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Barry Trivers and Gerd Oswald dropping “The Conscience of the King” on December 8th of 1966, only to never elaborate on Tarsus IV and Kirk’s past there

“Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be... But I expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.”

Murder Triumvirate: Clarice Starling, Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter in a special dinner.

Or when Hannibal did a special dinner for his spouses.

"You're quite beautiful, Clarice.”

CRACKSHIP gifs → Anna Popplewell & Ben Barnes

Gif makers @behindfairytales @kaxbrekker

LOVE BETWEEN FAIRY AND DEVIL 苍兰诀 (2022) Dir. by Yi Zheng – Episode 12

Have you read this? https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/1f9mhdd/spoilers_extended_xiran_jay_zhao_on_george_rr/?rdt=46965

Author Xiran Jay Zhao on GRRM's critique of how his work has been adapted (posted originally on Tumblr here):

My interpretation:

GRRM has likely been ignored by execs for years because he signed away certain adaptation rights likely under the agreement he would be consulted and collaborated with and his perspective valued in the adaptation of his work. He has no real power and this is the only way he can let his opinions be known.

GRRM likely hates the way the show created designated "good guys" and "bad guys" who've been stripped of their characterization and motivation to fit a certain narrative. He also doesn't like that aspects of his worldbuilding have been set aside, ignored, or completely written to suit the new plot, at the expense of things being illogical and nonsensical in-universe. Likely, he also does not like the callbacks to the Game of Thrones ending which he specifically said will not play out in the books and serves only to remind people of the failures of that show's ending.

"I don't know what's going on in there and I don't want to" is also the realest thing I've read and perpetual fandom mood.

Also shoutout to this comment:

Because truly instead of attacking GRRM for being upset and outspoken against a multi-million dollar company twisting his work into something unrecognizable and worse changes coming next season... maybe we should criticize that said company is not placing value on creators or taking them into consideration for the implementation of adaptations, in favor of squeezing out content in order to make the most profit, cutting budgets and episodes and taking writing shortcuts to get the most generic, consumable story possible.

goodnight clannibal community

More Hannibal art! The brainrot never stops! Based mainly off of the book (chapter 86 my beloved) with some influence from the film thrown in there

I am in TEARS this is hands down the funniest Bridgerton tweet [edit: was not expecting it to quickly become my post popular post lmao here’s the link if you’re a twitter person]

The 1st season of Bridgerton is my favorite because it's the one that really felt like a romance. Watching it was magical and really felt like reading romance novel.

The 2nd season was a mess... who thought it was a good idea to do a love triangle with 2 sisters.

I loooved season 3 but I feel like the 1st part of the season was much better than the second part. There were too many side plots and the resolution of the Lady Whistledown storyline was underwhelming and took time away from the romance.

I wish the 2nd part had focused more on Polin, and John x Francesca, all the romantic storylines.

I think I missed something in Bridgerton because how are people thinking that the love story between John and Francesca is not as good as Daphne x Simon's or Anthony x Kate's storylines?

In TV, it's true, because the angst and the drama makes it more entertaining and fun to watch.

But in real life, I think people look for what John and Francesca have: a connection, a new found peace, knowing you have found someone you love and are willing to spend the rest of your life with them.

Who wants drama? Your futur spouse pretending to hate you, and not wanting to marry you and only at the last moment deciding they want to be with you? How is that better? Or more passionate?

Most people don't want Colin "I would never dream of courting Penelope Featherington " Bridgerton. They want John * I'll write you a music partition because you didn't like the original one* Kilmartin.

Anthony was literally going to marry Kate's sister and only didn't because Edwina stopped the wedding.... not him.

Why would Violet or anyone think this is better than what John and Francesca have???

Yes, it's "boring" to watch, but it's not boring to live. That's true romance. Not the drama.

They are the healthiest couple out of all the Bridgertons.

And no hate to the other couples, I do love Angst with a happy ending, I just don't get the contempt towards John x Francesca.

Never let team Black stans and Targ fanboys gaslight you to believe that house Hightower is an enemy of house Targaryen:

1) Before the conquest, Aegon and Visenya visited the Oldtown, and spent time at the Citadel.

2) The Hightowers did not march to the Field of Fire, and surrendered without a fight.

3) Aegon's reign officially began in Oldtown after he was anointed and crowned by the High Septon (who was a Hightower) in the Starry Sept, and was celebrated by the people of the city as he rode over the city on Balerion.

4) House Hightower was one of the few houses that helped the Targaryens in the First Dornish War.

