#vi vents

[empress-violetlight]

I seriously don't understand the mentality of you can't say ANYTHING about ANY POST that is even SLIGHTLY *not* a complement without it being somehow Wrong and Evil and Rude.

Somebody wrote a long post about how Ezra was supposedly Thrawn's nemesis. I didn't reblog, I just mentioned *politely* in the comments that I disagreed -- because Timothy Zahn had already made a far more suiting counter to Thrawn in Nuso Esva, an alien warlord featured in Zahn's Legends novel "Choices of One" and short story "Crisis of Faith". Nuso was meant to be the Moriarty to Thrawn's Holmes (or the reverse, depending on your point of view) either way, a far, far more appropriate and suiting antagonist for him and his Empire of the Hand to deal with than some dumb Space Aladdin teenager, who Thrawn wouldn't have anything to do with if Pryce hadn't called in a favour.

I will not apologize for proritising Zahn's writing over Filoni's anyday.

Timothy Zahn himself told me when I saw him at a con that he is working under the assumption that all the books he wrote are still "canon" -- that Disney will eventually change their minds (and considering how the Mouse flipflops, not to mention his literal decades of work, I don't blame him one bit). He snuck references to Outbound Flight and SWTOR into his Ascendency Trilogy! I have no doubt that in the Zahnverse, that means Esva is still "canon" as well.

Then again, even the craziest of Legends as a whole tends to be far better written than anything Disney has driveled out, IMO. None of the new books not written by Zahn are even worth the time. Not that Disney gives half a crap about anything not on screen to begin with. Not like in a "more civilised time", where writers and editors worked their asses off to tie the novels, comics, video games, everything they could into one comprehensive universe. Was it perfect? No. But at least they made an effort.

Who am I to argue with the Word of God? Who are any of us?

It's becoming increasingly apparent that any kind of discussion about fandom is becoming taboo on this website, unless you're agreeing with every word the OP says, figurately whacking them off. And that's sad. One should be able to disagree, especially when you're not being rude or aggressive about it. One should be able to voice an opinion, to have differing views, and to remember it's just fiction.

#Vi vents #I have to deal with enough social BS in real life #without it seeping through to fandom as well #This is supposed to be my escape! #Actually autistic

[applepies-and-starlight]

Heath honestly resonates with me on a good few levels... especially after what we're learning about Canto VI

Like, i have No fucking clue how to explain it, it's just...

Blub, you want a shoulder to cry on? I get it, it's hard, and I don't think it's gonna get better anytime soon so like... wanna just wallow in the grief for a good bit? Nobody thinks too much of us anyway so screaming and crying about it is no skin off our backs...

Just like... the feeling of having so much rage, spite, and similar feelings in your heart to the point where everything's just. Numb, until something rubs you the wrong way and the next thing you know there's blood on your hands and there's someone on the floor with a bloody nose, and everyone's grappling at your arms to try and restrain you because you're a volatile pile of anger?

Yeah... yeah I understand that feeling. Waay too fucking well.

#void screaming #limbus company #heathcliff lcb #canto vi spoilers #<- kinda #mild vent #<- probably?? #<- yeah it's a vent i think

[lives4lovesworld]

Dragons, their unique and extraordinary bond and why the binder is a red herald.

“If you read Fire and Blood, you’ll know there’s definitely a bond between the dragons and their riders and the dragons will not accept just any rider,” says Martin. “Some people try to take a dragon wind up being eaten or burned to death instead, so the dragons are terribly fussy about who rides them.” - Grrm November 2018

We shall not pretend to any understanding of the bond between dragon and dragonrider; wiser heads have pondered that mystery for centuries. We do know however, that dragons are not horses, to be ridden by any man who throws a saddle on their back. - writings of Gyldayn

Most speculations around dragons, the dragonbinder and any potential riders are blatantly rooted in nonsensical delusion and pure envy of House Targaryen and the power it derived of their dragons, and the deranged need to see the dragons fight and wreak havoc to finally villainize them all once and for all the eyes of the realm as the clowns of this fandom all do in their posts, so their excessive hatred is finally validated by canon. Nowhere is all this more apparent than in the ridiculous popularity of the theories that have Stannis Baratheon, Young Griff, Victarion and Euron Greyjoy become dragon riders, and more specifically all in context as enemies to Daenaerys.

