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[travellingwiththedead]

Ok, so I decided to finally catch up with the His Dark Materials series and I'm near the end of s2 and some stuff is just kinda icky...or maybe that's just me.

It's been ages since I read the books and I don't remember how it was there but: were the books making as big a deal of the difference between children and adults in regard to "sin"? Like the show makes it out like in Lyra's world as soon as a child hits puberty the adults just go "you're a sinner now". Also how /do/ they actually differentiate between child and adult? Puberty's a whole process, takes years. Hell, your brain isn't out of puberty until you're like in your 20s.

Also all the misogyny in Lyra's world is just pissing me off but I hope that's intentional xD

(Edit: Oh but I do love Ruth Wilson, she's fab)

[writingsofwesteros]

This!!

Thinking about how Daemon deserves better. She left Kings Landing when she was 12/13 (she had no idea what she was doing at first she just wanted to leave) she’s now 18 and has lived a happy life away from everyone with just her dragon. She’s growing beautifully and prospering away from the hell that is Kings Landing, her dragon is growing bigger by the day because she’s free of the pits and has room to grow. She has her own little cottage, her own garden of vegetables and a few animals: chickens, two pigs, a cow and a goat. It’s nice she’s quite a shy person so being away from everyone is actually enjoyable, she has her dragon and that’s all she needs. Until Daemon turns up one day out of the blue, he had no idea she even lived in this little island, he was just exiled again, for taking Rhaenyra to a brothel (she never got punished though it was all him as if she didn’t want to go there too, as usual it’s his fault) everyone was looking for her for months and couldn’t find her, they thought she was dead. He had half a mind to tell Viserys his daughter was here, until he saw with his own eyes how happy she is away from that vipers nest. He couldn’t take her back there just to watch slowly as the light and laughter fades from her eyes. So he just stays there with her instead. She was happy to see him, he was always kind to her and he seems sad at the minute so of course she let him and his gorgeous dragon stay. He loved it there, it’s not war and fights but there’s something different about it, something that makes him feel better than war and whores and everything else that he thought made him happy. Caraxes loves it, he’s not stuck in the pits, he can hunt for his own food and he seems to fancy her dragon. He doesn’t plan on leaving, especially when he gets home made meals and kisses to his face at the end of the day, understanding from her. She shows him it isn’t weak to be seen with emotions, that not everyone will push his emotions to the side in favour of their own or power. She’s so kind to him and when he eventually breaks, she’s there. Cuddling him into her, stroking his hair, scratching his back, giving him words of comfort and actually listening to him.

So it’s no surprise when he falls for her, he falls for her so hard and he has no problem showing it (I imagine Daemon as a very affectionate person with the right one) she likes him just as much, he’s not an old Lord she used to see that treated their wife awfully, he treats her with respect and he’s lovely towards her, never gets too angry as she told him he should talk his emotions out, she’ll always listen to him. That made his day as no one actually listens to his problems they just assume he’s come to make issues for everyone. He gets heated sometimes but she’ll just tell him to explain so she understands and he does and the issue is sorted after that. He always kisses her cheek, temple, palm, forhead everywhere. He helps with the animals while she does her garden work - because she’d kill him if he touched her garden, that’s hers he’s not aloud to touch unless there’s a really hard weed that needs pulling out. They share the same bed now too, he holds her each and every night, she holds him back and they just talk about everything and anything, giggling and laughing at the stupidest things, just being together. He likes this life he has with her and has no plans of going back to whatever shit show Kings Landing is now. They only reason they ever left was to get married on Dragonstone and even then they only went for the day on Caraxes so her dragon wasn’t recognised, seeing Daemon and Caraxes every few months is normal. Now watching his wife dance about their garden in the flowers with her swelling belly is everything he realised he ever wanted and never admitted to, having his own family that will only ever know love. He’s not letting anyone take that from him. He doesn’t care who he has to go through to achieve that.

The prettiest, sweetest thing ever!!!!!!!