it's been a long ass while since i've gotten so many notes (since i rarely, if ever, have energy to make actual content on here) but i just wanna say it's truly heartwarming to see my activity blow up as we all bond over our mutual, thriving, visceral hatred of james somerton. just truly beautiful to see people come together for a good cause like this.
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Let's be honest, and I say this with full offense, Lucerys Velaryon is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Dance of the Dragons. He is meant to be a sacrificial lamb to kick off the entire war proper. If we had gotten a full season of development with him like we did with the younger cast in Game of Thrones, I guarantee more people would've felt something. The only reason I personally feel bad is from a baseline level of empathy, because he was a child who was placed in an unwinnable situation due to his mom being completely irresponsible with him and his brothers.
However…
The comparison between Lucerys and Aemond is no contest. Love him or hate him, Aemond has an actual personality and goals when we first meet him. There's enough dimension in Aemond as a child to showcase the potential for sympathy between him and Jace at the funeral, a scene they didn't need to put in, but they did, which emphasizes his own innocence. Even before he breaks bad fully in S1E10, he's still far more compelling to watch due to the number of scenes allocated to him and his dynamic with other people.
This is where you and I are going to disagree just a bit, because Lucerys does do something in S1E07 and S1E08. He gouges out the eye of a family member and petulantly whines that he “didn’t do anything!” when confronted with the possibility of getting in trouble for it, then years later has the nerve and complete lack of sense to giggle at the person he permanently maimed only hours after his legitimacy was publicly called into question (again) and resulted in a murder. The narrative (perhaps unintentionally) glosses over these moments in favor of portraying him as good, whereas if you read between the lines, you can see that as being an oversimplification. The problem is that because S1 was truncated, secondary characters like Lucerys don’t receive screentime dedicated to portraying anything other than a single personality trait. Unfortunately, because of his role in the text and the way it was adapted for television, there was never a chance that Lucerys would be interesting.
I don't even have anything to add, this is just objectively correct.
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actually you know what i was joking about my problem when i play normal minecraft being "oh no i don't have my level in speed" but i also. keep forgetting skeletons can have bows more than 10% of the time. in fact skeletons almost ALWAYS have bows. skeletons with bows are not reserved for when i have some very bad luck gathering resources or for the big boy vaults, they're like, the default. the guys with swords are a vault hunters thing. the guys with swords are not a vanilla thing. stop being surprised when skeletons can shoot me,
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You could tell me anything about the prime bros or more specifically nine and I'd believe you tbh
That's because I only tell the fax and truth!!!!
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being sick is so expensive dude, it's not even just the missing work, but on top of random meds and food you have to buy cause it's all you can eat the groceries you bought the day BEFORE you got sick for a week just end up fucking going bad so even when you're finally well enough to function it's just. more purchases that shouldn't have been necessary.
brb revenge fighting my stupid body behind a denny's.
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I love tweeker hours.
It's past midnight and someone's out welding on a car
There are mechanics being done with headlights cuz they refuse to do this shit during the day
4am power saw to break the silence
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i got covid from my sis over a week ago and tho i no longer have symptoms (well i have some tiny bit like slightly congested nose and slight cough) my brain is like scrambled eggs about everything. something in me has just been off every day now. i try to write but i can’t find my words. i try to game but i feel almost dissociated from them or simply not present enough so i can’t find the focus and basically fuck up all the time. i try to watch shows/videos/movies but it takes a lot of effort to stay focused. i try to organize future novel shit but literally just can’t come up with anything even if i know what i want exactly.
i know i need to give myself and my body time to fully recover from covid but im sick of this already lol
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omfg someone on reddit was trying to read like sikh religious books to learn more ab the religion and i figured it was someone who was like, raised sikh but it's some gora cunt who learned ab sikhism off the internet and had the audacity to be like omgg i cant read it it's boring af
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