Reading The Other Wind and she is here protecting me from the armies of the dead
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okay i’m texting him wish me luck i’m gonna be physically ill
oh my god finally
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your opinion on the children of aegon iii?
(daemyra’s grandchildren 😔)
- daeron: i feel bad for him lmao. but no really, i think he had a lot of baggage as a ruler bc of the dance of the dragons. by the time he ascended the throne, the targaryens had been irreparably changed by the loss of both people and dragons and i feel like this is something daeron had to have constantly been thinking about. like imo, just the idea of all the dragons being GONE with no possible way of getting them back gives me an existential crisis. i think the pressure to prove the targaryen’s fitness to rule even after the dance fiasco and the death of the dragons is what probably made him so ambitious about conquering dorne and whatnot.
baelor: ummm he’s a perv imo. like i know he’s thought to be one of the best kings but the maidenvault thing is creepy and i just feel like he was weird about his sisters/women
daena: I LOVE HERRRRRR OKAYYY. i wish she’d gotten to be a dragon rider im heartbroken that she never got to have that experience 😔 she was so cunty tbh. wearing all black her whole life (ok goth queen) then switching to all white to publicly troll baelon. escaping from the maidenvault multiple times bc she just didn’t give a shit about what men said or did. having sex out of wedlock and having a baby. said baby’s birth causing baelor to kill himself 🫡 HER NOT BEING ALLOWED TO RULE AFTER BAELOR’S DEATH IS SO MAD WOMAN BY TAYLOR SWIFT CODED “oh it’s just bc we saw how rhaenyra acted with power. we don’t think women are fit to rule they’re too crazy :/”
rhaena: um she’s okay i guess? don’t have any strong opinions about her tbh. i guess if hotd continues on for other generations she could become the new sansa/alicent/helaena
elaena: SHES A BADDIE <3 WOMEN IN STEM RIGHTS!!!! i love that she too did not give a fuck about baelor and that she cut off her hair to spite him and that she had several boyfriends and possible illegitimate kids and love that she continues to live rent free in everyone’s mind in the present asoiaf storyline 🖤
TY FOR THE ASK BESTIE AND SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG TO ANSWER 😭
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Talk to me about autistic Shiv bestie
im so terribly self indulgent when it comes to autistic shiv but just in the way of prattling.. to me (one of) the core tenets of shiv's character is that she is necessarily fundamentally alienated from emotional sincerity and honesty and this in part comes from 1) the very hostile sexist environment she was raised in that insisted on reducing her to a trophy, logan's trophy, at a very young age 2) logan's involvement 3) caroline's lack thereof, despite shiv's repeated attempts to connect with her into adulthood and 4) her only path to success (read: survival) being to prove them all wrong.
so she constantly plays a part all through s1--the part of the distinguished professional who just happens to be the daughter of Logan Roy--as well as s2 and s3--but this time the prodigal daughter returning to emblazon a new path beyond her father's footsteps--in a way that she becomes what she Wants. not in that she achieves her goals, but in that she grows to define herself and her relationships by how well they fit into the persona of whom it would most benefit her to become, if that makes sense.
and tom is such a key part of this--the secret sauce, even, if you will. i don't even think she realizes just how much she grows to genuinely love him and depend on him until the beach scene in s2--it's so easy to read her response to him asking "is this real" before their wedding as cruel but to her it's genuinely baffling, because the validity and significance of that as a factor that has never occurred to her. like maybe this is projection dialed up to a 110 but i do think shiv assumed tom knew it was more about being A Couple than about love, if that makes sense. (which is probably why autistic shiv is so closely tied to lesbian shiv in my head--it's about choosing the assigned roles so you can pretend you had agency in conforming, that it works for you because you let it, it's about faking and masking to make it in a space that's inherently hostile to you and your needs and after being forced to playact at "normalcy" for so long you've lost sight of if there's ever a real person waiting underneath or if you're just an onion all the way down. anyway!)
