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@arabian-bloodstream
a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted
their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"
"Every writer"?
come on
Reblog if you're a writer who doesn't use AI.
I would NEVER!!!
Explain to me again why I'm writing a massive fix-it sequel to GOT that incorporates book stuff, works to redeem as many characters from the shitshow of s8 as possible, write beautiful love stories for Gendrya, Jonerys, Sanrion, bring Daemrya into it, loving on them too, along with detailed character work, making sense of stuff, weaving this tale together, etc.....
And I have like 2 to 6 commenters sometimes. And 2 of them are my friends.
ETA: I honestly didn't think anyone would care, so I didn't put up a link, but people in comments asked. I gave them the link, and am putting it here too: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46365739
Zabel Appreciation Post
Okay, let's all share one thing that Zabel did with or in The Book Of Carol that you liked, loved, or thought he got right.
It could be a favourite scene that Zabel wrote. It could be a creative choice that he made. It could be to do with the storylines, arcs, or characters more generally, including his original characters. It could even be giving us hot as hell Ash in that cool ass plane!
The only rule is it must be something positive. This is an appreciation post only. If you have nothing positive or nice to say about Zabel, this is not the post for you, so please scroll past. All negative comments & reposts will be deleted - you have your own posts for negative comments.
I'll start. I absolutely loved all the fun and comedy moments Zabel wrote. In particular, I loved the car scene when Caryl were bickering like an old married couple. It was absolutely hilarious. Also, the field scene when Carol was trying to convince Daryl she needed to go into Ash on her own and then nearly took her eye out on the tree/bush as she rushed to get past him to get in front.
Reply or repost with yours. I'm excited to read them.
There was so much I loved but I'm gonna go with my Caryl-loving heart. The scene when they were saying goodbye when Carol was on the plane and she and Daryl were looking at each other. We didn't get another "I love you," but an "I know," which was so perfect because yes, yes, they do know.
And, my goodness, my HEART, YA'LL, the looks on their faces, the longing, the desperation, the LOVE!!!! Oh, it was so beautiful! 😍 🤩
What positive Carylers are not:
Naive/delusional
Sunshine and rainbow Positive Polly’s who see everything as glass half full people (trust me, that doesn’t describe me in ANY way lol)
Someone who must not have watched the entire series.
Stans for any particular character & pretending certain plot lines didn’t happen, because SHOCKER, 90% don’t like/love all aspects of the storylines.
What they are:
Regular people whom through their own personal experiences and POVs use critical thinking to come to a conclusion about how they see things/what things mean.
Shippers as much as anyone else even though they don’t agree or follow along with a cause.
Individuals who are entitled to have & share their feelings publicly without being told moments later in comments/tags/reshares/anonymous posts how they are wrong. (Don’t her me wrong, healthy debate is great when that is the actual intended purpose)
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion; not one has to agree on everything and it goes both ways. We should let people have their feeling’s without needing to insert our own. There’s enough toxicity in the world as it is. If you need to bolster your own opinion by putting someone else’s down, was yours really that strong?
Absolutely! I don't love everything about the spinoff, but I love enough about it that im happy with what we got and what we are still getting.
I swear, ya'll, the Caryl fandom used to be FUN! and welcoming. It used to be articulate, finding nuance and depth, and seeing the bigger picture. It used to understand that playing the media is just a game, and the enjoyment of Caryl, in Caryl, was watching the magic created onscreen between these two.
Now, it's become a toxic cesspool that spends more time shitting on the creator and writers and actor(s), missing the forest for the trees all because it didn't fit the story, the arc, the plan, the preconceived notion that ya'll had in mind. Instead, too many of you are following the direction of hiveminds who haven't even bothered to WATCH THE DAMN SHOW!!!
Instead, too many have taken their direction from mighty on high Carylers who did watch the leaked 2nd season with the determined stance to hate it no matter what, spilled that hate, and soaked it up as gospel. Ya'll didn't bother to form your own opinions, but rather joined the hivemind of hate.
Congratulations! Ya'll have turned the Caryl fandom--once a beacon of light and positivity lasting over a DOZEN FUCKING YEARS!--into yet another negative space where positive voices have to struggle to be heard because the angry toxicity wins out every time. Congratulations! You win!
Been watching Walking Dead for years, and took a Daryl spinoff to see Carol and Daryl as more than platonic soulmates. Reading what they are putting out it's gonna turn romantic real soon.
EPISODE 03 --
Isabelle (to Daryl): I love you.
Daryl: ...
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EPISODE 04 --
Carol (to Daryl): Isabelle loved you.
