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[highendphasers]

TRICK OR TREAT 🎃 🧛🏻🏰(<- STILL my costume)

you got: TREAT!!(?) you stopped by the vampire mansion, but didn’t find the head vampire at the door. he thinks your costume is hilarious and invites you inside for the treat…?

[adyophene]

Been rewatching HB and I am haunted by the passing gag in episode 2 where it shows Blitzo working at Loo Loo Land at the same time that Octavia visited as a child.

[prideprejudce]

I think alot more people would enjoy the show if they learned to see Rhaenyra and Alicent as Unreliable Narrators, and characters who are supposed to have glaring flaws and weaknesses.

Mandatory preface- There are Issues™️ with season 2 that are its own other ask- but the complaints ive seen about character assassination on both women kind of tells me ppl just wanted to see the two just GirlBossing around, not being tragic characters trapped in their own circumstances.

For Alicent specifically- she just isn't written to be Cersei 2.0, and while it was really interesting to see motherhood from cersei's point of view, its already been done!! I actually prefer seeing Alicent's mercurial clinging to and abandoning motherhood- its interesting!! She was made a mother at what- 15? An age where you truly arent mentally developed enough to raise 3 kids, AND be a child bride, AND be a queen, (AND be a lesbian).

Alicent is interesting to me because she's stunted at 15 years old, she's an adult woman who talks to and sometimes bullies her kids as if they are her peers, and is obsessed with her childhood crush(es). She hasn't built any new relationships* past the ones she was entangled with as a teenager, she's obsessed with both acting out to make SOMEONE see that shes suffering, (she's honestly pretty blatant for someone who prides themselves on being the Temperate Voice of Reason) but also to erase herself and reset to before she had to marry the king, before aemma died.

I think most of her 'bad out of character' decisions are just these two impulses winning out, her trying to force a reset, go back to a time where none of this had happened yet, when things were simpler and she had love and every day wasn't the worst day of her life™️.

She sleeps with cole, the man she thought was pretty at 15 (her last uncomplicated attraction just before it all went wrong and aemma died) -she doesnt seem to like it that much, but she does seem compelled to seek him out, esp when upset- shes obsessed with, and desperate to reconnect with Rhaenyra, her childhood best friend (and first love) and get back to where they were as kids, AND she still treats and asks her father for absolution as if he's still the only authority that matters to her just like she did at 15. Alot of her 'victim complex/bewildered they took it so far' behaviour in the plotting of rhaenyra's usurption reads to me like a teenager in over her head, she talked big game and now its real and shes panicking!! She's tragic BECAUSE she's still a teenager- so stunted shes unable to meaningfully grow up and learn to make healthier choices for herself, or move on and stop trying to grasp at the 'if i could just go back' urge.

As a mother, I think this creates an interesting dynamic as well, and I do like that in the casting even, she seems closer in age to her kids than rhaenyra does to hers. I think the contrast ppl are drawing with Alicent Protecting Her Kids in season1 compared to her giving them up in season two isn't bad writing to me, just massive differences in context. Sure she protected Aemond in driftmark, but we cant ignore that she probably felt humiliated by her husband choosing rhaenyra's side over hers in front of everyone, did it seem like a grown woman fighting for her son?? or a teenager furious with her ex winning one over her again? or both!! both sides twisted together is still interesting! When she protected Aegon from Rhaenys, is stepping in front of her son the king to protect him from the enemies dragon fire not the most romantic daydream of a deserving death a child bride could come up with?? Was it the impulse to protect the son she couldnt decide if she loved or hated, or was it to have the most heroic death possible to escape the reality that she sees coming. And if Rhaenyra hears about how Brave she was in the face of a dragons maw, and cries about it forever and feels sooo bad and regrets it til the day she dies, thats an added bonus. I think Alicent loves her kids, but is teenager selfish about HOW she loves and protects her kids, and is unable to be a mature, consistant, protective mother to them when she also sees them as having ruined her life. I think in season 2 when she 'gives them up' shes relieved, and once again following the compulsion of 'if i reset to when Rhaenyra was heir, i had no sons, and i wasn't married or queen, everything will be better'. I think theres complexity to it, i think she does love her sons and feels insane about it, but I think Alicent has been trying to Go Back in more and more Intense ways ever since she got married, and we might be giving her sanity more credit than it deserves when it comes to the need to wipe the board clean and go back to being 15.

hey anon are you trying to get married to me or what

[softwaring]

TOTAL number including screenshots/downloads etc.

i’d love to hear in the replies if you take most of your photos or save them too 👀 and please reblog for larger sample size, thank you!

[ask-queen-arti]

(the ask box is open!)

[yashley]

[casscainmainly]

Place your bets!

[shittyutmv]

does ink still stink

i don't think we can fix him i think it's permanent ink by comyet dream by jokublog

[canisalbus]

I read the entire "novella" novel and I cried at the Canon ending, but I was really happy at the modern coda ending:))

10/10.

