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How physically active were actually "medieval" noble women? I know is a long period but I usually see people complaning about noble women in fantasy doing stuff such as hunting or riding horses. I have seen a couple of illustrations of fencing manuals with women in them too.

We, as a culture, especially in the US, have a very bad habit of using the British Regency/Victorian era as the gold standard for how women all over the world were treated throughout history. And the truth is, it ain’t that way. It never was, because women in this exact era used to duel each other in other parts of Europe and often did it topless.

Yes, this is real. We have records of it.

Was it all women, all the time? No. Was it often enough to mention? Yes.

There’s a really good article by Kameron Hurley, “Women Have Always Fought” that goes over the history of women warriors and the laziness of specular fiction in detail. This is a particularly great few paragraphs from the article that covers where our popular conception that women don’t fight comes from.

“Women have always fought,” he said. “Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.”

I had no idea what to say to this. I had been nurtured in the U.S. school system on a steady diet of the Great Men theory of history. History was full of Great Men. I had to take separate Women’s History courses just to learn about what women were doing while all the men were killing each other. It turned out many of them were governing countries and figuring out rather effective methods of birth control that had sweeping ramifications on the makeup of particular states, especially Greece and Rome.

Half the world is full of women, but it’s rare to hear a narrative that doesn’t speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man’s daughter. A man’s wife.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

Check out some of these real women below.

Empress Maude, the daughter of the English King, Henry I, was named her father’s heir after her brother died. While her cousin Stephen stole the throne after her father’s death, she raised an army and took the country into a civil war to take it back. They fought it out for the decade it took for her son to reach adulthood, and laid the groundwork for Henry II to become king. There’s a great novel by Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept which chronicles the civil war. If you’re interested in medieval history, I recommend reading it. Her daughter-in-law, Eleanor of Aquitaine, also led an interesting life. (It should be said, real history got to the denied female heir fights for her throne before George R.R. Martin.)

There’s great videos from Xiran Jay Zhao discussing the Chinese warrior queen Fu Hao of the Shang Dynasty and Wu Zetian, who became China’s first female emperor. (Yes, you read that right. Emperor.)

There is Khutulun, the Wrestler Princess and the great-great granddaughter of Gengis Khan, who is one source of our “defeat her in battle to marry her” tropes. She issued this challenge, “defeat her in wrestling, she’ll marry.” She scammed would be suitors out of 10,000 horses. Western male authors are so threatened by Khutulun, they’ve kept trying to rewrite her history by making her fall victim to the power of love. (No, seriously.)

There’s also Hojo Masako, the Buddhist nun who deposed her own son when he proved incompetent and ruled Japan as Shogun. Here’s her wiki entry too.

The Amazons of Greek Myth were real in that they were actual Scythian women who went to war. (As Scythian women did, just like their men.) They terrified and terrorized the Greeks so much, they became immortalized in their mythology. Don’t believe me? Here’s an article from National Geographic and this one from Live Science.

There’s stories like this all throughout history from big events to small ones. (You can find more over at Rejected Princesses if you’re interested.) There are female warriors, female generals, noblewomen who took command of their husbands’ forces, widows who took to the sea to get revenge on those who wronged them, women who rode with their husbands to battle, female assassins, female leaders of rebellions, etc. The women of the Japanese samurai class were trained to fight, and fight they did. Women warriors, queens, and politicians are all over mythology too. You’ll often see these women come out of the upper echelons of society because money creates options, but they are there. Many of those stories are lost to history, in some cases purposefully, and there was a long trend among archeologists that assumed because a person was buried with male grave goods, the body had to be male. We’re now finding out that isn’t true. There’s a significant portion of warrior corpses that have turned out to be female. Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla chose to post a notice about it in response to these exact criticisms you’re questioning.

Those people you see complaining online? They’re clinging to a version of history that doesn’t exist. More, we know it doesn’t, because popular culture is hungry to the point of desperate for aggressive, confident, and competent female characters. If they were truly a lie, they wouldn’t ring true for so many people.

The history we’re taught today largely downplays women’s achievements, contributions, and successes while uplifting those of men. It’s a fact. Go look at famous female figures anywhere, you’ll find the same story at play over and over. Historically, fantasy as a genre largely portrays a world that is, in fact, fantasy, but that fantasy has nothing to do with women doing things they’re not “supposed” to. There’s no clubhouse. There’s nothing unrealistic in imagining your female character is a kickass queen who defeats overconfident men in wrestling competitions and robs them of all their horses. It’s not unrealistic to come up with an ending that doesn’t conclude in tragedy, violent deaths, them “learning their place,” or even locked within the bonds of an unhappy marriage. (Shocker!) Some did, but the truth isn’t universal. It’s not even unrealistic to imagine they might have supportive male family members, love interests, and followers who happily (gasp) assist them in these endeavors. Maude, for reference, had bastard half-brothers who helped her instead of trying to take the throne for themselves.

History got here before fantasy authors. There’s nothing unrealistic about reality. Popular conceptions and common knowledge fed to us by the majority male dominated culture isn’t always the truth. Reality is, it’s the stories we see normalized across the media spectrum that are wrong. The ones that insist women are objects, who commodify their pain, and reframe their stories to ensure the focus remains on men. While this is changing, women are still often treated as the NPCs of male driven stories.

The people you hear complaining? They want storytelling traditions to stay that way, for the Great Man values countless narratives have reinforced to remain unchallenged. Funny as it sounds, they’re threatened by the very existence of narratives that countermand that centralized focus on men being superior, that there is a stratified gender hierarchy, and men taking their place as the sole, worshipful focus of a woman’s existence, much less these female characters being important in their own narratives. If these people weren’t threatened by female characters being people, they wouldn’t say anything. They’d just move on in apathy.

