Flavours of unreliable narrator:

Does deeply repressed count as having weird prejudices…

GRRM himself and the A Song of Ice and Fire (Fire and Blood to a lesser extent) books seem very blackpilled on war if not resolutely anti-war, with the dragons presumably meant to signify enormous sentient weapons of mass destruction.

However, Game of Thrones, the adaption, watered down that message pretty substantially since the battles and dragons and sensationalistic violence seemed to be the primary draw for the masses and not the nuanced critique of war and nuclear weapons that the books were intended to be, even if obviously the execution wasn't perfect given how much people love Tywin Lannister (although to be fair, that's because Charles Dance is exemplary).

Conversely, House of the Dragon is honestly more explicitly anti-war than the original HBO series, like there is zero catharsis whatsoever in the battles. Jacaerys Targaryen dies in the most anticlimactic way, the show cuts the dramatic soundtrack altogether, he drowns unceremoniously while shot through with arrows, and to the cheers and jeers of his enemies. Rhaenys Targaryen kamikazes herself at the Battle of Rook's Rest, realizing that her and her dragon's life is forfeit so she might as well die honorably.

Rhaenyra Targaryen takes the throne with surprisingly little fanfare, her husband cutting through the guards in Kings Landing as if they're made of butter, and clumsily beheads Otto Hightower with tears streaming down her face. She's never really used a sword before, she's never killed a man, but she does it and can't help but feel horrified at taking a human life despite Otto plotting against her and her family for over 20 years.

Despite GoT having many prominent women characters played by talented actresses, it reads as much more masculine than HoTD, which ultimately is about Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower, both of whom don't even have the courtesy to be nubile ingenues but are instead mothers in their 30s with grief and bite and enough baggage to sink the Titanic.

There's a sort of glamour and thrill to the battles in GoT, Blackwater, the Battle of the Bastards, the Long Night; our valiant heroes emerge victorious despite losing their loved ones. Tyrion Lannister saves his city and his family, Arya Stark kills the Night King, Sansa Stark watches watches her rapist and abuser be eaten alive by his own dogs, and it's cathartic in a way the violence in HoTD never is.

After the Battle of the Gullet, and the death of his grandson Jacaerys, Corlys Velaryon says, "If this be victory, I hope I never see another." He's an old man, his wife and two children have predeceased him, he's seen enough sorrow and horror and death for ten lifetimes, and he wants to stop fighting but it gives him a purpose he'd otherwise lack.

Criston Cole has the right of it.

There is no glory in death, in being burned alive, in being cut open by your husband in the hope you deliver a living son, in being beheaded by a woman that has been yearning all her life to be right where she is and still can't fill the grief inside of her.

I just can't help but believe that at least some of the criticism HoTD receives is because of these aspects, because it's about two women that are impossible to sexualize or deify, because the audience and also the characters in it, even Daemon by the end given that he goes clear-eyed into his murder-suicide at the God's Eye, know that there is no possible ending to their story except tragedy, because the history books have been already written.

As Joffrey Baratheon tells Margaery Tyrell, “Rhaenyra Targaryen was murdered by her brother, or rather his dragon. It ate her while her son watched. What's left of her is buried in the crypts right down there." Rhaenyra, the girl that we met in episode 1 of HoTD, passionate and beautiful and so very alive, died long before her physical body gave out, bit by bit as her sons were taken from her, and maybe, just maybe, she's been dead since the very beginning.

Look at it like this: If GoT is about watching House Stark rise from the ashes and triumph despite the tragedies it endures, HoTD is about watching Rhaenyra Targaryen die, it's about Alicent Hightower watching Rhaenyra die. Alicent is the Final Girl, the Final Woman, she outlives everybody she's ever loved, and by her end, she welcomes death like an old friend, maybe one with the face of Rhaenyra as she once was, laughing and feisty and full of life and love.

It's a resolution with no catharsis so naturally, I expect the general audience to riot.

GRRM himself and the A Song of Ice and Fire (Fire and Blood to a lesser extent) books seem very blackpilled on war if not resolutely anti-war, with the dragons presumably meant to signify enormous sentient weapons of mass destruction.

However, Game of Thrones, the adaption, watered down that message pretty substantially since the battles and dragons and sensationalistic violence seemed to be the primary draw for the masses and not the nuanced critique of war and nuclear weapons that the books were intended to be, even if obviously the execution wasn't perfect given how much people love Tywin Lannister (although to be fair, that's because Charles Dance is exemplary).

