#I can persuaded by her

[talesofunlikelysapphicpairings]

I admire my crush's dedication to her craft. Like, yes, please. Give us what you want. I don't care what it is— I'm sure it's beautiful. My life has literally been in flames lately and I feel like I'm at war with everyone and everything around me. But every time I am reminded of her I do a little dance and a little giggle.

(Also, I don't need her to be here to feel her, you know. I see Warrior Nun, I'm reminded of her. I see my journal, I'm reminded of her. I see the bulk of romantic letters that I wrote for her, I'm reminded of her.)

I like the idea of the potential right now, of the fantasy. It is what keeps me from going insane (or maybe I already am) so let me have it. 😋

There's beauty in falling in love with the possibility. Tragedy, too, but I'm focusing on what makes me feel good right now. Dante Alighieri did it; so, will I.

[hephaestuscrew]

Renée Minkowski loves Organised Fun, whereas Doug Eiffel thinks Organisation and Fun are inherently incompatible. Eiffel can get hours of enjoyment out of discussing 'What are your Top Five ____?' questions with Hera, but if you asked him the same questions and told him it was a team icebreaker activity, he'd jump out of a window. In contrast, the best way to get Minkowski to engage with pointless questions like those would be to include the discussion on a precisely timetabled schedule of activities. I don't think Eiffel would have voluntarily got involved with Funzo because he would have taken one look at the size of the instruction booklet and decided that maybe he did think they should follow Pryce and Carter Tip 792 after all. I think Minkowski sees a robust instruction booklet on a game as a sign that she's in for a good time. Minkowski believes any day of leisure is improved by an itinerary. Eiffel can't even contemplate following a schedule in his work hours, let alone his downtime.

[evilkitten3]

au where there's like a paperwork error and sasuke ends up on team eight. but no one else's placement changes. so kakashi has to deal with just naruto and sakura, who isn't filtering herself at all. or better yet, sasuke gets swapped with kiba, so kakashi has to deal with three loudmouth hotheads, one of whom can just track him down whenever he's late.

meanwhile kurenai's first lesson is homicide 101 and sasuke thinks he just hit the team jackpot

[alphinias]

How ironic that in a clear effort to be more feminist they completely watered down katara’s character.

She’s meant to be bossy and short tempered and smothering and annoying and traditionally feminine and trying to mother everyone! Women are allowed to be all that and also caring and strong. Her strong connection with Aang was practically nonexistent until the very end (with a couple exceptions), and where was all the physical affection Katara has always given?

They totally sucked the passion out of her and I think that’s really sad to see that in such a well developed female character.

[fictiongods]

I have a song on my Fuffy playlist and I really just added it cause I liked it and that was the playlist I was listening to at the time so I kept meaning to take it off because I didn’t really know if it even related to them or not and I just looked up the meaning…..don’t talk to me. It’s safe to say that song is STAYING THERE. Goodbye.

[finncakes]

"Nana lied to us. She hid the truth. She wrote the letters. She gave the gifts. Our parents ran."

listening to ExU after everything makes it 100% more painful! you should try it!

[raehs]

while i don’t hate the concept of rey’s parents being bad people who “” sold her for drinking money “” i don’t rly vibe with it….. i think tr/os did a few not totally bad things — like rey’s parents loving her. and even if they were good people, it still doesn’t take away from rey’s feelings of abandonment and feeling lonely / alone and having to learn how to survive on her on bc they weren’t there + losing her childhood before she even understood what it meant. her anger towards them is still very real. she’s able to love them but also hate them, in some way.

[wildmelon]

velastra's ending... karlach died, lae'zel left, astarion ascended, gale died in act 1 after she cut his hand off, wyll broke his pact and fucked off, shadowheart killed her parents, raphael took over the hells, the emperor switched sides, and vel stabbed orpheus once they beat the netherbrain. but at least she overcame her dark urges!

[transdimensional-void]

was thinking about an AU where wilfried kept his big mouth shut when ortwin asked if dietlinde would be able to get the grutrissheit and adolphine was able to use that as an excuse to delay her marriage…

but THEN i thought of an even better AU where eglantine sacked up and decided to ensure anastasius’s position as future zent would be secure after their marriage. she could have leveraged her position as future queen to convince aub drewanchel to withdraw from the agreed betrothal between adolphine and the leftover prince. adolphine would have jumped on board enthusiastically. eglantine and anastasius could have offered some other kind of benefit to drewanchel to make it up to them…

then without the backing of a greater duchy, sigiswald would be at a serious disadvantage in the fight for the throne. he could have scrambled to obtain, say, hannelore? or dietelinde? but both would have strong reasons to turn him down. his only remaining pathway would have been to try to steal eglantine from anastasius. in which case, the moment he tried something, they could have used it as a position to fully take him out.

anyway, AU where adolphine never had to marry that sorry excuse for a prince and gets to become aub drewanchel :)

[catcr4ft]

GET YOURSELF A GIRL WHO SELF-ISOLATES !!!!

