i think honestly the majority of fandom problems today come down to a lot of these people do not want to be in fandom. they have no interest in engaging with the material beyond regurgitating what is explicitly given in canon. that’s where their enjoyment starts and stops
been reading anne rice since I was 12 years old and can say with absolute confidence that incest and abuse are all part of the narrative. I don’t see why you would watch the show based on the books and expect anything less. you can’t rewrite it in your head to make it palatable.
i get why people are like ‘he would Not fuck like that’ in fic but im gonna be real and say i don’t want to read about realistically mid sex with constant communication and reassurance. i want some balls to the wall disgusting raw dogging happening
i do Not support age gap relationships. i only like ships where they’re born very close together. preferably the same year. same day. same hospital. same delivery room.
fic isn’t about what you want to be canon, it’s about exploring diff aspects of this world outside canon. this is why so many fandoms seem to struggle w/ the idea of noncanon ships now- bc they can’t understand investing time and energy into something you won’t see come ‘true’
it also leads to the idea that someone’s fic/art/random post is a) smth they desperately want to see happen in the show b) an endorsement of the thing they apparently want to happen in the show c) smth they think is Right and Correct. none of that has ever been true of fandom.
which is a normal way to engage with tv, and i feel that way about most shows. it’s why i don’t read fic or make headcanons or discourse 95% of the things i watch. but it makes the idea of other people engaging with this material in any sort of way confusing to them
nobody is making anything abusive! we don’t work for the network. this isn’t a change dot com petition. you should be able to understand why someone would discuss inherent sexism and violence within westeros when talking about these characters.
the idea of discussing these characters within the world they exist in, particularly when it involves darker topics, is viewed as unnecessary. bc ‘why ADD in more abuse/violence/etc. why do you want to MAKE this character/relationship abusive when it isn’t in canon’
aemond said ‘mom i Gotta go with criston im the Only one who knows aegonnobody else will ever find him’ and then after 20 min of searching at a strip club they went to 6 years ago he gives up and starts complaining
thinking of aemond trying to claim dreamfyre like half a dozen times, and then helaena doing it in a tight 20 min, 2.5 dead butterflies on her person and like half the effort bc she’s just vibing out here. what, like it’s hard?
what if your father DIED and your flop husband was crowned KING and your brother killed a MIDDLE SCHOOLER and it made your uncle murder your SON and then there was POVERTY and the poor people threw FISH at you
truly wild to look at how sexless tv is today and see people complain about how we need fewer sex scenes. what shows are you guys watching?? please rec them to me
i buy aegon as a 20 year old but frankly i will never buy aemond being 17. like ewan mitchell’s face Knows about the indescribable back pain that sets it at the age of 25
helaena wearing blue to match dreamfyre and aemond wearing black bc he’s an insane goth weirdo and aegon still wearing green bc mommy plans his outfits… 10/10
@catalystcomett
yeahhhhh yeah i can absolutely get down with embarrassing inexperienced sex but then that has to be the point of the sex. that it’s bad. otherwise like… the middle ground is so terrible
‘locals actually think daemon is a groomer and they stan otto-‘ locals do not think about this show anymore bc it ended six months ago. hope that helps
I don't think we pay enough attention to the detail that little Jaehaera named her dragon "Morghul" ( "death" in High Valyrian)
We could have got a baddie
truly can’t get over that post that’s like ‘yeah i ship l*cemond, but NOT like everybody else, IM not a pervert’ like my brother in christ. how else are you going to ship the insane murderous uncle and the nephew who stabbed his eye out? are you doing that in a god honoring way?
it’s kind of very funny to me that both daemon and aegon have excellent writing this season and both their stans are complaining the writers hate them. what are you guys looking for really
idk if this is the way people engage with fandom now but the idea that people ship smth or write fic with the intention of genuinely believe their ideas will be canon is insane