Daryl: ...
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EPISODE 05 --
Laurent (to Daryl): Isabelle loved you.
Daryl: ...
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And yet! People STILL have not gotten how obviously the show is driving it home that Daryl did NOT feel the same. Isabelle was just a part of the journey.
Daryl is weak.
Okay, bold headline. I’m a journalist I know how clickbait works. Jokes aside, hear me out.
A lot of fans say that Daryl acts totally out of character in the second season of his spin-off. Getting close to a woman that quickly. Kissing her. Not thinking about going home anymore or not fighting tooth and nail to get there anymore.
And while I very much agree and the Daryl from the Spin-Off doesn’t feel like the Daryl from the flagship show anymore, there’s a pattern I’ve noticed throughout the series.
The word Daryl gets described the most is probably “loyal”. But what if he’s not that “loyal” man, everyone makes him out to be?
Daryl’s not good alone. He needs people. He latches on to them. First it was Merle, his bad influence of a brother. Then it was Rick and the group. He needs a role model. Someone to follow.
what happens though if you take away his role model, is always the same thing. He falls into despair, latches onto someone else and forgets where he came from.
Remember the arc after the prison fell? He was stuck with Beth, thought the group is dead. But instead of making use of his tracking abilities, determination, pure willpower to prove himself wrong and see that most folks are still alive or just whatever to find out if the other’s are really dead, he succumbs to pessimism and suggests to Beth to just stay at the funeral home, doing nothing but playing house. He would’ve stayed there for much longer if Beth hadn’t gone kidnapped. Once Beth was gone, he stucked to the Claimers until Rick came along again…
Same thing with Leah. He believed his leader (Rick) to be dead, his guilt made him shy away from his family, he lived in the woods until Leah came along. It took him longer than with Beth to finally give in and decide to stay with Leah, but still - he isolated himself from the thoughts of his family and stayed with a woman - and yet again, he would have stayed there, away from his family, if Leah hadn’t left herself. He didn’t have a clue about what’s happening in Alexandria, with the Whisperers, with Rick’s kids and probably didn’t wanna know either.
Rinse and repeat we got Isabelle. In this case, it’s even worse because Daryl’s stuck in another country. But again he’s far away from his family, again there is a woman, again he’s latching onto her and yet again he is forgetting about his people back home to the point where he’s almost not considering to go back anymore at all.
Daryl always needs a circumstance, a death, a kidnapping, or a person (Carol?) to pull him back to reality and to remind him who he is and what he might’ve left behind.
It’s also highly ironic to me that the Villain of the season, that cult leader, describes what’s going on with Daryl in Episode 2x03 perfectly:
“Must be hard living without a semblance of faith. No organizing principle, nothing to cling to [….] a man alone it’s a sad state.”
Daryl always believes he is alone, that his group has given up on him. His low self-esteem and the thing’s he had to endure prevent him from seeing how loved he is. But he’s never been truly alone, after he found Rick’s group.
Having to fend for himself as a kid has left his mark on him, so he’s clinging onto people, desperate of not wanting to be alone.
Now that doesn’t go without saying that I don’t believe Daryl didn’t find something in France. He found what he wishes for - a family of his own and to not be the “lonely man” anymore. But it’s time to come back from Neverland, to achieve that dream.
With all of these things considered I start to believe the Daryl we all know and love is still there - he just needs to be reminded that he is loved, cared for and so, so missed.
Edit: Some more notes. That is just a poor explanation/interpretation of bad writing in the Spin-Off. When Daryl said he wasn’t sure of what he was looking for when he left the Commonwealth, that made it clear as day the writers absolutely intend to retcon this beloved character and all of his core characteristics to pretend Daryl’s this blank page, a character without history. But this doesn’t work and I hope they’ll notice it soon enough.
EXACTLY! This is why I said what I said in my post. The 1st season and this one so far are doing such a beautiful deep dive into Carol and Daryl's characters, and it's a gift. I'm telling ya'll, it is a freaking gift! The Caryl of it all is going to be so beautifully earned, not scrimped, but fully fleshed out with both Carol and Daryl done their due!
ETA: Oh, in that case, taking your edit into account, not EXACTLY!. I, erm, don't agree this is bad writing or retconning at all on display.
Watching TWD DD TBOC week by week and overall loving it as a Caryl, Carol, and Daryl fan. S1, and every ep of S2 so far is showing a clear building towards Caryl. Also, there is a clear, thorough understanding of Carol and Daryl as well as a wonderful deep dive into both characters that parallels their history realized and unrealized with each other throughout the years.
