Season 3 Episode 1 spoilers!

I have lost my mind. So this scence right

Shadow tossed Sonic out of that shatterspace to save him from Nine. To. To stop Nine from getting his energy.

And then Shadow had no way to escape, and hes stuck there, and he goes into The Pit™️

He left himself there alone to fight Nine’s robots- and be stuck alone with Nine- to keep Sonic safe. To save Sonic.

My guy sacrificed himself for Sonic. They. Care about eachother. So much.

Sole Observer

—Jom. Can you stay tonight and scratch my back like you said you would? That's all. I won't do anything else to you. I promise.

I FEEL YOU LINGER IN THE AIR 💮 Episode 6

You lack conviction.

ONCE MORE FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

FUCK FABLE

This is so bad for me

I’m rereading the Shinjuku battle cause the first, second and third time I was too busy looking at Gojo’s fine self to read the words.

I will love this page forever. So eloquent. Idk what Gojo’s doing but I agree.

This one too. They’re both such huge fucking nerds and weirdos

I just watched the Making of Percy Jackson, and boy, am I emotional. No joke, it brought tears to my eyes.

The love and dedication that went into making this show is just so apparent, from the directors to the actors to the set designers to the acting coaches. I love that they had Rick invovled in every aspect. I love that so many people involved seemed to be geniune fans of the books and care a great deal about creating this show. Say what you will about the adaption, I know some people have various feelings about it. But it is overtly clear that every decision in the show came from a place of utmost respect to the original books.

Percy is still the same brave, sassy, clever kid who tends to leap before he looks (or looks and then leaps anyways) and who has a distain for the gods and will be loyal to his friends and his family no matter the cost and is just looking for a place to belong.

Annabeth is still the same intelligent, caring, skilled kid who is always thinking ten steps ahead of everyone else and who's struggles to form connections and feel accepted and who can either think or just punch her way out of any situation.

Grover is the same kind, empathetic, strong kid (young man) who wants harmony above all else (both with nature and between people he cares about), and who does things even when he's terrified to help those he loves and whose sense of right and wrong is like a compass to everyone around him.

And what really got me emotional when watching this was the way they all talked about Rick's books. About how he wrote them for his son, who was struggling to fit in so he could have a hero who looked like him. I think that's what drew us all to these books. The complex, beautiful characters who'd all seen so many hardships but were able to push past them and become heroes. I think we all related to these characters in some way and were thrilled to see them succeed in the fascinating setting of Greek mythology.

I read this book when it first came out 18 years ago. I was the same age as Percy. I can tell you exactly where I was when I read the first book and how it pulled me in instantly. I've reread all of these books on a regular basis ever since. It's truly a core part of my personality at this point.

Were there parts of the show that I had envisioned differently? Yes. Are there some moments I feel sad that they left out or changed? Yes.

But there's also things I'm glad they added and changes that make total sense to me. It's been so long since those books came out, and I'm sure Rick had some changes he's always thought about making (any author would, I think).

In the end, I think the most important thing is that I felt the same feelings watching the show as I did reading the book all those years ago. I saw a character who'd been told he didn't fit in and felt like a burden for his entire life come into his own and blossom into a hero on our screens. And honestly, that's all I could have hoped for.

rewatching the boy as a palate cleanser after the indescribable disappointment that was the boy II

The new Prime ep got me tormented by blorbo thoughts

(Ok but like…. Shadow was created to help and save… to save the world and he’s not allowed to! It won’t let him do what he believes what he is supposed to do and how absolutely frustrating and enraging that has to be. And then to see the person who IS supposed to save the world isn’t taking it seriously, it has to feel like you’re being mocked.)

