#ry talks meta

[rywritten]

Not like a headcannon or an au but what’s your favorite au or headcannon for technodreamnap or dnb/ dreamnap idc!

I like hearing ppls headcannond or personal favorite au’s

Though Im not sure if you’ve answered this before and if you have then my apologies! But, I think you’re a really cool writer and overall a really cool person to see on my dash! Have a fantastic week and i hope you have a great day/ night.

*holds this ask in my hands gently* thank you for enjoying my stuff, anon 😭❤️ i hope you're having an amazing week as well!

also, i love getting asks like this, so don't feel like you're bothering me at all bc i love to ramble abt all my hcs and aus tbh

as for my technodreamnap hcs/aus (i have so many and when it comes to fic ideas, i honestly don't know what to work on first lmao)

okay, enough about me rambling let's get started! (just a heads up that this got way out of hand pretty fast bc im a loose canon when it comes to talking about my thoughts about the ships i like lmao i hope you dont mind anon!) 

dreamnoblade hcs:

trust is a very big aspect of their relationship. something about two broken beings who has never been shown real love or affection and has given up on people and love as a result.. meeting each other and learning to love the other because if there’s anyone out there who can love the monster that i’ve become, then it would be someone who’s equally as awful.

just two characters with a sad backstory (who learned it the hard way not to get attached to others pretty early on in their life) managing to find comfort and solace in the other’s presence.. they learn to show the other that they are capable to feel love and to be loved in return though mutual trust because they get what the other person has going through (maybe not entirely, but they've been hurt too - they know what it’s like to hurt all over without a helping hand to anchor them - and that makes all the difference)

techno is insanely overprotective of dream. this is the only hc that i will never change in any of my dnb fics. techno (the moment he has fallen in love with dream) will be so overprotective because dream is THE object of his affection, basically ranking as the highest person on his short list of the people he actually cares about, and he as his infamous saying goes “the only thing that works in this world is that you treat others as they treat you those who have treated me with kindness. i will repay that kindness, tenfold. and those that treat me with injustice, that use me, that hunt me down, that hurt my friends. i shall repay that injustice a thousand times over.” his character is a big fan of an getting even and not letting others who have hurt him get away with it. and if he’s willing to repay an injustice (namely others hurting those he considers his friends,) he will make sure to repay that transgression a thousand times over, so imagine how much worse it would be to anyone who dared to hurt dream (the person techno loves) basically im obsessed with techno going batshit insane whenever dream gets hurt

speaking of obsessed, there’s this line by chirstopher marlowe that i always associate with how i see their dynamic, it goes:

"why should you love him whom the world hates so?"

"because he loves me more than the world."

(this is literally dreamnoblade, idc idc their love is just so more powerful, it’s weight is heavier and far stronger than any other force in this world that they are so willing to disregard anything else (morals, humanity, their own preservation) because they know - they know - that the other loves them more than anything this world has to offer

also they are two touch starved men that are slowly learning to open up to each other (not just through their thoughts and emotions, but also through gestures, comforting touches here and there, maybe a pat on the back, a hug at night, a soft kiss on the cheek) the first time dream probably hugged techno, the man combusts.. just down right stops working (error 404) because of the sheer surprise of the action and the overwhelming feeling that overtook him from the brief contact. 

some soft dreamnoblade hc:

dream likes the feeling of techno’s cloak wrapped around him and how techno is definitely a whole lot taller than him, and it makes him feel small (which rarely happens given his height) the feeling is unfamiliar yet comforting bc it gives him a sense of safety and security to be around him

they bicker like an old married couple bc techno loves messing with dream and dream is just “you wanna go?”

they geek out about books (greek mythology especially) together and have in-depth discussions about who the best pjo character is (percy for dream / leo for techno)

they cuddle post war and mayhem (its their way to destress) 

fav dreamnobalde aus that im an absolute sucker:

anything that can give me that sweet, sweet opposing forces having to work together in order to defeat a common enemy with lots of ust!! so royalty aus are great for this!

also maybe something really angsty like reincarnation aus where they keep meeting each other through different lifetimes, but one of them (dream) keeps meeting a very cruel demise as soon as they fall in love while the other (techno) is the only one to remember anything 😢

also a canon divergent fic where dream escapes prison pretty early and goes to techno for help

dreamnap hcs:

they have the best friends to enemies to lovers dynamic, ever. period. you can’t change my mind. they carried this entire trope on their backs, sorry any other piece of media that tried to use this trope, but dreamnap has you beat 👋

something about two people with shared history is just the bestest, most delicious, compelling dynamic in the world... exes. old friends. childhood friends. old friends who are no longer friends. decade long slowburns. multi decade slowburns. the works... that’s dreamnap

just dreamnap being friends to enemies to lovers is jsut so intimate. the whole “i know you i know everything about you i have told you all my deepest secrets and you have told me yours and now i am trying to kill you literally or metaphorically because hate and love are separated by a very thin line and i don't know which side i am on” this is basically the whole spiel sapnap gives dream at prison that goes “dream... if you try and break out early... you only have one life left, okay? and, you know, i don't think it's gonna be tommy, it's not gonna be techno, dream. if you break out of this prison, it's gonna be- it's gonna be me who takes your final life.” 

but also focusing on their history and friendship, dreamnap is basically that entire prospect of someone becoming a home. dream not knowing what love and affection was due to his horrible upbringing and meeting sapnap who’s literal love language is acts of service? 

ive always thought that it was sapnap who taught dream what it means to be loved, just the whole unmet childhood need for unconditional love and safety... dream is a very distrustful character by nature and sapnap definitely had to be gentle with him, taking his time to show that he means no harm and dream learning to actually lower his guard for the reward of actually being loved in return... subjecting himself to the mortifying ordeal of being known

their shared history definitely mean being so attuned to each other’s needs and temperament, they’re sensitive to the subtle change in the other’s emotions/actions and are able to sense something’s wrong without having to ask

also would like to say that their teamwork is unparalleled. just the sheer understanding that they have of each other’s thoughts (strategy and implementation) and skills when it comes to fighting together is the most badass thing to witness, a turn of their wrist a subtle shift in their posture and the other just knows.

also going back to the enemies with a shared past.. ive already said it before but i want to point out how they most definitely still have feeling for each other even after all that they’ve been through because they’re two codependent characters that probably can’t stand the thought of being away from each other (no matter how many times they say they hate the other and that they never want to see the other person again, they always come back to each other)

just the absolute insanity of the quote: “we make each other alive. does it matter if it hurts?” and how it pretty much represents dreamnap’s iconic (and slightly toxic) and poetic relationship post prison-break.

some soft dreamnap hcs:

they love using nicknames (anytime sapnap calls dream baby boy, darling, love.. it gets to dream and when dream calls sap pandas, sapnap melts)

they have the same mannerisms bc of the years they’ve spent together (their interests are so entwined together bc of it)

they use each other’s clothes a lot

very overprotective of each other, the whole “touch him and you die” whenever someone messes with the other

fav dreamnap aus that im an absolute sucker:

any canon divergence where sapnap finds out what dream’s been going through in the prison, how he sees the dream post torture and he goes ballistic

also super into my limbo au (which you can read here!)

also have been working on a dreamnap role reversal au for months now 😂

some additional technodreamnap hc:

techno and sapnap don’t really get along, they’re not necessarily enemies but they aren’t friends either, they only tolerate the other’s presence bc of dream

they bicker a lot, are both pretty petty and very much in love with dream so they keep trying to one up each other for dream’s attention

both sapnap and techno are overprotective and over powered, will really fuck shit up when dream gets hurt

dream can handle himself just fine bc he’s dream. the other two are just arm candy (lmao)

when together, other people around them start fearing for their lives

the calamity trio (they being forth chaos, calamity, and destruction where ever they go)

alright, i guess that’s it for now. if you’ve managed to read this entire post without wanting to bang your head to the wall from the word vomit, congrats and ily! 🥳👏♥️

#ry talks meta #ry.plies #dreamnap #dnb #thanks for indulging me with this ask anon #i hope you got something out of this mess of a meta #i will it stop talking about the technodreamnap agenda #it needs to be perceived!!

[quinn-of-aebradore]

Rewatched my recording of Rowen's epilogue party today for fun and promptly got knocked out with emotion by her conversation with Gale again, so I figured I might as well inflict that on y'all :3

Their conversation opened with a hug, which is in this post, it's very cute, and then Gale talks about teaching for a bit, prompting this:

Which is wonderful and lovely! Rowen's looking at him so fondly, which makes sense given that their little magic lesson was the first time anyone had ever "properly" taught her magic! She was a scrappy little thieves guild kid who taught herself, after all. So of course she tells him he's an excellent teacher.

Of course she does, given the above. And then-

This look, coupled with that line and the fact that Rowen imagined going on a romantic walk with him during that moment? And that very soon after, he told her about Mystra and she promptly pulled away and that was that? Heartbreaking.

And he follows it up by complimenting her! He knows very well by now that Rowen in that moment had never been formally educated in magic like he was and he's telling her she was already incredible from her own efforts! This man is still so smitten. And then he redirects, back to his students before asking-

Gods, how conflicted I (and Rowen) felt about answering this. Everyone she's talked to so far, when they've asked (and the option was there), she's mentioned Astarion and how happy they are. But with Gale, after they've just danced around the "what could've been" aspect of their relationship, it would feel like rubbing salt in a wound to not only do that, but call Astarion the love of her life, wouldn't it?

So, wizard-exclusive option four it was.

Look at this man's face! Oh my god. Granted I didn't manage to get the best screenshot of it, I was fighting the video player's progress bar a bit, but I swear. He is so fucking fond. I'm unwell about it.

And then!!! He goes from So Damn Fond to "I can't stop talking about you" "I've told my students all about you. You should come teach with me." He has it so bad, my heart hurts.

This is very much Rowen's Worry Incarnate face but let me tell you. When I heard that Gale becomes a professor in his non-god ending, I immediately headcanoned that he brings Rowen in as a guest lecturer, not knowing that he actually makes that offer. Because he knows her history, he knows how much something like that would mean to her. That even though she's grown so much from her state of feeling constantly inferior to everyone when they met, that having her skill as a wizard legitimized in that way is a dream come true. So that's not a look of worry on her face, really. That's "I am holding back tears".

And then below that, there's the layer of "I've missed you, here's a way we can spend time together that I know you won't decline". Not in a manipulative way, obviously, he knows she's happy and he wouldn't begrudge her of that in a million years. Regardless of their relationship being platonic or romantic or anything in between, Rowen's his closest friend who he can truly talk about magic with and it's the same for Rowen! And in the end, even with the heartache that is there, that's what their foundation is and that's what matters.