Conversely, House of the Dragon is honestly more explicitly anti-war than the original HBO series, like there is zero catharsis whatsoever in the battles. Jacaerys Targaryen dies in the most anticlimactic way, the show cuts the dramatic soundtrack altogether, he drowns unceremoniously while shot through with arrows, and to the cheers and jeers of his enemies. Rhaenys Targaryen kamikazes herself at the Battle of Rook's Rest, realizing that her and her dragon's life is forfeit so she might as well die honorably.

Rhaenyra Targaryen takes the throne with surprisingly little fanfare, her husband cutting through the guards in Kings Landing as if they're made of butter, and clumsily beheads Otto Hightower with tears streaming down her face. She's never really used a sword before, she's never killed a man, but she does it and can't help but feel horrified at taking a human life despite Otto plotting against her and her family for over 20 years.

Despite GoT having many prominent women characters played by talented actresses, it reads as much more masculine than HoTD, which ultimately is about Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower, both of whom don't even have the courtesy to be nubile ingenues but are instead mothers in their 30s with grief and bite and enough baggage to sink the Titanic.

There's a sort of glamour and thrill to the battles in GoT, Blackwater, the Battle of the Bastards, the Long Night; our valiant heroes emerge victorious despite losing their loved ones. Tyrion Lannister saves his city and his family, Arya Stark kills the Night King, Sansa Stark watches watches her rapist and abuser be eaten alive by his own dogs, and it's cathartic in a way the violence in HoTD never is.

After the Battle of the Gullet, and the death of his grandson Jacaerys, Corlys Velaryon says, "If this be victory, I hope I never see another." He's an old man, his wife and two children have predeceased him, he's seen enough sorrow and horror and death for ten lifetimes, and he wants to stop fighting but it gives him a purpose he'd otherwise lack.

Criston Cole has the right of it.

There is no glory in death, in being burned alive, in being cut open by your husband in the hope you deliver a living son, in being beheaded by a woman that has been yearning all her life to be right where she is and still can't fill the grief inside of her.

I just can't help but believe that at least some of the criticism HoTD receives is because of these aspects, because it's about two women that are impossible to sexualize or deify, because the audience and also the characters in it, even Daemon by the end given that he goes clear-eyed into his murder-suicide at the God's Eye, know that there is no possible ending to their story except tragedy, because the history books have been already written.

As Joffrey Baratheon tells Margaery Tyrell, “Rhaenyra Targaryen was murdered by her brother, or rather his dragon. It ate her while her son watched. What's left of her is buried in the crypts right down there." Rhaenyra, the girl that we met in episode 1 of HoTD, passionate and beautiful and so very alive, died long before her physical body gave out, bit by bit as her sons were taken from her, and maybe, just maybe, she's been dead since the very beginning.

Look at it like this: If GoT is about watching House Stark rise from the ashes and triumph despite the tragedies it endures, HoTD is about watching Rhaenyra Targaryen die, it's about Alicent Hightower watching Rhaenyra die. Alicent is the Final Girl, the Final Woman, she outlives everybody she's ever loved, and by her end, she welcomes death like an old friend, maybe one with the face of Rhaenyra as she once was, laughing and feisty and full of life and love.

It's a resolution with no catharsis so naturally, I expect the general audience to riot.

GRRM himself and the A Song of Ice and Fire (Fire and Blood to a lesser extent) books seem very blackpilled on war if not resolutely anti-war, with the dragons presumably meant to signify enormous sentient weapons of mass destruction.

However, Game of Thrones, the adaption, watered down that message pretty substantially since the battles and dragons and sensationalistic violence seemed to be the primary draw for the masses and not the nuanced critique of war and nuclear weapons that the books were intended to be, even if obviously the execution wasn't perfect given how much people love Tywin Lannister (although to be fair, that's because Charles Dance is exemplary).

Conversely, House of the Dragon is honestly more explicitly anti-war than the original HBO series, like there is zero catharsis whatsoever in the battles. Jacaerys Targaryen dies in the most anticlimactic way, the show cuts the dramatic soundtrack altogether, he drowns unceremoniously while shot through with arrows, and to the cheers and jeers of his enemies. Rhaenys Targaryen kamikazes herself at the Battle of Rook's Rest, realizing that her and her dragon's life is forfeit so she might as well die honorably.

