Severely neglected component of modernish rockstar Eddie fics is Robin deciding to become an internet hater for Eddie. Like she finds out Eddie is semi/famous and is like "oh, you know what'll be hilarious?" And makes a twitter account dedicated to dissing him. You cannot convince me she wouldn't. Eddie knows she runs the account (it's not even negative it's just to rag on him. Tweets like "Eddie Munson seems like the kind of guy who would tell his friend he'll get her dr pepper and then get some bullshit knockoff. What the hell is a peppo" and "Eddie Munson has probably gotten so distracted by his SO that he walked into a wall and then was still so distracted said SO thought he was concussed." Or "Jeff is actually the best member of CC Eddie probably walked on cafeteria tables in HS" And of course "everybody says I hate on Eddie too much but they don't know he woke his SOs bff up just to ask if there was any peppo left. Twice.") But he can't do anything about it. It's a bit of a meme, because the account never says anything actually mean about Eddie, or his music. Just. Bizarre hypotheticals. (They are not hypothetical)

People are like "how do you feel about EddieMunsonh8r at twitter dot com"

And he has to grit his teeth and say people can have their own opinions about him, ignoring the fact that Robin was literally sitting beside him poking him when she tweeted earlier that day about him wiggling his fingers and saying he'd like to have a little morsel (in reference to cheezies).

When asked why she does it she just says "to keep him humble. And also it's funny to see if people believe he would do this stuff."

Gareth proposes one of them make an account like that about Steve, semi famous stuntman who's doing some more acting now, and the next day Robin tweets "CC seems like the kid of guys who'd make a fake hater account about Steve and use actually silly billy things he does as content" (Jeff tattled)(Eddie groaned)(Steve and Robin cackled)

“You toil still in service to men. Your father, your husband, your son. You desire not to be free, but to make a window in the wall of your prison. Have you never imagined yourself on the Iron Throne?”

A couple of things:

1)  Alicent is a queen consort and is a Hightower by birth, so no, she cannot imagine herself on the Iron Throne, because Targaryen succession does not work like that. This is basic knowledge that 5-year-olds would presumably be expected to know, and I am astounded and embarrassed that Rhaenys, with her age and experience, lacks this fundamental bit of common sense.

2) Alicent has been the functional regent of Westeros for the past six years. In the previous episode, we see her actively governing the realm and overseeing all royal matters (while Rhaenyra sits on her ass with her loser husband in Dragonstone). We also literally hear Vaemond tell Rhaenys “It’s not a king who sits the Iron Throne these days, good sister. It’s the queen”, so I can assure you, Rhaenys, that Alicent has physically sat on the Iron Throne just fine. She lacks authority, obviously, as she is the consort and not the king, but she certainly did not and does not lack power, to say nothing about influence. This ridiculous show, however, does not seem to be able to differentiate these terms.

3) Does this show not understand that Alicent installing her son as King is not just beneficial to him (which the show acknowledges) but also directly beneficial to her? This is a patriarchal and patrimony-inclined world; Alicent’s son being King would not only mean immense prestige for her family; it would also mean the ultimate peak of power and influence for her (which we see her unapologetically wield in the books). In Westeros, we see Visenya Targaryen supporting her brother and her son’s kingship rather than angling for the throne in her own right, and wielding absolute power and authority in their reigns. Historically, Empress Matilda (the female claimant to the throne in the Anarchy, the war this story is based off) relinquished her claim in favor of her son, Henry II, presumably because she recognized he stood a better chance at gaining the throne (which he did) and continuing her legacy. Joanna of Flanders, who literally wore armor and led troops into battle, did it to support the cause of her husband in direct opposition to the claim of his niece. Yet according to this show’s logic, every single woman who has fought for their fathers and brothers and husbands and sons subscribes to internalized misogyny rather than, idk, supporting their families and gaining power, security and status in the process. Not to mention, Alicent relinquishing her children’s claim and stepping aside would not only be utterly humiliating and degrading for her from a political and personal standpoint, but also legitimately life-threatening for her children and her family. More competent writers would understand that she did not have much of a choice.

