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2 years to put out six 30 min episodes. television is dead.

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META ASKS: If Your OC Was Canon.

BASIC:

What changes do you think would be made between your muse as they exist in your head vs how they would be treated as part of canon?

What plot points would change due to the inclusion of your character in canon?

What role would your character play in the story? Are they a major player, or a one scene wonder?

If there are multiple adaptions/If they are part of a multi-part franchise, which ones would your character appear in?

Besides your face/voiceclaim, who do you think would be cast as your character?

If your character had a breakout show/film/comic, what would the plot be? Who would be in their supporting cast?

What headcanons/theories do you believe fandom would invent about your character?

FANDOM:

What do you think the fandom for your character would be like? Are they a fan favorite, a love to hate villain, derided for whatever reason, or something else?

What feelings does your character most often instill in their fans? Affection? A desire to protect? Open lust? A love/hate dynamic? Why do you think their fans feel this way?

By contrast, what would their haters dislike about your character? Is it a petty complaint? A mischaracterization of the character or their intentions? Are they just a woman in a largely male-centric series?

What controversies/drama would your character incite in fandom?

What fan-material would exist for your character in fandom?

Is your character the subject of ‘imagines’ or ���x reader’ style blogs?

Are there any tropes fandom would put upon your character, for better or for worse?

What would be the ‘incorrect but wildly popular’ interpretation of your character in fandom?

What corners of fandom would consider your character blorbo material?

SHIPPING:

What do you imagine the most popular ship(s) for your character would be?

Are there ship wars? Are they a popular character to ship, or the kind of character that gets shuffled off and away from shipping for whatever reason?

How does fandom characterize/mischaracterize your characters ship in fanworks?

If your character isn’t designed for shipping/isn’t interested in shipping, how hard does fandom have to mangle them to make them shipping material/open to a relationship?

Be honest. What song is playing over an AMV/tiktok of scenes between your character and their love interest?

What is the wildest crackship you can imagine for your character, whether in-universe or in crossover?

What is the quote between your character and their love interest/whoever they might be shipped with that their fans would latch onto?

What’s the discourse surrounding your ship?

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If Viserys really wanted to fix the rift in his family, that he created, he should have grown a spine and married Aegon to Baela, Jace to Helaena, and Luke to Rhaena

Aegon to Baela: Forced Daemon and Corlys to put stock in Aegon to get their blood on the Iron Throne

Jace to Helaena: Forced Rhaenyra to accept Hightower blood in her family, Forced Otto and Alicent to have a vested interest in getting their blood on the Iron Throne

Luke to Rhaena: Forced the naysayers to accept that Velaryon blood will stay on the Driftwood Throne,

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princess helaena targaryen

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Inuzuka babysitting equals the possibility of bites and scratches, just like with cats (ironyyy)

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Green Council

(book version)

Queen Dowager Alicent Hightower

Ser Otto Hightower

Ser Criston Cole

Ser Tyland Lannister

Lord Jasper Wylde

Lord Larys Strong

Grand Maester Orwyle

and King Aegon II Targaryen

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Crimson Peak (2015) Dir. Guillermo del Toro

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Aegon + Sunfyre inspired outfit ☀️

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Swan Queen Nyra 🦢👑 + her bby boys (cygnets lmao) in cameo jewelry

(Jace, Luke, Joff, & Aegon III)

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gold inspired by WLOP

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON #1.06 - “the princess and the queen”

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helaena artwork is already under construction 🖌️ i think i’ll use this as an example of possible commission work?

anyway one thing i thing super overlooked in the hotd fandom and fanfic is crown succession!! like which crown passes to who! like we know aegon ii got aegon i’s after maegor and jae to vizzy to nyra. but what about everyone else? rhaena’s? alyssa’s? alysanne’s? visenya’s? like the drama potential of it all. imagine if alicent tried to give helaena alyssa’s crown or if nyra gave aemon’s crown to jace? the drama! the dynamics!!

(if you have ocs, it’s another really fun plot point! do they inherit someone’s or do they forge their own?)

just a little thought for author’s out there 👀

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Why We Can't Stop Talking About Lore Olympus.

One of the biggest reasons LO was criticized so heavily apart from other webtoons out there isn't just because it was a popular webtoon (though that certainly was a factor), but because unlike other webtoons on the platform, everything bad about it can't be pinned on any single obvious thing.

