#rani talks

[a-dragons-journal]

Not sure how many people are ready for this conversation but, also, we saw that super long post but also maybe, like, people should be somewhat logically consistent, which means we are going to drop a bit of a bombshell separately into your inbox to share at your discretion:

The traumagenic nature of DID or OSDD (-1 as that is the plurality OSDD) is never what we've been contesting for the most part, it's been the conflation of system origins to system disordered-ness.

Even if MOST endogenics do not claim to have DID or OSDD-1, if we, an endogenic system who simply were born plural and never fused, ran themselves into an abusive situation later on, there is nothing distinguishing us from a classically/stereotypically traumagenic system with DID, if we follow the theory of structural dissociation, except for the fact our subjective experience has been interpreted differently.

If purely-traumagenic systems can work towards functional multiplicity from a disordered state, we must give purely-endogenic systems the same kindness when they say "I'm an endogenic and have DID/OSDD" or "I am endogenic and have HC-DID" and learn to make that separation. We will always believe those people. What kind of people would we be if we didn't?

"Can you have DIDOSDD without trauma" is often a false question and a dogwhistle made by bigots hoping you will slip up.

"Most endogenics do not claim to have DID or OSDD" feels like a cop out made to appease bigots. Certainly not always, but, it's the same issue as above: often derived because of the false question and a dogwhistle made by bigots hoping you will slip up.

This is also very true and a very good point, and one that I didn't address in that post mostly for reasons of not wanting it to get so long that I lost the other person.

#syscourse #asked and answered #rani talks #anendoandfriendo

[amxrany]

!! CHAPTER 7 / DIASOMNIA ARC SPOILERS !!

Damn we are eating a lot (Part 2):

During the battle, Baul is shooked on how Silver and Sebek are good at dealing with horses to which Sebek replies that they're part fo the equestrian club so it's a natural thing for them

Yuu and Grim were about to get attacked by an Iron Man but Lilia comes in to defend them. BUT THEN LILIA PROCEEDS TO SMACK SILVER AND SEBEK BEING ALL "This is why I hate children 😒" 😭😭😭

After the battle we reach the castle (which is the castle in the Sleeping Beauty movie) AND THEN WE SEE THE KNIGHT OF DAWN

Anyways going back to the topic, we also get Henric, who is pretty much going "Meleanor if you don't get out of that castle right now we'll invade the castle together with the Knight of Dawn" AND JESUS FUCK HIS SPRITE 💀

Yucks

It turns out the Knight of Dawn doesn't want any part of this either, cuz Henric wants Meleanor's magic orb and dragon egg (aka Malleus) since they're really precious things

Idk what's up with this chapter and their thing for turning characters into orphans cuz the Knight of Dawn is also an orphan adopted by the king 🧍‍♀️, and Henric tells him that if he can steal the orb maybe it could save the king and Leah

We then see Meleanor, WHO IS A FUCKING BADDIE SO DAMN REAL TWST YKNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE YOUR WOMEN 😍😍😍

WE ALSO SEE EGG MALLEUS AWWWW

Meleanor tells them that she was planning to take a nap with the egg but useless people interrupted that, and she refers to the egg as Malleus already 🥹. Lilia is just confused and asks how is she sure that the egg is a boy, in which Meleanor replies that a mother is always sure and knows that Malleus will grow up to be beautiful like his father, Leverne

But then she sees Sebek and Silver and makes them get down on their knees (MAAM I'LL ALSO GET DOWN ON MY KNEES FOR YOU 🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️), she then goes on about how humans are weak and stuff. Lilia tries to defend them but Baul tells us about Meleanor's hatred for humans and that we might as well stay quiet

But then Lilia loses his shit as well and tries to tell Meleanor about the danger that's just waiting outside but Meleanor refuses, saying that she wants to fight because she's a mother who wants to protect egg Malleus (I swear I can't this update is making me cry 😭). So she tells everyone to escape with the egg while she fights the Knight of Dawn and we get this scene of Lilia holding on to egg Malleus

Meleanor tells them to leave but Lilia refuses. So out of anger, she zaps him which causes everyone to panic cuz he has the egg and Silver tries to stop it but Meleanor gets even more mad that she zaps him too like jesus this woman and her anger issues. Silver tries to plead with them to stop fighting because people who love each other don't fight

