#it's based on the show AND the book

[crimsonlovebartylus]

Chapter 6 of Cruel Summer; The Summer Regulus Turned Pretty is out now <3 > here <

The feelings of grief, anger and love made itself a guest - it was unfair when they both thought about it silently how quickly time went by and how near to the end they were.

snippet ^

Summary: Regulus finally decided this summer would be different - and he was finally moving on from Barty.

or Regulus never expected to have two "brothers" fighting over him.

and surprised: chapter 7 (8) is HERE also: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50417875/chapters/138510448?view_adult=true

double update.

[apollolikestodraw]

He did crimes or something (idk I’ve never seen it I just thought he was cute)

[volukyrja]

Golden Child ✨✨✨

[wamo]

succumbed to the urges

[artificial-condition]

Me watching tv: it’s what murderbot would have wanted

[ghostshipglamour]

James Fitzjames’s Erebus cabin book nook!

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

(source, 11/30/22)

KING

[demontouched]

sally jackson, who had so much trouble raising her son, and endured so much heartbreak, starts a support group for mortal parents of demigod children. they're not all in new york, but zoom and google meet and a dozen other video chat options exist. they meet once a week on monday evenings, and after their child comes back from a quest. they drink wine, talk about their child rearing experiences, and light some food on fire to complain to a god. (they choose which god with one of those spinning wheels.) they rotate between apartments, but sally's is used most often. when percy is home, he regales them with tales of his quests. (their favorite story is after the battle of manhatten, when percy rejected immortality and demanded child support.) sometimes sally will let him have a glass of wine with them and tell them what each god is really like.

[viscericorde]

incredibly well-adjusted vampires. i like the dynamic these two have very much <3

[pigeonteef]

anyone ever read lockwood and co here??? i used to be fucking obsessed with those books when i was in middle school lmao probably read them like 10 times minimum.

anyway i think (?) i drew these when netflix announced the show but who's to say (i can't actually remember)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

ORV is about enduring the horrors in real time.

(for @everyonesfavoritebastard)

[crushedsweets]

The fact that this fandom exists in the first place and continues to exist in 2024 is absurd and beautiful

[mechadria]

im honestly still just as wary about the next season of the witcher even after the table read -

because it was never about liam's acting skills.

do i think henry cavill was a spectacular match for geralt?

yeah. but not only because of his looks or his acting: he GOT geralt and the witcher in general. he's a massive nerd who knows the franchise like he wrote it himself and was a big reason (not the sole, but a big one) that the show kept on track and was even somewhat faithful to the original material.

but i don't believe cavill did a regé jean-page and like. left to seek stardom or whatever. this was a passion project too for him, you could tell.

no, I'm wary of the future of witcher because of the higher ups involved.

so what DID the people who disagreed so hard with him he quit the project do? well, they needed a 7000 word letter from joey batey and the fanbase pleading just to allow jaskier to be queer like he (pretty much) canonically is. didn't need incentive from anyone to create fake gay motives for the worse villain of the story, though. didn't need incentive to completely ruin one of the most beloved characters of the franchise, or let his actor get harassed on socials after the swap without ever saying shit.

i do not trust that these people, who have proven callous, arrogant and ignorant about both the source material and the opinions of the fanbase (and have made some choices nearing bigotry) and who disagreed so heavily with the actor who knew the source material best are capable of producing a good season 4. liam or no liam. am i hoping he's a good geralt? yes, the series and other actors don't deserve to have their performance harmed by him. can it be as good as the seasons cavill was in? for the reasons cited above: fuck no.

[jeslo]

Astarion and Durge are my Roman Empire.

[lunamond]

The disproportionate hate show!Criston gets is so bizarre. No argument I’ve seen his haters make sofar has made any sense to me.

He is outside of Mysaria the only siginficant lowborn character we meet. He rises up from the son of a steward of a minor house to the position of King‘s Guard thanks to Rhaenyra, who then pressures him into having sex with her, sth that could get him executed. Afterwards she not just rejects his proposal, but laughs in his face.

And when as a result of this experience Criston is shown to be emotional distraught and bitter, people call him an incel? (I assume that they refer to his ideology and not his actual status as a celibate, because not being celibate is literally what started this mess)

It really rubs me the wrong way, when people remove all context from this situation. A lower class person getting a well-off position from a person with authority, who they then end up having sex with is ALWAYS a relationship with a power imbalance (Obviously there are irl relationships like this, who work out and manage to be relatively healthy, but that doesn‘t remove the imbalance of power and the increased likelyhood of abuse).

We see Criston‘s reluctance when Rhaenyra makes her move. It does not matter if Criston was attracted to her or not. The simple fact that he is in a vunerable position makes him denying her a risk. It also does not matter that Rhaenyra had no malicious intentions, the simple fact that she ignores Criston‘s refusal and continues pressuring make this whole scene super uncomfortable. Her ignorance and naivety does not erase the impact of her actions.

Criston growing to hate her afterwards is perfectly justified.

As a man who grew up in Westerosi society, he inevitably holds misogynist beliefs, which is reflected in the insults he uses after this. But compared to the acts of every single character on this show, singling out his character is pretty ludicrous, when we have plenty of male (and female) characters who have done worse:

Like commiting SA (Viserys, Aegon), grooming young girls (Viserys again! I really hate this man, Daemon, Otto, Corlys and Rhaenys because telling your daughter she has to sleep with a grown man when she is 14 is pretty much the same thing Otto does to Alicent) and the only major crime Criston is guilty of sofar: murder (Daemon killed his wife and the servant in Driftmark, also he did large scale police violence which people love to forget about, Rhaenys killed potentially hundreds of smallfolk at the coronation)

Obviously, anybody is allowed to dislike whatever character they want, but a lot of people flatten Criston into just a misogynistic bitter incel who is just mad that Rhaenyra has sex, ignoring every bit of context we get for his behaviour.

This becomes escpecially weird, when those same people have no problem stanning Daemon, who calls his 1st wife a „bitch“, „uglier than sheep“ and then murders her, because he sees her as inferior as a none-valyrian. But Criston calling Rhaenyra, a person he feels personally wronged by, a „spoiled cunt“ is apparently a too far.

It is just really frustating when the character with the canonically lowest social standing gets afforded the least amount of nuance by the fandom (the writers are obvs not excempt from this criticism either).

[shortnotsweet]