#He doesn't want the throne

[essektheylyss]

Okay but also Trent threatening Essek is so fucking funny in hindsight considering Trent's been in prison for seven years. Does he even actually know that Caleb is with Essek or is he making an informed guess based on Caleb having a type and the few protective interactions that he witnessed? Does he not realize Essek's been out of the Dynasty for ages? Does the Dynasty still not have hard evidence against Essek? Does Trent really believe that they'd listen to the word of an escaped convict from an enemy nation who was imprisoned ostensibly for turning teenagers into assassins that were probably used to target the Bright Queen herself?

#critical role #cr spoilers #essek thelyss #shadowgast #like this is so funny lmfao. bruh are you stupid #idgaf how mad leylas is. Trent could stroll in and confirm their suspicions and quana would be like 'he's telling you what you want to hear #like the dusk captain is going to behead him on the spot if the watch doesn't first. he's not getting to the throne room.

[the-bi-fangirl-biatch]

the entire season they've shown sylvie perpetually being okay to just walk away from the fray and getting no consequences whatsoever. which would be ok since she doesn't rlly care about them like loki does. but in the end she just moves on so fast after she watched loki isolate himself and go off JUST to fix her mistake.......

meanwhile mobius is there, frozen in that time, left behind by the person he's an "expert" on not only bc of his job but bc of their friendship, him quitting the job that was his entire life, because loki has left and his previous purpose didn't have loki anymore

it's just fucked up how everyone else got their happy endings (good for them) except for loki and mobius. they're apart, separated once again, looking miserable in their last shots. just like last season.

#hhnnggg i dont hate sylvie i think she deserves peace and to rest #but the fact that loki had to sacrifice everything he's work on (his friends. his changing. the love of his life) just to fix HER mistake #marvel why the hell do you hate loki huh why do you keep making him lose everything #idc sure his arc has changed but what does he get? what's his reward? doesn't he deserve something too in the end? yes he fucking does #loki: i dont want a throne i want my friends back #writers: ok here's a throne where you're lonely asf and are at risk to end up like HWR who's been isolated for so long too #also fuck your friends and your lover #LIKE?!?!?!?!?!?!? #(if anyone wants to chat i beg of you please dont hesitate) #tag talk #loki tv show #loki tv series #loki tv #loki season 2 #loki series #loki show #loki season two #lokius #mobius x loki #loki x mobius #anti sylki #not really anti HER but it was so unfair

[rhaenin-time]

#hotd #asoiaf #hotd critical #team black #fire and blood #anti team green #asoiaf fandom #these people love to cite daenerys this one time #as if “a dragon is not a slave” doesn't just mean you can't FORCE a bond #not that it's a fucking free-for-all game of finders keepers #targs derive their power from their monopoly over dragons because they have the power to enforce that monopoly #that's how ownership works #Rhaenyra was not just the heir to the throne she was also the future head of the family + highest ranking dragonrider #If she didn't want Aemond to have Vhagar and if she would have had Viserys say NO had Aemond asked then yes he did indeed “STEAL” Vhagar #again because he knew he would be told NO #a non-misogynistic jaehaerys would have sent his ass to the wall #the whole point of that scene in F&B was the important matter (vhagar) was pushed aside because viserys didn't want to deal with 'drama' #and because of aemond's eye rhaenyra was not in a position to push #So yes actually it was a pretty good trade for aemond

[lycorim]

I will not rest until more The North With Funny Hats content

#hats are fucking slept on in this fandom. disgraceful. #you know catelyn absolutely bundles up her babies before they step foot outside. four layers /minimum/ on a warm day. #ned does the same for Jon so he doesn't feel left out #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #sansa stark #jon snow #bran stark #game of thrones #my art #fan art #ngl i just wanted to draw some hats I saw on pinterest

[andy-clutterbuck]