Reality is people are complicated. There’s room for all stripes in all colors and contexts. It’s no secret that history has suppressed and erased countless stories that don’t support the ruling narrative of the dominant culture. These same people forget there’s plenty of storytelling traditions that include women taking their place as warriors in cultures outside America. For all the sexism and misogyny, women fighting is not an alien concept, it’s not even foreign to other Western European traditions.

Believe what your own research is showing you, not what a bunch of idiots who can’t tell their ass from their elbow are whining about. They can’t handle someone who isn’t straight, male, and (most often) white being the central focus. Really, they can’t handle these characters as even a side focus. That’s their loss, it doesn’t have to be yours.

-Michi

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AU: Jaehaera Targaryen survives and becomes Queen Jaehaera, the first of her name, wearing her father's crown and her grandmother's seven-pointed star necklace.

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𝕽𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖊𝖔𝖚𝖘 𝕾𝖎𝖓 - alicent hightower x criston cole

ꜱʏɴᴏᴘꜱɪꜱ: Porn with minimal plot | Pleasure is sacred, one could reason. No matter how sinful. Even the most devout will discover this... ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢꜱ: Smut (Slight Praise Kink, Very Light Body Worship, Fingering, P in V Penetration, Dominant/Submissive Dynamics) | Infidelity | ᴡᴏʀᴅᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ: 850+

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“This is wrong.” Alicent moans, jaw unlocking and eyes shooting upward into her head as the man pries apart her legs with only feather light touch. Cole has never felt more at heat than when her lithe body arches against his touch. The Queen’s hands curl and fist wildly into the mattress. His Queen. Teeth gnash into themselves from his jaw as quick as a knife can slash in the dark. “It is immoral. I am your Queen, married, and you have sworn an–ah!–an oath of chastity!” In a moment, the guard questions himself but not enough to soothe his aching loins. A hand slaps at her thigh and forces another gasp from her pink little mouth. “I also swore an oath to you.” He grunts, a finger pumping into her pussy with a threatening simplicity. There is something righteous about the slick sound of it. “To satisfy my Queen in each way she needs. And what you need,” Pants echo in the room. “Is to be properly filled.” Whines suck out of her in fervour. Alicent’s breath catches in the cruel vice of her neck. Criston wettens his lips as easily as he wets her. 

Her sweet pussy which has doused itself in nectar cries through both lips. Pink and puffy, they both cry for him – for their devoted sword and shield. Confidence is a cruel father but an even prouder breeder as it brews in Criston’s stomach. His large, thick hand jolts another finger inside. His golden skin couples against her own tawny. They contrast but their souls and hearts entwine when his fingers provide the basest carnal adoration. They worship and pound the core of her, drip with her essence. Criston stares transfixed at her weeping desire. It begs him and he is a happy servant. Warm eyes meet warm eyes. Pleasure swarms the sweat of the Queen’s brow and sings down her flesh. “A Queen deserves only the best, does she not?” Criston questions, near-panting. He continues to thrum inside of her. Alicent’s eyes become wet with glazed over ecstasy. “And if I am truly as clement as you say, then I shall not be the only one left undone tonight, dear Criston.” Her hands are not futile as they searc his frame which clanks with armour. She tosses it from him with summoned strength he had not expected. 

Like jelly, Alicent slips back down and lets her guard’s wandering hands dip beneath the emerald velvet of her dress. The blasphemy of the act trickles up her spine – it strikes her both with fear and excitement. Criston pushes away the fabric. He wants to see her. Alicent has to refrain herself from shedding a tear at that thought–her husband had never looked at her like that. A being to not only desire but adore. To feel lucky from her mere touch alone. It makes her shiver now. “I will not be satisfied until you are one and truly spent.” She pants, parting her legs to reveal the soaked wetness within once more. A growl pushes out of Criston’s lips and he is pouncing on her. He sheds his clothes, then his small clothes until his bare body is curiously mirroring hers atop. Alicent’s hands cup his hips and tug while she blinks pretty doe eyes at him. He reaches behind her head and untangles her modest tied hair. The curls spiral out wildly but the crown stays glittering in the candlelight. Ferocity and need both dance in each other’s eyes until finally, his stiff member tickles her cunt before it dips inside. A silent cry pulls her mouth into an ‘o’. A delightful expression of her pleasure. 

The guard pumps, wild moans and grunts escaping them both like feral animals in heat. Criston’s hands close into hers and squeeze tightly. Her nails dig into his flesh until they leave marks capable of scaring. Her hips are pounding against his with bruising roughness. They grasp at each other as sweat and pleasure and desperation scream against their bodies. Wetness thickens and sticks their loins, it joins them as one being. They have never wanted for anything more than they do for this hour. Their lovemaking does not forge with ease and nor is it fragile. It is rough and coarse and desperate as they cling tightly to one another. In sinful escape, they find their true righteousness. Something holy is born from their wicked doings. Criston’s mouth dips to suck at her nipple, swirling his tongue just to see her back arch for him. All for him. He twitches inside of her, pleading to release the slippery witness of his seed. His eyes water and roll back as a filthy image encircles his mind. Alicent shudders but then her legs wrap and wind tightly on his back. Criston’s pace increases, pushing in and outside of her vice-like pussy. Eventually, something snaps and they release in one last pump of relief. Criston’s form falls against his Queen’s and slumps between her legs. She leaks with the wet spend of their devotion and she smiles. Moon tea would be a small price to pay for that evening…

#alicent hightower #criston cole #alicole

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The Logical Couple

#comic

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I wanna see the war between humans and Godzilla with his ghostly son watching the fight in shock.

