#(and neither will yara LMAO)

[supermarine-silvally]

10, 23, 24 for Portada!! -🍂

Not me procrastinating on writing Portada by writing different, shorter Portada lmao

anyways welcome back to 🔥Portada Hour⚔️ !!

Ship Ask Game

10. Do they share any hobbies or interests? How do these things bring them together?

I dunno if this really counts as an interest or hobby but they train together! They both want to get stronger, and can go a little nuts (provided they're not using haki) because their Devil Fruits just happen to make it so neither of them can really hurt the other. They also love being out in nature together; Yara so she can collect her plants and Ace because he's a feral jungle boy who needs to be set loose in his natural habitat sometimes lol (he tries to impress her with his hunting skills like he'll just haul over some massive boar he managed to take down like "Yaraaaa!! Look what I brought!! 😁" And she'll pat him on the head like "That's nice, Ace. Thank you. 😌")

23. What are the defining characteristics of their relationship?

Loyalty and intense, dedicated, passionate love. They are so ride or die for each other. Probably the most fated lovers I've ever written tbh

24. How do their personalities affect their relationship? Do their characteristics compliment each other, or clash often?

They are somehow simultaneously very similar while being very opposites attract. A lot of their trauma comes from the same place of desperately wanting to be loved and trying to find a place to belong in the world, so even though they appear very different on the outside (Ace with his sunshine golden retriever personality and Yara with her disgruntled black cat personality), they understand each other on a fundamental level. Their personalities complement each other nicely in their day-to-day lives-- Ace gives love where Yara craves it, Yara gives affirmation where Ace needs it-- and the only time where things really clash is when Yara wants her alone/quiet time and Ace gets all 🥺 about it, lol

[alivegirlmari]

which skamiverse character do you think would fit in best with the Yellowjackets?

OKAY INSANE QUESTION. had to spend all weekend thinking. idk whether you meant who would best fit as in like, who would be friends with the team?? or who would just generally exist in the yj universe?? so i'm doing a bit of everything <3 long as fuck so under a read more.

mailin is, i believe, the only canon girl soccer player, so the most boring superficial answer ofc is that mailin is the best fit. however:

nora m. and lottie would be a bittersweet type of almost, i think, if they were ever in a group project together. one time everyone bails on a meeting so lottie is like let's ditch the library come over to mine my parents are out. at some point they pause for a break and have a drink (lottie offers something alcoholic, nora declines, lottie doesn't question further but Knows something is up and grabs them both sodas). i don't think they'd be completely honest about their respective mental illnesses or family situations, ofc, but there'd be a shared, quiet understanding borne from a few anecdotes and the implications underlining them. it's nice to be able to breathe for a few hours, to admit the depth of your loneliness and momentarily allow yourself to cast it away. at one point, lottie puts on some music. they dance and laugh and let themselves be teen girls before lottie's parents come home. i think they'd say hi to each other in the halls, and nora would cheer when lottie scores a goal (the cashqueens go to mailin's games), but i just can't see them - for multiple, complex reasons - becoming besties. or at least, not publicly? i think it's one of those 'we'll have the magic of that night and i'll always be grateful for it' dynamics. fuck i actually want a fic of this now lmao.

in many ways shauna/jeff/jackie is just a parallel universe eva/jonas/ingrid situation. so i think shauna would be friendly at school with some of the evas (i'm thinking og eva and megan, not an eva but she'd also like liv imo), but they'd never quite click, either. shauna recognizes something in them she doesn't like - or, she can't recognize herself at all bc in her mind her situation is worse. but they'd share notes sometimes.

rip javi you would've LOVED being a tiny big brother to umut inci <3 there's a world where javi, wanting to become closer to his dad (or perhaps forced to go with him? similar to how he and travis go on the nationals trip) goes to mr martinez's games & training sessions and sees the u12 boys team warming up first and talks to the sullen kid kicking balls really hard. tfw you love your elder sibling but things are hard and neither of you really has the language to express it all.

constantin and randy. obviously. they have drinking competitions at parties; constantin eventually hates randy for not being an alpha male like him. unforch it is the 90s and randy does not have the emotional intelligence to recognize constantin is an alcoholic spiraling. (was that plot like...ever addressed?)

zoe m. and mari besties, spiritual sisters, and soulmates every friday and saturday night. berlin slash wiskayok you are NOT ready. but i don't think zoe is as bitchy as mari is. or as smart, tbh? mari would def hate the instas's s5 stunts. it'd be a very intense, fiery, party-focused short-lived friendship. a 24/7 drunk girl in the bathroom vibe. always about to collapse but absolutely beautiful while it lasts. pre-s2 cris would also love both zoe and mari btw.

yara and tai are the resident It girls who run things bts. i'm assuming tai did multiple extracurriculars. she meets yara, class president, overseer of all, at one of them. they immediately just get each other's vibe and have the 'can work in silent tandem and get everything done in ten mins OR will spend an hour giggling' type of friendship. yara faux-casually lets slip that she's bi once. does she already know tai's closeted and wants to make her feel a little less alone, or is she just hoping she is, desperate to know she's not reading too much into it, wanting to feel a little less alone herself? (tai freaks out regardless. they make up, eventually. yara becomes the world's first tai/van shipper. they smile at each other, a little wistfully, across the room and over the crowd at parties.)

tai would think redouane was a bit of a class clown at first, but she'd see him on the other side of the gym sometimes, always working out, playing with the younger students, putting away equipment correctly, and she'd come to respect him. van would LOVE his lil films. he'd be on the yearbook committee and make sure to take really good photos of van for the yj page, and give her the outtakes, and they'd talk Cinema. bilal comes along once and he and van invent the Just A Goofy Little Guy Convention. but i also think they recognize something in the other - a desire for More from life, but a situation beyond their control that may not allow for it - and maybe they wouldn't talk about it, but she'd sneak him movies for zak and he'd sew her something to pin on her jersey.

pre-s6 lola would love pre-crash nat in the sense that they'd both skip classes to smoke behind the school. unforch lola would rather die than exercise so she also thinks she's better than nat bc she's not an athlete. max also likes pre-crash nat for her bisexual smoker swag.

nobody hates this more than me but tiff is v mistycoded like her first response to being rightfully slapped in the face is to fake a broken neck with a brace to make people feel bad for her. they also only have one friend. they'd absolutely HATE each other though. s6 tiff would def bully her. s7-10 tiff doesn't, but keeps a wide berth, and offers no real apology for her past actions. moira's existence is the only thing that stops misty from putting a dead rat in tiff's locker. the second moira's 18 though? oh it's over.

(tiff is also 10000% the allie stevens of the yj universe, btw.)

some of the william remakes, mostly senne & noah, give me jeff vibes. as in the fandom loves to think they're better men than they are but if you think about it for more than two secs you're like, hold on...but didn't they once...? however alejandro IS travis and i mean this in a way complimentary towards both. alejandro & travis: guys who eventually become one of the girls. guys who love their gfs but love isn't always enough. guys and their almosts, their what ifs, etc.

lucas r loves paul's aesthetic, esp. his earring. he also loves mari. but i don't think mari loves him. tragic (misty loves him bc she loves a gay man she can put in a cage. he doesn't love her at all. less tragic.)

lucas vdh would light a cabin of girls on fire no question. he doesn't even need to know about the cannibalism to do it.

crystal is obvs those two theatre/musical kids that approach the evas in every season one. i could not tell you their names if you put a gun to my head. they might not've even been theater kids. but that's her: Very friendly, Very unable to read a room, Very much deserved better. speaking of deserving better: ava and crystal musical duo when???

jackie [handshake emoji] maya: girls who are doomed by the narrative. girls with complicated families. girls who love really hard. girls who are in love with, and have their heartbroken by, their best friend*. i actually don't think maya would like pre-crash jackie tbh. she's too normie for her. but college jackie and maya meet when jackie's roommate drags her to a campus enviro protest, and they'd become friendly, esp. when maya spots jackie hesitantly entering the lgbt students union. jackie helps maya shave her head once. they talk about femininity and gender and lesbianism and something clicks maybe they become roomies. maybe they raise a plant together. (*yes max is maya's canon bestie but s9 took everything from me debshirley are NOT taking my lola/maya besties headcanon too)

anyways um. did not mean 2 write an entire essay here. sorry for taking ages with it. lmk ur thoughts anon <33

[its-deputy-caleb]

Day Ten –“Sneaking Glances”

character: Yelena Morales | 991 words |

summary: caught in a argument between la moral, libertad and the legends, you can’t help but be drawn to yelena the whole time and neither of you can keep your eyes from each other

note: i wrote this in five mins cause i’m so behind lmao and even tho i love yelena and wanted to do her justice since she’s one of my faves i just don’t like how this turned out :( i might come back and change this later but i still wanted to meet the dead line of getting it posted today

Holy fuck this meeting was boring.

For almost three hours straight members of La Moral, Libertad and the Legends had been at each other's throats, arguing over this and that. At first it was who got first dibs on medicine but it quickly boiled over into an ugly battle over territory.

La Moral wanted the Legends to stay tucked away in Patriotas Peak, licking their wounds so they could do the ‘real fighting’ and the Legends wanted La Moral to step back so they could reclaim the spotlight of El Este’s strongest guerrilla groups. At some point during the meeting, Dani tried to step in, to be the voice of reason but that got her nowhere once people questioned Libertad’s motives in all of this.

Eventually it reached a stage where the arguing was pointless. Hostages from all the groups had been taken and captured under Admiral Benitez– there was no time to waste squabbling amongst each other but anyone who had voiced any reason had been shut down.

Whilst Jonrón was on her third round of bickering with The Legends, your eyes drifted over to Yelena who was seated beside you. She looked tired and defeated– this was getting you nowhere and you could tell underneath her stoicism that all the heated tension between the groups was wearing her down.

She had stopped interjecting a while ago, instead choosing to listen as she pinched the bridge of her nose and rested her arms on the large table set up in the middle of El Agujero base in Concepción. It probably didn’t help that she spent her days hunched over files in a damp basement all the time and if it wasn’t for the curfew and heavy FND presence in the town, you’d take her out more.

Just wait until we take out Benitez and that fucker Mckay– then we’ll be free to be together.

Your eyes meet her exhausted ones, and she softens at the reassuring look you give her. All the groaning and swearing is drowned out around you as the two of you share glances at each other. It’s only when the yelling picks up again or a new argument rises does your attention flicker back to the task at hand.

And so it goes on like that. For however many hours of pointless bickering, your eyes always find each other and the sneaking glances are thrown your way. Eventually, your hands gravitate towards Yelena’s own, finding her fingers spread over her thigh as you loop your fingers together and squeeze reassuringly from underneath the protection of the table.

“For fucks sake! Can we stop arguing and go save our people, our friends– our family?!” Your voice is full of confidence, and possibly a hint of annoyance from repeating the same idea for so long. But even through it all your hand never leaves Yelena’s.

“Castillo wants to divide us all. True Yarans. Fake Yarans. It’s all one Yara.” Dani gives the two of you a nod of approval and something like consensus shifts in the room. The petty insults cease from all sides and Gilberto makes some calls to gather the men, finally realising that everyone is getting along enough to go out and save your people.

“Hah! You stole that right outta Clara’s book Bebé Tigre!” El Tigre’s infectious laughter seems to have everyone relaxing. Dani breathes a sigh of relief and you can’t help but notice the way Jonrón’s eyes light up as she idolises the Legends once more.

“I think we’ve wasted enough time standing around here. Dani, will you come with us to help save our people? We’ll lend you the medicine as gratitude.” Yelena’s voice is steady and calm as she leads the group. Her natural leadership is one of the things you love and admire about her, the way she speaks from the heart but still fighting for those she loves. 

Her hand snakes from your fingers up to your wrist, rubbing slow circles with her thumb as she tries to subtly pull you closer to her. Physical affection always grounded her in stressful situations.

Dani nods without a moment's hesitation, reloading her handgun and adjusting the strange looking rocket booster on her shoulders. Hey, there’s no judging anyone’s fashion statements in times of crisis.

