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A weak ruler needs a strong Hand, as Aerys needed Father. A strong ruler requires only a diligent servant.

Cersei's idea of ruling says so much not just about herself and her approach to monarchy but her relationship with Jaime.

Her approach is she talks and people listen as they did with her father, but Jaime and Tyrion noted that when Tywin held a meeting discussing battlefield strategy he let his subordinates talk first while he listened. He let others voice their ideas so he could pick out the ones that worked the best. Thus, she always finds it irritating when her advisors dissent.

She has never come to me, he thought. She has always waited, letting me come to her. She gives, but I must ask. "You should have come sooner," she murmured, when he took her in his arms.

In spite of her referring to him as her "other half", she doesn't see him as an equal but a subordinate. Jaime noticed when he came back to King's Landing he always had to go to her, and she always waited for him as if he was a servant waiting on her.

Her dream relationship was always her as queen, but with Rhaegar as her king, never Jaime. He would still be in the Kingsguard to serve her. Her dream has Jaime at her side never as equal but serving her.

Jaime was notably her first pick for Hand. She thinks herself a strong ruler, and one can assume that she picked Jaime because she sees him as "a diligent servant." She wanted to rule less together and more she gave orders and he carried them out.

Jaime has come to realize the truth of her as a partner and ruler.

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Woah Vax and Keyleth are so Hades and Persephone coded

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these are shots that made me go absolutely crazy when I watched these episodes holy shit, I literally rewound to screenshot them because they're so good

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The Ritual - LoVM Season 3 Episode 12

It takes a few days to bring a Percy de Rolo back to life by way of demon exorcism. Similarly, it takes a few days to purge the tears from my body after a LoVM season. And especially after that ending.

Can we talk about it? Let's.

First, that ritual. God am I so happy that they dedicated so much time to it. The vibes were immaculate too. The shot of Percy and Vax lying down parallel to each other? Creepy and beautiful all at once. The sliding shot from Percy inside Pike's spell to Vax clutching the gun in his hands? So much tension and urgency in just that one shot. And the sanctity of it all makes it all the more dreadful. The golden circles of light. The incandescent ropes holding Vax down. The silence. All of it in the darkness, all of it next to a tomb. And how Vax holds the gun so delicately, as if it wasn't a weapon forged by the fires of vengeance and hell. As if he were cradling his friend to his chest, and not cold, heartless metal. What a gripping image. He has become one with death, used to wear it, to bear it, to harness it. It is as the Matron intended, the one time that she warns him against it.

And the scene is so emotionally charged. Vex's feather in Vax's hair, her heart in Percy's cold, dead hands. Her brother and her lover, the two people she loves most, one risking his life to save the other, both lost to her at any moment. The dilemma of allowing Vax to even perform this insane plot was taken out of her hands when he freely admitted that his life was worthless compared to hers - in his blind fucking eyes, mind you. But think how desperate Vex must have been to go along with it, how hopeful, how very, very in love.

Love. What a cruel, pretty thing. "She loves you. And so do I, brother." Love brings Percy back to life: Vex's love for him, Vax's love for Vex. Vex's feather on his gun, Vex's feather in Vax's hair. The first time they met Percy in that prison, he was as disheveled and lost as when Vax finds him in Orthax's domain. Each time, a hand was offered and taken. This is the victory of people giving each other second chances, of people forgiving themselves, of people fighting for each other.

Not Vax, though. Oh no, Vax just keeps on losing. Love kills Vax piece by piece, one raven feather around his neck at a time. Love is literally rotting Vax away, but that's a whole other post that I'll get into later. And oh the post that will be. There is not one dull moment in Vax nation, bless him.

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Endless TLOVM

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Vex and Percy are now apart of a very special category of TV couples where Not Even DEATH can keep them apart, proving just how true and strong their love is. Welcome to the club, Perc'ahlia.

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Let's talk about Keyleth's dad and the foreshadowing here.

"Take care of your friends, ESPECIALLY THIS ONE."

"Hold on to him..."