Meleanor replies that even if she doesn't make it, Malleus is still there. But Lilia tells her that Malleus can't hatch without the true love of a parent. BUT THEN WE GET THIS REVEAL THAT LILIA PROPOSED TO MELEANOR 200 YEARS AGO AND HE ALSO LOVED LEVERNE LIKE LILIA MELEANOR LEVERNE POLY RELATIONSHIP IS FUCKING REAL. Meleanor reassures Lilia that he will find a way to love Malleus since he also loved her and Leverne 🥹

She then summons thorns that drags Lilia and the rest away from the castle, saying her final goodbye to both Lilia and Malleus (I'm crying rn guys). Lilia tries to find a way back in to save Meleanor but Baul yells at him to calm down cuz he was still holding egg Malleus, and that Meleanor trusted them to protect the egg

Meleanor makes her appearance to the Knight of Dawn and Silver Owls, which starts another battle....

Next: Part 3

Previous: Part 1

#rany talks about twst #twisted wonderland #twst #twst jp #twst spoilers #diasomnia #Ima take a breather guys this update is making me sob so hard #I read thru most of it and I really can't

[atopvisenyashill]

IN THIS LIGHT SHE COULD ALMOST BE A BEAUTY IN THIS LIGHT SHE COULD ALMOST BE A KNIGHT.

“in this light” that they’re both in, to be clear - twin flames fighting in the darkness. fighting against the darkness. brienne looking at the ghosts that haunt jaime, from the very real physical threats of the war he helped start to the metaphorical wounds of knighthood, chivalry, and oath-keeping , from the betrayal of realizing your father is not the man you wanted him to be, from his own stupidity, and saying “this is nothing. i can fight them all.” to help him remember the ideals of his youth, to BE the ideal of his youth; an oathbreaker to save the lives of innocent children but it won’t break her soul the way it broke his!! she’s got a beauty that goes deeper than his, and the soul of a knight much more unshakable as well. he dreams of her fighting with him, beside him, saving him, facing down the wrathful dead, and watching as he fails, but knowing she is there and she will do what he cannot!

HE DREAMT IT. HE DREAMT OF HER.

#HES GOING TO DIE FIGHTING THE OTHERS IS WHAT IM SAYING. HE CAN BE THE VALONQAR AND ALSO PASS THE TORCH TO BRIENNE. IF DAEMON CAN DIE #BOTH LIGHT AND DARK AFTER COMMITTING LIKE 12 WAR CRIMES AND AT LEAST 104 FELONIES. MURDER SUICIDING HIS OWN NEPHEW. #JAIME CAN DIE WITH BRIENNE FIGHTING THE OTHERS AFTER DOING SOMETHING HEINOUS TO CERSEI. THIS IS GEORGE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT #valyrianscrolls #braime #jaime lannister #brienne of tarth #bittersweet beauty and the beast #jaime the dragon slayer #i’m waiting until i get brienne’s pov to give her a specific tag #rani liveblogs asoiaf #anyways guess what chapter i listened to

[clockworkouroboros]

okay okay okay so the giggle established, in New Who, the idea of someone from outside the universe, with different governing rules, coming into the universe and still being governed by those rules + imposing those rules on our universe. so hear me out. what if nobody no-one

#we can talk about brax and the rani and faction paradox and iris #but this is another moment for the clown makeup #dw audios #dw spoilers #dw television

[queenretcon]

It’s interesting to me that Rani just. Never stopped being popular in Booster fandom. She’s in one comic run that otherwise doesn’t get as much attention but she gets passed down like a beloved heirloom from the 2000s boostle livejournal era to now. I had heard of her so much when I was first getting into Booster comics that I skipped some v2 runs my first time around to get right to Rani lmao

I don’t think it’s especially uncommon for forgotten superhero children to be loved by fans even after they disappear from canon, but a lot of the ones I at least am aware of come from more popular stories or eras for their parents. Even if it’s not unique that it’s happened to her, it’s still very charming to me that no one but DC themselves wants to let her go. I think it really speaks to what a good character she is and how much she adds to her corner of the universe

anyways I just think she’s neat

#talk tag #rani carter

[theinfinitedivides]

how the F*CK is Ranveer so good at dancing and why does he need to keep reminding me like i forget every f*cking time

