I don’t get how you’re a Rhaenyra fan but a Dany hater 🤨 like Rhaenyra committed a lot of atrocities in the end.
I don’t hate Dany! She’s smart, she’s funny, she’s got some of the best magical scenes in the series - she’s got some of the best scenes in the series, period, her last dragon fever dream in agot is like top 10 for me easy - and she’s a character that is conceptually similar to like, theon or ned or cersei in that she is really firmly rooted and informed by her past traumas, and I love characters like that from a writing standpoint. I have definitely talked more negatively about her bc it’s basically impossible to not be constantly inundated with takes i feel are just the most vapid or deranged or whatever takes in the world, but you can say that for anyone who feels anything at all about dany bc she is a very polarizing character! i think some of her narrative is frustratingly written, i do not mesh well with a large section of her fanbase, and i actively hate her show counterpart, but show dany is a vastly different character than book dany is (i mean just age alone, like with robb and jon, some of your sympathy evaporates bc they are too damn old to be acting this stupid). ultimately, a lot of the "hate" people think i feel for her is directed at what i feel are stupid opinions on her character or her show counter part's place in pop culture, or just like, normal analysis and critique that i do of every character in this series.
i will acknowledge that i tend to describe myself as "pro stark, pro blacks, pro smallfolk" so people know the general gist of what they're signing up for when they start interacting with me, but that is such a simple way of diluting all of my feelings for all of these characters. like "pro stark" in the sense that they are the most rational of the leaders we get in the main series, and have a connection to the land, people, and culture that is important, but i've pointed out plenty of times that robb's war is harmful to the people of the riverlands, regardless of whether he's justified or not, and i've been posting about how ned and cat fail to properly prepare their children (and the north in general) for Real World Politics, to the detriment of their kids. "pro stark" in the sense that i thought show dany wasn't just deranged from season 1 she was also wildly unlikable and nauseatingly stupid, you could see her "dark dany" turn coming from a mile away because these were not subtle writers interested in exploring why dany would decide "dragons plant no trees" and instead focused on her looking hot while she set shit on fire (same way they were less interested in looking at why jon failed as lord commander and had him be the action hero fighting at hardhome). definitely most of my aggravation at "dany" is at the show version, and while i do get why people feel that if you're a proponent of the "dark dany" theory that you're "anti" dany, but I am not anti book dany! i just think like rickon stark, shireen baratheon, jojen reed, aegon vi, etc she is very much doomed to die a very tragic death.
and i do not like characters based on how little atrocities they commit lmao, like, if i were to list my top 10 favorites, probably half of them have committed some extreme war crime. theon is a rapist! jaime is a shitty ass partner to cersei, a deadbeat dad despite living in the same building as his kids, and a failed child murderer! bran is mind raping hodor, understands on some level that what he's doing is morally repugnant, and keeps doing it anyway! pretty much every targaryen i like has committed some sex crime heinous enough to get them life + 25!! bobby b raised joffrey!!! i know i facetiously say shit like "rhaenyra did nothing wrong" but i'm well aware she's out here torturing people, same as like 75% of the characters we interact with in the whole series. so "rhaenyra commits atrocities" or "dany commits atrocities" is just not how i look at these characters (and not to get into stan wars here, but good lord, "rhaenyra commits atrocities" she is not the only or even the worst person in the dance! like 85% of these people suck and the ones who don't - which is limited to like, helaena, jace, nettles, and addam almost exclusively - either die or disappear because That's The Point. also, i was raised SDA alright, you gotta be a really compelling character for me to get past being super catholic, it's in my dna to be a spiteful hater of catholics!! catelyn stark is my one exception to this rule folks!!!!).
as to why i like rhaenyra - for one thing, saying that emma d'arcy is a better actor than emilia clarke is like saying cillian murphy is better than bradley cooper. they are just not on the same level lol. i definitely have my critiques of show!rhaenyra's writing but i also think she's miles better written than show!dany and her story is also more interesting because her writing is much less nonsensical. for another, i think book rhaenyra and book dany are wildly similar characters (for a reason!) meant to be in conversation with each other, and i very much enjoy what that conversation is saying about power, nobility, gender, sex, war, and identity. on a more technical level, while fire and blood is a mess writing and world building wise, the one thing it does better than the essos chapters (because it doesn't take place in essos, it takes place in westeros, and george struggles much less fleshing out "western poc" than he does "eastern poc" ya know) is that rhaenyra is not the only insight we get into the conflict. the people she loves, the people she rules, the people she harms, they all have a pov and a voice in a way that missandei, irri, jhiqui, rakharo, jhogo, grey worm, on and on, do not, the way that basically every single character that isn't westerosi except mmd (who was killed in book one) is not afforded. it's just a lot easier (as of right now) to talk about rhaenyra as a character because we have her beginning, middle, and end and the povs of people who hated her vs dany, we have the beginning and middle, a lot of arguing over what her end will be, and no one in the narrative as of yet who has even the barest criticism of her decisions besides cardboard cut out villainous slavers.
so like...no i do not hate dany, and i don't feel it's necessary to asterisk every post about rhaenyra with "i know putting a hit out on nettles and addam, locking the smallfolk into KL without easing their burdens of the war, positing herself as an exception to male line primogeniture instead of pushing for absolute primogeniture, and using torture on tyland and vaemond's family was fucked up, i acknowledge that she's flawed" when i talk about her, nor do i feel the need to defend my position on dany on the off chance one of her more annoying stans finds my posts and decides i hate women because i said i didn't like her sexual relationship with irri.