I look forward to rewatching S1 and 2 once this season is over. What a beautiful gift we've finally been given... such a glorious exploration of these characters we love, leading to what I believe will be an exploration of Daryl and Carol.
LEW EINSTEIN?
Damn, the gears in my brain aren't working because they automatically do a Polish - English translation from Lew to Lion.
I cannot get into a man called Lew but I can get into a man who's called Lion?
Yeah, only thing I am not feeling is the name Lew. It could change, though. Hopefully it does
When Gubler posted 'it's just around the corner' we all thought he was talking about Halloween because OF COURSE he was talking about Halloween. (The witch costume helped.) Buuuut.... what if he was also hinting at this news about "Einstein...."
One of Criminal Minds' most popular stars, Matthew Gray Gubler, is returning to television as the lead of another CBS crime procedural, Eins
Or... he was just talking about Halloween cuz it's Gubler.
I am at work and trying not to scream with pure joy because OMG!!!! Matthew Gray Gubler is coming back to TV!! He's been cast as the irreverent, bad boy genius great-grandson of Albert Einstein who's a professor/police consultant! What even!? I dont care. A bad boy genius!!?! Einstein's great-grandson? Working crimes and solving cases again? A drama with comedic undertones?!
YAAS!! YAAAS!!! My butt is already sat!
Call me a bad or crazy Caryl fan, but nothing I saw in s1 of DD, nothing I've read, heard, or seen about DD:TBOC has me feeling ANYTHING but positive.
I 100% believe that because of the fact that Caryl were dragged out for soooooooooo long on the OG TWD, the only way to believably get a romance on with them for Carlyers and non-Carylers alike (not talking about ABCers, forget them) is, well, what it looks like they're doing. Heal them both, first separately, and then together.
Show them both as sexual, romantic creatures, and see each other as such, but I believe, we will see that the two--and others--realize before not too long that Daryl and Carol burn only for one another. However, in order to get to that point, we need to see the dearth of flames with others.
They are two broken individuals who still have much healing to do. Sure, it would have been nicer had this started sooner. But, hey, we're getting it now. I do NOT want it rushed. I want it good.
Just my take.
Just unblocked every tumblr I ever blocked cuz a) I blocked a few ppl by accident, b) ppl change, join new fandoms and we might share interests, c) it's just silly to me to block over a different opinion. Hearing different opinions is good. Unless I blocked assholes. If I did, I'll figure that out and block them again, lol.
HOTD S2 Finale-I Haz Thoughts
Thoughts on the finale. Just gonna bullet-point this bad boy. It's still long.
I loved every Daemon scene. Period. Love his friendship with goth girl Alys. (Soooo glad they didn't ruin it by throwing needless sexually-tinged stuffies in there, yay!)
Loved the vision so much. So cool. Beautifully directed, beautifully shot. Bloodraven! DANY!! THE Prince(ss) That Was Promised!! YAAASS! Rhaenyra on the throne! Woohoo!
Boo to Lord Alfred! I was rooting for you! We were ALL ROOTING FOR YOU! I thought he was the one lord who was true and faithful to Rhaenyra, but nooooooo! He betrayed Rhaenyra so easily. For shame. I loved the look Daemon gave him. It was easy enough to read his thoughts with it, but I understood why Ser Simon didn't understand. Good thing too though cuz reached out to Rhae-rhae and got her to Harrenhal.
Oh, Ser Simon Strong, I love you so. He continued to be the scene-stealer of the season. All the way to the end. Please tell me you all noticed him behind Rhaenyra when the army was shouting and cheering "For the Queen!" He was smiling and clapping like 'OK, this is good then, yay!'
Speaking of… loved the Daemon/Rhaenyra scene. Caraxes reacting to Syrax. Rhaenyra walking in, the soldiers parting as Daemon walked toward her. Their discussion in Valyrian, and then kneeling before her. The hand holding, the near-forehead bump. The little tease. All of it. Good stuff. Buuut, I'm not going to lie. It could have been better… or at least we could have had more. They haven't seen in each other in months. WE haven't seen them together all season, and their only full-fledged scene was their fight in episode three. That we didn't get another scene between the two was some pretty wild bullpucky.
Loved the (ONE) Baela/Jace scene. Woulda been nice to actually, finally get a kiss there. Psst, btw, Jace, you were pouting.
All the time spent on the triarchy, I just… why was this introduced now? In the finale? I mean, like why? Every time we went back to them, I was like… really? You're wasting time on this here? Now? In the finale?
