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Favorite asoiaf scenes ?
omg an asoiaf ask in this economy 🥺🥺 anddd im answering this three months late im so sorry... disclaimer that im a deeply basic lannisterpilled bitch so i feel like i'd just end up listing every lannister scene hshdjfjfh,, so im restricting myself to two lannister scenes here
(1) jaime saving brienne in the bear pit... its so peak it's really the crystallisation of jaime's character arc, i almost have that whole sequence memorised
(2) cersei and sansa during stannis' invasion ot king's landing. the small character moments are genuinely my fave part of asoiaf, i love sansa's pov here and that scene really cut into the heart of cersei as a character. deeply tragic delusional girl who never had a chance :(
(3) daenerys hatching her dragons. like it's iconic for a reason i really have nothing else to say she's #Her
(4) this is where my memory gets blurry but that part in storm of swords where jon is having his "im 16 and im going to save the night's watch if no one else will" moment. he's so earnest and bitter i love him...
(5) the red wedding. like literally the whole red wedding it's peak and it's a tragedy that was always going to happen, there are so many things that trigger it and there's nothing that can really avert it. grey wind's head getting sewn on robb's corpse is imagery that's stayed with me for a decade atp lmao
honourable mentions to joffrey's death; tyrion holding out hope that jaime will save him and be his champion in his trial by arms; ned confronting cersei in the godswood; every lord/knight stannis/davos yaoi moment; stannis reminiscing about the siege of storm's end; jon having his last supper moment; jaime sparring with ilyn payne. wow i really remember WAY too much about these books i literally read them a decade ago 😳
what kind of kinks do you think Jade would be interested in with Aventurine?
this is sooo late im so sorry i never check retro;; anyways i think of jade as someone whose bartered away most of herself in exchange of power, she's a hollow thing who can only parasitise other people's wants (see: the bonajade exchange) so i think with aventurine specifically, who is also very hollow himself, she'd be interested in sex that can be used to test and tease out the limits of the stoneheart he's become. i can see them taking master/slave roleplay way too far while she tries to get aventurine to not dissociate and forces him to be present... basically anything that pushes limits and is unsafe insane extremely dubiously consensual.
on aventurine's side i think he would almost look forward to whatever jade extracts from him, as she's one of the few people who can see right through him... he's so terribly bored all the time after all, and so jade's particular brand of deal-with-the-devil affairs can at least make him feel something. im really bad at specifically listing out kinks lmao i always end up seguing into how characterisation entwines with the kink so you get word vomit like this,, apart from roleplay i do see them doing objectification, feminisation stuff, basically anything that digs into the core of aventurine and brings to the surface his inner hollowness and self-objectification. jade should collar and whip him that'd be hot...
Jing Yuan in his Genji Hikaru phase where he’s raising a carbon copy of his first love as his wife frrr
this made me so confused when i first read this but now i realise that autocorrect must've turned gendo ikari into genji hikaru... anyways i totally agree ive said this before but jing yuan is kind of like misato evangelion to me :D broken older mentor figure seeking redemption through a child while also weaponising that child, it's cute as hell and after the feast the wardance quest was i really need to see yuanqing go through it TM and be even more intense and codependent than before
do we think kaiser was badtouched by his dad at least ONCE with the pretext of 'kid looks like a carbon copy of my wife who left™'? kaiser had to learn how to suck dick from somewhere!
checking retro after 2 months to see this gem 🫶 you're so real anon i think he definitely whored himself out a couple times too. in my head he also has a weird dynamic with ray dark where he's the crown jewel that ray personally found and polished but not actually a Person TM to him, just a dollar sign who's treasured as long as he's useful. kaiser's really a magnet for predatory father/mentor/weird older man figures, we can add noa to the list too with the new chapter. yayy hope he gets more of them~
who are your favorite fictional characters of all time? just off the top of your head
please please please if you want heavy brocon yaoi you have to read “my s-class hunters” the story keeps calling out the younger brother yoohyun and it’s something he is very proud. He is the possessive yandere type even told his brother to marry him in an extra. You can check the WEBTOON and the webnovel I did both
hello its me narumi isao anon i am SO HAPPY youre into them too i was also feeling like ppl wouldn't be as into them but the pseudo daddy issues are STRONG
So u asked for some thoughts I'm gonna give mine to you, I'm also planning to write something for them at some point they make me ill. I love it when the loser has to feel things.
- "i'm gonna drill what isao taught me into you" how were teen narumi and isao's training sessions...teen narumi craving master's reaction to anything...has he ever flirted with the guy just to freak him out yk...anything that can make him feel he can affect him. how frustrating was it.
- bonding with kikoru over daddy issues gone wrong because he knows kikoru was more loved by isao than he ever could hope to even if the guy had no way to emote that. does he spite kikoru a little bit? does he wish to have that attention on himself? to be strong so isao doesn't lose him instead of just being his second best weapon
- number 9 psych attack. Morphing into isao's body and making now adult narumi revive the deep frustrations within himself. loser narumi you're a loser.