5) Aegon agreed to betroth his son Maegor to Ceryse Hightower when Ceryse's uncle suggested that Maegor should be wed to his niece, and look what F&B has to say about Maegor and Ceryse: "Maegor boasted to having consummated the marriage a dozen times the night of the wedding, and those who had seen the bedding agreed that Maegor was a lusty husband."

6) Maegor recognized Ceryse as the official Queen of Westeros, even though he had two more wives, and gave all of her lands and titles back to her. Ceryse was also the only one of his wives who he had no hand in her death.

7) When Rhaena Targaryen fled from Maegor, he sent a rider to Oldtown commanding Lord Hightower to behead Rhaella (who was training to become a Septa) as punishment for her mother's betrayal. Lord Hightower refused, and imprisoned the messenger instead.

8) Alicent fetched old Jaehaerys' meals, helped him wash and dress, and read to him. On her deathbed, she said: "I want to see my sons again, and Helaena, my sweet girl. Oh... and King Jaehaerys. I will read to him, as i did when i was little. He used to say i had a lovely voice." She didn't mention her father or her brother, but she mentioned Jaehaerys. That shows how much she loved him.

9) Rhaena Targaryen (Daemon's daughter) married Garmund Hightower, and had six daughters by him. As one of the few remaining heirs to the iron throne and the sister of the King, she had no reason to marry a third son and have not one, not two, but six daughters by him if she didn't love him.

10) They remained loyal to the Targaryens during the Robert's Rebellion.

11) Unlike Jaime Lannister and Barristan Selmy, Gerold Hightower remained loyal to Rhaegar till his last breath. He refused several opportunities to leave unharmed, and eventually died while he was defending Rhaegar's son.

12) Daenaerys thinks house Hightower is among the houses that will help her take back the iron throne. She assumes correctly because the Hightowers believe in a prophecy that says Oldtown would burn and its monuments would be cast down if they opposed the "Blood of the Dragon." That's why they gave full support to neither side during the First Blackfyre Rebellion, keeping a foot in both Targaryen and Blackfyre camps.

Susan had been impatiently waiting for Caspian’s return, always standing by her window, staring out into the open, watching for signs – any minor sign at all – for the return of her beloved king.

The night before he left for the voyage, in the secrecy of their private chambers, he had promised her that he’d “be back before [she] knows it”, but it had already been one year, three months and fourteen days since that night. One could hardly consider that anywhere near ‘soon’! Every passing minute seemed dreadfully long, as if time had slowed down without him, and Susan almost wished she hadn’t turned down his invitation and gone on the voyage with him.

She had once again been musing on what they could have been doing at this very moment had she been with him (some activities too improper that the Gentle Queen always blushed and immediately chided herself for brewing such indecent thoughts in her mind) which was one of the ways she distracted herself from Caspian’s absence, when the doors to her chambers flew open and she was presented with a sight that made her heart race.

“Caspian!” she exclaimed, a radiant smile gracing her face. She noticed him returning her smile with a smug one of his own and immediately schooled her features into feigned annoyance, though it was hard to resist not smiling upon seeing him after being apart for so long. “Why didn’t you send word before your arrival? Or tell me you’d be gone for so long? You’re terribly late, you know? It’s been fifteen months! I’m sure you’re aware that tardiness is an unacceptable trait to be exhibited by a King of Narnia.”

“Forgive me, my queen, ” he said with a teasing glint in his eyes, and Susan almost missed the slight emphasis he put on the word ‘my’. Almost.

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Suspian au: Susan stays –  part 2 and companion graphic to my one shot (insp: x and x)

Narnia Meme + ¾ relationships

→ Susan & Caspian

CRACKSHIP gifs → Anna Popplewell & Ben Barnes

Gif makers @behindfairytales @kaxbrekker

So I was capping Voyage of the Dawn Treader because of reasons and

if that’s not a painting of susan in caspian’s cabin then i am a cow

lkawejrl this ship is kILLING ME

Narnia Meme  + ¾ relationships

→ Susan & Caspian

Instead of trying so hard to make fans think of Daenerys when they see Rhaenyra, they should have tried to insert a bit of Daenerys into every Targaryen character.

Right now it's obvious the show is trying to make Rhaenyra a Dany 2.0 and doing everything they can to link this one character to Daenerys. The amount of scenes she gets with her dragon, the idea that Syrax's eggs are somehow Daenerys' dragons and it's thanks to Rhaenyra that dragons live on... likely all due to the writers seeing "dragonriding ruling queen" for both characters and then really overly forcing the connection at all costs even if it doesn't always quite fit.

