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What is your opinion on Lyonel, Sam and their pretty much betrayal of Lyonel's king?

hi, aife 🌼 oh boy, i do not like lady sam, what can i say. she just feels soooo much like a plot device & it just drives me up the wall. she's just there so that aegon won't get any more military support from oldtown. a lot of things about her don't make sense and, much like alyssa, she's written too much like a Cool Girl character for me to appreciate her.

lady hightower (ormund's wife and lyonel's mother) is fridged for no reason so that ormund hightower could marry samantha of house tarly, daughter of jeyne rowan. somehow the head of one of the richest & most powerful houses in westeros marries this woman without securing the alliances of houses tarly and rowan for the greens. why did he even marry her in the first place then? why is she able to so drastically condition her subsequent marriage to lyonel? did she truly have a chance in securing a higher social position hitching her wagon to another marriage proposal instead of becoming lyonel's wife and continuing on as lady hightower? what does she (or her family) even gain by aiding the blacks? answer: she's a deus-ex-machina male fantasy

her kind of side-plot is indicative of the weaker storytelling aspects of the dance as a whole, not to mention that the faulty distribution of allies between greens and blacks just bugs me bc it makes no political sense

#ask #aifsaath #samantha tarly #division of houses during the dance of the dragons

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i'll never stop abhorring the AUs where Darcy is a former marine republican rich boy

You have my sword!

Seriously, though, modernizing Darcy by making him a contemporary US American Republican seems a colossally, bafflingly terrible idea to me on so many levels. And it’s not that I think it’s impossible to transplant P&P to a modern US context. I don’t even think it’s impossible (or all that difficult) to find decent approximations in the modern USA of Darcy’s political coding in the novel.

Darcy was invented in or before 1796. If you consider the discourse of that time in England, Darcy’s stated attitudes are mostly not radical but they are definitely much more ‘progressive’ (to use kind of anachronistic terminology) than the mainstream, apart from a blind spot about class/socioeconomics. Same with his approach to education (not just his line about reading; his general approach to raising Georgiana seems very much in line with more progressive ideas about education at the time, esp the education of girls). His aesthetic tastes and artistic interests seem aligned with the moderns over the classics in that particular 18th-century discourse. His attempt to get Lydia to ditch Wickham and return unmarried to her family is genuinely remarkable. His family is unsubtly coded as Whig aristocracy.

And it’s like ... “rich, old money elitist with fairly progressive ideas about many social issues, but a blind spot about class and economics” is such a familiar type in the US. If you want something comparable to the Fitzwilliams’ position in the novel, then make them a Democratic political dynasty and turn Lord — or Lady Catherine or Lady Anne into a senator. If you want something like the 50 miles of good road conversation where Elizabeth tries to explain “not everyone can afford to travel” to a clearly uncomprehending Darcy, that’s actually pretty easy because wealthy US progressives often seem incredibly uncomprehending about the expenses of things like travel.

Maybe it’s because I’ve lived my entire life on the West Coast and the coastal elite progressive who really is progressive in many ways but woefully out of touch about class and money is the stereotype. To me, that seems to fit Darcy as written so much more naturally than conservative Republican Darcy if you’re going to go with the modern US political context.

Unpopular opinion: Naboo's lack of an actual planetary core is the SW version of Flat Earth conspiracy and every time someone suggests to Obi-Wan he travelled to Theed via the planet core, he gets a step closer to the Dark Side.

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE GFFA CONSPIRACY THEORY

#naboo #obi wan kenobi #i laughed #unpopular opinions meme #aifsaath bringing the hilarity yet again #aifsaath

What about reverse appreciation? Mary, Queen of Scots, aka the embodiment of the "What the hell we were rooting for you" meme. For a character so universally accepted as a maligned cinnamon bun too good for this world there is not enough appreciation for the shitshow her reign actually was.