“Bebé Tigre, you best not think of sidelining me! I may be old but this guerrilla legend has some kick left in him,” El Tigre jumps up with Dani, flexing his arms as he grabs some spare ammo from the centre of the table before turning towards where you and Yelena are sitting. “And for the love of God– would you two just kiss already? You’ve been staring at each other for the past four hours.”

Both you and Yelena squeak at that, unused to any outright attention unless it’s coming from Gilberto or Jonrón on the rare occasion at one of La Morals parties. She blushes profusely, going to restack some of the maps by her computer in an awkward attempt to keep her hands busy.

You’re not so fortunate as El Tigre throws an arm around your shoulders for some of his infamous Legend wisdom. “Oh to be young and in love again– there’s nothing quite like a romance between revolutions.”

Just as he is about to lead you up the steps towards the entrance, you glance over his arm to find Yelena already gazing back at you. She gives a big wave and wishes good luck on returning safely but her flustered shyness appears once you blow her a kiss and return her wave.  You can’t help the way your stomach warms at the sight of her dramatically catching the kiss and holding it close to her chest from the corner of your eye. 

El Tigre certainly isn’t going to let you forget how cute you two are together through the whole drive down to the docks.

[mrsdanirojas]

Just Us Here – Dani Rojas x F!Reader

Summary: No one ever talks about how being a guerrilla can also be dreadfully boring.

So, one afternoon you and your favorite guerrilla escape to a lookout bunker and decide to play your classic favorite game (you know the one: in how many public places around Yara can you two get away with a good, quick fuck?). To your frustration, and then to your delight, she's brought along a surprise.

Notes: Here's the deal: There is no plot here. The plot is Dani Rojas straps you silly during a not-so-quickie in a semi-private place.

Also, apologies in advance for the veritable air-drop into this depraved scene…it was supposed to be a short headcanon that clearly got out of hand. Oh yeah and like,, general apologies since this is my first longer-form smut lmao.

Finally – special, special thanks to @its-deputy-caleb and @aexelle for reading, kind words, and great feedback. 💕

Content notes: Explicit so minors SCRAM. Also semi-public sex, strap-on use, hair pulling, nipple play. Um, and lack of plot.

Words: 1877

On AO3.

It began innocently enough, as a game you two had created during the long hours standing watch.

Well – no, it hadn't begun innocently at all, but what had started out playfully soon became a foolhardy pastime neither of you had the slightest intention of stopping.

The game is simple.

Which is how you find yourself here, in a recently-cleared FND bunker, straddling Dani Rojas on the only weathered metal folding chair in the place, head thrown back, hands lost in her sweaty hair, riding for dear life.

"Eso, mamita," she murmurs, guiding your rolling hips and driving her cherished emerald green strap into you at a steady yet deliberate pace, hypnotizing rhythm between your legs threatening to send you into orbit embarrassingly quickly. That Dani's smooth, sweet voice brushing against your ear never fails to make you ache with want isn’t helping in the slightest.

The squeak of the stout metal chair cuts through the soft wet sounds of you riding the strap. The slap of your bare, flushed skin rings out inside the bunker, and probably outside of it, too. Your ragged gasps hang in the air, interspersed with Dani's occasional groans as the domino etched on her hand disappears under your thighs and ass to lift and better support you. Just outside and down the hill, a rumbling truck ambles by on the service road, reminding you where the fuck you are.

Though that particular emerald green strap (sinfully girthy; silicone; long enough to torment you in whatever position Dani feels like that day) is your favorite too, she's never had the gall to bring it with her out into the field – fully on and ready, no less – so you'd nearly ripped her a new one when she backed you up to the bunker wall.

"You can't be carrying around distractions all day. You could get hurt, Dani," you'd hissed.

Dani had simply sighed. "Ay, mami, how do I say this?" she began, stopping to run a hand through her hair and cup your warm cheek, thumb unconsciously stroking your cheekbone. "If we're working together, then I don't need to put on a strap to be carrying around a distraction all day." She wiggled her eyebrows knowingly, and you fought back a smile as your stomach did a small flip.

You hadn't pressed the issue, both because you adored the idea that you were distraction enough for the lethal guerrilla, and because the supple head of Dani's strap coming to rest on your exposed thigh promptly short-circuited your brain. She hadn't let you think twice before summarily disposing of your jeans, underwear, and top to boot, leaving them splayed across the dingy floor of the bunker in a heady race to pin you exactly where she wanted you. It was exactly where you wanted, too, considering how unbearably good she looked, inked-up arms straining out of her torn tank, thick strap swinging out of the fly of her pants. So that's why they were so baggy today.

Now, that same strap is stretching you out, Dani filling you up completely in the way you so often crave, gradually teasing the sensual depths of your heat with especial cruelty. You hold Dani's glowing face with both hands, running a thumb along your favorite scar on her eyebrow, as she in turn holds your gaze with luminous eyes and fucks you, her need growing in tandem with yours. Somewhere, in the recesses of your mind, you figure she must have chosen the color to match her gorgeous eyes, before a deliciously deep thrust brings you back.

"Fuck," you whimper, closing your eyes and letting your forehead fall against hers as you continue grinding on top of her.

As is always the case during this game, you want to lose yourself wholly to Dani's whims, but you force yourself to stay grounded enough to glance out of the bunker's small opening for passersby. You don’t see anyone. Just outside the shelter, thin dark palm shadows dance about the lower foliage, itself fluttering in the bright sun. A wary dragonfly pauses, suspended mid-flight, then flits away. You become dimly aware of the stream trickling some feet away, and the dry rustle of old discarded documents flapping in the warm breeze.

Picking up on your preoccupation, Dani shoots you a breathless grin through her own escalating arousal. Supporting your waist now with just one arm, she takes a messy fistful of your hair and carefully pulls your head back until you're arching your neck and looking up at the low concrete ceiling. Oh. The gesture, and the vulnerability of your new position, sends shockwaves down the back of your neck through to your throbbing core. You let out a weak sigh and watch the ceiling approach and recede as you slide on Dani’s strap, relishing her near-absolute control of your body and the roughness of her grasp.

Then the arm around your waist pulls you in closer, angling you so Dani can now directly pound into your sweet spot, all teasing unequivocally out the bunker window. You’ve barely completed one sharp intake of breath before another replaces it – still holding your head back firmly, Dani takes the tender flesh of your right nipple between her teeth, at once suckling gently and increasing the intoxicating pace she’d set earlier. You gasp, hands falling to Dani's shoulders for support, nails raking the defined muscles rippling through her soaked tank, making her hum with delight. You can feel the slick warmth of her tongue trace salacious circles on your skin, can feel every inch of the strap as it plumbs your depths, sliding almost all the way out before driving back in to the hilt.

"Ay, Dani," you whine to the ceiling, successfully driven past the point of caring about anyone or anything outside the bunker. Your hand finds the back of her head, caresses the damp hair as you revel in the sensation of her teeth pulling gently on your sensitive nipples in between rough sucks and wide licks.

“That’s a good girl. It’s just us here, mi amor,” she mumbles around your turgid flesh still caught between her lips, tightening her punishing grip on your hair. At her praise, another jolt of searing heat burns through you, eclipsing the burning in your legs. All you can do is repeat her name to the room as she continues mercilessly rutting into you, marking up your breasts, until the pleasure courses through your limbs like liquid fire. Of their own volition, your thighs tighten around her waist, desperate to relieve the mounting pressure between your legs. Though you can't look down, you can feel yourself dripping onto her lap.

Guiding your head by the hair still in her relentless grip, Dani brings your mouth back down to hers so she can drink in your free-flowing moans as she fucks you fast and hard, knowing from your tightening clutch on her worn shirt that this particular tempo is going to bring you to your bliss.

She knows you well. Your eyes flutter, then close as your mouth opens. You gasp into her breaths fluttering across your lips, grateful to have her close again as the room spirals around you. You feel your walls wrap themselves around the thick strap, and you roll faster, deeper, into Dani’s furiously working hips.

“Así, mamita, I got you,” Dani pants against your parted mouth, softly but herself clearly close to her own peak. She pulls you closer, just in time, because you cry out, legs seizing her waist, now clenching fistfuls of her hair with both hands as the first waves of your orgasm rock you. Your cunt spasms around her, and Dani maintains her pace through the pain in her scalp, grunting in ruthless pursuit of her own release. “Coño. Shit.”

“Oh my god, Dani – así, así,” you sob into her lush lips, before they sweep yours into a blazing kiss. You tremble as your entire world is reduced to the length of the strap deep inside you, plowing you now with short, forceful thrusts, thick head bullying further into you as you pulsate around it. You want the pleasure of such out-and-out, deep-down, toes-curling fucking to never ever end, and at the same time you’re not sure you can possibly hang on another moment. Mercifully, your wave breaks, languid warmth flooding you as you come, moaning in Dani's mouth.

“Mierda,” Dani growls in response to your wanton sounds, hips rolling a fraction more slowly to lock into her own imminent release. She rides her own high as you manage to hold on, one arm now thrown around her shoulders and the other running through her hair again in pure post-fuck adoration.

In your sex-addled state you admire Dani, her own head thrown back now, small braid in her hair swinging as she rides the base of the strap still destroying you through the ebbing of your peak. Another moan escapes you, the rhythm and her conviction rekindling the fire you thought you’d just finished swallowing whole. The urgency of her arousal, electrifying and palpable as she continues to thrust into you, is enough to bring you to a second, sweeter crest with her. She groans, eyes squeezing shut, suddenly yanking your hair back again as she comes with a snarl. You cry out, second orgasm positively heightened by the motion of your head whipping back at her whim.

Chest heaving, brow dripping, Dani tenderly releases your hair to cradle and massage the back of your head as you lean back and drift in her arms. If you had managed to keep your eyes open, you would have caught her green eyes gazing at you with an almost pained reverence. You don’t realize you’re still grinding lazy, infinitesimal circles on her strap, chasing the recent memory of the all-consuming pleasure in your heat, and you barely register the soft slick of the strap sliding out of you, until it releases with a small wet sound. You whine, already missing the sensation.

Again, a stray thought materializes in the back of your mind – in the frightfully small space not consumed with the perpetual carnal urge to ride your guerrilla until the wheels fall off – you positively marvel at Dani’s stamina.

Dani hums, content. “So, beat-up old squeaky bunker, huh? Check?” she smirks, wiping you down carefully, but you're still floating down from the clouds of your bliss.

“How…” you begin when you can finally speak, still breathless, cunt still twitching steadily. Your eyes flutter open, hazy and sated, and meet hers.

“Hmm?” Dani asks, absentmindedly caressing your cheek once more.

“How do you make that seem so easy?” you ask, placing an unsteady hand flat on her chest, toying with the neckline of her tank, unable to stop replaying the memory of her toned hips sustaining their dizzying tempo through her own orgasm.

Dani laughs, the sound renewing the flood of warmth between your bruised thighs. You smile, make a decision then and there.

“Coño, you think I lug around three rifles and a pistol every day just to help free Yara?” Dani winks, giving your sore hips a commanding squeeze.

It's your turn to laugh. “Let’s do some training then, guerrilla,” you say, pulling her in again.

[oodlyenough]

alright i finished last of us 2

As much as I tried to avoid spoilers it was impossible to escape a couple that slipped through:

everyone hated it

ellie dies

I did not hate it and Ellie did not die LMAO

I overall really enjoyed this game a lot -- I was tbh pleasantly surprised that Joel’s death was the inciting event and not fridging Ellie’s girlfriend, which was the plot I had been hoping for but did not really think I would get, lol. I liked the use of flashbacks too, I thought slowly revealing to us what had happened with Ellie and Joel and the fallout of the end of the first game was nice. I was less into the flashbacks as Abby, because I could not care less about Owen, but they were still nice breathers from the intense combat in other sequences. 

I did not anticipate Abby being such a pivotal character herself let alone the other playable for half the game. I liked Abby. I think probably most people did not, because she killed Joel, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it was obvious enough early on she was going to be a parallel to Ellie and a hammer to hit home the “revenge bad” moral and I thought she did that well. Plus I really liked Lev and Yara. Son Boy Allowed.

