Emilygw

👑 The King Of Candia 👑

I’m still not over this campaign and I finished it weeks ago!! Thank you Brennan for giving me an opportunity to go crazy with colors :))

🍬 The Unfallen Version Below 🍬

the game of thrones in question:

⚪️ Well Deserved Rest ⚪️

So much of a crown of candy takes place within a few days (minus being on the ship) and they really deserved a rest the poor guys

‼️MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW‼️

Close ups below and click for better quality you know the deal ❤️

Like on its face, yes, two gay men died…. But like, in a show about a zombie apocalypse where we’re tracking at least 1 Major Character Death per episode, Bill & Frank are triumphant compared to every other character. They got to live to be old and gray together after a life of relatively peaceful flourishing. They chose their deaths on their own terms, a luxury most people don’t get in this world. They got to die together, in each others arms, neither left to live and suffer alone. They got to go with dignity, autonomy, and love, in peace, together. They got to choose. They made their end meaningful. They were happy and satisfied and fulfilled. Everything that gay characters are so often not afforded in life, much less in death.

Not only that, but narratively speaking, their deaths were used in exact opposition to “bury your gays.” The trope was created to reinforce that being gay is a sin, that gays must die as punishment for their evil ways. It’s intended to be a narrative consequence, the moral of the story, a warning to its audience.

But the deaths of Bill and Frank were used as closure to a story arc about living a happy, fulfilled life with your partner. Even further than that, their arc was used to demonstrate that there is meaning in life because we choose to create meaning, that purpose is found in each other, in loving someone, even at the end of the world. They are held up as an example of what to strive for, of a reason to keep living, of something to pursue. It is completely antithetical to bury your gays and is in fact a brilliant subversion of it in that it grounds the purpose of the narrative itself.

A redraw of the first OFMD fanart I made! ^^ ✨

ofmd but everyone’s a lady