Hi! I'm sorry I don't really know about Mary Queen of Scots to comment on her reputation or her legacy. But in terms of reverse appreciation, I don't really think we need a society for that; certain fan groups already spread hate for other historical figures so efficiently they don't even need directives for that. A prime example is Margaret Beaufort getting the brunt of the Ricardian hate (trigger warning for gross misogyny):

Too many vile examples so I'm just going to leave off here. I’m not trying to compare Margaret Beaufort to Mary Queen of Scots, what I mean is that expressing discontent at a historical figure—especially when that historical figure was a woman—is very much a common thing that needs no incentive of its own.

#sorry i hope i'm making sense but #i've got a terrible migraine at the moment #ask #aifsaath #margaret beaufort #ricardian for ts

You were actually the one who wooed me into the Star Wars fandom. Your Obi-Wans are the Obi-Waniest Obi-Wans who ever Obi-Waned and you actually made me love Qui-Gon and that shitstorm of a legacy. Your worldbuilding and storytelling is just amazing and I just adore the mindboggling level of profesionality of your writing. I can gush over Reprise till the cows come home, overthrow the farmer and establish communism, but I'm running out of characters, so just - I Love it.

“The Obi-Waniest Obi-Wans who ever Obi-Waned” this is the biggest compliment, thank you so much! And I’m sorry glad that I was able to tempt you into joining this garbage fire of a fandom!

I really don’t know what to say, it means so much to me that you can look at my fanfic hobby and see professionalism of any level, particularly around worldbuilding, which is something I really enjoy.

Thank you!

#sweet people make the world go round #aifsaath

Someone needs to separate me and @aifsaath, this is getting out of hand y’all.

Without further ado, we present drunkakin HCs:

- Quinlan purposefully gets Anakin drunk on a semi-regular basis before taking him back to Obi-Wan - Anakin is a serious lightweight - Anakin is a disaster when he’s drunk - Inhibitions go out of the window (the little he has) - Quinlan is banned from being alone with Anakin, but it never seems to stop him. - Anakin gets quiet and confused and holds to Obi-Wan like a koala with attachment issues, and is overly paranoid

Conversations tend to go like this:

Obi-Wan: “Anakin, let go! I have to go to the fresher!" Anakin: "I wanna go with you! They can’t have you!" Obi-Wan: “For the last time Anakin, there’s NO ONE in the fresher!”

Anakin: "You hate me. Why is the world turning around? I'm sleepy. NO DON'T TAKE ME TO BED. I like your hair. Never grow a mustache. Or a mullet. I like fish."

Anakin: "Stop moving, Obi." Obi-Wan: "Anakin, we're sitting down." Anakin: "Stop the room for spinning." Obi-Wan: "It's not moving either, Anakin." Anakin: "Why are we on the merry go round? I didn't wanna." Quinlan: "Psst, Anakin. The planet is spinning!" Anakin: "Noooo..." Obi-Wan: "Quinlan, stop scaring him!" Anakin: "Is that a conspit.... conspirattle... constipation against me?"

Quinlan: "It's not my fault he's a lightweight! He only had two Correllian Cruisers." Obi-Wan: "Vos, those have four shots of rum. EACH!" Quinlan: "Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight... My bad."

Anakin: *counting Obi-Wan’s freckles with his finger* "One freckle... two freckles... three freckles.." Obi-Wan: "Anakin, that tickles." *pushes Anakin’s hands away to no avail* Quinlan: "Now that's cute." Obi-Wan: "Shut your mouth, Quin."

Quinlan coaches Anakin through a new cheesy pickup line on the walk (stumble) back to their quarters.

Anakin: *big goofy grin* "Heyyyyy Mass... Obi! I like Obi." Obi-Wan: *sighs* "Again, Quin?" Quinlan: "Shh Kenobi! Now, like we practiced." Anakin: "Is that- Is that my 'saber seeing you happy?" Quinlan: *pats Anakin on the head* "Close enough."