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~Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen; First of Her Name, Rightful Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms~

FINALLY FINISHED THIS WIP!!! School and family stuff was beating my ass, so I had to put a massive pause on this one, but it's finally done T_T I just had to rep my RIGHTFUL queen Rhae-Rhae, I love her to infinity and beyond!!! I rrly do need to draw her more tho... anyways, I think I'm going to draw more asoiaf portraits and make it a little series. idk who I should draw next tho, maybe Daenerys? Or another character from the dance? I'm open to request lmao

#hotd #fat Rhaenyra so important to me

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.05

#matt’s expressions are priceless #hotd

remember when my publisher tried to give me the same release date as The Long Game?

#I’m so glad Ms. Reid moved her date I was stressed #and mind you we have the same publisher so like #they were trying to set me up #my post

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I used you to punish. I never forgave you for Paris. Never. I never did. And now? Nope. Rest. Can't. Won't.

#but y’all said Louis was begging for forgiveness #and apologizing to the man who altered his memories and murdered his daughter #yet the scene is explicitly is the opposite #tvl

Criston Cole thinking he’s the greatest warrior in the realm I—

#like one of for sure #but the greatest #is a crazy claim even from him #and please don’t talk about no fucking tourney #that’s not war #anti criston cole #my post #hotd

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no you do not need to hold fictional characters "accountable". they are not real.

#MESSAGE

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and it worked

#hotd #the deep tumblr lore

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season Three Episode Two

#hotd

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I unblocked someone and they immediately came on my post talking shit. You can't make this up lmaooooooooo.

#I'm sorry this fandom is being a lot right now #someone just called armand a kkk grand wizard and I want y'all to be so for real right now #y'all could be anything but instead you choose to be unserious #trivializing actual issues black people deal with #to defend the character of characters #don't see y'all do or post any anti-racist work #don't see you divesting from a show you say is run by white supremacists #just crashing out on main

criminal (fiona apple) x the vampire lestat

#tvl #tvl edit #the vampire lestat #the vampire Lestat edit #tvl spoilers #the vampire Lestat spoilers #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #loustat #edit #my post

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Interview with the Vampire ★ The Vampire Lestat 2x04 "I Want You More Than Anything in the World" 3x02 "Toledo"

Inspired by this post, @howmostardently.

#:(#iwtv #tvl #yeah Louis should never call Claudia again lol

The finale just underscores that the primary plot should have been Lestat's pre-IWTV story. The episode is almost entirely about his past failures. Meanwhile, his music and the big concert is literally a background plot point. Yet we spent most of the season in the present, watching full length musical performances and tour bus antics.

What really kills me is that this is the exact same thing WB did to Queen of the Damned in 2002. We get Rockstar!Lestat for most of the film and the rest is a bastardized retelling of Lestat's origin with entire characters and events changed. There's just enough to give the audience some context for Akasha, but not enough to make Lestat and his world feel real and lived in.

It's sad that we got these beautifully constructed sets and they were barely used or seen on-screen. Wonderful actors were cast for Magnus and Nicki, and they weren't utilized nearly enough.

Since the arc is about Lestat confronting and overcoming his past trauma, we as the audience really needed to live there with him the same way we did for Louis in season one and two. I understand they wanted a format change, but if the story they were trying to tell was Lestat becoming fully realized and making peace with his story, why bog it down with repetitive, filler that doesn't have any thematic impact?

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The beheading was obviously done for shock value, but the reason it fell flat was lack of motivation.

Daniel’s story this season was muddled. First, he wants to direct a documentary about Lestat. Use the musician for further acclaim because he thinks it’ll fill the Armand shaped hole in his heart. Makes sense. Drugs and work have always been the two constants in his life. Of course, Lestat is an obstinate subject and dupes him with the Nicki revelation. Daniel is upset, but we’ve seen him angrier in Dubai. Enough to strike Louis, mind you. Initially it just seems like another hurdle to unraveling the enigma that is Lestat.

Yet off-screen, Armand somehow managed to exploit this wound so thoroughly that Daniel wants Lestat to die?! He’s not just holding the bag as a favor, he’s refusing to give it to Raglan because he doesn’t want Lestat to survive. Maybe this could have worked if we see Daniel being even more entitled over Lestat’s story or more of Daniel with Armand, but that would have taken the shock out of that decapitation moment they wanted so bad. God forbid we utilize dramatic irony for more than incest reveals.

Which brings me to Armends, I mean Armand. Him decapitating Louis to get Louis to talk to him would make more sense if we ever saw Armand trying to talk to Louis. We don’t see Louis decline his call, reject a Zoom link, tear up a letter or nothing. If we saw even one scene of Louis rejecting Armand post divorce, perhaps this could have worked.

We also don’t see Armand mourning his relationship with Louis at all. In fact, we see it diminished (“It was not my love for Louis”). Why not do a short AA scene that shows him bereft at being left again.

I suspect the idea of the beheading came first and they reverse engineered the story to fit it into the narrative.

I don’t put it past Armand to corner Louis the way he did Lestat, but the execution was lacking.