Terrible, Beautiful Sparks in Space

The only media I ever watched was avatar the lost air bender and dnd podcasts can I write a novel to change the world?

hmm... *gets in evil bed and holds my evil stuffed animal* evil night.. *turns off my fucked up evil lamp*

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!

I HAVE FINALLY FOUND THE PAINT JOB I NEED ON MY CAR.

driving my newly painted car down to my job at the children’s hospital

"rickrolling is mean" rickrolling is the gentle, kind, prosocial descendant of what we used to do on the internet, which was putting a redirect to goatse in every possible misspelling of a url

Imagine if Ryan Condal was adapting asoiaf. He would probably have Jon Arryn die as the result of a completely unrelated thing that everyone forgets about immediately and have his last words be misconstrued to cause more unnecessary conflict or have Cersei lose control over her children so one of them flies off the handle and kills Ned. Or have Jaime wander around purposeless until a freaky weirwood dream in Harrenhal makes him change course. Or put in some dumbass plot about how your hair color determines the legitimacy of your parentage even though that’s hypocritical. Or have people say that Sansa grew bat wings and turned into a wolf to kill Joffrey but really just have her be a scared teenage girl who wanted to leave her horrible situation. Or deny characters catharsis through violent revenge because War Bad. Or have dany talk about how she’s just a little girl uneducated in the ways of war in front of men even though that’s sexist and have her dragons eat people or carry her off somewhere because she can’t really control them. Or get too into Cersei’s desperate struggle against her own body because of misogyny. Or have Robb give up his sisters as hostages in favor of keeping Jaime Lannister to make a point about how girls are less valuable. Or have Catelyn get randomly lucky enough to run into Tyrion Lannister in one inn in the entire kingdom and kidnap him on a complete misconception that he tried to kill her son but it was actually like…Joffrey, because he wants to be like his dad or something. Or have stannis start a civil war to usurp the throne over a misinterpretation of a prophecy. Or get way too into peace being a brave option and not a cowardly one. Or or or I’m like a circus seal over here

That being said even accounting for taste it is really funny to hear so many people complain about a fire and blood characterization being butchered and the characterization in question is like a teenage girl described as being really pretty and feminine in some kind of outfit sitting in a room doing nothing for years. Not great television that

Making Rhaenyra #kindofnonbinary is worth a thousand fire and blood realm’s delights and one.

He really internalized the part of Alys’ prophecy about dying in harrenhal and took off his helmet to go to war because he is not there so he can’t die. my goat

#lowk. do we KNOW Daemon wouldn’t fully approve of kinslaying a weaker cousin if its baby’s first dragon ride?#he might be like okay so my kid tested her dragon’s mettle by frying some civilians and and almost murdering two family members#but the stronger one (my other kid) survived. the boy should have zig zagged thats not her fault its like you guys arent even valyrian 🙄

the dragonseed loser squad accidentally having a camping trip on the literal isle of faces is so good i cant stop laughing. These dudes are not aware of their genre at all

you cannot stop the spiraling all-consuming consequences of war you cannot control the dragons and you cannot stop your children from being the thing that you have asked them to make of themselves like that’s the show.

Jace becomes another man overruling Rhaenyra and locking her in her room because her lack of trust in him and the shame she did not protect him from made him distrust her back and desperate to prove himself. Rhaena gets seen as an enemy dragonrider because no one ever taught her how having a dragon is supposed to be because her dad wrote her off and sent her away for not having one. and Aemond has been raised to be the man of the house in the incest abuse blood curse family since he was nine years old and claimed vhagar.

ngl I’m kind of liking the Rhaena change like waaaaaay more than I thought I would

The idea of being emotionally neglected your entire life because you’re not a dragonrider and thus not useful in the impending dynastic civil war and dragons are who we are and thinking if only I can fix this personal deficiency then my dad and my family will love me and then at the last minute while being sent away you risk your life but manage to hunt down and claim a wild dragon but you cannot control the dragons you cannot actually pock the consequences of war and in defending you the dragon who has kept you alive actually makes sure you can never ever go home again and be a Targaryen. maybe you’re something else now.

i think a lot of people heard about chekov's gun and thought it only applied to like. actual guns. and that it wasn't meant to be extended to literally every element a writer puts in a story

chekov's gun is supposed to be about how no superfluous elements should exist in a work at all. there shouldn't be anything there that doesn't serve a purpose. on its face, it's a directive aimed at writers. but the inverse of that, for us the audience, is that if something is in a story, we can generally assume that it wasn't put there on accident. we can assume that it serves a purpose. even if it seems random and pointless at first, we have to assign it meaning, because otherwise it wouldn't be there. that random piece of characterization? the author must have considered it vital, or it wouldn't be there. the way the camera lingered on a specific thing? you can be sure it's important. the way characters dress, their backgrounds, their habits, it all says something about who they are and how the author intends you to see them. it's the basis of media analysis: why does this element exist? what's its purpose? why was it put there? people always say i'm great at media analysis, but this is really all i do. you recognize the elements, and figure out what purpose they serve.

an interesting thing about clothing in late medieval and early modern europe is that, while lower class people generally did wear brightly colored clothing instead of muddy brown clothes, there were very distinct differences in the color of clothing people of different classes wore. clothing was done with all natural dyes, of course, but they were either dyed locally with cheap and easily accessible ingredients, or they were dyed in holland, italy, the ottoman empire, or even further afield using a jealously guarded secret combination of difficult-to-access ingredients, including (crucially) better-quality fixatives. this means that not only did expensive imported fabrics maintain a dark, rich tone much longer than a locally dyed one, which would get a washed out look after a couple of years, but there were also certain colors that a working class farmer literally couldn’t afford to wear, and even though the difference between a cheap local lincoln green and an expensive imported popingay green might seem subtle to us people then seem to have been very sensitive to those differences. that’s also why the colors puritans tended to wear seem uncharacteristically bright to our modern eye—black was such a rich and expensive color that it would be inappropriate to wear to anything other than a portrait sitting, but the colors orange and kendall green were deeply humble in their origins