content apart from what is reblogged by the people I follow, because I've already dived into the notes on some posts and blogs and saw some opinions that made me squint at the screen like Edgar Poe in that one Kate Beaton comic strip

[askkanataigarashi]

Hey! It's nice to meet you, my name's Kanata Igarashi!

Wait, who am I? Oh I'm a demon slayer 😁 I started a little over a year ago. After finding out the corps existed and all, I just decided to join because...well, why not? Besides, there's more good I can do for the world than my same old life, day in and day out 😊

Oh, what do I look like? Easy!

Heh, pretty cool right? An awesome friend, @larz-barz drew this portrait of me and not to brag but I look pretty good 😉

What else 🤔... I mean, I've got a nice family but I try not to talk about them much cuz of the, well, demons duh. I really love traveling and seeing everything, meeting everyone, but I kinda wish they could come with me sometimes; I definitely try my best to stop in as much as I can to see them :)

Food? Hmm..I like a bit of everything to be honest. Can't stand cooking but if I had to pick a favorite, it's GOT to be my mom's pork cutlets. As for everything else, if it's on my plate I'll eat it basically (but seriously please don't make me cook).

My friends and I sometimes clash cuz they're always riding me to train harder *cough* Amari *cough* but I wanna explore the arts more; painting, writing, dancing, that kind of stuff. Maybe when the demons are gone, you'll see me in the papers someday😉

I think that's it for me though, see ya! 😄

~Character Summary~

Age: 19

Pronouns: he/him

Height: 5'10

Rank: Kinoe

Race: Human

Breathing Technique: Water Breathing (beginning) -> Storm Breathing

First Form: Cyclone- A quick twist of the torso that summons a powerful wind storm and has the power to blast multiple weak demons to pieces. Can be mastered and strengthened to take on a lower level Upper Rank singlehandedly coupled with extreme stamina and battle strategy.

Second Form: Ferocious Winter- Swinging swords across/in front of the user in an ‘X’ form. This summons icy winds and blizzard like conditions to provide cover and hide from the enemy, either for an opportunity to attack or escape.

Third Form: Divine Light- A violent cascade of lightning strikes to attack a group of low level demons. The lightning can also be absorbed and manipulated through the users weapon, which allows the strike of the beheading to be amplified in power; this can be used to fight upper level demons.

Fourth Form: Earthquake- A head on attack that requires the most force behind it. Every step taken towards the demon opens fissures into the earth that any enemy can and will fall into. Straightforward strike but the user can twist their body to dodge enemy attacks.

Fifth Form: Total Devastation- A quick series of lightning flashes followed by a dry forest fire to help trap demons and enemies. Can not be used during any precipitous weather and has limited range.

Sixth Form: Thunderous Eruption- Used in hand with Earthquake, this form produces magma and lava from the open fissures in the ground, creates a much higher risk scenario to defeat demons but much more effective against upper levels.

Seventh Form: Tidal Waves- A flood of wisteria infused water in the form of a tsunami that allows the user to drown or flood out multiple enemies, or condense it to overpower an upper level demon. This weakens the demons for actual combat.

Family: Keiji (Father), Nilou (Mother), Sora (sister, 15); Ryūko (sister, 12); Sulien (brother, 12)

Likes: art and music, dancing, dandelions, shopping

Dislikes: cooking, laundry, reading

Relationship Status: Single/Secret Admirer

Impressions:

[sunnysideaeggs]

hi friends, welcome back to another episode of me complaining about the dragon show. this is a long post for a long episode, spoilers for s2e6 of hotd, and spoilers for fire and blood, since i will be discussing a bit of my theories about the ending. enjoy!

the lannisters as always serving. i love the armor, the red, the details, targaryens wish they had that drip.

lions? fighting? yes lord jason show us the budget

also i think it’s cute that lord lefford and his men have a little golden dandelion pin. i think the different ways westerosi people embrace their sigils is cute

why is the golden tooth’s lord so surprised to see lord jason being a show off? sir that’s your liege lord you must know how he is 😵‍💫

‘he dares summon me 🤬🤬🤬’ bitch you’re regent because you have fightfing ability. use it. i hate aemond ugh

‘i’m prince regent not a dog’ ✨ stop acting like a bitch then ✨

everyone in the council wishing aegon comes back home lol

larys’ hair looks unmatched today

alicent and dalton? 💀 this would be a great moment to remind the audience of how dalton is a rapist, a tyrant, a heathen and a criminal, and anyone that allies themselves with him is icky. but oh wait isn’t he a black ally?

i will not tolerate any more tyland slander. he’s my little finance bro and he must be respected

now this is a question. what position does alicent fill exactly? she’s not queen anymore and being queen mother of an adult king doesn’t grant her any more saying than anybody else

i would be more inclined to empathize with alicent’s loss of power if she had spent any morsel of her power actually saying or doing something. i don’t care about the loss of a ‘leveling voice’ in the council when she didn’t have any thoughts this season but ‘war bad, aegon bad, viserys good, peace good’

she’s in her FOMO era though. she wishes this was aegon instead. she should’ve employed this maternal energy in him. it would’ve served her better.

