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‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1x07 "The Thing Lay Still"
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Lady Mary Tudor reunites with her father after their reconciliation. The Tudors 3x01 | Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light 2x01
Mary's capitulation was greeted with "incredible rejoicing" at court. Restored to favor, she was acknowledged as the king’s daughter once more and offered a sumptuous new wardrobe and a choice of servants. Cromwell returned to Hunsdon with “a most gracious letter” from the king and, “kneeling on the ground,” begged Mary’s pardon for his former harsh conduct.
Three weeks later, Mary journeyed to Hackney for a secret reunion with her father. It was their first meeting for five years. She had been a young teenager when Henry last saw her, and she was now a woman of twenty. Chapuys wrote that the kindness shown by the king to the princess was “inconceivable, regretting that he had been so long separated from her.” He showed her “such love and affection, and such brilliant promises for the future that no father could have behaved better towards his daughter.” Jane Seymour gave Mary a diamond ring and Henry 1,000 crowns for her “many pleasures.” They spent one night together and parted on Friday, July 7, with Henry promising that she would be brought to court to take her place immediately after the queen. (Whitelock, Anna. (2009) Mary Tudor: Princess, bastard, queen. London: Bloomsbury.)
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My tattoo artist told me his teenage son came out to him as trans by giving him a bunch of blue cupcakes and a greeting card that said "it's a boy!"
"That's cute," I said.
"It was NOT cute!" he snapped. "I thought he was pregnant."
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The ASOIAF fandom is truly something bc they are CONVINCED the sons of Rhaenyra (or their descendants) wouldn’t have fought over the crown and meanwhile both the descendants of Aegon III and Viserys II duked it out for a near century…
To be fair, given the trauma of the civil war and the murder of their mother, it is more likely that Jace would not receive rebellion from his younger half brothers.
Because they already lived through that torture and would not want to inflict it on their family again.
It is a similar pattern. Jaehaerys and Alysanne lived though a civil war and none of their children or grandchildren came into all out conflict- but their great grandchildren did after decades of peace.
Invasion of Dorne not withstanding, the same pattern basically holds for the Blackfyre rebellion (Baelor and Daemon are the the same age so I am putting them in the generational category of great grandchildren).
Jace wouldn't be looking at another civil war from his younger brothers, but his children against their cousins?
Especially if dragons are still around?
That’s true but usually these fanfics don’t have The Dance occurring (which is ummmmm) so in a universe where The Dance (as in a succession crisis between Rhaenyra and Aegon) doesn’t happen for whatever reason I think eventually we would have gotten a war between Jace and Aegon III. At the very least Jace would have to view his half brothers (who look like Targaryens, and have more Targaryen blood then he does) with suspicion.
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Anonymous asked:
sorry if youve talked about this before and i missed it, but reading your got rewatch posts, i was wondering if you had any thoughts on the show changes were cersei and robert did have a baby together that died, and cats ‘all because i couldnt love a motherless child’ scene?
they're both stupid lmao.
okay first - robert & cersei baby is slightly more forgiveable because we get two really great scenes out of it. i wish cersei had just been lying about the baby to catelyn, as a way of trying to emotionally reach out/manipulate her. it would be a very cersei thing to do, and imo sort of a precursor to her taena relationship - i've said this before but cersei really wants groupies, it's why she falls for taena so fast, it's why she loves qyburn so much! she is just like, desperate for friends (friends who don't talk back, anyway), and i can see cersei figuring she could smooth over this not-quite-killing-bran fuckup by telling catelyn a sad story about how she lost a baby that she never actually lost. and when she mentions it to robert, it's in the middle of a really great scene.
COMMA BUT. it's sooooo ooc for cersei to risk having a baby by robert and it's not a change you can justify. she would just never do that. i think they could have kept the story between her and catelyn and had her reveal later in the season it was a lie - i think lena could have really sold something like that, the way cersei really is trying to comfort catelyn as sure as she is mostly trying to cover for her mistakes. it's just kind of a goofy change to me.
NOW THE CATELYN SCENE. ASS. ASS ON ASS.