[teecupangel]

Ok ok hear me out (spoilers for HOTD but I think everyone's seen it now so idc) Desmond as a white dragon. And saving that poor kid and his bebe dragon from the mean uncle with the out of control big ass war dragon. Like instead of getting chomped to pieces, either Desmond dive bombs her head and knocks her off course or tries to lead the kid to hide between the big ass rocks he flew through the first time in the scene and have him wait out the storm before flying home (or helps him fly home idk)

Or or

YEET him into GOT as a dragon. Particularly when Dany is bout to lose her second dragon bc the fleet shot em out the sky while they're flying over the ocean. So either Desmond starts burning the fleet and they're like WAIT A DAMN MINUTE THERES A 4TH DRAGON? or he basically uses assassin skill to catch the spear before it takes out her dragon.

Idk I just want Desmond to be a big fuck off dragon.

Okay, so let’s say Desmond reacted on pure instinct. He sees one huge ass dragon terrorizing a bebe dragon while the rider laughs and he doesn’t really need any more information than that.

He goes in and intercepts them, scaring the freaking hell of Aemond because…

This.

Dragon.

Can.

Talk.

So he attacks the bigass dragon and the bigass dragon goes for him and he leads them away from the bebe dragon and the rider, going “Go, kid! I’ll keep this asshole busy!”

And Lucerys and Arrax go while Aemond is trying to control Vhagar as she starts to go wild, annoyed by this unknown dragon employing hit and run attacks.

Desmond doesn’t manage to kill Vhagar (although he did try) and, instead, manages to escape by taking out one eye to give himself enough time to fly away while the dragon trashes and screams in rage and pain.

Desmond finds a safe place to hide for a while and try to find out what the ever living fuck is happening.

Meanwhile…

Luke’s death was meant to be the trigger that “officially” starts the Dance of the Dragons but, instead, this random white dragon changes things.

Because no one has ever seen a pure white dragon…

But they know of the legend.

The legend of the ice dragon…

No one had seen it before but now they heard the tales of its power, of its speed…

Exaggerated even further by Luke and Aemond for differing reasons.

And now…

The starts for the hunt of the legendary White Dragon begins.

(I’m hc-ing Desmond’s White Dragon form is around the same size as Rhaegal so he’s on the small size compared to some of the big ‘players’ in hotd)

As for the GOT idea…

Are we talking about how one of Dany’s dragons got hit by a no-scope ballista which felt like it has aimbot on in Season 8 Episode 4 while they were just flying???

‘Cause…

Well…

Desmond could just be some random white dragon flying around that parts and the Iron Fleets would see him and assume he’s one of Dany’s dragons so they shoot at him. He manages to dodge out of the way because his entire lineage is a freaking cheat created by the Isus anyway and the commotion is what made Dany ‘remembered’ that “Oh yeah, there’s a fucking fleet we have to fight” (just remembering how “oh Dany forgot about the Iron Fleet” as an excuse for that scene, smh) and she’s surprised by this White Dragon but her attention is soon taken away by the ballista arrows aimed at her and her dragons.

Her dragon survives while Desmond just runs away because he wasn’t going to fight an entire fleet just because they shot at him, he’s a dragon, he gets it (no, he doesn’t, he’s just thinking “yeah, anyone would shoot at a dragon like me” because holy shit, he’s a dragon).

However…

The thing is… unless Desmond has been in this world long enough to have an idea of the power struggles and the big players, he wouldn’t join Dany’s side during that huge battle in Season 8 Episode 5, mostly because those dragons were burning ships and people left and right. He wouldn’t know which side was trying to do the right thing, only that this was starting to look like a really bad onesided fight filled with the screams of the burning.

And the burning?

Desmond would remember how he burned.

How he burned to save the world.

So, in this scenario, Desmond would actually fight off Dany’s dragons because, from his perspective, they’re the aggressors and the ones killing people mercilessly.

Then Dany tries to talk to him (maybe order him down) and Desmond shouts at her back off and they both realize that Desmond can talk so everyone just stops to watch Dany and Desmond talk because “holy shit, talking dragon!”.

So it would be up to Dany if she can persuade Desmond that she’s doing the right thing and that her enemies are in the wrong. Of course, since Desmond could talk to anyone, that means people on the other side (mostly the soldiers still alive) could also plead their case to him.

So Dany will also be fighting an uphill battle with Desmond since it looks to him like she’s the invading force since he doesn’t know the whole history of Westeros (and the other countries and continents).

[wonder-worker]

"Angelberga’s capabilities were amply demonstrated both during and after [Louis II’s] life, and Louis' absolute devotion to her, and hers to him, are unquestioned.

Louis referred to her as his most dear, most beloved, most loving, and most desirable wife; his love for her was 'inextricable' and 'incomparable’.

Although Louis II was not known for making generous land grants, he nonetheless made many grants to Angelberga, including the monastery of the Holy Savior at Brescia with its numerous dependencies and the abbey of Saint Peter near Piacenza.

-Barbara M. Kreutz, "Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries" / Charles E. Odegaard, "The Empress Engelberge" / Katherine Fischer Drew, "Angilberga, Empress", Medieval Itay (Routledge Revivals)

[luvslorn]

closed   for   @tryshard !

                   "     do     you     want     to     see     the     west     with     me     ?     —     been     a     long     time     since     i     went     that     way     ,     y'know     …     really     can't     leave     it     be     .     "

[mint-midnight]

nothing to see here just bayley deeply missing her wife 🥺❤️‍🩹

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

thinking about nora again

[thunderboltfire]

I won't get an owlbear cub

I can't bring myself to kill his mother.