Rhaenyra Targaryen takes the throne with surprisingly little fanfare, her husband cutting through the guards in Kings Landing as if they're made of butter, and clumsily beheads Otto Hightower with tears streaming down her face. She's never really used a sword before, she's never killed a man, but she does it and can't help but feel horrified at taking a human life despite Otto plotting against her and her family for over 20 years.

Despite GoT having many prominent women characters played by talented actresses, it reads as much more masculine than HoTD, which ultimately is about Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower, both of whom don't even have the courtesy to be nubile ingenues but are instead mothers in their 30s with grief and bite and enough baggage to sink the Titanic.

There's a sort of glamour and thrill to the battles in GoT, Blackwater, the Battle of the Bastards, the Long Night; our valiant heroes emerge victorious despite losing their loved ones. Tyrion Lannister saves his city and his family, Arya Stark kills the Night King, Sansa Stark watches watches her rapist and abuser be eaten alive by his own dogs, and it's cathartic in a way the violence in HoTD never is.

After the Battle of the Gullet, and the death of his grandson Jacaerys, Corlys Velaryon says, "If this be victory, I hope I never see another." He's an old man, his wife and two children have predeceased him, he's seen enough sorrow and horror and death for ten lifetimes, and he wants to stop fighting but it gives him a purpose he'd otherwise lack.

Criston Cole has the right of it.

There is no glory in death, in being burned alive, in being cut open by your husband in the hope you deliver a living son, in being beheaded by a woman that has been yearning all her life to be right where she is and still can't fill the grief inside of her.

I just can't help but believe that at least some of the criticism HoTD receives is because of these aspects, because it's about two women that are impossible to sexualize or deify, because the audience and also the characters in it, even Daemon by the end given that he goes clear-eyed into his murder-suicide at the God's Eye, know that there is no possible ending to their story except tragedy, because the history books have been already written.

As Joffrey Baratheon tells Margaery Tyrell, “Rhaenyra Targaryen was murdered by her brother, or rather his dragon. It ate her while her son watched. What's left of her is buried in the crypts right down there." Rhaenyra, the girl that we met in episode 1 of HoTD, passionate and beautiful and so very alive, died long before her physical body gave out, bit by bit as her sons were taken from her, and maybe, just maybe, she's been dead since the very beginning.

Look at it like this: If GoT is about watching House Stark rise from the ashes and triumph despite the tragedies it endures, HoTD is about watching Rhaenyra Targaryen die, it's about Alicent Hightower watching Rhaenyra die. Alicent is the Final Girl, the Final Woman, she outlives everybody she's ever loved, and by her end, she welcomes death like an old friend, maybe one with the face of Rhaenyra as she once was, laughing and feisty and full of life and love.

It's a resolution with no catharsis so naturally, I expect the general audience to riot.

We've rounded up some book recs that deal with gods, monsters, and the people just trying to survive it all...

Bringing strong 'let's overthrow the government' vibes to the function

-Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

- Anji Kills a King by Evan Leikam

-Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

-The Infinite State by Richard Swan

-A Far Better Thing by H. G. Parry

-The Forever Desert trilogy by Moses Ose Utomi

-Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman

-Daughter of the Dark by R.J. Valldeperas

If you can't get enough of HBO Max's House of the Dragon, we've got some books to help tide you over 😎✨

this gif is like a poem to me

"June" by Alex Dimitrov. to ME.

small things to improve your life 𝜗𝜚˚⋆

As always, please feel free to share your own suggestions and tips in the comments! <3

my insta: @ malusokay

love ya ･:*₊‧✩

In case anyone is having a bad night:

Here is the fudgiest brownie in a mug recipe I’ve found

Here are some fun sites

Here is a master post of Adventure Time episodes and comics

Here is a master post of movies including Disney and Studio Ghibli

Here is a master post of other master posts to TV shows and movies

*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*

You’ll be okay, friend <3

i will reblog this everytime it shows up because any of my followers could have a bad night right now

All these links, besides the first, are broken. So here’s some more.