#me? writing long meta about my OC and her ex-not-boyfriend? who could've guessed XD not like this is the 2nd time it's happened #i am so so curious if he only talks abt the weave scene like that if you had an active romance and broke up or if thats how he refers to it #in general. i guess i'll see when i finish the game as Ry XD #i really didn't mean for this to be so long but what can i say? wizards compel me this should come as a surprise to No One XD #baldurs gate 3 #rowen hellane #gale dekarios #rowengale

[elvisqueso]

Pocahontas (1995): 3 times Pocahontas is compared to her mother + 1 time she's recognized on her own merits.

rambling lil meta under the cut

see, what's crazy about this whole situation is that it makes me wonder what exactly pocahontas's mom was like to have left such a massive impression on literally everyone in their community? there's that outright statement that "yeah, your mom's spirit is in the wind, basically, and our people venerate her as a spiritual guide (at the very least)." we know that she's the main connection between pocahontas and grandmother willow, and there's an implication in there that whatever leadership role she held in the village is expected to fall on pocahontas's shoulders someday.

i am so convinced that this role is some kind of spiritual leader/shaman position. wise-woman, priestess, whatever it's called. we don't see anyone else besides kekata performing any kind of spiritual rites, and even he isn't seen acting in direct contact with spiritual entities. kekata has to perform chants, provide offerings, and use a medium. pocahontas can just fuckign. talk to the things. how is she doing that? why isn't anyone else really able to do that? john smith could talk with grandmother willow but would he be able to if pocahontas wasn't there (i actually think he could but that's a different post)? has she ever done that for literally anybody else? nakoma never mentions grandmother willow. nobody mentions grandmother willow. apparently, the only two people who knew about her before pocahontas brought her new bf over was pocahontas and her mom.

i'm losing track of myself here, but the point is pocahontas is Highly aware of the ghost she's expected to live up to. and it sucks. and there's a lot more to her character arc about this but the eventual come-around to accepting that she has a responsibility to be more than herself and more than her mother's ghost is so heartbreaking because it also meant she had to let go of her soulmate at the same time so i c ry

#pocahontasedit #disneyedit #pocahontas (1995) #pocahontas #help i'm hyperanalyzing disney's pocahontas again #<- blog tag for these metas now #queso*gifs #queso*edit #i've been thinking about this for literal days #i've beein having a lot of THoughts but am having trouble writing them down lately so bear with me #but pocahontas's resistance to engaging with Anyone until john smith shows up is Fascinating to me #nakoma had to hunt her down to talk to her and got capsized for her trouble #they giggle about it at the time but pocahontas's reluctance to open up to nakoma throughout the film is sooooo oo #this weird semi-deified status her mom has i think fucked pocahontas up a lil #bc it gives her a similar 'unapproachable' quality if she proves to have the same capability #i think she has very Mixed feelings about that and is wary of engaging to closely with others because of it

[syrupsyche]

10 & 16?

Assuming this is for the violence ask:

10. worst part of fanon

This is something I've observed across many fandoms so it's not surprising that Les Mis is affected by it too, but the boiling down of a character to One Trait and making that the be-all, end-all of that character. It's even worse if that Trait isn't even canonical and just fanon headcanon-ry! Some I've seen in the past that I've cringed at:

Enjolras being angry-violent-shouty 24/7 (He's not! He doesn't even talk much if he's not possessed by the Ideal to make his thoughts known. And he canonically abhors violence.)

Joly only being a hypochondriac nervous wreck (He is said to be one of the happiest amongst the Amis! He, like Bossuet, finds joy in life despite its darker sides!)

Grantaire being the 'sensible one' with how 'rash' everyone behaves WRT revolution/protesting etc. (Huh???? Did we read the same book? There's nothing high and mighty about not caring about revolutionary causes or things adjacent to that; Hugo states this explicitly)

And just many other things in general. It's been much better in recent times, with fans getting more into meta and character analyses so that their fan-works can be as in-character and historically accurate as possible. And I'm not saying you can't go OOC for the sake of fluff and smut; fan-works are ultimately a projection of the fandom rather than a wholesale take on the original canon, but misinterpretations of characters that get circulated as fact just irks me greatly.

16. you can't understand why so many people like this

Again, a blast to the past: Had no clue where the Jehanparnasse ship came from. Was this when the uwu flower boy × angsty bad boy trope was popular? (Again, another watering down of Jehan's and Montparnasse's characters that I dislike). It's a very random combination that I can't really seem to find any reason for other than the above trope.

...Then again, I'm an avid fan of the enjolsette siblings AU and that hc came about because of their (popularised) hair colours lol. So I probably shouldn't be throwing stones in glass houses.

#ty for the ask!! #again i think ive ranted way too much lol #les mis #syrup ramble #syrup asks

[dr3amofagame]

any dreblr blog reccs?? i already follow angela, you, theminecraftbox, and apples but there isnt Enough dreblr on my dash

oh boy i'm not going to cover everyone here because im REALLY BAD at being thorough but do check these people out if u can !!

@dreamsclock sparrow my beloved has SO much awesome writing. if u aren't following him you should do that FOR SURE

@judgehangman is so cool. bubbles is SO cool . follow bubbles right now everything he says abt c!dream drives me up the WALL it's awesome

@overthinkingfandom bluebell has so so so much cool meta one of the smartest people i know !!! definitely check out what she's written literally one of the foundations of dreblr

@lostshideyhole lost my beloved :] rly cool and really awesome, definitely go check em out

@kenjo-arts kenjo has AMAZING art u probably know them already but im not going to not rec kenjo . everyone follow kenjo /threat

@carpedzem nat !!1 for all ur c!dnf needs <3 also really sweet and really cool art :D

@kiuda ki my beloved !! for c!dteam and og 8 and c!dnf Thoughts (tm)

@hiding-in-the-vault vault has AWESOME art and such cool AUs and comics !!!! and also i'm trying to steal her cat shh

@vioarry ry isn't always super active nowadays but their art is literally gorgeous . go show them love :D

@the-final-sif u probably know sif but gotta recommend them as well, one of theeee coolest writers here and always a good source of Brainrot and also life advice. they've also got the dreblrsmp and dreblrsmp discord for a great place to meet and hang out with other dreblr members!

@simplepotatofarmer LOYAL OUR BELOVED !!! for chickenposting and c!rivals thoughts, could not recommend more 

@dreamhot honorary lorehead dreblr member XD lee is more cc focused but also my friend and dreblr kind of kidnapped him so, you know, reccing him here as well

there are lots more people for sure on dreblr, these are just some of the people i know well :] (hi frens!) but yeah -- hang out, lurk a bit, talk to people, and i'm sure you'll have a great time here.

#ANYONE FEEL FREE TO ADD MOREEEE im really bad with rec lists #my asks !!

[rosexknight]

Walking Tazer

The Meta is Futile is beginning a second game: Lost Mine of Phandelver! And that means NEW CHARACTERS. One of them, played by Ry, is this bab: Kelcys Lanxal.

I love giving dragonborn physical traits of the dragons that their blood is from, and since Kelcyx is a blue dragonborn, he gets a little nose horn like other blue dragons. A wizard that will talk your ear off, Kelcyx is a blue dragonborn who is on “application study” or “work study” from his college. I'm sure an easy job to escort a cart to Phandalin is just what he needs! We're online tonight at 10pmEST! Come watch us begin Lost Mine of Phandelver~! https://www.twitch.tv/metaisfutile/

Hope you enjoy~! Want art like this monthly? Why not join? My General Patreon, safe for all audiences: www.patreon.com/rosexknight My 18+ ADULT-ONLY Patreon: www.patreon.com/rosexxxknight

#dnd #dragonborn #dragon #breaktimedoodles #tmif

[seaprofound]

I SEE YOU, I CHERISH YOU ♡

instructions: positivity challenge! list 6 blogs that have interacted with you in some way, shape, or form and show your appreciation. let’s recognize each other’s efforts! repost, do not reblog!

♡ moogle (@theydefy): YOU ARE MY ANGEEEEEEEL (my love) YOU’RE EVERYTHING I NEEEEEED (and more)—okay, cheesy song aside, I legit care for you so much, moogle, like you have NO idea. if I was peanut butter, I’d consider you to be my jelly (in a totally platonic way ofc). thanks to you, I DO, in fact, consider ernesto to be the besto! gosh, where do I even begin with your ernie? he’s so much more fleshed out than his canon version, then I think you could forgive someone for mistaking him for your oc. backstory can be a tricky thing to implement for characters that you don’t learn much about in their respective canon but the one that you have crafted for ernie makes a lot of sense and explains SO much about him. at the same time, though, reason does not equal justification for any misdeeds and you understand that perfectly. gosh, I feel so lucky to have you on my dash tbh—you are just the best, okay. ♡♡

♡ bird (@mielmoto): bird, first of all, I just wanna apologize for not recognizing your awesomeness when I interacted with you on honey for the first time. I was a FOOL and the whole world deserves to know that. second of all, talking with you is such a delight and I adore seeing honey on my dash even when she’s not interacting with po (whom she should frankly stay away from lest she’d be corrupted lbr /j) this may sound kinda weird but I just wanna squish her tbh. she’s just so darn cute !! you are such a total vibe btw and I’ve loved every single one of our conversations. here’s hoping that we can talk more often! ♡♡

♡ ry (@demonstigma): new salt buddy alert! ry, I have never been as informed about a Certain Show That I Will Not Name as when I was discussing it with you. you have really enlightened me on the bullshit that went on in that show and, for that, I am eternally grateful. you are also so easy to talk to and I just really dig your chill vibe. lastly, your oc really intrigues me because it’s not often that I see a demon that has some sort of connection to pagan gods. I love reading about all of the little quirks that he has (along with the Deep Stuff ofc) and look forward to the day that he’ll officially be introduced to my menace of a muse. ♡♡

♡ winter (@bledwaves): another cool oc! winter, is it cheating to say that I love your everything? if it is, then I’d have to say that my favorite aspect about your blog probably has to be your long metas. I’m a SUCKER for lots of detail and, every time you post one of your metas, I feel so FED. taiyang is one of the most interesting ocs I’ve ever seen and the amount of thought that you put into him is enviable! I’ve also enjoyed chatting with you and think that it’s such a crying shame that we don’t chat more often tbh. you know that expression “as cool as cucumber”? you’re that times 9,000—no, times infinity. love you, bish. ♡♡

♡ renee (@nectaric): an oldie but a goodie! lmao, sorry but I just couldn’t resist. how long has it been since we’ve known each other? 6 years ?? damn, how the time flies. although we don’t interact as much as we used to back in the days of yore, I just want you to know that you will always have my heart. I’ve told you this time and time again but your interpretation of zeus completely changed how I viewed him. while I don’t think I could ever be the big zeus super-fan that you are—that crown forever belongs to you lbr—you have influenced me in a number of ways. for example, I think it’s weird now whenever I come across a take of zeus that makes him too jock-like or doesn’t mention him being genderfluid in some way. like. where’s the prettiness? this zeus looks too manly! I want a refund !! jokes aside, I wish you every happiness and hope that you have the best of luck with your book. knowing you, the final product will probably be amazing! ♡♡