#film: rocky aur rani ki prem kahani #rocky aur rani ki prem kahani #ranveer singh #alia bhatt #bollywood #local gay watches Bollywood.txt #we are talking about from @1:31 to 1:38 in the MV for Dhindhora Baje Re (which has not dropped properly on Spotify yet #and that has me concerned since it's probably the best song from the film so far i need to stream that sh*t) bc holy f*ck #he's so fluid????? we're supposed to be watching Alia during this part ig but i can't stop looking at him????? #is that the lehenga look from his irl wedding that they brought back????? at the very least if it's not it looks almost like a traditional #kathak outfit and uh. yeah people are finally realizing how f*cking good he looks in skirts outside of period dramas #dear God pls make them put it up on Spotify i need it

[map-of-obsessions]

In honour of me going to pride today, here are some Sweet Tooth queer headcanons:

(I didn't do any of the kids because speculating on children's sexualities is ick)

Jepperd: Cishet ally, goes to pride with a 'dad hugs' t shirt on, he/him

Aimee: aroace, she/they

Becky/Bear: bi, she/her

Tiger: lesbian, they/she

Johnny: acespec (maybe demi) and panromantic, he/they

General Abbot: homosexual and homophobic, he/him

Rani: bi, she/her

Adi: cishet, bit confused on the whole thing but loves his bi wife, he/him

Richard/Pubba: straight but also gives the energy of the kind of guy who thinks all men are attracted to other men they just don't do anything about it, he/him

Gertrude/Birdie: arospec, she/her

#sweet tooth netflix #aditya singh #rani singh #bear sweet tooth #rebecca walker #tiger sweet tooth #aimee eden #tommy jepperd #johnny abbot #douglas abbot #general abbot #richard fox #pubba sweet tooth #Dr. gertrude miller #gertrude miller #birdie sweet tooth #queer #queer headcanons #Sol talks sweet tooth

[thewingedwolf]

one thing about hbo is that when they get a journalist coming up to them and going “man do i have a fucked up story i want to follow” they really do let that person go wild. i’ve mentioned the way the ronan farrow one really moved me emotionally and that’s just because ronan knows how to investigate and tell a story to get you righteously angry for who it is he’s defending. he’s good at his job!

but this one, quiet on the set, has genuinely made my jaw drop a few times, even if i think some of the framing could have been better in the last episode. of course i know about all the rumors about dan schneider and the abuse on set, it’s hard to have been into the teen nick scene and not notice, and it’s pretty easy to figure out which kids were being harmed through too much attention and which were being harmed through not enough attention, and there’s been all sorts of rumors floating around for over a decade!

but the build up to the drake bell reveal was well handled, i thought. i was initially skeptical because i think it’s hard to make a documentary about child sexual abuse without leaning into being exploitative in some way. and at first, where you have the actors who left early, like katrina, or who you remember but weren’t mega famous like giovannie, and they’re all saying “this set was so weird & inappropriate, i knew something was wrong but i didn’t have the experience or vocabulary to say what” it feels a little too schlocky. like, oh we’re just kind of speculating on the inappropriate nature of dan’s “friendship” with amanda bynes for two episodes? yeah it is fucked up that two pedophiles were on that set, but did they hurt anyone on set?

and then drake bell walks into the room dressed like timmy turner and says it was me. he hurt me.

i can’t stop thinking about the choice of clothes here and the way it helps drive home the point of the doc. he’s sitting there in fairly odd parents colors as an adult and can’t describe the sexual trauma he experienced as a child still, has never spoken about it, had his mom lie to his father over it because he was so screwed up. really driving home the point that he was just a kid who had a knack for physical comedy and it got him preyed on by dan, a man who should have protected him, set up and handed over to a monster who traumatized him for months and years.

but when that reporter said she got a judge to let them unseal the court documents because drake bell told her how much support peck had? my jaw dropped, like yeah this is reporting, this is someone who saw this story and finally fucking cared not about the salacious details but about who knew what and why they did nothing to stop this from happening. it’s not about forcing drake bell or katrina jackson or alexa to live through the worst moments of their life - it’s about how so many people knew what was going on and didn’t do a god damn thing to stop it. it’s about how these monsters, these convicted pedophiles, were given access to little kids to hurt and traumatize and everyone knew and didn’t just look the other way, they actively helped cover it up. THATS the story. Not that it was an isolated tragedy but that it was a clinical, purposeful environment built by people who wanted to harm little kids.