now this is another consequence of alicent’s character being so butchered it became a 50’s caricature of what a woman is. book alicent was such a powerhouse that no one would dare question her presence in the council. and she was evil af. that’s the alicent we deserved

i can’t stop thinking that the hand pin rhaenyra gave corlys is the same pin she stole from otto lmao

i fail to see how rhaenyra admitting she’s being held back by her council gives her power. they’re admitting she’s a puppet ruler. ew

rhae mentioning that the knight has noble blood first of all 😭 smallfolk don’t count. it’s unthinkable they would have the ability. she said no real person involved fr

‘the dragons are gods’ i thought we were well past that

if anything i watch every episode to see daemon being haunted for all his sins. truly what he deserves

(throwback to s1) also i find it interesting how in the show viserys cut himself with the throne when he sent away daemon, when the moment he cuts himself in the book is when he condemns vaemond and the silent five unfairly. the show trying to make his mistake be standing up to his entitled family instead of enabling his entitled family 💀

simon must be so done with daemon 😭

i wonder if caraxes has been having weird dreams too

daemon packing his shit and sleeping outside harrenhal in a tent jsjjsjsjs

alys like: ‘where my goodbye hug at? 🧐’

‘perhaps those who strive for (the crown) are the least suited to wear it’ preach.

but rhaenyra does strive for it, she can’t be five minutes reminding people of her crown duh. the only one who recognized the duty of the crown and the burden and duty it takes is egg and that is why i love him

i can’t with the fucking viserys glazing smh

alys my love why would you say ‘centuries’ when it comes to the tullys? they’ve been around for a century and a third, not more. i love the tullys but they haven’t been liege lords for centuries

once again condal proving he didn’t read the books

now if ser whatshisname dies trying to claim a dragon i will say he died a dragonrider’s death, therefore he was successful or whatever

poor steffon :( it’s cruel to give a knight a ceremony for his death and seasmoke was cruel to lure him just to burn him

why did they leave him there instead of idk throwing water? try to save him? smh

he died a dragonrider’s death tho

actually the dragonkeeper choosing to slice his throat instead of succumbing to his burns tells us throusands about what an actual honorable valyrian death is like. and it doesn’t have anything to do with burning

now i would like some more insight on the resentment it causes to know you have a noble father and he leaves you to your devices. imagine your dad being your boss but you can’t say anything :(

i still think it was so stupid of dyana to not run away from the city when she had the chance and the money. i know they kept it for slander purposes but still

since when do the peasants are choosers? they’re eating rats and bowls of brown, why are you complaining about fish?

aemond’s lover is a traaaaaiittoor lol

tell but not show. we haven’t seen any food or feast since the dinner back in s1. got did way better with the food

also giving the blacks’ storyline of feasting while the people starve to the greens has not gone unnoticed.

bitch what? rhaenyra is slapping lords? she’s fucking joffrey. this is beyond disgusting and disrespectful. fuck her i hate her so much and every episode gives me more reason to hate her even more

‘fear me 👹👹👹’ i will cheer when she dies chained

also she just hits her allies and speaks some bs, doesn’t explain herself, doesn’t create more plans, just fucks around and fucks off. ew

i know mysaria is a lickspittle because no one else would say rhaenyra ‘raised in feasts and lazyness’ targaryen becomes being with a sword lol

aemond speaks the truth but fails to endorse it. it is in the crown’s best interest to make sure the smallfolk curse the blacks all the more, instead of leaving them to think whatever. when there’s a siege you hate the one keeping the siege not the ones suffering with you

aemond is so easily blindsided (pun intended). he is so quick to shut down the flatterers in the council but doesn’t realize he’s fucking the worse traitor of them all lol

yay egg is awake! (of course orwyle will prioritize 👑 the king 👑 instead of dealing with a simple prince duh)

my baby is in pain :(

aemond targaryen i will see you in the seven hells if i don’t sent you there myself. keep your hands away from him you leech. i’m on daemon’s side for this one

why would the maesters leave him alone? he’s the king king, he can command them to not leave the room and aemond can’t overrule him

rhaena being sidelined and forced into a storyline that isn’t hers (diminishing her importance and the last dragonrider until daenerys) will not be forgotten.

we get to see daemnyra’s kids’ dragons but not helaegon’s kids’ dragons? a crime.

i would like to remind everybody that grrm himself said dragons are not nomads and they don’t go flying around just because. condal once again

rhae rhae showing she’s vizzy’s daughter because she threatens to cut tongues when she gets mad at the truth and can’t even give a reasonable explanation for why. at least joffrey cut tongues when people were singing slander and not just trying to be useful

fucking tyrant.

while rhaenyra cries about not being respected as a ruler jace actually makes plans to win the war. she’s not respected because she’s fucking useless not because she’s a woman.