It's truly astonishing what loops people jump through to make these theories appear even the slightest bit feasible;

Even if Stannis Baratheon would survive long enough to set eyes on Dany's dragons and even if the theory in and of itself wouldn't be a pathetic attempt by his delusional stans to still present him as a viable candidate for Azor Ahai Reborn. There was not one recorded incident of a Baratheon riding a dragon, and mind you Orys Baratheon was likely Aegon’s bastard brother yet neither he nor any of his closest descendants have been dragon riders, and each of them had more blood of the dragon than Stannis. The prerequisite of even being one.

Young Griff [or FAegon or Aegon VI] tho the most feasible of all the "candidates" it is ridiculous which lengths the proponents go to, to craft scenarios, where he, always a political enemy of Dany, somehow obtains one of her sons. It's often argue that, regardless of who Young Griff truly is, Targaryen or Blackfyre, due to his blood he must be a dragon rider! An equally bold as unfounded hypothesis: i) the concept that House Blackfyre would have been dragonlords as well had the dragons not be extinct by the time the cadet branch of House Targaryen was founded is purely speculative! Neither House Celtigar nor House Velaryon, two ancient Valyrian House, had been dragonslords. Hell, not even all members of House Targaryen had been. ii) Young Griff surviving long enough to set eyes onto Daenerys's dragons is as hypothetical as Stannis's prior, and given how he is currently risking an all-open war with only 5000 sellswords at his disposal with no prior war experience against the current reign is just as unlikely. iii) However, let's assume Young Griff indeed survives long enough to do so and ends up fighting Daenerys; as already stated dragons aren't mere mounts, they choose their riders and need to bond and for that, they need a considerable amount of time, training is time-consuming as well. So how exactly would Young Griff even get the chance to bond with either Rhaegal or Viserion? In addition, Daenerys's dragons are unique to their ancestors all of them having bonds to her as their cherished mother. Despite what the fandom argues, dragons are not nuclear bombs, they would never bond with someone who would want to severely harm or even kill their mother. Lastly iv) which is purely theoretical but IMO a very solid theory: @luchibelle theorized that Magister Illyiro Mopatis put the eggs into his son's cradle after the Targaryen fashion and hoped they would hatch. The man likely attempted several times to hatch them. In vain, he gifted them to Daenerys as bride's gifts. In all likelihood to make the marriage with Daenerys for Khal Drogo more desirable, for Dany's bride's gifts are his property, which the Magister needed for his scheme of Viserys as the evil invader with his foreign army of savages for his son to defeat as the gallant Aegon VI Targaryen. However, it does further contradict the speculation of Young Griff's potential being able to bond & ride a dragon.

