#of effort into helping growing

[reachforthestars-101]

Me seeing a new anime: wow can't wait to see all the fandom arts and creations!

Me checking tumblr: 3 art pieaces some text posts and the rest just manga pages images from show or gifs directly from the show mostly of ppl pointing out where it stand in their top 10

Wich valid if ppl aren't interested they are not and you can't make ppl interested in creating stuff if they are not

It's just a lil sad and lonely in some anime fandoms..

#anime #crunchyroll #isakai #anime shows #anime show #I now wonder if #I didnt have my lwa #sideblog and put a lot #of effort into helping growing #the fandom #and others helping too ofc #would it have ended the same? #something so precious to me #would just be lost to the fate of time #like the rest gone to obscurity #not even a few very dedicated #fans on this website #cause they would just be so #alone they would move on.. #my post

[oatbugs]

everyone will always be haunted by what they are and i believe it is far more beneficial to embrace the haunting (as long as it isn't derailing your life or others') than to strive to be a truly "balanced" person. the idea of someone who is truly equalised to the point of utter harmony is an essentially unachievable thing imo

#too nice/kind/giving and you neglect yourself. focus on yourself and you neglect others #you love things too much and it consumes you. not enough and you are numb. meditate too much and you neglect life #not enough and life neglects you. speak your mind and you are sometimes abrasive. dont and you will sometimes be a pushover #etc etc. overly academic or too unconcerned. is politics your life to the point where you ignore the small mundane things around you? #are you so unconcerned with politics that you end up unaware of critical factors that harm or help your environment #like obviously not everyone is imbalanced in everything ever but #there is at least something at least one thing (and likely many more) that haunts everyone yk #and like. i think w some of these things as long as the haunting doesnt harm you to the point of derailing your life etc its...ok to be #haunted. or else you risk no longer being who you are. change and growth are essential but sometimes when youre upset you still say things #you dont mean or when you feel in love with your friends you offer to pay for their coffee even if you dont have money. you can fluctuate #and.change and grow but sometimes its ok to be haunted by who u are. #like i think the idea of being truly in harmony as a final destination for ur being is essentially bs. why would the monks spend their lives #meditating? its an active effort yk. #youre at the dj booth. youre tuning the violin every time you play. youre constantly adjusting your glasses.

[starredforlife]

If you fucking morons cared one ounce as much for palestine as you do for this horrid little show.

#SO YOU CAN ORGANIZE. #i am sick to death of people who love media more than real human people #I hope this show gets erased from streaming platforms and I hope everyone who donated to this instead of relief for an ongoing genocide- #-never feels anything but a deep sense of shame forever #ofmd renewal #star’s stuff #dl #HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTIONS DONT NEED YOUR FUCKING MONEY. #I’m sorry but also like. people just around you are suffering to. can you imagine what this 20k would do for a local food pantry #*too #it’s not so much where people’s individual money is going but it is. it’s the priorities. it’s the effort. #somehow your entertainment matters more to you and this is what you prioritize #y’all are sick in the heart genuinely #you all need to grow up and learn how to write and draw for yourselves to make what you wanna see instead of wasting your fucking money #commission an artist or fic writer with this money. you are doing more to help a fellow human out that way!! #and you get it tailored exactly to what you want without doing the work #AN AVERAGE OF $33 PER PERSON. holllyyyyyy SHIT

[klaeus]

so tired of seeing commissioned work not credited properly. if someone made literally all the graphics for your account, credit should be somewhere in your pinned. someone made you a promo? credit should be linked in the post. credit should always be given and be clearly visible, not buried somewhere in your carrd.

#not about any of my moots. just a growing trend i've seen and im sick of it #idk if ppl think it's different bc they paid for stuff to be made rather than using free templates or something #but that creator still spent time and effort making it and that should be recognized :/ #and while this is less important it also helps get the brand out there too; help get the creator more clients #just for the love of pete take 2 seconds to credit properly 😩 #ooc. #tbd. #vent / #negative /

[yutaleks]

Hi aleks, sometimes I feel like, no one wants to connect on this social media site? Idk. The like to rb ratio is depressing. I mean, I’m grateful that people are liking my posts. But like. I wanna hear what they think too, ya know?

not sure if you are a writer im guessing from the wording of this ask that you are. but I think it's a bit hard these days to get the level of interaction that you may be asking for

depending on what fandom youre in or what character youre posting about or what trope youre writing etc etc the size of the audience will change. like I already know in my mind if im writing something that is more geared towards stereotypical heteronormative relationships that will get much more interaction than something that is subversive. or if im writing a fic for a popular character that will get much more interactions than a not so popular one.