Who does Keyleth tether herself to in the last episode? Who brings her back to herself? Who is she choosing to rise above for?

Keyleth's dad might as well have asked VAX'S permission to marry his daughter. The man KNEW.

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hit me again that vex has lived longer without vax than she did with him 🙃

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So sorry its late, everyone!

But here's chapter one of my "Orthax Took Vax's Soul" AU rewrite of TLOVM S3 E12!

Not sure when I'll get more out, but I'm excited for this one!

Heed the warnings, this one is going to get pretty dark!

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“I’ll be your boatman, your reaper

I’ll be yours but you can’t keep her”

- Far From Me by Chase Noseworthy

Y'ALL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THOSE LINES AND THE WHOLE SONG IS DOING TO ME, I JUSTTT LOVE IT SO SO SO MUCH

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I have a lot of thoughts on LoVM Season 3 but I just want to talk about one thing: the gender-role reversals in Vaxleth.

First, to the LoVM team: one day, I'm going to die from emotional overload, and I want you to know it was your fault. You will be invited to my funeral.

On to the main topic. I've always pegged Vax (yes, I know what I wrote) as more emotional than your average man. Compare him to Grog and you'll get what I mean. He's an empath. He loves his sister. You might almost say he's a family man.

But boy did this season put this on display in his relationship with Keyleth.

First big piece of evidence. The eye-opening moment. They are fighting Raishan. Keyleth is vaporized, Vax falls to his knees and cries. The poor princess mourning her hero slain by a dragon. And evidence #1.5: while Raishan looms over Vax, about to vaporize him, Keyleth emerges with a killing blow, saving our damsel in distress and taking the day. Knight and princess. A classic à la Vaxleth.

Family vs ambition: "I would gladly give my soul for one day of your happiness." As if we needed more proof that Vax loves his sister to death (again, I know what I wrote). Traditionally, though, story-telling gives woman one main interest: their family, while male characters are given personal development. Not Vaxleth. Keyleth is the one travelling the world to perfect her skills and earn high achievements, to sit on the council, and become a household name throughout Emon. But nothing Vax has ever done is for his own advancement. He goes where Vex goes, tells her several times that he'd leave the team if she did, sacrifices his soul for her and then for Percy because she loves him. He's never had personal ambition, or we're never told of them. Trophy wife material. Give me more.

The Swoon factor. Honestly, look at these two and tell me which one is more likely to swoon if this were a Victorian period drama? It's "So chunky with an adoring smile on his face" Vax. It's "I have no words because you stole them with this kiss" Vax. That man is BESOTTED. That man is the romantic. Keyleth is poised, words at the ready, newly self-confident in her feelings. If we're talking clichés: she feels with her brains, he feels with his heart (imo). The switch up is delicious.

I feel like there's more; I remember I had more in mind, so I might add to this later. Let me know if I've missed something.

Vaxleth, you are my modern-day greek tragedy, and it is a pleasure to weep for you.

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I've been working on this one for a long time. Please have your daily dose of Gojo Satoru angst. 5 times he was nothing but a weapon and 1 time he wasn't.

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jaime watched her eyes. pretty eyes, he thought, and calm. he knew how to read a man’s eyes. he knew what fear looked like. she is determined, not desperate.

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a lament for suns and wolves

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Jaime Lannister/Robb Stark

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OMG Vaxleth kissed smack in the middle of the trailer? No trigger warning no nothing? Do they not care about my heart? I'm not going to talk about the shot with the coffin or Keyleth at the grave cause we are absolutely 100% ignoring that.

BUT THE KISS

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fanfic writers are so fucking awesome in the sense that they can take one single scene, that lasts less than a minute, from the source material and turn that one single scene into a 40k word long fic with depth, feels, character study and development and create a whole storyline out of that one single canonical moment.

fanfic writers are so fucking awesome in the sense that they can take one single scene, that lasts less than a minute, from the source material and write 40 entirely different fics about that one single canonical moment and each one of those fics are literal masterpieces.

shout out to us fanfic writers ♡♡♡♡♡♡