So far Euron and Victarion Greyjoy are the only ones actively perusing Daenerys for her dragons, name and beauty, something none of the other "candidates" do which should at least be the bare basis on these speculations if you want to call them that way. However, the unquestionable fact that the iron borns do not possess a drop of the blood of the dragon should end all speculations then and there. The unfounded idea that Euron possesses unnatural power and/or uses the horn he proclaims is a tool that can subjugate dragons should serve as a substitute for the lack of valyrian is a jump through a loop unparalleled: i) While GRRM can stress as much as he wants that Euron is much more than what he appears to be; a megalomaniac sadistic busy-body. The Forsaken shows that Euron sacrifices humans and uses tortured captive priests to perform their magic FOR him. The power does not come from him, unlike Daenerys and some of the Starks. ii) the unwillingness of this fandom to see Euron's tale of him traveling to Valyria as a lie is on the same level as its unwillingness to see Petyr Baelish's one. Valyria after the doom is hell on earth. GRRM emphasized this more than once in his lore; Princess Aerea Targaryen, Garin the Great. Hell, he even wrote this scene. Yet because some really want to see their super specific unfeasible(!) fever dreams to validate their need to punish Daenerys and House Targaryen and their dragon for being perceived as obstacles to their favorite character's rise to power, Euron Greyjoy, a minor character introduced to us in ADwD, is the first to set foot onto Valyria after more than 400 years. iii) Since we have established the truthfulness of Euron's tale, let's extend the same skepticism to the "Dragonbinder" as well; true dragonbinders were used by pure-blooded Valyrians to tamp even the ill-willed and oldest dragons. In the millennia of wars between the dragonlords of the Freehold and the rest of Essos dozen of such horns must have been lost by riders and found by other folk. If the possession of one paired with enough magical expertise and lust for dragons would been sufficient to make anyone a dragon rider, the Freehold of Valyria would not have been the only civilization to tamp dragons. So why would two Greyjoys make the exception? On top of that, why would Euron let the horn out of his sight and more importantly give it into the custody of his brother he knows has wronged and slighted more than once? And if Euron is indeed an agent of the Others, of Ice GRRM won't have him subjugate one of the embodiments of Fire, which shall be triumphant at the end of the series. Lastly, the speculation of Victarion Greyjoy as a dragon rider is a misunderstanding, likely deliberate, of Moqorro and the dialog between him and Victarion; Moqorro is a red priest sent to Daenerys so she might know she has been identified as Azor Ahai Reborn by his temple. If he is even half as frantically loyal as Melisandre is to Stannis, Moqorro would never actively try to sabotage his Chosen One by helping someone, a non-believer at that, to rob her of her dragons. Creatures that are sacred to the religion of R'hllor. Not to mention who is Victarion to Moqorro? A pillaring slave catcher who worships an agent of the Others for everything that isn't R'hllor.

If speculations around potential dragon riders do not serve to despite Dany, then they are handed out as rewards to favorites. Nevertheless, GRRM has written to many hints for the other characters to become riders, likely Tyrion and Jon Snow, despite it being incredibly repugnant to me for numerous reasons; it has been Daenerys who has to do all the hard work, who figured out how to birth them, how to raise and feed them, how to train them and deal with all the moral dilemmas. No matter what it will always be cheap, offensive and lazy to me that two characters will swoop in, become legendary as as the first dragon riders woth Danya and reap all the glory, and given of which descent they will be, a violation of GRRM own lore and rules of physic. The excuse of 'its the ending of the world' is beneath his talent.

To conclude its despicable how something as unique as the bond between dragons and their riders and the otherworldliness being of the blood grants is cheapened by all these speculations, which are almost exclusively petty fantasies that should be impossible to happen.

#asoiaf #asoiaf meta #dragons #Old Valyria #dragonbinder #FAegon #Young Griff #Aegon VI Targaryen #Euron Greyjoy #debunking popular speculations #✨vent time✨ #stannis baratheon #victarion greyjoy

[blackwolfstabs]

"even the beautiful lose control."

the lioness's outside of your door, the wolf's in your bed the lioness's claws are sharpened for war, the wolf's teeth are red and what a monstrous sight she makes, mocking man's best friend but both the wolf and lioness crave the same thing in the end

the wolf, she howls the lioness does roar the wolf lets her in the lioness runs in through the door the real fun begins, as they both rush upon you and rip open your flesh the lioness eats her fill, and then the wolf cleans up the mess

the lioness's outside of your door, the wolf's in your bed...

"The Lion and The Wolf" | Thrice

Sam Carpenter: The Lioness

Mia Gonzales: The Wolf

yes, this is a vent post. yes, i have a thing with animals. they are very expressive without having a voice to express themselves. i know it's confusing. but Tanto Amor: episodes 102 - 104 bites at me a-fucking-lot.

in case you don't know and want to know...

