Agent Rouka's Blog

My asoiaf canon speculation playground. House Stark. Sansa. Jonsa. Stark Sisters. Arianne. Elia. Young Griff. Theon. Targaryen critical. Game of Thrones critical.

[tomonimakesart]

Did someone say more Strattland doodles? (I did. This time its angst 🫶)

[chubs-deuce]

god I love this movie (and book)

[melangea3]

Just me trying to draw an idea and failing miserably because that's not what I thought 😆

[lutheban]

Interplanetary Friendship

i saw this post where they hit the planets with the anime girl beam and i just thought it was SO FREAKING CUTE i had to make my own take on it else it would not leave my mind lmao

here some details on the designs

+ some early years of the astrophage crises

[clluster]

looking up to the sky for something i may never find

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(btw thanks 4 the love on the last piece !! haven’t made like real art in some years and i’m feeling Inspired rn <3)

[warsofasoiaf]

Could Brienne ever truly be a knight?

For example, if another knight decided they wanted to knight Brienne, and did so publicly, is that end of story? Brienne is a knight much to the chagrin of her haters?

Yes and no.

Officially, yes. Any knight can make a knight. So when the local lord anoints his failson with rhe seven oils, yes, he's a knight and afforded all the privileges thereof. Same goes with Brienne.

Unofficially, Brienne's knighthood only extends as far as people are willing to accept it. She's be shut out and denied from those privileges unless she forces the issue. Games masters would find technicalities to deny her participation in melees, lords would refuse to swear her to service, and so on and so forth. Social stigma is a powerful thing, and exclusive castes try to do everything they can to maintain exclusivity - lest the allure wear off their exclusive caste. One of the most advantageous assets of an exclusive caste is the right to deny it to those who are considered unworthy. So I would imagine that knights would fight against Brienne with every unofficial trick and technique to deny her until she is dead or discredited enough to annul the knighthood.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[agentrouka-blog]

This keeps coming up. And I cannot for the life of me understand how you're not embarrassed.

Fandom, btw, is not newsreporting about real life human beings in roles of public relevance.

If I want to call a fictional female character by her thematically relevant first name because I want to highlight her interiority as opposed to the way the narrative avoids doing so? I will do it.

If I call a fictional male character by his thematically relevant last name that he uses to refer to himself as his sole personal name for the vast majority of the movie? I'm not privileging male supremacy. I'm participating in fandom in a convenient way. And I will simply do it.

For the love of god, some people have back pain and bills to pay and just want to enjoy blorbo on tumblr and it's not a single blip on the radar of the fight against gender-based oppression, trust trust trust trust me.

Find something relevant to hate.

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of scrutiny

[lutheban]

Dr Ryland grace: *comes back to earth and is revealed to have been alive just living on erid for the past like 40 years*

[scarymonsters-andsupercreeps]

She’s my favorite

[boldkatte]

[mulberryjumper]

Obsessed with them. Based on Klimt's The Kiss.

[nordreys]

james ortiz provided some of his own personal rocky backstory on the sag aftra podcast, transcribed by me because we all have to be miserable about it together.

link to the podcast, this section below is from timestamp 24.35

“andy weir provided a packet to the creature shop that was like a packet of eridian biology and stuff but there wasn’t much about eridian culture or eridian sociology and i made a bunch of choices going in because i just needed to have like a ‘who am i?’ right? 

[…] and i made a decision that rocky’s species, that eridians are really social animals that in fact are like a beehive or a pod of dolphins - it’s a unique and really integrated ecosystem of everybody doing their [specific] part. and the fact that rocky had to fly that ship for about 45 years - longer than grace has been alive, i wanna point that out - he’s been alone on that ship, having to run that by himself and- ryan and i would talk about that, one day we sat down and he was like “so what’s the movie from rocky’s perspective?” and i was like “oh it’s like ‘alien’, […] like he’s in a ‘contagion’ movie by himself and he has no idea what’s going on.”

he’s basically in castaway by himself which of course ryan is too but like, one reason why we never cut to the past of rocky is like, i think it was really horrifying! i don’t think rocky has slept in however many years and so a thing i was really struggling with is this idea of like “rocky must watch sleep” because how do you make that a need as opposed to like, a cute idea? and i just had to make the decision that […] he has a lot of unprocessed trauma around the things that he doesn’t understand and how much he is blaming himself because he’s the guy who fixes, he’s the guy who fixes and there was something really freeing about deciding that rocky was a deeply emotional, deeply anxious, deeply horrified person - being - that is trying to move through that in some way and how that affects the early scenes with him until there’s a point in the story where you can see we’ve physically softened rocky’s behaviour, because he’s finally feeling more safe and ok but all of that lore, all of that information [was essential].

i also decided, this is just a small nerdy thing, that there was actually some of his family, was on that ship too.”

[hyperrbolic-orange]

babygirl I don't know how to tell you this but there just isn't a way to do mass dehumanization in like, a "progressive leftist" kinda way.

[prideling]

I keep thinking about the fact that Eridians seem so much stronger and sturdier than humans, so what humans-are-space-orcs thing could Grace even do that would freak Rocky out... and then I remembered humans are persistence predators.

So picture some years in the future when the xenonite suits are so safe that Grace's class can now take field trips into his biodome. Rocky's there because this is a big moment for everyone involved and also he just loves listening to Grace in his element. One of the more mischievous kids tries to sneak off from the group and there are plenty of chaperones but Grace is the first to notice.

His posture changes, goes focused but loose in a way Rocky's never seen before as he peels of from the crowd. Rocky just stands there, stunned, as he watches his sweet, gangly, goofy, clumsy blob of a friend turn into a hunter. Grace circles around the pebble, slightly crouched, head turned and honed in, arms loose to the sides, and maybe the little one notices and does that nervously excited giggle-squeal thing kids do when they're being chased and tries to get away, but Grace expertly corrals them. He doesn't even have to run for it, he just pens the kid in, lunges-

And takes the little pebble by the claw to lead them safely back to their peers. And just like that he's Grace again, smiling and joking and tripping over his improvised shoelaces. Rocky hasn't been scared of Grace since first contact. Have you seen the guy? ... but for a second there his instincts were telling him to run.

[lokihiddleston]

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[astrotheyge]

I'm obsessed with this little moment where Stratt is like reaching out to say Hi to Grace but instead of patting his shoulder or something she pats his tiny little chair. and filmed from behind a barrier