♡ simy (@dethqveen): wow, so many cool ocs! what is this—the holiday season? simy, although we haven’t roleplayed (yet), I’ve enjoyed seeing you on my dash (not to mention the conversations that we’ve had on tumblr IMs). eerie is such a wonderfully fleshed out character and it’s honestly amazing to see just how much they have evolved over the years. the fact that their current iteration is so different from their prototype speaks volumes about how open to change you are as a writer. writers need to have that level of flexibility imo because, if characters were set in stone, then they wouldn’t be allowed to grow and surprise us—and that’s no fun at all! I’m so sorry btw that a certain anonymous dickhead is giving you such a hard time (AGAIN at that, ugh). I hope that you can finally put an end to their hatred once and for all. ♡♡

♡ all of my mutuals not mentioned on this list (whether we interact or not): first of all, thank you for becoming a part of my dash. the fact that you looked at my blog and thought “hey, this blog is pretty neat, I think I’ll give it a follow” is just so humbling. I have HORRIBLE perfectionism-related, performance anxiety issues—try saying that 10 times fast—so, I tend to have less than steller opinions about my writing capabilities. (seriously, just ask my fourth grade teacher whose class I nearly failed because I was so over-critical of my writing, that I was too scared to even try to write, lmao) therefore, even something as simple as a follow back just melts my heart tbh. if we have interacted even a little bit, I wish that we could interact some more. if we haven’t interacted yet, then I look forward to the day where one of us makes the first step. until then, keep on being cool and awesome, fam. ♡♡

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[istumpysk]

Ygritte and Lyanna when we see them through POVs of Jon and Ned respectively, both of these female characters draw textual parallels with @ry@ . But we know there are parallels in subtext that can be drawn with Sansa . Already many metas have been written on that subject .

Ygritte has blue grey eyes ( Sansa's blue + @ry@'s grey ) . In the books till now we haven't got any description of Lyanna's eye color . Maybe it's because it's assumedly grey just like the classic Stark coloring and Ned needn't have to talk about it because as he said @ry@ reminded him of Lyanna but it still quite bugs me that a female character who is tragically romanticised to such an extent in the books doesn't have any canon description of her eyes yet. Maybe she is grey eyed like @ry@, Jon and Ned . It's interesting because Benjen is described to have blue grey eyes instead of grey . Rhaegar, Dany and Viserys have different eye color with only little variations . Same could be for Lyanna and Benjen having the blue grey eyes to Ned's grey .

That's super interesting, anon. I had no idea Benjen had blue-grey eyes.

Man, dark features, blue eyes? Benji really is a dreamboat, huh?

My assumption would have been that Lyanna has grey eyes like Arya, Jon, and Ned, but now I wouldn't be surprised to learn differently.

Thanks for the message. :)

#stumpy ask #anon

[fedonciadale]

I was really surprised 😯 that you had read the books way back when they were published. Your interpretation of the text (I am not talking about Jonsa ) is very refreshing and is vastly different to those that had read the books way back in late 90s and early aughties. The general consensus in the fandom regarding popular interpretations and theories had been devised by predominantly the ones who read the books even way before D&D thought about adapting ASOIAF and many of those character analysis and metas have trickled down into the present day fandom as well that anything one interpret that stands against the popular ones ( Hero Dany,Useless and Dark Sansa, Stannis the Mannis,Jaime and Hound being good whereas Cat being a villain, S*ns*n, J*n*rys, good guys assembling together to fight the Others etc ) is regarded as blasphemous and is never given room for discussion .

Hi there!

Yes, I really read the books when they first came out!

The reason for why I became that is simple. Back then I sort of lurked around and looked up theories and everything and half-heartedly believed them (three headed dragon, Jon and Dany die together for the light  and all that) but I never believed them all (I liked Cat from the beginning and no one could persuade me not to like her) But I never liked these theories. I was extremely biased against them. So I always had the feeling that I missed something. Something did not sit right with me. Something was constantly nettling me. I could not point my finger to it though. And then season 6 happened and Jon and Sansa were reunited and it was as if some puzzle piece had finally clicked into place. My whole understanding of ASOIAF changed and Jonsa was the key that unlocked it for me. I finally had found tons of theories (not Jonsa but somehow related to Jonsa) that made sense and completely calmed my vague disappointment with the theories I had hitherto believed.

That is why I would say shipping goggles can make you see clearer. You know as with every kind of glasses it depends on where your focus is if you can see better or worse with them.

I’ve never looked back. I hope it has changed me to being more open about different takes on literature.

In a way this was easy for me. Because I never liked Jon€rys, and I never liked any of the other theories, and when the first theory came along that gave me hope, that it would not be the romantic ship of ASOIAF and that everything would be quite different from what the BNF assumed I eagerly swallowed it. Lol!

Thanks for the ask!

#anon ask #Jonsa #How I became a Jonsa #I really read the books when they first came out.

[spartanxhunterx]

So late the party has left.

Ok, I've had this submission from @starmage2 for ever and just got around to it now.

As a heads up I've changed the 'Alien invasion ' to Gorilla Grodd invasion instead. Same general thing though.

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Paris was not a place the flash visited often or even with purpose. A city of calm and peace that was unaffected by the world's crazies, maniacs and supervillians. There has never been a reason to be in Paris, for anyone from the league. Aside from maybe taking a superspeed shortcut or flying well above the city to make time to ones real destination.

But now Flash, or Barry Allen to those close to him, feared that the millennia long peace was going to be broken. News had spread that Gorilla Grodd, One of Flash's Rivals, had snuck his way to Paris, France, with plans to use De-evolution devices to regress the human population for his own uses.

That was Not something the justice league was going to ignore, it would be like ignoring an upstart villain or a call for aid. Such things were not taken lightly.

he had long since past Paris' border and was making his way to the Eiffel tower, Where the rest of the Justice league members that were joining him would be meeting up with him. It was considered the most neutral and hidden spot in Paris after dark.

Still, he indulged himself by taking the long scenic route, confident that he would beat everyone there. Except for maybe superman but who cares about that?

So it was a huge surprise, when passing the Louvre, that a large portal opened in front of him and before he could redirect himself he was already through to the other side, his feet skid against the oiled floor as he tumbled into a pre-placed net. The trap triggered and the next thing he knew he was tied up and dangling a foot off the floor.

Ignoring the oncoming footsteps he tried twisting his limbs, if he could move just the slightest amount he could friction burn the ropes around him to free him. It wasn't until he felt something pointy touch his chest and a hand guide his chin that he looked at the perpetrators. There were three, one female, two males.

one guy looked like he was dressed up as a monkey with a Bo Staff, the girl like a bee and the other guy... Well he wasn't sure up he was going to guess a horse due to the horseshoe they had.

"Watch it speedy." The girl talked, a hint of smug laced in her voice. "Try to vibrate your way out of that and I'll stick you to the spot."

" do you have any idea who I am? What kind of trouble you'll be in for doing this? " Cause he knew the rest of the team would be suspicious if he wasn't at least the second person there, these three were playing a dangerous game and he wasn't in the mood to deal with more wannabe villains.

"The Flash," the horse? Started , gesturing to his tied up self. "Fastest man alive, scarlet speedster, defender of Central City. And if my suspicions are correct, Barry Allen. "

flash sputtered slightly, voice cracking with his next words. "W-What, No!"

" Ha! Instant denial! " The monkey exclaimed as he pointed to him before clapping the other guy on the shoulder. " You got it right on the head Pegasus."

OK, Pegasus, one name down. "So, you the ring leader here?" He turned to him and Barry realised he couldn't make out his expression due to his dark glasses, who wears sunglasses at night?

"No. I'm more of the... Tactical analysis type. Information provider and long term planner." He pointed to the other two. " My cohorts here are Abeille and roi singe. "

 "The more important thing here, is why is the justice league here in Paris when you've been banned from entering."

 " What! When did this happen!? "

 "Six years ago."

Flash stared dumbfounded at the three, all attempts to escape forgotten. The JL was banned from Paris? And had been for six years? "Why?"

" Oh please. " Abeille scoffed as she picked up her discarded coffee drink, taking a slow sip to force tension to grow. "Don't act like you don't know why, you're fully aware and if not?... Ask Green lantern."

Roi singe's Bo Staff let out a chime and he slid open the panel to reveal the communicator. "Anything on your end yet?" The voice on the other end was feminine, the three Parisian heroes easily recognized Ladybugs voice.

" Yeah actually, managed to bag the Flash, trap worked like a Charm. "

"The Flash? Interesting. See what he knows, we've got reports of odd noises coming from an old abandoned warehouse. Me, Viper And Ry are gonna check it out, Chats on the way to you and so are some local Officers, let them deal with the Flash. "

"So, what are you doing here Speedy wonder?" Pegasus smacked Roi on the chest before turning his critical gaze to the tied up hero.

"What he means is, why are you hear and who else should we expect, I doubt you came to Paris for a holiday. You shouldn't have been caught by this trap, you react too fast, you were occupied with something."

" The JL had received reports that Grodd, Gorilla Grodd, has made his way to Paris. Nothing good had ever come from him being anywhere near humans so we sent a team to deal with it before too much damage can arise. "

The three of them looked at each other skeptically, since when did the JL care about collateral damage?

"Ok, meet up point, now."

" You think I'm gonna tell that to a bunch of upstart villains? "

There was a moment of silence before the three of them burst out laughing, Roi had to prop himself up by his staff while Abeille almost doubled over. When she was done she splashed the remains of her, now cold, coffee over the heroes face.

"Villains? Really?" She sneared pulling the heroes face closer to hers. "We are the heroes of Paris, Defenders of France, part of the Miracle team. If you ever get the chance, ask Diana what a Miraculous is... And she will know, any statement to the contradictory is a lie."

"Now, meet up location?"

" Eiffel tower. "

" Who will be there? "

"Batman, Superman, Wonder woman, Green lantern And Robin."

"Good. Officer Cuff him and give him a cell." Unknown to The Flash several officers had arrived, they quickly slapped on some anti-meta handcuffs before removing him from the net , shoving the 'hero ' into the police car before driving away.

"Chat's on his way to the tower, let's give him some back up."

-

It was twenty minutes later, the use of two vemons, one uproar and the combined might of Pegasus, Abeille, Roi singe, Chat Noir and Carapace to subdue the heroes who had been waiting for the Flash.

Not that the flight was difficult, not while Green lanterns ring was on the Fritz and couldn't form a single thing, Superman was Frozen in place, Along with Robin, Batman was being held in a restraint by Carapace and Diana had been given a fright by being teleported way above them for a few moments before she and Green lantern were tied up in Abeille's Wire.

it was a good thing the team was well within their mid twenties, had they been teens their miraculous would have run out by now. Instead they could cast their powers as much as they wished while only gaining some exhaustion if they went too far. Without the fear of de-transforming.