Tanto Amor | Capítulo 102 - YouTube Tanto Amor | Capítulo 103 - YouTube Tanto Amor | Capítulo 104 - YouTube

sorry. sam is my go-to for venting. yes, i know i'm childish. yes, i know i'm immature. no, i don't know spanish, so i don't know what is said in the episodes. but i don't need to know nor do i need to understand.

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.

#parkershares #scream #scream v #scream vi #sam carpenter #tanto amor #mia gonzales #the lion and the wolf #lioness #wolf #vent post #thrice #melissa barrera #sorry not sorry

[alecvolturiswifeforever]

there’s just something so appealing about a scary, violent character who’s just known by everyone for having the most evil reputation falling in love with someone the complete opposite who is so sweet and giggly and then becoming so unbelievably soft for them that they’re willing to set the world on fire to make them happy and it makes me want to cry.

#vi’s vents #i just cant handle it i just sob everytime #grumpy x sunshine has always been my favourite for a reason #ugh🥹 #for alec #for demetri #for felix #alec volturi #demetri volturi #felix volturi #jane volturi

[princesslucky]

Bro I fucking love the way jinx and vi fight. I want the best for them and I wish they could be safe and happy and loving and loved sisters but I know that's never gonna happen so now I CRAVE a fighting scene between the two. It's like, vi will actually put her whole body in the battle, punch the lights out of everyone and lose all her teeth and get millions of bruises. Jinx on the other hand, is so FAST, and she kills most of her enemies from afar (with guns and bombs), she barely ever gets any scratches, and did I say she's extremely fast? You don't even notice her moving and suddenly you're on the ground bleeding out. Their fighting techniques are so completely polar opposites. They're both so cool and strong and powerful. I know they'll fight in s2. I just wonder, will there be the same adrenaline they always have in battle? Or more? Will they hold back? I can imagine vi crying while fighting because she still loves powder so much and misses her the most, but now jinx is the enemy and she killed so many innocent people and kidnapped her gf so she needs to go down (no she doesn't, she's perfect and I support every decision she makes. She's never wrong in my eyes). Will there be a dialogue? Will jinx go all crazy league of legends jinx? This will just be so epic. I can't wait. I can't sit still I'm so excited and happy we get to have a season two of these amazing characters and amazing animation and amazing battles. If vi fighting with sevika was so iconic while their fighting styles are pretty similar, JUST IMAGINE the two strongest and most dangerous and badass arcane characters against each other. I'm so hyped I will actually scream and cry. Every time I watch the arcane intro that ends with them angrily attacking each other with nothing but rage in their eyes while also looking so opposite from each other and with this ICONIC blue/pink lighting and while also knowing how much they used to love each other, I get GOOSEBUMPS. I swear I can't listen to "enemy" without shivering when it gets to that part. HELP

#vent #arcane #jinx #vi

[violetdisasterzone]

it's kind of sad to say but sometimes I think I'm not cut out for fandom. I've always been more of a lurker than a contributor anyway, but even then I feel like I might just be too much of a canon purist to really be part of them. so much of being on the internet is about curating your own experience, but fanon (mis)interpretations/characterizations are so rampant in some spaces, treated as canon to such an extent that some people literally believe they ARE, that they're often hard to avoid completely.

the point of fandom isn't supposed to be nitpicking every little thing for accuracy, obviously. I like talking with people about my favorite things, and seeing how my thoughts and interpretations match up with theirs. I don't expect everyone's experience with whatever media to be the same. but I think a lot of people view canon as something separate, as something they get to play around with and take the parts they like and change what they don't. and that's fine, but I don't really get it, not entirely. I like playing around with hypotheticals and what-ifs and stuff, but to me canon is always going to be superior/unchangeable. and it's even worse when people will try to use canon to explain that their blatantly fanon-based interpretations are, in fact, canon somehow. and it gets even WORSE when it turns into actual discourse, and suddenly people are claiming that not following their fanon interpretation means something about your real-life values.

