Julia :D)

hello! I mostly lurk + reblog, but I post art and stuff sometimes. Current fave fandoms are Baldur's Gate 3 and The Magnus Archives!

[filmopen]

not lovers not enemies but a secret third thing (she picked him because she knows he's brave even though he thinks he's a coward. it's her job is to be right about everything. the crew thinks they're sleeping together. he calls himself "her personal science lap dog". she's sending him on a one way trip to save the earth because she believes in him. it's her job to be right about everything. he tells her she's murdering him. she’s trying to stop herself from crying. she programs the ship to know how he likes his coffee. he's her best friend. she's his. she sedates him and sends him to his death. he can't forgive her but he understands. in the end she was right about everything)

[whiteflwrs]

can’t and won’t stop thinking about eva stratt and ryland grace as two sides of the same sacrificial coin: one who offered herself to the cause as the world’s scapegoat and celebrated by no one, and one who is made the lamb without his consent yet celebrated as the savior he never agreed to be.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

and it’s exactly in said coin’s nature — two sides always meant to be tied to another, and never meant to face each other again.

[squidattacks]

scene where grace begs stratt to stay in the project for his kids—stratt initially thinking it was to heal his bruised ego but relenting after being proven wrong by his earnestness. scene where stratt calls grace to her office to get his opinion on the hardest decision she’s ever had to make, grace understanding immediately and seeing straight through her, knowing that she’s already made up her mind. scene where grace was the first person stratt checked up on after the explosion. scene where stratt says grace knows how she operates, more than anyone else, and that she will always put the mission first, even before herself. scene where stratt looked pained while grace was begging for his life. the way the whole mission only succeeded and went the way it did because they understood each other fundamentally. she saw potential through his cowardice and put all her faith in him. and she was right all along.

[luskbook]

nobara!!

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[visenyaism]

“blood and cheese killing jaehaerys was an accident in the show” is one of those things that is correct on a surface level but when you consider it more i think it’s obvious that Daemon knew damn well that no matter how violent and cruel they were willing to be two lifelong flea bottom residents (one gold cloak and one ratcatcher) acting out of desperation for a life-changing amount of money probably couldn’t take a prince of the realm who has had proper nutrition his whole life and had training with the sword since childhood in a fight. which is why he pointed out to them that they were going to struggle to take aemond in a fight. and emphasized that this was their one crack at the red keep.

and he knew what emphasizing that information as well as waving fuck-off life changing money in their faces would push them to do once they got in the castle, that maybe they wouldn’t want to find aemond at all. which is why when they asked “what do we do if we can’t find aemond” he just smirked at them. lord flea bottom does in fact know how to manipulate people with their own poverty into doing his dirty work or make him feel good he is very familiar with this

[visenyaism]

it is a bit of the same thing with how lucerys died to me. both of these instances are deliberate in the book and meant to communicate just how violent and awful the royals are immediately willing to get to avenge old grudges during times of war. i think if they had adapted them like this in the show it would have given rhaenyra and aemond a bit more agency in their own wars, and made them more complicated characters. we did lose out on that.

however: if we can get past the repeated wacky accident thing i think making those adaptations changes does do some interesting stuff to the broader themes. Lucerys’ death isn’t about aemond’s grudge anymore, it’s about his own arrogance to think that he could ever truly master a dragon, something viserys talks about in e1 and something i think is going to reoccur very very often especially when we get to all the dwelling on the collateral damage of war that they clearly want to do. Blood and Cheese is less about Daemon’s deliberate cruelty and Rhaenyra’s desire for revenge than it is about how war and poverty make cruel men even crueler in the face of desperation, something the nobles know how to manipulate to use them as dirty workers and foot soldiers and human shields that makes even the benign ones complicit. That theme’s definitely going to come back too.

it’s a war story about desperation and losing control and things falling apart as opposed to like war as chess with players that move pieces. Definitely an interesting change at least.

[sp00ky9]

She is very army dreamers core

[knightsickness]

criston voice well aemond alicent has a gentle heart and unfortunately people who are real lovers are frequently cruelly taken advantage of by rhaenyra targaryen. defiled even. deflowered. is a word you could use. like alicent had honour and virtue before an encounter with her and maybe afterwards she felt she’d been sullied and felt lost because she’d given up an immortal part of herself in exchange for nothing. aemond voice i dont think they ever had sex cole. criston voice im talking my prince. i think alicent felt a great guilt and shame over breaking her vows

[damnfandomproblems]

Its strange to me how i can watch the exact same show as other people on tumblr and somehow not get queerbaited like they did

[saintofpride201]

I’ll reiterate what I been saying: 90% of the time, you aren’t being queerbaited by the show, you’re being queerbaited by the fans.

[ladymelisande-deactivated202407]

I have nothing against the ship, but some of the shippers are really rude and ruin it for everyone. No, not everything is queerbaiting. No, a female character being "in the way" of your ship does not give you the right to harass her actress. No, you don't get to insult fans of the canon ship.

I've got my own non-canon ships. It's fun to make AU videos, gifs, photos, fics, etc. I don't get where the fun is in being nasty to others.

Because they get off at being self-righteous. Also, let's be honest, Mari, these people are literally just John-lockers/Hel-lers that have been migrating to different fandoms over the last decade. We just got the bad luck that they decided to suddenly find Owen Wilson attractive and obsessed over a crack ship before the show came out over some fake article that had no bearing with the actual show. There are not many real Lokius shippers it's just the Migratory Slash Fandom playing with their imaginary mystery box and pretending they have it all figured out once again because they never moved on and probably never will.

I loved Mobius in this episode, he was an angel and he has had a good character development. Pity that everything is moodied by this rubbish.

[biwitchenergyz]

One thing I find interesting about team black vs team green is that whenever team green talks about how Blood and Cheese was wrong, team black blows up their comments saying “an eye for an eye and a son for a son.” But the thing is… team black never was an eye for an eye. That’s the whole point. They never give back what they take. Had Rhaenyra or Viserys tried to make amends with Aemond over what Lucereys did to him, had Lucereys apologized and actually stopped mocking Aemond, things may have ended differently. If team black is so strong about a son for a son then they should understand Alicent’s demand that Lucereys eye be put out as well. As someone who is team neutral it feels like team black proves time and time again that they believe they are entitled to everything and are shocked when their actions have consequences.

[darksvster-deactivated20250629]

Missing Scene From the House of the Dragon

"The Rogue Prince" — Season 1 Episode 2

Rhaenyra confronts Alicent after news of her engagement and insults her. (text in brackets is summary, not verbatim)

Details: Draft Date: Jan 14, 2022 — Cherry Pages Teleplay by Ryan J. Condal Announcement & FAQ

[knightsickness]

if any of the throuples in hotd are challengers coded its rhaenyra alicent criston but people dont notice bc cristons the zendaya. existing homoerotic friendship gets homewrecked in real time as both of them develop a crush on the same person after watching them win aggressively at sports

[knightsickness]

this is the same scene

[yuutaguro]

thank god its friday amirite

[happyheidi]

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[ra-horakhty-art]

Valyrians and their dragons.

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[cyaaaali]

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[etheringtonbrothers]

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