#i think the court stuff should have been handled better there was too much speculation #but eps 1-3 were real solid investigatory work #quiet on set #okay i might be done freaking out about this. #but like. it’s drake bell. it’s amanda bynes. it’s jeannette mccurdy. i grew up with them. #it’s so horrific to learn this stuff. i get why my grandma always cried talking about drew barrymore. #rani makes text posts no one will read #also can’t help thinking about how all the child actors under kenny ortega were way more well adjusted. imo bc he took pains to help them. #like dove talking about how she got plastic surgery bc she was pressured into it. #and then got ti descendants and met cameron & he was like ‘leave your boyfriend he’s an abuser’ #that’s just not something that would happen on other sets! shit it’s not something that would happen on other disney sets! #at the end of the day it is in fact so easy to just. care about the children who work for you!! #but the thing is. most of these people don’t! they don’t even care about the adults either!! #that story about the writers was so fucked up!!! she can’t even actually recount the story #she’s so embarassed and ashamed that she went along with it!!! #insists she’d do differently now. of course she would she isn’t a broke 22 year old!!! #god it all just sucks. hollywood is evil idk what else to say.

[sapphicflower-ao3]

while ppl are still active on tumblr rn, there's a new update of TAOF!! :D please enjoy

#rani's rambles #taof #i just realised that i've never actually promo'd the fic on tumblr before #which is crazy bc i know followers here actually read it... #adnjaknajdnakdna #GUYS I TECHNICALLY PROOFREAD THIS ONE A LOT BUT LIKE #there were so many technical issues w the file and i'm scared i missed smth important or fucked something up #hopefully it's fine. and not boring. GOD it feels like such a boring chapter. even though it's 12K #jesus i talk so much. bye bye now #my fic

[musiquesduciel]

Wait so let me get this straight. Between Rani Mukherji and Kajol, Rani is Tina and Kajol is Anjali. Between Rani and Kareena, Kareena is Tina and Rani is Pooja. And between Kareena and Kajol, Kareena is Pooja and Kajol is....Anjali.

#😳 #if you don't understand this - I'm talking about Mujhse Dosti Karoge! Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham #k3g #kkhh #bollywood #bollywood movies #bollywood2 #kareena kapoor #rani mukherji #kajol #karan johar #movie #movies #hindi #desi #south asia #south asian #brown culture

[amber-angel]

Do you ever think about how the disney fairies had a disabled character that was completely normalized, treated respectfully, and wasn't pitied in her narratives? She even had a book about how her disability made it hard for her to do things, and she had to find an alternative way

#stupid flighty bullshit #i know having narratives about being sad about disability is considered iffy but like. #i feel sad about being disabled sometimes #i connected to that narrative #also disclaimer: i am talking explicitly about the disney fairies books #which are only marginally affiliated with disney and are in fact based on a book not written by anyone associated with that company #the character is rani btw

[a-dragons-journal]

Genuinely, how do so many anti-endo people have the fact that they're anti-endo and "fakeclaimers DNI" right next to each other in their profile/pinned/etc.? Babe, you are the fakeclaimer. The thing you are doing when you say "DNI endogenic "systems"/supporters", putting "systems" in scare quotes to state that you don't think they're really systems, is by definition fakeclaiming. You just think that it's justified when you do it because this time you've got the REAL fakes and you REALLY know how to tell when someone is lying about their experiences and identity, pinkie promise. That doesn't make it not fakeclaiming - all fakeclaimers think that. They wouldn't do it otherwise.

#rani talks #if you are one of these people and you actually have an answer feel free to tell me #i am actually kind of curious how you justify this apparent self-contradiction in your head #(if you approach me politely i will be nicer in tone than this post is when responding to you i promise LMAO) #(i'm just salty bc yet another one of these cropped up in the otherkin tag)

[amxrany]

!! SEBEK ETERNAL NIGHT ARMOR GROOVY SPOILERS !!

HAIR DOWN SEBEK IS NOW REAL LES GOOOOOOO

#rany talks about twst #twisted wonderland #twst #twst jp #twst spoilers #diasomnia #sebek zigvolt #IM GONNA FAIL TOMORROW RAHHHHHHHHHH #I JUST WANNA KISS HIS CHEEKS IT'S SO UIEFBEWUIBVIHWE

[atopvisenyashill]

dany and rhaenyra really couldn't be more different considering dany grew up in abject poverty and rhaenyra was constantly shielded by her status and name. for dany, her name was a death sentence, so they exist in totally different frameworks of what being a “targaryen” even means. it’s this vast difference in upbringing that informs how they rule as well with daenerys giving a lot of attention to how her actions/rule affect the oppressed while rhaenyra doesn’t particularly care about the common people at all!

