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duskyashe · 1 year

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NaNoWriMo Day #24

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Prompt found here, thanks to @mewzaque and @stealingyourbones

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Dani couldn't stop giggling, no matter how hard she tried. The memory of the last time Joker had tried terrorizing people was a great one, and she'd never not laugh at the thought of that clown getting pied in the face, but she really loved getting one over on Red Hood. There was just something about the guy that made her feel confident enough to really let her prankster side out. She didn't want to put a name to it, though, so she shook the thought aside and got back to work.

This was going to be her masterpiece, nothing was going to top this, and best of all? She wouldn't be making life all that difficult for him, considering he can and does swing all over the place every single night. A little more swinging to find a few misplaced (but guarded, she wasn't stupid, she didn't want to lose them lose them, just hide them for a bit) tires wouldn't hurt the guy. Now, if she could just stop giggling for a few seconds, she'd be able to get this tire off and Hood's bike would be—

"This has to be karma. This has to be, there's literally no other explanation for this," came a man's voice from the mouth of the ally, startling Dani into nearly dropping her tire iron. She looked up and found herself meeting the covered eyes of Gotham's resident antihero. "Hey kid, you got a plan for those tires, or d'ya got some kind of beef with me?"

She was so shocked, her mouth kind of just... flapped uselessly for a few moments. How—what—wasn't she invisible?! A quick glance at her hands showed that, nope, she apparently was very visible. At least she was "dressed down" and not all ghostly, she still had a chance to talk her way out of this looking human. Though, in order to talk her way out of this, she kind of had to actually do some talking.

Red Hood sized her up briefly before taking a knee. "Hey, if it's something against me, you can take it up with me, you don't have to jack my tires to get a message across. If you need the tires for something else, then tell me, and I'll help you find a different way of getting it, one that doesn't have you jacking tires in the middle of the night. Sound good?"

... a guy that big and threatening should not be able to sound that soft and safe. Jack Fenton was never soft, he was loud and brash, or he was louder and brasher, but if he was quiet, it wasn't a soft quiet. It wasn't a good quiet. Vlad was never safe, even when she thought he cared about her. Clockwork was manipulative, and while he cared about both her and Danny, he... Didn't have the same perspective on things as they did. In her experience, tall, physically imposing men were not soft, and were not safe. The fact that everything in her screamed Red Hood was capable of being both of those things, was being both of them right now, on top of the unnamed thing that made her confident enough to even try half the things she'd done since "meeting" him a few months ago? It scared her. It scared and worried her. She'd only ever felt this way about someone once, and there'd been a very good, very logical reason for that one. She was Danny's clone, she was as close to a perfect clone of him as anyone was going to get at this point, of course she'd feel safe around him after she stopped trying to kill him! Red Hood... There shouldn't be a reason for her to feel so comfortable and safe and understood and welcome—

Slack hands lost grip on the tire iron as something wet trailed down her face. She felt welcomed here; in Gotham, sure, but in Red Hood's presence, especially so. That... Danny felt like that. Danny and Jazz, and eventually Sam and Tucker, but mostly Danny.

Arms wrapped gently around her, lightly tugging her closer but not demanding. She followed. "Hey now, shhh, it's gonna be alright. I'll help you, whatever you need, alright?"

Dani couldn't help but laugh slightly hysterically at that. "Can you take down an abusive, corrupt billionaire who isn't entirely human? Can you dismantle an illegal, government sanctioned lab? Cuz life would be much better if you could." If I could...

"Kid, who do you think I am?" Red Hood said with a thin veneer of amusement barely covering his concern and anger. "If I can't do it on my own, I've got connections who can. You give me the slightest bit of proof for either of those things, I'll give you a status update in a few days and results in a few months, at most." He rubbed her back soothingly. "But neither of those two things would be solved by jacking my tires, and there're better ways to get my attention, as well," he said lightly, tone implying he'd be giving her a look if he could.

Dani flushed in embarrassment. "I was... kind of... trying to play a prank on you," she muttered into his warm leather jacket.

Red Hood was motionless for a long moment, causing Dani to start tensing, before his shoulders started shaking. It started small, and honestly she probably wouldn't have noticed if she weren't still being held like a little kid, but soon she could hear him stifling his laughter. "Oh gosh, this is karma. I can't—hey kid, you got somewhere safe to stay tonight? I've got some friends who'd love to meet you."

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HAPPY (belated) TURKEY DAY!!! Have some Dani and Jason fluff! Don't mind the light sprinkle of angst sauce, it's just a garnish, it's nothing too vital (⁠ ⁠´⁠◡⁠‿⁠ゝ⁠◡⁠`⁠) at least, not yet ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I successfully managed to get through all of today without a single breakdown! I did take a two hour nap after the big meal, but everyone ended up waiting almost that long before having dessert, anyway, so I didn't really miss anything too important (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠) food was good today, company was, too. I hope y'all had a good day, whether you celebrate Turkey Day or not (^⁠‿⁠^⁠)

I don't have much to say about this ficlet, except for the fact I might continue this at some point 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠_⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠ㄏ no clue, but I do see a lot of potential for this!

Have a good morning/day/night!

#danny phantom #batman #fanfic #dc x dp #dp x dc #dp crossover #dp au #fanfiction #nanowrimo 2022 #NaNoWriMo Day 24 #Dani is lonely and didn't realize it #but Jason is in a good place with Bruce and himself now #and he wants to adopt this little black haired blue eyed punk of a girl who tried to jack his bike tires as a prank #so he's going to pull a Bruce lol

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nelkcats · 1 year

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The Favor

When Youngblood became a ghost he actually didn't think he would be so lonely. It was stressful and annoying, being so young, watching the years go by but never being able to move on or change. He was a child who died, and the only way for him to feel like a child again was to play.

