rewatching hotd clips for inspo and it still drives me insane how whole conversations were happening in the glances btwn jace and daemon on dragonstone. like!! definitely across the painted table when nyra was in labor but the dragonmont especially!!
daemon asking ser lorent+steffon abt whether they acknowledge the true line of succession(him feeling out where their loyalties lie), jace sending him a look when they answer in the affirmative(as if to say "see, they're loyal, this isn't necessary"), but daemon still holds his frown like "hm, maybe, but let us leave no doubt" before leading the conversation to his true goal(steffon+lorent verbally recognizing rhaenyra as queen) and summoning caraxes to quell any remaining doubts the kind of violence daemon has in store for ppl who hurt his family.
also honorable mention for jace shuffling and visibly swallowing but maintaining face, never looking away, when daemon makes them reaffirm their oaths upon pain of caraxes - a moment which i read less of him being afraid of daemon's dragon(even tho this is the blood wyrm™ we're talking abt) but more of as his own acknowledgement of the lesson his stepfather is trying to teach him: viserys, daemon's own brother and jace's grandsire, should've had his vassals recommitting their oaths to his named heir(rhaenyra) in the long years of his reign, but he didn't. with him dead and succession 'unclear', daemon will not suffer that mistake and neither should jace. there can be no room for doubt, for division, with war looming on the horizon.
daemon reestablishes the hierarchy here and teaches jace the kinds of measures he'll have to take as rhaenyra's heir. daemon might be putting on a show of intimidation - i.e. threatening - steffon and lorent but he's not threatening jace.
he's guiding him.
and jace accepts it.
babes!! i'm insane! i'm insane abt this!! the intimacy and experience it takes to be able to communicate with someone else over a distance and IN SILENCE the way daemon and jace do here!! the blacks are a family period end of fucking sentence.
Y’know how Kaido was all about how fruits don’t matter and Haki is the real power? I want somebody — some high-tech Vega punk-esque weapon-smith guy — to have the same opinion, only it’s “both fruits and haki can be defeated by a well-crafted weapon; you’ll never win if you face me unarmed.”
And Luffy goes “What makes you think I’m unarmed? I brought my swords, my guns, my canons, my staff and my steel-toed shoes.”
And Zoro, Brook, Usopp, Franky, Nami and Sanji all standing around him just grin.
This lovely photo is from my personal collection of photos that I purchased from news agency archives. Below is the caption from the back of the photo:
Princess Flies North (May 31, 1972)
Princess Anne dressed all in black for her first engagement since the Duke of Windsor's death, at London's Heathrow Airport today before flying north to visit RAF Catterick.
If you can go to work and not cuss them yt people out every day all day, then you can come home show love to your S/O and them kids! Quit cussing your partner out, quit yelling at those kids, and go love on yo family!
Oh my God the way my family who treated me like ass was shocked that I don't like being around them and even called me uppity, trying to make it seem like I thought I was better than them for....not wanting to be around people who treated me poorly. And my aunt who abused the fuck outta not only being shocked but even being downright hurt that I straight up don't like her. Like I told my mom I hated my aunt and she didn't bat an eye because she understood why like it's not like it was subtle lmao
it feels like some ppl see family members simply as people they can unleash the worst parts of themselves on with no consequences bc they 'have' to forgive you. bc nothing else explains why they love to just be the worst ppl ever and then be shocked that theyre not getting unconditional love. and ik they understand the concept of consequences bc if an outside party screamed at them or constantly berated them.....they would not want to be around them. it's just so weird!!!!!!!!!!!!! no way you expect love will a heart full of venom!