"Well... That was easy." Roi Singe leaned against the frozen Form of Robin, not bothered by the fact that the violent vigilant was frozen mid-strike.

"I don't think..." Carapace grunted as he tightened his grip to Batmans arms , keeping a hold above his elbows so he could keep the man's arms behind his back. "Getting the drop on unsuspecting people AND freezing their power player," his head jutted to superman, where Chat Noir was happily sitting on his shoulders as he played with his tool. "Can be considered a fight, more like a slaughter really. "

"I agree." Abeille nodded as she tugged her two captives closer to her, without missing a beat she sat on the Amazonian's back before propping her feet up on Green lanterns head. "So, greenie, recognise us?"

"Should I?" He tried to move his head from under the bee hero's foot but was quickly met with the heel of said foot impacting the back of his head. "Hey, what was that for!?"

" You really don't recognise me Hal Jordan? " Chat Noir growled out as he leaped off supermans shoulders before lifting the other others face with his baton.

Said hero stiffened at his name and the Cat Hero took it as his cue to continue. "The justice League receive, over a period of three years, a large amount of calls for aid from France, Paris specifically."

Both Batman and Wonder woman ceased their resistance as they heard this, why was this the first time they were hearing it?

"From two, young, barely teen, kids. Who had far too much responsibility thrusted onto them, who had to fight a maniac who mind controlled and powered up people who were experiencing negative emotion. "

"He targeted kids... A lot."

" What? " Despite their age and experience many of those present flinched at the harshness in Batmans voice, Pegasus turned to him, emotion hidden behind his darkened glasses.

"The butterfly Miraculous of Transmission is able to find people who experience strong emotion, be they negative or positive and empower them based on the current circumstances, like say... "

He paused as he tried to find a viable scenario to use.

"Ok, if you say someone falling from a tall tower and you really wanted to save them, a butterfly weilder could empower you and give you flight, either by giving you wings or... Making you like him." He pointed to superman.

"Hawkmoth, however, would wait until you had negative emotions, being dumped, bullied, fired so on and so forth normally caused these things and he would make it possible to get revenge, with the exception being that they HAD to get Ladybug And Chat Noirs miraculous to pay off the 'debt' they were in. "

"They never remembered the things they did, fortunately, can't say the same for those who died and came back to life though."

Those present Blinked, Batmans mouth opened and closed for a moment before his steely gaze landed on Hal.

"Paris once Flooded, an estimated 87% of Paris drowned that day... The other 13% wasn't purely kids."

"Hal."

" I didn't know ok! " Hal was recoiling from the glare that Batman was sending his way. "I thought it was a prank, ok! I didn't think it was real, how can you take two kids who dress up as a Ladybug And a Cat seriously?"

"You should have investigated, met up with them and assessed the situation First, not assumed."

" I know. " Hal's head hit the floor beneath him with a sigh. The Paris hero's looked at him like he was worth less then the dirt under their boots.

"If you help us tonight, we'll help you afterwards." The looks returned to Batman where after a moment a few of them scoffed.

"Hawkmoth's in jail dude." Carapace shook the vigilante's arms. "Has been for... Four years now, we've already reclaimed the lost Miraculi and the book, now we just deal with petty crime and... Well, your mess, it seems."

"Stick to punching Gotham's nutbags, we'll deal with Paris." No one objected to Chat's words, though Batman defiantly seemed to slump at them.

The cat hero shook his head at the older hero before his baton rang, his flipped it open and a moment afterwards Ladybugs voice came through, the Paris hero's were able to pick up on the urgency in her voice.

"Chat, I need you, Roi, Bee, Pegasus and Rena here now."

" on it, " He looked up as he closed his baton. "You heard her, let's go, Pegasus, get Rena, Carapace, keep an eye on these lot."

" got it dude. " He let go of Batmans arms as Abeille released both wonder woman and Green lantern from their bindings. Simultaneously both superman and Robin were released from the effects of venom as it was released. The other Paris heroes leapt away.

"So... Carapace right?" Diana extended her hand out to the turtle hero, who had leant against the railings with his arms crossed.

"I know who you are, and Tikki is not happy with you right now." She flinched at that. "For twelve years you ignored us, four years after we beat Hawkmoth do you finally show up and it's to deal with one of your own. I think I speak for all of Paris when I say, We don't want you here. "

"Since when do you have the authority to do that?" Both Robin and Carapace had a small stare off before Carapace rolled his eyes .

"Since France voted to ban all Non-miraculous heroes, which includes the justice League. You didn't care before, why care now?"

" is there anything that can be done? "

Carapace shook his head at superman. "You are far too late on that dude, there's being late to a party then there's turning up after the hosts have cleaned up. "

 "You guys turned up for the party days after it was over, so save some face, wait for them to come back, get the Flash then leave. "

"The Flash is here?"

" Dudes spending his time in a cell tonight. "

#miraculous ladybug #ml fic #ml x dc #Ladybug #Chat Noir #Carapace #rena rouge #Viperion #ryuko #Pegasus #roi singe #Batman #Robin #wonder woman #Superman #The Flash #Green Lantern #Justice league salt #gorilla grodd

[rywritten]

why you should ship c!technodreamnap 🐷 x 🟢 x 🔥

#someone sent me an ask earlier about why i like c!technodreamnap #and since i have no self-control I decided to answer them by making an entire ppt presentation about the how's and why's #click on the images for better quality #i finally managed to fix all the typos #dreamnap #dreamnoblade #dnb #ry talks meta #i managed to add all 11 slides bc im not on mobile #take that inferior mobile tumblr features

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You can see my mind totally jumps about as i'm going to talk about season 3.1 now. ( i think i'm just rying to rank my favorite episodes, for my opinion, and cos i don't want to work when i should be!!)

So the scene in the Lima Bean, where Klaine talk about Blaine transferring shool. Your meta on Kurt for this episode said: "You know there’s some interesting meta floating around about this scene recently – about their competitive nature and about how Blaine really isn’t /that/ competitive, but Kurt totally is." So I had a look for the old meta, and I did find one person, (andersonhummelarchive) that talked about early season 3, and how Blaine was not at all competitive.

This is not how i think of Blaine at all, i think he's highly competitive - from being lead of the Warblers right through to the end of season 6, particularly about show choir. He's not like Rachel competitive though, and won't hurt others to be the centre of attention, but is willing to share the spotlight; particularly for Kurt or other friends.

I'm just wondering why you think he's not competitive, and what views other people might have as well?

thanks!! Jen

Hmmmm, I’m not sure I have a good answer, mostly because I don’t have any memory of what I was referring to when I wrote that.  

Blaine can be competitive and he cannot be.  It doesn’t drive him like a lot of other characters, and he’s much more open to compromise more often than not.  I don’t know - I’m not sure I have any solid thoughts on this one. 

Anyone else like to chime in? 

#sometimes I don't have good answers :P #1908jmd

[amedetoiles]

give me a character meme! wwx please!!

[All gifs made by me. No stealing or reposting, thank you. ♥︎]

★ How I feel about this character

I love wwx so much and he deserves so much!!! My feelings for him can be summed up by my first ever meta in this fandom, this half-crack half-shitpost, and the many many meta tears scattered across all the tags on my page that various people have yelled at me for. I love him. I love him, I love him, I love him. No character has wrecked me as much as this stupid chaotic ass, who is so inherently good and selfishly selfless it fucking hurts. Yet, for all the love and care he gives freely to everyone else, he can’t for the life of him compute any that others have given to him. He tries so hard to be good, to make the right choices even in impossible, horrendous circumstances, and it’s excruciatingly painful watching him realize again and again that even good choices paved with good intentions can cause destruction. He suffers so much because of it. He suffers before we even really meet him. @cangse-sanren​ wrote “Your parents were bright smears of color and laughter to you, but little more” in this beautiful fic, and I still weep about it daily.

I love how immensely protective he is of both his siblings. He just tries so goddamn hard to be what everyone needs. I could and have and will continue to cry about him every day. How his pathological tendency to repress all things that hurt him, to cover up his pain in humor and obnoxiousness and bravado, and his internalized belief that he is worth much less than everyone else, all converged into the most awful way possible. How despite losing his sect, his siblings, his friends, he was still trying up until the very end. God, what a fantastically complex fucking character. To watch him bloom again after that deluge of rage and grief and insanity 13/16 years later was the most satisfying journey anyone could possibly depict. To know that he has the chance to heal, to recover, to grow with all the different parts of his family he once thought lost forever now back in his reach (yes! even our angry grape!!). Truly amazing.

★ All the people I ship romantically with this character

WangXian!!!! These kids who came out of endless tragedy and trauma to find a love, a trust in each other–theirs is a love story that truly extends across space and time. It warms my heart to watch them rebuild their lives together into something warmer, and brighter, and happier than either of them ever grew up knowing. To watch them shed the psychological trauma on what it means to love and be loved given to them by their terrible parental figures and say, “No. We’re going to be better than that.” I love how they complement one another. How loudly and quietly they love each other. How in the warm security of each other’s embrace, they are each able to work through their own internalized traumas without judgement. Lan Wangji’s uncompromising devotion. Wei Wuxian’s fierce protectiveness. It’s hard to say who else could fit together so perfectly. What a joy it is to watch Wei Wuxian realize that he is no longer alone, that Lan Wangji is and will always be standing beside him. What a joy it is to watch Lan Wangji realize that this is not the dream he’s spent years suffering through, that Wei Ying has returned to him against all odds. What a fucking joy it is to watch them both learn to trust happiness, to trust love, to trust each other. GOD. *wails*

★ My non-romantic OTP for this character

YUNMENG SHUANGJIE. YUNMENG SIBS. YILING SIBS. A-YUAN AND HIS TWO DADS. All the different found families that permeated the story was just breathtakingly beautiful. They all fucking gutted me. It all at once makes Wei Wuxian’s story that much more beautiful and that much more tragic. For a child who lost his parents before he even had time to remember them, who then had to rebuild his family again and again, only to lose them each time in increasingly horrifying ways–it truly fucked me up. Wei Wuxian stood on that cliff in Nightless City, and it was visibly clear that he wanted nothing more than to join all the families he loved and watched die (because of him).

The beauty of his story of course is that for all the tragedy that he is subsumed by, for all the ways that he is wronged and has wronged, there are equal, if not more, number of ways that he is lifted, is healed, is shone a light through all the darkness. In the end, his families return to him. Wen Ning, who lived despite it all, carrying the memory of his sister, the best doctor in the world. His shijie shining through his bratty nephew’s heart of gold. His very own A-Yuan, kept safe and protected all these years by his soulmate, his zhiji. His angry grape of a little brother who can’t say I forgive you but tosses him Chenqing that he’s kept safe all these years and says I trust you. They’re all a little broken, a little worse for wear, but there’s something extraordinarily beautiful about these families who find each other again through the bridges they rebuild towards something better.