What I would have preferred is to see all of Daenerys' ancestors within her and her in them. Show all of their connections to their dragons and their joy in flying. Show all of them as quick to anger and slow to forgive. Show all of them believing in the power and superiority of their dragon blood and the inherent right of their family to rule. Show all of them willing to use fire and blood to avenge what they see as injustices and being ruthless in their pursuit of that justice. Show me how each of these characters are as Targaryen as the next and how absolutely tragic it is that within this so similar family they only saw their own differences and their own ambitions, leading to them destroying themselves and the dragons that they loved so much and that gave them so much power.

All of this means not leaning so hard on showing Rhaenyra as just like Daenerys, but showing Dany's traits in the others. Show Helaena finding freedom, power, and independence on dragonback and savoring her strong bond with Dreamfyre, which comes more easily to her as an autistic woman surrounded by people playing the unspoken game of thrones around her. Show Aegon on Sunfyre after the coronation as he wears the conqueror's crown and reminds the people of his ancestral Targaryen power and right to rule. Show their children and their hatchlings. Let Baela have her own opinions apart from her betrothed and his mother and let her be bold in expressing them. Let Rhaena learn the importance of politicking and soft power in ruling and gaining allies and the balance between hard and soft power, and let the moment she hatches Morning at the end of the war be a melancholic moment, as she finally has a dragon but now is alone in this fact as one of the last living Targaryens.

We should be able to see traces of Daenerys in all of these Targaryens, and choosing just one to try to emulate Daenerys over all the others is a misstep and minimizes the impact of this story as a dynastic civil war of a family destroying itself.

This fandom created a myth about Lady Whistledown. Sometimes i wonder if i watched the same show. Let me make myself clear: While Penelope has to tell Colin the truth, because she loves him and he deserves it, LW helped the Bridgertons a lot actually. It saved them to have Daphne married to a creep ( and see how Violet wanted people to talk to reach LW and spread), saved Colin from a loveless marriage with children that he didn't know anything about it and saved Eloise. Yes, it saved Eloise. Eloise created and kept pushing the situation in her reckless pursuit. Eloise also didn't think about the consequences of her action towards the people working for LW, didn't listen to Penelope, didn't think about the risk she was putting people at. And while i understand her anger in not knowing, had she been a better friend, many other things would be different, because she truly never paid attention to what Penelope feels or want, she molded Pen to be whom she wanted and be her audience. And then, she left Pen with the choice of losing all she built and suffer consequences or pick the less harmful option: to make Eloise's scandal about politics, not romantic and save them both, plus Theo. The real ruin for Eloise would've been her being caught with Theo, something that was bound to happen as she was not careful at all. Why should Pen sacrifice all for Eloise? Would any of you sacrifice all ( job, family and possibly your liberty) for a friend who caused the bloody situation? I'm no hypocrite, i know i wouldnt. Not to mention Eloise bravado, to Pen she would say she wants to challenge society and doesn't care about what they think...but folded the moment she received a frown from the Ton. Shall we see who are LW victims, people that suffered real consequences? Lord Beerbrock. That's it. Marina is married, despite her lies and deceit. Colin? Nothing as well, in fact, happier than ever. Eloise? A few weeks of ostracism and she's back without a problem, without a romantic entanglement to ruin her. One that she clearly didn't really thought was deep enough to face society. The Bridgertons have more to thank LW than to hate her. And Violet and Anthony, i bet your asses, do think so, and see it. And The Queen? Are you watching the show? Have you seen Charlotte's personality? That woman loves the whole game with LW. And She loves to take it all, to receive the laurels of that society. As long as she can make it look like the won, and she can, easily, by revealing or be involved in revealing who is LW. See the whole KatexEdwina, how she handled the Ton there.

Anyway, just wanted to say something because some people have dreamed a LW that doesn't exist at all. Created on their own minds a boogeyman that wasn't simply reporting the truth with witty opinions but fabricating stories and lies to ruin lives, and that's simply not true. Never happened. There was never a lie created there. Only the truth, even about herself, as Pen was often damaged by her column.

Served cunt, caused problems, took names, healed generational trauma, made bank, gave face, rode dick, a whole MOTHER (metaphorically and literally) at the age of 20.

Penelope Bridgerton; they can never make me hate you.

I am in TEARS this is hands down the funniest Bridgerton tweet [edit: was not expecting it to quickly become my post popular post lmao here’s the link if you’re a twitter person]