But even then he felt invisible. That made his powers listen to his wishes and cause no adult to see him. And maybe that was for the better, adults were scary, adults could hurt you. They wouldn't understand.

Meeting the other ghosts was both a blessing and a curse. Everyone saw him as a kid, some thought he was annoying and others played with him. He was grateful to Ember for spending so much of her time being a pirate, but he didn't want to take up so much of her time. It made him feel guilty.

When Danny became King and the ghost kid heard that he was destined to help the other ghosts, Youngblood plucked up his courage and asked him for a favor: Find him a friend. One alive that wanted to play and never get bored of it.

Danny took the task very seriously, looking for all possible candidates, avoiding ghosts. Until he found a more or less suitable friend: Klarion. He was older than Youngblood but seemed to be just as bored. Clockwork looked at him in dismay at his solution to the problem but didn't stop him.

This led to the Justice League being defeated by Klarion, who had taken over the Watchtower and seemed to be happily talking to air. He was seconds away from destroying the earth or something similar with death ray, but there was nothing they could do about it.

Everyone froze when a portal opened next to the boy and someone came out asking "How are the new friends?" Before realizing the situation, the creature sighed in disappointment and destroyed the death ray with a snap of his fingers. A girl just like him came out of the portal excited ignoring everyone and began to talk to the air. Klarion seemed to be following the conversation.

Danny watched Youngblood talking to Dani and Klarion, he knew that his cousin could be good company, but he hadn't contacted her before due to her travels and status as a halfa (the probability of destroying the world was there too); well, now Youngblood had two friends (that solved the problem) but- how did he prevent them from ending the world? Or worse, from terrorize innocent cosplayers?

#dpxdc #ghost king danny #He is taking his job seriously #Fulfilling the wishes and requests of all ghosts that asked #Youngblood was also an ally #or something similar #Danny thought that a friend would calm him down #and he will stop terrorizing people #It ended on the opposite way #now Youngblood and Klarion are best friends #the worst idea ever #but Clockwork is entertained #The League had no opportunity #Dani also joined them at the end #is a friend group #that will destroy the world #maybe Damian and Jon can join #Danny is not sure if the world's destruction is a surprise but #poor cosplayers #Danny didn't realize he was at space #dc x dp #dp x dc #Klarion and friends #Danny is not sure what he did wrong #He didn't contact Dani at first to prevent that exact situation #and the fact that she was just half alive and Youngblood wanted an alive friend #Youngblood want to be a kid again #youngblood

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gwenllian-in-the-abbey · 3 months

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While there isn't that much to book! Helaena but what we know so far that she was a happy, gentle, and brave girl who claimed a fierce and old dragon like dreamfyre when she was only 11/13. Who was also so loved by the smallfolk apparently and was politically involved before b&c destroyed her, i just don't understand how and why the showrunners tried to minimise Helaena's role (it was already small in f&b) and turned her into a lonely somber character who has no personality traits beside being obsessed with bugs, even her prophecies only makes her a walking talking spoiler it's not even written in an interesting way like asoiaf!bran or dany or melisandre etc.... and then they have the nerve to call their writing feminist 💀

Hi anon! I really had to think about this one, because I agree that compared to her brothers, show!Helaena gets a pretty shallow characterization. One of the problems I think with show!Helaena is that while they've given her more of a personality, they haven't given her a motivation. There is nothing wrong with her being a neurodivergent bug girl with prophesies, and I think even her visions could be an interesting twist to her character, but the show failed to convey what drives Helaena, or even show how she feels about the conflict.

Granted, Helaena's characterization in the book is kind of thin, but I'd argue that book!Aemond's characterization, for instance, is also thin. Aemond is a mean asshole with a chip on his shoulder, but the show went out of its way to humanize him by giving him motivation, backstory, and an arc that will likely follow him through the show. Even Luke, who literally exists within the story to start conflict, is given doubts about being the heir to Driftmark and the need to prove himself. But Helaena? We have no idea what drives her. I want to know how Helaena envisions herself within this conflict! So she has prophesies, and she tries to communicate them, but that's not working. Now what? She and Aegon are both crying at his coronation, but we have a good idea why Aegon is crying. What about Helaena? Is it because she's seen their doom? Is she sad for Aegon? Does she feel like her family is doing the wrong thing on a moral level? And has she told anyone how she feels? And this is where the prophesy part gets lost because if Helaena's visions are coherent enough that she knows crowning Aegon is a bad idea, then why does she only speak them in cryptic riddles? She's capable of expressing herself relatively clearly otherwise, so the riddles are a contrived way to keep anyone, including Helaena, from acting on those visions, or the rest of her family from realizing she has them at all. So the visions add a tragic element to her character, but don't actually give Helaena anything to do, plotwise. This is a character whose death is the catalyst for the riots which drive Rhaenyra from the city, so there is certainly material there to work with.