★ My unpopular opinion about this character

Oh man, I’ve seen a lot of debate about wwx that I try not to get into (I type this of course as I ready myself to do exactly that). Probably the most unpopular opinion (possibly?) I have is that I don’t personally feel like the addition of a second flautist and expanding Jin Guangyao’s villain-ry in CQL detracted or reduced Wei Wuxian’s complex morality–one of my favorite and best parts to his character. I still think he is very gray. His tragedy is still contingent on his naive idealism and his willful blindness that a person only needs to be righteous and honorable regardless of reputation and politics. This clearly isn’t the case. Not just for him, but for all the characters. You can do everything right and still be punished. You can do everything right and still cause others pain. You can be the most hypocritical, loudmouthed piece of judgmental shit and still remain unpunished and available to share your stupid ass ignorant opinions on matters that have nothing to do with you. (Whoops that got away from me.) Wei Wuxian learns this repeatedly. It’s excellent and heartbreaking.

The thing about Wei Wuxian is that for all that he has imposter syndrome, for all that he is unable to see that he is a person worthy of the love he receives, he is still not only extremely confident in his own abilities and in his beliefs of what is right and what is wrong, but also that he is the person who can decide that line between justice and evil. An arrogant assumption, and one that causes not only him but the people he strives to protect a significant amount of pain. This wasn’t lost in CQL. While the plot technically does absolve him of all of his crimes on a surface level, it’s clearly not as simple for Wei Wuxian himself. In the Ancestral Hall, Wei Wuxian stares at the names of Jiang Fengmian, Madam Yu, and Jiang Yanli, whose lives are heavily felt on his shoulders, and he tells Lan Wangji, “After all, the Stygian Tiger Seal was created by me. Whether Jin Guangyao was there or not, that fact can’t be changed.” The show despite its censorship still asks the audience to evaluate his actions and the role he played, both willing and unwillingly, in the deaths of so many people.

It is also shown clearly that the cultivation world only stops trying to kill him because there was now another target, another scapegoat to blame. This is something that Wei Wuxian knows and expresses on multiple occasions on the show. For all that the show may have change things, I don’t think it’s necessarily correct or fair to say that it completely washed away the nuance that was present in the novel. The overarching conflicts and questions are still there. What is moral and what isn’t, what is justified and what isn’t, who is at fault for unforeseen consequences and who isn’t, and the role of external factors and circumstances in all of this. As someone who watched the drama first, I didn’t feel that the complexity of all the characters and their decisions was lost at all in comparison to the novel I later read. The show was honestly superb and still the best version for me overall. (Please don’t send pitchforks.) I have so much more to say about this, and Jin Guangyao still being a great nuanced character foil, but alas, this is already too long.

Other things: Wei Wuxian is a good brother actually, and he knows Jiang Cheng very well. He tried his best under the worst possible circumstances, and it was a great big shit show. I hate discussions where people try to hold one brother more responsible than the other. They both very nobly (and very recklessly) sacrificed a great deal for each other, and they both, frankly, fucked up. They’re Twin Idiots, and I’ll love and drag them both equally dammit! With that in mind, Wei Wuxian’s happy ending isn’t just him joining GusuLan sect, novel be fucking damned (yes, I said it!). His home can be in Gusu and Yunmeng. *SLAMS FISTS* Let 👏 Wei 👏 Wuxian 👏 go 👏 home 👏. (Talking to you, my grape guy. Jin Ling is going to show up in Lotus Pier one day with his da-jiu, and you’re just going to have to deal with it.)

★ One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

WEI WUXIAN PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HUG YOUR DIDI. Jiang Cheng has been waiting 16+ years for your hug, and he damn well deserves one, especially since he gave you such a great octopus hug, all limbs and burrowed scrunchy faces. Like, I know, I know, you were distraught, and traumatized, half-beaten to death after three days of intense surgery, then reaped by ten thousand undead souls calling for revenge, but guess who told your favorite (only) angry grape little brother that in the next life, let’s be brothers again okay? GUESS WHO IS LIVING HIS NEXT LIFE??????? Bruh. Chop chop. Hop fucking to it.

#the untamed #mdzs #wei wuxian #mdzs meta #lquacker #陈情令 #!mine #!gifs #!meta #ask meme #[ ask eve ] #long post #i love wwx so much and he deserves so much #slowly tackling all of my asks #as usual i talk too much and this got really long so i had to put it under the cut #also yes. i did make half of these gifs about yunmeng sibs and yunmeng bros. i mean. is anybody surprised about this? lmao. #half the reason i made them is so that i can come back and stare at them in a continuous loop and cry on the floor #also i tried not to step on any toes in that fourth question bUT s;gkd;lk i have. very strong opinions on this xxxxx: #anyway way more people reblogged my jc answer than i expected. y'all really out here encouraging my rambling and i appreciate it #hERE IS WWX VERSION

[spiringempress]

jonsa thoughts and the whole ‘duty is the death of love’

Hiya. So, I wrote this one night at 2am months ago and I let it languish in my drafts. I only just remembered it because I was reading a post about Jonsa, and the whole duty and love line then went “hey that sounds familiar.” Please forgive any similarities between this and other metas, but I do argue this from the perspective that Jon isn’t portrayed as being interested in protecting the realm and it’s another angle to put out there. 

Early am thoughts. So, I’m having a midnight tumble and looking at this meta about the GOT script when I stumbled across a post that essentially argued that Sansa = love and Dany= Duty. I am blown away. And wondering how I missed that entire perspective. Now, this is super rough as a fair warning. 

This entire time I’ve seen it from the Jon*rys perspective. In that, Jon’s love for Dany was placed second to his duty and it effectively ended it. But, I think there are a couple of important points to consider that are NOT clearly defined. One being: what exactly is Jon’s duty? 

Sure, he wields some influence. It wouldn’t be hard to say that he’s supposed to protect the realm, but his whole arc wasn’t about the seven kingdoms. It was about the wall, the north, and Winterfell. For me, the only way to argue that Jon chose duty over his love for Dany would be if he saw himself as a protector of the realm but I really don’t think he does. I’m defining protector of the realm here as more in the sense of someone, who strives to use their talents and skills, to defend the kingdom from enemies, serve the sovereign and give their life to do uphold the word of the ruler. So, a knight in service to the king. 

Instead, what I am proposing is that Jon saw himself as protector of Winterfell, his family and most importantly, Sansa. What happens after Jon is resurrected? He kinda hangs out at the Wall until Sansa arrives and gives him a purpose: take back Winterfell, save their brother and restore the Starks to their rightful place. In the course of accepting this, Jon also inherently becomes a protector to Sansa, the seemingly last of the Starks. We see this in how he fights during the Battle of the Bastards and his interactions with Sansa, where he promises that he won’t let her got back to Ramsay. In the end, they are able to take back Winterfell and Jon creates a safe space for Sansa.  

Now, you can argue that he loves her platonically/as a sibling or more interestingly, Jonsa. Of course, I’m learning towards the Jonsa view. When he goes off to Dragonstone and loses his personality, I still think that pol!Jon was real and it was an attempt to protect Winterfell from Daenerys. If I heard the Dragon Queen was coming and often liked to burn down cities that resisted her, I would definitely be taking a boat to see her and make peace. While Sansa is blatantly asserting Northern independence, Jon is subtly trying to lead Daenery’s attention away with the White Walkers and eventually, Cersei. 

Jon succeeds in some capacity but the situation is complicated by his heritage and how Daenerys is not swayed by that. I think this is evident in the scene after the feast and even when she remarks that it will be fear when asked if Jon loves her. He has been called out on his ploy and hints at his ultimate priority being Winterfell. Now, the story falls apart in the last episode but if we look at the script and the actors, I think there’s no doubt that Jon chose Sansa over Dany. 

Let’s break this down. If this story was really about Jon being forced to kill the woman he loves to save the world. Then Jon would have been more clearly depicted as a ‘protector of the seven kingdoms’ and we could also argue would have lead to him being king himself (that’s a post for another time). Again, Jon has really never shown an interest in the throne or the political intrigue. Maybe it’s the Night Watch drilled into him, but he’s never depicted as someone like Varys. However, the only way to make sense of Jon killing Dany for duty means that he has to see himself as a realm protector. He has to NOT do it for personal stakes or his family, but instead to serve the realm. It would make their ‘love story’ more focused on them and not on other players. Ultimately, it would’ve also made the story more tragic because Jon’s loyalty to the realm = duty is more important than his love for a tyrant, who is letting the world burn. Can you imagine that story? Jon would have been forced to realize that the woman he loves is b*tshit and that he cannot let her go on. That would have been a masterful performance as Jon comes to term with this and makes up his mind. BUT, this did not happen at all in the show. 

Instead, what we get is interesting. Jon goes from questioning Dany’s destruction to having a mind-numbing conversation with Tyrion, where he looks like an ignorant fool. There are important things to notice. He goes from clearly being disturbed by Dany’s destruction to uttering ‘my queen’ until Sansa and Arya are brought up. Tyrion tells him that Sansa will never bow, Jon gets upset but he goes to the throne room and kills Dany. Other players besides the realm are brought into the equation. Jon was perfectly content to let her continue down her path until Tyrion and Arya reminded him about Sansa and Winterfell. If the story was really about Jon protecting the realm then why was it necessary to bring up his family? It’s because that’s what drives his motivation. 

Jon chooses duty over love, but not the realm over Dany; he chooses his family and more specifically, Sansa. Whether you look at it romantically or not, Jon gives up the ability to return home and resume his place at Sansa’s side. He chooses to fulfill his duty, i.e. protect Winterfell and Sansa, and kill Dany, which ends in him being exiled once more. You can read this as either him giving up familial love or a chance to be happy with the woman he loves. Ultimately, Jon does not win, but he fulfills his duty and gives up love in whatever form he wanted it. 

that’s my ted talk. I’m sorry if you already know this and I am slow to catch up. 

#jon snow #sansa stark #anti-daenerys #jonsa

[smutfornerds]

Making Up // Ralph x Reader

A/N: FINALLY some Ralph smut omg. The requests wanted then to bone in the lab but like... close enough?? Enjoy my lol smutbabies!

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The morning had been so good so far; quiet what with only Sherloque and Caitlin being here with you. The three of you had shared tea and gotten through some files pertaining to the dark matter radiation of Cicada’s dagger. Things were running like a well oiled machine until a certain stretchy meta slid into the Cortex to put a cog in your good mood. “Morning ladies.” Ralph drawled and you rolled your eyes at his attempt to be suave. “Morning Ralph, someone’s extra chipper today.” Caitlin responded gently and the male shrugged before leaning over the table next to you. “I just like seeing gorgeous smiles to start my day.” He nudged you and you finally flashed a faked smile over at him, causing him to huff a breath in your face. “You smell like coffee.” You grumbled and fanned in front of your nose. “And cologne.” You added absently before looking up to see a stupid smile on his face. “You like it?” He waggled his brows at you and again you felt your eyes roll. “Maybe if you used what’s left in the bottle now rather than the entirety of it.” The words came out more playful than usual but you didn’t bother correcting it, you were in too good of a mood and his cologne really did smell nice.