But at the same time, coming from someone who used to write for a very popular character, I have to say that the grass is not always greener? As in, I think there is a difference between quantity and quality of interactions. If im writing something that I know a core base of people who follow me will like, I know I will most likely get at least some sort of interaction from people who typically enjoy that content. I find that interaction to be more meaningful, especially if it's something I enjoy talking about. vs, if I write something with a bigger 'audience', perhaps there will be more reblogs but the back and forth interaction does not happen. that person will read the fic, reblog or leave a comment, and then be on their way. It does not create this relationship where you end up having a back and forth conversation or becoming mutuals or anything like that (at least, in my experience).

Like if I post a fic that EYE enjoy, and I get ten comments from lovely people, that means more to me than a hundred interactions on a fic I didn't put my whole dick into. ya know?

idk where im going with this. I guess I wanna say if you are passionate about something, and you receive even a few bits of feedback, that will feel so much more rewarding than trying to 'chase' the feedback by writing things you think others will enjoy. and I think too that people will be able to tell when you are writing something that you feel passionate about.

im of the opinion that you can't force people to reblog and interact with your work. ive seen every excuse under the sun for why people wont reblog. but I think if someone feels as passionate about something as you do, they will overcome whatever shyness they feel to come tell you that they appreciate what you are doing

#idk if what I said makes any sense but #I think coming into Tumblr as a writer its okay to want a better rb to like ratio but don't feel discouraged #there is a lot stacked against you right now #no one that I know uses the tags anymore cause they are full of spam #so sometimes the fics that appear on the dashboard are just mutuals reblogging each other. and as a newbie those circles are hard to get in #so someone with no writer mutuals and no following... their posts wont be seen by anyone with significant pull/reach #I would say that I think 'bigger' writers on here should at least try every once and a while to peek into the tags and boost writers #that are new / starting out and making genuine efforts to write #I wont explain but I think when you've been on here long enough you can tell who is posting in the tags for 'Tumblr clout' and who I postin #fic bc they genuinely are passionate about it #but I know most writers on here only read whatever they see on their dash #if people actually stopped spamming the tags with nonsense and the tags were more useable I think we would all use them more... ironic #anyway. I personally always try to reblog fics with comments and check the tags every once and a while for fics to read #I think that is best practice for writers but I know not everyone does that... #in the same vein #i think if you put effort into being a good reader consistently. writers with larger followings will notice / want to be mutuals and help #boost your writing to the dashboard #writing fic is a community that takes genuine effort to grow #TLDR: be a good reader and reblog fics and interact with writers. write things that come from your heart. interactions will follow with tim #*time #long post #ϟ asking aleksandria

[vvitchering]

I’m like half asleep but I’m thinking about a “bad” god!Gale endgame where a heartbroken Tav is unwilling to just let what they had with Gale go because he’s lost himself. Under the divine veneer, there’s still something of the mortal man left and Tav is going to find a way to bring him back.

Whether he wants to or not.

#Rumors start circulating about a haunted looking traveler destroying shrines to the new god of ambition #scholars and clerics reporting sightings and even meetings with an individual asking one question: how does one kill a god #idk I’m just thinking thoughts #I don’t usually go for darker ideas but this won’t leave me alone #and like I’d like to believe if there is something of the mortal Gale left in there he’d regret what he became #but be unable to resist the urge to grow his power and see how far he can go #he’s too far gone to help himself but not too far gone to be helped ya feel??? #and he’s gonna resist tav’s efforts but at the end of the day he still loves them and can’t really hurt them #so he just kinda haunts them #perhaps tav is bolstered by the dreams they keep having about the version of Gale they fell in love with #he’s still in there somewhere #they just have to figure out how to cut the god out of him #ok this probably isn’t anything I’m going to bed bye #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #mine

[bluejaybytes]

💘🍛 I like both of these. What's most important to your oc (of choice but I'm thinking of Maggie), and what their usual dinner looks like <3

Hiiiiiiiii <3

💘 HEART WITH ARROW — what and/or who do(es) your oc consider the most important to them?

