professional cryptid

he/she/they, age: in my roaring 20s, name: redacted but call me Jack. this is a fandom blog political blog meme blog and mental health vent blog at the same time, no that was not the plan. working up the courage to post my art and ocs one day

[humancosplay]

"written by Jane Austen" this "written by Greta Gerwig" that well I was written by Alison Bechdel. We're here, we're queer and we're forever struggling

My url doesn't mean i'm a cosplayer, it means i'm cosplaying as a human being

[hidden-ace]

joffery you’ll get no character development before [REDACTED] huh 😔

[arielmh]

David Dastmalchian as M Bison in Street Fighter (2026)

[humancosplay]

Awoghhhhhhhhh they're trying to kill meh

[baratheonpilled]

egg + textposts part 1

[humancosplay]

I can live with the show universe being one thing and book universe being another but what. WHAAAAATTTT are the hotd showrunners doing. Like im not exactly a professional writer but surely there are ways to change the story to better fit TV without bulldozing everyones characterizations more and more each season. S1 was overall so good🥹

Like sure yes it cant be 1:1 but some things are there because they carry important meaning not to mention the core traits of the characters that like. move the plot

[humancosplay]

Also Rhaena Targaryen my girl what have they done to you. Why does everybody hate her. Why cant she be happy in the Eyrie the way she is in the books with the dragon that she did have btw. And where tf is Nettles she was IMPORTANTTTTTT

[humancosplay]

Coming back to my own post again because i saw someone the other day saying something along the lines of "being obsessed with perfect accuracy makes you annoying as hell and adaptations are adaptations" and like i agree! I agree a hundred percent! But adaptations and retellings (which are great) are still supposed to carry the themes/arguments/reflexions/lessons of the original material even if going a different way with the story itself and boy is that far from happening in hotd. Half the characters are whole different people. Many points made by Martin in F&B have been lost in the wind (the fact that the whole book can be read as a criticism towards monarchy, anyone?)

Idk man it feels like we have to accept that most of the criticism is pretty reasonable , which obviously doesn't mean people cant like the show or the characterizations because thats a whole different sentence that i dont agree with

[humancosplay]

Another week another hotd episode with lots of. interesting decisions (derogatory) but i have absolutely no energy to review the whole season anymore so i'll just resort to reblogging stuff i agree with

I'll say this tho Alyn and Baela's relationship is so widely different in the books and carries such a great meaning in my opinion, i cannot for the life of me understand why they'd do what they did in the show. Starting with the fact that they're supposed to be like 1 year apart at best, both being teenagers, only getting together after the dance is over AND Baela's choice of going to driftmark to look for Alyn being an act of rebellion AGAINST the long standing tradition of forcing young girls to marry grown ass men (Aegon III's regents were trying to marry her off against her will). Like that was such a great moment of her character and they took it in the exact opposite direction. I love Alyn 's actor hes great but couldn't they at least have swapped the actors for Alyn and Addam to keep their original ages/birth order?

Anyways i love the hotd cast along with the visuals and sound and i cant find it in me to dislike the show entirely but good god did the writers not care about the original themes here damn

[guabiju]

Tumblr sexy man of the year if you people weren't cowards

[nerdydreamerpoetry]

In game of thrones everybody was trying to outsmart each other and compete for the throne, in house of the dragon (a civil war for the throne) they're all just outdumbing and competing to see who's the biggest "poor little thing"

[polytrixaf]

dont forget that YOU 🫵 are the backbone of this fandom. oh but im not a- DONT CARE. write a bad fic, draw that silly art, make that tumblr post with your headcannon. oh but i have nothing to share- DONT CARE. kudos that fic, write a nice comment, gush in the tags of a reblog.

YOU 🫵 ARE CREATING A FANDOM SPACE BY EXISTING AROUND AND ENCOURAGING CONTENT CREATION

what YOU 🫵 say has impact. make it a good one.

[callsign-fangirl]

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[kingofcourtjesters]

They cut Ormunds wife and children. Likely so Gwayne can fill Garmund Hightowers (Ormunds son) role as Rhaenas husband and with ormunds wife and children they've cut my favourite irony.

The Greens waged a catastrophic civil war to ensure a woman (Rhaenyra) could not wield absolute power. Yet, immediately following the war, the new Lord Hightower (Lyonel, Ormunds oldest son) marries his (step)mother, Lady Samantha Tarly, and she becomes the undisputed ruler of House Hightower during Lyonel’s regency, siring 6 bastards together living openly in 'sin' for thirteenth years before seating another high septon that 'conveniently' knows a legal loophole to marry them.

While Targ brother-sister incest was protected by the Doctrine of Exceptionalism (theyre not doing it for no fucking reason) stepmother-stepson incest was completely condemned by the Faith of the Seven as a cardinal sin. The Hightowers end up committing a form of incest that horrified Westeros even more than the Targ pairings, divorcing them from the idea of being holier-than-thou. When personal desire arises, the "pious" break social taboos and exercise power over others just like the Targaryens do.

ᵉˣᵃˢᵖᵉʳᵃᵗⁱⁿᵍ ᵗᵒ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵏ ᵗʰᵉʸ ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵗʰʳᵉʷ ⁱⁿ ᵐᵒᵗʰᵉʳˢᵒⁿ ᵇᵘˡˡˢʰⁱᵗ ᶠᵒʳ ᵈᵃᵉᵐᵒⁿ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶜˡᵘᵐˢⁱˡʸ ˢʰᵒᵛᵉᵈ ᵃᵉᵐᵒⁿᵈ ⁱⁿ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ, ⁿᵉⁱᵗʰᵉʳ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉˢᵉ ⁱⁿˢᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉˢ ᵐᵉᵃⁿᵗ ᵃⁿʸᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ᶠᵒʳ ᵉⁱᵗʰᵉʳ ᶜʰᵃʳᵃᶜᵗᵉʳ ᵇᵘᵗ ᵗʰᵉʸ ᵍᵒ ᵃˡᵒⁿᵍ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶜᵘᵗ ᵗʰⁱˢ ᵖˡᵒᵗˡⁱⁿᵉ ᵒᶠ ʷʰⁱᶜʰ ᵃᶜᵗᵘᵃˡˡʸ ˢᵉʳᵛᵉˢ ᵃ ᵖᵘʳᵖᵒˢᵉ ᵇᵘᵗ ⁱᵗˢ ᶠⁱⁿᵉ ᵗᵇʰ ᵇᵉᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ⁱᵗˢ ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵗᵒᵒ ˡᵃᵗᵉ ᵗᵒ ⁱⁿᵗʳᵒᵈᵘᶜᵉ ᵐᵒʳᵉ ᶜʰᵃʳᵃᶜᵗᵉʳˢ.

[15-lizards]

Mysaria trying to pass Medicare for All, Daemons trying to get Martial Law declared, Baela and Addam being the heads of the wildlife management, Orwyle is busy running Westero’s first planned parenthood, and Rhaenyra is trying to take out the oppositions nuclear war capabilities. Absolutely no agreement and nobody is in lockstep. Welcome back the modern Democratic Party

[seracadash]

(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile

[tepkunset]

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.

[verasilversound]

Alys, parenting Aemond: I’m sure your mother loved you most. Larys, parenting Aegon: Your mother hated you because you fucking suck.

[grishaxverse]

they’re happily married ever after BECAUSE I SAID SO

[lesbians4daenerys]

Harwin and Laenor in the afterlife trying to figure out why they keep gradually gaining full custody of their kids