Like, a lot of Korean isekais on the platform are pointed at as being "bad" because they're just cookie-cutter copies of one another, from the art style to the double standards enforced over their shitty two-dimensional characters. But they still have something technically good about them which even the biggest genre haters can appreciate, usually the art which is often pretty consistent - and oftentimes quite gorgeous - so it's easy to sum up their problems as "yeah this is just another generic isekai romantasy story and it's bad for the same reasons all the other generic isekai romantasy stories are bad". There isn't really any deeper explanation to it, as many of those explanations can be summed up as "this just isn't for me" or "this is just doing what the works in this genre often do."

Merryweather comics are the same way, they're all consistently bland and are too pre-occupied with fanservice to offer much of substance, but you can pretty much just leave it at that and call it a day. They're meant for a very specific audience with very specific tastes.

But there's no single one thing about LO that can be simply summed up as "bad" with no further explanation, and many of the things that wound up being "bad" about it were pointed out not by people who fell outside its demographic, but by its very own readers who the comic had been written for in the first place.

Because while the comic had a lot of issues from Day 1, before it was even an Originals series (the age gap problem, for example), there were a lot of the things that USED to be EXTREMELY GOOD, only to then become progressively worse over time in ways that became proportionately harder to explain or defend.

And while a lot of problems are symptoms of the series trying to tailor itself to specific genres and demographics, a lot of its problems are also wholly unique from any other comic on the platform. While many comics tend to lose some amount of quality over time from the crunch of deadlines, they still usually gain some quality in one way or another - maybe the plot stops making sense, but the art still improves, or the art lowers in quality but the plot becomes even better over time. In the vast majority of cases, even comics that are operating within the chokehold of Webtoons' deadlines and expectations tend to still improve in some way, because it's natural that a creator is going to improve over the course of time and practice.

But I can't think of a single comic that defied the natural expectation of improvement harder than LO. It wasn't one thing that got worse with each episode, virtually everything about the comic got worse.

The art? It went from being vibrant and iconic to being simultaneously over-saturated and dull.

The plot? It went from being an earnest office drama romance to being some Marvel-derivative Avatar the Last Airbender crossover fic.

The character motivations? They went from being nuanced and compelling to two-dimensional and aggravating.

The character designs? The art speaks for itself.

The dialogue? It went from being subtle and natural to feeling like it was written by the first generation of ChatGPT.

The continuity? Fuck it, make shit up. Is anyone even still reading the comic at this point? Because clearly its own creator wasn't.

And all of that is still just scratching the surface of everything that went wrong with this comic.

This is why anti's and LO critics can't just drop the subject at "the comic sucks" like they can with other comics on the platform, because that is a gross understatement of everything that's so baffling and confusing and shocking and astounding about the comic's decline. Unlike other comics that suck enough to make you not even want to read them in the first place, LO was a comic you wanted to read and - when things started to go wrong - insisted had to eventually get better because we knew it could be better, we hadn't imagined everything we liked about it for the past 2+ years, right? Surely all that potential can't be wasted here? Surely the comic's flaws had to be balanced out somewhere?

Fact is, LO has always had problems since the beginning, and many of those problems started with its amazing ability to set expectations through strong premises - only to flop hard on those expectations in the follow-through, something that Rachel has seemingly always struggled with even before LO. The art wasn't perfect back then, neither was the narrative or the character motivations.

But it was never about being perfect, the point was that everything about it made sense, from its intentional design choices even to its design flaws. We could explain why something worked, and we could reasonably defend why something might not have worked while appreciating the attempt from a perspective of "we can see what Rachel was going for here".

But it's so difficult to share that perspective throughout S3 because the vision is nowhere to be seen. There's seemingly no sense in what Rachel was trying to do, what direction she was going in, what she was trying to accomplish, because not a single aspect about the comic at that time felt like it was thought through, especially in comparison to everything it had established back in 2018. It was like every week between episodes, Rachel was being swapped out for a person who had never read LO and had to try and re-interpret what they thought LO was based on only taglines like "Greek mythology" and "Hades x Persephone".

It was like LO was suddenly being written by ChatGPT.

Maybe it was the new editor, maybe it was the shift in LO's direction that was clearly a response to its heightened popularity, maybe it was on account of Rachel clearly stepping back more to let her assistants do more of the work. I don't know. But that's precisely why I and many others in this community can't stop talking about it, because you're telling me that the woman who won three Eisners for this-

-used to communicate so many feelings and meaning and emotional depth through these?

I don't think there's anything else that can sum it up better than that. This is why we talk about it. This is why it's so hard to let go.

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A few weeks later, somebody wore your perfume It almost killed me, I had to leave the room

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roommates!AU, can you imagine the chaos when Eren, Connie, Reiner and Jean are living together? 🤭

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Although I do not see Elliot Cowan as Maegor, I can't disagree on his six wives and his mother ...