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hi. thank you for being here.
(aka i am so grateful for blogs like you existing, because after i see a negative post about lmm (happens way too often to my liking), i can come to your blog, scroll through your posts, and it's going to bring a smile to my face and my day will be better again. i don't know if that makes sense i'm writing this at 3:30 am.)
thank you.
whaaaat, that's so sweet of you! 🥺
getting messages like this always makes me feel like i'm actually doing something good for this fandom, even if it's not that much, it's still SOMETHING. so whoever you are, i just need you to know you brought the biggest smile to my face!
with that being said, this is a safe space for all lmm fans, feel free to visit and scroll, drop something in my ask box, send a request, literally anything you want. i am trying my best to bring more positivity into this fandom (especially now after all this pjo hate) & it makes me the happiest to know that it's not going to waste!
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The Nanami fangirls will get you for that Clari lol. (Honestly I've never ever understood the Nanami hype, his tie and glasses are hideous and he seems like he'd be really boring to date??)
HAHAHAHA ooooh anon u and i are one and the same!!! i mean, i get why people are attracted to him—i honestly and genuinely think he would take SUCH amazing care of you and he’d love the everlasting hell outta you and he’d just be such a good, nice, healthy partner. so he’d be great to date in real life and has ideal qualities i believe one should look for in a partner, and that can be super comforting! like i feel that way about mitsuya, for example.
BUT!!! i’m not often interested in writing about healthy relationships!!! 97% of the time i wanna write the most sadistic, deranged, obsessive stuff and dig into mentally ill characters etc etc etc so!!! there’s that, too, LMAO
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I’ve only seen the first texas chainsaw and I absolutely adore it, but I’ve been told that all the sequels (except maybe the 2nd one) are total garbage and not worth watching. thoughts?
I think a movie can be 'garbage' and still be fun to watch! Texas chainsaw massacre 3 and the next generation are OK they weren't bad just a little boring to me personally.
The 2003 & 2006 movies with Andrew Bryniarski as Leatherface are really good imo.
Texas Chainsaw 3D is up there as one of my favorites in the franchise as long as you forget about that really cringey one liner Heather says near the end.
Leatherface (2017) is the worst in the franchise and not even worth watching genuinely don't bother, and the most recent 2022 Remake was also OK and just overly hated, i mostly saw people complaining about how unlikeable the victims are but tbh the entire point of the victims in the Texas chainsaw movies are to the unlikable stereotype young adults from the time the movie takes place (1974 being hippies, 1986 being yuppies, 2022 being influencers)
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Hi! I don't know if you do requests, and if you do I am so grateful! if you don't, please just ignore this.
But if you do I was wondering if you would do like a one-shot or one-shot series for me?
I have searched relentlessly for anything even close to the one-shot I've been craving but can't find it anywhere. Would you write me a Harry Potter one?
If you're willing, I'd like it to kind be
About adult Remus Lupin (In Harry's third year) when he teaches at Hogwarts. There's a fifth-seventh year girl that somehow gets bit by Remus Lupin during the fullmoon. She ends up contracting lycanthropy like Remus and now they both go to the Shrieking Shack during full moons. Remus attempts to help her out as best he can (for instance, after the full moon's over, while the girl is unconscious, he carries her to the medical wing, always offering her chocolates) because he feels awful about basically ruining her future. But this is a strictly student to teacher relationship, maybe friends at best? No love interest please.
Anyway, sorry for bothering you!
Hiya, sweetie!
I'm not really opposed to requests, but honestly, it really just depends on where my head's at during any given time and how things decide to connect. Never hesitate to ask for something, and you and everyone one else are never a bother in the slightest. Ask if you want, and I might write it, but I can't ever promise anything because my mind doesn't always work with things the way I'd like it to and my focus drifts constantly.
There's definitely potential in this idea of yours, likely much more than a one shot because Remus' guilt over it, how it happens to begin with, what they means for not just the student but also him as an unknown werewolf who has now permanently altered a child's life forever...the wheels are turning and there's honestly so much that could be done with that, especially with really digging into Remus' thoughts and feeling and his own personal hatred of himself.
I might write this for you at some point, I really might. It's interesting, and I can see how a lot of it would play out already, but if I do, it likely wouldn't be anytime soon, unfortunately. I've got a lot of irons in the fire currently - several WIPs that I'm trying to focus on along with a very large project that I've been relentlessly bullied into writing (coughbandaucough) that will consume the entirety of my November and possibly longer depending on how long it stretches out.
With that being said, if any other author stumbles across this and is interested, please give this wonderful anon some hope if it sounds like something you'd like to write. Just maybe tag me if you do so that I can share it make sure the anon sees it and is aware it's happening.
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