BLIND RAGE

(Also yes Mothra can see Ganji’s spirit, it’s my headcanon that with her immortality and her dying a couple times she started to have this ability to see the dead, but kept it a secret)

Still wondering how tf I spent all of my time on this…

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How I Would Change Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (if i was smart enough to direct and write movies)

DISCLAIMER: I loved GxK, and I believe it is an entertaining movie! This is just my take on how I would've liked to see things happen, with it connecting to the previous installments more, as well as tweaking some minor details here and there.

SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT! DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE

So, the biggest change I am adding is that Madison Russell from Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong. I was honestly surprised when I heard that Millie Bobby Brown wasn't involved in the project at all, and I feel like Maddie's presence could have really helped flesh out some of the human aspects of the movie.

The only other thing I am really changing from the movie is adding cameos that link the movies together better, as well as making some minor attempts at making the science less... fantastical. I am not deleting any scenes from the movie, just altering them and adding a few more. Hopefully, this keeps a good balance between the human aspect versus the Titan aspect. So, the movie would probably turn out to be approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes in length, compared to the 1 hour 55 minute run time. I am only going to have bullet points for the parts I am altering/adding, so anything I leave out from the movie is otherwise unchanged or doesn't have enough of a difference to warrant a bullet point.

During the scene where we see updates of MONARCH over the past few years, we don't just see Dr. Ilene Andrews in interviews, but also cameos from Dr. Ilene Chen and Dr. Ling Chen, and possibly some other cameos like Sam Coleman or Mark Russell. Less emphasis on being thankful for Godzilla's help (because yeah he's helping, but also thousands of people are dying directly from him), but more emphasis is placed on MONARCH helping with relief efforts, and the usage of the Titan Warning System we saw in MONARCH: Legacy of Monsters. Also, instead of the other MONARCH person we see in charge (who I think is Hampton, Rachel House's character?) we see Deputy Director Verdugo.

Another small change is that MONARCH isn't trying to "stay ahead of DC" here. I understand why they did that, but from my understanding of the previous iterations in the Monsterverse series, MONARCH was supposed to be considered trustworthy and the top Titan research group after King of the Monsters, especially after the fall of APEX. So, instead, MONARCH is just trying to find what answers they can give to the United Nations as soon as possible.

When Godzilla kills Scylla, we get an explanation of how Scylla was causing problems to the natural world, as well as directly challenging Godzilla for Alpha status, which was explored in Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted.

At the MONARCH school (which I really hope is a school for children of MONARCH employees, or at least a school funded by MONARCH, and not an indoctrination school), we see that Jia is a student at the school, and Maddie is there as well (I don't know what year this movie takes place in, but it takes place sometime after GvK in 2024. Timeline-wise, Maddie was 17 in 2024, and probably a junior/senior in high school, so depending on how long it's been since GvK, she could be a teaching assistant of some kind, or a senior in high school) and friends of each other. They both have visions as the Hollow Earth signal is received; Jia has flashbacks of her past on Skull Island and of her time in Hollow Earth, and Maddie has flashbacks of her encounter with Mothra, Godzilla, as well as when she faced Ghidorah and MechaGodzilla. Both of them also have the same quick flashing vision of the future events of the movie.

When Ilene comes to check on Jia after the incident of her drawing on the desk, Maddie is there, and there's a new scene where all three of them talk about what is going on. Maddie says that MONARCH is too rigid in their thinking, and mentions that there's someone who could help them.

In Miami, Maddie and Ilene meet up with Bernie, and Maddie is integral in helping Ilene convince Bernie to help.

During Trapper's introduction scene where he gives Kong his new tooth, we also have Nathan Lind and Mark Russell show up to witness the event. They are both there to say goodbye to the Hollow Earth transport team, and Maddie joins Trapper, Ilene, Jia, Bernie, and a MONARCH military member (instead of the asshole Mikael, it would be one of the G-Team members from Godzilla KOTM to add more emphasis on their death; either Jackson Barnes or Anthony Martinez would probably be the most recognizable ones)

Instead of Godzilla going to France's nuclear power plant and destroying the place to absorb the radiation, and therefore attacking the humans who attacked him (which kind of went against the whole "the Titans are the guardians of nature" thing and the previous characterizations of Godzilla in the Monsterverse), he goes to some abandoned nuclear site. I would say Chernobyl, but I doubt they'd put that in the movie due to Russia's Invasion right now. But just some abandoned nuclear plant somewhere would work.

Inside Hollow Earth, there are issues with the HEAV due to the signal disrupting the systems, but they are quickly able to figure out the best way to traverse the land; when Jia and Maddie sense the pulse, the HEAV lands until it is over, and then repeat. On their first landing, the G-Team member dies. After they find the Mothra temple, it is Maddie who approaches the glowing dragonfly and presses the button on the wall, allowing them to find the Iwi civilization.

In the scene where we first see Shimo, there is more emphasis and origin on the crystal that Skar King uses to control her; perhaps the crystal is a part of Shimo's ice crystals that we see on her back, and has strange properties due to the Hollow Earth's radiation? We also give Shimo more of a personality. When she first appears, Shimo would be curious about Kong, but flinch at sharp movements from anyone. And then when she is forced to attack, it'd be obvious that she doesn't want to, but Skar King forces her to with the crystal.

