NO WAY is the Obey Me “horror” soundtrack inspired by/practically is the Guilty Alice soundtrack??? I know both games were produced by the same developer, but hearing it in Obey Me brings nostalgia 💕
And I’m upset now because I miss Guilty Alice from when it was a beautiful stand-alone app>:(
I want to stay optimistic, but I don't have much faith that the HOTD writers will go through with any of the messages in the Dance aside from misogyny. Obviously, misogyny plays a big role in the Dance because it is the means to and end for the Greens, but the way the show focuses on this to favor Rhaenyra's claim and rule and this sort of diminishes the complexity of the story. By making it so that one side rightful, righteous, chosen by some divine powers, etc., etc. and one side that is perverse and corrupted and only there for greed, it takes away from one of the most important lessons in the Dance: Targaryens are not a divine superior race that should be exempt from the rage of common men that suffer at the cost of them.
(Also, ik ambition was a major motivator for the Greens in the books, but the books didn't try to frame Rhaenyra's right to the throne as God-given)
You might have already guessed, but the part of the dance I anticipated the most was Targaryens who perceive themselves to be divine and superior take the realm to shit fighting over a throne that neither of them actually deserve. They fight at the cost of everything and lose everything for a throne that neither of them keep for long because they are both inadequate rulers that rely heavily on their respective councils. When they make decisions on their own, their nearly equal incompetence shows because Aegon's choices are emotional and stupid and Rhaenyra's are paranoid and stupid. These are the people that cause the death of the dragons.
It feels like the show is trying to appeal to those stans that bend over backwards to defend their fave tyrants and believe the throne is a rightful possession of the Targaryens.
Toxic yuri is actually when you swear revenge on your sister-in-law who rose from the dead for destroying your country even though you murdered her to be queen. then you spend the next 500 years plotting her demise and she also fights you because you want to destroy the world and she wants to stop it but then you find out that she is actually The God majority of the world worships but she doesn't know and your whole purpose in existing is to destroy said god. then you topple the kingdom she fights for and murder her friends just to fuck with her. you also possess her body for a while, then you possess the daughter of one of her dead friends. she murders your 14 year old son. you duel and then suddenly you two are in the same body with one other woman and the three of you form a separate consciousness. a few centuries later your soul gets put in a doll and there's some guy pretending you're his daughter that you're really attached to. then she comes and murders him. afterwards, she destroys the world. disappointed, you try to go back in time to make things right but you get stuck in a time loop where you are the previous queen of your home country and she & her brother, who are the country's gods, deceive and take advantage of you by pretending to be your parents. then they destroy your country and then your soul fuses with your other self and then- *time loop* *time loop* *time loop* *time loop*
send me requests based on “guilty as sin?” or any other taylor song (especially the new album) RIGHT. NOW.
holy shit yall, if i get one more edit on my fyp with that song over a character i love im gonna lose my mind, its 100% my favorite on the album and now im hyperfixated and i wanna write
here’s my list of characters if you have any ideas for any of them!