I'm gonna do what we do at work which is start this out with a lil ground rules corporate talk thing: We assume positive intent as a starting place. I'm taking this in good faith and I hope if anon sees this, they take it the same.

So the first point - that because dany grows up in poverty due to being a targaryen and rhaenyra grows up in privilege due to being a targaryen, that means they are too different and thus can't be compared. Firstly, I think it's just a bit silly when people say stuff like this. Sansa's sexual abuse and isolation at KL isn't somehow less traumatizing simply because she had access to food (food she frequently doesn't eat, because she's traumatized over all the sexual abuse!) nor is Arya's physical abuse in the Riverlands somehow less purely because she had a handful of friends. Catelyn having a husband that loves and respects her doesn't mean that there are not similarities in her raging against the system that has turned on her with Cersei's own rage against the system. There need not be a one to one similarity in order for us to find commonalities in themes and I think this constant "you can't compare those two" just stinks of ~oppression olympics~ but oppression just doesn't work like a checklist and if you experience the required threshold of terror, you "get" to call yourself oppressed in some way.

Moving on, the thing is, both of them experience the emotional and sexual incestuous grooming from an older relative that goes with being a Targaryen:

He pushed back her shoulders with his hands. “Let them see that you have a woman’s shape now.” His fingers brushed lightly over her budding breasts and tightened on a nipple. “You will not fail me tonight. If you do, it will go hard for you. You don’t want to wake the dragon, do you?” His fingers twisted her, the pinch cruelly hard through the rough fabric of her tunic. “Do you?” he repeated.

Daemon spent long hours in her company, enthralling her with tales of his journeys and battles. He gave her pearls and silks and books and a jade tiara said once to have belonged to the Empress of Leng, read poems to her, dined with her, hawked with her, sailed with her, entertained her by making mock of the greens at court, the “lickspittles” fawning over Queen Alicent and her children. He praised her beauty, declaring her to be the fairest maid in all the Seven Kingdoms. Uncle and niece began to fly together almost daily, racing Syrax against Caraxes to Dragonstone and back...Eustace, the less salacious of the two, writes that Prince Daemon seduced his niece the princess and claimed her maidenhood...The whole tale soon came out, in no small part thanks to Mushroom himself. King Viserys at first refused to believe a word of it, until Prince Daemon confirmed the tale was true. “Give the girl to me to wife,” he purportedly told his brother. “Who else would take her now?”

both of them also experience a much older sworn sword preying on their youth and fondness for him-

"What did she look like, your Lady Lynesse?" Ser Jorah smiled sadly. "Why, she looked a bit like you, Daenerys." He bowed low. "Sleep well, my queen." Dany shivered, and pulled the lionskin tight about her. She looked like me. It explained much that she had not truly understood. He wants me, she realized. He loves me as he loved her, not as a knight loves his queen but as a man loves a woman. She tried to imagine herself in Ser Jorah's arms, kissing him, pleasuring him, letting him enter her. It was no good. When she closed her eyes, his face kept changing into Drogo's.

Though many lords and knights sought her favor, the princess had eyes only for Ser Criston Cole, the young champion of the Kingsguard and her constant companion. “Ser Criston protects the princess from her enemies, but who protects the princess from Ser Criston?” Queen Alicent asked one day at court... However it happened, whether the princess scorned the knight or he her, from that day forward the love that Ser Criston Cole had formerly borne for Rhaenyra Targaryen turned to loathing and disdain, and the man who had hitherto been the princess’s constant companion and champion became the most bitter of her foes.

they are both forced into marriages they don’t want to be in-

Dany looked at Khal Drogo. His face was hard and cruel, his eyes as cold and dark as onyx. Her brother hurt her sometimes, when she woke the dragon, but he did not frighten her the way this man frightened her. “I don’t want to be his queen,” she heard herself say in a small, thin voice. “Please, please, Viserys, I don’t want to, I want to go home.”

"No." On her terrace, in her bathing pool, the little fish would nibble at her legs as she soaked. Even they kissed with more fervor than Hizdahr zo Loraq. "I do not love you."