it's just kind of exhausting sometimes. I love a lot of y'all on here and it can be so fun to be a part of things, even mostly from the sidelines. but sometimes all I want is to close social media forever and reread my novels in peace

#this is something I've had a hard time with for a while tbh #I'm never quite sure how to put it into words but I was v annoyed earlier so here this is #and you may be thinking #'vi it's not that deep just close the app if you want to leave' #which yes. but also can't a person complain a bit!! #I think curating your fandom experience is also kind of hard if you're more of a part-time lurker #than if you have a bunch of mutuals who you regularly talk to outside of post interactions lol #which could definitely be part of my problem. unless it's just a ME problem #I want to know if this is a me problem or if others experience this #but I also don't really want my shitty vent post to be reblogged lmao

[vi-visected]

#original art #my art #trauma #actually traumatized #vent art #vi draws; original #quote from wes anderson’s isle of dogs

[a-wondering-thought]

I need to stop looking through me and my ex best friends old text messages and just delete her number but arghhhh i cant do it because what if one day she wants to be friends again? Because even though she hurt me a lot she was my best friend and i hate it but i still care about her even if she doesnt care about me

#vi screams into the void #vi is being stupid #i need to #but i cant #vent? ish? #idk

[babacontainsmultitudes]

[just venting a bit into the void you understand you understand 😌] Lately I've been feeling very caught between "I have a lot of thoughts on Sparrow and Normal and all that with the ending and teen talk and feel like I need to get them out and voice them for my own piece of mind and resolution" and "I am lacking the strength and energy to actually sit down and write it all out and kind of really just want to fully move on to other things (AUs, fics, anything else)" but my brain can't seem to commit to either and that's quite frustrating cause it's just left me very restless. *Sigh*. Idk! Just needed to complain about that a bit ig, it's silly but this is what has been ailing me as of late.

#Then there's also a part of me that's like “does anyone even care at this point? haven't I already talked about them too much?” #but I have seen many a take that irk me... #and perhaps at the center of it all nagging at me is that persistent conflation of love and pride #Less about that in Normal's mind so much as in Will's and the fandom's 🤔 #Also that reoccurring issue of the fandom going ''Normal thinks this therefore it is The Truth'' though I believe I've discussed this befor #And... Hooks Will could have grabbed onto but didn't... Quite a few of those... #And the double standard/negativity bias in fandom of ignoring that Sparrow says both that he loves and likes Normal while doodlerized #But not treating those with the same legitimacy we do the pride thing. And ignoring Sparrow's demonstrations of love and change... #And what the love wolf scene actually implies about Sparrow (as I see it) with his own explanation of the pride thing in mind #But also!!! Also on Norm's epilogue and how despite everything taken at face value (i.e. no teen talk influence) I don't actually hate it #and I think it's plenty salvageable #And gah also that like *regardless* of how things turn out with Normal and his dad- #Well I haven't listened to much of the teen talk just the directly Sparrow-relevant clips #so I don't know quite how cynical Will is or isn't about Normal's future #But like. UGH. What I'm trying to say is even if things didn't find resolution vis-a-vis his dad #(which tbh I could go either way on- it's the meta misinterpretations of Sparrow that Bother me not so much Normal's) #(Well that's complicated. Again it comes back to the love vs. pride thing gosh this is so vague of me lol) #With all the positive influences in his life (and just the fact that life is long? and therapy is a thing?) I just don't see Normal- #being Miserable for the rest of his life. Like. I mean I won't elaborate here really but damn it no he can absolutely turn out alright stil #blugh #BUT YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN THAT'S A LOT OF STUFF AND THAT'S ONLY VAGUE RAMBLINGS ABOUT *SOME* OF IT #Like I'm proud of a lot of my essay posts (which I'm hoping to eventually compile in a masterpost eventually actually) but they take a whil #And if my heart wants to do other things... Ah idk... #ANYWAYS a vent to vent a vent to vent

[trencher516]

Been a rough couple days to say the least. Anyways. Hi chat.