Nothing in this game is subtle but neither was the first one. The “revenge bad” moral I thought was conveyed well enough, if belaboured a bit more than it needed to be. I thought the set-up of playing Ellie through Seattle and then going back and playing Abby and getting to know the people you just slaughtered as Ellie was overall effective, though I felt worse about some deaths than others ngl. Poor Alice. I tried my best to avoid killing dogs... 

Gameplay was great. FUCK stalkers, btw. And that weird blob in the hospital glhasghl Ugh. I liked how they made Abby and Ellie play different, it was neat even if frustrating to start with having to re-collect weapons etc lol. And I kept wanting to use a weapon the one didn’t have. 

My biggest criticism is the end -- not even the actual way it ends, Ellie FINALLY getting a clue and deciding revenge just isn’t worth it is fine and I was braced for worse (see: “Ellie dies” lol). But the period between Seattle and that final conclusion dragged on and on, and not only because it was frustrating to watch Ellie make terrible choices. The introduction of the Rattlers was completely unnecessary imo, we already had enough groups going on with the Wolves and the Seraphites, did I need another whole segment fighting human enemies who have only been in the story for ten seconds? Did we need to explore how THEY’RE bad too after we already did it with the Wolves and Seraphites?? Crucifixion and stuff?? It just felt over the top in a game that already operates at a high level of gore and drama. I don’t think the Rattler plotline added anything to the story really except to, I guess, be an excuse for Ellie and Abby Round 2 to be so weak and pathetifc. I ended up switching to “very light” mode for the final confrontation with them because I was so done lmao I just wanted to see how the story ended damn...

So I think the pacing would’ve been stronger if we cut out, I dunno, at least 5 hours of this game. Maybe adjust the timeline a bit. Everything after Seattle felt like... weirdly tacked on, big time jumps, random enemies, really dragging out that lesson Ellie needed to learn. 

But I am pleasantly surprised Ellie, Dina, Lev and Abby ended in one piece. Mostly. Minus some fingers. Gonna choose to believe Ellie finds Dina and they work it out :P 

[likexporcelain]

Emilia said in an interview she wished the women had more one on one scenes with each other and conversations like Jon and the other guys get to have. I think it was her New Yorker interview.

This is a really widespread issue with TV shows created (and predominantly written and directed by) men. They only know how to create m/m platonic relationships and have no idea how to write f/f platonic relationships. We see this in Stranger Things also. Nancy has only really had one platonic friend the entire series, and while that friend was female, she was killed off during the first season, and Nancy has yet to be given another platonic friendship. Eleven had no female friends for 2 seasons. The Duffers made up for it a bit by allowing her and Max to develop a really great friendship in season 3. However, that remains Eleven’s sole female friend. They even cut Eleven’s sister entirely from the show, as if she no longer exists. Meanwhile, Mike gets to have a whole squad of boy-friends that extends to Max (though she is obviously not totally integrated into their inner circle bc of her gender), Eleven (though her role in the group is more that of “Mike’s girlfriend”), and Steve (another male). Some male characters in Stranger Things aren’t given any friendships (Jonathan, Hopper, etc.) but these are portrayed as being due to their “loner” character traits, or self-isolation due to trauma. However, females like Nancy, Joyce, and Robin are not “loner-types” so the fact they they have no friends (Robin isn’t shown to have any friends before developing her friendship with Steve) doesn’t make much sense. Characters like Mrs. Wheeler and Erica are shown to have “squads” of female friends but they are predominantly nameless extras with little to no dialogue. 

This trend is also glaring in Game of Thrones. Just as Mike as given a boy squad, Jon is given his. Every platonic non-familial relationship Jon has had has been with boys/men. Sam, Edd, Pip, Grenn, Tormund, Davos, and even Ghost is a dude. His “suicide squad” in season 7 was also an all-male crew where they all managed to work together and even bond. The only other close relationships Jon is given is with women he is romantically involved with, or his siblings. Meanwhile, Dany is given one (1) significant female friend: Missandei. Even so, the two of them had one (1) conversation with each other through season 7 and 8, and it was to talk about a boy. Likewise, Sansa is only give one (1) female friend throughout the TV series: Margaery. Even so, as soon as Sansa was out of KL, the two never acknowledged the other ever existed. Sansa went on to develop a friend-ish relationship with Brienne, but the show portrays that more as a boss/subordinate relationship. Brienne is given no female friends at all ever. Neither is Cersei. Arya was given a small squad in the earlier seasons, but they were all boys. In the show, Arya is only really shown making friends with one (1) female, Lady Crane, and she is killed very quickly into that friendship. The closest thing we get to a female “squad” in Game of Thrones is the Dragonstone scene in season 7 when Dany is being advised by Olenna, Ellaria and Yara. However, this is more of a military-alliance situation, less of actual friendships. That’s not to say that real friendships could not have been developed (especially between Dany and Yara) but they definitely were not. Why? Some say D&D are sexist and the show is misogynistic as a result, and that could very well be true. What is for certain, though, is that D&D 1) did not know how to write platonic female friendships, and 2) did not have the desire to figure it out or maybe like.... hire some long-term female writers/directors to do it for them, and thus they kept all positive f/f interactions to a minimum. What that resulted in was most of the f/f interactions (which were minuscule compared to the m/m interactions) were either 1) to discuss men, 2) to discuss war, and 3) for them to fight/argue/be needlessly antagonistic toward one another. 

Wow, sorry for such a long response. I’ve just got a lot of opinions lmao. Thanks for the ask, anon <3

[danysghost-archive]

True Rulers, 3

Blurb: What if the Seven Kingdoms, for once in their whole shit history, were ruled by a just woman and an honorable man?

Word Count: 2032 (WOW OKAY)

Warnings: ONE swear word lmao

A/N: here is chapter three!! thank you @miladyaryastark for giving it a look over beforehand, if she didn’t do that, this chapter would be WAY worse. here are chapters one and two so you can catch up, here is the ao3 link, and please enjoy!

The king and queen were sitting in the throne room, each in their own chair. Even before Gendry was elected, he found the sight of the Iron Throne ghastly. Arya herself had never cared for it, more for her enemies who had previously sat there. And so, after very little discussion, they had asked Daenerys if she would destroy it. She was more than willing, as was Drogon. They designed their new seats themselves, neither bigger or more ornate than the other. From the start of their marriage, it was always a shared rule. The smallfolk were slow to adjust, but once they witnessed the power the two had together, there were no more questions.

Now, less than 10 hours after revealing her pregnancy to Gendry, the queen was focusing all her energy on the issues of the smallfolk. It was a day for them to present their problems and seek help, which Arya could not have been more grateful for. “Sir, please come forward,” she called to the next man in line. “Please, speak.”

Gendry wanted to listen. The smallfolk were a huge priority of his, considering he’d been one of them for the first 23 years of his life. But the elderly man in front of him was quickly tuned out. His mind was drawn to his conversation with Arya last night. They hadn’t talked about having kids, not that he never considered it. But now it was real, which make him happy. Still, he couldn’t help but feel that Arya wasn’t excited. And if she wasn’t, what would she ask of Maester Sam? What would she do to herself, and to their unborn child inside her?

“You’re Grace?” her voice gently called.

Gendry looked over to her, and then to the man in front of them. “Ahem, well… what do you think, my queen?”

Arya gave him a small smile and looked back to the man. “Sir, we will send two men from the city guard to help you reinforce you fences. They will assist you for the next week. Is that alright?” When the man nodded, Arya rose from her seat. “Thank you everyone, but we must take our leave. You may speak again in a fortnight.”

Gendry stood as well, nodding in agreement. “Yes, thank you all.” The guards escorted everyone out of the throne room and shut the doors behind them. He offered his hand to Arya, beginning his way down the steps. “Samwell is waiting for us in his surgery. We need to inform him of the child.” He watched, though, as the queen refused his assistance, and stomped her way down the stairs.

“I don’t want to go down there. It stinks to all the Seven Hells, and I’m sick enough as it is.” She quickly combed her fingers through the half of her hair that was down. The other half was intricately braided. She might not have been a fan of the dresses of a typical lady, but she had no problem letting her hand maids teach her fancy twists. They kept her wild locks out of her eyes all the same. “Besides, I’d like to tell Jon before I tell a maester. He’s my family, as much as you are, and I’d like to let him know.”

“Let him know what?” The clear, strong voice of Jon rang out through the throne room. He was standing in the back entrance.

Arya smiled and started to run towards him, but stopped after the first few steps. “It’s good to see you again, Jon.” She grabbed his arm and dragged him in Gendry’s direction. “We were just discussing the upcoming meeting. Sansa and Yara will be coming, so I was proposing the idea of them getting married.” She bit the inside of her cheek. “What do you think?”

Her brother let out a slightly condescending laugh. “Arya, they would have to change their laws. They may be independent, but their people are still nervous to change. It’ll take a few years before ladies are allowed to marry each other anywhere. At least in Westeros.” He shook Gendry’s hand and gave a quick bow. They were family, so most formalities were excused.

Arya folded her arms. “Well, maybe we’ll start changing them. Sooner, rather than later.”

The king put his hand on his wife’s shoulder. “Arya. Tell him.” His voice was soft. He didn’t want to push her, not in her state. But he knew keeping it from Jon too long would only make things worse.

Jon looked between them. “What’s wrong?” His eyes landed on his sister. “Arya?”

The lady shot an angry glare at her husband, and slammed her foot on top of his. The heel of her boots crushed his smaller toes, cracking the joints. “Thanks a lot.” She straightened her bodice, which was now looser than she normally had it. “You’d better not be angry with me.” Her voice was threatening, but it hid a shyness that not many got to see.

Jon shook his head. “Why would I be angry?”

She took a deep breath, passing one final look to Gendry. “Because… I’m carrying Gendry’s child.” Her eyes were steel daggers on her brother’s face; waiting, watching to see how he would react.

Gendry himself, on the other hand, wore a completely bewildered look. He may be the king, but Jon was Arya’s older brother. There was an automatic protection, and for Gendry, danger.

The Northman broke into a grin, and kissed Arya’s cheek. “I’m very happy for you.” Almost immediately after, he slung an arm around Gendry’s shoulders, pulling him in tightly. He leaned in, their foreheads nearly touching. “If anything happens to my sister while she carries that child, I will lob your cock off so fast, you won’t even know it’s gone.”

Arya scoffed and pulled the two apart. “Oh, please, I’m going to be fine. Sam is the best maester we could hope for. Besides, compared to everything else… how hard could being pregnant be?”

Just then, the creaking of the main doors cut the silence. “You’re pregnant?”

The trio turned.

It was Sansa. Standing in the open doors, wearing a dark blue gown, embroidered with a direwolf across the chest, weirwood leaves along the hem, and snowflakes down the sleeves. She wore her silver crown atop her straight red hair. She was a vision to behold, as always. She drifted across the floor, Ser Brienne appearing behind her, quickly meeting her siblings and the king near the other end of the room. “You’re pregnant,” she directed to Arya again, this time not a question. She was smiling, but trying to hide it by biting her lip. Sansa, while still sharp of mind, had gotten back some of the excitable, young girl she used to be. Arya knew it was taking a lot for her not to immediately start suggesting names.

The queen raised her eyebrows at her husband. “My dear, I think we need thicker doors.” The girls bowed to each other, in respect of their own kingdoms, and quickly hugged. They all made their way to the royal dining room for supper, updating each other on their lives. Sansa and Yara had arranged trade deals between the North and the Iron Islands, moving through the proper channels to hopefully unite both kingdoms. The two had met at the council meeting after the taking of Kings Landing, and as queens of independent kingdoms, thought it would be good to keep in touch. Arya wasn’t surprised when she heard they were together.

“I knew there was something there!” Arya bellowed. “Any time you mentioned her, it got more and more romantic. You can’t fool me, sister.” She took a sip of ale, passing a smirk to Sansa.