The pacing was really bad, like REALLY bad. Let's go back to the triarchy scenes. You had Tyland and Captain lady fighting in the mud, goes on seemingly forever, and THEN about 15 seconds of Rhaena once again running across the Vale, and THEN we go back to Tyland and Captain lady now eating dinner. I mean, for real? What kind of scripting/pacing is that? So bad. There was no graceful connective tissue between so many of the scenes.
Speaking of more bad pacing… Rhaenyra is with Daemon at Harrenhal. And then the next scene she's back at Dragonstone talking to Mysaria, like… what? It's just bad. Sigh. I did, however, like the conversation between Rhaenyra and Mysaria. I like that Rhaenyra is still thinking of the people. She doesn't want to unnecessarily kill.
With that said, I understand why Emma thought it best that Rhaenyra and Mysaria just kiss instead of the baiting. It made sense in that scene. Rhaenyra was frustrated with Daemon. He'd left her for so long. The show did a TERRIBLE job in showing just how long it'd been -- but it had been months. She was angry and alone and when Daemon left her frustrated, angry and alone, when he abandoned her, she turned to the arms of another (Criston, Harwin). So, yes, she kissed Mysaria. It made sense. It was all about Daemon. HOWEVER, the problem with that is no other adjustments were made. The following episode 2.07, and this one which featured scenes between the two showed no sign at all that something had happened. If there had been a smirk at the beginning of their scene in 2.07, a look of 'well, that happened, moving on,' just something. But, alas, nothing.
I suppose one could then tie it to that, well, then the kiss was that after all… nothing.
Huzzah! Criston Cole was not my most hated character in this episode! Congrats to him. I'd say self-awareness becomes him, but his desires leading him astray doesn't excuse the shit-way he talks about Rhaenyra and blames her for his own failings. He still sucks. Whatever, I still didn't loathe him the mostest. Nopers. That role went to Aemond. Gosh, I despise him. He's just so awful. Burning a whole Castle and its peeps because he was thwarted. Being verbally and physically abusive to the sweet Haelena (whom Rhaenyra continues to be so awesome about). Ugh, he's awful.
The wandering of Rhaena on the Vale snippets was just not well done. Especially the bit near the stream. So, she's clearly desperate for water. Yet, she only notices it when she's like two feet away from it, and she runs like to only a certain section of it that's farther away from her? It was very weird blocking. I expect better from Geeta Patel. She's directed some of my favorite episodes.
I guess the Rhaenyra and Alicent scene was good; I am just so tired of them shoving those two down my throats that I just can't. I think I'll enjoy it better when I binge both seasons. The final two shots paralleling Rhaenyra being locked up as behind the grate while Alicent was free was a good one except for one thing. Rhaenyra has always been JUST AS LOCKED UP as Alicent but only in different ways. It's only stupid Alicent (and stupid green fans) that have been unable to see that. Rhaenyra was not able to marry the man she truly wanted for years. Rhaenyra was punished and hated (and still is) for being female. Rhaenyra ONLY had her crown stolen because she was a woman. Baela told Jace true, there have been other crown princes who were bastards but no one said a word. Jace is only talked about because his parent is a female.
Ulf is funny, but ooh, he got on my last nerve. That is your queen, dumbfuck! What a rude oaf, he is. You're sitting at the table of the freaking queen!! Still, Jace could have handled him with more grace putting him in his place.
I felt for Alun, but my goodness, their story is soooo boring. The women + Addam are the only interesting part of this family.
There was just too, too much going on in this finale. Which makes sense. They had enough going on for at least, oh, I don't know, one or two more episodes. Rhaena (as always) got shortchanged. The triarchy story was just thrown in to this final episode and was a big ole WTF? Jace and Baela (as always) got shortchanged.
The ending with all the different peeps getting ready for war, ooh, blue dragon we don't know! (Yes, I know it's Dareon's) was all cool and everything, but yeah, it just didn't really get me hepped up. Honestly, minus the Daemon vision, Daemon/Rhaenyra scene, I just was like, a'right dawg. Last week's episode was so much better. The ending of last week's episode was fist bump YEAH! I mean, imagine if we'd had the Daemon vision scene, Daemon/Alfred, Rhaenyra receiving raven, and Daemon/Rhaenyra scenes included in that episode and THAT was the season finale. What an ending THAT would have been. Daemon and Rhaenyra reunited. Rhaenyra has her army. Ending the show on Rhaenyra and all those dragons. That would have been HELL YEAH!