ah yes, apples grown in the gardens of dragonstone. as if the reach isn’t team green. lmao

also it’s so funny that no one ever through about buying more food exported from the reach (coast clear and no need for sea routes). the writing is so stupid bruh

all he ever wanted was to hear someone was sorry about what happened to him :(i’m sorry egg, your mom is sorry)

now some sunnydumping: back in 2021 i got covid, i probably catched it from my mom. i was bedridden and with awful fever and pain, my mom did stay by my side and constantly apologized for me being sick. of course it wasn’t her fault but she still felt bad. alicent apologizing to her burned son speaks to me so much

alicent was around 14 when her mom died, gwayne is older than that and was in tourneys during the first ep. did the writers forgot? why would they say ‘oh you were 8 when mom died’ this man fought daemon 💀

THEY’RE AGING DAERON? i expected it but i’m still disappointed

the horses are so cute with their armor aw

rhaenyra didn’t fucking knew about mysaria’s plan 💀 the smallfolk are right to thank her though. she might be the cause there’s a blockade but it’s not logical the crown hasn’t done anything about it

‘we must leave now’ no tf they don’t. helaena and alicent should stay right there instead of going to the streets. most of the smallfolk is deeply religious and wouldn’t dare to desecrate a sept. what are they, blackwoods?

and the narrative backs me up. the people were outside the sept, but didn’t actually enter and instead just conveniently went after the queens when they exited the sept. they should’ve stayed.

the smallfolk throwing food at them 💀 well damn that’s why you’re starving if you’re throwing good food away

i’ll miss leon stermont ngl. he was funny.

eeeegggg :((( his little tear while reaching for the milk? i’m crying. also give tom his emmy rn

aegon wanted his medicine and sleep but larys instead gave him his lore. poor baby :(

matthew needham the actor you are

i love love love larys and aegon together. the two best actors of the show on scene, their microexpressions, their shared disability and the ruthlessness it brews. this is the most vulnerable larys we’ve ever had and i am so mesmerized by them

new theory: i am a ‘aegon poisoned himself’ truther, and now i am of the mind that larys may help him, and poison his king following his orders (jesus and judas who). after that, he chooses death because what else can he do. he fulfilled his purpose and he served his king.

btw larys’ purpose to me is the old gods grand conspiracy. he’s advancing stuff so that the events of asoiaf can happen. he’s but a piece in a board.

he also may poison aegon without aegon knowing but thinking he’s doing it out of kindness. he doesn’t want the boy he grew to be fond of to be stripped of his power, life and dignity. better to die a king.

i hope we can get past all that dan schneider shit from s1e9 and we get to the real deal of larys’ motivations now. power and chaos, chaos and power. chaos is a ladder after all :)✨

daemon seeing viserys mourning 😭 he’s just in a really bad mushroom trip

where is elmo tully? this is muppet erasure

seasmoooookke i’m mad at you

still go get your rider boy

???? no claiming scene ???? 🤨

also we probably could’ve a) seasmoke claiming scene and b) sunfyre recovering scene instead of steffon dying trying to claim seasmoke and caraxes screaming in the background with alys and daemon, better use of cgi

rhaenyra’s problem is that she can’t fathom that not kissing the floor she walks on and still being loyal to her can coexist. no girl jace is your biggest ally he doesn’t doubt you he just sees you need help. smh

another thing i dislike is how they paint rhaenyra to be this universally beloved queen and the poor underdog fighting against the world at the same time. pick a side hbo

here we have grrm’s bad maths: 2/3 of the houses sided with the blacks, the blacks have thrice the dragons the greens have. but still the greens won (by virtue of aegon outliving and killing rhaenyra). how was that? the greens are the underdogs and the blacks have the numbers advantage

jace literally wakes up and starts thinking about ways to help his mother. but he says ‘ayo maybe you should check on your husband and ask him for help’ and then his mother cries and makes a fit because apparently he’s doubting her. narcissistic mom where

because apparently women need to be raped to be sympathetic? can’t mysaria be a sex worker who just so happened to want power and catch daemon’s attention? why does she need to be abused by her father? and tell her backstory to a targaryen of all things. she won’t ever understand how horrible that is.

mysaria being a ripoff of varys’ backstory 🧐

bruuuh i actually don’t think rhaenyra and mysaria are a good thing. power dynamics, especially with mysaria being a former sex worker and a sa victim, a daemon victim and at some point rhaenyra’s prisoner. can’t mysaria be a good employee without having to please her boss sexually? can rhaenyra respect one of her employees without fucking them? it seems not.

this episode was long aaaaaaffff and i think the scene with rhaenyra and mysaria could’ve been cut completely. mysaria giving her lore just doesn’t hit as hard when larys gave his piece, the make out scene is just fanservice and the ‘oh no’ ending could’ve been just alyn claiming seasmoke and pulling a dany

7/10 solely because of my greenies and alys.