And the thing is, Blood and Cheese, an absolutely inarguably evil act, is going to happen to Helaena early on in the second season, and when that happens, Helaena becomes the so-called "perfect victim." Helaena's character is something of a cipher, someone that the viewer can project their own values and assumptions onto. We have Helaena who is secretly in love with Aemond, Helaena who had a loving relationship with Rhaenyra, Helaena who was a good wife to Aegon, Helaena who loved Aegon as a brother but not a wife, Helaena who was Otto's favorite, Helaena who didn't care about the family feud, and all of these Helaenas exist simultaneously without really directly contradicting anything that was shown on screen. And because she remains this blank slate character, it is acceptable to sympathize with her even though her side is in conflict with Rhaenyra. The viewer can say, "well Helaena didn't deserve that, she was innocent!" But the thing is, no one deserves what happened to Helaena and her children. Helaena does not need to be perfectly neutral for her to be a victim, to have never held an unkind thought against Rhaenyra for her suffering to matter. This idea that someone cannot be worthy of any sympathy or empathy unless their hands are completely clean absolutely permeates this fandom (just look at the reaction to Alicent), and online discourse at large, and whether the show realizes it or not, they've played into it by making Helaena the "true innocent," as if she were a child with no agency of her own, when she is actually a beloved queen, an adult, a dragonrider and a mother.

That's not to say the show couldn't give her more to do in season 2, they could. Maybe Blood and Cheese will motivate her and she will take action. Hopefully, if the show follows the book and makes her beloved of the smallfolk, it will be for something other than how beautifully she suffers.

#asks #helaena targaryen #hotd critical #to be clear other characters have flimsy characterization #laena gets similar treatment

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professionalsimpforgeorgeweasley · 10 months

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Forever and Always -Prologue

"Tender is the night for a broken heart, Who will dry your tears when it falls apart?"

- Beach House

I can remember that night so vividly yet it still feels as though it was a fever dream of some sort. Tears covering my face, Xavier yelling in efforts to make me stay, the ringing of multiple texts on my phone, even the smell of paint and the multiple candles I always kept burning. Even after four years I can remember almost everything. Yet I still cannot grasp onto any sort of idea as to why I had been so utterly blinded that night.

"Dani let's be realistic here, you met this guy two months ago and now suddenly your going to drop everything so you can move to California with him?" Xavier exclaimed after I told him my plan to move to California with my boyfriend Nate.

"I thought you were gonna be happy for me." I sighed when I stood up from the couch to grab my suitcase. "I mean it's not like he's a total stranger."

"Your being so oblivious right now it's actually crazy" he spoke with such confusion and I didn't understand why. I just ignored him as I grabbed all the clothes I wanted to take with me, until I started to hear Xavier's footsteps behind me and felt him grab my shoulders, turning me around as he held me and stared in disbelief. "Can't you see? Can't you that he's trying to isolate you by moving you somewhere where you know absolutely nobody, where you have no friends or family to call if he decides that he's done with you"

"When he decides he's done with me? What exactly is that supposed to mean Xavier?" I questioned and pushed him away from me. Xavier had expressed his concerns to me about Nate being toxic but I shrugged it off as him being overly protective.

"You know exactly what I mean or are we just going to forget that night you went out with him and he left you on the side of the road cause he said you pissed him off!" He started to raise his voice "Cause I don't forget being the one to pick you up at midnight when you were lost and crying!"

"He loves me. And like I told you that night Xavier, Nate is just a little sort tempered but it's nothing I can't handle" I could feel tears prickling in my eyes at the memory and my throat became scratchy as I spoke.

Xavier took a deep breathe "Dani no matter how short tempered he is he never should have never done that." His eyes became glossy "it hurts me to see that you think that this is what love is. Love isn't making you leave everything behind, Love isn't making you think that everything that happens is always your fault, and love sure as hell isn't making you change who you are and what you love." He spoke as pain seeped through his voice.

"How would you even know what love is! It's not like you have the best track record when it comes to relationships" I said with pure anger. Who was he to tell me what I thought love was? He wasn't exactly a saint when it came to being a boyfriend.

"Oh really Dani? Enlighten me about how horrible my last relationship was because clearly I need to be reminded by you!" He laughed.

"You were a total dick to bianca and you know it!" We were both yelling so loud I was sure the neighbors were going to call in a noise complaint.

"I was sixteen! I'm not that same person anymore and for you to try to compare me to that asshole is absurd. It's not my fault you don't love yourself enough to know what you deserve cause if you did you would realize that Nate is just another version of your dad!" Instant regret filled his eyes once he realized exactly what he had said.

"That's just cruel" my voice went soft and the dam behind my eyes had broken causing rivers of tears to fall down my face. I wiped my tears, zipped up my suitcase and stood in front of him with as much confidence as I could gather. "Your a sad lonely person Xavier and I hope you find happiness but I can't have you holding me back anymore"

"Dani I love you so much but as your best friend I can't let you do this" he pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Good thing I'm not asking" I chuckled "you know Nate told me that you were obsessed with me but I didn't really believe it until now"

"Ur kidding me. Yes Daniela I'm so obsessed with you cause it's not like we've been best friends since birth, god forbid I have your best interest at heart." He laughed

"Xavier I think we grew out of this friendship a long time ago. The other night when I was talking to Nate-"

"Oh of course Nate gave his brilliant input, modern day Aristotle if you ask me" he cut me off. "So your going to end a nineteen year friendship because Nate thought it was a good idea."

I couldn't stand to say anything to him so instead I stood there with my eyes to the ground. I started fiddling with the gold chained bracelet on my hand that Xavier had boughten me for my birthday before I took it off. Handing him the bracelet was all the answer he needed.

"Wow" he scoffed.