Caitlin giggles from the side of the room and Sherloque narrowed his skeptic eyes at you. “Non,” he stayed flatly. Eyes finding yours you quirked a single brow up and he continued. “The way you inhaled, the release of your shoulders at the scent, you enjoy it, beaucoup.” Slurping his tea he caught your confusion and nodded once before translating. “Ah, very much so. Especially with the way your mood lightened toward him, oui, you very much enjoy his presence maintenant.” The French threw you again and he quickly nodded. “Right now, here, this moment.” He gestured between yourself and Ralph and you felt your face begin to glow from the truth in his words. Damn him for reading people so well. Giving a weak shrug you averted your gaze to the computer monitor. “Whatever.” You grumbled but Ralph wasn’t about to let this go. “What else do you secretly like about me?” He teased, leaning even closer to you. Again his scent invaded your lungs and you cleared your throat, not saying another word before turning to leave the room. However the taller male grasped at your wrist to hold you off.

“Why are you always so damn hostile towards me? What’d I ever do to you?” His tone had turned accusatory and you felt a twinge of anger behind your words. “Nothing, that’s just it. You never do jack shit but talk big and try to distract everyone!” Turning to fully face him you tore your wrist from his grip hastily letting your emotions get the better of you while your voice raised. “And you are ALWAYS pushing buttons, for the sake of doing so.” You took a minuscule step toward him. “Don’t you think tensions are high enough without your little banter?” He was glaring down at you now, his jaw set tightly and you noticed as he unclenched it to speak. “Well sor-ry that I try to lighten the mood, unlike your cranky ass. Always bitter and only focused on big picture not who it hurts to paint it.” The words rang through your ears and you groaned in frustration. Again you turned taking strides to leave but were stopped by a long limb in your way.

“You’re absolutely fucking impossible.” You retorted to the stretched hand in front of your face. Twice now you’d tried to remove yourself from the argument you were having with Ralph, but he stopped you by winding an outstretched arm around to block the door. From the other side of the lab he groaned in frustration. “You’re the one trying to walk away instead of hash this out!” His voice had raised and along with it so did your eyebrows. For a second you tried to compose yourself, abruptly turning back to face him to give him a piece of your mind. “Hash it out?” You paused to take a slow and purposeful step towards him. “I don’t want to ‘hash’ anything out, Ralph, I just wanna ‘bash’ your..” Looking at him you were thrown for a loop when you couldn’t think of anything negative about his face. “Stupid, smug face.” You settled on that and crossed your arms tightly over your chest with a huge sigh, admittedly losing a bit of your ground when he looked down at you. Finally he retracted his arms back to normal length. “I said I was sorry damn it, just accept it!” The male held his hands up pleadingly and you simply rolled your eyes again, feeling as though this man could make them fall right out of your skull. His so-called apology had been giving you attitude. Seeing your expression he growled loudly and stormed past you now. “Fine, be a bitch about it.” He mumbled the words as he moved from the room in a hurry, his side bumping into you slightly as he left.

The stinging feeling in the back of your throat threatened to travel to your eyes so you swallowed dryly, following it by clearing your throat to really make sure it was gone. Busying yourself with paper and organizing, you ignored the rest of the group filing into the Cortex. However, until Iris placed a gentle hand on your shoulder. Eyes popping up to meet her warm gaze, you forced as good of a smile as you could muster. “Hey, what’s up?” Meaning for it to come out strong you were a bit taken back at how shaky your voice was. Iris simply sighed and hugged an arm around you. “He didn’t mean it. We all know that.” She reassured you with another squeeze to punctuation the sentence. Shaking your head you pretended as best you could not to be bothered, clearing your throat to ensure a clearer tone this time. “He’s an ass, who cares.” You muffled the words while staring down at the table. Why were his words hurting you like this? The two of you constantly bickered but usually it was lighthearted, sometimes even playful, at the very most it’d raise to hollering but never brutal hostility. The fact that he’d dropped a sour name made your chest ache before you shook it off, blinking hard at the stinging feeling threatening your throat again. Glancing up at Iris you pursed your lips in a tight line that barely resembled a smile. “I’m gonna go grab a bite, thank you though. You’re the best.” You gave her arm a soft pat before moving out of her hug and into the hallway.

Reaching the elevator you fiddled with your keychain; a Star City emblem Felicity had given you to remind you that home isn’t too far when you need it. Right now it was sounding better and better, even facing Ricardo Diaz sounded funner than being here. The elevator doors opened and you shuffled in, pressing the downward button and watching as the doors closed again. Halfway to your destination of the basement however the movement stopped and you stared at the control panel perplexed. The only reason the elevator would stop is if - your thought paused and you took a slow inhale to find an annoyingly familiar musk - if someone stopped it. “Son of a bitch..” you groaned and slumped along the wall, only for Ralph to unravel himself from the bar that ran along the left side next to the control pad. “I’d say I’m sorry,” he paused to crack his neck and roll his shoulders. “But that was a painfully long wait so you’re welcome.” His words burned at your ears and you crossed your arms snugly to your chest. “Let me out.” You stated in a cutting tone Harry would be jealous of.

Matching your stance he crossed his arms, letting his head tilt towards you. “Not a chance. We’re talking this out.” With the next phrase his eyes and tone both softened. “We’ve never fought like that before.” Finally your eyes found his and he looked as though he was genuinely hurt by it, like he had any right to be. You could feel the anger bubbling up in you and it released as your hands delivered a harsh shove to his chest. “And that’s your fault! I didn’t call you a fucking thing.” The way your voice cracked made you even more upset. Ralph noticed and sighed audibly, rubbing the back of his neck with a solemn nod. “Yeah.. yeah you’re right, this is my fault.” Hearing those words leave his lips took you back, and your eyebrows raised to which he huffed a small laugh. “I can admit fault where it’s due... sometimes.” The hint of a smile that tugged at your lips made Ralph’s face erupt in one. “Aha! You don’t hate me! I saw a smile!” He pointed a finger to your nose and you narrowed your eyes at it. Without thinking you reached to your tiptoes and bit him. “Ow!” He tore his hand away shaking and rubbing it, and finally you burst into much needed laughter.

Letting your back hit the wall again you sighed and finally uncorked your arms, giving him a response to his last statement that wasn’t a proclamation of pain. “I don’t hate you.. you know that right?” Gentility to your voice made Ralph’s ears perk up and he leaned against the wall beside you. “Guess I do now. There for a minute I kinda thought you did. What with calling me practically useless.” His tone edged at your nerves again and you retorted snappily. “Yeah and you called me a bitch, are we back on that?” Beside you he groaned loudly to express his annoyance. “Jesus woman, you’ll never let that go will you?” Responding with body language first you gave a quick shake of your head. “Not like you can take it back.” Ralph turned halfway to you, a hint of a smirk gracing his lips as his eyes darted down to yours. “But, I could make it up to you..” The way he looked at you was new; not his usual doofy smile or his angry furrowed brows. Now he had a cloudy kind of softness to his eyes, his chiseled jawline accentuated the way his brows tilted at a suggestive angle. Feeling a heat rise to your face you quickly tried to play it off failing miserably at being collected. “Wh-What’d you..” Gulping the dryness in your throat you watched him curl around you to put his hands on either side of your head. “Have in mind?” You finished ridiculously softly and he opted to show you rather than tell you.

In an instant his lips connected to yours. One of his hands fell to your waist to hold you close as he deepened the kiss with his tongue ghosting your lower lip. You didn’t know what had come over you, what lustful demon had inhabited your body, but you absolutely melted into him. His touch was so warm and his lips worked skillfully to pull every thought right from your head. Allowing his access to your mouth you massaged your tongue against his to show your appreciation. Faintly you felt his lips curl at you giving in to him and he made his next move cautiously. The hand on your waist trailed between you, letting one finger slip past the waistline of your leggings and causing your breath to hitch in your throat. Ralph couldn’t help but chuckle at the response while lowering his hand to slip past your panties. He groaned softly at the feeling of your growing wetness, running his nimble fingers through your folds before swirling them against your clit in figure eights. Unexpectedly a whine escaped into the kiss and the male drank in the noise excitedly, adding more passion to the kiss with his teeth grazing your tongue with every slow roll of it. He worked his fingers harder when you reacted to his touch, taking every cue your body sent him as to where you wanted to be touched. A hand reached up to grip his shoulder, another small moan dripping from your lips onto his. He hummed lowly from the back of his throat, his fingers switching to a back and forth motion over your mound.

The pleasure made your legs shake, and Ralph broke from your lips to stare down at your expressions. The way you bit your lip harshly, the way your brows knit together with each new wave of ecstasy. Wanting to watch you come undone he pressed the pad of his middle finger firmly to your nerves, delivering tight circles against them eliciting a slur of swears and delicious moans from you as you bucked into his hand. Against your thigh you could feel how hard he was, and you couldn’t deny how big he felt and how badly you wanted him to just rail you out. The hand on his shoulder gripped tighter while your free one palmed at him through his trousers. Now it was his turn for the contorted face, a deep groan spilling from him at the contact. Letting his eyes meet yours you simply nodded enthusiastically up at him. The very idea of you wanting him made his head spin but seeing you silently ask for it almost made him lose it before he even got in you.

Not wasiting a moment you fumbled with his belt buckle, letting your other hand move to help while he still flicked his fingers wickedly. “Let’s see how efficient you can be when you’re distracted..” he lulled before dipping to your neck, nipping at your skin as he increased the force against you. You cried out, palming him again firmly and milking a small grunt from him. Again you worked to remove his belt, popping the buttons to his pants immediately. They dropped to his ankles and he finally removed himself from your neck to pull your own leggings and panties down in one motion. He quickly freed his throbbing girth from his briefs with a slowly released groan. Gaze falling to it you couldn’t help the needy whine that fell from your bruising lips. “Jesus, don’t do that..” Ralph breathed out hastily, watching your chest heave with your labored breathing. Your hand wrapped around him and gave a few firm strokes as you let another string of over exaggerated moans leak throughout the elevator. Ralph shivered at the noises and your sudden contact.