I want Shimo to have more characterization in the movie. I've seen people complain that she was just... kinda there. Like, her whole purpose was to keep Skar King from getting bullied too badly. So, by really showing that Shimo is being forced into this and that her natural state is curiosity and warmth (as opposed to her icy nature ;D ), it provides more depth to her character, making the viewers want to see her freed.

When Godzilla arrives at Tiamat's lair, they fight again, but instead of killing Tiamat, Godzilla is able to force Tiamat out like he did in Godzilla: Dominion. Again, too much unnecessary (although insanely badass) murder for a "guardian of nature". He goes into the hibernation to evolve himself.

In the Iwi civilization, we get a more scientific look at the Iwi culture. I don't understand the gravity thing the movie tried to go for, so instead I want to focus on the cultural aspect; they are similar in most aspects to what was seen in Kong: Skull Island, but there are clear differences in dress, the markings they wear, and their ceremonies. This would also be where we go into more detail about how essential Mothra is to this group of Iwi people, instead of her being shoehorned in when all we've seen previously was the Iwi and Kong's species. We see Jia figuring this out and clearly being happy at this. I would also go into them using crystals more, like how we saw with the guard's spears, instead of the gravity-based science. These crystals would be seen to have a mystic quality, explained by Mothra's radiation, perhaps.

When Kong arrives at the Iwi civilization with Suko, that's when Trapper leaves to go back to the Outpost to retrieve the gauntlet for Kong, THEN we go into seeing the lore behind Skar King and Shimo at the temple. This provides a better sense of time between Kong's arrival and his getting the gauntlet since it honestly felt way too fast.

Inside the crystal temple itself, we see the history of the war between Skar King and his ape versus Godzilla and Mothra. I'd love to have Shimo seen more as a threat, with them explicitly saying and having a longer conversation that Shimo was the one who started the last Ice Age, and that before she was captured by Skar King, she had frozen Ghidorah in Antarctica. There is perhaps slightly more exposition here, with the prophecy including not only the "Iwi from Skull Island", but "a girl touched by Mothra".

In this scene, I want to explore Maddie's connection to Mothra. In the Godzilla: King of the Monsters Official Novelization, it is implied that there is some connection between Mothra and Maddie after the scene in the Temple of the Moth. It is hinted at when Maddie has a vision of Mothra while she is unconscious during the Boston battle. I would love to explore that more, and there'd be a deeper explanation in the Official Novelization, something with Mothra bonding with Maddie since there weren't any twin priestesses like there usually is, perhaps.

This is when Trapper returns and gives Kong the gauntlet, and when Jia sends the latter up to bring Godzilla down to help.

Maddie and Jia both go up the crystal temple to the top, where they find that Mothra has a cocoon up there; Maddie realizes that this is what Mothra must have been doing before she arrived in Boston to help Godzilla (I remember reading somewhere that the director said that Mothra was likely off laying an egg during her absence between showing MONARCH where to find Godzilla and her arrival in Boston. This would work really well in my opinion, and a lot better than her materializing out of magic crystal dust.

When Kong arrives on the surface to summon Godzilla, they still fight a bit. However, it becomes clear early on that Godzilla really isn't into the fight; he has obviously been sensing the signal the whole time, so he knows that something is happening with Skar King and Shimo. With previous movies (and especially MONARCH: Legacy of Monsters) trying to convey Godzilla's intelligence, it isn't a far stretch to suggest that Godzilla would figure out that Kong is trying to get his help. Still, the fight goes on for long enough that Mothra arrives to keep them from beating each other up too much. We see Jia and Maddie reach out to Kong and Godzilla respectively.

When Skar King arrives at the Iwi civilization, the Iwi tribe uses their knowledge of the region's radioactive properties (again, nothing gravity-based science-wise because that was all confusing and likely very bad science) to try and send energy through the crystals, messing with the portals from Hollow Earth.

There is no more anti-gravity fight scene. Although I enjoyed it a lot (seeing Godzilla swim through the air and the apes use the rocks to climb around were honestly so cool), it doesn't fit with the "improved" science I am attempting to do. Another ground fight, but they go around the tunnel so they're all still fighting on different planes.

Due to the close proximity to the surface, Ilene is able to warn MONARCH, and they work with the United Nations to evacuate Rio de Janeiro, since there is a tunnel appearing there. This brings us back to the beginning, where I wanted to do away with the "be grateful for Godzilla even though he destroys thousands of people's lives every time he's on the news" thing at the start.

When Skar King and Shimo arrive in Rio de Janeiro, since Kong, Godzilla, and Mothra are unable to stop them due to the immense amount of apes in Skar King's army, there is a lot of destruction. We see Skar King force Shimo into starting another Ice Age, though again, we see that she really doesn't want to do what he says. She starts freezing the city, and the MONARCH evacuation teams there panic as they get closer to their position, before Godzilla, Kong, Jia, Maddie, Trapper, and Bernie (the humans are in the HEAV, with a brief exposition that Mothra was staying back to stop all of Skar King's apes from destroying the Iwi civilization).

This fight is pretty much the same, but the civilians are barely present, and we only see them evacuating a few people away in the HEAV. The final battle still focuses mainly on the Titans, with a heavy amount of emphasis on the crystal from Skar King's whip. I'd keep the absolute bullying that Skar King got the same, but the explanation for this is that Skar King is much older now, and his opponents over-leveled themselves expecting him in his prime.