4) “You desire not to be free but make a window in the wall of your prison” is the MOST SICKENING PIECE OF VICTIM-BLAMING BULLSHIT I have ever heard in a long, long time. Alicent was a teenager when she had to marry the much-older King (her best friend’s own father) because of his desire for her. He repeatedly raped her and forced at least four pregnancies on her that she did not want. She was utterly isolated at court after her marriage, lacking comfort and friends (including Rhaenyra, who abandoned Alicent for three years after learning that she was being made to marry her father and, based on the comments she made, did not even stop to consider the awfulness of Alicent’s predicament). She had to endure the humiliation of her father being fired and made to leave court, leaving her even more alone than she previously was. She had to endure her husband constantly favoring his firstborn and his grandchildren by his firstborn rather than Alicent’s children who were a direct result of her rape by him. Her son was maimed and bleeding and her husband chose to defend his firstborn’s moronic decisions rather than bring him justice.  She is not a Targaryen, she does not and cannot ride a dragon. WHAT WAS ALICENT SUPPOSED TO EXCEPT TRY AND SURVIVE? HOW ON EARTH IS SHE BEING JUDGED FOR IT?

(And this ridiculously condescending comment is coming from Rhaenys of all people, lmao. A dragon-riding Targaryen who was an actual claimant to the Iron Throne, unlike Alicent. So, what was stopping HER from seizing power, pray tell? After all, she even has the Velaryon forces to back her claim. Instead, in her own words, she made peace with her sidelining. She constantly disagreed with her husband’s ambition regarding her claim and her family’s power. She volunteered her 12-year-old daughter as a child bride for her own aging cousin. The hypocrisy and double standards here is pathetic, and the lack of self-awareness on the part of the show is even worse)

Alicent was legitimately terrified for her children and her family’s lives, and she was entirely justified in doing so: if Rhaenyra ascended the throne, Alicent’s children would inevitably become threats to her whether or not they directly opposed her. This is unavoidable. Look up any historical usurpation, and that’s the inescapable result - and that’s not even going into the fact that Rhaenyra and Daemon are people who are reckless, cruel and indifferent to violence, and would not hesitate to kill any opposition to their reign. The show’s so-called claim that Alicent is upholding the patriarchy falls apart when you consider the fact that this is the only solution that guarantees the security of her children and herself. How is Alicent’s perfectly understandable motivation written as internalized misogyny? 

And moreover, from a writing perspective ... why give her this arc at all? Fire & Blood was badly written, but it doesn’t change the fact that they looked at an ambitious woman who wanted to enhance her power and improve her family’s standing, who directly defied her husband’s wishes in terms of succession in favor of her own, and rewrote this choice into one borne from internalized misogyny. They wrote her as a child bride, a rape victim, an abuse victim and a teen mother and then used this backstory to say that she was conditioned to become the so-called agent of patriarchy (which they do not support with believable evidence) who opposes their so-called feminist protagonist (whose primary enabler is Alicent’s rapist and abuser, btw, not that his abuse is acknowledged nearly enough by the narrative considering how heavily he was romanticized in the last few episodes) It’s a heinous, disrespectful, absolutely terrible writing choice, and I cannot emphasize this nearly enough.

(Oh, and speaking of Rhaenyra, let’s talk about how her queenship solidifies Viserys’s claim over Rhaenys’s. Let’s talk about if she truly cared about women inheriting the Iron Throne - as opposed to just herself - she would have considered this. Let’s talk about how she disregarded the claims of Baela and Rhaena in favour of her son when it came to Driftmark. Rhaenyra is not challenging the patriarchy, her ascension to the Iron Throne will not change anything for anyone except for herself, do not make me laugh by claiming otherwise)

ON TOP OF THIS, the show can’t even decide on a consistent motivation or characterization for Alicent. They repeatedly show us her visceral and justified fear for her children’s lives, which is somehow forgotten in episode eight in favor of her saying that Rhaenyra will be a good queen. Her desire to see her son crowned and thus ensure her children’s safety is disregarded in favor of her actually wanting to fulfil Viserys’s half-baked wishes on his deathbed. They have her say that everyone knows Aegon will be king, and then act surprised when the Green council plots to install him as King. They do not care about Alicent’s personhood and individual character; what they care about is her position as a foil and antagonist to Rhaenyra.