The Northern queen couldn’t help but laugh. “It’s not my fault you use those wild assassin skills as an advantage,” she quipped back. For a moment, the three Stark could almost feel like it was one of their family dinners; the kind Ned and Catelyn would make jokes at, and where Bran and Arya would pretend to duel with their knives. But as much as any of them wished they could have one of those again, Sansa was usually the realist. She dabbed her lips clean with the cloth, and lowered her eyes to her lap, trying to hide the sadness in them. “So… do you know what will happen after the child is born?” She flicked her gaze up to Gendry. “Regarding the succession?” She sat up straighter and placed her hands on the table. “You have thought about that, right?”

Jon put his hands up a bit, already knowing the storm that could brew. “Maybe we should stay out of it, Sansa. They probably want to discuss it on their own.” His voice was level and calming. He was good at mediating, which make him excellent as Master of Laws.

Gendry sighed uncomfortably. “Well, we only found out last night. It hadn’t crossed my mind.” He suddenly took Arya’s hand in his, under the table, squeezing it. He told himself he was doing it to comfort her, but it was definitely more for his own sake. “I think we wanted to wait until we could discuss it with the small council.”

Arya scrunched her forehead. “We should keep the election method. Changing so quickly would be unfair to other houses, unfair to others who could rule better.” She pulled her hand from his. “We can’t betray their trust.” She speared a piece of pigeon with her fork and ate it swiftly. Even at dinner, she followed Syrio’s lessons.

Hurt crossed Gendry’s eyes. He and Arya had their disagreements at times, but somehow this felt different. More raw. “Well, I think it’s worth discussing with the small council before we make any final decisions.” He leaned back in his chair and smiled at his sibling-in-laws, hoping it would ease the tension.

The queen rolled her eyes at her husband. Without another word, Arya slid back from the table and headed for her chambers.

Sansa huffed. She felt guilty for even bringing it up, and more so that it had upset her sister. “I should go check on her.” She got up from her chair and rounded to Gendry’s side of the table, giving him a pitiful look. “You, of all people, know she doesn’t take kindly to being told what to do.” She kissed her brothers cheek and briskly followed after Arya.

Jon pressed his lips into a thin line and shrugged. “She’s right. And you know it,” he grumbled, sipping his wine. “Just apologize and talk about it together, alone. She’s more likely to listen to you, then.” He patted his shoulder, hoping it was at least somewhat comforting.

The king let his head fall into his hands, releasing a frustrated moan as he did so. He knew his queen make a point, and he couldn’t argue that keeping the election system was better than bloodline succession. But something in the back of Gendry’s mind - or maybe in the back of his heart - didn’t want to give up the chance the child would have at ruling. He looked in the direction Arya had left. Quickly, he called in the squires and maids, thanked Jon for joining them, and excused himself to bed. Thinking on it, running to the royal chambers was the fastest he’d ever moved. He stood at his own bedroom door in no time, opening it as quietly as he could. He saw that his wife was already in her sleeping gown, all candles snuffed, and asleep.

He changed into a long, torn up tunic and slid under the blanket next to her. His chest felt tight, and as he looked down at her sleeping face, he remembered exactly why he asked her to marry him in the first place. He leaned down and kissed her temple. “I’m sorry,” he whispered, so quietly, he wasn’t sure she would be able to hear him, even with his lips grazing her ear. He settled into the downy and closed his eyes. As he felt himself drifting off, a small pair of lips pressed themselves onto his cheek.

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Finale Thoughts

I was greatly disappointed in the finale. (Who wasn’t tho?)

Greyworm wanting to kill all that follow Cersei Lannister...uh...does he not realize Cersei is likely dead at this point? No one can follow her anymore. Jon trying and failing to reason with him was sad but predictable.

Tyrion finding his siblings corpses. Hands down the saddest part of the episode for me. Yes, even sadder then Daenerys death (sorry). I am glad that neither twin ended up being alive tho (I don’t think either would have been happy without the other surviving). However, it’s a bit sad that they didn’t get to make it out and to the boat. 

A few pet peeves about their whole death scene though:

1. Tyrion was just tossing those bricks away like they were nothing

2. The destruction around them wasn’t that bad. Like seriously, if they were just standing a few feet away it looks like they would have been fine. Wtf. Pisses me off. Plus, why didn’t they try to hide in the dragon skulls?

3. If bricks falling on them is what killed them, then there should have been way more blood. As it stands, they both look relatively unharmed and as if they might be sleeping. 

How are there so many Dothraki and unsullied still? I thought she lost the majority of both during the battle for Winterfell. 

Daenerys justifying her actions. This seemed so OOC. And Jon going from defending her to deciding to kill her happened way too quick. This season really needed another 4 or so more episodes to make something like that believable, hell to make all the stuff this season with Jonerys believable. Still, because of how cold he’s been to her, I wasn’t shocked when he killed her, I was more shocked that he defended her earlier in the episode.

Another point, why wasn’t Daenerys wearing the same clothes as she was in season 2 when she had her vision in the house of the undying?

Dany doesn’t even get to sit on the throne! (I didn’t think she would tho, given the vision from season 2 where she didn’t)

Jon killing Dany. I knew the leaks, so I wasn’t shocked, but honestly, once he was in that throne room I don’t think I’d have been shocked either way. Jon’s been cold to her ever since finding out his true parentage and Tyrion got into his head and made him worry that not only he, but his sisters as well, would not be safe so long as she lived. Still, he turned on her way too fast. I think all I’m left to assume now is that he never really loved her. ;( Which goes completely against what they showed us in late season 7 and early season 8.

Drogon burning the Iron Throne and not Jon...wtf. Did he not realize Jon was the one to kill her or something? Or did he just blame her quest for the iron throne for why she died? I didn’t realize dragons had that kind of intelligence.

The one good thing is that Drogon could be carrying Daenerys off to Meeran to be resurrected. So if she had to die, this is the best possible way to end it. We can all headcanon that she was resurrected and either lived a happy life in Meeran (perhaps getting back together with Daario even) or that she was able to reclaim the throne. There are so many possibilities with Drogon carrying her off!

Why didn’t Greyworm kill Tyrion or Jon? It’s so OOC from what they showed of him of these past few episodes. More importantly, why didn’t Daenerys dracarys Tyrion? She did it to Varys without hesitation. Another plothole, just so Tyrion can survive.

Tyrion asking who has a better story then Bran the broken...all I could think was...everyone! lol. Seriously he is the most boring character. And him being king is completely retarded. It’s never been foreshadowed or anything even. Unless you count the fact that the kingslayer tried to kill him like 8 years before he became king lmao. 

Why didn’t Dorne and especially the Iron Islands ask for independence after Sansa got it for the North? Yara had asked Daenerys for independence before, so it makes no sense that she wouldn’t ask Bran.

The council they have are really bad choices. Bronn as master of coin most of all. He will bankrupt the crown in no time. I suppose we can all headcanon a season 9 where the small folk rise up and revolt from this monarchy. Tyrion as hand when he failed all the other monarchs is just stupid. But I guess him being hand is supposed to be his punishment? Wtf.

Brienne writing in the white book...wow! If I were her I would not have done that after how he treated me. I lol’d though at the end bits of “Rode South in an attempt to save the capital from destruction” Poor girl, either lying to herself, or intentionally lying in the white book to make him look better. 

Arya's ending was about the only ending that felt to me both like a fitting ending and a happy ending. But, no more Gendrya interaction? And they were both at the dragonpit and didn’t interact at all! That’s so cold! All the ships were pretty much done dirty this season. Even Cersei and Jaime, though they died together, there was not a satisfying amount of dialogue between them. 

Sansa as Queen in the North. Is this supposed to be a happy ending for her? She has not one family member or friend with her.

I’m extremely disappointed in Jon’s end. It looked like he would end up living happily amongst the wildlings, and I feel he doesn’t deserve that after killing Daenerys like that.

The final scenes....I was disappointed. I was hoping for a time jump to show them all 5 or maybe even 10 or more years down the line. To show Arya happily traveling...maybe visiting Jon and telling him about her adventures. Show Sansa happy in the north and show it prospering under her rule. Show how the hell things are holding up with Bran and his oddly chosen council. Show how Tyrion is coping with everything. If he ever finds happiness.  I would have loved to see these things so much more. 

[kylorenpunk]

Payback is a bitch. Do them all.

“itAy thanks for curing my evening boredom

1. Who was the last person you held hands with?

     I think it was my friend Elli during a service project or my friend when we went to the movies (we occasionally pretend we’re a couple when we go to the movies lmao) 

2. Are you outgoing or shy?

    Shy. It was super hard to make friends during grade school. But if you put me with the right people I can be outgoing. 3. Who are you looking forward to seeing?

     My friend group tomorrow. I think we’re playing smash again? 4. Are you easy to get along with?

     I think so? I have no idea tbh. I know I was a bitch when I was younger though. Hopefully I don’t put off those vibes now 5. If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you?

     The only time we interacted I was drunk so no lol. 6. What kind of people are you attracted to?

     Tattooed, nerdy vibes, can make me laugh, nice eyes, idk I just like guys ok7. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship two months from now?

     HA. Nope. 8. Who from the opposite gender is on your mind?

     Romantically? or friendship? Also bold of you to assume whoever does these are straight. To answer, my friends who are all homies. 9. Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable?

     Depends on the subject. I am always down to make sex jokes but don’t fucking tell me the shit you did with your SO the other night.10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with?

      I’m always down for deep convos tbh so I do this frequently. I think the last full length deep convo I had was with Jessica though? 11. What does the most recent text that you sent say?

      “LMAO” to Joey bc I rick rolled his ass. Bitch apparently I’m always texting you?   12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now?

       According to spotify it’s: Alexander HamiltonGoodbye Yellow Brick Road (Sara Bareilles’ cover) When I Was Your Man (Aaron Tveit’s cover) The Greatest Show The number one song is one I don’t listen to any more so I’ll replace that with the song I’m listening to “How Far I’ll Go” 

13. Do you like it when people play with your hair?

      God yes. That’s the BEST feeling. 14. Do you believe in luck and miracles?

      Not really miracles. But I do believe in luck in a sense 15. What good thing happened this summer?

      My birthday. Going to Chicago. 16. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?

      Sure I’ll kiss my mirror again. Sorry y’all I don’t kiss and tell.17. Do you think there is life on other planets?

      Absolutely.18. Do you still talk to your first crush?

      I have had so many I don’t remember my first crush. And I know for a fact I didn’t start talking to crushes till the middle of high school19. Do you like bubble baths?

      No I hate baths. I think it’s gross. 20. Do you like your neighbors?

      I like their dogs. Especially the beautiful pit I get to dog sit 21. What are you bad habits?

      I get very nervous very easily. I’m unsure of myself. I’m also messy.22. Where would you like to travel?

      New York and Europe 23. Do you have trust issues?

      Who doesn’t? 24. Favorite part of your daily routine?

      When I go to sleep.25. What part of your body are you most uncomfortable with?

      My stomach. 26. What do you do when you wake up?

      Check my phone. It’s really bad. 27. Do you wish your skin was lighter or darker?

      Neither. I like my skin color even though I’m pale as fuck. 28. Who are you most comfortable around?

      I’ll have to say my friends Yara and Josephine. Love all my other friends and no offense to y’all I’m just really self conscious 29. Have any of your ex’s told you they regret breaking up?

      LMAO one basically did the other day. At least he regrets how he treated me. That’s some tea. 30. Do you ever want to get married?

      Hell yeah. Am I currently ready for it? Hell naw. 31. If your hair long enough for a pony tail?

     She’s too long. I really want to cut her but that costs money. 32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with?

      Chris Hemsworth and Anne Hathaway. Or Vanessa Hudgens33. Spell your name with your chin.

      done. That was strange? 34. Do you play sports? What sports?

      I did soccer for one season when I was 6. I spent most of the time playing with my hair. That was the end of my athletic career. 35. Would you rather live without TV or music?

      TV bc we have netflix and hulu 36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them?

