A neon philosoher cat.

[graciebasie]

I genuinely couldn't tell if gu cheon and the Saeng gang were in love or not. And I really like that. More stories need this sort of ambiguity in relationships. Especially straight ones.

My interpretation was that they didn't love each other in the conventional romantic sense. It's more of an "I owe you a part of my soul" type of thing. Because they went through difficult times together and their pasts are somewhat comparable, they got bound together. A spiritual type of affiliation.

[boundwithpurple]

the reason rhaenyra’s line about “the boys who hid their little faces in my skirts, dead so i might sit in a throne of swords” was as i like to say “giving twitter” was because this is the formulation people love to drop about the show: everyone’s aspirations here are futile and ridiculous because it’s all just for a big throne made of swords. that throne of swords does actually make you one of the most powerful and wealthiest people on the planet if you can sit it securely, but again, this actually subtle thing of buying into monarchy as pure mystification, supposedly to puncture the mystifications that advance power, but which just ends on eliding power in a maddening way. never for a second as a viewer of this show can you let up for a second in your insistence that all the characters’ beliefs and values are fucking stupid, lest someone believe you are pro-feudalism. of course, this line owes a lot to a distortion of the robert baratheon line in the main books, but that makes sense for him - does it make sense for RHAENYRA, the character with the staunch belief she has a messianic, fated, religious mandate to sit the throne, for her to deride it as empty scrap metal, reduce it to only physical material, to suddenly see through the transcendent myth of what it stands for and the profound meaning invested in it? well. not really!

[stupendousnightinspo]

Daemon being like “Rhaenyra we are gods, we are superior beings made to rule and devour the known and unknown world” cut to him being outsmarted by some guy who did a couple of plays in high school and has access to bleach and toner

[whateverthought]

Me, a Lyanna Stark Enjoyer who thinks of her as a fifteen girl old girl who had morals and enjoyed swordplay and wished to be a knight as most girls did and who at best was tricked with promises of becoming a knight or at worse kidnapped by a man she didn't actually know who humiliated her in public and raped in both situations making her a tragic figure misremembered by history when she could have been great and loving if not for the men in her life who even in death refuse to let her be her own realized person

VS

You, a Rhaelya Shipper, who reduces her to a silly girl, A Pick Me, A Not Like Other Girls, Modern Badass Kween 💅 who ran off to happily became a mistress to a Sad Boy Prince despite the clear characterization being that she believed in morals and hated cheating, subsequentially writing her as just a fertile mother and wife, sexualizing her into a Wild Wolf Woman to be Tamed by her Strong Husband

We Are Not The Same

I Know How to Read and Respect Women

[rise-my-angel]

There is one thing that most Rhaelya shippers and Rhaegar stans don't realize, is how unbelievably uncomfortable his actions were. And I don't mean in the way where they are problematic in a moral sense, I mean in the sense of how little his actions lend itself to romance due to who he is as a person.

Ignoring any and everyone's personal interpretations of the dynamic between the characters, what we have in reality between Rhaegar and Lyanna is very little and it is very awkward.

Take the infamous moment at the tourney of Harrenhal for example: Rhaegar wins the tourney, then passes by his wife publicly, to hand the Crown of Love and Beauty to an already betrothed 14 year old Lyanna Stark. Who by the way, is betrothed to the now well known Lord of Storms End. From Neds account, there was no grand gesture of thanks or anything, but that all joy left the audience and it went dead silent.

To put this into perspective as to how awkward and uncomfortable Rhaegar just made things, this is the equivalent to Toby Flenderson from The Office, laughing at a joke and very obviously placing his hand flat on Pam's thigh, as she is sitting beside her literal husband, the room going awkwardly dead silent, before Toby announces hes moving to Costa Rica and jumping the fence to run home.

This is literally Rhaegar Targaryen at the Tourney of Harrenhal:

[lunarprincessanni]

Day 4

Legacy

@brienneweek

If Brienne isn’t the first woman knight in the Kingsguard by the end of asoiaf I swear………

She is awesome, on par with Arya she was my feminist icon character back when I was just a smol tomboyish mess of a teenager. Love her.

[flapjacku]

My fave vale gals (mya, myranda, sansa)

[thehauntingofharrenhouse]

other characters have to go to harrenhal to achieve the level of haunted that ned stark is on an average day in king's landing

[starfellsashara]

the maester conspiracy is so funny to me. take a look at the Incest Family, wonder why they have reoccurring fertility issues and birthing complications, surely the 200+ years of inbreeding have nothing to do with this. the doctors must be plotting their demise. cersei lannister ass thought process

[flowergirlmiwa]

full shakespearean tragedy but it's entirely focused on how a girl needs to go to bed because she has work in five hours

[flowergirlmiwa]

three hours

[memopmiff]

I bet on losing dogs

[joanna-lannister]

JAIME AND CERSEI LANNISTER 5.02 | “The House of Black and White”

[hijkio]

Gojo’s fridge, 2006 & 2018

[flapjacku]

Lil sketch of Rhaenyra Targaryen in honour of hotd s3 airing tomorrow!!

[yuppiesnpuppies]

How it feels

[claudialynq]

Geto chilling on the beach

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[library-seraph]

The first attested cat in Japan was given to a young 9th century emperor and his diary about it includes such gems as 'I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.", "The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink.", "When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk." and "I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.” Basically posting about how his void is the best little void and so good at getting really round

[robot-roadtrip-rants]