#vi arcane #vi #arcane #vent kinda

[starstaiined]

there's a box tucked under tara's bed brimming with letters to sam she used to write almost daily for years

#scream #scream 2022 #scream vi #tara carpenter #sam carpenter #the carpenter sisters #the dates on the letters slowly get more and more spaced out #and shift from all the little things she'd try to tell sam about her day and funny stories and coincidences she noticed and film recs #to venting and channeling her anger over being abandoned and being left with their mother and the suffocatinf loneliness #essentially it becomes her diary of sorts #but pray to god sam never finds them because her guilt complex is bad enough already

[lives4lovesworld]

Robb's Will is often lamented as the most disregarded royal declare since sansa stans (that make seemingly 80% up of the fandom on all social platforms) refuse to accept that she has been disinherited as it puts an end to all their rIgHtfUl QitN headcanons, but there is one that tops it; King Aerys's declare to disinherited Rhaegar's line after his death and appointment of his second son as his heir.

Why? Simple because even if everbody were to unquestionably believe that Young Griff is the dead believed infant son of Rhaegar Targaryen (which would be a miracle not even his kingmakers bet on without a marriage to Daenerys), he still would not have a "better claim" to the Iron Throne than Daenerys, which is often used as a one-up against her and as "fact" that will drive her insane. Which is of course a BIG no-no to those people.

Same applies to those that lump Jon Snow in their quest to despite Daenerys in proclaiming that he has a better claim than her as well(lol). Somehow, although Young Griff (with his valyrian features and a known friend of Rhaegar as foster father to vouch for) is already struggling to "prove" he is indeed the known, trueborn son of Rhaegar Targaryen, the known bastard son of the Lord of Winterfell with the Stark look, who has lived his entire life in the north and has been legitimized by his self-styled king brother will apparently unquestionably believed by many (and that would fight for him and make a difference) to *actually* be the secret love child* between disinherited dead Prince Rhaegar and his also dead mistress/captive Lyanna Stark. Apparently this positions Jon above the known Targaryen princess (now queen and claimant), third and last living child to the last rightful king and declared heir to his appointed heir in the line of succession. (ilmao)

*And no, Rhaegar could have neither taken a second wife as polygamy is forbidden by the faith, nor annulled his marriage to Elia Martell and disinherited their children nor simply legitimized Jon. The first two would have needed the consent of the faith and the crown and the later "only" a King's declare. It's safe to say that none of them would have happened.

#asoiaf #asoiaf meta #anti young griff stans #anti aegon vi stans #fuck dany antis #✨vent time✨ #rhaegar targaryen #aerys targaryen #daenerys targaryen #jon snow #aegon vi targaryen (son of rhaegar) #young griff

[forourpoets]

Vent

Trigger warning

Eating disorder

my ed is getting bad again like something triggered me today and ugh i hate myself

#vi's rambles ꒰⁠⑅⁠ᵕ⁠༚⁠ᵕ⁠꒱⁠˖⁠♡ #vi's silly thoughts (⁠๑⁠♡⁠⌓⁠♡⁠๑⁠) #dear dairy ✧⁠◝♡⁠˖ #vent post #ed vent

[alecvolturiswifeforever]

i think i have food poisoning and im scared of throwing up 😭 someone pls pray for me

#i want to cry i feel so nauseous #but idk if that’s because i’m making myself nauseous or i actually have food poisoning #😭😭 #PLS HELP #vi’s vents

[frownclown]

“I thought maybe you could love me like you used to. Even though I'm... different.”

#jinx #vi #arcane #league of legends #my top kin #kinning #jinx kinnie #vent #actually schizophrenic #actually bpd