In conclusion: this show sucks. It shows absolutely no understanding regarding the politics of its own world and our medieval history and is a parody and a travesty of respectful storytelling. It has inconsistent and baffling character motivations and downright misogynistic writing, and this is not acknowledged nearly enough by the fandom.

I wrote this about a year or two ago and just realized I never posted it here.

Major spoilers if you haven't read the ORV webnovel obviously.

This took me 2 whole months of nonstop work to finish and is my pride and joy. It's not exactly fanart or fanfiction but I still believe it will be an enjoyable read for anyone who's read the novel.

Here's a small spoiler free expert:

In its entirety ORV is a story about sacrifice, found family, and well, stories. Every major character in ORV, even the ones that weren't touched much on in this essay like Lee Gilyoung or Shin Yoosung, sacrifice something, or many things, for either the sake of the world or just their family. Many times the people around Kim Dokja will attempt to sacrifice themselves before he has a chance, because the scenarios almost always require a sacrifice to defeat them. Kim Dokja knew this and decided to make sure he was the sacrifice every time, and it's only once Kim Dokja is gone that the other characters start to make the big sacrifices themselves. While sacrifice is one of the main themes, the moral is not ‘sacrifices are necessary for a happy life/world.’ It’s actually the opposite: ‘the sacrifice of something loved can never bring the happiness of the people it was sacrificed for.’ Kim Dokja’s family is never happy to be alive, or happy they completed the scenario, after Kim Dokja sacrifices himself for them, the only emotions they feel after are always negative. When sacrifices are made it may seem selfless or necessary to others, but it is always a truly selfish act in the end.

Vickie who?

cassandra could have avoided all of this by bestowing kristen with the ability to cast adderall, a spell which counters executive dysfunction

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(i was checking if the colours would look okay - don’t look at the pants, i’m not even drawing him full body, i was just checking… yet, maybe…)

Definitely tired of just realized we should literally never always change stop using saying about it. I think I don't need to realize literally completely things anymore. I'm ready to have things occur to me that can help or may be useful to adjust. It will be better when I don't see everyone should never always must cannot so much because I do not have the energy for literally you cannot must always, I have the energy for should and consider and recognition.

Girls trip loading . . .

but until then, here's Ronnie just being fine for absolutely no reason at all. She's actually the interior designer that Melo & Monet have hired for their home.

Not Aura's high maintenance ass being overly dramatic in the back. I-😩 like, girl, why are you scared and running. SIT DOWN! Lol.

it is literally 1 AM but i cant stop thinking about minecraft bloodsports so hear ya go

to tired to finish it rn but ill probably color/render tmr 👍

i’m just thinking abt how deeply will feels for mike. and how he’s been hiding behind this mask of anger and disgust bc FOR SOME REASON HE THOUGHT MIKE COULD NEVER AND WOULD NEVER FEEL THAT WAY ABT HIM. he actually loves mike so much it’s all consuming. but he won’t let himself accept that bc he once had hope and he was let down (??????) ((i think it was more likely a misunderstanding bc LETS BE HONEST THEY ARE AWFUL AT COMMUNICATING)) but these feelings he has are so so strong he has to fuel SOMETHING so he fuels his hatred. UNTIL CH4 and now he’s just confused bc he’s gone not trusting mike for so long he doesn’t remember How to feel anything else towards him. all he knows is the stress and frustration and back and forth.

u will all pay for this fic bc holy shit it’s consuming my brain ALMOST as much as mike consumes wills thoughts.

🎤 <- hands you this. you get it. YOU GET IT. all i’m going to say is that there is a reason mike and will are showing emotion and vulnerability in different ways and that was a very intentional choice. you get it.

fuck it *shows you the crimson rivers wips that i haven’t finished*

idk if anyone else would find this interesting, but i'll post it anyway. just for my own purposes, i wanted to visualize what surda's new border might look like after the war with the new cities they acquired. note that the southern islands are also now part of surda.

Daddy noticed me 😱

I don't know how many people are interested in seeing them but I'd like to share my Eggpire oc!

"Vines is a silly guy!! They can't speak very well and prefer to chirp in chiptune. They come equipped with an HL-L2325DW printer which is perfect for posters. They also have litte robot friends to help them spread the good vibes of the eggpire! It is unknown where Vines came from before joining the group, or how they were infected in the first place. However It's rumored they were a creation of Jack's that got loose."