Mothra arrives from the tunnel, and this is what distracts Skar King long enough for Suko to use Kong's axe to break the crystal that controls Shimo. Once this happens, we see that Shimo can feel it, and she immediately stops attacking Godzilla and looks around in curiosity and amazement. She flinches when Skar King is trying to order her around while he is being bullied by Kong, but with a trill from Mothra and a growl from Godzilla, she joins in bullying her tormentor.

After the fight, there is more of a delay before the ending; we see Bernie on the news talking about his podcast, achieving his movie-long wish to be believed; we see Maddie saying goodbye to Mothra as she leaves and Maddie reunites with her dad and also Josh from GvK; Jia stays with Ilene, but she has a newfound connection to the Iwi sister tribe in the Hollow Earth; Mothra flies across the ocean while Godzilla swims below her to emphasize the symbiotic relationship, and they both take a nap in the coliseum (Godzilla is considerably more careful as he steps through the city this time); Kong returns to the Hollow Earth with Suko and Shimo, and he leads the apes out of their imprisoned area and to the main area of Hollow Earth, where his kingdom is.

For an end credits scene, it'd be Ilene and Jia in the Iwi civilization, where they get permission from the priest lady to see a special part of the temple, where it reveals prophecy-art of Kong, Mothra, and Godzilla fighting against their next enemy.

Obviously, without anything known about future projects, we don't have any end credits scene for this movie. If there is another movie (I thought I saw somewhere that Adam Wingard wanted to direct a trilogy of Monsterverse movies, which means another GxK installment could be in the future, perhaps?), I don't think they'd do what many people want and bring back a Toho villain. Based on the trend of what they've done in the series so far, the next installment would include an original villain with some connection to both of them. So I'll list out some options of what I'd like to see, of both Toho villains and original villains:

Toho: Hedorah, Biollante, Destoroyah, and my personal choice; Battra.

Original: Methuselah, Leviathan, another threat from space (not SpaceGodzilla, since that'd be difficult to work out in this series I think, but maybe something along the lines of Ghidorah's family, since I think they were briefly mentioned in the King of the Monsters Official Novelization), or another threat that goes against Hollow Earth and the surface. Maybe a giant worm-like creature or burrowing Titan could be a good idea, since it'd be able to go back and forth between the two worlds. It'd provide a nice background for how the portals are made.

So, there it is! I hope you guys enjoyed it and like my ideas for how Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire could have been improved. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Okay! This is based on a post where Godzilla dies instead of Mothra, and if I knew how to link posts on mobile I would.

But this is how I imagine the aftermath would be.

Monarch discovers an unknown egg, but Mothra is viciously protecting it. One day it hatches and out tumbles a baby Godzilla. Not a Rebirth of her beloved King, but an heir. However, this leads to her savagely keeping the other Titans in line... it's almost as if the gentle Queen died with her King.

Since humans were involved in the death of Godzilla, she only tolerates them now. Although there are a few exceptions. All in Monarch.

Well, for an MvK event, Mothra is out to eliminate threats to her son, Junior. Thus her attack on Kong. There is no reason for her to believe he won't harm a baby Godzilla. And MechaGodzilla? A twisted facsimile of her beloved, built on the bones of him and his greatest enemy.

Now, Junior hasn't been able use his beam yet. Which is how he got captured. In fact, that was the original reason Mothra attacked the first Apex facility. She was looking for Junior. Maddie, Josh, and Burnie find the baby Godzilla, and realize that's why Mothra is rampaging. Simmons intended to celebrate his fully functional Mecha by having it kill Junior.

So Mothra manages to beat Kong. She's slightly better off than him. But MechaGodzilla is loose now. And it has Junior as a hostage. So Mothra is trying to rescue her Godzilla Pup and... it's going.... strange. Sometimes it will try to attack her and other times it deliberately deflects the attack. Almost as if it's at war with itself. Yes. The spirits of Ghidorah and Godzilla are fighting inside. And Godzilla is encouraging his beloved to destroy this body. But there is a very big part of her that doesn't want to. He's BACK.

But Ghidorah is too, and he wants to kill the baby. Kong joins the fight, and during it, Junior finally uses his atomic beam for the first time. And charges the axe. Kong and Mothra come to an understanding, he won't hurt the Godzilla pup. And she won't try to shank him again.

But, Monarch wonders, if the Ghidorah skull is removed.... could Godzilla come back to life?

@paladin-of-nerd-fandom65 @weirdgirl92

#godzilla

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hey fic writers!

I created an interactive graphic of every single name listed in the entire series*.  It’s filterable by House, Region, Gender, First Initial, or you can sort by how common a name is in the series. Really useful for naming OCs or side characters.

You can access it here or here. 

//I can also share the Google spreadsheet with the full list if that’s preferable. DM me for the link.

*huuuuge shoutout to whoever runs the wiki bc hot damn

#reference #asoiaf

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THE REAL REASON WHY PEOPLE LOVE DRACO MALFOY!

Man! I can swear that if these toxic Harry Potter fans were old enough to read A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) they would totally worship Joffrey Baratheon :D

Imagine being a young girl, reading a fantasy book and then you're introduced to a bad boy who has blonde hair and grey eyes. So you're likely to portray him like this on your mind:

Yeah, he is a bully, just like all dreamy Wattpad boys. So he is totally a boyfriend material for the main girl of the story. Like, if Wattpad has Vini Uehara, Harry Potter fandom has Draco Malfoy!

Yeah yeah, the boy might be racist and constantly despising people for their blood status, and yeah, he might be insulting and abusing them as well, and also proudly follows a racist terrorist who is trying to commit genocide…

But it's all because Draco's dad was bad :(

It's not his fault that his abusive daddy (even though we have never seen him abusing his son) and mean mommy (even though she clearly loved him sm) raised him this way! Stop blaming the victim you heartless jerks!😡🤬

LOOK AT THIS POOR, ABUSED BABY!