[dyne-osaur]

might be rambling this might mean nothing but omg has anyone thought about how a huge thing™ in dead boy detectives is how women were wronged ?? (and also not just women who were wronged but boys who were shitty assholes but in this essay i am focusing on how women were wronged) am i looking too much into it.. (this is prob not intentional and i am overthinking as per usual but like)

spoilers duh

also this got really long i apologize

so in episode 1 we meet crystal who is basically like the catalyst for everything happening right and this is kinda obvious but like the whole kinda happens because her toxic demon ex bf stole her memories (fuck you david) and like? that was a horrible thing to happen to her and he sucks boo >:( and also throughout the whole show she has to deal with his shittiness and whatnot

and also in episode 1 we obviously see becky aspen who is like a child (specifically a little girl) who was kidnapped by esther (who also only goes after girls like hello?) and about to be fed to her giant snake which like ?? hey now,,, and they have to go in and save her and i feel like it's kinda important esp with the last episode ("she killed hundreds of little girls to stay young; who gets justice for them?" or smth) like it's built on the backbone of women who were wronged

in episode 2 with the dandelion sprites we have niko who lost her dad and her mom wants her to just be better and the sprites literally like infected(?) her while she was trying to feel better or smth (prob a bit of a stretch ngl) so we don't rly see much of this in episode 2

in episode 3 the most obvious thing of all is that the devlin guy murdered his entire family (his wife and two daughters) because he was a bitch and hated that they wanted to leave him which like ?? okay fragile male ego (as crystal so eloquently puts it) like these girls felt haunted by him in life and even in death they were stuck in a loop getting killed by him over and over and over because of his fear they would leave them. he was controlling and abusive and a creep and in the end he killed them. (obviously this episode has other important themes like how charles' trauma is reflected in this and his emotional response to devlin and the horror of controlling/abusive family members but i feel like there's smth to be said with how women keep getting wronged in this show idk)

in episode 4 we get crystal who is still dealing with the effects of her lost memories and her desperation to find her mom (we all know how that turned out) and importantly we get the stuff in the gift shop (specifically lillith and ig the washer woman)

the washer woman is washing away the blood of humanity yadda yadda (she's a rly interesting character i love her) and like when she and crystal are left alone crystal is desperately trying to find how she can have her lost memories and past back and the washer woman gives her that riddle to help her smth smth (basically crystal's memories)

lillith is more introduced here as the goddess of wronged women (and blood magic) (this is self-explanatory i hope)

in episode 5 (this one i feel is also obvious) we get those charming-but-actually-really-shitty jocks who died because maren (brad's gf) murdered them because they were being really horrible. we get shelby who killed herself because they drugged her and ruined her entire life and her future and everything and even in death the boys (though i love them, this was a fault of theirs) were skeptical because the jocks were just so charming

and then we get maren who invites crystal over because of her fear that she would get caught when she was trying to protect herself and she made a(n albeit huge) mistake. brad sent her nudes to his bff richie and they never thought they were in the wrong like hello? i was like wtf but anyways they practically ruined the lives of these girls (maybe not maren because they never fully got out but they could've and either way she ended up turning herself in from her guilt and stuff)

(also note: crystal says "we all lost our lives to boys who went too far" and like.. a big thing™ from my perspective is also how men/boys go too far e.g. the schoolboys (edwin and charlies) and david (crystal) and also the jocks and devlin and later esther's husband and arguably the cat king (don't come at me i actually love him towards the end but for more info check out this post i love their take on him) etc. there's probably more i just can't think of them atm)

in this episode we also meet maxine for like a second(?) time (first being devlin murders in ep 3) where she obviously wronged jenny by stalking her and she doesn't see what's wrong with what she did when she literally tried to murder her, she stalked her, she's apparently done this MULTIPLE times (smth ab this happening "again" which ? oml) and jenny feels horrible about this because she put herself out there for once and she got hurt. and at the end of this episode we see them all hang out and of course david comes back because crystal can't catch a break but back to the topic jenny was almost killed by maxine who did a horrible thing to her

episode 6 we finally hear tragic mick's story. sedna was literally a girl who got sacrificed by her dad because he thought it would help. she was a woman wronged out of the many women wronged on this show and she became a goddess for her trauma yay?? but at the core of that backstory was sedna who was a woman wronged by her father. (and ofc tragic mick and how he became human POOR GUY)

we also have crystal who finally has a way to get david out of her head (did anyone notice it doesn't break till she says "i just wish i could be normal" or smth which is prob kinda why she lost her powers?) all of this has been culminating since the beginning and then later he comes back and he's taunting her and yelling at her for giving up "the one thing that made you special" (come on man :|) she does get her powers back later though yippie (and sees her badass ancestors)

and jenny who is still dealing with the trauma is obviously upset throughout the episode because yk maxine was crazy

episode 7 we have the boys in hell but to keep in theme we have crystal who feels horrible that charles won't let her help and she just goes out to get david to open a gate and jenny follows. jenny then gets violated as david literally possesses her and we get kinda the climax and then the resolution of david and crystal as she realizes her power and takes her memories back and buries him because he was a horrible horrible person to her (and also the comments he made were so creepy like "i want to get back inside you" "let me back in" WHAT THE HELL no way that wasn't intentionally creepy)

and then jenny (poor jenny) has to deal with the fact that she has now been possessed and has to deal with all this creepy shit like can homegirl catch a break goddamn (and speaking of jenny we see maxine on the stairs still clueless to what she did wrong MAXINE OPEN YOUR EYES)