I gave him a nod "you can stay in the townhouse for as long as you need but I think it would be best if you moved out" only then was I able to look into his eyes "goodbye Xavier"

I barely got to the hall before I heard him yelling "have fun sucking Nate's dick in California" he paused " and don't expect me to be here for you when he breaks you heart and you want to come back home" I got onto a plane an hour later and never planned on stepping a foot in New York ever again.

But here I am now, I'm 23 years old and living with my mom again after Nate did exactly what Xavier thought he would. Our time together seemed so perfect until he proposed and cheated on me within the same twenty four hours. Then just like Xavier said I was stranded with nobody to call, to be honest I don't know where I would be now if I hadn't found Nate's credit card to buy my plane ticket home. I wished I would've listened to him that night but I was too naive to see the truth.

A knock on my door broke me out of my thoughts "Dani, mija can I come in?"

"Yes" I didn't say it very loud in hopes that she wouldn't hear and just go away but instead she opened the door with a towel in one hand and a casual dress from my suitcase in the other. I didn't even really know what clothes I had brought with me considering I just threw half my closet in the largest suitcase I had

"Listen Dani, I decided I'm going to throw a little dinner party to celebrate you coming home and I think you should maybe take a shower and change your clothes" she said the last part like it was a suggestion but that was just her being passive aggressive.

"Noooo" I groaned as I shoved my face in my pillow "I don't want to go to some dinner party where everyone is basically celebrating the fact that my whole life fell apart" I knew when she said dinner party it meant me, my brother tony, and Xavier but I still wasn't ready to face anyone.

She only called our dinners "dinner parties" because Xavier and his mom would always walk over when his dad would throw fancy dinners all dressed up so eventually my family dressed up too and we had our dinners. Our moms always joked about how our dinner parties were so much better than Xavier's dad's because all us kids were there. But we haven't had one since Xavier's mom died.

"You need to mija you haven't changed your clothes since you got here and it's hurting my nose" she made a disgusted face "Antonio and Xavier are already on their way so hurry up!"

This was going to be a fun evening.

#percy hynes white #percy hynes white smut #wednesday #wednesday fanfic #xavier thorpe #xavier thorpe fanfic #xavier thorpe smut #xavier thorpe x fem oc

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hello-nichya-here · 3 months

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Not saying all Zuko or Sansa stans are like this, but as a fan of both characters it does kinda annoy me when the give parts of Aang or Arya's storyline to their so-called faves ("The Cave of Two Lovers", Appa/Momo, Nymeria, being Jon's favorite sister, etc). Zuko and Sansa don't need Arya and Aang's accessories; they're already interesting enough on their own.

PREACH! I keep saying, the Avatar fandom doesn't like the real, complex, deep character Zuko is. They like the awkward turtle duck that is scared of everything and wouldn't hurt a fly, can have all of his issues resolved by getting a hug from whatever girl they ship him with/use as a self-insert to fantasize about him. Plus, a lot of people are REALLY butthurt that Aang is the protagonist, not him.

As for Sansa, oh my God, the fandom is fucking stupid when it comes to her. Like, I've seen people try to give her Arya's, Lyanna's, Dany's, Jon's, and even Cersei's and Littlefinger's traits/plots. And ALL these people claim to like her, which is clearly not true.

Also, the way GOT essentially validated that by doing dumb shit like making her wear armor for no real to show she's "badass", praise her brilliance for "discovering" nonsensical plots, and, more important, completely dropping her Vale plot and instead gave her Jeyne's story so she could be abused again, to an even worse degree.

Then they had the fucking nerve of having her saying "Well, if I had not been imprisoned, humiliated, beaten, raped and nearly killed, I wouldn't be this cynical, bitchy, arrogant, stupid, fake shell of a 'cool character' the showrunners want me to be, so I'm happy all of that happened" and SOMEHOW didn't realize what they're saying is just "put the dumb bitch in her place", not them making her a stronger character.

I REALLY could make a whole meta on how GOT ruined Sansa and Arya as characters by completely missing the point of their arcs.

Arya's went from "The lone wolf dies, but the pack survives" to "Fuck you, got mine". Sansa's went from "Hope and kindness are the only things that can lead to the end of all this horrors" to "I'm grateful to my abusers for showing me how the world works."

Like I said before, these people saw all of the Stark girls interactions with the Hound and didn't realize that their dynamics are about the girls defeating his cynism, proving him wrong, and saving him from himself - Sansa even explicitly prays that the gods will gentle the rage inside of him, and last we hear of Sandor, we are told "The Hound is dead, Sandor Clegane is at rest"

#asks #sansa deserved better #arya deserved better #zuko deserved better

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forbiddenfantasies1 · 2 years

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🎄 Festive Fic Exchange Recs ❄

There were so many wonderful stories that were posted in the JB Festive Festival Exchange 2021 collection, and I couldn't resist sharing some of my favorites with everyone.

Now I haven't read all of them so this is in no way complete, but these are the ones that I've read that have stuck with me.

First up, my gift fic, the absolutely wonderful Traditionally Tarth by @gypsyscarfwoman. I LOVED this story, from start to finish. It starts off with Jaime and Brienne meeting as children on the shores of Tarth where Genna has whisked the kids away for Sevenmas after the death of their mother. A friendship is built, traditions established, and it's just such a beautiful look at the way two people grow closer over time, and that no matter what else is changing in their lives, some things endure. I feel so lucky to have it as a gift.