That's why fandom is thirsty for- sorry, I mean rooting for Draco Malfoy.

ThE bOy WhO hAd No ChOiCe!!!

(More like "the boy who had plenty of choices but he chose the bad with his own freewill" but anyhoo)

Oh also, Draco is supposed to be much more handsome than Harry and Ron even though there was only 1 or 2 people who fancied him while there was at least a dozen of girls who fangirled Harry and blah blah blah…

So, the hottie- sorry, I mean Draco definitely looked like Sean O'Pry even though his appearance wasn't described as attractive or particularly good looking but whatever…

(Certainly not unrealistic and romanticized Draco arts, right? :)

Lastly, it was totally Draco who should have been with Hermione, not loser- sorry, I mean Ron😒

Hermione is a good girl, and therefore it's her duty to redeem Draco. Why? Duh! Because that's how all spicy Wattpad love tropes work!😏

The kind-hearted main girl has to sacrifice her own psychological wellbeing and emotional needs in order to “fix" the bad boy. It's the single most important responsibility of Watty girls after all😂

But hold up there! Draco wasn't actually bad because he was HaNdSoMe!!!!! Okayyy?

Being the Leonardo DiCaprio of Harry Potter universe is Draco's redeeming quality. That's why he deserved Hermione more than Ron or anyone else😌

And of course, Hermione is a mindless object who can't have her own decides. So fandom totally has every right to question/criticize her love interests, right?

As the main girl, Hermione is supposed to choose the rich and charismatic bad boy, not the poor but the funny, kind and caring boy who always tries to make her happy and keep her safe.

Because this is how cliche love stories go...

And this is why some bipolar fools simp Draco Malfoy so much even though he didn't display any clear signs of kindness or compassion.

So my short answer why some toxic fans are so into Malfoy is likely because of their interest in "Alfa Men" (we can simply diagnose them with Stockholm syndrome lol)

#draco malfoy

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If you feel up for it, for the writing meme prompt, Clark Kent/Lex Luthor, with the song You And Me by Lifehouse? If it's not your thing I totally get it though and hope you have a great time and fun writing the things that do catch your fancy!

I think we ALL knew that I was gonna do baby Kon for this, lbr. Also ngl, this came out way more cracky than the prompt would suggest it should've but it is absolutely my favorite thing I’ve written for this meme so far, as the necessity for the following cut should help attest, haha.

Unfortunately, Lex takes one look at Cadmus’s progress report on the newly-crafted Experiment Thirteen and realizes he has paternal instincts. 

Well, that’s inconvenient. And a little disgusting, honestly. Certainly a disappointment. 

He supposes it could be worse. He could be Lionel about this. 

Anyway, that’s how he has a physiological four year-old on his lap when he hears the news about Superman coming back to life and fistfighting an evil cyborg with his own face about it, because of course the man didn’t have the decency to just stay dead. Why would he, after all? 

Lex needs a drink. That would be a bad example for the physiological four year-old, though. 

Then again, Experiment Thirteen should be completely immune to the effects of Earth-based alcohol in about another four to six months of consistent yellow sun exposure, so . . . 

Lex is halfway through his second brandy when Superman shows up on his balcony at super-speed wearing a very pretentiously dramatic black suit and looking both winded and bewildered. And still alive, unfortunately. 

“Don’t you have a murderous cyborg to be ensuring is in custody?” Lex asks dryly, deciding to just not acknowledge the presence of the physiological four year-old who’s moved on to messily but methodically coloring on the floor underneath his desk. Lex didn’t actually give Experiment Thirteen either a coloring book or crayons, mind, but he appreciates the clone’s resourcefulness in breaking into the office supplies. Anyway, it’s useful for developing its hand-eye coordination and fine motor control. 

Superman’s pupils are pin-pricks, barely even there at all. Which is an unusual reaction from him, and Lex notes that fact reflexively but doesn’t particularly care about it. Meant-to-be-dead people do unusual things, especially the alien ones. And it isn’t as if–

“Baby,” Superman blurts, his eyes wide. 

Lex . . . pauses. Takes a slow sip of his brandy. 

Alright then. 

“Yes, I’ve noticed,” he settles on eventually, raising an eyebrow at him. Experiment Thirteen peers out from under the desk, immediately decides Superman isn’t an interesting presence, and then goes back to coloring all over Lex’s floor. It seems to be drawing either a puppy or a chain of complex genetic sequencing, but judging by the kinds of things it’s been drawing so far, it’s fifty-fifty. Lex has been getting the impression the clone actually likes art, which is a baffling interest to find in his own progeny, but how does that quote go . . . “I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet”? 

Or something like that, anyway. 

“No, I–baby,” Superman stresses, looking bewildered as he floats down a little closer to the open balcony door. 

“. . . yes, I’ve noticed,” Lex repeats, raising his eyebrow again and taking another sip of brandy. Superman looks frazzled, bobbing up a little higher in the air again to get a better view of Experiment Thirteen under the desk. Experiment Thirteen keeps ignoring him in favor of its coloring, displaying no apparent interest in the most powerful uninvited guest in the history of illegal immigration. Lex experiences a moment of overwhelming paternal pride, which is such a bizarre and unanticipated experience that he doesn’t even know what to do with it. 

“Where’d he come from?” Superman asks with a wondering expression. Ugh.