6x10 | The Next World

#LET HIM REST #Rick Grimes #* #rg #S6 #me as the couch #HIS LIL SCARS #(◡‿◡✿) all the kisses #one day your lips will not make me want to bust through a wall like the koolaid man #but today is not that day #excuse me but The Nose™ #i swear if michonne doesn't kiss his nose in the spinoff im gonna be a bit vexed #it's all i've wanted damn it #pick up the vibes im putting out into the universe danai thx #that face is the actual Iron Throne #i'll start the war to sit there ⚔ #rough day daddy? #feed him bathe him make him sleep like a baby #that's what he deserves

[eerna]

hello! this ask ended up becoming a very long tangent so feel free to ignore it lmao. just had some thoughts on tpt and idk who else to rant to

i feel like i generally enjoyed tpt but also agree w a lot of criticism ive seen about it (was definitely put off by wrens lack of agency and so disappointed that we didnt see her reunite w her parents…that phone call w her mom was the most emotionally evocative scene for me in the first book and lowkey made me cry).

idk if someone already brought this up but a small thing that bothered me was that the thistlewitch’s bargain with oak never came back to bite him or was even mentioned again. specifically the exchange where she asked him to grant her a request upon becoming king, and he agreed since he didnt plan to be king anyway even though she implied she’d seen otherwise in his future. i get that this is foreshadowing ultimately that oak would become a king through marrying wren rather than inheriting, but it surprised me that the ramifications of him thus having to put his money where his mouth is re:thistlewitch never actually come up when he has the whole ‘oh i’d still be a king by marriage’ realization in tpt.

like it seems like it should be plot relevant that oak is now indebted to a hag who is somewhat implied to be conspiring (or at least affiliated) with mother marrow / bogdana, given that he specifically questions why mother marrow sent him off to the thistlewitch to get info, when she already could have told him that wren had melliths heart. idk was that part ever explained? i listened to the audiobook so if it was i might have zoned out or something, but i lowkey kept expecting that piece to be revealed as part of the hag conspirators’ plan

i guess that its just a red herring having finished the book now, but i was still confused that oak never even reflects back on it in his inner monologue at some point, especially when he realizes that he is still on track to becoming a king when he marries wren? like the book just ends with him being like ‘i guess ill be a king :) for you :)’ so i suppose hes either forgotten about the thistlewitch or doesnt care

maybe i read far too much into this one interaction or just missed something. but idk it just seems like a missed opportunity and/or dropped plot line to me and i really feel like that red string corkboard charlie day meme just thinking about it.

thank u for reading if you got through it all :,)

No worries, I enjoy reading ppl's takes in my inbox, be it positive or negative~ SAME the Thistlewitch was the BACKBONE to all my TPT predictions and then she ended up irrelevant. Then when the entire consort VS king/queen topic popped up I was like OH SMART, this could be a good middle ground. But no. Despite all his best attempts at avoiding it, he is still getting a crown, hence the hags can still collect that boon one day. And what if the boon is "Reignite the Court of Teeth's insurgence and march against Elfhame and put your hag bride on the throne". What then.

#eernask #eernanon #eernask talk tfota #the prisoner's throne spoilers #like ok his main reason for not wanting to be king of elfhame is bc his family fell apart bc of the title so you can say he isn't anti bein #king just anti being king of ELFHAME. but also. this isn't really stated as an option in the book. he doesn't CARE about ruling. #neither oak nor wren makes sense as a ruler what a dumb dumb ending for their arcs

[mulderscully]

i get so fucking irrationally mad when i accidentally wander into rwrb twitter and someone is talking abt a royal wedding what part of henry hates being a royal is not clickinggggg

#he IS abdicating the throne even if u seperate the movie from the book #he still doesn't want to be royal in the movie?? he literally calls it pointless shsjksks #they're getting backyard married in texas and that is FINAL #final** #anywY. had to let it out #rwrb posting