Maggie has sooo few people she's close with BUT the people she IS close with she is VERY close with, the three main ones would be her brother, Hawke, her Girl Best Friend (come to your own conclusions on this one, they'll never have an actual discussion about it), Jenna, and one of the ghosts that hangs around her, Opal. Hawke she was always fairly close with as a kid, while he never actually believed her when she would talk about the ghosts and their various shenanigans, he was always one of her strongest and most reliable supporters, and would claim to believe her. She knows now that he never actually believed her (She figured that out as a preteen), but she definitely appreciates the fact he was still always there for her and standing up for her when she'd get talked over by others. When she wakes back up after her murder, finding where he lives is one of her first priorities, because she's basically having like a million crises at once and figures he's the person she trusts must to be able to help her.

Paragraph break because I'm going on longer than anticipated WHOOPS. For Jenna, she's close with her for several reasons. The first part is... honestly just a bit of necessity. Maggie's lost and scared and has no idea what's going on, and Jenna's the first person to approach her and is someone willing to try and help her figure out what's going on, during a situation where anyone else would've just forced her to go to a hospital (Which... to be fair Jenna definitely should've suggested they go to some sort of medical help, given that she was passed out in the middle of a field and wakes up talking about being murdered). Outside of necessity, however, she and Jenna just like... basically instantly latch onto each other. They're frankly both a bit obsessive with each other because they both... really don't have anyone else? Once the plot ends and their lives calm down they'll get some other friends and their dynamic will become more sustainable longterm, but in the moment they've only got each other and GODDAMN do they have each other. Jenna's like 90% of the reason Maggie wants to actually take care of herself, because if she's not doing it, Jenna just does it for her, and she doesn't like feeling like a burden, even if Jenna's doing it willingly and without viewing as such. Their bond is so largely based on their willingness to support each other, so. yknow <3

For Opal, she's known Maggie since she was only a few months old! Ghosts took notice of Maggie's ability to see them LONG before Maggie would be learn this was Not normal, AKA, as a several month old baby, she'd track ghosts with her eyes and try and interact with them like any other person, which alerted the ghosts to the fact she could actually see them. This made her essentially a bit of a celebrity/VERY weird and kinda creepy to the ghosts, so word of the Magic Baby Who Can See Dead People spread, and tons of local ghosts would hang around just to see her themselves. Opal ALSO heard of her, and she just generally loves kids, so she went to go see baby Maggie, only to realize that oh man. This is going to be. a tough life for this kid. So she takes it upon herself to watch over her, and chases away other ghosts who bother her so that Maggie doesn't have to spend her entire life being harassed by ghosts. Their dynamic is a bit weird throughout Maggie's life, as Opal tends to be a bit overbearing, and also tends to talk over the living people Maggie's trying to talk/listen to, making it difficult for her to concentrate, but as frustrating as Maggie finds her to be, they still are very close, Opal's someone Maggie can be actually open with, and someone who is always trying to look out for her and protect her any way she can. Their dynamic gets WAY more strained after Maggie's death but this is already a VERY long ramble and that would involve a LOT more so I'll save that for another day

🍛 CURRY AND RICE — what does your oc's typical dinner look like? do they usually eat dinner?

Bad it looks bad.

Okay the actual answer is more nuanced <3 Prior to her murder, Maggie was still living at home (She was only 17 and had JUST graduated highschool, graduating a year early), so her typical dinner was just... whatever her mom made! Nothing too fancy, just pretty generic dinner items. Maggie's never really had much of an appetite, but also stayed up extremely late every night, so typically it'd be eating like half the normal portion of whatever dinner was -> stay up until 2am -> Get hungry and finish off the other half of dinner -> stay up until [god knows how late]. Her favorite meal is probably stew, though while she is an extremely picky eater, of the foods she's okay with she doesn't tend to have really any standout favorites.

Once she wakes back up after her murder and has to care for herself, her dinner is... crackers. As mentioned, she's an extremely picky eater, but she also has no skill in cooking and is also just deeply depressed, so she can't really give the effort to care about it enough to want to eat properly, so she just. doesn't! However, once Jenna starts hanging around more, specifically hanging around for long enough stretches of time to see Maggie's abysmal self care and eating habits, THEN Maggie's typical dinner stops being "crackers" and starts being whatever Jenna makes her. This is typically things like easier to prepare meals like mac n cheese, but Jenna always adds things to them that aren't included to make them nicer, so it's always more than just "box of kraft mac n cheese", its got some added vegetables and meat added in there to make it better!

Once Maggie actually starts trying to learn how to cook herself, her typical dinner consists of one single bite of whatever she tried and promptly failed to make, and then a plate of Whatever Jenna Made Instead. She's trying her best but oh boy. its not great.