“A cloning lab,” Lex replies dismissively, setting his near-empty glass down on the desk. It’s hardly worth lying about Experiment Thirteen’s origins at this point. He didn’t want to murder everyone in Cadmus to keep the secret. He might need them if there’s an issue with Experiment Thirteen’s genetics later, after all. “We mixed it up a couple weeks ago while you were off wasting everyone’s time being dead."

“You had my baby?” Superman says, tilting in the air and still staring at Experiment Thirteen, as if he's somehow forgotten both how much kryptonite Lex owns and how much kryptonite he keeps specifically in this office. “While I was dead. You had my baby while I was dead.” 

. . . alright then, Lex thinks again, both eyebrows raising this time. 

“I really wouldn’t put it that way, personally,” he says. “Also, I don’t recall saying it was in any way yours.”

“Baby,” Superman repeats inanely, then lands on the floor and ducks down into a crouch to peer under the desk better, his pupils still reduced to barely-there pinpricks. Lex is so mystified he doesn't even activate the security system or the weaponized red sun lamps. Experiment Thirteen frowns at Superman–Lex, again, basks in unanticipated paternal pride–and then turns its back on him and hides all its drawings from him as seriously and carefully as if they were under NDA. 

It's almost adorable, frankly. 

Not that Lex finds things adorable, of course. 

“His heartbeat's so cute,” Superman says, looking absolutely fascinated. Which is surprisingly useful of him to mention, actually, since Lex had previously been vaguely concerned that Experiment Thirteen's odd thrumming heartbeat might be a sign of a heart defect, but apparently it’s just a Kryptonian thing. A . . . “cute” Kryptonian thing, according to Superman. 

Lex is increasingly mystified by this interaction. 

“Can’t say I’ve spent much time listening to it, personally,” he lies, because he has in fact obsessed over that heartbeat’s health and stability since first finding out about its unusualness and has done a truly aggravating amount of research into heart murmurs and conditions and the like. But that’s hardly Superman’s business, now is it. 

“. . . what’s his name?” Superman asks hesitantly. Lex is possibly having an out of body experience. 

“Experiment Thirteen,” he says. Superman immediately looks offended. 

“We need to give him a name, Lex,” he says. Lex, again, has an out of body experience. 

“‘We’?” he repeats incredulously. “I made it, I get to decide what it’s called.” 

“He’s got my DNA!” Superman protests, looking indignant. Lex has absolutely no idea how to process that expression. 

“It has both our DNA, in fact, yours was too irritating to stabilize alone,” Lex informs him dubiously. More accurately it was literally impossible to stabilize alone, but he’s not mentioning that to Superman. “So it has my DNA, and I made it. And also put eight point two billion dollars into its production, as a lowball estimate. Therefore I’m the one who decides what its name is, thank you very much.” 

“Lex,” Superman says disapprovingly. “You can’t call a baby Experiment Thirteen.” 

“It’s physiologically developed enough to complain if it doesn’t like it,” Lex retorts, narrowing his eyes at him. Superman frowns at him. Lex has never had a more ridiculous conversation with the man, including all the times Superman’s tried to appeal to his nonexistent “better nature”. “Well it is.” 

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Superman says, then ducks back down and peers at Experiment Thirteen again, gentling his voice to address it while Lex is still incredulously mouthing “ridiculous”? to himself. “Would you like a real name, kiddo?” 

Experiment Thirteen sticks its tongue out at him. 

Lex is finding parenthood to be a very rewarding experience, actually. 

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In case no one told you growing up

Bras last longer if you let them air dry. Don’t put them in the dryer.

If you have a problem with frizzy hair, don’t dry your hair with a towel. It makes the frizzies worse. (I recently read an article that said to use a t-shirt? I brush mine out and let it air dry.)

Whites wash best in hot water. Everything else can be in cold - save on your electricity bill.

You can kill 99.9% of germs in a sponge by putting it in the dishwasher for a cycle or by microwaving it for 2 min (be sure to make the sponge damp before microwaving and to put a cup half full of water in with it and please DO NOT squeeze the sponge until it has cooled off)

Airing out your room/house and letting sunlight in every so often can decrease the number of household pests like silverfish and ants.

Black underwear is best during your period as stains are less likely to be visible.

To save money, put aside 10% of each paycheck into a savings account. It’ll add up.

Unless your hair has something on/in it (like grease or mud or something), using conditioner first can actually be the better choice. The conditioner holds in the good oils that help you hair look sleek and beautiful, which shampoo would otherwise wash away.

Speaking of shampoo - if you have long hair, washing just the bits that touch your scalp is generally enough. The rest of your hair gets cleaned with just the run off from your scalp.

If you put a tampon in and it’s uncomfortable/you can feel it, you didn’t do it quite right. A properly placed tampon is virtually unnoticeable by the wearer.

Apply deodorant/antiperspirant a couple hours in advance of when you need it. This gives the product the chance to block your sweat glands. Using deodorant just before going somewhere where you’ll sweat (this means walking outside for people in high humidity places) results in your sweat washing the deodorant off and starkly limiting its usefulness.

After running the dryer, use the dryer sheet from that load to brush out the lint catch - it gets everything off in a fraction of the time it’ll take you to get it clean with your bare hands. Paper towels also work well.

Wash your face everyday, or as often as possible. Forget which brand of cleanser is best. Just washing your face everyday will guarantee you clearer skin. And do you best not to pop pimples, as tempting as the urge may be.

Fold laundry asap after taking it from the dryer to avoid wrinkles. This may seem obvious for dress shirts and silly for things like t-shirts, but you’ll notice the difference even then once your shirts stop looking like unfolded paper balls.