[remadra]

wanting him to succeed

#wilson dst #my art #wilson dont starve #okay i have many thoughts about maxwell wanting off the throne and helping wilson along in ways that still make him feel superior to wilson #he doesn't want to be pitied #he doesn't want wilson to *save* him. he wants to have the upper hand. he wants to escape by his own genius. he's going to trick him. #but there's a little bit of him that still feels guilt over this. so he might as well make it a little less miserable. and he wants out. #help along the silly scientist. don't think too hard about how they were akin to friends. give him some gear to start. make fun of him. #insult him and drive him away so he doesn't feel guilty because if they hate each other then it's fine and there's nothing to feel bad abou #but not too much that wilson won't set him free. its a fine line. #but maybe. maybe dropping his coat for the scientist was a little too far on one side. maybe he's going to hope wilson doesn't make it. #also combined traditional with digital touch ups because my camera was very poor lmao

[flightlaw]

It's a good ending for the MCU. It's a terrible ending for Loki.

I hate it I hate it I hate it.

#Loki season 2 #Loki #mcu Loki #he's alone #forever #just watching #and Mobius doesn't belong anywhere either #Loki is literally all I care about now #everyone else is dead #except Peter #and we don't talk about that #he didn't want a throne #he didn't want to be alone #and that's exactly what he got #I hate it

[wolframpant]

I, Claudius Episode 5 Poison Is Queen

 I'm sick of it! The gods know I've done my best! He never liked me. Never! Thirty years I've run his errands for him! I've fought on his bloody frontiers, collected his taxes! He's never once put his hand on my arm and said, "Thank you. What would I have done without you?" Now he sends me off to Illyricum and he doesn't even plan a farewell dinner. Not even a goodbye. Just get on your horse and ride! Well, damn him! I retired before and I can retire again! Let his precious grandson run his empire for him. I'm sick to death of it!

#bbc i claudius #i claudius #germanicus #david robb #claudius #derek jacobi #emperor claudius #augustus #emperor augustus #brian blessed #livia #livia drusilla #sian phillips #agrippa postumus #john castle #livilla #i've once seen an actor interview from i claudius #and george baker points out that tiberius always talks how he doesn't want power #but when it comes to it he never asks livia to stop pushing him to the throne

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

i think it's really interesting that morgott names all of his "willful traitor" family in his boss fight cutscene and yet leaves messmer out, despite him seeming to be so overwhelmingly coded as The Quintessential Traitor. like, is it that

morgott considers messmer (again, heavily associated with snakes and fire, the specific symbolic enemies of the erdtree, and managed to get his whole throne removed) such a traitor that he refuses to even speak his name

morgott actually does not consider messmer a traitor (they do appear to share similar motives, and we have no real evidence of messmer participating in the shattering war, which is morgott's chief complaint about everyone else)

he's naming shardbearers who participated in the shattering war, specifically (godrick gets included) and messmer doesn't have a great rune/wasn't a part of the shattering, so whatever else aside he was irrelevant to the point morgott was making

none of the above; morgott doesn't even know messmer exists (very possible that messmer was born+grew up+got [???] while the omens were in the sewer and they just completely missed each other) so he's just like ah yes. malenia. miquella. that one inexplicable empty space. radahn.

#the nemesis speaks #sorry i know it's been 24/7 nonstop eldenring hours over here. im just. im rotating it. #the out of universe explanation is obviously that naming him in a mandatory cutscene would have given the entire thing away #but that's not really that interesting #anyway fuck im so excited for this guy in the dlc. i am already all about him from the like 30sec of dialogue we have #also hey why do two other shardbearers just. not have thrones. but godrick of all people gets one #did godrick steal or inherit godwyn's throne...? #i guess rennala doesn't have one bc she's not a shardbearer it's just her egg. and they don't give thrones to eggs i guess #and mohg WAS very much Not Wanted in the lineage so him being blacklisted makes sense #(since morgott also sits on the leyndell throne and not one of the illusory golden ones suggesting he never got one either)

[worstloki]

MCU really lost the opportunity to cash in on Loki's entire time with Thanos and the denial/reclamation of his past on Asgard and being hurt by his family and being Jotun and loving his family regardless and being a master sorcerer like wow what part of his identity did the show cash in on exactly

