Fire & Blood

I think there's something weirdly tragic about Maekar being a good king. Because the man we meet at Ashford would not be a good king. Which suggests that when he does take the Iron Throne, he makes a tremendous effort to play against his character, and do the boring work of keeping the peace and tolerating people that he doesn't like. And it's hard not to read that as Maekar trying to be as like Baelor as he can be, because it should be Baelor on the throne, and it's Maekar's fault that it isn't.

imagine you are a middle school science teacher and it's the end of the day and you want to get out FAST because parents are annoying and they'll want to talk to you and you have SO much marking to do and your way is blocked by. the most powerful person on earth

Also, speaking as a once and hopefully future fanfic author: all I really wanted was to see people reading and enjoying what I wrote. If I was exceptionally bold I might hope they'd talk to me about that. You all have no idea how valued people who "just" read and reblog and recc and whatever else are to those of us doing the creating thing. If anything we need more of them.

"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me

i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive

I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you’re getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the amount of energy you’re spending on them, and every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first time machine

Item: thousand-year-old drinking game