crystal eats her memories

episode 8 she finds out she was a horrible person and her past was not as great as she thought it would be. she treated her friends and strangers badly and she wakes up and she feels horrid. and she thinks it will get better and she calls her mom and her parents did her dirty. they neglected her (didn't even REALIZE she was MISSING) and didn't do shit for her and she probably acted out for attention (in horrible ways i am in no way defending what she did btw but she can be a horrible person and changed as a person crystal they could never make me hate you) and she swallows the rest of her memories and finds out that she was not the person she wanted to be

in episode 8 we also find out esther's backstory. the big bad of it all and i think a huge point in the story is how at the core of it all was a woman who was wronged and turned horrible for it. her husband cheated on her and she killed him but then she couldn't get enough and just wow. just to me the fact that at the core of the story is a woman who was horribly treated and as a result turned into a horrible person (and kind of parallel to crystal who was horribly treated (by her parents and by david) and she finds she can still turn things around and be good) and esther is too far gone as she yk decides to continue being evil

in episode 8, the end of it all, we see that turning point where crystal goes into esther's head and summons lillith. the goddess of wronged women. we see her as crystal yells that esther has been tormenting girls, WRONGING WOMEN, for decades (centuries?). we see the rage in lillith's face as she turns her stare on esther for skewing the gift that lillith gave to a woman scorned. we see lillith drag esther out of the house screaming and AGH i love that so much idk

but yeah those are my thoughts on the amount of women i just saw wronged and this could all mean nothing and i could be very insane and crazy but ! whatever !

[thepupperino]

Weekly Tag Wednesday

Hi friends! Thank you to @heymacy, @xninetiestrendx, @roryonic, @spookygingerr, and @deedala for the tags this week!

Name: Keely

When is your birthday: April 25 🐂

Where do you call home? I live in Utah 😒

How many pets do you have? 2 dogs

What do you do for work? I'm a therapist!

Do you believe in aliens? Duh 👽

Do you believe in ghosts? Duh 👻

Favorite subject in school? I loved math and I liked English. Also choir.

What are you currently reading? 😶

What are you currently watching? RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 9

What kind of laptop do you have (+ describe it to me): Uh it's a gold HP

What kind of phone do you have (+ describe it to me): A blue iPhone XR with an abalone Flaunt case

No-show socks, ankle socks, or crew socks? Ankle socks

What kind of headphones do you use? Airpods

How do you consume caffeine? Energy drinks or iced coffee or very very rarely a tea

And finally, what are you wearing today? :( I'm at work so I'm in an off-white blouse, navy pixie pants from Old Navy, and cheetah print Rothy's

Tags below!

@transsexual-dandelions @transmurderbug @transmickey @creepkinginc @mybrainismelted

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[poisonedspider]

 15   ASSOCIATIONS

repost  &  fill   in  the  words  you  most  associate  with  your  character.

ANIMAL : pigs

COLOR(S) :  pinks and whites (duh) but also purple bc it's his favorite

SONG : too fucking many but most recently Stronger by Britney Spears

PLANT : lilacs, dandelions

TIME OF DAY: night - absolutely night, but like, dusk when it's pretty and the world is just going to sleep as well? yes

SMELL : strawberries and cream, cotton candy

SEASON : spring

PLACE: bright neon lights skirting on vegas vibes, broadway

CANDY : skittles

GEMSTONE: ruby

ASTROLOGICAL  SIGN :  aries

FABRIC : silk, cashmere

DRINK : gin, whiskey

VICE : lustlustlustlust, but also pride and envy

VIRTUE : justice and fortitude

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tagged stolen from: @advlox tagging: whoever the fuck wants

[cryptidclaw]

About Yellowfang's powers:

I think it would be interesting to have her be a clairvoyant. Instead of feeling the pain of others, she has the uncanny ability to just know things.

"Ok, Lynxstorm. I need you to get Thyme, Marigold, Yarrow, and Cobwebs, also Willowchime is pregnant congrats, and I think we're out of mouse bile too."

I like to think that Fire, Tiger, and Blue kin passed down their clairvoyance; it can also be a sign of being a good healer (as it aids in Starclan communication). Shadowsight lacks clairvoyance but is a very talented healer, and Mothering IS clairvoyant, but she just believes she's just good at her job. I like to think Brightheart and Ashfoot are also clairvoyant.

Other warriors who have clairvoyance:

Most med cats but not Blinding Moon or Acorn fur

Leafpool and Squirrelflight (duh) + Jaywing and Hollystar (muted clairvoyant), Dandelion(dust?), and Cherryfall

Stonefur (knew he was gonna die and knew leopard would join Tigerclan), Mosspelt, Greypool, Frostpaw, Icewing, and Sunfish

Paintdapple, Barleycloud, Harrybrook, Bellaleaf, and Rootspring (Tree lacks clairvoyance, but he is really smart lmao; most sisters are clairvoyant), Starbucks cat I forgot their name

Morningflower, Tallstar, and Tinyclaw

Tawnyclaw, Strikestone, Pouncestep, Sunbeam, Spireclaw, and Shadowstar

Ok I really like this!!! I probably wouldn't give as many cats this ability just to make it more rare and special~ but this power works really well for Yellow and a lot of other spiritually powerful cats!!!