- A little thing I wrote for their toyhouse :3

To Exec: You seem cool! What's your opinions about all the creators that draw Gasters like you mean or abusive? I assume you don't care but it's still interesting to think about it!

[EXEC] OH...?

[EXEC] Thank You For The Compliments.

[EXEC] The Creators Are Beyond My Understanding. Even My Own Maker Is Difficult To Decipher. I Cannot Give An Opinion On That Which I Do Not Understand.

[EXEC] But From My Observations, It Seems My Creator Seems To Fawn Over Most Gasters, Regardless Of Moral Alignment. From This, I Assume That There Are Still Some Positives That Shine Through Their 'Negativity'.

[EXEC] Does That Satisfy You...

[* He pauses. Then he peers at the name a bit more closely. For some reason, it amuses him.]

[EXEC] Hoho. I Hope That Answer Satisfies You, 'Anonymous'.

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Thank you for the question, anon! (Not sure why Exec finds that so funny)

Got a question? Ask Imi & OCs!

Even if the Fire Nation did decide to do a arranged marriage with a Fire Nation Royal marrying a Water Tribe Member, wouldn’t it be more likely for them to pair Azula with Sokka?

Azula is a Spare to the Throne so no racists could argue “The Heir isn’t Fire Nation enough”. Sokka is the eldest of Hakoda’s children and the only male child of any of the water Tribe leaders. (We do see the fire Nation has implied sexism.)

Plus from what we see of the Royal marriages, only Ozai, a Spare, got put into a arranged marriage. Though it can be argued that this was favoritism.

The favoritism thing is EXACTLY why I think that, in an AU where the "lesser" kid marries to someone of a "lesser" people, ZUKO would likely be the one to have an arranged marriage. Even though the Fire Nation seems to favor sons over daughters, Ozai clearly favors the prodigy child, aka Azula, so he is not having HER marry someone unworthy of his real heir.

And even if she WAS treated like "the spare" - that still doesn't make her less of a princess. A princess of a very elitist, racist nation. A princess that called Katara, Sokka's sister, a PEASANT even though she's the daughter of a chieftain, implying the Fire Nation doesn't even see that as real authority. Plus, in the terrible state the South Pole was in, the Fire Nation could EASILY just kill all the 30 people left and put a flag in an ice-berg to say "This land belongs to us now!"

Compare that her mother: a very high-born girl (because remember, Roku was treated as worthy enough to be friends with the freaking prince loooong before he was revealed to be the Avatar), a FIRE NATION CITIZEN, and descendent of someone who, despite being public enemy number one now, was treated as a freaking messiah. COMPLETELY different from "Eldest child of a ruler the Fire Nation doesn't even see as legitimate."

In that context, there's just NO WAY any marriage between these two nations is happening. The very suggestion of it would be seen as an insult to the Fire Nation royalty because HOW DARE someone say they'd need to make any kind of alliance with those barbarians?

As for Iroh and his supposed privilege of not needing an arranged marriage, that is just not something the show ever explicitly stated or hinted at. We have exactly zero info on Lu Ten's mom other than "she existed and isn't around anymore" and even WHY she seems to be long gone is not explained.

Was she the love of Iroh's life and tragically died shortly after giving birth? Was she just a noble lady that he never really bonded with or cared for, and was then allowed to leave once she did her job of giving the future Fire Lord an heir? Was she a pretty, humble girl with no status, money or political influence, whom Iroh had a one-night stand with and would have forgotten about completely if she had not gotten pregnant from said one night stand?

The writers gave us nothing. At most we can assume that, based on the network, target audience, and time it was made, she likely was married to Iroh at some point. And considering how royalty tends to work, it was either an arranged marriage for political benefit OR a Zuko and Mai situation of "As long as you pick someone with enough status (and from the correct nation of course), choose whatever girl you like best."

Again, with how the Fire Nation seems to depose/kill the rulers of the territories they invade and replace them with nobility of their own nation, a marriage between one of their royals and a foreigner (be the pair Zuko and Katara, Zuko and Yue, Azula and Sokka, Lu Ten and some Earth Kingdom princess, etc) is just not in the realm of possibility outside of fanworks that drastically change how they do things.