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This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

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Checking in with this fandom only to find it on fire yet again is lucemond’s version of hot girl summer

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Joel and the girlies at the end of every episode. Me. I’m the girlies. Can’t wait to see Tommy again coz y’all we need that hug. 🥲

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When you take a moment to realise that Joel empathises with Henry doubly because he's not only taking care of a child in the post-apocalypse but he's also a big brother who (it's very much implied) burned the world to protect his kid brother.

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“can’t tell ya how exciting it was listenin’ to that fuckin’ conversation”

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Minor point, but a rider claiming a second dragon is not inaccurate to the book - there’s just not a recorded incident of a Targaryen doing so.

Viserys is stated to have “chosen” to not take another dragon after Balerion died - not that it was impossible.

Both Rhaenyra and Aegon stated their intention to take another dragon after they lost their original, with both claiming an unridden dragon or hatching a new one contemplated.

But it so happened that most dragon riders died before or alongside their dragons before the Dance. After that, the dragons died out soon after. So there never really was an opportunity to see it in canon - but the text offers nothing against it.

I reread some Fire and Blood. You are correct that the matter is more ambiguous than I stated, thus I edited accordingly. However, Fire and Blood does not state that Viserys "never chose" a new dragon, but that he "never mounted another." George R.R. Marten's blog echoes this and says only that Viserys "never took another dragon." Again, no mention of choice, which is only one interpretation of that statement. The idea that it was specifically Viserys' choice originates from a website, not from the source material. It may have been a choice, or Viserys may have tried and failed to bond with another dragon like Aegon did. It's not stated either way.

And yes, Aegon and Rhaenyra stated their intention to bond with another dragon, but intention does not equal success. Aegon vigorously tried and failed to hatch seven eggs, not just one, after the death of Sunfyre (F&B, 593). The opportunity was there, and it didn't work.

Throughout the whole of Targaryen history, not merely during the Dance, there is never a case where a rider claims more than one dragon, during or after that dragon's lifetime. Daenerys also mentions this to Quentyn Martell in adwd: Dragons live longer than men, some for hundreds of years, so Balerion had other riders after Aegon died... but no rider ever flew two dragons. You're absolutely right, it isn't explicitly stated that it isn't possible, but it may have been a more unlikely outcome than the Targaryens themselves understood. When they did try, there is never a recorded instance where it worked.

In terms of fic, this doesn't have much bearing. But, I do think the source material suggests a more complex situation than easily hatching another egg.

I agree, the text offers nothing explicitly against it, but the lack of examples or success (when deliberately trying to do it) over 300 years of the dynasty in Westeros is not without meaning. What is recorded are instances of Targaryens trying and failing to bond with another dragon (Aegon), or never getting the opportunity (Rhaenyra).

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Lucemond fandom:

Unpopular opinions or hot takes? Can be related to the ship or the fandom itself.

(Please be respectful of others however)

Mine is: most lucemond authors have little to no understanding of the world they’re writing in. This isn’t a clearcut thing and doesn’t apply to modern aus. Some fics which I have loved take huge artistic liberties for the pairing. All fine.

I’m a bit of a relic from the original asoiaf fandom, which was often intensively researched and detailed with both canon and non-canon pairings. This isn’t necessary to enjoy or write the pairing, but with bigger fics in particular, it really shows. Especially when people try to write Westerosi politics or Targaryen culture who have clearly never read the books.

I don’t want to be pedantic or shoot down creativity, but I do think a working understanding of the world you’re writing in, which is incredibly detailed, can only enrich a story and is often necessary to understand characters’ reactions and motivations.

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I love Lucemond but Aemond is not queercoded. We might want him to be to fit our ship but that’s really stretching the definition of queer coding to its limits. Obsession and a sapphire eye are not queer specific. Wearing leather certainly isn’t, unless you think every second character in HOTD and GOT are queer coded. I get that people really like him as a character and often project onto him, both the LGBT and the y/n girlies but come on now.

An opinion is an opinion, dude.