[groovy-rat-man]

ANALYZE MY BRAIN BASED ON FICTIONAL CHARACTERS IVE HAD A CRUSH ON EITHER IN THE PAST OR PRESENT!!!!!!!!

(Listed in chronological order with brief explanations, just fyi this is gonna be long. Also idk if this is all of them but these are the top 10 I think)

Humor Bot 5.0 from Futurama

Ok so this was when I was like in the single digits age and there is a kind of long explanation for this but it is just so god damn convoluted. I'm sure ive got a post about it on here somewhere if you wanna search it up.

Rory from Animal Crossing (I believe it was in New Leaf)

Again, single digits age but I do have an explanation. I'm guessing he had some dialog that was nice and I got attached to him. Like I would send him letters and one time I sent him one saying we were gonna get married and I got all dressed up like a bride and held a dandelion and waited in the place I told him to meet but he left me at the alter because duh. Anyways I was heartbroken and blew out the dandelion 😢

Olaf from Animal Crossing (100% this was New Leaf)

I think i was maybe 10 or 11 idk. He came over to my stupid balloon furniture gingerbread house and said he wanted to move in and be roommates and I was smitten. I had a room in the back of my house that was all gold furniture, gold roses (courtesy of my mom), gold trophies, and even a gold fish and also it had his portrait in there and I think I sent him a letter saying the room was available if he ever wanted to move in. If there's enough interest i can show yall a pic of the room if you want.

Jessie from the Pokémon anime (specifically the original one cause that was the one on Netflix)

This was sometimes in middle school. Honestly I should really watch the pokemon anime again, i think the only reason I haven't is cause there's just so god damn much of it. But yeah he's pretty, he cooks, he's nice to his pokemon, the perfect man. I even had this whole self insert story in my head when Sun and Moon came out about us living together in Alola with my brionne and alolan raichu and ribombee and Meowth the meowth and also meowth and my brionne were in love and eventually had their own weird little babies where one was basically a poplio mer-meowth and the other was the opposite. There was a lot of lore and I am probably not going to get into. (Also I think my self insert was like part dito and could shapeshift? Come to think of it a LOT of my self inserts back then could shapeshift...) The only problem with this is that having a crush on James made me HATE Jessie and people who shipped them together and honestly I was so shitty about her, Jessie i am so sorry.

Lillie from Pokémon Sun and Moon (but in my case specifically Moon)

This was also in middle school and weirdly at the same time as the James crush. I also had a self insert story about her but instead of us living in alola it's either both of us coincidentally being on the same boat from when she leaves and having known each other and catching up or the exact same premise except instead of me already being on the boat I got on there with her to go on our adventures. Either way we land in Hoen (because pokemon sapphire was my first pokemon game) and i already have a bunch of pokemon so I give her one (i distinctly remember it being a Lilligant even though those arent in hoen they just reminded me of her) and teach her how to do pokemon stuff and all that. Also there wasn't a "there was only one bed" thing but there was something similar where we both realized that we were assigned the same bedroom on the boat. Also i literally cried when she left in game. That's why the story revolves around it. I cried like a bitch. Also she wasn't the first girl I had a crush on but she WAS the first fictional girl.

Haley from Stardew Valley

This was in highschool and the main reason I liked her at first is because she looks SO MUCH like the irl girl I had a massive crush on in middle school, literally she has the same name. You would not believe how shocked I was when I realized that. Nowadays i like her for more reasons than that but yeah anyways she's my wife and I love her and we have one beautiful daughter named June and if (when) we have another kid im naming them Mo <33

Renée from Animal Crossing (specifically New Horizons)

This was in late highschool, when I first got the game I set two rocking chairs outside my house and she sat in the other one with me and I fell in love. Also fun fact all the animal crossing characters ive had a crush on have light blue inner ears which is just so bizarre.

Revyn Sadri from Skyrim

Ok so this one is recent but I dont remember when and im kinda rushing his entry cause I forgot to add it before I posted it im so sorry babe I didn't mean to. Anyways I like his voice and personality and face i guess and I have a lot of headcanons for him and when I did that first quest for him I guess I felt something cause ive married him ever since, he's my beautiful husband and the father of my adopted children and I also always live in windhelm so I don't take him away from his family that lives in the city I love him so much I promise

Iron Golem from Minecraft

This was like a year or two ago I think. I dont really have a reason for this other than i was getting really into robots at the time and this is a big buff robot with a heart of gold.

Piston Hondo from Punch-Out!! (I like his NES version but I fell for his Wii version first)

This one is from the present obviously. I uhhmmm..... I dont actually know why I like him so much. I just do. He's pretty and nice and I like his voice and I just. I dunno i really really really like him. I was actually kinda wondering if compiling all the other characters ive liked in the past could help me figure out more but idk.