#they cashed in on 'he didn't like hurting people' as if that wasn't blatantly visible in Thor 1 Avengers 1 and Thor 2 already #it took the entire movie of conflict to get loki to destroy jotunheim and he was crying and it wasn't even about killing the people then #loki looking empty through avengers 1 and not watching as he uses the guy's eye and crying @ Thor and being tortured.... like..... #idk what to tell you man he said a few true words to Frigga and Odin and later Thor and he was in tears already #like buddy pal this is not new information #they tried to cash in on loki not wanting a throne which has been a major loki thing in Thor 1 Avengers 1 Thor 2 h*ck! even Thor 3!! #Loki having the throne but not wanting it is a thing--it fell to him in Thor 1 and he messed Thor's coronation to *delay* it not steal it #whenever he's tried to take the throne it wasn't *for* the throne #Avengers 1 Loki being pspspspss-ed at by the Other and the Mind Stone like idk what else you can get from having no conviction #Thor 2 Loki like hehe i kicked the old man off the throne. let me give it to Thor now that he's less arrogant. #Ragnarok Loki even didn't argue when Thor returned like #the Loki show #he doesn't like hurting people. and what about it???? oh there's nothing else?? that's all you wanted to get out??????? ??? #he doesn't want the throne???????? which has held true in every movie ??? but we're not going into the why or what the throne stands for??? #weak.

[niofo]

just a thought. tabris making alistair a king, but it's all a scheme, they're off to dismantle monarchy together, but it's one thing to get rid of the king, they want to bring down all the nobility as well.

#dragon age #oc: shartan tabris #alistair theirin #warden tabris #alistair doesn't want to be a king but that's fair he won't be a king for long #but first gotta reform that country #you wanted a theirin on the throne now surprise elves and mages have rights

[starkcontrasts]

no no no you're not listening to me: viserys' last moments with his family was all of them sitting supper together, forgiving old wounds and willing to move on, rhaenyra and alicent both putting forth genuine apologies and yes aegon acted up but jace knew better, was raised better, ultimately recognized the fact that aegon's just being a little shit bc that's what he is and so jace extended his patience and toast regardless bc he recognized what this moment meant for all of them and jace took helena's hand to dance with her in front of their gathered family bc he probably remembered how sweet she always was - proved to still be true by her little awkward speech - and he could've offered his hand to baela instead but they both knew it would solidify the mending ties if jace asked helena and they danced and they giggled and they had fun and the rest of the dinner table seemed well and good to leave things as they were and viserys saw all of this. in unimaginable pain and he watched it all. he watched the years of distance and festering distrust be slowly, meticulously, healed one offering of forgiveness and well wishes at a time and viserys finally releases the hold he's had on his pain the whole day so he can go to bed having heard his family's laughter and seen their smiles all around him. and when he died, he sees his love, he sees aemma *cue violent tears*

#everyone's acting was simply spectacular this episode really gave their A game BUT PADDY #GODS PADDY he deserves every award i'm so serious #a king and a dragon till the end #the long walk across the hall and up the throne? i teared up. #just wanting the best for his family? like yes he had his flaws plenty of them and doesn't seem #to have been the best or present father for aegon aemond and helena #but i do believe he loved them #it's just so depressing knowing what happens but at least he got to see that in the end #and aemma in death #house of the dragon #hotd #viserys i targaryen #lord of the tides #hotd episode 8 #hotd spoilers

[braime-brainrot]

tommen all throughout his reign:

#i feel so sorry for him haha #he doesn't want any of this #game of thrones #asoiaf #tommen baratheon

[andy-clutterbuck]

9x01 | A New Beginning

#HELLO MY GORGEOUS OLD MAN #Rick Grimes #* #rg #S9 #and your purty horse #like a gracefully aging king #who doesn't need to but he's still out leading his troops into battle #SANTA FACE #still want to rub his head like it's a crystal ball and i'm a cheap ass fortune teller at a county fair #excuse me sir please put your forearms away thank you #even his elbows are nice I hate myself #that face is the actual Iron Throne #i'll start the war to sit there ⚔ #forget the war of the 5 kings #it's just me