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[highendphasers]

UM HEY SO IF YOURE COMFY SHARING I WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR KILLJOY OCS CUZ THEY SOUND AWESOME

ohhhhh yes absolutely!!!

my most developed one i made with a friend and his name is rat (that's his killjoy name, his real name is long forgotten). he's desert-born and desert-raised with the zonespeak and outer dialects to prove it, plus the added bonus of old drug habits snaking around his wrists that you can only really find from night vendors and shacks that never quite stay in one place. his mom died when he was young while he was curled up next to her in her sickbed, but she remained as a really important figure in his life afterwards who visited him in dreams and brushed his hair while he slept. for a while he fended on his own and bounced from killjoy to killjoy that would give him a place to stay and a lesson on how to keep surviving if mini-suicides offset the big one and pain is something earned. he used to have a significant other named sunny, sunny died from a dispute with someone else that ended in a snapped neck, rat brought him to the barren dirt and stopped trying to fix his head back in the right direction once the sun left its last rays over the horizon, rat keeps paint-covered dogtags on a necklace from sunny. rat got in a bombfight with draculoids that ended with half of his face blown and a leg close to amputation, where he was scooped by max voltage, another killjoy who now remains as his best friend/big-little sister/etc. he sees color in peoples hands and the way they shake and he cries at almost anything if it means enough. he sharpened down his teeth. he keeps watches on his wrists that all have different time. he's deeply autistic and i love him a lot.

then there's julie, who's killjoy name is vintage venom. julie's a veteran from the analog/helium wars, where they were 12-14 or somewhere in that vicinity while the war spanned, keeping themselves with a band of killjoys along this long stretch of sandy land that eventually leads down to the poison water with big iron decomposing oil tankers and patrol boats caught in the dunes. the shipyards were generally used for resources that were crowdsourced and donated while sleeplessly protected within the boats where each killjoy would hide within its tunnels and rooms under the threat of attack if they could hear BL/ind's roaring engine on the horizon and wait for them to sniff out their suspicion. during the war, though, a pig-bomb was detonated during a heated scuffle in the heart of the shipyards that almost tore out julie's stomach and did a big number on their mobility (where one ship was blown in the hull, but the detonation caused the confusion which gave the killjoys chances to ghost off the remainders of the BL/i exterminators under the looming threat of a collapsing ship). since then the shipyards still contain a community largely of travelers coming and going, taking what they need and leaving what they don't, where julie stays and provides and upholds judgement for the shipyards as one of their beginning flames that cooks vulture foot soup and leaves room for the witch to respect their effort in keeping unity through some semblance of a courtroom. julie wears a long (either colorful or beige) shawl with many many necklaces of all sorts and fitted black leather gloves, alternating between black pants and a long black skirt with boots torn to shreds. they use a cane.

and my last killjoy oc is named deathwish, who was born beyond the zones in the hotel bella muerte, a destination for the dying, where all the killjoys that visit end up ghosted or missing within the week, depending on their wishes and how fate declares their mask. they can see ghosts and grew up very disconnected from killjoy culture. they're very eccentric and their internal organ function and capacity is completely skewed due to the mixture of radiation and the line they toe between the afterlife and the beating heart of the desert.

i hoped u like hearing abt my babies :D

[letitbehurt]

It’s a good day to grab Whumpee by the hair and shove their head underwater.

[bogcreacher]

Whats astral's deal?

oh yknow

[theminecraftbee]

actually okay. see i fundamentally don't understand gatekeeping. listen if i like or am excited about something i try to convince THE MAXIMAL AMOUNT OF PEOPLE POSSIBLE to be into it with me. when i think something is cool i come barreling into the world like "HEY HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE COOL THING LET ME TALK TO YOU ABOUT COOL THING" and then if anyone so much as slightly suggests 'how do i get into the cool thing' i go "OH BOY WOULD YOU LIKE A PAMPHLET ON THE SUBJECT BECAUSE I CAN WRITE ONE FOR YOU RIGHT NOW." if anything i'm off-puttingly enthusiastic about getting people involved. overly helpful. concerningly so. how do people like, gatekeep their interests. i don't think i'm physically capable of it. i'd explode.

[kwillow]

will theo ever be happy

Maybe in another life.

[ssaraexposs]

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THEY'RE ACTUALLY TALKING, WITHOUT FIGHTING EACH OTHER OR SCREAMING INSULTS

[it-one-line-at-a-time]

[Stan] "...And if you find someone worth holding on to... never, ever, let them go. Follow your own path.

"Think of this letter as a promise."

[Eddie] "A promise I'm asking you to make."

[Mike] "To me."

[Ben] "To each other."

[Bev] "An oath."

[Stanley] "See, the thing about being a Loser is... you don't have anything to lose. So..."

[Young Richie] "Be true."

[Young Eddie] "Be brave."

[Young Mike] "Stand."

[Young Bev] "Believe."

[Young Bill] "And don't ever forget..."

[Young Stan] "We're Losers... and we always will be."