also shiv's relationship with perceiving and being perceived--how she offers to share her struggles with marcia if marcia can reciprocate, the few bathroom scenes she has scarcely involving mirrors--is SO interesting to me. she uses perception as a weapon and is hyperaware of how the same can be done to her..something something the rejection of being Seen and hence being Loved at the cost of a shot at being respected!! when sarah snook said shiv is uncomfortable with vulnerability and flexibility bc she isnt secure in herself!! the invisible and visible barriers of being a girl and knowing you don't fit in the boxes you should + the invisible and visible barriers of being a woman and having to figure out the boxes or risk ridicule
this is getting SO long and increasingly incoherent but i couldnt end without adding autistic shiv makes even more sense in the context of autistic kendall. for one thing, the mirrors--shiv desperately rejecting a parental figure and being the only person she needs while kendall desperately needing to feel, well, needed--but also kendall is everything shiv has learned not to be and his failure to mask is an integral part of that! it's not a coincidence that logan asks shiv for affirmation when rava says iverson needs time to adjust before he comes to dinner, and the unsaid relief of "at least it wasn't me," when logan tears kendall down for things shiv contends with herself only grows louder each time imo
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@corinthianeyes heyyy bestie, I just wanted to let you know that you're the kindest and sweetest person I know. You're incredible and a great friend, life's a bit nicer with your place within it 🤎
Qhorin Half-hand, 58-61 years old and Mance Rayder 41 years old:
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SLAY ! the opposite hand has nails that spell out divorce
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Rotating kh3 in my head, shaking, screaming, crying, etc etc etc. Like they did all that. Everything starts with "Sora has to figure out how to regain his strength and goes to talk to Hercules about it". And then it goes, "When Hercules tells Sora that he's powered by love? Yeah in the meantime this conversation about Riku's development is also taking place, and the words used in jp are the same. Btw 👍"
And even then it's still not done because it turns back around and goes, "Oh, you're also going to see the lengths Riku is willing to go to follow up on this resolution. Btw 👍 Self sacrifice out of love is also one of the themes of the game and something that Sora is made to witness multiple times prior to this moment. Btw 👍"
Girl!!!... Except, when you think about it...... the big news was Riku acknowledging his feelings (directly) and how his objective has evolved over time (indirectly), but are his actions that much of a surprise?
Well. Considering the precedents... no, not really
And then I think about how separation is the other lesson that Sora learns about in kh3 and I want to explode even more... "Cherish the time you have or have had with someone and keep them in your heart, but be prepared to be apart or let them go" yeah about that. About that.
... Except it's not so easy, is it? _(:l 」∠)_ Because at face value this might come across as Riku having been "ahead" of Sora on yet another matter from the start, but the guy has a certain... habit of downplaying his own importance to Sora or to matters regarding him, something that's kind of outright spelled out in MoM. He lists off what everyone has been doing to find clues on Sora's whereabouts, faltering when it comes to Kairi, but he doesn't include himself in the conversation. What has he been doing? We don't know!! And then there's the matter of his recurring dream, of his hesitance to believe that yes!!! It is important, he is important!!!!!! Aaaarggggghhhhhhhh...........
Loving and believing in someone no matter what are lessons that Riku has learned... not giving up on the hope that separation doesn't have to be permanent? Not so much, at least not when it comes to his personal involvement, not until he was told multiple times that yes!!! He is the one that has to go!!!!!! And it absolutely kills me, because it's like. "Huh, I wonder what other time something like this or along these lines might have happened. Even one example would be enough......"
"............ Huh"
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After some trials, I am very happy to introduce the newest member of my household: Char!
[I/D: two pictures of Char, a slightly fluffy orange tabby cat, lounging and eating]
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literally stop reblogging such good stuff our blogs are gonna look the exact same
maybe you should stop reblogging all my stuff
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Hi ash how is it going. I wish a drodcast would happen
hi char its going ok i also wish a drodcast would happen :((
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easily the mimes and clowns mutual but also. fashion mutual
twirls hair guilty as charged…
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bites uou bites you bites uou biting you
bites you a million billion times. CHOMPS you even. nomnomnom
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