Barely another second passed before his lips crashed to your own and his hands lifted your legs around his slender waist. Happily obliging you moved your hand to position him to enter you, and he did almost immediately. He filled you in one swift buck of his hips and you gasped at the feeling with your walls clenching against him as you got used to his size. A grainy sigh fell from him proceeding to roll his hips in gentle thrusts at first. While you appreciated the thought it was agonizingly slow. You brought a hand up to grip his hair and give an sharp tug, Ralph’s head falling back with a strangled groan at the sudden stinging in his scalp. Halting his movements he brought his lips to ghost over yours with every word he mumbled. “That wasn’t very nice..” He thrusted into you once harshly and you responded solely by gasping and pulling his hair again. This time he growled and the noise sent goosebumps over your body, eyes locking to his to see a new fire burning behind them now. “This is for all those snide little remarks..” His voice was gravelly and hoarse and before you had time to react he started pounding into you forcefully. A loud cry filled the metal space and echoed in the minimal room.

Ralph felt his confidence surge at the way you succumbed to him. He’d been dreaming of this since the moment he’d laid eyes on you; that tight pink dress you’d worn your first day was a thing of his most common fantasies. Clutching to your thighs tightly he continued railing into you, your skin slapping together mixing with the drawn out noises you were both relinquishing to each other. Letting your head tilt forward you peppered featherlight kisses to his neck, watching his shoulders tense up and relax at the contact. Right as he released the tension you sunk your teeth deeply into his neck, the throaty and absolutely delicious noise that escaped him was accompanied by an out of time thrust that hit straight to your core. Whining sharply you only bit down harder, beginning to suck a dark purple bruise to his light skin. Feeling as his dull nails dug into your thighs you silently hoped they’d leave finger bruises that’d match his neck. The tightness in your stomach curled your body up into him and you began driving your hips up each time he’d pull back, so he never left your soaking core. Ralph’s breathing caught in the back of his throat at the way your body moved and he sighed hard letting his forehead lean forward onto the cold metal wall behind you.

“I-I’m not.. I don’t..” you could tell he was close by the way he stuttered, but didn’t want to stop yet. Bringing your lips to his you traced his lower one with your tongue without fully closing the gap. Simultaneously you slowed your hips to a stop and he followed your cues, practically chasing you for the next move. Knowing you had him you nipped at his lip and he huffed out a harsh sigh. Upon releasing it you slowly rolled your hips against his eliciting another low groan from him. “What’s the matter, Dibny?” Your tone was dripping in lust and it made his skin crawl in the absolute best way. “You’re such a fucking tease..” he growled through gritted teeth and you feigned a pout up at him. “Aww, is someone frustrated?” Again you swiveled your hips against him and his breath caught in the back of his throat now. He could only manage to nod in response and your eyes gleamed seeing him so engulfed in pleasure.

Foregoing a warning you tensed your thighs around him, forcing him to thrust into you. Sounds of appreciation spilled from both of you and Ralph let his eyes wander over your body. “Hurry up and make it up to me.” You spat at him and he didn’t miss a beat before returning to a hard pace. This time however he didn’t hold back, his desire consuming him as he aggressively slammed into your core. The way he hit your center made all the air expel from your lungs and a loud cry to accompany it as it left. Soon the small tethered elevator shaft was rocking at with the force he railed into you. Your legs began shaking violently but the man didn’t relent, only bringing his thumb to press hard and targeted rubs to your clit. One hand clutched the back of his neck while the other braced in his arm. The way he pleased you made your eyes roll back, every other exhale of breath a moan like music to his ears. With how you shook beneath his touch Ralph felt himself twitch inside you, a hoarse moan grinding at his vocal chords to mix with your sweet whimpers and whines. Only to keep himself from exploding he slowed his thrusts, never letting up force however. His thumb kept attention tonyour throbbing bundle of nerves and he bucked his hips upward into you now with every achingly slow movement.

Taking this opportunity while he’d overpowered you he leaned down to your ear to nibble your lobe a moment before his raspy whisper hit your ears. “Bet you don’t think I’m useless anymore do you, princess?” He was absolutely right, even though you never truly felt that way. Truthfully you admired him for his ability to see the positive, you’d grown fond of his quips and it made your days unusally less dreary to be constantly complimented; your mind and body synchronized finally and you gasped for a multitude of reasons. The acceptance rolled through you with each wave of pleasure and you let your head fall back with your eyes screwed tightly shut. “F-Fuck..” you muttered, your senses battling for dominance of your focus. Ralph enjoyed the way you were unraveling and ruthlessly rammed into you, his length easily hitting your sweet center and causing a loud cry to ring out of you. His fingers still working your clit you were reduced to panting breaths and shaky whimpers as your orgasm throttled you.

Giving the hair at the nape of his neck a hard tug your body curled into him as you twitched violently. His eyes stayed fixated on your many faces as he cruised you to the full capacity of your high. Without finishing himself he pulled out of you, holding your waist tightly to the wall because he knew if he let go your legs would give out from beneath you. For a while you stay pinned there as the euphoria left you and the thoughts that had entered your mind just beforehand crept their way back. In an instant it flooded your brain space with snips of him cracking jokes with you, bringing you food and drinks without being asked; how he always made sure you weren’t here alone at night because of how he knew how much it creeped you out. The millions of times he’d managed to crack your poised exterior to bring a giggle from your lips and a smile to your face. The phrase ‘love and hate are dangerously close together’ ran through your mind finally. Oh god I’m so screwed. The feeling in your chest didn’t feel so much like a sinking deadweight but a slowly floating one. Finally opening your eyes you were met with chocolately ones in return. His face was scanning yours for any hint of still being upset and it begrudgingly made your heart swell. In place of saying anything you leaned forward to place a slow and sweet kiss to his swollen lips. The contact surprised him, and it took him a second to give in to the softness. As you pulled back he finally set you down feeling that your legs had finally stopped shaking. He cleared his throat and ducked to the floor to help you back into your leggings and panties. Meeting your gaze again he flashed a nervous but adorable smile. “So.. am I forgiven?” He tried to put a playful tone to it but you saw right past it to the genuine worry behind it. A smile crept to your face and you shook your head.

“Only on one condition.” Your voice still held a hint of sultriness and it made a brow arch at you. “You have got to keep calling me princess.” A smirk had snatched your expression and the male laughed heartily with a few nods. “I can definitely manage that.” He took the moment to put himself back into his trousers fully before continuing. “Does that mean you’d wanna.. do this again?” He motioned between the two of you and it was your turn to give a small laugh. “I think you owe me a proper date first, or if you fuck up again and need to show me how sorry you are.. then maybe.” He didn’t hear a word after ‘proper date’. His familiar goofy grin returned and he finally released the elevator to descend to the basement. “About that date.. you hungry?” Suddenly your stomach growled before you could vocally answer and Ralph chuckled. “Dinner it is.” He held out an arm to you as the elevator doors opened and with a tint to your face you linked with him as you walked forward. Both of you took deep breaths at how cool the air outside your little hot-box was. For what felt like the millionth time today you inhaled the smell of Ralph cologne but this time you accepted it and hummed softly squeezing his arm. “So you do like it?” He nudged you with playful half smile. Forcing yourself to roll your eyes like usual, you shrugged. “It grows on you. Like someone else I know..” you nudged him back before he lead you to what would be your first proper date of many.

#yall ya girl is weak for some dibny d tbqh #ralph dibny #the flash #ralph dibny x reader #ralph dibny smut #the flash smut #the flash fanfic

[nanyallen13]

Why the Dark Dany theory isn’t misogynist (+ a little reflexion on female villains)

Misogyny. It’s an argument I see a lot. It seems you can’t criticize Dany’s character, not even one of her action, without be called a misogynist. It’s particularly the case with the Dark Dany theory.

I invite all of you to read it, if you kindly accept to take some of your time for it, because I think it’s an important subject, not just for the GoT fandom.

Also, I’m open to dialogue, that’s why I wrote this. Feel free to share your opinion on this topic.

Disclaimer: I apologize for my English. It’s not my first language, and I’m still learning. So, if some grammatical errors remain, I apologize in advance and hope it won’t bother your reading.

The following post is just my point of view on Dany and the Dark Dany theory, and I know it isn’t universal. But for you to understand my point, here some context:

As a woman, I consider myself a feminist, and I always have been vocal against books, show, movies, tropes or ships I find misogynist.

As a writer, I’m more interested in storytelling and characters’ growth. The Dark Dany theory is very appealing to me because it’s interesting storywise, for Dany’s arc and female characters in general.

I’m not a shipper. In fact, I don’t ship anyone in GoT except Jaime and Brienne. I’m more interested in politics, so my views on ships are more biased by politics interests and potential alliance. I feel the need to specify it because a lot of people believes that if you don’t like Dany, it because of ship war. Yes, I didn’t hide my conflicted feelings about Jone/rys in the past, but it’s about the ship itself, and it just concerns its two characters, Jon and Dany, and their relationship. To be honest, I don’t really ship them with anyone, so… 🤷‍♀️

Dany is one of my favourite character, alongside Sansa and Cersei, and she’s been since the beginning of the show (whereas Sansa has taken Tyrion’s place in the trio since season 6). I like them because they represent different forms of strength, and have this regal presence I love so much. I consider these 3 women as some of the strongest character in the show. But if Dany stayed one of my favourite, my vision of her changed along the way. 

This post is mainly about the Dark Dany theory, but like its name says, it’s just a theory. I like it, because it’s interesting storywise, and unlike some people claims, it based of clues and parallels from the show itself. (I won’t list them because the post is long enough, and it’s not the main subject). GoT is a show which has a lot of theories, and I like to discover them. The Dark Dany theory is one of them, and like all these other theories, I’m not convinced at 100% it will happen. I’m just open to a lot of possibilities.

And again, it’s just my opinion and I understand that people will disagree. Honestly, it’s fine. I just hope you’re stay respectful. It took time to write this with constructive arguments, so I expect at least arguments from you in return, and not the usual “you’re a cunt” and “you’re stupid” replies I saw too many times from some Dany fans. Because, frankly, thinking a character isn’t perfect doesn’t make you a cunt.

So, shall we begin ?

Why the Dark Dany theory isn’t misogynist ?

Maybe the term “dark” is misleading, a little bit extreme. When I think of Dark Dany, I don’t see her as an evil villain, a female Joffrey or a Ramsay with dragons. I know this theory has different levels: for some people, it can lead to Mad Queen Dany (in some way, I can understand why, but it’s another topic. Personally, I don’t think the show will go full madness.). For others, she’ll be the final boss of the series (I don’t know. We shall see).  

No, when I think Dark Dany, I see her as a potential antagonist. What’s the difference? If antagonists are indeed villains for most of the time, in reality Antagonist ≠ Villain. I recommend you this article, which explains far better than me why an antagonist isn’t always a villain: The Difference between Villains and Antagonists

To summarize it, a villain have bad intentions, is considered as evil (hello Joffrey, you little pi*** of sh**). But not every antagonist is a villain, not every antagonist is evil.

No, an antagonist is simply a character whose actions and motivations go against the protagonist’s. In Dany case, her story arc could lead her against Jon(and maybe the Stark) story arc.  So, from the Stark point of view, Dany would be the antagonist. But from Dany’s point of view, the Stark would be the antagonists. (I hope I’m clear lol).