Next is The Help by @ladym-rules. This fic is absolutely, delightfully adorable. Told from the POV of a new maid at Casterly Rock, the staff thought the newly betrothed Jaime and Brienne detested each other until they realized they absolutely didn't. Super charming and guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

On the other end of the feels spectrum, I've been haunted by lay your weary head by @slipsthrufingers since I first read it. This is a very introspective Brienne fic, taking place in the days following her fight with The Hound. She is lonely and tired and beaten down, and calls on thoughts of Jaime for strength. It made my chest ache in the very best way.

After drowning in Brienne feels, I balanced it out by drowning in Jaime feels by reading damn permanent reverie by @nire-the-mithridatist. Jaime wakes up and heals, and makes himself useful in King's Landing while Brienne returns to Tarth to take over as Evenstar. They both thrive apart, but his longing never goes away, and sometimes even if you can make it apart, you still just want to be together.

For another shift in mood, check out Jaime's Guide to the Lannister Family: Sevenmas Edition by the delightful and diabolical @naomignome. I laughed so hard reading this that I was concerned I was going to sprain something. Naomi is a genius with PowerPoints and this one delivers in a very JamLan style. Absolutely hilarious and yet still adorable (just like her).

The Gray Knight by @pretty--thief was another one that took me on an emotional buffet. Set at a tourney overseen by (a sane) Queen Dany and her steady Hand, Brienne, a mysterious gray knight is steadily working his way through the lists, turning to study the Hand in between rides. I'd go from grinning hugely to feeling like my heart was being squeezed into a pulp. This was beautifully written and will definitely be one I visit repeatedly.

I'm still working my way through them all, but definitely check these out if you get a chance. And remember to kudos/comment the authors of any you do read and enjoy!

#jaime x brienne #2festive2fic #festive festival fic exchange #jaime brienne fic recs

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esther-dot · 3 years

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Antis always claim that Sansa and Dany should be friends. So tell me when in lifetime Dany had female friends. Missendei don't count because she is her handmaid. Dany never had actual relationship with girls of her status or even below her. It's always her opinion on them matter. Sansa considered jeyne as her sister. She is friendly with Mya. She never act as their boss. But she is also betrayed by Marg and her cousins. She had right to mistrust Dany who will always lord power over others.

What I enjoy is that the claim that they should be friends is always based in the idea that there is no reason why Sansa should object to Dany taking her country. Like, in the show, Sansa, who summoned a man who sexually harasses her (and handed her off to a man who tortured her) to take back Winterfell/the North, was supposed to be totally fine with handing it all over to someone else. That made no sense.

I understand that stance a little better for book verse because some of them genuinely believe Sansa will never go North/be involved in politics, so she and Dany don't have opposing political goals. I disagree with them, but in that context it’s a little more plausible. I guess?

Making judgments about what Martin is saying with how he depicts female relationships is hard because we've talked before about how few positive female relationships he gives to our girl. I mean, Sansa has Jeyne, but we're all biting our nails over what will happen with Mya and Miranda for a reason. Experience has taught us to be wary.

But, when it comes to Dany, her lack of peer relationships, her isolation, that is a very deliberate point about her. This quote sums it up:

Up here in her garden Dany sometimes felt like a god, living atop the highest mountain in the world.

Do all gods feel so lonely? Some must, surely. Missandei had told her of the Lord of Harmony, worshiped by the Peaceful People of Naath; he was the only true god, her little scribe said, the god who always was and always would be, who made the moon and stars and earth, and all the creatures that dwelt upon them. Poor Lord of Harmony. Dany pitied him. It must be terrible to be alone for all time, attended by hordes of butterfly women you could make or unmake at a word. Westeros had seven gods at least, though Viserys had told her that some septons said the seven were only aspects of a single god, seven facets of a single crystal. That was just confusing. The red priests believed in two gods, she had heard, but two who were eternally at war. Dany liked that even less. She would not want to be eternally at war. (ASOS, Daenerys VI)

Dany is at eternal war within herself. She is two people at once and they've converged at the end of ADWD. She is the girl who wants a home, the blood of the dragon who will take her home, and the blending of those two is that she will bring fire and blood to Westeros and find her "home" in the ashes. If she hadn't taken on the identity of the last dragon, if she had decided to make a home by means other than war and death, she could have had something peaceful, could have surrounded herself with people who cared about her. She did not have to be alone.

Martin already made this same point with Robb. He could choose life or death and he chose the sword (link). There's no way that Martin isn't having Dany dissociate herself from humanity this early to prepare the way for her to choose war and death on a much bigger scale, in a much less morally justifiable way.

So, even if book Dany were to meet book Sansa and they bonded over being forced into marriages, being the object of creepy men's obsessions, of having the burden of who they are put their lives in danger, even if they realize they have some similar romantic sensibilities, there's just no way that Martin allows Dany to choose the sword (dragon) and not suffer the same consequences that poor Robb faced. And, being that Robb had far more moral justification (he didn't up and decide to conquer a continent), I imagine what will happen to Dany will be far worse.

Also, there's a chance that Sansa might be QitN in the books when it comes time to deal with Dany. The three queens could be Sansa, Dany, and Arianne, and if that’s the case, Sansa’s obligation would be to her people and it doesn’t matter what she personally thinks about Dany. 🤷🏻‍♀️

As for show verse, you're right. Dany really didn't know how to relate to people. She allegedly loved Jon and all of their conversations were about violence and power. As soon as they arrive in Winterfell, she's threatening the lives of his family. Sansa asks about food (a totally rational and vital concern), and she thinks that's tantamount to treason and when Sansa asks about Northern Independence, Dany immediately withdrawals her hand ie that was never going to happen. So, people who wanted them to "be friends" wanted Sansa to accept being ruled by a person who refused her freedom. Had the roles been reversed, we know they wouldn't expect Dany to be fine with that. Therefore, there's no reason to expect it of Sansa. The wanted it because, like Dany, they don't think there is anything wrong with Dany holding everyone's lives in her hands and denying them freedom. Gross.