“That’s stretching the definition of queer-coding to its limits.” I disagree.

As I said, no, Aemond is not canonically queer, but a lot of the themes that surround his character can be easily associated with queerness. The sexual repression, for one. The religious upbringing and resulting inhibition and self-denial is another. The same issues swirl around Alicent, whose childhood relationship with Rhaenyra has been confirmed as having homoerotic themes.

And no, those attributes aren’t necessarily queer but they certainly aren’t inherently straight. It’s not crazy off the mark to see a combination of sexual repression, obsession with another man/boy and dramatic self-presentation (a sapphire eye isn’t exactly low-key) and perceive a queer thematic subtext.

I think people take things much too literally. Queer-coding is subtextual, subtle and, in my opinion, often unintentional. It doesn’t actually mean “I think this character is canonically gay.”

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Literally lucemond

i finally figured it out. my favorite ship dynamic. murderous

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Seeing a lot of discourse wondering why people have an issue with fem!Lucerys x Aemond. I’m firmly in the camp of “write what you want,” but I do think there’s genuinely stuff to talk about here. 

1. For the most part, it’s self-insert tagged as lucemond, and therefore not lucemond. Luke isn’t even Luke at that point, but becomes an OC with (often) an entirely different name (Aemma, Visenya) and personality. This is honestly my main issue with this. Write your OC by all means, but tagging it as Luke/Aemond comes off as (at best) inaccurate and (at worst) disingenuous.  

2. There’s never an excuse for hurling abuse at writers who do this. It’s immature, and creates more problems than it solves. However, I do think the resulting frustration reflects a deeper issue. Intentional or no, het!Lucemond inevitably comes off as trying to bend a gay ship into a heterosexual one for the sake of normativity. I’ve seen comments like “it’s easier for me to write hetero dynamics.” Then...write a pairing that has them. 

3. lucemond gets a lot of homophobic flak presented as outrage over the (4 year) age difference, when the same critics ship Daemyra or Sandor/Sansa. I’ve been a part of the asoiaf fandom for a long time. Gay pairings exist, but they’re a lot less common. 

4. This is an issue for another day, but a major part of lucemond’s popularity stems from the complexity of its characters. A lot of mainstream writers and showrunners seem to shy away from making lgbt characters complex or problematic, probably to avoid criticism. George R.R. Martin is a brilliant writer, but his gay characters aren’t all that deep (Renly and Loras). Laenor and Joffrey are also, in my opinion, the blandest characters in the show. 

5. By contrast, Lucemond is a ship with two deeply flawed, dynamic and tragic characters (especially Aemond) and I really think lgbt writers and artists in particular hunger to explore that kind of complexity. We don’t see it that much. Moreover, Aemond is, in my view, a pretty gay-coded character (leather, a sapphire eye, consuming obsession and sexual repression? Come on). I don’t think it was intentional on the show’s part, but the fact that so many people picked up on it is hilarious to me considering how heteronormative asoiaf generally is. 

Also, I should clarify: lesbian!lucemond is the shit. Gay angst is what we’re here for. Just trying to imperfectly explain why a lot of gay asoiaf shippers kind of have table scraps to work with (in-canon), so we’ve got to make our own thing. Seeing it turned into a het!self-insert is...bizarre...at times. Y’all have like a hundred ships to work with. 

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everyone has preferences and all and that’s great but damn can we get canon lucemond size diff fanarts too😭😭

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everyone has preferences and all and that’s great but damn can we get canon lucemond size diff fanarts too😭😭

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so long, gay hawkeye compilation (part 1) (part 2)

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Lucemond peeps any favorite fics you think are underrated/deserve more reads? Can be finished or ongoing.

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The unbreakable bond between two men who risked it all for some niece/nephew pussy

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Maybe it’s maybelline

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i’ll forever side with short twink lucerys. he doesn’t take after harwin and he doesn’t need to take after him to be taken serious. idk why being tall and buff automatically implies strength and being short doesn’t for some here but small lucerys velaryon who still holds his own in a fight >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>