      Tons of times. It’s my brand. 37. What do you say during awkward silences?

      I’ve been doing shitty mouth pops recently. I also start rambling about my day.38. Describe your dream girl/guy?

      Someone that puts up with my bullshit 39. What are your favorite stores to shop in?

      TJ Maxx. Ulta. Target. I don’t shop often. 40. What do you want to do after high school?

      I’m outta that shit hole. Have been for 5 yrs. 41. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance?

      Of course. 42. If your being extremely quiet what does it mean?

      I’m listening fully and don’t really have anything to contribute yet. 43. Do you smile at strangers?

      Working at a hotel has forced me to. I hate it. 44. Trip to outer space or bottom of the ocean?

      SPACE MOTHERFUCKERS - the ocean freaks me out45. What makes you get out of bed in the morning?

      Needing to pee, hunger or work 46. What are you paranoid about?

      EVERYTHING. Mainly the future tho 47. Have you ever been high?

      Nah. Not opposed to it though. 48. Have you ever been drunk?

      Yep. I get really touchy. It’s weird. 49. Have you done anything recently that you hope nobody finds out about?

      Stalk people’s social medias? 50. What was the colour of the last hoodie you wore?

      Grey 51. Ever wished you were someone else?

      I wish I was Vanessa Hudgens. 52. One thing you wish you could change about yourself?

      I won’t write it here 53. Favourite makeup brand?

      NYX. Cheap and good. 54. Favourite store?

      Target 55. Favourite blog?

      My own. 56. Favourite colour?

      Pink or Green. Depends on the day.57. Favourite food? 

      Anything with pasta or rice 58. Last thing you ate?

      pasta 59. First thing you ate this morning?

      beef jerkey. I have weird cravings60. Ever won a competition? For what?

      For being the world’s most emotional bitch 61. Been suspended/expelled? For what?

      Hell no. Stay in school kids. 62. Been arrested? For what?

      Nope.63. Ever been in love? 

      Yep. Still don’t kiss and tell. 64. Tell us the story of your first kiss?

      I know I just said I don’t kiss and tell but this isn’t talking about the person. Wet. Gross. Sloppy as fuck. They were shit at kissing. 65. Are you hungry right now?

      Nah. 66. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends?

      I have one tumblr friend. He’s a pal. 67. Facebook or Twitter?

      Twitter68. Twitter or Tumblr?

      Twitter. I’ll make one for this blog soon. 69. Are you watching tv right now?

      No I’m listening to Miss Independent by Kelly Clarkson. 70. Names of your bestfriends? 

      Kim, Michelle, Jessica71. Craving something? What?

      Nothing. 72. What colour are your towels?

      Pink and green72. How many pillows do you sleep with?

      It used to be two until I got a new giant pillow this week. 73. Do you sleep with stuffed animals?

      I have them. I don’t sleep with them. 74. How many stuffed animals do you think you have?

      Four. I just counted. 75. Favourite animal?

      Meerkats 76. What colour is your underwear?

      Pink. 77. Chocolate or Vanilla?

      Vanilla 78. Favourite ice cream flavour?

      Strawberry79. What colour shirt are you wearing?

      Grey and pink 80. What colour pants?

      Dark grey and green - I’m in house clothes I don’t match 81. Favourite tv show?

      Jane the Virgin 82. Favourite movie?

      Hairspray 83. Mean Girls or Mean Girls 2?

      Mean Girls. The second one was trash 84. Mean Girls or 21 Jump Street?

      Mean Girls85. Favourite character from Mean Girls?

      SHE DOESN’T EVEN GO HERE 86. Favourite character from Finding Nemo?

      Bruce87. First person you talked to today?

      Joey?88. Last person you talked to today?

      Joey. What the hell. 89. Name a person you hate?

      Hm they don’t need their name here90. Name a person you love?

      My brother91. Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now?

      Someone from work 92. In a fight with someone?

      Nah I don’t deal with that bs 93. How many sweatpants do you have?

      None. I do leggings tho ( I think I have 7 or 8)94. How many sweaters/hoodies do you have?

      2 hoodies 95. Last movie you watched?

      The Green Book96. Favourite actress?

      Anne Hathaway? 97. Favourite actor?

      Mark Hamill 98. Do you tan a lot?

      I burn a lot. I’m pale99. Have any pets?

       No 100. How are you feeling?

        Alright. Kinda pumped bc my fav cover of Come Together came on (from the Justice League movie)101. Do you type fast?

        Yes but this is still taking me a while to get through 102. Do you regret anything from your past?

        Hell yeah. No tea is being spilled tho103. Can you spell well?

        If I have a pen and paper I’m decent. 104. Do you miss anyone from your past?

        I miss some ppl yeah. Adulting sucks bc you can’t see everyone all the time105. Ever been to a bonfire party?

        Lol that was the only rebellious thing I would do in high school 106. Ever broken someone’s heart?

        Not that I know of? 107. Have you ever been on a horse?

        Yes I love horseback riding 108. What should you be doing?

        Studying for the GRE109. Is something irritating you right now?

        Boring drama stuff. I won’t go into details. I’ll get over it. 110. Have you ever liked someone so much it hurt?

        Everyone has. 111. Do you have trust issues?

        Sis you already asked this. Yes. 112. Who was the last person you cried in front of?

        My mom? I was crying bc I could fit into old shirts 113. What was your childhood nickname?

        Family calls me Kari. Friends call me Rina114. Have you ever been out of your province/state?

        Yep. Last month. 115. Do you play the Wii?

        We play Netflix on the wii116. Are you listening to music right now?

        “I am Woman” by Jordan Sparks 117. Do you like chicken noodle soup?

        Only from a can. I hate soup. 118. Do you like Chinese food?

        Fuck me up with crab rangoons 119. Favourite book?

        Eragon120. Are you afraid of the dark?

        I don’t like not being able to see. So sure. 121. Are you mean?

        I’m a dick to those I care about. Sorry. 122. Is cheating ever okay?

        Absolutely not. Dump their ass. 123. Can you keep white shoes clean?

        Nope. 124. Do you believe in love at first sight?

        I believe in infatuation at first sight125. Do you believe in true love?

         Not sure 126. Are you currently bored?

        I was till I started this 127. What makes you happy?

        anime, superheros, nerdy shit, music and makeup 128. Would you change your name?

        No. I used to want to as a child. 129. What your zodiac sign?

        Cancer. 130. Do you like subway?

        No. It’s gross. 131. Your bestfriend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do?

        Politely decline132. Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with?

        Already answered. 133. Favourite lyrics right now?

        “Yoko Ono, she got that Yoko OnoYou know that shit that made John Lennon go soloKnow that shit gotta be lethalIf that pussy broke up The Beatles” - Jay Z

Murder by Justin Timberlake (Featuring Jay Z)134. Can you count to one million?

        I could. I don’t want to though.135. Dumbest lie you ever told?

        Not sure. 136. Do you sleep with your doors open or closed?

        Closed. 137. How tall are you?

        Five foot. Three inches. 138. Curly or Straight hair?

        My hair is wavy. I like both.139. Brunette or Blonde?

        I’m a brunette140. Summer or Winter?

        summer141. Night or Day?

        day 142. Favourite month?

        october143. Are you a vegetarian?

        nope but i’ve considered. 144. Dark, milk or white chocolate?

        dark chocolate. I’m old. 145. Tea or Coffee?

        tea - coffee gives me the shits 146. Was today a good day?

        It was decent. 147. Mars or Snickers?

        Mars148. What’s your favourite quote?

        “It’s not who we are underneath, it’s what we do that defines us.” - Batman Begins 149. Do you believe in ghosts?

        Yes and No150. Get the closest book next to you, open it to page 42, what’s the first line on that page? (via catscuddlingandyou)

         GRE prep book “Directions:” It said more but my fingers hurt from typing all day. 

[kateofthecanals]

A Woman’s Worth, According to “Game of Thrones”

The other day I thought to myself, is there a single female character on GoT who has not at some point been encouraged, both on a Watsonian and Doylist level, to resort to violence and/or sex in order to solve all her problems?

I’m honestly at a loss to think of a single female character, past or present, where this hasn’t been the case. Obviously the example frequently referenced around here is Sansa. Here is a young woman who, as written by George R.R. Martin, possesses a keen intellect but also a fair amount of naivete... because, like, both those aspects can exist at the same time. She is not a warrior like her sister, and she is not a seductress like Cersei, and yet she’s managed to survive through FIVE books without having to resort either to violence or sexual manipulation and has relied instead on her intellect and the traditionally feminine pursuits she has been brought up to cultivate. This is something D&D apparently cannot conceive of (even though it’s literally been written out for them in black and white). In their minds, a woman cannot be “strong” unless she’s got blood on her hands and/or a sexually available body. They literally cannot wrap their tiny brains around the concept of nuanced women. Even those who do possess martial prowess, like Brienne, Arya, and Asha, are reduced to shallow stereotypes and have had all their unique qualities stripped away in favor of this almost cartoonish thirst for blood.

D&D have made it quite clear over 7 seasons (yes, the first 4 included) that a woman in this universe is only “worthy” if she is willing to kill people and/or have sex. They cannot possibly serve any other purpose and still be of use to D&D’s narrative. Just look...

Sansa: Revenge Murder. She had been advised in the past, by both Cersei and Littlefinger, to use sex to get want she wants, but then she ended up getting raped. So maybe that “counts” in D&D’s eyes? After all, she did get her all-important “first kill” out of it... That, according to both D&D and Sophie, was what her “entire arc was leading to.”

Arya: Murder. She’s basically a homicidal maniac at this point, and it’s framed not only as a good thing, but “badass”. We’re supposed to be cheering as this lost, damaged child repeatedly stabs people with a cold smirk on her face.

Brienne: Murder. Absolutely no qualms about it either. Shanking dudes is just another day at the office for her! The epic moral dilemma that defines book-Brienne (”no chance, and no choice”) simply does not exist here.

Dany: Murder/Sex/Nudity. The Holy Trifecta! No wonder D&D love her so much! She’ll get naked and jump into bed AND murder entire cities all before Noon! We have seen Dany “struggle” at times with the dilemma of using violence in order to find peace, but in the end, the solution is always the same: YES OF COURSE YOU SHOULD USE VIOLENCE! Never once has she been like, “you know what, the loss is too much of a burden on my conscience, Imma sit this one out” without that being framed as a “wrong” decision. Because we need CGI dragons and massive casualties in order for her to be seen as “strong” and “competent”, dammit! We also need to see dem tittays!!!!

Cersei: Murder & Sex. Another D&D darling, obviously. In the books, Cersei is clearly off her rocker, makes bad decisions constantly, and literally no one likes her. (She’s basically show-Littlefinger.) And yet, on the show, her poor decisions and wisdom are treated as “correct”. When she tells Sansa that love is a sham or that she needs to use her vajayjay to get what she wants in this world, these things are framed as legitimately good advice. Cersei is basically this show’s moral compass. In D&D’s eyes, Cersei is the only character who is playing the game correctly. She is the only one who gets it right. “Kill or be killed, fuck or get fucked.” There is literally nothing else in between these two extremes.

Melisandre: Murder & Sex. Okay, so Mel hasn’t murdered anyone directly, but she’s had her hand in quite a few homicides. She’s utterly willing to see people die to get what she wants, and she’ll happily throw her titties at them along the way. Nevermind that book-Mel honestly believes that everything she’s doing is for the Greater Good, and nevermind that book-Mel doesn’t need to be nude every 5 seconds to get her point across... show-Mel is simply an evil enchantress, period. Oh, but then something horrible happened in Season 6 -- we found out that (a) she’s actually 3,000 years old ewwwwww!! and (b) she finally realized her “powers” aren’t all that reliable and came to regret all the murderin’ she’d done. She basically had her “worth” stripped from her twofold. Also, Carice Van Houten turned 40. And so guess who we BARELY saw in Season 7? Yeah, D&D literally made her LEAVE THE CONTINENT since she’s no longer of use to them.