#IM SORRY I WENT ON SO LONG. #also Maggie's favorite meal AFTER the plot is probably a nice salad #low effort + REALLY hard for her to fuck up + tastes good #as for Maggies dynamic with Opal post-murder... its. its something. its bad </3 #The start of Maggie's full blown breakdown is literally her snapping and tearing into Opal and essentially blaming her for her murder #This is. bad. Opal has already felt INSANELY guilty all of this time- she would leave Maggie alone at night- #-to try and help with Maggies insomnia by not keeping her up #-so she ABSOLUTELY feels responsible in part for Maggie's murder- that she could've been there and she could've warned Maggie- #-about the intruder. But like. It's not her fault. How could she have known? Maggie knows its not her fault #but she's extremely freaked out at that point and is having an intense breakdown and is lashing out at Opal because she just needs SOMEONE- #-to blame. She's dying and she doesnt know why and she needs to find someone to blame for it #anyways maggie please apologize to your ghost mom. (she does. she also gets to- for the first and only time- physically hold her hand) #(ghosts can physically interact with each other- and Maggies growing wounds are essentially her soul physically splitting- #-so its essentially this bittersweet moment of like. for the first time- shes able to reach out and hold Opals hand. #and its only because shes dying) #BUT THEN SHE DOESNT DIE. VITALLY IMPORTANT #my OCs #maggie

[poptartmochi]

in this house we love greek gods that preside over one specific thing and have fuckall to do for the rest of eternity <3

#sriracha.txt #creating some fuckt up little lady who presides Specifically over like. the point in which old crop is used to fertilize the new #thus playing into the whole cycle of life idea + giving her some foot to stand on as the kid of persephone and hades specifically #wrt the way old life supports the new? is this stepping on the toes of demeter and dionysus... yes... #but we pretend we do not see it.. i am overworked + low on spoons as it is and this is like.. niche lore for a character i am not paid to #play. i cannot dedicate much more effort to her. at least not right now #lament aside i think i will name her Rhoeas or something of that nature.. from what i can tell ῥόα is the word for pomegranates #which becomes ῥοιᾰ́ς for corn poppies.. #now sit with me boy 🕴 we lose the plot here a little bit + also extrapolate from wikipedia alone for this BUT. in many cultures poppies are #heavily associated with death and love alike. and ofc they grow in disturbed soil. #SO... if you look at the original myth with a modern + loose lens. i think you could justify some kind of poppy child being like #a bridge between demeter and hades.. she comes from the literal disturbed soil that came when hades abducted persephone #+ has ties with death and love + love that can endure death which can be a fun allusion to the way that demeter's love for persephone #persists even through persephone's stay in hades which houses the dead... do you feel me comrades #i think you could even apply it to persephone and hades themselves - a love that endures death? but naur offense hades is NOT the focus her #</3 🤪 coming back to this theme of like. love persisting through death and being sewn in the wake of death/disrupted soil. we come back to #the anchor point of her character which is the old dead crops being used to fertilize the new growth. it's the love the dead has for the #living right!! to help it grow in a new and difficult world! i think that itself ties back into the central theme w the poppies #and also demeter has ties to poppies so i don't think it would be crazy for some grandchild of hers to have ties to poppies :-] i think thi #all somewhat feasible if you reaaaalllly squint. anyhow i'm too tired to go any further with it rn #corylana

[feralnumberfive]

#bitches really hear ''Be kind to me be kind and wait it out'' & ''Getting a life is a little like dying'' and cry (it's me I'm bitches) #I know the song has been out for a few weeks now but inspiration struck to make a low effort meme #Do people hate AJR because they have such relatable songs? Each song is a story of their own and Jack said they're trying to write a song- #about nearly every issue in life like this one is about growing up but still internally feeling young and feeling stuck in life- #and being left behind by your peers while you struggle and just try to ''grow up'' and the fears of becoming an adult #listen I could write an essay over AJR's music and nearly all of their songs I fucking love them so incredibly much #ajr #the dj is crying for help #ajr meme

[vulturvolanss]

as much as i see posts about alhaitham not having a single social clue and agree with all my heart i do not agree he's an intj. he's an entj with little social acumen and i will die on this fucking hill.