And you know what ? This happens a lot in GoT. This show has a lot of characters, who we learned to love during these past seasons. But during 7 seasons, we saw some character be enemies. The Lannister vs the Stark, anyone? Stannis was a fan favourite (before burning her daughter), but he was against Robb Stark, another fan favourite.  But the most interesting example come from s7, during episode 4. The battle was Dany vs. the Lannister, mostly Jaimie. For him, Dany was the enemy, the antagonist. For her, Jaimie was the enemy, the antagonist. They both tried to killed each other! But I think for the majority of the viewer, it wasn’t good vs evil. It was just one character against the other.

So yeah, characters can be on opposite sides, but it doesn’t make them evil villain. The same goes for Dany.

That’s the case for all characters in GoT. They’re not angels, neither are they demons (except for the NK, Joffrey and Ramsay, even Euron ?). They all have some good and some bad in them, they’re not perfect, but that makes them humans. Also, the majority of them have the potential to go to a path of darkness. All of them, except characters whose main trait is innocence (like Hodor, Shireen, even Tommen in some way.).

Dany isn’t an innocent character. She’s not a saint. I don’t see her as the perfect saviour; no she’s more complex than that. She has doubts, she has flaws, and she makes mistakes. As the story progess, we see her get more and more blood on her hands. Like the others, Dany has a dark side. Some may disagree, but we already saw the roots in season 1. But for me, season 5 was the season where she started to make questionable decisions, and some of them are difficult to justify. Season 5 made me realize she wasn’t the Mhysa everyone (including herself) thought she was. 

I won’t list all this clues here, but I recommend you this amazing meta by @trinuviel  :  A Hero in her own mind... On Daenerys Targaryen

I don’t see Dany as a hero, but as an antihero, who has the potential to become an antagonist (some people even see a villain). Again, personal opinion, but that’s why I find her more complex and more interesting than Jon, who falls more in the archetype of the traditional “hero”. From a writer point of view, she’s a better character than Jon.

And you know what ? If she becomes an antagonist, I would love her even more. Because I find antagonist to be so fascinating. That’s why I love Cersei! To me, having a “dark side” ≠ bad character. It would be more original and surprising than Hero Dany, because everyone already expect that, and that a common trope.

But again, it’s my personal opinion, and I understand that Dany’s fans can’t bear the idea of her not being the hero of the story.

But I’m not misogynist when I say Dany could become an antagonist. She won’t be an antagonist because she’s a woman. No, she would be an antagonist because of her actions. If she was a man, it would be the same.

Because being a woman doesn’t excuse your actions. Being a woman doesn’t mean you can’t commit bad things. But that’s a thing you see in our culture. In movies, tv shows, books, etc. There are more male villain than female villain. Because in our culture, women are portrayed as gentle and soft. Most of the time, they can’t exist without maternal love or romantic love. If they aren’t the main character, women will often be the love interest. But the villain? It’s rare.

In a way, saying woman can’t be villain is a form of misogyny. Because female characters don’t need to be written as female first. No, they are, first of all, characters. If a man can be a villain/antagonist, so can a woman.

A woman can be an antagonist against a male protagonist. A woman is not obliged to always be on the man’s side. She can have different opinions, because it’s her right. Her needs, her hopes and dreams, her ambitions are as legitimate as a man’s.

Now, I can explain you why Dany could become an antagonist, and why I’m not a fan of Jone/rys. If some of you ship them together, it’s not against you. You have every right to ship them. But please, respect my opinion.

In some way, Dany’s storyline could lead her to become an antagonist. Again, I’m not even talking about becoming mad, or becoming a villain. But I could see her storyline go against Jon’s.

What’s Dany’s main goal since season 1? For what did she fight during all these seasons? That’s right: the Iron Throne. And what obstacles does she have to defeat? Cersei, the Night King. But in some way, at least in a political way, Jon is an obstacle too. Because he’s the legitimate heir to the Iron Throne. It’s not her anymore.

Actually, Jon’s true identity is the big reveal which bring on the Dark Dany theory. It would be to fulfil her dream of becoming Queen that Dany would go against Jon. Because he’s in her way. From her point of view, she won’t be in the wrong. She would just be fighting for her throne, like she did during all 7 seasons.

And storywise, that would be so clever. Jon against Dany. Two of the most beloved characters against each other. Imagine the heartbreak for the viewers! That’s why, long before their meeting, I liked the idea of them fighting instead of being in love. As a writer, it’s the perfect idea.

I know, some of you will say : “but she’s in love with him”. That’s true. Maybe you’re right. Maybe her love would be more powerful than her ambition. Maybe she won’t care that Jon have a better claim, and she’ll accept that.

But that’s this idea of Jone/rys that I don’t like. After all this time, after all she endured to arrive where she is today, I don’t want her to abandon that just because she loves a man. Her main goal wasn’t to become Jon’s girlfriend. No, Dany’s quest is to become the Queen of the Seven Kingdom. I want her to fight for it to the very end.

I know some of you believe a marriage would be the solution. But even as Jon’s wife, Dany would be the second, not the true heir. I fear she’ll be in Jon’s shadow, just his wife.  After all, like Daario said in s6, she’s a conqueror. If she takes the throne, it has to be by conquering it, not be marrying Jon. 

Even if this is for love, I don’t like the idea of her giving up her dream for a man.

That why I don’t ship Dany with anyone. She doesn’t need a love interest. Since Drogo’s death, she’s on her own, she fight for her and what belongs to her. Her actions should be for her, and her only. That’s why I like the fact that she doesn’t reciprocate Jorah’s feelings. Other shows would picture Jorah as a victim (“poor guy. How dare she not reciprocate his feeling?” Trust me, it’s a common trope). But just because he loves Dany, it doesn’t many she owes him anything. And it could be the same with Jon.

I want Dany to fight for what she believes, not for her love interest. I think it’s a more feminist message.

That’s why I don’t like the s8 promo so far. She’s depicted as Jon’s girlfriend. In almost every photo, she’s glued to him, like every female love interest. Without the Iron Throne promo where she sits on it, we could almost forget that her main goal is to become queen!

I want Dany to fight for her throne, even if it breaks her relationship with Jon, even she becomes an antagonist. Because she won’t give up her dreams for a man.

And I don’t think it’s misogynist to think that. It’s quite the contrary, actually.

Now, I know that for some people, the Dark Dany theory is bad, because it would mean : a woman who have power = a bad thing, a villain.

I can understand the feeling, but I don’t agree with it. Like I said earlier, I don’t judge Dany as a woman, but as a character.

What many seem to forget, is that Dany ≠ all women. If Dany is an antagonist/villain, it doesn’t mean every woman in power is an antagonist/villain. Dany is a unique character, with a unique backstory, a unique character’s growth, a unique personality. Her unique story would make her an antagonist. 

Here, I need your opinion. Compared to Cersei, what do you think? I know Cersei herself is quite a misogynist (she hates her conditions as a woman and envied Jaime’s) but do you think Cersei’s storyline is a misogynist one? Because after all she’s also a woman of power and a villain. Did you saw someone said it was misogynistic? Or it just when people criticize the Dark Dany Theory?

But I know that in every fandom, it’ll always exist some misogynistic a**holes who will be against women in position of power (just look at the recent Captain Marvel controversy). It’s something I already witnessed in the GoT fandom, mainly on Facebook pages, against Sansa. It was stupid arguments, like “she’s a power hungry bitch” just because she dreamed of becoming queen when she was a little girl. (Also, what she first wanted was to be the King’s wife and have his children, not to rule). When she dared to objet one of Jon’s decisions, some fans wanted her to shut up, like she had no right at all. In general, their main problem against Sansa was she dared have ambition. They don’t want her to have anything to say about Winterfell and the North, even if she has the right to. I mean, she’s the trueborn daughter of Ned Stark, she’s his legitimate heir. If someone has the right to say something, it’s her! And you know why these fans don’t want her to have ambition? I’m pretty sure it’s because she’s a girl. At least, it’s one of the main reasons.

So yeah, I’m sure there are people who think the same way about Dany. It wouldn’t surprize me.

But I don’t blame her for wanting/having power. No, I blame her for the way she uses this power.

And actually, having Dany as a villain wouldn’t be a bad thing for female representation. Like I said earlier, there are less female villains than males. And the ones we have, well… it’s bad, guys.

The female villains are often femme-fatale, who are ultra-sexualized and by that reduce to their sexuality. And these female villains are often side-kicks to a man, who’s the main villain. They obey him (sometimes for love), they depend on him. They’re not their own character.

To make an example, I often think of the James Bond girls. For the majority of the saga, we have the good James Bond girls who are like a trophy for the hero (thanks god, they have more agencies in the more recent movies, but still), and the evil James Bond girls. For the evil ones, we have two types: the ultra-sexualized ones (like Xenia Onatopp, Miranda Frost or Electra King) or the masculine ones, like Rosa Klebb or Irma Bunt, who are portrayed as cold, heartless, older, and “ugly”. In both case, they work for a man. (The only good exception was Judi Dench as M. Damn, I miss her).

And back to the topic of powerful women = villains, I think of a more misogynistic way to portray female villain. In Sarah J. Maas’ series (no offense to her fans), A Court of Thornes and Roses, two of the female villains, Ianthe and Amarantha are portrayed as evil witches who use their sexuality to gain power. The narrative villainizing them because they use their sexuality freely. It’s almost slutshaming. The villains are the women who use their body like they want, who are not submissive to the men, who take action against men, who have more power than them. This portrayal is more misogynist because a woman with an active sex life + ambition = an evil slut. In mean, wtf ???? (And it not just these character, it’s the same with all her female villains. That’s why I find this problematic).

But it’s not a same with Dany. Yes, she has her own sex life and does what she wants with her body, but it’s never use to villainize her. She’s her own character, she’s powerful, but it not used against her. Yes, a villain can be a pretty woman on her own, without being a sexual fantasy.

The only good female villain I can think of is Hela from Thor Ragnarok. She isn’t too sexualized, she’s not ugly, she’s her own woman, and she’s powerful. And what’s her goal? That’s right, taking the throne which she believes belongs to her. In a way, Dany as an antagonist could be like Hela, in a less evil way.

(Btw, if you know other female villains like Hela, please tell me. I’m dying to have more characters like her! I’m also curious about the villain played by Jessica Chastain in the upcoming Dark Phoenix movie, she seems to be interesting).

Well, I think I said all I wanted to share on this topic. To summarize: the Dark Dany Theory isn’t simple hate. It’s simply seeing her character from a different point of view. It’s being open to a different storyline.

I understand, and I accept, that some of you don’t like the idea of Dark Dany. But please try to understand, or at least accept, that some of us like this theory. And there is nothing wrong with that.

Feel free to share your views on the topic!

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