faran

33 | he/they | transmasc | currently: hotd and asoiaf posting

[madison @stryg4s]

forgive me #hotd

[💭 @thinkercooke]

i love her so much

[junelle 👽 working on comms @wickesdt]

woman-handling 💕 #korrasami

[Zany🥕 @zanyfen]

@tooshrill Show me anything in your favorite tragedies that's as complex as Brandon Sanderson

[faran @raidnae_]

more het rot than het gem but idc🤤

[ᥫ᭡ @eyremoors]

this ellen and orlok moment always

[faran @raidnae_]

This pissed me OFF. why would Galadriel run away from a ring wraith? Aragorn drove off 5 of these fucks, and Galadriel in the full flush of her power, bearing a ring, can't even fight one?? Fuck off

[sanmeyo @oyemnassxo]

HOLY DAMN! Nazgnaol has arrived, the way his presence made even more menacing and Galadriel had to run to save her life coz he's too powerful

#TheRingofPower #lotr

[faran @raidnae_]

@HumanStargazer I was in the SC fandom and i remember there were parts of the fandom that was really toxic toward the cast. if mehcad brooks was getting racist comments and death threats, it was probably from some SC shippers. atp you can't blame the cast for thinking the whole fandom's trash.

[faran @raidnae_]

i'm not falling for this nicole maines hate train which bizarrely seems to be coming from some brazilian accounts. it feels like poorly disguised transphobia.

[kayce ✨korrasami✨ @tloksato]

katie mcgrath mentioned in nicole’s book 🥺

[0migott 💌 comms opem @mi4mink]

Some #Rhaenicent wip enjoy

[faran @raidnae_]

yeah no this is bs. some of you don't understand the difference between poor writing and employing a specific narrative voice. the first hunger games book had short, stilted sentence structure meant to represent a teenager who's constantly stressed and on the edge of survival.

[JESSIE 🥇 @5leepersJeepers]

Fun Fact: This is genuinely Suzanne Collins. The first book was so grammatically incorrect, with the same sentence structure as SOTR, and borderline unreadable that my english teacher literally refunded it.

[𝔅𝔢𝔩𝔠𝔢𝔟𝔬𝔬 ✦🥀 @belciibooo]

A guardian angel,
a spirit of comfort – spirit of any
celestial sphere – anything – hear my
call

[T❕ @B0wcrarylvr]

#CHANGELA my favourite lovers💕

[faran @raidnae_]

@sanctuarymoons interesting

[faran @raidnae_]

@RebelofThebes yes on the surface it's a mother angry at her son's treatment. but the "what have i done but what was expected of me" should tell you what's really driving that anger

[faran @raidnae_]

yes it never works because she can't escape her fate. in the same way that rhaenyra & aegon & aemond can't. because it's a tragedy, where all characters are marked for death. but if she dies knowing nothing of herself, forever repressing her desires in service to her sons +

[faran @raidnae_]

@RebelofThebes by any means. but rhaenyra is not the reason aemond lost an eye, it was alicent and rhaenyra passing their hurt & bitterness to their children. & targ trauma that ties their value to having dragons which escalated a fight a btw kids.

[faran @raidnae_]

@RebelofThebes and yet again, her anger, which should be directed primarily at viserys for ignoring her children and treating them (& herself) as accessories, gets directed at rhaenyra (who definitely deserves some of it, but not the whole brunt of it)

[faran @raidnae_]

@RebelofThebes that driftmark scene was more abt her anger at the lack of control and agency in her life than anger for aemond. things have always happened to her and she'd had no recourse, now she has to accept no consequences for her son(who she views as an extension of herself) being harmed

[faran @raidnae_]

@RebelofThebes people don't react rationally to trauma. alicent was groomed by viserys and otto, but her anger was displaced onto her sons.

[faran @raidnae_]

But i do believe that self-knowledge is the endpoint of a lot of these character's arcs.

[faran @raidnae_]

alicent fruitlessly trying to break free of her bonds mirrors rhaenyra's useless efforts to be a good&stable queen. which mirrors aegons fruitless attempts to be a better man. it's too late for all of them, cyles of violence & grief, etc etc. Hotd is a uniquely bleak show.