#octopondering #i say this as an intj--he's not exactly like me. #he actually makes an effort to work with people in a group setting and is a very good leader #despite not necessarily loving being in those positions #if he were an intj he would react like i do when someone says something i think is stupid #aka 'the adults are talking if you have nothing intelligent to say can it' #it's hard to describe since i'm not exactly an mbti nerd but i did chat with my best friend who IS #and they agree with me. so. i have sort of cited a reputable source #biggest thing i can say is i would never let someone invade my personal space because i thought taunting them was funny #like sure whatever mirrors of you help you grow but going yeah i'm gonna let this person i fight with all the time in my house? #extrovert behavior i would simply shrivel up and die #my social battery would constantly be in the negatives #fuck it. i'll tag this #alhaitham #al-haitham #genshin impact

[gierosajie]

I like to imagine that Venti was the youngest of the original Seven, and the others where shocked when they saw, during their first reunion after the war, that a freaking newborn god was the new Anemo Archon.

They where also kinda sad because he was a kid, and he never had a choice in the matter, the title was practically forced to him

I personally think he's somewhere in the middle in terms of age in the OG 7 since Zhongli did say Venti's the second eldest so he's probably at least a bit older than Makoto

BUT- yeah I do agree that they'd probably be quite shocked since Venti became an archon as a newborn god. Everyone else was already an established god for possibly a good while before getting the seat of an archon, meanwhile Venti was over there sprouting in the lowest rung of the divine hierarchy barely above a slime and basically got slingshot up to the second highest position just under Celestia in one fell swoop

There was barely any breathing room and dude just went on an archon speedrun from tiny spirit to major god with nothing in between and losing at least 3 people among his little friend group in the process

#ask #anon #genshin impact #also there's this neet parallel between Venti and Nahida where they both have the same circumstances as they became archons #they're both a piece of an established god who grew to become their own #both became archons at 'birth' (Venti as a god and Nahida just literally coming into existence) #but the difference in their early days in archonhood was that Mond saw Venti as one of their own and they were on equal standing #he was practically raised with their ideals and raising Mondstadt from the ashes was a collaborative effort #both parties were helping each other #meanwhile Nahida was literally just born and the sages went 'go to work. now.' #they saw her as an ideal and put her on such a high pedestal without regard that maybe they should slow down a bit #and when she failed to meet expectations they just left her there #didn't even TRY to raise her up to be the kind of archon they wished to have when they realized she was just like any other child #she wasn't even given a chance to try and grow for 500 years #*neat parallel #frick I noticed the typo too late and there's already a wall of text

[soundcrusher]

Finally grew the Quetz I have on a server into an adult!

She's also going to be a mom some day....

#path of titans #PoT #soundcrusher rambles #honestly; I love helping baby dinos to grow #if I took the time and effort to grow one of mine into adulthood XD

[everony]

I hate being complimented for my independence or initiative because I'd rather do things myself than ask for help.

Like, wtf do I say? How the hell am I supposed to respond to that?

"Thanks, it's a trauma response" ????????

#autistic #adhd #i dont understand how neurotypicals can see someone whos clearly struggling to get everything done but not asking for help #and just go 'wow i wish my kids were like that' #like no??????? you dont?????? #its called hyperindependence babe #it comes from growing up with an undiagnosed mental disorder and learning disability #and it means that its physically hard for me to ask for help #not because i dont want to ask for help for macho bro reasons #but because i was considioned early that even when i ask for help im not gonna get any #because clearly im just not trying hard enough #add on social anxiety and you have another mess entirely #so now im an adult who just doesnt ask for help even when im struggling because for most of my life i was told that i dont need help #i just need to put more effort into whatever im doing #this still happens too #3/4 of the time when i ask for help im ignored #either because people are aware that i *can* do it despite me asking because i dont have *the time to do it* #or because everyone else understood and did it without help so clearly im just not trying #i nearly lost it at one of my uni professors when they told me to 'just try again' when the first thing i told them #was that id spent the last 8 hours trying and struggling because im not understanding what im doing wrong

[icterid-rubus]

Okay but are dating apps hard for everyone to use? I literally have to sit and agonize over swiping right on someone for days. I gotta mentally map out every potential conversation and subsistent 50 years of marriage I could have with the stranger based on the allotted paragraph bio.

