Wednesday's First Clue Was That Enid Just Can't Cook.

Istg the HOTD discourse is driving me insane. Everyone's screaming about how "X character is so stupid they could've literally stopped the dance but chose not to because they are evil" and. yeah, you're not wrong, but you're also missing the point. they are all terrible people !!!! none of them are fully justified !!!!!! none of them would make good rulers !!!! they are all fucking idiots who fail their kingdom in every conceivable way because of their hubris, petty fights and personal vendettas. None of them would've actually stopped the war from happening, that is the POINT: their circumstances and characters would never have allowed them to.

If Viserys had been a good father/husband. If Alicent had accepted Rhaenyra's offer to unite their families. If Aemond had not chased Luke. If the strong boys had not attacked Aemond. If Rhaenyra had stayed and ruled by her father's side. If they had handled the situation in a better way. If they had done this. If they had done that.

But they couldn't. Viserys would've always favored Rhaenyra and abused Alicent. Alicent would've never married Helaena to Jace. Aemond would have never forgiven Luke. They are all entitled, vengeful, prideful, arrogant, flawed. That's what makes this story a tragedy – it was doomed from the start. Not because fate doomed them, but because they doomed themselves. Because they are who they are, they all suffer, and the entire kingdom goes with them.

This is not a Good vs. Evil story. It's not about picking whoever you like best and trying to pretend they were Actually Right All Along. I could make an entire post just about every one of your """faves"""" atrocities, and you know what? There's nothing wrong with still liking them despite that. I love Alicent, but I'm not gonna sit there and act as if she did nothing wrong. She tormented Rhaenyra for years based on a claim she couldnt prove and antiquated values no one should have to follow !!! She usurped her best friend's throne !!!!! She divided the family and the realm !!! because of the way she raised Aegon and Aemond, any chance at peace or forgiveness between the team green and team black became impossible !!!

But guess what??? Rhaenyra is not blameless either !!!! She raised Luke and Jace to believe they were entitled to everything, including a dragon (dragons are not things that inherently belong to anyone. if vhaegar accepted aemond, that was that. jace and luke had no right attacking him) and not only that, but aemonds eye !! she does nothing to punish them, because they are her 'sweet, darling boys who can do no wrong' (cofcof she sounds like the fandom cofcof)

[I also dont agree with alicent that they should've taken lukes eyes but COME ON. they did nothing??? just made them hug and that was that?? viserys and rhaenyra gaslit her to death in that scene for DEFENDING HER SON who was MAIMED and you have the gall to blame her for being mad. yeah right, ok]

she also leaves to dragonstone when it was IMPERATIVE that she stayed by her fathers side to secure the throne. she did nothing for YEARS, no alliances or plans or anything, nada, and then was mad at her enemies for rulling her kingdom when....she made no attempts to actually rule her kingom. she doesnt take a 'no' from criston cole and almost drives him to suicide. she is coerces him into sex, knowing shes in a position of power over him.

daemon is a fan favorite and everyone swoons over him. to an extend, I get it, but again, you can't act like he's just this 'sexy power hungry badboy icon' when he 1. calls women 'cunts' and 'whores' and degrades them multiple times (same thing ppl hate cole for doing once and then imediatelly apologizing about) killing his first wife (she did nothing to him, and he still had the nerve to degrade her after murdering her), isolating his second wife from her entire family and then ignoring rhaenyra's needs in his thirst for power and vengence (she lost visenya all alone...) and then, yeah, he PHYSICALLY ASSAUSTED HER. he shows no respect towards anyone but himself, not even his wife, and yall are still there calling them 'couple goals'. I'm not even gonna lie abt it, Daemon is one of the characters that pisses me off the most and I can't believe like 97% of the fandom is ships him with his victim child bride.

but again, I can't stop you from liking him even if I wanted to. You can do whatever you want, my opinions on the characters are mine alone. my point is they are all terrible, and you cant just pretend they're just and noble just bc they're your faves. stop with the "alicent is actually right" and "rhaenyra is actually morally superior" bs because BOTH SIDES ARE WRONG. this is not only about a single person's failures, or a group of people failing, this is about about SYSTEMATIC FAILURE. the system failing itself. its not a "oh alicent is so mean and ruined everything" or a "rhaenyra is evil" story. it's a "all of these people suck and the monarchy is an intrinsically broken system of government" story.

I’ll never not be amused by the fact that I can drop the words “crucifix nail nipples” into a conversation and some of you who have been with me since the livejournal days will join me in the flashbacks, screaming and crying all the way.

I think a " No Robins" AU would be really cool, because while yes, there's no Batman without Robin, can you IMAGINE the cuteness?

By " no robin" I don't mean the boys (Dick and Jason, but later everyone else) stay home, completely unaware of their Goth rat father fighting crime. They absolutely know he's batman and they ABSOLUTELY want kicks in.

But Bruce won't just let his children dive head first in Gotham’s crime pool. So he does what he does best; Pretend.

" B! Are we there yet?"

" Almost. Finish your chocolate milk so Jason can finish his."

" He's always copying me!"

" No I'm not!"

" nO iM nOt, "

Jason kicking his little legs in the child seat? Adorable. "B!"

Bruce is simply blocking this out. He's been driving in circles for two hours and when they finally fall asleep, he takes care of business, gets the robbers tied up, and by the time the boys wake up, he's like,

" You caught them. Good job."

The GCPD has to be useful SOMEHOW, so Gordon and Martinez take them to help look for "evidence." Yes, the evidence happens to be at the park

Even the Rogues are on board? Selina doesn't mind playing hurt when Dick hits her with a "batarang" from the local toy store. She decides to take it over the top and play dead, going limp,

" You killed her!" Jason screeches, because they LIKE Selina,

Bruce, completely calm as Tim pokes a shaking Selina with a stick, " Robin. What have you done."

Naturally, Dick wails, but luckily, she miraculously "comes back to life" and tells them cats really do have 9 lives. " You owe me so many diamonds, baby"

Bruce shrugs, patting Dick on the back, " You owe me therapy money,"

" Tch. Rich prick."

Harley and Ivy "fight" the birds a lot, but it's just Harley complimenting and hyping up Dick's gymnastics while Ivy swings them around with vines like carnival rides,

When Harley's "arrested", she pulls Bruce aside and is like, " Hey, maybe look into ADHD and autism, pretty sure they all have it, "

" Impossible? That's genetic. I have neither."

" ...1) They're adopted. 2) I have some news for you."

Harvey WILL kill Bruce on sight if he ever tells ANYONE he helped Jason and Tim tie him up with jumping cords. It's already bad enough that video of him slipping on bubblegum bombs (deactivated) is viral

" Okay, now three loops and around, -- Jason, that's a cat bridge."

" I'm NOT Jason Mr. Dent!"

" Right, ROBIN, -- can you at least gag this motherf-- this jerk? Jesus, Oswald, what'd you eat, death?"

Oz, tied back to back with Harvey, with marker all over his face, " Your MOTHER. I'M tired, KID, When's your old man coming back?"

" Dad says that if you miss bed time, you explode. Are you gonna explode, Mr. Penguin?"

"... I'm concerned that you're excited about it."

Omg this is SUCH a grandma thing. She’s totally okay with them being queer, she’s just upset that she can’t feed them her world-famous ham.

“Honey, you’re so thin! Are you eating enough at home? I really don’t agree with this whole ‘vegetarian’ thing, I’m worried about my grandbaby not getting enough protein!!!”

Batman make his boy Jason happy :))) Inspired by this

Lockscreen pictures from one of my favourite Mamamoo photoshots