Yara: Murder & Sex/Queer-Baiting. Yeah, another fun thing about D&D&Co is that they assume all female warriors are lesbians. They outright said as much about Brienne, and with Yara they just went ahead and showed it, and called it “representation” lmao. Even though Asha Greyjoy probably has the most healthy hetero sex life in ASOIAF. Sexuality in Yara’s case is even worse because she is also used in D&D’s massively disturbing depictions/endorsements of toxic masculinity. Her advice to her own brother, who was sexually mutilated, to either “get over it or kill yourself” (all while she’s groping a sex slave IN FRONT OF HIM) was actually framed as GOOD ADVICE. This was already apparent in the narrative but then D&D themselves confirmed it in the ITE!!!

Missandei: Nudity. Here’s a female character who is actually allowed to have a brain, but even then she is constantly undermined by the far superior intellect of Saint Tyrion. But it doesn’t really matter either way, because Missandei’s true purpose on the show is to look hot.

Olenna: Murder. Lady Tyrell is far too old to be sexy, so naturally she has to be out for blood at all times, and advising other people to murder as well (”Be a dragon!!!”).

Ellaria/Sand Snakes: Murder & Nudity/Sex. We can just go ahead and lump all these together. In addition to being the poster children for D&D’s insistence that all females, including sisters, must be catty to each other at all times, they are, of course, overly-sexualized and obsessed with Revenge™. It wasn’t enough that Ellaria was canonically bisexual, but D&D felt that her appeals for peace in the books were literally unworthy of proper adaptation. “We reconceived the role to make it worthy of the actor’s talents.” For them, Ellaria doesn’t deserve to even exist unless she’s vowing bloody vengeance on literally everyone for Oberyn’s death... including Oberyn’s own family(???). And the Sand Snakes? Well, one of y’all better get nekkid to keep it interesting! Who cares if the term “bad pussy” is apocryphal to this universe???

Margaery: Sex. From the moment Marg first popped up on screen, her titties popped out. She’s been a sexual character from the beginning and has repeatedly used sex as a tool for manipulation. She’s the protege that Cersei’s been looking for! Nevermind that, in the books, Marg, like Sansa, actually uses her wits to scheme and manipulate instead of her vagina. Luckily for D&D, they had room to age up Marg just enough that we could see her naked IMMEDIATELY, and once she traded in her low-cut dresses for Silent Sister gowns, guess what happened to her?

Myrcella: Neither, #RIP. Though, to be “fair”, they did re-cast the role with an older actress so that she could wear skimpier dresses and get groped by Trystane...

Gilly: ????? I mean, she’s just been reduced to Sam’s nagging girlfriend at this point. She did offer him sex (5 minutes after almost being raped) but she hasn’t threatened to murder anyone YET... But she’s also dumb as a post, so I guess D&D keep her around to make Sam look smarter?

Lyanna Mormont: Faux-Feminism! Lyanna is too young to be sexy or physically intimidating, so obviously the only other options for her are to re-affirm Sansa's idiocy (”Lyanna Mormont wouldn’t have been dumb enough to write that letter, so age is no excuse!”) and to further the faux-feminism agenda where crucial, life-preserving activities like knitting are ridiculed simply because they are “girl things”.

Meera: Murder. Honestly Meera was unusual in that she didn’t seem to possess the thirst for blood that the rest of the weapons-capable women on GoT did, nor any overt sexuality. But it’s okay, cuz D&D found other ways to undermine her! Like having her almost raped (a rite of passage for all true GoT Ladies I guess), and her constantly squabbling with Osha was a given according to the unwritten rule that if there’s more than one woman in the same scene at any time, they HAVE to be catty to each other, NO EXCEPTIONS!!! Anyway, without anyone left to kill or any way to be sexually available to Bran, she’s useless and no longer on the show. I’m sure we’ll find out next season that she was raped and murdered on her way back to the Neck (which Bran will have no reaction to).

The Waif: Murder. Just pure, unadulterated, completely incomprehensible murder. Did we ever really find out WHY she was so pathologically out to get Arya, other than the above-mentioned Rule of Cattiness?? Like, gods forbid she be an ACTUAL mentor to Arya...

Shireen: Neither, #RIP. Shireen was #tooprecioustoopure for this world, and that was entirely the point, wasn’t it? Nobody that sweet, kind, smart [shudder], and innocent [double-shudder] has any place in Weissteroff. She was only there for the maximum #feels when she was ruthlessly (and inexplicably) murdered and then immediately forgotten about once she served her purpose.

Selyse: Murder. She kind of suffered the same treatment as Lysa, in that her sexuality was used against her and she basically turned to murder to compensate for what she lacked.

Walda: Neither, #RIP. This one still infuriates me. In the books, Walda, although described to be rather overweight, still manages to enjoy a very healthy sex life with a husband not known for expressing more than a pointed stare. In fact, she’s so into it that even Roose Fucking Bolton finds it (and her) charming!! NONE of this made it into the show. No, instead, we have Ramsay making tasteless fat jokes (”OMG HOW DO YOU EVEN FIND HER VAGINA?!??!”) because lulz fat women enjoying sex don’t be ridiculous!! Ultimately she’s just there to be laughed at and then killed off for plot. Imagine if D&D were actually as progressive as they think they are and used this as an opportunity to depict and endorse body positivity on their Emmy Award-winning prestige drama watched by millions of people around the world..... NAAAAHHHH MORE FAT JOKES PLEASE!!!

Those are just some of the more recent crop of female characters, but this applies to past ones as well...

Catelyn: Murder. Poor Cat couldn’t even have a book-canon sex scene because no woman over the age of 40 is allowed to be naked on-screen (see: Melisandre) unless it’s for comedic effect or to deliberately make us cringe. So, that’s when D&D decided they had to amp up the Thirst for Vengeance quotient on her! Even though Cat was a POV character, and Robb’s entire war was seen through her eyes, they never allowed her any sort of meaningful introspection, either about the war or her family. Like Sansa, it was more important to highlight all the “mean” things she did to the Heroes of the story (”Maybe if I had loved Jon, this war wouldn’t have happened!!”) and retool the timeline so that she looks as dumb as possible (letting Jaime go before she ever found out about Bran & Rickon). The Red Wedding couldn’t have come sooner, amirite??

Lysa: Murder & Sex. Here’s an example of an “older” woman’s sex life being played for laughs. She was never meant to be taken seriously as a sexual being, so let’s make her wedding night with Littlefinger as outrageously ridiculous as possible. Yes, I know, it was presented this way in the books as well, but the difference is, we had way more backstory on Lysa and so it came off as more sad and pathetic than just outright comical. She was also the one who poisoned Jon Arryn, thereby kicking off the WoT5K, but that (extremely crucial mystery that hung in the air for 5 books and 4 seasons) has since been rendered meaningless because “Robert’s Rebellion was built on a lie”...

Shae: Sex/Nudity. And here’s a classic example of D&D seemingly making a GOOD decision to “improve” a character but having it ultimately blow up in their faces. Having Shae be a confidante/protector of sorts for Sansa ALMOST worked. It certainly gave her something to do than have sex with Tyrion constantly. But in the end, that just made Shae look all the more like a shitperson when she threw Sansa under the bus at Tyrion’s trial. It was an actual betrayal, as opposed to a calculated maneuver by someone who ultimately never gave a shit about Sansa OR Tyrion. It ultimately made Shae look even WORSE than her book-counterpart, imo. Book-Shae was just doing her job; show-Shae actively fucked over 2 people she seemed to genuinely care about. It was a more nuanced character, but at the end of the day, they did it to serve Tyrion. It probably never even occurred to them that someone couldn’t genuinely love him (and those who don’t pay for it dearly; see: Sansa), and it was out of the question to make Saint Tyrion look like a FOOL for deluding himself into thinking a prostitute loved him. So she had to be the real deal, and her murder by Tyrion had to be 100% justified.

Osha: Murder & Sex/Nudity. It wasn’t enough for Osha to become a surrogate mother to Bran and Rickon; mothers are SO BORING after all. And it wasn’t enough that she was a wildling woman capable of killing a man a hundred different ways. Best throw in some gratuitous nude scenes just because. As far as D&D are concerned, the only way she can kill a man is by fucking him first. It works the first time, but when she tries the same ruse with Ramsay, she is killed for it. I mean, OF COURSE. The Great Ramsay Sue would never fall for such a thing, pffft!

Ygritte: Murder & Sex. She was already a little firecracker in the books, but leave it to D&D to give her the Cersei treatment by basically blackmailing Jon into sleeping with her. Some could argue dub-con for the books, but the show was outright non-con. But because she’s a hot lady and he’s a dude, it’s not looked at or framed that way at all. Instead we’re made to think “JACKPOT, JON! woooot!”

Talisa: Sex. When the “not like the other girls” trope goes too far, you get Talisa. Yes, she was presented as a strong, smart, capable woman, but in the context that they put her in, it didn’t make sense. Because D&D don’t know how to write a female character like this within the context of ASOIAF. And the re-working of this arc in Robb’s plot went from “doing it for honor” to “doing it for dat bootay!!” So, of course, it wasn’t enough that she was “not like the other girls”; it was CRUCIAL that we got to see her naked too, lest she be taken TOO seriously...!

Ros: Sex/Nudity. Like, literally, that was her one and only function. There’s that well-known rumor that she was killed off in the show because the actress didn’t wanna do any more nude scenes, but she has denied this was the case, but who knows, really? Knowing D&D as we do, would we REALLY be surprised if the rumor was true? I mean, why else would they get rid of her? If she was still game to throw her rack around and perform pornologues, why would they willingly give that up??

Karsi: Murder. This gal has the distinction of proving D&D’s claim that no one would have cared about Jeyne Poole utterly wrong, null, and void. Karsi had a cumulative screen time of about 10 minutes total, and I remember watching the live-tweets come in during “Hardhome” and people, including myself, being really excited by her character almost immediately. But surely there had to be a catch -- ah yes, The Worst Crime In Westeros: being a mother. That was her ultimate undoing. Of course, we learned soon after the episode that the character was originally written to be a man, but it was changed to a woman because OBVIOUSLY only a woman -- only a mother -- would be THAT opposed to killing children, even undead ones.

Maggy The Frog: Sex. Well, kinda... Look, fact is, Maggy the Frog was supposed to be some old, gross witch, and D&D turned her into a Burning Man groupie.

That about covers it, I think, feel free to add more if I’ve forgotten anyone. But basically you can see the pattern here loud and clear. It amazes me that so-called feminists who watch the show religiously haven’t picked up on this... or, if they have, don’t seem to have a problem with it??

[supermarine-silvally]

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🌹 How easy is it for them to connect with others and make friends? On the flip side how easy is it for them to make an enemy of someone? Are they the kind of person who hangs around the food table at a party and never talks to anyone or are they the type who can talk to anyone?

Jumbo OC Ask Game

Not very easy for either case lol Yara mostly keeps her head down and doesn't interact with others beyond what she needs to. She's Mihawk's daughter, and it shows. She likes the idea of having friends and in an ideal world it would be easy for her, but she's just... awkward in social settings and doesn't know how to go about making conversation. And the resting bitch face/Dracule Death Glare doesn't help her case in the slightest lmao

At parties, she'd definitely be hanging around food tables or interacting with the host's pet, but Ace usually ropes her into being more social. She wishes she had even a fraction of his charm, but he always makes sure she ends up getting included in the conversation.

[thewindsofwolves]

Yeah, so I need to sum up my wishful headcanon for s8 & Jonsa

I need/want :

- Ghost (in every episodes, even if that's only a few seconds)

- Harry Hardying to be in that season, bc since LF is dead, Sansa has to drag a man who want to marry/bed her

- Jaime to pledge his sword to Sansa & Arya (bonus point if he passes in front of Danielle and that she believes that he will pledge to her lmao)

- Cersei & Sansa to share at least one scene before the end, bc Cersei would be proud as fuck to see that she raised Sansa well

- Jaime to become BFF to Sansa, & to act as a protective daddy bc she reminds him of Myrcella

- Sansa & Arya having an healthy, loving sisterly relationship, bonding moments (bonus point if there is a scene where they mock Denise 1380561830 titles and/or if they compare her to Joffrey/Cersei/Ramsay/Lysa)

- Arya to punch Gendry (idk why I want this but can u imagine tiny Arya kicking a grown ass man ???)