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Wow, 2x08, best episode of the season. Well, my favorite, at least.

First of all, Bette vs Dani, didn't know I needed it. And of course, Bette is in the right here. We can love Dani and acknowledge that her father's company is trash AND commend her on trying to change it. But the way major companies tend to exploit or utilize the very community they've harmed to get good press or restore their name is just... gross. Dani is being very naive. I'm not saying good people can't be capitalists, they just can't be successful ones lol

I'm so happy they're addressing Finley's drinking and that this will be Sinley's conflict and something they'll need to get through together. Sophie was so infatuated with Finley (and didn't realize it) that she used to reassure Finley every time Finley would tell her she's fucked up last season. She didn't want her to feel bad about herself. But that made her overlook real issues Finley had. I felt that scene so deeply when Sophie was explaining how scary it is to be around people who drink a lot. It does feel lonely. It feels unsafe. It feels like an imposter has taken over.

Maribel 😍😍😍😍

Bette and Pippa 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 this whole storyline is bringing out incredible emotions in Bette. She's been heading here for a long ass time. She has a lot to come to terms with. She has so much anger but she was complicit in the racist and elitist culture that rejected people like her and their art and their stories. Now she's spiraling, combining that hate with her personal tragedy in this episode was amazing to see Jennifer tackle. When Bette just sort of fell into Pippa ... y'all 🥺

Shane and Tess 😍😍😍😍

Alice and Tom 🥺🥺🥺🤣😍🤣🤣

DANI AND GIGI *faints* god I still can't believe this shit where did they even come from please let me keep them forever

#tlwgq #tlwgq spoilers #the l word generation q

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How do you feel about Dani claiming Jamie as her best friend after growing up with her supposed best friend who didn't really know her at all? Do u think dani still thought of Edmund as her best friend even after everything? How long do u think it took dani to use that term again?

This is gonna be a bit of a hot take, but I...don’t really feel like Edmund was her best friend. I mean, he was, but I sort of get the sense that maybe it was more that he was her only friend as a kid. That maybe she was so lonely and had such a mixed-up home life that the first person to grab hold and say “hey, I like you, you belong here”—and especially since his mom was so welcoming, besides—may have just been in the right place at the right time. And as time went on, and he decided he liked her as more than a friend, she just sort of got swept away. “And then it was just what we were doing” is so easy to fall into for more than just an engagement.

I do think Dani thought of him as her best friend—but I think that may be because she didn’t know what a best friend is meant to be there for. I get very little sense that Edmund really saw her, really let her speak her mind or vent her issues or lean on him as anything but My Girlfriend. If she’d spent her whole life thinking friendship was just “well, we get along”, to come up against Jamie in adulthood was probably an enormous shock to the system. A friend who is attracted to you, but also...listens to you. Cares what you think. Offers that give and take that is so crucial to any strong relationship, platonic or not. I get the feeling Dani, fairly early on, would stop in the middle of a conversation or an easy silence day and just think, Oh. Oh, wait.

When you finally find people who actually get you, and let you be yourself, and like that about you, you sort of look back on older relationships and realize they were hollow. I think that’s probably what would have happened here.

#the haunting of bly manor #the haunting of bly manor spoilers #the haunting of meta #also a relationship built as children has to be given space to grow with you #and it really feels from the limited flashbacks #that Dani maybe got to take the lead a little when they were ten #and then every step thereafter was just jogging to keep up with his decisions #which is very much not how best friends or lovers should operate

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My Top Posts in 2021

fjord being the one to comfort essek after that was such a Moment where two men who used live and die by their ability to keep their mask firmly in place and hold everything so tightly on lockdown have now learned through the love and acceptance of the mighty nein, that sometimes it's okay to let it all drop.

what did fjord do after molly died? he ran all the way to the coast looking for answers that he didn't find while everyone leaned on each other.

what did essek do when the attempt failed? broke away from the group, stormed off with choked "it isn't fair" the only thing he can get out while everyone began their acceptance of molly's fate.

and fjord, the consummate protector of this group, his people knew and found the words needed to pull him back.

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In thinking on the differences between early c2 dynamic and early c3 dynamics I have realized:

Early C2 was openly distrustful, borderline hostile, and incredibly cagey and dishonest

Early C3 so far is so Polite but still just as cagey and distrustful. They're all saying a lot without saying anything at all. They're all so nice. They aren't rocking the boat. They're gently treading past anything uncomfortable. They aren't calling each other out on things. They're gossiping amongst their pre-established groups about the other and tossing subtle shade that way but nothing overt.

That dam is gonna break at some point and it's gonna be delicious.

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The Luxon: the universe is cold and lonely and I shall continue to pass by these bits of light and seek an answer to what I am? who I am? what I'm becom- oh what's this? This lonely little world full of chaos and danger? Perhaps if I break apart and fill it with light, the life that grows can put me together and tell me what I am

Essek Thelyss: the world is cold and lonely and I continue on my path for knowledge and seeking an answer to what it is the defines our nation and religion, defines my family, defines me-oh what's this? A choatic and dangerous friendship? I has broke me apart, filled me with life and put me back together, teaching me who I am and could become

Essek: did I just reinvent my religion

Essek: no, that's not how this is supposed to work

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Quick question on Dantana since you talked about that a bit in your last ask: we all know that Santana didn't love Dani and that they were together for like, a day, but then how come Santana was so fast to go "official" with her? like by the end of 5x02 which was when they met Dani was already her "girlfriend"? i remember being so confused about that when it happened

Hey, @tryingtoohardddd!

The really short answer here is that Santana essentially rushes into dating Dani because she is trying to convince herself she’s ready to move on from Brittany, even though she is totally, completely not.

The long answer is under the cut, and, gee willikers, is it rambling.

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So to start out, let’s review a bit from the previous ask:

Being in a long-distance relationship is really, really hard on both Brittany and Santana.

Santana breaks up with Brittany not because she doesn’t love her anymore but rather because she loves her so much that she hates seeing her suffer.

When Santana takes this action, she is very torn inside.

On the one hand, she wants Brittany to be able to find happiness wherever she can, even if that’s with someone other than herself at least for the time being. She realizes that Brittany needs a partner who is physically present with her on an everyday basis—who can touch her and comfort her and make her smile and hold her hand. She gets that having that kind of support is crucial to Brittany’s emotional well-being, and since she knows she can’t be present to offer it to Brittany herself, she is trying to do the right thing by giving Brittany the freedom to seek it out elsewhere. Even though she knows she will be miserable following the breakup, she loves Brittany so much that she is willing to sacrifice her own personal happiness if there’s a chance that her doing so will help Brittany to be happy.

On the other hand, she also can’t help but dread the notion of Brittany dating someone else who’s not her. Yes, she is all about Brittany being happy, but it’s still really hard for her to imagine Brittany being happy with somebody else. As stated elsewhere, Santana is a super anxious person, and letting Brittany go without having any guarantee that they’ll get back together again someday puts her heart through the ringer.

Though she probably never acknowledges as much to herself, she secretly hopes for a “minimal damage” scenario.

In her mind, the ideal outcome for this situation would be that after she and Brittany break up, Brittany casually dates a couple randos and derives some happiness from doing so while she—Santana—waits patiently on the sidelines, maintaining enough best friendly contact to be able to gauge Brittany’s feelings for her. Though Brittany has a good time out on the town, it remains abundantly clear that her heart is still with Santana. Eventually, Brittany graduates, and she and Santana pick up right where they left off before. It’s no harm, no foul.

—and at least initially, that’s kind of the way things seem to happen.

Brittana break up, but Brittany makes it obvious that Santana is still her one and only. Santana plays the strong one, maintaining some ostensible boundaries even though, secretly, she takes comfort in the fact that Brittany hasn’t yet run off to find a new s.o.

Santana remains hopeful that once the initial shock from the breakup subsides, Brittany may be able to casually date or at least have a more active social life. But based on Brittany’s professions of continued love for her, she’s not really anticipating that Brittany will be hopping into another serious relationship any time soon.

To start out, she is probably fairly anxious about how Brittany might use her “newfound freedom” in terms of dating. But as more time goes on, she gets lulled into a sense of security. Brittany still loves her, so she doesn’t have to worry, right?

Then Tina calls Santana and shatters her illusions with one little word: “Bram.”

Again, as discussed in this post, the main thing that causes Santana to freak out when she learns that Sam is Brittany’s boyfriend is the fact that Brittany doesn’t give her a heads-up. Santana starts the day thinking that she and Brittany are still one the same page—technically broken up but still emotionally monogamous with each other—but then Tina calls her, and all of a sudden she has to question whether or not Brittany actually reciprocates her feelings. That Brittany could get into what is seemingly a serious, long-term relationship with Sam and not even tell her about it throws her for a loop. She starts to second-guess the situation, particularly because her own feelings for Brittany remain unchanged.

It takes a lot of effort on Brittany’s part to convince Santana that, ultimately, even though she’s dating Sam now, she hasn’t fallen out of love with Santana.

One of the appeals she makes to Santana to persuade her of this fact is to point out that part of the reason they broke up was so that they could find happiness in the moment while they’re waiting for their happily-ever-afters.

Though initially Brittany didn’t understand the reasoning behind the breakup, she now understands it better than Santana does. She and Santana can’t be together for the time being, but even so there’s no reason why they should both be miserable and lonely. It’s okay for them to look for happiness where they can find it. They’ve just got to trust that one day they’ll be able to make it back to each other. Brittany truly believes that they’re meant to be, so they’ll find each other again someday.

That’s why she actively encourages Santana to find her own midgame pairing (“Why shouldn’t you get the chance to be around people who are like you, who appreciate you? Be a part of a community? Why can’t you have a real girlfriend? But not a best friend ‘cause that part’s already taken”).

—the trouble is that Santana has always found it more difficult to trust in the goodness of the universe than Brittany has.

So now that Brittany is dating Sam, Santana is thrown off her axis.

She tries to trust that even though Sam and Brittany are together for now, she and Brittany will be together in the end, but she isn’t entirely convinced, not when all her personal experience tells her that the world is a cruel place and that sometimes even the best intended actions can have terrible consequences and that few things in life are fair and almost nothing is certain.

She really falters for a long time—all the way up until Brittany gets accepted into MIT and moves to Cambridge, and then she has to deal with a whole new slew of doubts and uncertainties because even though Sam is out of the picture, there’s still no guarantee that she and Brittany will ever get back together.