[magical-hermaphrodite]

Diary of a magical hermaphrodite: 2

4/24/2025

I spent the late day picking dandelions. As I picked flowers neighbors I had never met spoke to me. First with concern as I was crawling about their yard hand and foot. And I greeted them, “Hello, my name is Sam, I am making wine.” And they told me to pick as many dandelions as I’d like. One was named Mary and she returned to me with a mason jar and wished me happy foraging. I promised her I would bring her wine.

A small child looked at my Trill spot tattoos and said “He looks like a small cow! What is he doing?” The mother replied “Picking flowers! Duh!” And I laughed.

To me this is more than wine. It is community. It is being visible. It is showing my neighbors a real trans person. Not as a hypothetical talking point. Not a boogeyman. But as a friend. Someone who has a hobby.

While I was out I found a wonderful flower, a single dandelion stem but with two blossoms. I left that one alone.

Shifting more to the subject of wine…

Here is a look at the process of preparing the dandelions for wine making, it like making a vat of tea! This was todays dandelion picking. After separating the blossoms many cups of sugar will be married to the solution!

I will preserve this solution for when the mulberries grow. Collecting the mulberries will also involve meeting more neighbors.

The following is a dandelion ferment I set last weekend. Flavored with various fruit. This is a wild yeast ferment utilizing pine needles.

It is also flavored with an apple, orange, and lime. This is my first time experimenting with wild yeast and I find the results so far to be promising. It took a few days for a reaction to show unlike using a packet of dehydrated yeast which can show a reaction with in an hour.

And that’s how wine was made for thousands and of years. It was made with wild yeast.

Also interesting was the neighbor who thought I was a high schooler. And didn’t seem to blink twice at a child trying to make wine 🤷🏻 I gotta say I have interesting neighbors! And I think I like them!

[svnflowermoon]

GUYS GUYS GUYS you know that trend where they're like "all my friends are pretty but ____ is pretty like ____"?? yeah well I am doing that with some of my mutuals so hello (I'm being more specific than the videos from the trend tho)

@qwerty-keysmash is pretty like autumn leaves and mugs of hot chocolate on an evening watching cheesy tv shows by the fireplace

@astraeasparrow is pretty like the stars (duh) specifically when ur camping and it's midnight and ur sitting there with your friends looking up at the stars wistfully as you all laugh and talk together

@bookscorpion73 is pretty like music playing from a record player while you and ur best friend dance around to the music with sunlight streaming through the curtains and a vase of wildflowers on the windowsill

@themidnightarcher is pretty like an early morning walk through a forest at JUST the right moment when the sunlight is streaming through the trees and everything just looks SO perfect <33

@someones-name-insterted-here is pretty like a field of wildflowers with a picnic with a group of friends and laughter and birds and probably a small creek running nearby bc that just adds to the vibe yk

@tulips-best is pretty like an old bookstore at its quiet hour and there's probably multiple cats hiding in the shelves bc idk cat vibes and the kind of feeling when you find that book you've been looking for forever

@dandelions-fly-in-summer-skies is pretty like a cute holiday house by the beach with a perfect back garden and a view watching the beach where you can hear the waves crashing and you can smell the salt air (also the garden has strawberries in it idk it just feels right)

i will be doing a part two of this but this is just what i thought of when i got the idea soooo

[cleverhottubmiracle]