I think what annoys me about that scene is Catelyn does feel some guilt over how she treats Jon - it's why she's so uncomfortable around Mya Stone, for example. She's well aware that the way she treats him is unfair, and the way she is so suspicious of bastards in general is unfair, and she keeps it to herself when she interacts with Mya, but she really sits in that guilt - and then discards it, because Robb needs her to focus. I think Catelyn would describe her feelings as essentially being unable to love a motherless child; she's a very maternal sort of person, and she's a very compassionate sort of person. When she tells Ned to send Jon away she specifically thinks that she's being "hard" - she's not immune to Ned's love for his son, it has an effect on her. It's just an effect she refuses to acknowledge.
COMMA BUT. She would NEVER and I mean NEVER say that shit out loud, certainly not to a near STRANGER. And she would nevver link her feelings towards Jon to what happened to Bran and Rickon. It's so frustrating to me because we already have several scenes where Catelyn deals with her Jon Snow issues, in the aforementioned Mya Stone interactions and that argument she has with Robb about his will. And they just cut them for a scene that is not good! Because like, I love Michelle Fairley, but it's not a good scene! The dialogue is overdramatic and stupid, and the filming is bad. They're just having her sit there and stare into the middle distance while monologuing. How is that more interesting than her climbing the mountain with Mya Stone, or arguing with Robb alone? Just a stupid choice.
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While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.
Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Clickhole, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.
And this is something The Onion - famous for the "No Way To Prevent This" headline they run for every single mass shooting - is leaning into. On purpose, with these families and their allied organizations. Their exclusive advertiser when they launch is Everytown. This is big. This is deliberate. Yes, it will be funny, yes the news is INCREDIBLY satisfying, but The Onion is not fucking around.
The thing about House Targaryen is for all their claim to “specialness” they were a relatively low standing house in Valyria, they had smaller and fewer dragons, when they left the Dragonlords thought they were cowards, and even the whole “Daenys had a dream of the doom” is more myth then truth. Something the generations told themselves to justify their specialness. We have no accounts of Daenys’ dream, it’s just something the audience is told, when Aenar fleeing to Dragonstone out of cowardice is also likely. We know nothing of Aenar or of Daenys.
There is nothing to really prove this “specialness” they get sick from common illness, die from common diseases. They are not the only ones who can tame dragons as Nettles proved, they aren’t the only family around with Valyrian blood and their family was nothing of important in Valyria.
They cling to this “specialness” to this idea that they saw the Doom coming and fled. That they must be special, because why else are they still alive? Why else did a single dragon lord house survive? It couldn’t have been pure luck, random chance. It had to be because they are special.
I swear the way house Targaryen twitter fans act you’d think this story was another boring ass romantic fantasy, and not an epic fantasy that was a massive critique on war, politics, and monarchy.
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The ASOIAF fandom is truly something bc they are CONVINCED the sons of Rhaenyra (or their descendants) wouldn’t have fought over the crown and meanwhile both the descendants of Aegon III and Viserys II duked it out for a near century…
But also Maegor and Aenys, Aenys literally called wanted to “rule” along side Maegor and Maegor betrays him.
The Targaryens are FILLED with tragic siblings, siblings who at one point loved each other and yet still betrayed the other over the throne. It did not start with Rhaenyra and Aegon.
If Jace had lived, it’s not unlikely Aegon or Viserys would have rose up and betrayed him.
#but also side note#if the sequel to F&B doesn’t contain some sibling bonding and tragic fall between Daeron II and Daemon Blackfyre I will scream#they are two Targaryen boys#daemon isn’t just some random bastard#he is as much of a Targaryen as Daeron#and imagine the struggle they would have had growing up
The ASOIAF fandom is truly something bc they are CONVINCED the sons of Rhaenyra (or their descendants) wouldn’t have fought over the crown and meanwhile both the descendants of Aegon III and Viserys II duked it out for a near century…
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the thing to remember about the roman emperor augustus is that he was the human equivalent of those small purse dogs who are very little but also clearly remember a time when they were wolves and as such not only have a need to attack things but the determination to get violent the second they feel like it
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i am so so normal about media and have exactly zero mental illnesses
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ARMAND + CLAUDIA | Similarities
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Clue (1985) dir. Johnathan Lynn