That's a lot of buckets...

21 | they/them, she/her | Queer | Gender is a concept that I decided to ignore

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Unfortunate how Alicent (a victim of abuse) tried to protect her gentlest children in two completely different ways (keeping Helaena close vs. sending Daeron away) but ended up only putting them into the hands of abusers anyway.

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Ooh characters that represent the tragedy of believing that you've done too much bad to those around you despite them loving you anyway. Characters that have been forgiven by everyone else, but they can't give themselves that much grace unless they die for it. And they do, because they won't be able to move on in any other way.

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The Dwarven race is majority male, which means that when a female dwarf is born it's announced with fanfare. She is her family's greatest treasure and decked out in as many precious things as the family can afford, whether it is metals, beads, gems, or textiles. While traveling, dwarrowdams dress in men's clothes for safety but upon returning to their families, they are often the shiniest things in the room.

[fyretheory]

There's something uniquely sacred about finding your soulmate in a friend rather than a lover.

And I adore the idea of Dunk and Egg being the love of each other's lives.

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You can trust both Raymun and Dunk to watch your drink, but just know that Dunk will probably panic and bark at someone for trying to take it while Raymun, on the other hand, is barking at them on purpose.

[baratheonpilled]

#eating absolute shit on the battlefield

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 1.05

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Any au or canon divergent fanfic where Egg does not meet Dunk and attach to him like a barnacle on a ship (size accurate) is wrong to me. Dunk cannot escape the Egg Distribution System.

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Favorite dynamic: a man and the woman he has to look up at (he's super into it) but also he's so in love with her that it makes him a little silly with it (she's so fond of him).

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We've seen them fuck on screen, and that hug in episode 6 of TVL is probably still the most intimate thing I've seen Louis and Lestat do in the entire series. A brilliant scene over all but that part specifically is just above and beyond.

[narcissa-black-supermacy]

i thought the “this is the face that launched a thousand ships, although now it would maybe be five-hundred.” line was just an internet joke but apparently that's a line Menelaus actually says in Nolan's Odyssey??

Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?

"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?

"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?

"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?

"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?

The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?

You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?

I'm actually physically sick just thinking about it.

[yaoibaitvictim]

dunk being daeron's heavens light while being aerion's hellfire walk with me

[dalekofchaos]

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Sansa Queen of the North, Arya Mistress of Whispers, Brienne Commander of the Queensguard, Theon Hand of the Queen, can anybody hear me?

[assiraphales]

frodo getting criticized for decades for not doing much / not being a hero compared to sam is fitting when you consider mental health and strength is often trivialized. frodo carried the most dangerous and insidious item in middle earth for YEARS. ancient beings (elves, gandalf, etc) were taunted and tempted by it. boromir was corrupted within weeks without even touching it. men and hobbits turned against their brethren for it. killed for it. and frodo, with a wound from a morgul knife, bore it’s weight when no one else could. had it been anyone else, middle earth would have fallen.

no, he couldn’t have done it without his samwise. but isn’t that a lesson in itself?

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"All the characters in IWTV are too flawed for the show to be enjoyable" WRONG I love when Armand lies so much he doesn't remember the truth, I love when Lestat goes full diva bitch mode and ruins everyone's day, I love when Daniel pushes everyone's buttons on purpose just to see how much damage he can do, and most of all I love when Louis proves that he is his mother's son (judgemental and cruel as hell). Frankly, skill issue.

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Unstoppable Force (Armand manipulating Louis for 77 years) vs. Immovable Object (Louis' spiraling mental health)

But what's that?? IT'S DANIEL MOLLOY WITH THE STEEL CHAIR (Being a terrible old man with nothing to lose)!!!!

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"For 52 years I've watched you" implies that Armand watched Daniel combust two marriages and still thought he could stop him from ruining Armand's own. Daniel's success rate is 100% in fucking up marriages and that's why Armand wanted his ass out of the Dubai hell mansion.