Don’t you dare deign to dub your delicious little dude or dudette with a dull denomination. Translation: No more boring baby names, please! There are just too many darling and daring names out there to decide on something dreary. Enter “D” baby names for boys and girls. We’ve done the dirty work and dug up designations that will in no way disparage your new dear descendant. (That’s your baby, FYI.) Since we already brought you adorable “A” names, beautiful “B” names, and classic “C” names, it’s only right for us to dive into “D” names that are destined to dazzle — from dependable options like David and Diana to up-to-date dynamos like Dax and Dillon. With deep-rooted definitions from different cultures (and Netflix shows, duh), these dashing names are a damned delight. Related story 100+ Cute & Creative Baby Names Beginning With 'C' Below, see unique and classic “D” baby names for boys, girls, and both! Classic “D” Names for Girls Dahlia (Norse name meaning “from the valley”) Daisy (Means “the day’s eye,” also the white-and-yellow bloom) Danica (Slavic, meaning “morning star”) Danielle (this vintage name is making a comeback with how chic and simple it is!) Daphne (Greek name meaning “laurel tree”) Dara (Cambodian name meaning “stars” for your bright lil’ star) Darla (Not just for Little Rascals or Buffy anymore!) Darlene (means “darling,” also from Ozark) Dawn (it’s the perfect, hopeful nature name) Deborah (A Biblical prophetess who wrote a victory song — sounds like we could all use a Deborah right about now) Delilah (this classic, Bilbical name is rising the ranks in popularity) Delphine (Another Greek one, meaning “of the Delphi palace” — also a flower) Denise (a French favorite name that is truly vintage) Diane/Diana (Ross, Vreeland, Princess…take your badass lady pick) Dolores (Spanish name meaning “sorrow,” but she’s so much more than that!) Donna (Josh! Toby! Sam! CJ! Sorry, we digress.) Doris (Greek, meaning “gift of the ocean”) Dorothy (Means “God’s gift,” also means “made it to Oz & back in one piece,” so props) Dottie (it’s the cuter, smaller version of Dorothy!) Drusilla (a gothic Latin name meaning “fruitful”) Unique “D” Names for Girls Daffodil (a gorgeous yellow flower) Daniella (The feminine form of Daniel, you know, that lion’s-den survivor inside all of us) Darcia (Means “dark” for your badass goth gal) Daria (Your ’90s self just smiled) Davina (Meaning “cherished”) Deirdre (this Irish name is as unique as it gets) Delancey (gals who loved MyScene as a kid will love this name) Delphine/Delphina/Delfina (Another name with Greek roots (they’re all the rage these days) Delta (Greek, meaning “letter or island”) Demi (Moore, Lovato…this is truly a star-studded name!) Desdemona (This Greek gothic name is so dang unique!) Dharma (Sanskrit, meaniing “truth”) Diamante (Italian, meaning “diamond”) Dido (either the iconic singer of the Greek name meaning “obscure”) Divya (A Hindi name meaning “divine”) Donatella (VERSACE) Doutzen (This mysterious Dutch name is so chic) Dove (we love an angelic nature name) Dua (Albanian, Arabic, meaning “love, prayer”) Dulce (Latin, meaning “sweet”) Durrah (Muslim name meaning “large pearl”) Unique Unisex “D” Names Dakota (Sioux, meaning “friendly one”) Dame (this unique name can work for literally anyone) Dana (Meaning “wise,” this one used to be a boy’s name, then a girl’s name, now an anybody’s name) Dandelion (this unique flower name also works for anyone) Darby (just add Darby O’Gill and the Little People to your family movie watch list, okay?) Darcy (A Pride & Prejudice name makes perfect sense (and sensibility)) Daryl (French, meaning “dear one, beloved”) Davis (this edgy namer means “beloved,” and that fits so well) Dawson (Yes, this one shot up in the spotlight thanks to James Van Der Beek) Denver (we’ll always love a good place name) Derby (English, meaning “park with deer”) Desi (Spanish, meaning “desired one”) Dior (this luxe name works for everyone) Divine (English, meaning “like God”) Dixie (Peaked in popularity in 1938 but making a comeback for all genders) Doherty (RIP Shannen Doherty, your name will always be iconic) Doyle (this dark horse of a name is unforgettable) Dream (doesn’t get anymore dreamy than this!) Drew (No longer just for dudes (or Nancy); Olympian Shawn Johnson just named her daughter Drew) Dylan/Dillon (Means “loyal” and works for any gender) Classic “D” Names for Boys Damien (From French meaning “one who tames”) Daniel (Means “God is my judge” and isn’t she just) Dante (Latin, meaning”enduring”) Darius (this strong name is so unforgettable, there’s a reason why it’s a classic) Darrel (Meaning “open,” and we need more open-minded humans now okay?) Darwin (Means “dear friend,” also Charles is a pretty smart namesake) David (Means “beloved”) Deacon (Reese Witherspoon’s one son is named this, so you know it’s a great name) Dell (this short and simple name ia the perfect classic) Derek (English, meaning “the people’s ruler”) Diego (The Spanish equivalent of “James” and always a classic) Dill (not the pickle, the Irish name meaning “loyal”) Dmitri (it’s a classic, it’s gothic, and it’s so chic) Dominic (This used to be reserved for kids born on Sundays, but now anybody can have it!) Donovan (Celtic name meaning “strong fighter”) Dorian (Gray, yknow it doesn’t get more gothic than that!) Douglas (A Scottish name meaning “black river,” which sounds badass, no?) Duncan (from Shakespeare and also House of Cards, meaning “dark warrior”) Dunn (Scottish, meaning “brown”) Unique “D” Names for Boys Damon (Means “loyal friend” in Latin) Darko (Like the classic movie, Donnie Darko!) Dash (This one is definitely rising among the celeb set) Dax (Shepard is of one of the best celeb dads out there, we think) Declan (An Irish name meaning “famous bearer”) Deforest (a perfect nature name that no one will forget) Dempsey (Irish, meaning “proud, haughty”) Denim (Yes, it’s a name now. Go wild!) Desmond (this is truly a sophisticated, unique name) Devlin (this Irish name is quite cheeky) Dexter (Not just for serial killers, don’t worry) Diesel (Diesel Dean is the son of Olympian Jennie Finch) Dion (Greek, meaning “child of heaven and earth; of Zeus”) Dipper (From Gravity Falls, y’all!) Domenico (This Spanish name is so dreamy and romantic) Domingo (Spanish, meaning “born on a Sunday”) Dresden (German, “people of the forest”) Duke (Son of E! News host Giuliana Rancic) Dustin (Meaning “brave warrior” or “Thor’s stone,” and don’t forget Stranger Things)Dwayne/Dwyane (Speaking of best celeb dads…) If Duncan and Dustin sparked your fancy, here’s further proof that Netflix is all you need to find the perfect baby name. From Xanthe to Dahlia, here’s a list of darkly romantic goth names for your baby girl. Source link