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If I had more time right now I could COOK talking about Cersei’s scene with Taena and how it relates to Robert and comparing and contrasting to Dany’s scene with Irri and how it relates to Drogo. Like Cersei is having sex with Taena because she knows what kind of person Robert was and desperately wants to understand why he hurt her, what he got out of abusing her. She is fully conscious of the power dynamic but Cersei does not care what it says about her own moral character. Cersei is grasping at the power that Robert held over her. Whereas Dany is having sex with Irri because she actively denies what kind of person Drogo was, denies that he hurt her. The power dynamic does not cross her mind because she has rewritten the power dynamic between her and Drogo and because she cares so much about her own moral character. Dany grasps at power by denying that Drogo held it over her. Both of these sexual relationships are direct results of their inability to comprehend the abuse they suffered and their poor coping mechanisms

Imagining Sunfyre or Vhaegar being the gun in question for “the shit that I’ve done with this fuck of a gun” is darkly funny too. I wish I had video editing skills so when we get more footage I could make a good MV for this.

Maybe I’ll learn so I can actually make all the MVs for Famous Last Words I’ve imagined in my brain because that’s my favorite of theirs and I actually shed tears every time I watch a fan MV using that one. Sometimes including the ones in my brain if I’m thinking hard enough.

anyone here like mcr. is that too tumblr 2010 even tho they’ve released new music that everyone should listen to anyways.

so anyways i have a wip alicent/aegon fanmix i like to listen to when i’m reading fanfiction and i tend to build fanmixes by just throwing songs i think fit and then relistening 30 times to make sure they all flow together and i threw mama in there thinking it wouldn’t really fit and i’d probably have to take it out but it Does fit and also

I got really excited about his death scene again aksjsjdj i literally can’t wait to watch a burned, high off milk of the poppy, can barely walk Aegon start screaming and crying and spitting in Baela’s face with her head on a block because Sunfyre just died while Alicent is standing a few feet away begging him to stop and just take the black.

Should the ship name for Podrick and Sansa be Podsa or Sandrick?

Hear me out he’s a hero he’s gentle he’s kind he’s brave in the face of his own fear he’s assisting Brienne in her search for Sansa he’s of age with her. He blushes when he speaks to her.

Podrick had a dog named Hero and Sansa’s direwolf was Lady HELLO come on.

I have no interest in Helluva Boss and I don’t think it looks very… good…? But I watched Hazbin Hotel and actually really liked it. I know the creator has some controversies but it’s a fun cartoon. The character designs are really great (mostly. I think Husk is a mess). The voice acting is really great (special props to the VAs for Charlie and Angel Dust) and the music is too. I had my reservations about it being a musical at first and thought maybe I’d just skip the songs but I didn’t skip a single one. I especially loved Loser, Baby. I’m really excited to see where the story goes!! As the season neared the end I was worried the plot was moving too fast and had no idea where they’d go next but the end of the finale really sets up a great direction for the plot to move in. The animation is hot or miss. Sometimes it looks a bit… I don’t know how to say it. Not smooth or fluid. But there are a lot of really great sequences. I love it every time Charlie goes full demon. It’s a very visually pleasing sequence. And there’s a particular scene in the finale where Alastor is using his powers that was particularly well-done.

Overall I appreciate the tone of the show a lot. So many adult cartoons feel so self-loathing and need to be so edgy and tend to be comedy focused. I guess you could make the case that Hazbin is edgy since it’s literally set in hell and there’s lots of swearing but it’s not edgy like something like Velma. I actually cannot think of a single other adult cartoon that’s a musical unless it’s a parody and the show just has a lot of love put into it. I definitely recommend it.

This has to be bait right??

Watch me, a Dany fan, read even more into the Irri sex scene.

First of all. “Irri chose to do it the first time, Irri offered” choices are not made in a vacuum like this is a core principle of feminist analysis. It is not as cut and dry as Robert raping Cersei but you have to recognize the power imbalance and the fact that Dany does understand that Irri sees it as a duty.

I think Dany not recognizing the power she holds over Irri and the fact that having sex out of duty is BAD is a result of her persistent romanticization of Drogo and denial of her victimhood in the situation. If she were to recognize the inherent power imbalance and any wrongness, she would be forced to confront her own victimhood. She would be forced to recall Drogo in a negative light. She doesn’t like doing this. When she starts having fantasies of other lovers, she forces herself to think of Drogo, tells herself that it’s Drogo she wants.

She has rewritten the narrative of her abuse into something she can take comfort in. A warm memory of someone who “loved” her. Dany is certainly far better to Irri than Drogo was to Dany, so to acknowledge the wrongness of what’s happening with Irri would say REALLY bad things about Drogo.

And I’d even go a step further as to say that she needs to maintain the positive, romanticized image of Drogo in order to absolve herself of guilt for killing Mirri. Dany is constantly questioning the actions she has taken, ESPECIALLY the violent ones. She even is plagued by the memory of Visery’s death and clearly feels guilt about it. But not Mirri. Acknowledging the reality of Drogo and the person he was would lead to a new train of thought: Mirri was not wrong for “killing” him. Then, Dany would be forced to wonder if the sacrifice she made to get her dragons was wrong. The thing that brought her her power.

Being good and just is so important to her, as is feeling loved. All of these delusions prop each other up to maintain those feelings in her. In Dany’s mind, if Drogo was a good and loving husband, if the sex between Dany and Drogo wasn’t abuse, then Mirri was clearly wrong for what she did and Dany was justified in executing her and her dragons were born of justice. Thus, having sex with Irri also cannot be abuse. It cannot be wrong to have sex with someone who feels they are doing it out of duty, or else Drogo was an abuser who did not treat Dany with love and Dany’s dragons were born of the murder of a slave, and Dany does not believe slaves should be punished for rising up against their masters.

This whole situation is an excellent example of how self deception and romanticizing your own abuse can lead to the harm of others and not just yourself. Generally (speaking as a victim of abuse within romantic relationships), some part of the victim’s consciousness understands that we are deluding ourselves when we romanticize the situation and make excuses for our abusers, but we can shut down that thought easily: “even if I AM romanticizing it, I’m the victim, so it only hurts me, so I have no need to confront what may be the truth.”

Like sure. Maybe GRRM wanted a f/f sex scene. But is this not more interesting? Doesn’t this add more depth and intrigue to Dany’s character?

How’s that for reading into it??

Ugh you’re reading way too much into the Irri thing. It wasn’t abuse. George just wanted to write a sex scene between two hot girls. That’s it. And how can you be a Rhaenyra fan and hate Dany 🤨