This was just, eh, OK. I dunno. This just didn't feel like a finale, although they tried it with the final scene with all the peeps marching and swelling music/vocalizing, but it just didn't hit for me. Maybe a rewatch will make me think differently. I dunno.
I guess just for funzies, I should take a bow. I maintained through most of the season that the Daemon arc was about figuring out that he was meant to be by Rhaenyra's side. Figure out his place, and be her loyal subject. She was his queen, and have no more doubts, and here we are. Yay!
my meandering thoughts after ep7:
i think a lot of people are overlooking the importance of daemon's scenes in episode 7 in focusing so much on oscar tully. like ok sure it is objectively funny to see daemon be read for filth by a teenager, but this is not some meta punishment doled out by the writers because they hate his character - or even oscar "gagging" daemon. this is daemon directly responding to rhaenyra's accusation during their ep2 argument: "I think you used my words as an excuse to take your own revenge… to indulge the darkness you keep sheathed within you like a blade." Oscar's own words to willem blackwood call back to this: "it is true that he made clear his base desires, but you did not have to pursue such savagery. You did it… because you wanted to."
like yes, daemon is being humbled, but he is also specifically acting contrary to his own desires, and choosing to do what is necessary in service to rhaenyra's claim. it's obvious in the look he shares with ser simon, and in his shifting expression from anger to acceptance as he realizes he must do this to earn the crucial support of the riverlords. i do not think the daemon of episode 2/3 would have responded this way. he would have given into that impulse that's telling him to smack oscar around and burn the lot of them. he is putting aside what he would do, in favor of what rhaenyra needs him to do.
And the look on his face afterwards is full of horror - for the first time we really see him haunted by his own act of violence, when we've typically seem him remorseless or flippant (rhea royce, vaemond velaryon, the unnamed body they used for laenor's "death") if it advances his aims. this contrasts with rhaenyra in this same episode, where we see her really indulging in violence for the first time - she sacrifices the dragonseeds in pursuit of finding new dragonriders, which is also a repudiation of her and daemon's earlier argument, where he accused her of being too weak to spill blood to achieve greatness.
(literally everything they do ties back to one another, their influence on one another, and which parts of each other and viserys they choose to internalize and express - two halves of a whole, indeed - so it baffles me that most daemyras are unsatisfied with this storyline just because they aren't physically together, but that's a story for another post)
daemon's scene in the Harrenhal godswood leads directly into the vision with viserys, where he is confronted with the question of whether or not he still wants the crown (really, if he ever actually wanted it - or was it just a symbol of his brother's love, of recognition, of the ultimate tool to achieve power and respect in this world). he's just had to make a choice and take an action that conflicts with his own worldview, of what strength and loyalty means, of the acceptability to the ends justifying the means, of the ramifications of the collateral damage that such choices have - which is all tied into the true weight of bearing the crown. is he really cut out for this? i think it's clear the answer will be 'no' - and it will reaffirm his support for rhaenyra, at the same time her own journey has brought her to a place where she has found a way to wield her power and authority in a way that can be respected (and feared) and is independent of her reliance on daemon's martial prowess and masculinity.
if there's still any doubt that daemon's visions all have purpose and are moving him forward, i really don't know what to tell you. it's frustrating to see his arc reduced to "daemon is doing nothing all season" because most of it has been internal. both daemon and rhaenyra have grown from the accusations levied at one another in their argument, and i think are positioned well for a reunion that allows them to "finish their conversation" from a place where they are both more able to function within the parameters of their strange and unique relationship as sovereign/consort, husband/wife. uncle/niece, and even brother/sister (as their relationship to viserys is very much reminiscent of siblings competing for their father's love and attention). it's a very clear arc to me, and i am very excited to see how it all comes together in the finale (as well as how this sets the stage for future conflict between them).
(the " but in the book…" arguments about daemon at this point are also weak IMO, because daemon basically does nothing during this section in the book. and because the show has added different dimensions to his character that simply do not exist in the source material. his time in harrenhal is summed up in a couple of paragraphs. the riverlords all honor their oaths without conflict - and he fights in the battle of Stone Hedge, which you can mourn as an adaptational choice you do not agree with, but personally i think it's far less interesting than what we were given in the show.)
this is where i wish the fandom at large would give the writers a little more credit, and extend your faith a little further. sure there are some odd choices throughout, and yes they have taken adaptational liberties you may not agree with - but as we near the end of the season, the overall vision for daemon (and rhaenyra) is clearer, and i think it will be even more rewarding looking back on the season as a whole.
Thank you, thank you. I just cannot anymore with the vaaaaast majority of commentary on this season. I just cannot.
