[baqlawaa]

Just putting it out here that this genre of Chase Infiniti photos is my reference for fem!Bittersteel especially for the First Blackfyre Rebellion era. I love her so much 🩷

[killingevegifs]

Are you wearing it?

[bees-free]

Killing Eve commission for @ziegler-mercys , with Eve and Villanelle in their iconic™ outfits this season <33

[plus-size-aesthetics]

[andrew-garfielld]

Chase Infiniti as Willa Ferguson ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

[ripley-stark]

i used to be so much angrier about hotd in the sense that it was such a waste of potential, but now all i feel is just bereft. this show could have been fine, not even good, just fine. but season 2 took the barest crumbs of potential to the silliest most boring most self contradictory possible direction for every single character. it goes far beyond the lack of a final battle. there is absolutely no redemption for this show, no sense to be made out of the mess, no theories to discuss, no interesting character work to debate, no new outfits or haircuts or worldbuilding. and all they can do to promote the show is repeat tired ass lines about a "morally gray" war that they've been parroting since season 1, because every time an actor speaks on their own character they contradict something in the show or something their showrunner or co-star has previously said

[cyberdragoninfinity]

"go to hell." basic. weaksauce shit. "i hope that character you really like gets an uber-popular yaoi ship and you have to watch in real time as they get sanded down into a toothless, barely-recognizable version of themself that's become little more than a vessel for bland tropes and OOC fluff, and that's just the permanent fandom consensus view of that character now." now THAT'S a threat. that cuts right to the bone. that's real. that's happening to me as we speak.

[rabbitscreams]

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

[rabbitscreams]

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

[rabbitscreams]

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

[papenathys]

Butches are always sexually aggressive and feral, and in paranormal fantasy they are angry, brutish, impoverished or straight up have animal characteristics. They are usually women of color, with dark hair and dark skin, and can only ever be werewolves or half human hybrids. Femmes are delicate, petite, submissive, more emotionally intelligent and likely to be vampires, faeries, princesses or more such attractive archetypes. they will always be light skinned, if not white, and with preferably blonde or lighter hair and features.

Even with the rise of gl webtoons and visual media, the flirty, sexually dominant one is always dark haired. the innocent wide eyed one is always light haired, and/or fairer. We have ships in media where according to fans the white person by virtue of their light skin becomes more feminine, dandyish and "maternal" (Lestat, Madeline) while the person of color is the "dad" or the butch (Claudia, Louis).

Hell, this isn't even exclusive to racial stereotyping in queer ships, interracial ships with a woman of color and a white man literally have been repackaged into girlboss x malewife trope, an easy excuse to portray the woman as sexually aggressive, brazen and hotheaded, and her sweet white husband as a golden retriever (Luka and Hyuna from Alien Stage come to mind). It is a wild combination of gender essentialism and racism.

[carbonatedgatorade]

it’s a great time to be a hater, many things are bad and lots of stuff sucks. it’s also a terrible time to be a hater, because many people will insist that you have to like the bad thing because a company spent millions of dollars making it and it’s just not very nice to say it’s bad

[carbonatedgatorade]

hating is ultimately a philosophy of optimism. the knowledge that things could be better, and the desire to see them improve, differentiates it from the pessimism of idle consumption.

[ilynpilled]

there r some characters that u really love that u do not want to see any opinion or discussion about online ever. u agree with like 2 ppl on earth total about. maybe 3. their haters lovers glazers fuckers shitters pissers whatever pissing u off to equal degrees. just a beautiful kind of torture chamber to find urself in

[baqlawaa]

CHASE INFINITI photographed by Bjorn Iooss for The Wrap, November 2025

[baqlawaa]

CHASE INFINITI’s cover shoot video for The Wrap, November 2025

[baqlawaa]

TANZYN CRAWFORD photographed by Michael Wilson for Sunday Times Magazine Perth, January 2026

[baqlawaa]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Relationships: Baelor Breakspear Targaryen/Maekar I Targaryen, Baelor Breakspear Targaryen & Myriah Martell

CW: Corporal Punishment, Parentification, Mommy Issues, Targcest, First Blackfyre Rebellion Era up to The Hedge Knight Era

Summary:

In many ways, Baelor is the mother that Maekar never had.

In some ways, Maekar is Baelor without a courtly mask, Baelor unfettered and unbuttoned, Baelor’s dragon.

[baqlawaa]

Tanzyn Crawford as Tanselle in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2026)

[baqlawaa]

Relationship: Tanselle Too-Tall/Baelor Breakspear Targaryen

Summary:

In the time between Aerion’s attack and Maekar’s return from the inn a day’s ride south of Ashford, Baelor visits Tanselle’s wagon in the course of his inquiries.

(Missing Scene Fic, 8k words, one-shot)

this is a crosspost to fanfiction dot net in the event of more prolonged archive maintenance, but it can also be read over on ao3.

[baqlawaa]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Relationship: Tanselle Too-Tall/Baelor Breakspear Targaryen

Summary:

In the time between Aerion’s attack and Maekar’s return from the inn a day’s ride south of Ashford, Baelor visits Tanselle’s wagon in the course of his inquiries.

(Missing Scene Fic, 8k words, one-shot)