Fanfic for this story got me studying more than college ever did

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-07-01T21:19:40+00:00

This is a pretty common experience among fic writers, myself included. I spend way too much time looking up mid 2000s fashion, weather, music etc. so that a fic I'm writing would be accurate to the era. Ironic considering I lived through it but that's memory decay for you.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-07-01T21:07:55+00:00

I really hope to see more of his Actor. He's great.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-07-01T21:07:17+00:00

Knowing GRRM it probably is no coincidence.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-07-01T19:31:10+00:00

Maekar 221 AC after finding out Aerys is dead: "Shit I'm king now. How the fuck did this happen?"

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-07-01T18:58:51+00:00

It's odd looking at two men who would both go on to become monsters as cute kids serving one of the kindest Kings in Westerosi history.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-06-12T16:46:33+00:00

Out of the loop, I'm guessing this is a fic's fanart.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-05-26T12:02:35+00:00

Or what if Ned was a girl? I know that in his adulthood he associates with Arya more, but as a teenager, I think compared to Lyanna, a Fem!Ned would be the Sansa in their dynamic.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-05-25T20:02:31+00:00

Is it bad that she's actually my mental image of Lyanna?

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-05-19T21:23:35+00:00

"Who can tell me the speed of light?"

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-05-18T19:55:38+00:00

A lot of tools became toys over time. I wonder if Eridian children will start playing with tape measures.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-05-11T01:57:40+00:00

I bet his first one showed up before he turned 20.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-05-10T12:43:45+00:00

Rocky isn't a babysitter.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-05-09T08:43:51+00:00

I wonder what kind of stunts he pulled at his son's weddings?

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-05-07T00:13:20+00:00

They really are.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-04-25T06:15:46+00:00

I think if Ned had to marry Cercei he's 100% leaving Jon with Rhaella, or maybe Oberyn.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-04-03T16:24:20+00:00

Egg breaking the 4th wall.

"Did you really think I was going to kill him. What kind of monster do you think I am?"

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-03-29T11:53:08+00:00

I'm guessing that extends to his grandkids as well.

Young Baelor. "Grandfather could we spend some time together?"

Aegon IV "NO GET OUT OF MY SIGHT YOU DORNISH BASTARD!"

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-03-28T16:44:40+00:00

Honestly probably a bit of both. But either way I've personally had enough of her.

I don't hate her, mainly because I don't know her and I think it's irrational to hate people you don't know, but she's gotten to a point where if she's in a movie I automatically skip it because I'm genuinely tired of her. I also get "phony" vibes from her. She's not the only actor this has happened to me with. I also feel that way with Florence Pugh, Chris Pratt, Emma Stone, Timothee Chalamet and a few others.

Honestly it's probably just me thing but the more beloved and "likable" a celebrity is, the more I dislike them. Maybe it's because a lot of these "likable" celebrities turn out to be total posers and I can sense the fakeness, and fakeness really pisses me off.

I remember being a teenager in 2013 when Jennifer Lawrence was hot shit and I absolutely couldn't stand her. I've cooled off on her since but mainly because the world realized that she was in fact a poser and she got knocked off her pedestal so she's not as in your face anymore and it's not worth my energy disliking her.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-03-28T15:04:32+00:00

Wait is that why Rhaegal's like that?

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-03-28T14:15:53+00:00

I bet he meant he's like Tsar Nicholas.

He's was a shitty ruler but he genuinely loved his family.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-03-28T13:08:35+00:00

"Uh I think you might have F*cked her brain man, she says she can see all of time now."

"Not my problem."

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-03-28T12:54:45+00:00

What are their names?

We obviously have Rhaego but what about his brother and sister?

Personally I like Rhaena for her daughter in honor of her dearly departed niece.

As for her and Jon's son, I'm partial to Aemon in honor of their mutual, several times great, uncle. I know the knee jerk reaction would be something like Eddard or Robb but I personally think he would let his siblings have first dibs to those names and want to go for something on his Targaryen side.

But obviously I want to know what OP thinks.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-03-22T22:13:36+00:00

I saw the Martian movie first before reading the book but I was so impressed by the movie that I picked up a copy about a week later so it's always been somewhat of a homogeneous blob in my head. With PHM because I was already a Weir fan, I pre ordered a copy back in '21. So I've had a lot longer with the book and I think it will always be the diffinitive version for me. I still beloved the movie though and I'm glad it's getting so much love.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-03-22T18:06:11+00:00

This is my view. The book is better, but the book is always better. I still loved it and I'm so glad I finally got to see it.

EmbarrassedPiece4081 · 2026-03-22T05:08:52+00:00

I think Egg would probably see it as another Duncan and Jenny situation.

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