And though His Grace reasoned with her, pleaded with her, shouted at her, and called her an ungrateful daughter, no words of his could budge her…until the king brought up the question of succession. What a king had done, a king could undo, Viserys pointed out. She would wed as he commanded, or he would make her half-brother Aegon his heir in place of her. At this the princess’s will gave way. Septon Eustace says she fell at her father’s knees and begged for his forgiveness, Mushroom that she spat in her father’s face, but both agree that in the end she consented to be married.

and start conflating violence, power, and safety in their minds-

The princess was not slow in answering this charge. She dispatched Prince Daemon to seize Ser Vaemond, had his head removed, and fed his carcass to her dragon, Syrax.

“He would make a monster of me,” she whispered, “a butcher queen.” But then she thought of Drogon far away, and the dragons in the pit. There is blood on my hands too, and on my heart. We are not so different, Daario and I. We are both monsters.

you say for dany her name is a death sentence, but for rhaenyra, being a targaryen is also a death sentence! not to "they very much killed jesus" you here, but they very much kill rhaenyra! if rhaenyra remains a “good targaryen” she is acutely aware she will lose everything, and this is something dany is aware of as well, it's why she reacts so badly to daario's "queens have no purpose but to warm some king’s bed and pop out sons for him" comment about her marriage to Hizdahr. rhaenyra's mother and both grandmothers die before they’re 25 of childbirth. rhaenyra grew up in the same court gael did, that saera did, that viserra did, likely knew the truth of what happened to each girl, and as a woman who is concealing her bastards, all of that has to terrify her. so she stays the “bad woman” the tyrant, the whore, the visenya, in an attempt to protect her children and that gets her killed. being a targaryen has devastating effects on both of them.

as for the differences in how they rule - i’m gonna be honest and say does it matter how they feel if the result is the same?

when they first come into true power, both women are more concerned with getting revenge than they are for settling the unrest-

“How many?” one old woman had asked, sobbing. “How many must you have to spare us?” “One hundred and sixty-three,” she answered. She had them nailed to wooden posts around the plaza, each man pointing at the next. The anger was fierce and hot inside her when she gave the command; it made her feel like an avenging dragon.

...whilst at the Red Keep Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen set about rewarding her friends and inflicting savage punishments on those who had served her half-brother...Henceforth, Celtigar decreed, traitors, rebels, and murderers would be beheaded within the Dragonpit, and their corpses fed to the queen’s dragons. All were welcome to bear witness to the fate that awaited evil men, but each must pay three pennies at the gates to be admitted.

both of them compromise on a stance that is integral to their whole platform-

Dany was shocked. “They want to be slaves?” “The ones who come are well spoken and gently born, sweet queen. Such slaves are prized. In the Free Cities they will be tutors, scribes, bed slaves, even healers and priests. They will sleep in soft beds, eat rich foods, and dwell in manses. Here they have lost all, and live in fear and squalor.” “I see.” Perhaps it was not so shocking, if these tales of Astapor were true. Dany thought a moment. “Any man who wishes to sell himself into slavery may do so. Or woman.” She raised a hand. “But they may not sell their children, nor a man his wife.” “In Astapor the city took a tenth part of the price, each time a slave changed hands,” Missandei told her. “We’ll do the same,” Dany decided. Wars were won with gold as much as swords. “A tenth part. In gold or silver coin, or ivory. Meereen has no need of saffron, cloves, or zorse hides.”

But the Queen’s Hand argued against this, for both girls had younger brothers. Rhaenyra’s own claim to the Iron Throne was a special case, the Sea Snake insisted; her father had named her as his heir. Lords Rosby and Stokeworth had done no such thing. Disinheriting their sons in favor of their daughters would overturn centuries of law and precedent, and call into question the rights of scores of other lords throughout Westeros whose own claims might be seen as inferior to those of elder sisters. It was fear of losing the support of such lords, Munkun asserts in True Telling, that led the queen to decide in favor of Lord Corlys rather than Prince Daemon.

both of them act vindictively and violently towards a low born woman in conjunction with stupid behavior from the violent men they’ve been groomed into loving-

Forgive me, sun of my life, she thought. Forgive me for all I have done and all I must do. I paid the price, my star, but it was too high, too high… “I thank you, Mirri Maz Duur,” she said, “for the lessons you have taught me.” “You will not hear me scream,” Mirri responded as the oil dripped from her hair and soaked her clothing. “I will,” Dany said, “but it is not your screams I want, only your life. I remember what you told me. Only death can pay for life.”

