#Season 2 I am ready!

[hansoeii]

we go just right.

[waltricia]

💔

[terrapia]

[abbyssgf]

OMFG SEVIKA WILL FIGHT WITH CAITLYN??? I AM NOT READY GUYS

[usertoxicyaoi]

"But ... why do we only have sex before it's a sunny day?" TAIKAN YOHOU (2023). EPISODE ONE.

#1YearWithTaikanYohou.

[a-story-is-true]

memory is a monster

[on youtube]

[books-and-omens]

I think I—

GOD. MY HEART. 

He nearly says it. He nearly says ‘I think I ought to stay.’ But Metatron is walking off, very deliberately walking off without giving Aziraphale any time to respond. 

GOD.

[bartowskis]

existing in the year 2024 and seeing fresh new footage of cassian with his rogue one hair……….i am UNWELL

[source]

[bbygirl-aemond]

Emma D'Arcy on Rhaenyra's Fanaticism

Hi all so I've been going on about Rhaenyra's cult leader era for a few days now and wanted to bring in some quotes from two recent interviews that Emma D'Arcy gave about this most recent episode specifically. This is part three of my ramblings- I first talked about Rhaenyra's growing religious fanaticism here, and then expanded on the evidence from the show to support this here.

In the interview with the Wrap, we are told that Rhaenyra’s faith comes from “the ultimate belief that she is supposed to take over her father’s throne.” Over the series, “we see her become more and more wedded and ingratiated into her faith” to the point that “it borders on a kind of religious fanaticism.” She acts with this “slightly frightening…religious fervor, like she has the gods at her back in this decision.” In the interview with GQ, Emma reinforces this: “...something that has been happening for Rhaenyra throughout the series is a growing religious fanaticism.” Over the course of the episodes, “we see her more and more invested in her faith.”

As for why Rhaenyra is turning to religion, Emma outlines a few reasons in the GQ article. First, she is “in search of her right,” seeking to validate her insecurity over her birthright being questioned and usurped. Second, she has chosen her faith as the “anchor” that she is “going to cling to” in the wake of all the loss (Visenya, Lucerys, Rhaenys, Alicent, etc.) that she’s facing. But ultimately, Emma comes back to the idea of “narcissism” as Rhaenyra’s key motivator. “I think her connection with her religion is about wanting to reinforce a divine right.” Rhaenyra wants to believe that she is divinely ordained and special; it’s a very human desire, and so she’s reading into everything that happens around her. “She feels that she is riding on the wings of her faith. But her faith and her belief that she is the ruler that is supposed to sit on that throne are completely enmeshed.”

Emma also confirms in the GQ article that Rhaenyra views Addam claiming Seasmoke as “a gift from the gods” and says that this perceived sign is what emboldens Rhaenyra to both “ride roughshod over Jace’s very legitimate concerns” and is what “allows her to stage a massacre.” In the article from The Wrap, she expands on Rhaenyra dismissing Jace’s concerns: “ultimately, she will choose herself, really, above anyone. And here she chooses herself and her divine right over her son and her son’s legitimacy. I don’t think it’s an easy decision… but in this case, she feels she’s received divine permission.” We know how ride or die Rhaenyra has always been for her children, so this sense of divine permission must be incredibly significant to Rhaenyra in order to supersede her deep seated desire to fight for Jace’s claim.

Finally, Emma confirms in the GQ article that Rhaenyra feels like the dragonseeds’s deaths are “totally” and “without a shadow of a doubt” worth the result of two dragons being claimed. When Rhaenyra is up on that balcony, watching the dragonseeds be burned alive, “she feels like a god” and “feels super proud.”

To Rhaenyra, even the proximity to Vermithor and his dragon fire feels like she is “soaking up the divine.” Rhaenyra is in a state of religious fervor that distances her from the “horrendous” things she is doing in the short term; instead of truly registering how awful the carnage before her is, she is instead “experiencing events within a far bigger timeline” and thinking about how her name will go down in “the history books.” And so Rhaenyra ends episode 7 as “this sort of emboldened fanatic.”

[haladriel]

‘One of the things that I had the most fun with was the Sauron theme.’

Halbrand’s theme is ‘the Sauron theme backwards. … You've been hearing these notes. You already have this duality, this built-in subconscious trick that I used to sort of teach you that Sauron's here. You know him even if you don't know that you know him.’

‘There’s some really great twists and turns and his theme is going to continue to evolve,’ McCreary continued.

‘Sauron is a shape-shifter. As he changes shape to manipulate in the surroundings to his own ends, his music is going to have to adapt.’

‘What I think is really cool is I've already conditioned the audience to expect that. I've already conditioned the audience. Whether you know it or not, your brain understands that this certain shape of notes, which is itself a little circle. It's this ring. It's the only theme that has this circular repeating thing. I think you're going to hear other variations of that in the next season that are going to be pretty cool.’

— Bear McCreary, Rings of Power's Bear McCreary Teases Sauron's Theme in Season 2 (Exclusive)

[alibeehaw]

“Dear Edward…”

[hansoeii]

Do you think of me?

[jenmisukke]

LOKI SEASON 2 SPOILERS

i think I've seen this film before

[daily-trey]

Phew, Epel really got me good there...

Ko-Fi

[arcielee]

TikTok aemtarg

Unmute, I am cackling. I just love my delulu baby girl.

[shuffleoflove]

me when heartstopper s2 comes out and i get to watch the paris squad be cute and have fun in paris:

me when i remember all the shit that goes down after the paris trip i'm about to witness: