amazed it’s been a month of rwrb already.

the film is such a delightful 2000s style romcom (the same kind i grew up devouring, only now its queer !! imagine!) and there isnt a scene i don’t love and i’m still discovering new things about it.

i can’t deny that i wish we could’ve had a different experience with promo but what we have got has been so wonderful that i’m happy with it & hopefully a sequel will mean a proper go of it with sensible working conditions for all.

id also just like to say im very grateful for everyone who’s supported/enjoyed/reblogged my nerding out/learning posts.

(just gonna shill it - heres the main contents page post where we learnt about things referenced in the book (+1 from the film) including the music of the book & film, and my recent quote analysis post)

i’m also so grateful to the talented gif makers & edit makers who spend their energy creating. you’re an integral part of fandoms and i think it’s important to recognise that.

look. as someone who’s autistic and horrible at social interactions, there is nothing more glorious than the boop. everyone should have access to a boop at all times.

AYRTON SENNA, RICCARDO PATRESE & ELIO DE ANGELIS being interviewed at an airport before the 1985 SOUTH AFRICAN GRAND PRIX

Thoughts on the Alysanne is Maegor's daughter AU? I feel like it has some interesting potential, and it vastly recontextualizes different parts of Jaehaehae (I do not like him sjsjsjs) and Alysanne's relationship (such as Jaehaehae's treatment of their daughters) but I wanna hear what you think about it!

I’ve touched on this a bit before but since you actually want to hear my thoughts, allow me to present to you my Jaehaerys Is The Goddamn Worst, And Alysanne Annoys Me Too: An Essay lmao but my answer is basically “yeah all of what you just said.”

I think it makes Alysanne much more palatable (to me) as a character because as she stands, she just fixates on forcing her daughters through these fucked up marriages at too young an age bc it traumatized her to be married and pregnant at 15 too but she’d never admit that being a willing participant in her own kidnapping by her brother-husband was the single worst thing that ever happened to her, and because Alysanne doesn’t want to admit it (and Jaehaerys would never see it as wrong or a mistake) F&B really shies away from delving into the fact that Alysanne is as deranged of a mother as Cersei is. So as she stands, she’s very flat to me because she’s presented very flatly and inconsistently. She’s so in love with Jaehaerys, she’s maritally raped by Jaehaerys, she’s a loving and doting mother, she forces her daughters into marriages when they’re the same too young age she was, she accuses her teenage girls of being scheming whores then gets angry when her husband accuses their teenage girls of being scheming whores, and worst of all we are just told “Maegelle tells them to make up so they do” so we don’t know why Alysanne gets over all of this. What is the point of riding a dragon when you never use that dragon to protect your daughters from unwanted teen marriages? We’re just not given a good enough justification for why her behavior is so weird and frustrating towards her daughters.

Make her Maegor’s daughter though…most of her behavior as an adult makes more sense. Like a worse version of Rhaenyra’s childhood almost - a father desperate for a son, but lowkey obsessed with his daughter, who makes all his hang ups about his parents the problems of every woman around him, except Maegor is out here blood sacrificing and torturing and starting wars and forcing babies on wives he discards quickly and brutally. Then here comes Jaehaerys on a white horse green dragon to save her from the horror her life has become, and he loves her so much he runs away with her even though Alyssa says they shouldn’t marry because people won’t like it. And they have beautiful children, and a beautiful marriage, and build a beautiful kingdom.

Then her pregnancies start getting dangerous. Gaemon, then Valerion, die. Alysanne thinks of the shriveled up mutants she called brothers, if Maegor’s taint has passed to her. Her perfect husband ignores her no, and forces Gael on her. Alysanne remembers that he said nothing to Rogar when Alyssa died, merely wept. Then her daughters start to die. Daella, Alyssa, Viserra, all within a few years. Then Jaehaerys makes Saera watch as he murders her boyfriend, calls her a whore, and says Alysanne cannot follow Saera to Lys. Alysanne thinks of Maegor torturing the Harroways over Alys’ presumed infidelity. Jaehaerys says he’s sorry, and her daughter badgers her into forgiving him, and she remembers how she helped Jaehaerys badger Alyssa into forgiving Rogar. Not two years later, Jaehaerys passes over Rhaenys. Alysanne thinks of how she was never enough for her father, how she felt so superior to Rhaena banished to Dragonstone and resented by Aerea, yet there she is dragging Gael away from court because she can’t stand to be with Jaehaerys. How her father was surrounded by dead women and dead babies and how Jaehaerys is surrounded by his own dead daughters, but surely she did the right thing, surely Maegor was worse, surely the realm is better off? Is he right to pass over Rhaenys? Is she enabling a man just as monstrous as her father? She will never decide, because Maegelle will guilt her about keeping Gael isolated at Dragonstone, and Alysanne will do as she’s told, just like Rhaena, and Alyssa, and Jeyne, Elinor, Ceryse, Alys, and Tyanna, just like every one of her daughters.

I do get why Alysanne is Alyssa & Aenys’ and not Maegor’s. The weird Targ babies, the line not descending from Visenya, Jaehaerys and Alysanne being held up as the perfect Targaryen couple specifically because they are brother and sister and dragon riders. I do even think canon Alysanne is likely traumatized by her time as a hostage on Dragonstone, and the ensuing war, and the trauma bond that caused with Jaehaerys, and it makes her idolize Jaehaerys, and then he isolates her at Dragonstone so he can swiftly and safely marry, groom, and knock her up. It’s not like,,,, a fun time, and it’s enough to make anyone crazy and weird about their daughters, but I think having her father be Maegor makes Alysanne herself much deeper because it gives her, as the most beloved Targaryen queen, a blood tie to the most hated Targaryen king, and a marriage to the most beloved Targaryen king. It fits better with a lot of the themes of the main series (again, imo) - forcing the spotlight on the outsiders to see how the affect the story from behind the scenes. The fall of Aegon’s sons, and The Long Reign, not told from the PoV or to serve the PoV of any of the kings or princes, but of the queen that tied them all together.

and also.... sometimes... if a post is in arabic and left untranslated... consider the fact that if you can't read it maybe it's not for you <3

do you see my vision

I WALK A LITTLE FASTER

I feel like Robbie Taylor Hunt, the intimacy coordinator on the film, took a jab at CMBYN here and he’s not wrong.

Alain: I am NEVER dating Ayrton ever again.

Elio bored: Not only did he do that again, but it ended the exact same way and he still had the audacity to act surprised.

Alain: Elio, shut up!😠

La Strega in Amore (1966) / Todo Modo (1976)

hellooo

casey’s substack from this week about the pairing has planted worms in my brain & i ended up writing a 2000 word post about it. partly about the contents of their post & partly about being nonbinary & seeing yourself in fiction. and how the reviewer is clearly cis lol.

anyway, if you missed casey’s post it’s here

and here is a link to mine if you want to give it a read

no mom i can't talk right now i'm busy rewatching my favourite middle-aged men kiss each other for the 89th time

oh i see the ref of arche hehe he looks amaziiing and oh i love the little detail that his little moon hoop above his head changes colour to his moods... oh so im guessing its very much dark blue right now when he switches.. i see that angry face ref hehe i love how intresting his detail is ^.^

Ehehehe tysm!! :DDD Im still trying to decide how I want their merged form to look.. Ive got this idea rn where elio's rays make up his halo, or where his halo is broken so it looks like horns?? I cant decide! SOB

I need more hoshi x male reader :/ can anyone of yall write something?

Don’t speak about the moon spirit like that. >:(

i can have a normal day and suddenly at 3 AM while I wait for melatonin to kick in i get another epiphany but I'm also left groveling on the ground cause of said epiphany