In a voice as cold as ice, she commanded Ser Luthor Largent to take twenty gold cloaks to the Dragonpit and arrest Ser Addam Velaryon. “Question him sharply, and we will learn if he is true or false, beyond a doubt.” As to the girl Nettles, “She is a common thing, with the stink of sorcery upon her,” the queen declared. “My prince would ne’er lay with such a low creature. You need only look at her to know she has no drop of dragon’s blood in her. It was with spells that she bound a dragon to her, and she has done the same with my lord husband.”

and I do think there is some similarity in the way that Dany sacks Astapor and it turns into a nightmareish ruin, and Rhaenyra lets KL fall into ruin as well.

you say rhaenyra doesn’t care about the common people but we don’t get her thoughts nor do we get the thoughts of a single person who is willing to tell the truth about her. both of our reliable sources hate her and mushroom is actively concealing things. we know dany cares about the smallfolk because we get her horror over drogon killing a child - only for her to forget that child’s name and decide the cost of her war doesn’t matter so much as taking her throne. this is the exact same moral justification rhaenyra is making - the safety of the people of KL are an acceptable compromise for her own throne.

what both of them want is less about the crown and more about what it represents to them. for dany, it’s home, belonging, love, safety, the simplicity of her life when it was just her, a viserys who had yet to lose his mind, and an aging ser willem darry. for rhaenyra, it’s the exact same - the simplicity of her life before aegon was born & her mother died, the love in her father choosing her over the men around him, the safety of her children. Both of them reach for violence to achieve those ends because they’ve been taught through a life of violence - albeit different sorts of violence - that force is the only way to protect yourself. And since Rhaenyra ultimately fails in her goal, I believe Daenerys will fail as well. Whether she’s smart enough to pull a Nettles and disappear (disappear not spread more violence ~liberating~ places that are not asking for her help or cultural arrogance) or if she, like Rhaenyra, will find that when she’s reached her limit, when she’s finally and truly lost, the door she thought she left open to escape through has been slammed shut behind her-

But it was not the plains Dany saw then. It was King's Landing and the great Red Keep that Aegon the Conqueror had built. It was Dragonstone where she had been born. In her mind's eye they burned with a thousand lights, a fire blazing in every window. In her mind's eye, all the doors were red.

#also i am being serious thanks for not being an asshole or talking down to me anon i appreciate it. we can disagree without being jerks! #anti daenerys targaryen #anti rhaenyra targaryen #asks #anons #rani attempts meta #also i’m tagging this with anti tags but if anyone starts shitting on either of them in the notes i’m deleting your comment #once again i’m not talking about bs fandom wars i’m talking about The Themes & the way violence shapes & breaks these two women. #so if people are tacky i will be upset. like if people started joking about cersei or alicent's rape. i'm talking about a sad thing here #trust i am not being facetious or saying i think they're evil. they're set up to fail but they both prove that in failing #they are in fact the dragon's heir. capable of everything the men around them are. whether those men like it or not.

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heart full of love and yearning after watching one bollywood movie

#that too with my mom!!!!!!! and okay like #it was rocky and rani okay so lots of old songs so she was telling me about the songs the actors actresses in it the way it was famous in #their time #it was sweet it's so fascinating listening to my parents talk about music and movies like they used to be young once starry eyes and hopefu #and a little bit stupid and open to love😭 #i wish i knew her when she was happy i wish i knew my dad when he was happy they were so #awesome and carefree and fun😭 #okay but alia bhatt >>>>>> #there was this scene ranveers dad was shouting at him telling him to shut her up with his hands jn her face and he kept getting louder #like they do when they're about to hit you #and sheSLAPPED HIS HAND AWAY AND SAID BUT NO MAIN ABHI BAAT KAR RAHI HU NA #most satisfying scene ever in entire bollywood so sick of women giving important speeches and the Man goes in to hit her and her love in #interest saves her from getting hit #like yes i get it love and loverboy standing up to his dad all very nice but thank u she can protect herself just fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Johnny and Rani as best friends forever Fanfiction

I am not able to overcome the evil that was done to my boi Johnny. So here we have a FF rewritten from the point Rani asks him to come with them. ( it's also on a03 under the same name!) 

Just the both of us 

„Come with us! This is your chance to escape too!”, Rani pleaded holding onto his arm.