- Cersei & Sansa dragging people & being sassy as fuck like the HBIC they are

- Theon & Sansa reuniting

- Theon saving Yara & killing Euron

- Jealous!Jon (bc we love angry kitten Jon) toward Jaime, Theon...

- Jon reuniting w Arya, seeing she still has Needle, & asking her if she remembers his first lesson, & she proudly answer "STICK'EM WITH THE POINTY END !"

- Jon reuniting w Sansa, hugging her like he won't ever let her go (basically the same hug they shared on 6x04), holding her so tigh that her feet don't touch the ground anymore, & Sansa nuzzling her check against his check/neck while he's holding her

- Jon reuniting w Sam & Bran

- The Hound reuniting w Sansa & Arya

- Sansa & Gilly becoming BFF (bc I want to see Sansa holding baby Sam in her arms)

- Sansa being around kids (bonus points if Jon sees her w kids, and is like "awwww this is how I would like the mother of my kids to look like...")

- Sansa telling to Daisy that she won't bend the knew to her and that she better stop disrespecting Jon by denying calling him by his title of king

- Basically Sansa & Arya dragging Danakin any occasion given

- A scene where Arya is walking before Sansa and is pushing ppl like "move bitch Sansa the one true queen is walking here"

- A scene where Jaime & Jon sword fight bc at first they were training but since Jealous!Jon is such an extra ass it turned to real fighting for Sansa (bonus point if Jon say to Jaime "You won't marry her" & Jaime replies "Neither will u")

- People noticing the Jonsa vibes and being chocked (bonus point if Jaime is the 1st to notice & he drag Jon for this, like "dude u banged ur aunt while being in love w ur sis ?")

- People confronting Jonsa about their incest vibes & these two idiots being like "we don't have sexual tension, we just argue all the time"

- Jonsa being awkwardely shy around each other, Jon awkwardely trying to make Sansa happy, basically just Jonsa happy to be around each other

- Someone making a comment about Jonsa incest furs

- Arya or Jon offering Sansa a lemoncake & Sansa being adorably happy about it

- Sansa conforting Jon after the parentage reveal

- Sansa to call Jon "My dragonknight"

- A scene where Jon is carrying Sansa in his arms (like she is drunk after a feast & he doesnt like the way men are staring so he takes her to bed, and when he is leaving her in her bed she grabs his hand in her sleep aawww)

- Jonsa sharing smiles, longing stare, lips staring, hand/arm grabbing/touching, check/forehead kisses

- Jonsa having angsty arguments

- Jonsa sharing a desesperate angsty first kiss on the battlements of WF, like at first they are arguing, accusating, confessing, one of them say some shit like "it seems like I'm losing you" while one of them is leaving, and the one who was leaving come back to kiss the other (bonus point if there are romantic snowflakes all around them)

- Jonsa having a romantic & passionate sex scene (bonus point if they do it in WF broken tower) (bc Sansa deserves a bloody man to give her a godamn orgasm already for fuck sake)

- Jonsa marring in the Godswood

- People to stop seeing Demandine as the holy savior she is not

- Tyrion finally coming back to his senses and leaving Deranged

- Those fucking dragons to die already

- Some scary/epic battle (bonus point if there is a scene like the one in 2x09 when Sansa calmed the scared ladies)

- A sequence where they have to run away from WW, possibly Jon & Gendry saving Sansa & Arya from almost being killed (bonus point if it is at the end of an episode like Hardhome, like I imagine them in a boat staring at a distance the WW, absolutely terrified, and like I imagine Jon having his arms around Sansa, and Sansa has her hands on Jon's chest awwww)

- Political/familial dramas (bc this is why we started to watch/love GOT in the first place)

Well this is longer than what I thought... Now excuse I have to go on AO3 and try if it is possible to organise this mess into a real fanfiction 😄

[sheikah]

Frikidoctor gave more details on episode 3. And sounds like Dany will be helluva annoying when Jon gets there. Having Missandei list her million titles, demanding he bend the knee multiple times (she didn't demand that from Tyrion/Yara/Then so that's shitty and hypocritical), getting into an argument with him about Starks being usurper's dogs, Ned being a traitor and the Rebellion. lol if she badmouths Ned and does so in front of Jon the audience will rage. lol She still thinks [1/2]

Targaryens were the innocent victims and Starks were villains lol Shots fired. Hopefully Jon doesn’t pull any punches and fires the big guns. Her crazy homicidal father brutally murdering Jon’s uncle and grandfather, pissing on their right for a triall after what her brother had done to Jon’s ‘aunt’ (kidnapping and rape as is believed), then demanding Ned and Robert be killed with no justification. [2/2] 

3rd ask from same anon:

oh and she will think him crazy with regard to the WWs even though she’s been surrounded by magic for so long. lmao She will frustrate Jon so badly he will turn to Tyrion and appeal to him in private, bypassing her.

This ask is so hilariously exaggerated and off base. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to correct it and set the record straight.

So here is the leak you are referring to. As anyone else reading this can see, anon took the translated leak and ran with it using their own anti Dany and anti Jonerys interpretation of what was said. 

You said that Dany was “having Missandei list her million titles.” This is pretty standard procedure. The same is done to announce whoever the king/queen of the Iron Throne is when they hold court. Dany has more titles because she’s done more stuff. Facts are facts. 

There is absolutely nothing to indicate that she asks Jon to bend the knee “multiple times” as you claim in an attempt to make it seem like this meeting goes horribly. The leak says:

“-Dany wants Jon to bend the knee, he refuses.”

and

“-Jon never bends the knee. Davos says his words from the trailer about the skeleton in the iron throne.”

Neither of these things suggests that Dany asks more than once. 

She didn’t demand that Tyrion bend the knee because Tyrion showed up offering his allegiance and help. He didn’t show up asking for help as Jon is doing. So she doesn’t need the assurance of his loyalty. However, she gets it, willingly, when Tyrion kneels to her in season 6.

As for Yara and Theon, she gets verbal swearing of fealty from them in exchange for her own promise to help them take their home back from Euron. 

There is precedent for rulers in the series asking others to bend the knee when the others present as some sort of threat. Jon does potentially pose a threat to Dany. She doesn’t know him like we do, anon. She doesn’t watch Game of Thrones. She has spent her life on another continent. How is she supposed to know that Jon Snow is honorable, different, and worthy?

This man she has never met, this son of the man who led the rebellion against her father, from a family who she has been told all her life by her only living family member (Viserys) is evil, has appeared on her doorstep demanding her help and is hailed as a king. Asking him to swear fealty is absolutely not “shitty and hypocritical.” 

If your objection is that she is asking Jon to bend the knee when she didn’t ask this of everyone else she’s ever met, consider how other kings and queens have handled this. Cersei, for example, sent a letter North in episode 1 demanding that the Starks bend the knee. She hasn’t sent a letter to every citizen of the realm. How unfair for her to only ask this of Jon, like Dany is doing. Except that there’s a clear reason. Jon is the only one who is calling himself the KitN, so assurances are needed of his loyalty.

In Dany’s case she needs to make sure that Jon isn’t just getting close to her to overthrow or betray her. 

Similarly, Jon as ruler has already made others kneel and swear fealty to him. We just saw him make children kneel before him and swear fealty, and now Jon refuses to do the same for Dany. Is Jon shitty and hypocrtical too, anon? I didn’t think so. Because these sorts of formalities and symbolic gestures are part of Westerosi politics.

Okay, onto your next claim. You say:

“getting into an argument with him about Starks being usurper’s dogs, Ned being a traitor and the Rebellion. lol if she badmouths Ned and does so in front of Jon the audience will rage. lol”

The leak says:

“Talk about Robert’s rebellion. Jon’s father was a traitor, the usurpers dog. Dany’s father was crazy.”

Again, we don’t have the dialogue yet. But Dany wasn’t even born when Ned’s family was killed by The Mad King. She has only been told snippets of this history and she has already freely admitted that she knows who her father was and what he did. She isn’t going to defend him and claim that he is blameless. 

If she does “badmouth” Ned you once again need to remind yourself that Daenerys Targaryen has never seen an episode of Game of Thrones and has absolutely no way of knowing what a good man Ned really was. It is natural and expected for her to be doubtful and distrusting of him and his family based on the Starks’ role in the rebellion, a rebellion that she wasn’t alive to understand. 

The audience, at least the intelligent people in the audience, aren’t going to “rage” at Dany for having reservations about Ned Stark’s character when she has no context to make a fair assessment of his personality. 

And guess what? Even though Aerys was terrible and deserved to be supplanted, Ned and friends were still traitors, and that’s probably what worries her. Also, a lot of people are still unaware of what Aerys did to Rickard and Brandon. Think about Jaime telling the story of why he is the Kingslayer to Brienne, and her surprise. So much of Robert’s Rebellion is he said/she said so it makes perfect sense for Jon and Dany to argue about the particulars and disagree at first. 

You say:

“She still thinks Targaryens were the innocent victims.”

There is nothing in the leaks to affirm this. This is demonstrably false. Do you not remember Dany admitting that her father was wrong, agreeing with Tyrion that they both had awful fathers who they will be better than??? Did you watch the last two seasons of the show or???

And aside from her father, the rest of the Targaryens were innocent victims, anon. Did Elia and her Targaryen babies deserve to be slaughtered? What about the very young Viserys and infant Daenerys who were driven across the world to avoid being murdered?

We have actual canon proof that Jon doesn’t blame the children for the sins of the parents and he isn’t going to blame Dany for what the Mad King did, and she is likewise going to learn Jon’s character and see who he is as a person, that he isn’t anything like this image of the Starks she has grown up fostering because of Viserys. 

But it’s not going to happen immediately. If it did, that would be boring. I’ve openly said in multiple asks that I know there will be friction between them at the beginning. We’ve known this since Lads. It’s nothing new, and I think it makes perfect sense. 

Moving on. You claim:

“oh and she will think him crazy with regard to the WWs even though she’s been surrounded by magic for so long.”

The leak says:

“-Jon tells Dany about the threat coming from the north. Says they need to be allies. She isn’t positive if she should believe him.”  

Yes, Dany isn’t positive if she should believe him. And rightfully so. She’s been surrounded by magic but Jon has plenty motive to lie to her. Think about this from her perspective. A man is asking her to go North with the bulk of her forces and her dragons, and also asking her to let him mine beneath her home so he can arm his military with more weapons. That puts her in an extremely vulnerable position. She’s being discerning and using logic. 

She has no reason to think WW are real. But we aren’t told that she thinks he’s “crazy,” we are told she is not quite sure. And that makes total sense. This isn’t anything new. Again, Dany’s doubt contributes to wight hunt, which needs to happen anyway. Because Jon needs to convince the whole realm, not just Dany, of the WW. So proof is needed anyway.

Furthermore, you say that

“She will frustrate Jon so badly he will turn to Tyrion and appeal to him in private, bypassing her.”

Leak says:

“-Dany and Jon don’t get to anything. She wants Him to bend the knee He wants Her to help him with the WW. So Jon goes to Tyrion to explain everything about the WW and to asks him for dragonglass.”

So you’ve exaggerated again. In a first meeting they don’t automatically come to an alliance. This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. Jon talking to Tyrion is sensible. Jon and Tyrion have a previous relationship. Jon and Dany don’t. Tyrion is Hand of the Queen. Negotiating with Jon is literally his job. 

And last and most important, you conveniently left out this little tidbit because it doesn’t fit your desired narrative. Near the end of the leak’s discussion of Jon’s and Dany’s parts in episode 3, the leak says:

“-Leaked scene of Dany outside Dragonstone and Jon down the stairs comes here.

-Scene outside with the dragons, Viserion features heavily.”