Here’s an emergency compliment

Here you can play 2048

Here’s a playlist of Bob ross

Here’s a website to watch movie’s and shows for free

Here’s a website to watch documentaries for free

Here you can to nothing for two minutes

Here you can break something. It’s good for anger

Here’s a button to press to make everything okay

Here’s a site to cut something up (TRIGGER WARNING)

Here’s a site that makes you a website depending on a song you choose

Here’s a gay comic. It’s adorable

Here you can spend Bill Gate’s money

Here you can draw your own island

Here you can learn about patterns website’s use

Here you can get your life stats

Here you can listen to the Tucker Zone (Headphones needed)

Here you can see how fast you’re moving

Here you can see the progress of time

Here you can see the future of the universe 

Want some more? 

Here’s the butterfly project

Here’s a snickerdoodle mug cake

Here’s a link to some free audiobooks

Here’s something to read when you feel like a burden

Here’s a secret

Here’s my playlist of some sea shanties 

Here’s another secret

Here’s a link to some cool websites 

Here’s a blog that gives you recipes for when you’re low on spoons

Here’s some Brony Headcanon’s

Some more? I’ve got plenty

Here’s 100,000 stars

Here you can control the weather (TW FLASHING IMAGES)

Here you can weave silk

Here you can make a castle of your own

Here you can make a kaleidoscope drawing

Here you can explore recursion

Here you can play a jelly block game

I’m back with some more! 

Here you can draw with pasta

Here you can draw logo’s from memory

Here you can play this is sand, here you draw cool sand designs

Here you can play The Organ Trail

Here’s a customizable white noise website

Here you can simulate gravity

Here you can create your own guardian of the galaxy

Here you can make your own galaxy

Here’s a website you can get some support at.

to find later

Here you can split circles into smaller and smaller pieces (I found this really satisfying)

Here you can have images of people point to where your pointer is

Here you can paint someone’s nails

Here you can grow a garden across your screen (Audio included)

Here you can try out all kinds of mind illusions (Trigger Warning: Flashing Lights)

Here you can see how many miles you have scrolled

Here you can watch a website load forever, although you might be getting enough of this on Tumblr mobile

Here’s a rickroll

Here you can remind yourself that you’re awesome.

Here you can throw trash into a dustbin only for it to bounce right back out (Audio included)

Here you can make sand dunes using sand (Audio included)

And here you can generate more cool websites like these

pinning thissss

And yet more!!!

Here you can listen to a gentle rainstorm

Here you can make snowflakes

Here is a Line Rider feature film with relaxing music

Here is the entire script to the Princess Bride (many don’t need it but it’s fun to read anyway)

Here is an abbreviated script for the entirety of Book 1 of A:TLA that I made out of anger at the film that definitely doesn’t exist

Here is a playlist of the top 10 most relaxing songs ranked according to science

Here’s a site where you can make a dude beatbox with fun animations

I’m fully aware I will need this at some point.

Imma type pin in my tags every time I find a post like this so you can easily look it up on my blog.

i have been sitting here so fucking distracted for nearly an hour

THE PRINCESS BRIDE MY BELOVED

i just made the brownie mug and it’s a little crumbly but it’s really good

by @ toolbburs (no pronouns in bio).

(a sort of) Ghosts Google Drive Masterpost

...as well as just where to watch them in general.

sooo... I don't know if this has been done yet but I've decided to make a sort of compliation of google drives for all the different remakes of BBC Ghosts. Just in case it might be helpful, because through my other posts, I've learned that quite a few people don't know there are other versions of Ghosts. This post will be updated frequently.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these google drives, and I've mostly encountered them through Tumblr and Reddit posts so thank you so much to the people who made them!!

BBC Ghosts (UK Original)

Found on this Tumblr post. We thank you, o kind one. If you live in Britain, pretty sure it's up on BBC iPlayer.

CBS Ghosts (US)

Season 1~5 (thanks to @them-mustangsyt):

Link to just the fifth season(thanks to @them-mustangsyt!)—this link isn't really needed anymore but I kept it anyway, haha :

If you live in America, you can watch the recent episodes for free on the CBS website. The whole series is up on Paramount+, and apparently the earlier seasons are on Netflix in some countries.

ARD Ghosts (Germany)

(English subtitles are included.) Found this link on a Tumblr post—sorry to report that I don't know who made it, and have forgotten which post I've sourced this from. I do know who did the translations—that would be @rovermcfly. The English-speaking community thanks you. If you can speak German, the episodes are available for free on the ARD website.

Ghosts France

(English subtitles are included.) I sourced this from the same Tumblr post as the German remake. Unfortunately, I don't know who made this drive or who translated. I'm pretty sure you can watch this on Disney+ also... but only for some regions.

