He's Even Got Hands!

Seasmoke Manual for Addam, Aegon Manual for baby Sunfyre.

Yes, Viserys was an idiot to remarry. No, it didn’t matter if he had married Laena—Corlys’ greed made Otto look like a saint. Unlike the book, Rhaenyra was old enough to be married off and have children of her own; remarrying with enough children to populate a new house was Viserys’ own greed and pride. Blame Viserys for Rhaenyra’s inevitable downfall

Yes, naming Aegon heir would’ve solved a lot of issues. Namely, the fact that literally no one would have contested that claim. Not even Rhaenyra, who spent her entire life up Aemma’s death as conveniently not-the-heir.

No, naming Rhaenyra queen and abdicating while he was alive would not have stopped the Dance, merely pushed it down a generation. Y’all seem to keep forgetting that Jace and Co are very obvious bastards; if not Aegon v Rhaenyra, it would be Aegon v Jace or Jace v Aegon the Younger v Jaehaerys

No, Jace’s reign was not secured or safe. Again —> very obviously a bastard, surrounded by what’s going to be dozens of white-haired sons and daughters. Ntm, I doubt the many lords would let him rest easy for it. A very harmful precedent there

No, Jace and Helaena would not have been enough. The claim to contest are Aegon and his brothers’, which still exist even if Helaena married Jace. Aegon and Baela would’ve been the better option, but that would only work if Baela were to inherit Driftmark—and we all know Rhaenyra would never allow it.

No, it really doesn’t matter that Aegon was a mediocre-to-bad king. Viserys was a shit king, Rhaenyra was a shit queen, Daemon would’ve been terrible—they all sucked. The Council matters way more than the king does, and the Black Council as it stands are all fucking morons. Jace has the most sense there and he’s 16; that’s how bad it is

Rhaenyra’s not exactly the pinnacle of genius. Girlie’s also stupid as fuck, because for someone who does want to rule and knows that her rule is constantly contested on, she decides to run away and do nothing for close to seven years. Might as well hangup the claim and the crown, for all the effort she placed into securing it. Which was basically none. Maybe start by not having such obvious bastards, or marrying the man you were named heir to keep away from the crown and producing even more bastards.

Whereas the reality is far more like

So Geralt is fiercely protective. He hovers, worries, and throws himself between Jaskier and anything that even vaguely resembles danger. The very thought of Jaskier getting hurt is enough to make Geralt's stomach twist.

Then there are the other witchers.

Unlike Geralt, they've already pieced together that Jaskier is most definitely not human. In fact, whatever species he belongs to will probably outlive death itself.

Which means they're perfectly content to stand back and let Jaskier indulge in his most feral instincts.

After all, if an ancient, immortal creature wants to climb onto the roof, steal questionable objects, antagonize monsters three times his size, or hiss at strangers for reasons known only to himself... who are they to interfere?

It's natural.

@rpepperpotshipssciencebros please forgive me for this one

a close up to just... light shining through those waves, makes me feel faint with exhilaration every time

I think the funniest part is like.

Obvs he's made up his mind on the war itself and that the Avatar's side is right. So all those Water Tribe warriors that were just captured? They're free to go. Actually can their leader stay for a minute to like. Have Fire Lord Zuko give an apology for Fucking Everything™ and explain that if he's in charge now he's surrendering the war?

So you have Hakoda looking at this child (what do you mean he's sixteen?!) and a second even younger child (Azula's only 14?!?!) who just lost a father but are having nuts reactions to it because apparently their father Fucking Sucked™ and had already disfigured the one years ago(when the boy was 13?!?!?!?!) and now forced him to kill in self-defense and threatened to do so to the younger one to force her to commit atrocities in his name?