just watched the first episode of prehistoric planet. these bitches were looking at the same moon as us

okay. i took a nap and i'm less upset about the whole thing now. but i still don't get the whole "izzy had to die so that ed could let go of blackbeard" idea. because izzy's spent the past couple episodes distancing himself from the blackbeard persona too! what does his death do that some distance and a healthy conversation couldn't? especially if ed's an innkeeper now and izzy goes off with the crew, in which case they wouldn't see each other much anyway

finished reading Sacred and Terrible air, i am not okay what even was that

have any more steddisy thoughts? being a steddisy shipper is rough 😔

oh always!!! I love the idea of them all essentially living in Steve's house over the summer. My fave dynamic for steddissy is hellcheer dating and Steve slowly, very confusedly becoming part of their relationship. I've been thinking about the little pockets of time that they would have overlapping. For example: Chrissy falls asleep the earliest out of all of them, usually on the couch after a long shift at a sales counter followed by catching the evening sun. So Eddie carries her to bed (this is not very smooth. she almost drops out of his arms a couple of times and steve is definitely swearing at him and following them up the stairs with his arms out as a spotter). So then Eddie and Steve climb up on the roof to share a spliff and talk.

But then Steve is an early riser (he has trouble sleeping) so he's up in the smaller hours, maybe getting ready for work alongside Chrissy. They share a coffee together and he makes them a quick breakfast, and then Steve drops Chrissy at work and everyone Chrissy works with thinks they're dating.

I just think like. Chrissy is at work so Steve is Eddie's passenger princess for a drug deal on the way to grocery store to pick up more marshmallows for the bonfire they're gonna have that night. Chrissy comes home to Eddie and Steve covered in grease and fixing some weird noise that Eddie's van is making.

Chrissy and Eddie having whispered midnight conversations that somehow always lead to Steve. Eddie very tenderly confessing his attraction to Steve and Chrissy in return confessing the first crush she ever had on a girl in middleschool. Just like. Eddie figuring out why he wants to be in Steve's space all the time and Steve leaning away from him less and less. Um. Hot days in the pool and making each other laugh and sharing clothes. Chrissy in her little green bikini waiting until Eddie goes inside for something and turning to Steve with the sunscreen and a sweet little "could you please get my back?" and Steve falling harder every day for both of them and refusing to examine his own feelings.

This started off as inventory management because Vittara's backpack is always on the border of encumbered, she has far too many arrows and alchemy ingredients and potions

But it got me thinking of the first time the group is looting and she comes across a pretty ring with a red stone

Tosses it to Astarion with a "Fangs, look, this matches your eyes" and he catches it out of reflex and is. Baffled. Why isn't she selling it? Gods know they need gold. Beyond that, the thoughtful kindness behind it - so casually and freely given - has him off balance. No one's done that for him, given him something pretty (and oh does he like the pretty things) without expecting anything in return

He's so annoyed.

Till eventually he's in charge of holding on to all the party's gold. She trusts him to just... keep it and not run off with or frivolously spend it

And because she notices - of course she does - she starts sending all the pretty things his way. "Astarion, could you please hold on to these, I don't have space in my pack" except it's a pile of ornate jewelry that would fit perfectly if she just took out a few of those ridiculous bluecap mushrooms ("but they're good eating!" she whines when he points it out)

Worse? She keeps using it for him. Fusses over his armor. When he complains about the color, she buys dyes to his taste (and then teases him by making everyone else match him). She just does it... because she wants to? How does that make sense? Just how naive and foolish is she?

(she's so bloody frustrating. why does she care so much? what is she playing at? he squints at her with suspicion as the campfire lights her skin gold, and then she looks up at him and smiles, her mouth stained pink with raspberries, and something softens within him)

Hi! So it’s rumoured that we might expect the show about the Conquerors so there’s one thing I’m interested in

Could Visenya’s motivation for pushing Maegor towards the throne, mocking Aenys at every turn and claiming he’s weak, and her falling out with Aegon to the point that they couldn’t even stay at the same residence been motivated by the fact that Aegon married Rhaenys?

It’s said he married Visenya for duty and Rhaenys for love. But we aren’t given details of their weddings. It could be Aegon married Visenya first as tradition dictated, but then Aegon chose to or was seduced by Rhaenys into taking her as a second wife? Visenya might not love Aegon, but him insulting her like that surely could motivate her into betrayal?