It doesn’t help that she is constantly in a state of self-sabotaging when it comes to maintaining a friendship with Brittany even while they’re broken up. For as easily as she could call Brittany or visit her in Cambridge, she doesn’t because she’s worried that she’s already ruined their relationship beyond repair, and she subconsciously fears that Brittany will reject her. Rather than simply asking Brittany, “Hey, are we still cool?” she just assumes that they’re not and that she deserves to suffer in Brittany’s absence because, after all, this whole mess is her fault because she’s the one who broke them up to begin with. She doesn’t dare reach out to Brittany in friendship because she considers herself unworthy.

Instead, she suffers in isolation in NYC, trying to substitue her measly pittance of a “friendship” with Hummelberry for what she really wants.

It’s during this time that Santana first meets Dani, which brings us to the place where we can actually answer your real question:

How come Santana is so fast to go “official” with Dani (even though she is typically so slow to warm up, and she barely knows Dani when they first start dating)?

Rapid-fire, now:

Santana starts dating Dani so quickly because it’s what she thinks she should be doing. After all, that’s the whole reason she broke up with Brittany to begin with, right? So that they could both find happiness in the moment, even if their long-term happiness with each other was temporarily on hold.

Isn’t that what Brittany reminded her of during the events of episode 4x13?

If Brittany was able to find some temporary happiness with Sam, then Santana should be able to find some temporary happiness with Dani.

—and especially because, at present, Santana isn’t sure that she and Brittany will ever get back together again.

Santana started out this whole “adventure” thinking that she had to temporarily let Brittany go for a few months until Brittany graduated, but then Brittany could move to NYC, and they could immediately get back together just like nothing had happened at all. But then Brittany blindsided her by dating Sam, and even though that relationship didn’t amount to anything in the long run, it did become the first event in a long series of events that has since seemingly conspired to keep Brittana apart indefinitely. Ever since Bramgate, nothing has gone according to Santana’s plans. Brittany graduated, yeah, but her graduation didn’t result in her and Santana getting back together. Now she’s off at MIT doing god knows what, and Santana has barely even talked to her in months, and there’s no obvious path for them to get back to each other, if Brittany even wants to at this point. Plus, everything else in Santana’s life is a crapshoot. It’s like she’s living in the Friends theme song: Her job’s a joke, she’s broke, her love life’s D.O.A. She has no idea what she’s doing or where she’s going.

—so why the hell not date Dani?

After all, in her mind, she’s probably never going to be lucky enough to get back together with Brittany, so she may as well accept her fate and try as best she can to move forward. Sure, she knows that Brittany is the love of her life, and she’s always going to love her. That’s never going to change. But if she can’t be with the one she loves, maybe she can try to love the one she’s with.

—and Dani is pretty and nice and cool.

Hell, she’s everything a baby lesbian in NYC could want in a girlfriend. It’s just that she’s also not Brittany.

In her heart of hearts, Santana knows that she’s really not ready.

As discussed in the original ask, she’s not actively out there looking for a new girlfriend, not when she’s still so madly in love with Brittany.

Dani is the one who really initiates things between them, and then Rachel is the one who encourages Santana to move forward.

Don’t get me wrong: Santana does like Dani. It’s just that I honestly believe she wouldn’t have made a move without Dani making a move first.

Once Dani shows her that the door is open, she walks through.

—and she does so quickly, taking a “fake it ‘til you make it” approach.

She’s not really emotionally prepared to have a new girlfriend, and part of her knows as much, so she tries to just forge ahead, hoping that if she just starts going through the motions, eventually the feelings will follow and she’ll get to a place where she is actually committed.

After all, even for as young as she is, she realizes that her experience with Brittany can’t be duplicated. With Brittany, she fell in love before she even realized that that’s what was happening, and she was already intensely devoted long before she and Brittany ever made things official. They did everything backwards, honestly: first they fell in love, then they made love without calling it that, then they said “I love you,” then they started dating, then they went official, then they finally held hands and really started letting how much they liked each other show, and finally, they broke up even though they were still in love with each other. Santana could live a thousand years and never have an experience like that again, she’s sure.

So despite her uncertainty, she decides to give things a shot with Dani, crossing her fingers and hoping that maybe—best case scenario—Dani could end up being her “Sam.”

But as discussed in the original ask, that’s not really what happens.

Instead, Santana’s lack of readiness to be with Dani manifests as her emotionally withholding from the Dantana relationship. Though she enjoys Dani’s company in a superficial way, she never allows herself to be truly vulnerable with her or to talk to her about what really matters. She always maintains a level of separation, subconsciously waiting around for Dani to do something to screw things up between them.

—which is what Dani eventually does when she conspires with Kurt to kick Santana out of Pamela Lansbury and then refuses to take Santana’s side against Rachel in the feud.

To someone who was truly invested in the relationship, such a slight would probably not be insurmountable. Santana and Dani could talk through their differences and resolve to do better in the future. They could likely reconcile.

But to Santana, who is on a subconscious level looking for any and every reason to bail, Dani’s “betrayal” is enough to scare her off—and especially once she learns that Brittany is suddenly available to her again.

It’s not at all a hard decision for Santana to end the Dantana relationship and go right back to Brittany, considering that she was never ready to date Dani to begin with. Honestly, it comes as a relief to her that in the end everything plays out the way it does.

Thanks for the question!

#Crazy Brittanalyst answers #tryingtoohardddd

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