SORRY FOR THE RAMBLING it just makes me so happy to be able to say this stuff to someone narumi is such a good loserboy blorbo.
nooo don't apologise for the rambling i love it!!
pls i so badly wanted to see more of his dynamic with isao and the first division as a bratty new recruit... that chapter 86 title page, with them standing beside each other with the first division logo behind them lives rent free in my head. holy size difference... and yk narumi is such a little asshole + he was an orphan who bounced thru lots of foster homes. im thinking... lack of boundaries, just a lot of—pushing to see a reaction; that's how he deals with stuff! i made myself sad thinking about how he dumps all his stuff in his room probably bc hes never had a stable home, so he just treats it as a temporary pitstop... trash and toys all mixed up together. MY maladjusted blorbo.
anyways re: their training sessions, i can totally see isao being narumi's gay awakening, and narumi being an absolute brat about it. grinding against isao during their judo fights. being incredibly embarrassed and also unabashedly horny and forward; the worst thing he can do is kick him off the defence force. and narumi's practiced at being the one to leave...
AHAHAHA you really get me re: narumi and kikoru, that scene where she tells him over comms to "show me your skills" and he has a flashback to isao saying the same thing... jesus the layers here. they should fuck while he fantasises about her dad. ahem. i think it would be neat if they'd met pre canon; isao treats them both the same way—toughen up for my approval (that im not gonna give you anyways, bc im too repressed) but i think they'd both be jealous of what the other had. kikoru bc her dad specifically takes time out on this random orphan he fished up from the streets, narumi bc kikoru has that blood connection. even if she turned out to be weak, she'd still have that; but he knows he'll be abandoned if he wasn't so talented at killing kaiju. there's this kind of loneliness to narumi. he is the strongest and he flexes that, but it's actually fragile—it's played for comedy when he gets upset over losing to hoshina and ashiro when they talk about the kaiju killing categories, but i can't help but think there's probably a deeper neurosis there. boy who wants to be the best weapon ever bc that's all he's good at :3
anon ur mind!! #9 is like the ideal whump tool and he's been so underutilised :((( badly want some narumi noncon ft #9 wearing isao's face...
ty for this lovely ask <3 good luck with your own fic too!! and yes narumi is such an enjoyable loser blorbo i can't wait for s2 and i need to see him in all his trashy glory
Can I get anyone in this fandom who actually likes toxic yuri. HSR has so many good ones but no one ships it because its only ships with men in them that get the fucky fic. With yuri its either people trying to cancel it or they sanitize it so it can be "okay" to ship. Where is the actual good fucked up content. Yes this is about jadepaz.
i hope jadepaz will give a much needed breath of fresh air to hsr's yuri fandom :(( i think you'd be better off looking in fandoms that already have explicitly fucked up stuff in the canon itself; for eg, back when i was into hotd, there were a lot of alicent/rhaenyra shippers who were chill and enthusiastic about problematic dynamics. at the end of the day, hsr's fandom is pretty immature as a whole and every toxic dynamic gets blunted bc people can't handle it.
YOURE READING KAIJUU NO.8 HELL YEAH its my favorite action manga as of rn its so fun cant wait to see your reaction to certain things
do u like narumi kn8 age gap yaoi. do u have thoughts about it. narumis pseudo daddy issues turned psychosexual monsterfucking with number 9 in isao form is very real to me. im so happy ur reading this manga fhjkgdhkd
thank you so much anon did you Know im currently writing isao x narumi and i was feeling really emo about how it looks like no one else on the internet gaf about this pseudocest dynamic which is so real to me. but then u came into my retrospring and saved me 🫶🫶🫶
yesyes i have Lots of thought about #9 stealing isao's body and gaining all his memories... i wish narumi got whumped more in his own personal kaiju battle in the recent arc like!! #9 what are you doing man get your ass down there, morph into isao and mindbreak narumi. anyways pls send everything you want re: narumi in my retro, i think lots of thots about how isao just picked up this orphaned gamer boy off the street and he probably gave narumi so many issues. i just finished reading his B-side and omg... trying to impress daddy so hard.
Yunli should have a secret one-sided beef with Blade while also admiring Yingxing because she is aware he is still Huaiyan’s favorite
hell yeah i need blade to be the phantom of the armoury, the ghost that's been haunting huaiyan all this time 🥺 i really hope blade comes back whenever we inevitably head to the zhuming... like there's so much potential! he deserves to be the undead creature haunting not just one xianzhou general, but TWO 🔥💯
What are your fave WinBure pairings so far?
i have way too many winbre ships this shonen shit has infected my brain!!!
i feel like the ones im most invested in are:
and then there's the "that's neat" ships:
- uryu/tsubaki/seiryu
- kiryu/tsugeura
- kusumi/enomoto/kaji
- hiragi/banjo
- umemiya/hiragi
tbh i think i can get invested in pretty much anything, everyone is so shippable
do you have any favourite or recommended hsr fics?
yep ❤️ (sorry i know u asked for hsr recs in general and this turned out to be an aventurine rec list ☹️)
probably thee best fic on hsr ao3; deaged sunday ft ratiorine: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55775326
really love all of this author's sunturine, the modern au with priest sunday is my fave: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54944794
interesting and rather haunting fem aventurine & jade fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55283167
avensparkle dead dove: https://archiveofourown.org/series/4001719
avenpaz w excellent characterisation: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55086067
ratiorine character study w smut: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54822766
more avenpaz, rlly like the imagery in this: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51187843
aventurine character study, p haunting: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54738511
ratiorine smut, i like the aventurine voice in this a lot: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54040351
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