First things first: HBO, I've said this before and I'll say it again, I am willing to work for very little money and I know I'd make a good show, just give me this, I can do it right the Conquerors are my babies.

I think it's entirely possible, since we know next to nothing about the inner workings of the Conquerors' brains, but I'll be honest, if that were an actual plot I'd find it a bit lazy. There are very few tropes that feel as tired to me as "woman scorned" and given how interesting these characters have the potential to be, it would just seem to me like the easiest way out. Yes, there's a reading where Visenya feels insulted that Aegon loved someone else more than her and prioritized that relationship, and that's a perfectly acceptable headcanon to have and I'm not here to knock on anyone's theories (and this is all theorizing because of the dearth of information we have), but as a writer, I find it a bit basic, and I'm not entirely sure it holds up to scrutiny. Visenya never exhibits any sign that she is insulted by Rhaenys and Aegon's marriage, or that she bears either of them any ill will. She fights by their sides during the Conquest, she crowns Aegon as king herself, she's comfortable sharing administrative duties with Rhaenys, she's just as upset as Aegon was when Rhaenys died, and she specifically is the one who creates the Kingsguard to protect Aegon. And when Aegon dies, she doesn't ever actually try to challenge Aenys's authority as king, she respects him as a ruler and never mounts any challenges (especially poignant when it's so clear that if Maegor and Visenya really wanted Aenys gone, they could do that, they have the two most powerful dragons in the world at their command), and she does try to actually help and advise him. She badmouths Aenys, yes, but only once he's king and long after Aegon's dead, and it seems that's more motivated by genuine issues she has with Aenys's personality than any old hurts that are making her be vindictive or petty.

The thing is, the change in Aegon and Visenya's relationship really seems to have been motivated by Rhaenys's death, not her introduction into the marriage. Visenya, according to all the records we have, appears to have been perfectly fine with Rhaenys being Aegon's wife as well, and with Aegon's clear preference for Rhaenys as a romantic and sexual partner. It's only after Rhaenys dies and the First Dornish War comes to an end that it's apparently becoming clear to chroniclers that Aegon and Visenya are drifting apart. And to me, that reads more like it was what happened to Rhaenys specifically that altered the course of that relationship. Grief is a very powerful thing and it can either bring the people affected closer together or tear them apart with its intensity. And these two were absolutely grieving, they lost their baby sister unexpectedly and violently and clearly weren't handling it in the most healthy way, considering that their coping mechanism was "burn an entire subcontinent to the ground over and over with indiscriminate rage for two years". It seems like Rhaenys operated, in some capacity, as the glue holding their family together, considering how she's described as kindhearted and well liked and just a good person to be around, in stark contrast to Visenya's sternness and Aegon's reserved introversion. So when she died, you've got two people, who have a cooler relationship with each other than they had with her, who are feeling very strong emotions that they cannot handle very well and are heavily internalizing, and it resulted in them drifting further and further from each other in the years to come (especially on Aegon's part, considering how clear it is that he never got over Rhaenys). That's likely part of what motivated Visenya's own strong attachment to Maegor and her decisions to prioritize her own line over the laws and customs of Westeros and to do the things that she did, no matter how "evil" they might be.

My own theory is, as I've mentioned, that Visenya was a lesbian (or at least a woman attracted to other women) and was jealous of Aegon for having Rhaenys, rather than the historical narrative implying the opposite, and part of her issues with Aegon getting so bad was how Aegon ended the war and their chance to avenge Rhaenys without even consulting her. Mostly because Rhaenys and Visenya's relationship is very important to me, ASOIAF needs more gay characters, and there's a lot that can be played with in the idea that the taboo involved isn't even the incest but simple same sex attraction, and how that factors into the Valyrian culture vs. Westerosi culture debate and how the Targaryens operated in their early years. @ HBO, I'm right here, I'm free and available.

TL;DR, it's certainly possible, but it doesn't seem like Visenya was bothered by Rhaenys entering the marriage or viewed it as a betrayal, and the catalyst for how bad things got with Aegon and Visenya and how it bled over into the succession was Rhaenys's death, not Rhaenys's involvement with Aegon.