So there you go. We get confirmation that after all of the drama you are so thrilled about happens, Jon seeks Dany out himself when she is alone and they have a private conversation where we can assume they make up enough for Dany to want to introduce him to her dragons, the equivalent of her children. 

It’s going to be absolutely wonderful :)

[dachi-chan25]

Game of Thrones- Season 7 episode 2 Recap (Pt. 1)

So after debating a lot with myself I decided to make this post because I have a LOT of thoughts and feelings about got’s most recent episode.

I can’t promise I’ll keep doing this for the next episodes (cuz I’m hella busy right now) but I’ll try anyway.

WARNINGS: This is obviously gonna contain SPOILERS; while I try most of the time to be neutral and objetive if you are a ride or die D@ny Stan this is not the recap for you (I find her intresting as a character but I DON’T have any love for her since season 4); I’m clearly a Jonsa shipper so of course I’ll be talking about it.

Cool? Let’s begin!!

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1.- So we start with a storm hitting Dragonstone, cuz the episode is called “Stormborn” so there must be a storm cuz -poetic cinema- anyway we pick up where we left last episode. D@ny is with her small council, and Varys is recalling her birth (but we already knew she was born during a storm soooo) and D@n-D@n admits she doesn’t feel like Dragonstone it’s her home. I honestly called it since episode 1, her ‘coming home’ scene was very dry to me, it held no emotion and I’m glad at least she now recognizes she is here for the Iron Throne and not because she wants a home (and hey maybe she does but- even if I’m going to sound like a cheeseball- neither a castle nor a throne are a home, and she has forsaken love [aka. Daario] to get both of those things soooo) Yeah so it’s time to drop some truths, and Varys admits his loyalty is only to the people and D@ny agrees to forgive him for trying to get her killed under the condition he doesn’t conspire against her but tell her if she’s failing him and the westerosi people (but then she threatens to burn him ‘as expected from the Mother of Dragons’ he says ‘as expected from the Mad King’ says I)

Thing is, from Varys’s POV, she is the best damn chance at getting a somewhat decent ruler (I mean compared to Robert who didn’t care about ruling or Cersei who is ruthless of course I see his point! Plus she kind of has a legit claim over the IT) but does it mean she should??? If she cared so much about being a good ruler (not a conqueror) and doing right by her subjects then she already sucks at it. Look at Mereen, it was supposed to be her “practice” at being Queen and apart from ending slavery (with very questionable decisions) what good did she do??? She left the place in RUINS with no new system to rule, and her ex-boyfriend in charge, someone who has no political history and who lead a very violent group of mercenaries, not only that but she left the city in a very vulnerable spot, and her subjects must recent her for that.

Now I know lots of people are praising her for not burning the whole damn city, but I don’t because that would be a dumbass move and who would want to regin over ashes?? I mean not even Cersei.

Back to the episode, another fire-lady (aka Melissandre) arrives and talks about the Azor Ahai (we even get a brief lesson of High Valaryan) and mentions casually that Jon Snow is KitN, Tyron is like ‘he’s cool bro, we should totally recruit him’) and the D agrees to send him a raven to summon him so he can bend the knee.

WHAT THE HELL???? Melissandre is clearly saying there’s some serious shit happening and D@€n€rys is more worried about stablishing her supremacy than asking what is the threat???? This is why I dislike her so much. Tyrion doesn’t look thrilled by the way.

2.- Wait is this season 1??? Noooooo it’s Jon and Sansa recreating yet another Ned/Cat scenes like the totally platonic siblings they are.

So Tyrion’s raven has arrived, and looks like someone learned from his mistakes and is disscusing things privately with his most trusted advisors (aka. Sassy pants and Dadvos). Totally platonic siblings agree that Tyrion is cool, but they find this invitation very suspicious… And they should because being the sneaky clever man we all know Tyrion fails to mention that part about bending the knee (not a very favorable beginning for J0-J0 and D if you ask me) however Dadvos point out they might have a use for her big ass army and flying-magical lizards against the WW.

Sansa refuses to send Jon, and Dadvos is like lmao no!!! Jon is ours!!! But being Ned 2.0 we all know duty and honor comes frist to him *sigh*.

3.-Cersei is holding court (to like 5 people) trying to sway the Reach Lords to her (dark) side, by telling them how dangereous is DT (which I find ironic cuz like she is not the only one who burns her enemies sister) but as we see with Randy Tarly people are not so charmed by their new “Queen”.

Jaime honestly just keeps disappointing me, and even when I dislike the Tarly bitch I applaud his loyalty to Olenna (that Red Wedding reference was savage!!) and let’s admit it, it’s FUCKING impossible to choose between Cersei whom is ruthless and hated and D@€n€rys with her three massive weapons and her army of rapists and slaves from their POV.

Also let’s fear not cuz Maester Qyburn has solved the dragon dilemma by making a big-ass crossbow that pierces right to a dragon’s skull honestly wtf.

4. Back with D@nee, we have the Greyjoys, Tyrells and Dornish (or what is left of them) at a war council making not-so sneaky plans: Yara and Ellaria want to burn it all down and take KL, Olenna actually supports them. But the D just won’t do it, which I completely support (#stop killing the small folk in your stupid Wars 2kforever) Ellaria calls bs cuz ‘this is Esparta- I mean war!!’ she and Tyrion have a face-off about Myrcella (a minute of silence for book!Dorne’s storyline) and honestly I just new this council was gonna be a hot mess, everyone wants revenge.

And D@ny knows but tries to bring them to heel anyway, so they explain their strategy: a site. Using the Dornish and Tyrell army (so she won’t burn them but is willing to let them starve to death. FUCKING charming) but actually is kinda clever because Tyrion predicted Cersei would try to turn the Lords against them for bringing foreginers (which they totally did) and wants a westerosi vs. Westerosi battle, and he hopes it might sway some Lords to their side while he and the Unsullied take on Casterly Rock.

Everyone agrees that is an awesome plan (I call bullshit) and D asks to have a word with the Queen of Thornes. She is not deluded into thinking they actually care for her (well done D@ny) but she promises Cersei will pay!!! And Olenna gives her the shittiest most OCC advise ever: be a dragon (which translates to: burn them all!!!! And don’t listen to your advisors cuz they are mans) but I understand she has nothing to loose now (honestly the thing I liked about the Tyrells is that they fomented Love and not fear so I was rolling my eyes so hard at this) so she stopped caring about keeping the small folk happy.

5.- Sammy Pottarly on Oldwarts, working with Archmaester Slughorn!!! they basically tell Jorah they can do nothing for him, Sam feels bad for him and offers to send word to his family, Sam gets the big 'I’m a Mormont’ reveal and he immmediatly decides he can’t let this Man die even if he knows nothing about him. I Love ya Sammy but don’t.

This is getting too long so I’ll make a second part with the rest of the episode.

[leandra-winchester]

My commentary to ep 6

Okay, so... where did all this rubble come from? Like, I mean, the structures above seem to be mostly intact. Where are all those bricks from? It doesn’t make any sense. 

Also, where did all those Dothraki even come from? Most of them died in the battle of Winterfell. Another thing that makes no sense. 

Wow, Hitler looks really strange with those braids and without the moustache. 

Ha, what Jon says to Tyrion about their families’ mottos being in their blood is precisely what is wrong with this show. Jon is right. It’s ingrained in them. They have choices. But the writers kinda forgot that. And yeah, Tyrion’s explanation of Dany truly believing she’s doing all this to build a better world doesn’t work either. It just doesn’t. Even in that world view, Dany must have seen that those simple civilians in King’s Landing were not like those ‘evil men’ she destroyed before. 

Ugh Jon is such a wuss in these past few episodes. It’s all just to prolong the drama. 

This whole “We’ll do it together” thing could have come a little sooner. Would have prevented this whole mess. But okay. 

Okay, this death was neither dramatic nor touching nor... IDEK. It felt that it came really quickly. I mean first you set up that Jon doesn’t see it yet, doesn’t want to follow Tyrion’s request. And then two minutes later he does. 

Aww I feel sorry for Drogon though. 

Is he deliberately burning the throne? Are dragons intelligent enough to understand the complexities of politics and war? Does he know that this thing is the reason his ‘mother’ and his siblings died? 

Wow they all got there quickly. Took an early plane huh? (Or they didn’t, but it totally feels like it). 

Ser Davos for president. I mean for real. He’d be the best. 

Oh, we’re doing this now? No time to think about it, negotiate, consider? Okay. As rushed as everything else. 

Also, Yara is still on Dany’s side after all this? Dumb. 

Okay and what was the point in interrupting Lord Thing’s (forgot his name) speech? Felt a little too comedic. 

Ah, it’s been weeks. Okay, would have good to somehow SEE it before and not just learn that now. 

Yes, there’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story, and this isn’t one of them. 

Tyrion I love you, but this is the dumbest shit you’ve ever said. Like, okay, Bran not caring about power does make him a good king. But he doesn’t really care about anything. He’s been the most boring character in the past 2 seasons or so. If they had given him a little bit more - like in the first few seasons - I could stand behind this. But this feels so... underwhelming. 

“There’s still a Night’s Watch?” LMAO, my thoughts exactly. 

Okay, that goodbye scene feels right somehow, but with everything that happened before it’s kinda lost its impact. 

And of course, Bran knew everything that was going to happen. And surely, allowing Dany to burn down a city was the only way. Dick. 

Awww Brienne. 

Huh, they rebuild everything rather quickly, didn’t they? The Berlin airport construction company should hire them. 

Okay the council bickering is actually fun. 

Why is so much of the Wall still intact? 

Okay, so I kinda liked those last 20 minutes or so. But I don’t like how we got there. Never will. Dany’s development was wayyy too rushed and inconsistent. Many things were massive plot holes and didn’t make sense. It could have been a really great ending, but yeah, a lot of what happened in this season kinda killed the fun for me. Pity. 

[supermarine-silvally]

How about... random facts about ace and yara ♥

aksjdasdkjs Portada my beloveds <3 thank youuuu honestly I could talk about them endlessly

Yara will never, EVER admit this, but she found Ace attractive from the beginning. In an objective sense, or so she would insist. She did legitimately find him irritating as well, but he's a good-looking guy-- she can't really deny that the thought crossed her mind when she first saw his picture in the newspaper Whitebeard showed her about the young upstart pirate who turned down the Seven Warlords.

The Spade Pirates took bets all throughout the development of Ace and Yara's relationship. When they would officially get together, when they would share their first kiss, when they would have their first time together, when Ace would propose, when their first kid would be born... (Ace definitely knows about their little betting pool, Yara does not)

Sometimes Ace does stuff wrong on purpose so Yara will correct him. He gets attention and she gets to feel smart, so it's a win-win.

Yara uses Ace as her personal space heater when she gets cold. She doesn't tell him that's what she's doing, but he definitely notices she becomes uncharacteristically clingy whenever they're travelling through a winter island area. Ace doesn't mind. He gets even more cuddles, so he's actually thrilled XD

I saw a post once about how Ace tends to get along really well with other characters who have daddy issues, even if neither of them are aware of that fact. And when it comes to Yara... let's just say the daddy issues vibes she gave off were so powerful that he instantly developed the strongest case of sexual/romantic attraction he had ever felt LMAO

Seriously I don't know how Yara fought off developing a crush on him for so long LOL this girl has a will of steel (but even she couldn't resist his charm in the end). She knew what he was doing to her and she hated it.

Ace refers to the day that Yara told him she loved him (which led to them sharing their first kiss) as "the best day of [his] life".

Both of them had kissed people prior to each other, but neither had been in love before. Neither of them had ever expected to fall in love, either-- or, perhaps more accurately, that anyone could ever fall in love with them.

Sometimes their method of resolving disputes (e.g. what to have for dinner) is for both of them to call Kotatsu over and whoever Kotatsu chooses wins the dispute. Kotatsu hates being put in this predicament, though, and sometimes he runs away rather than having to choose between them.

Ace carries a copy of Yara's bounty poster around with him, like he does with Luffy's. His brother and his lover are two topics he can-- and will-- talk endlessly about.