Ghosts Greece

I have two drives for this one, here's the first:

Has up to the third episode (English subtitles are included). Translations and Google drive by @ratnix. Once again, the English speakers thank you. Here's the second one:

Has up to the seventh episode with English subtitles. (To be noted: the video quality isn't too good.) The drive was made by a certain Elena on Facebook. Thank you to @welcometochristmasland for finding it!

If you know Greek (and live in Greece), the episodes are available on the Star TV website. Pretty sure they're free but can't tell 'cause I don't speak Greek.

Ghosts Australia

I found this one on this Tumblr post. You can also watch it on 10 Play for free with an account (thank you to @melodypowers65 for the information!).

Here's a link with English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Dutch subtitles(a big thank you to @them-mustangsyt) :

uhhh hope this was helpful :)

(a sort of) Ghosts Google Drive Masterpost

...as well as just where to watch them in general.

sooo... I don't know if this has been done yet but I've decided to make a sort of compliation of google drives for all the different remakes of BBC Ghosts. Just in case it might be helpful, because through my other posts, I've learned that quite a few people don't know there are other versions of Ghosts. This post will be updated frequently.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these google drives, and I've mostly encountered them through Tumblr and Reddit posts so thank you so much to the people who made them!!

BBC Ghosts (UK Original)

Found on this Tumblr post. We thank you, o kind one. If you live in Britain, pretty sure it's up on BBC iPlayer.

CBS Ghosts (US)

Season 1~5 (thanks to @them-mustangsyt):

Link to just the fifth season(thanks to @them-mustangsyt!)—this link isn't really needed anymore but I kept it anyway, haha :

If you live in America, you can watch the recent episodes for free on the CBS website. The whole series is up on Paramount+, and apparently the earlier seasons are on Netflix in some countries.

ARD Ghosts (Germany)

(English subtitles are included.) Found this link on a Tumblr post—sorry to report that I don't know who made it, and have forgotten which post I've sourced this from. I do know who did the translations—that would be @rovermcfly. The English-speaking community thanks you. If you can speak German, the episodes are available for free on the ARD website.

Ghosts France

(English subtitles are included.) I sourced this from the same Tumblr post as the German remake. Unfortunately, I don't know who made this drive or who translated. I'm pretty sure you can watch this on Disney+ also... but only for some regions.

Ghosts Greece

I have two drives for this one, here's the first:

Has up to the third episode (English subtitles are included). Translations and Google drive by @ratnix. Once again, the English speakers thank you. Here's the second one:

Has up to the seventh episode with English subtitles. (To be noted: the video quality isn't too good.) The drive was made by a certain Elena on Facebook. Thank you to @welcometochristmasland for finding it!

If you know Greek (and live in Greece), the episodes are available on the Star TV website. Pretty sure they're free but can't tell 'cause I don't speak Greek.

Ghosts Australia

I found this one on this Tumblr post. You can also watch it on 10 Play for free with an account (thank you to @melodypowers65 for the information!).

Here's a link with English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Dutch subtitles(a big thank you to @them-mustangsyt) :

uhhh hope this was helpful :)

we got sad rhaena singing her father’s lullaby! we got sad wet drug addicted aegon left humiliated! we got medical malpractice sadist hannibal lecter dom rat evil advisor larys in complete control of aegon’s wellbeing! we got homophobic jake! we got crazy-eyes rhaenyra excited as fuck about dragons and alicent! we got bug-eyed alicent in blue talking about boards and pieces! we got waxing poetic criston cole with his odd ass sayings that make everyone uncomfortable! we got ginger daeron hightower! we got motivationally confused corlys! we got king aemond! we got gay as fuck clean freak perfumer ormund! we got alimond oedipus torment incestuous abuse motherwife save-your-mommy powerless against sexual abuse at the hands of your male family you’re not even safe from your son KISS!!! we got shitting! we got teleporting alys rivers! we got scheming blood hungry crazy-eyes sonhusband jacaerys! we got idiot tyland lannister! we got everyone scared as fuck of nonbinary crazy-eyes rhaenyra! we got girlfailure rhaena unable to control a dragon she claimed out of hubris! we got jake fruitless gullet euthanasia! we got everything! ITS HOUSE OF THE FUCKING DRAGON BABY!

LOVE NEXT DOOR (2024)

Goncharov Uquiz time for the memes, since it’s enjoying a renaissance!

Ice Pick Joe