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i am so sick of barely getting any helaena content. it takes hours of scrolling to try and escape seeing posts only mention her for their helaena x jace, helaegon or helaemond ships, where none of them genuinely care about or focus on her, she just exists as a prize or generic love interest to futher their stories and the author’s stupid obsession with “pretty, pathetic, sad men with trauma uwu” tropes. which is so unfair considering she’s literally so fucking cool!! helaena is worth so much more than just the mediocre men around her! she is the most interesting out of all her siblings, yet she’s reduced to just being “weird” and/or boring by most of the fandom (though the boring part can be explained away by a lack of focus in both the book and show versions)

though to help showcase my point, here’s some reasons why i love her:

- she’s literally got the gift of prophesy and dragon dreams, like the conqueror.

- the way she would look at the world is entirely unique bc of being a dreamer, like her concept of fate and time would be so cool to see contrasted by others. “he’ll have to close an eye”, the metaphor of the centipedes’s legs for monarchs on the throne all act in favour of this belief.

- she claimed dreamfyre, the second oldest living dragon in that period of time (mother and or grandmother to most of the dragons alive in the series + drogon, rhaegar & viserion)

- she was beloved by the smallfolk (thus implying she was generally good, pious, etc and won their favour, likely by charity e.g. margaery going to the orphanages)

- she’s nice and mostly non-toxic to people regardless of her own trauma (unlike everyone else)

- she fits within typical (textual) society standards of women without being noted as distinctly inferior to her masculine counterparts (beyond gender bias, as f&b was written as accounts of characters)

- she’s an autistic-coded female character. (hint: not weird and emotionless, this isnt the good doctor or young sheldon ffs)

- helaena also likes bugs and insects because they literally are so cool okay, and she relates them to her prophesies?? metal as fuck. (like spiders are so interesting ok)

- she became mentally ill upon facing torture and witnessing the death of her children that later caused her suicide? utterly tragic, compelling, real as fuck. i will never forgive daemon for blood and cheese, i am sobbing on the floor, i will never recover or move on

- also she reminds me of phoebe bridgers’ music. i think she’d be a big fan of hers, especially the punisher album (this one is more of a headcanon but it’s on the list anyways)

yet we as a fandom often seem to disregard her (and almost all other women in the show) for “sexy emo/sad boys with trauma” and the “omg he’s so lana del ray coded” bs because that’s totally not overdone in 2023

#helaena targaryen

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30 Day AU Challenge

Write or Draw anyone from any fandom in the following ‘Alternate Universes’:

1. Fantasy

2. Highschool

3. 1950s

4. Superhero

5. Western/Cowboys

6. 1920s/Mafia

7. Steampunk

8. Disney Movie/Fairytale

9. Police/Detectives

10. Time Travel

11. Hogwarts/Harry Potterverse

12. Runaways/Homeless

13. 1940s/WWII

14. Pirates

15. Asylum

16. Turn of the Century

17. Plot of your Favorite Book

18. Elizabethan Era

19. Futuristic

20. Prostitutes/Strip Club

21. College

22. Office

23. Vampires (and Werewolves xD)

24. Genderbend

25. Circus

26. The Plot of your Favorite Movie

27. Hospital

28. Orphanage

29. In A Band

30. Any Other of Your Chosing!

#alternate universes #30 day au challenge

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Things you may have forgotten about Arya Stark

She has PTSD

She was a slave

And threatened with rape multiple times

Also beaten bloody

She used to play with lowborn kids in Winterfell

And talk with the smallfolk

And people loved her

She likes flowers

She is a polyglot

She knows a lot about poison

Because she had to taste it till her stomach hurt

She is too caring for her own good

She gave water do dying people

She dgaf about social status

She has low self-esteem

So much that she thought her family wouldn’t want her back

She is good at math

Also history

She is an extrovert

She makes friends with anybody

She has a strong pack sense

She’s an incredible warg and she doesn’t even know it

She’s good at climbing

She is an amazing rider

She never totally forgets who she is

No matter how many names she takes

The old gods are casually giving her pep talks 

She isn’t a psychopath

She was a war prisoner

Also a child soldier

She can cook

She has a strong sense of justice

JUSTICE

She could pretend she is a singing goat and you’d believe her, that’s how good she is at pretending to be things she is not

She cares about people who are suffering

She doesn’t like killing

She has nightmares about it

She likes songs

She is a girl, she acknowledges it and she is proud of it

#arya stark

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Tired of William being made arbitrarily smaller than Sherlock for no reason whatsoever based on nothing in canon whatsoever and in fact in direct violation of it.

Gimme the meet cute where they're fighting over the last shirt that fits both of them in Target.

"This is the last shirt with long enough sleeves that doesn't billow out ten inches on either side!"

"I ruined my last shirt with a chemical experiment!"

"Well, I ruined mine by falling asleep into my dinner and getting red wine all over it."

"Listen I know so much about chemicals that will get blood and wine and shit out of clothes I will fix your shirt please just give me this one."

Or like.

Their tailor got their orders mixed up because for some baffling reason they had the same measurements for everything, so William walks home with a dry cleaning bag full of distressed jeans and hoodies and has to wear that for a week now while Sherlock loses his shit debating if wearing John's too-small trousers is still better than this fancy suit that fits perfectly but it still a suit, and then William gets it back with a mysterious stain.

There's just so much ignored potential.

#Moriarty the Patriot #sherliam

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Here's an au that makes SpyxFamily even more wholesome 🎬

#spy x family

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#SPY_FAMILY | Pillo

#spy x family