#I always other think this #or I don’t swipe because what if someone more like me is behind this person #I got one of those superswipes from someone who is very handsome and seems like A Lot and I had to wait 48 hours thinking about every #possible personality they might and and all branching conversations we could have from each of those #also I can’t help but think people either misswipe or have ill intentions if they like me because. what’s wrong with you. why #god I really wish I had fallen head over heels in love with bumble guy. he was perfect in every way. #employed. didn’t live to work though. in a book club. extraordinaryily handsome. exceedingly kind and understanding. identical interests. #and yet it wasn’t even a friendship I craved or mourned when I realized we hadn’t spoken in a week. #I wonder why that happens. he should have been a perfect friend. but meh. #hhhhhhh I just like looking at all the pretty pictures and reading peoples bios #why do I bother to swipe it’s so anxiety inducing. #actually I do know why I swiped. I’m reading Helen Hoangs new book and it’s inspired me figure myself out and grow as a person while #meeting the absolute perfect person right off the bat and with no effort #which is funny because clearly I’m suspicious and distasteful of people who like me lmao. so why do I want that aalskshaka #anyway. late night rambling. hhhhhh. perfect person fall out of the sky so I don’t have to take these tiring baby steps 😩

[maiteo]

im convinced more and more every game that you were right about arteta and this spanish propaganda he’s pushing by keeping raya in the xi…somethings gotta give

corrupção!

#answered #sorry ik now’s not the time to use this gif but I can’t help it AGSHSJSKS I love it too much #but yeah! mikels stubbornness & the whole ‘my way or the highway’ attitude is veryyy🥴 and I feel like it costs us a lot #it costs us the league last season he didn’t rotate players as they should’ve been rotated & didn’t compensate for wilo or gabi’s injuries #speaking of rotate…this whole alternating keepers nonsense has gotten on my last nerve a long time ago😭 #it looks more like hes trying to phase aaron out completely which is fucked up we made it where we are now bc of his efforts too #same w zinchenko like…he’s underperforming. bench him like?? ​it also scares me who else we’ll potentially lose bc of this ‘system’ #I don’t wanna ramble or be a downer but yeah how can we grow exponentially when this is how things operate…not a fan #anyways! COYG N BEIJOS🫶🏽🫂😚

[lucy-ghoul]

I just realized what's wrong with the Targaryen wigs in HotD: they don't look like Targaryen hair, they look like they were stolen from the Malfoys. They all share one (1) or at best two wigs in toto and it makes them look like freaking Lucius Malfoy clones

#jokes aside episode 1 was quite good (yes i finally caved in and started watching the fire lizards show) #there were many nice touches that made me go 'mmmmh good stuff.' #1. the juxtaposition of aemma's horrific death in childbirth/the knights killing each other at the tournament #clearly reminiscent of that quote from one of brienne's chapters... heh now i can't fully remember it in english #2. THEY NAME-DROPPED THE SONG OF ICE AND FIRE (which was never even remotely referred to in got) #the whole thing about aegon and the prophecy has been a particularly favorite fan theory of mine for years and i'm happy it's canon #fake lizard monarchs haters gonna hate :)) #tho it's VERY bittersweet considering the got finale... like the prince that was promised was *spins roulette* #a stark all along? like randomly? (and no obviously i'm not talking about jon. he *is* half targaryen after all) #and let's not forget about the true heir being put down like a mad bitch because d&d liked jon better (since he's a man) #and were like 'revolutionary who wants to help people/actually abolished slavery in another continent bad. let's enforce the status quo :))) #(also the double standards. war crimes are okay only if other nobles do it - especially the starks. if you have a dragon and are a woman #and dare to be slightly mortally grey and/or ambitious... in 2 days you're gonna burn children alive!! because ofc.) #..... *cough cough* okay salty rant is over. let's go on with val's hotd first impressions #2. i didn't hate matt smith as daemon and he's particularly good at looking upset and/or sad but i still think he was miscast #3* #like he CAN act and it shows. but it's as if he were making an effort to appear more believable for this role #idk maybe he'll grow on me in the next eps. also his interactions with rhaenyra were a++ but that's nothing new #can't wait for this girl to fuck her uncle ig (...... what did i become skskksks) #4. i also liked rhaenyra&alicent's interactions. this is gonna be another tragic former besties to worsties for me to cry on :((( #5. i mostly liked the costumes. i liked how this is all about the patriarchy (at least so far). i liked the slight but still noticeable #references to the main show (the music. rhaenyra being an obvious dany lookalike. #lord stark pledging his fealty to her while viserys' voice over is speaking about the threat in the north. #viserys telling her 'promise me rhaenyra. promise me' in what i believe is an echo of lyanna's last words to ned... i think? #like it can't be accidental) #god i missed being excited over this stupid and gorgeous series #obv it helps that i actually never read fire&blood (should i?) and i'm only familiar with the events/characters from twoiaf #house of the dragon #val speaks #txt