But Johnny only shook his head.

“My brother needs me”, with one last look at Rani and her husband he left. He had to get to his brother. It was the only right thing to do. There was no one else left for him.

Only his brother and his antics that had taken overhand the last two weeks.

And hadn’t had Johnny the task of taking care of the whole operation for a few days and talking with people, normal people that weren’t crazy like his brother, he would have followed him blindly everywhere.

But now after meeting Rani and Adi and realizing there were still people out there trying to live a normal life in these hard times, he wasn’t so sure if the change his brother would bring would be better than what they already had.

Thinking of the woman he had get to know over the last few days he understood that you don’t need a working society and someone ruling over you but a loving partner at your side and you will get thru things. Even if they are hard. Even if it’s the sick taking hold of you. Even if it’s the end of the world.

As long as you were with someone that loved, adored and appreciated you, things wouldn’t be that bad.

Enjoying the time left with someone that thought you were worth it and not just a burden. Was it family by blood or chosen ones. And thinking of it he might be happier with Rani and Adi than he would be with his own brother.

Even not knowing her for long he thought they might have a connection. A different one than he had with his brother. He might even call them friends if times were different.

And that realization made him stop in his tracks. He had a friend. Against everything his brother told him his whole life that no one ever would care about him. That he was the only one that would ever protect him and would love him. But it wasn’t true. It wasn’t when the world was still okay, and it wasn’t now. But now was the moment Johnny realized that. That Rani wouldn’t only choose for him to be with them but almost begged for him to follow.

To go his own way and not just follow his brother that had manipulated him his whole life. He had the chance to change his life and he would take it. Rather now than when it would be too late, and his brother would choose his ending and not he himself.

So, Johnny rushed to get his things. He packed everything that was important to him and grabbed his guitar. He could see himself with Rani sitting in the sun and he could show her some simple notes to play. Her husband at the side watching them with glee in his eyes. He smiled at that thought and hurried to find them again.

The trouble that was taking place was enough for no one to notice anything. Now would be the perfect timing for all of them to leave.

When Johnny ran into the main hall, he was greeted with a crying Rani standing over a stature he saw her holding multiple times.

“Hey”, he started and approached her slowly, “What-what is happening?”

“He isn’t coming”, she sniffed.

“Who?”, Johnny asked and got even closer, but Rani only sniffed louder.

He wanted to comfort her but at the same time he knew they had to hurry and leave as fast as they could. In the moment people were occupied but not forever.

“The doctor? You mean you husband isn’t coming with us?”, he couldn’t hide his utterly lack of understanding. He had never pictured them leaving without Adi. Sure, he had become so taken up from his work but never enough to not come with them? All he did was for his wife and now he didn’t want to come. To lose his only chance to ever be free and be with his wife. Johnny couldn’t grasp it.

“No. He cannot leave his work behind. Not even for me”, she sniffed again and looked at the stature standing on his belongings he left behind.

“All he ever did was for you”, Johnny said and tried hugging her with all his things still in his hands.

“Yeah…”, she straightened her back and looked forward, “but he couldn’t stop when I asked. Things have changed. And it took me long enough for me to see it. I still love him but he’s losing himself in this work that I don’t want, no I don’t need, anymore. I think it is my time to leave without him now. Be on my own for my last ride.”

“I would come along if you still want me to”, was the only thing Johnny got out.

He wasn’t the one to judge her decision. In the end he had become friends with Rani and not the doctor. She asked him to come, and he would follow her gladly everywhere she wanted to go. He had nowhere else to go. She was the reason he was about to leave his brother and everything he knew so far behind. All for her. Well and for himself in a way. To finally stand up for himself and make decisions on his own.

For a second Johnny thought she looked thru him instead of at him but then her eyes focused on him.

“You’re coming?”

Johnny smiled and nodded now stepping back from the half hug and showing off his backpack and guitar.

“You asked and I realized I need to be free. I was controlled for all my life. For the first years my father controlled me and after that my brother. Now it’s time for me to just be me.”

“Just the both of us then”, Rani said almost laughing.

“Just the both of us”, Johnny echoed smiling at her.

#sweet tooth #johnny abbot #rani singh #Fanfiction #fanfic #FF #Friendship #canon compliant #Johnny&Rani #Coping #sweet tooth tv #Netflix did me dirty #i want them to be happy #i want them to be besties #what am I talking they already are