Let’s Go To See The Sea, Eren.

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

I am my father’s son

And I share his irresponsibility

Making a mistake

Not learning

Then making it again

Aemma and Viserys // Aemond and Lucerys

absolutely genius of rf kuang to elaborate on virtually nothing about speer's culture. the only things said about speer are "speerlies are mindless savages" and "speerlies are most definitely not mindless savages". there are no deep dives, no explanations of their way of life, nothing beyond the glimpses that disproves nikan's belief that they are nothing but a violent group. we saw that they had leaders that cared about their people and children. we saw that they are people who found joy in life. but that's really not much.

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.

we will never learn most of speer's culture and history and that was the point.

Happy one year @taylorswift for giving us this masterpiece! Coming a full circle Red (tv) cause we remembered it all too well!

Can't wait to listen to swfities screaming this in the eras tour!

When Aemond sees Lucerys

It's Officer Judy Hopps ! Finally ! ;)

To me this is the most tragic thing in the whole series ! 😔

D A R K ➝ 02.06 x 3.05

the ending of the european leg of the eras tour feels like something so grand.

i mean, we’ve had everything this leg. the fun with swift alert, brand new mashups each and every night, the new tortured poets addition - just to name a few. something about the ending this time feels important, like the start of the end is beginning to loom. which, in a way, it is. we’re advancing forth to the last leg of the entire tour: no more added dates, no more “where are the x dates”. sure, not exactly the end of the world, but this moment in all of our lives is soon coming to a close. millions of people having attended the eras tour themselves, watched the film, and even going as far as watching livestreams every single night. what an influence, right?

and it all ends in december. all the joy and positivity that has been spread across the world, all uniting to enjoy the artwork of such an incredible person. it’s just an incredibly unique sensation that something that has been ongoing for an amazing 18 months is finally coming to a close. it’s certainly beautiful in a melancholic way. however! i, in no way, imagine that the experience we’ve all had along this tour will end so soon, this will be something carried through the generations (not to sound dramatic) - in some ways, it already has! this will be the time people will say they wish they lived through; wished they were lucky enough to be alive during the feat that has been the eras tour.

“the night you danced like you knew our lives would never be the same” - taylor swift, 2010.

This is it! And people out there describing this as "mild criticism" is just being ignorant at this point.

i kind of don’t like Taylor describing what happened to her in 2016 as ‘getting cancelled’ because it definitely wasn’t. it was a whole different beast. getting ‘cancelled’ is people finding out something about you, talking about it for a week, causing you to take like 3 weeks off and then everyone just moves on. she had a grown man who was weirdly obsessed with her since she was 19 publicly discredit her art and sexualize her to the entire world, put her in a revenge-porn style music video with a wax figure depicting her naked body without her consent, had a crowd of tens of thousands of people say ‘fuck taylor swift’, had a mural painted of her death, and went into hiding for almost two years. ‘getting cancelled’ involves a few tweets and an apology note…. not years and years of therapy. 

Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.