I'll be so honest, I really think that if we're ever gonna make any progress against the growing trend of respectability politics and authoritarian informed infighting in the queer community, we aspecs need to start pushing our fellow queers to challenge their own deeply held amatonormative beliefs and biases, especially before they commit to activism and maybe even before they commit to their own romantic and sexual relationships. The recent spike in aspec exclusionism proves that alloallo queers are not inherently immune from perpetuating amatonormativity, and the sooner we can collectively agree to unlearn that, I think the better off we'll be
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This sounds almost cynical, but this is what a nose that gets you disqualified looks like.
This pair got disqualified on the basis of an excessively tight noseband. There were no stewards checking tack at this show (or, at least not for the dressage horses), so it was up to the judges to notice any illegal tack.
It's obvious that show organizers are trying to pay more attention to welfare issues, but since there are still very few general rules for shows at local level in this regard, they all seem to do their own thing. Some shows now have stewards armed with cameras supervising the warm-up arenas, some shows do actually check your tack, and some shows give a fair-riding or welfare award to riders.
And then there's the old ladies by the ringside who'll angrily mumble things like "that child needs a lunge line lesson, not an FEI pony" which I still consider the most effective method of quality control. But then again that might just be me being terrified of old women's opinions.
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okay um
riptide spoilers for the recent episodes!!!
I dont usually write theories and stuff but i haven't really seen anyone talk about it (maybe i just missed it), and i need to get these thoughts written down because my mind is going a million miles per hour and its driving me crazy.
(Also i guess, disclaimer, im not a patron so the last ep i saw was 108, and i don't know any of the information shared in rolled.)
So. This team of strong pirates, Captain Widow, they're turning the Dread Queen into a lich, right? Like, that's the only logical solution i can think of. They're talking about the Dread Queen obtaining power over life and death, which is like the main lich thing - immortality and the ability to be both dead and alive at the same time. They're performing a long complicated ritual, which is also necessary to become a lich, and that ritual requires a lot of sacrifices and feeding energy and nutrients to the Dread Queen. (And, i apologize, all my knowledge about liches comes from Pointy Hat's videos, but i think they're pretty good to base a theory on).
From what i can recall and what i relistened to: no one knows anything about the Dread Queen, Shadowbeard has never talked about her, in the newspaper about the Lords she was just a silhouette, in the memory Jay got from the Black Sea all they said is that they needed to find her corpse in order to make someone a pirate lord (which clarifies nothing), Drey thought she and all the rest of the Pirate Lords were dead. From what we know about the Lords, Rose dissappeared in the hole in the sea accident. According to Lizzie's words, a couple years ago two more of the Pirate Lords went missing, which are the Dread Queen and our boy Hendrix (which we know is hiding in his pocket dimension). And then Shadowbeard was murdered by Ava in the Shadow Scull Masacre.
As we know from Zamia, the Dread Queen's crew didn't disappear but instead came to the black sea and took over an island. And because there's no contact with the outside world from the black sea, and because Navy freely allows pirates passage there, its fair that the world thought the Dread Queen was dead. And this lack of contact and no Navy activity is probably why the Dread Queen chose the Black Sea as a place for her lich ritual. No one will know about it and no one will interfere, no one will stop them from taking over an entire island and killing it's emperor and doing whatever dark magics they want.
Im not sure why they picked this island specifically. Whether its because of the Great Tree (tm) that is "the way of life and connects every corner of the island and gives it life" and probably has a lot of nutrients for the ritual in it. Or for any other reason, maybe it was just the first island they saw, maybe they just wanted a cool castle, maybe because it's the capital, i don't know but I'm sure there's a smart reason.
Gardeck The Scull Crusher aka the minotaur guy did say that their captain is blessed, and its the reason why death is temporary to them, which is one of the details that confuses me. Because first, who is he referring to, the Dread Queen or Captain Widow, both are technically captains. And second, if he is talking about Widow, then uhhh, how? If he's talking about the Dread Queen and if she is undergoing a lich ritual, (and becoming a lich would grant her the power to freely revive people), then how is she able to cast spells while in a cocoon and probably unconscious and probably not yet a lich?
Uhhh don't know how to end these things but that's all i got for now. Also HUGE respect to Grizzly for coming up with all this and connecting so many things and parallels. Because some of the information comes from as far back as episode 32, and its still relevant and accurate and comes up in the plot now, and oh my god.
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This is kinda random but can Helsknight sing? This question is very important to me I need to know
Is he physically capable of singing? Yes. And he can probably sing decently well [as well as someone who has scratched up his voice by yelling all the time can sing. Give us that growl-y rough-voice harmony.]
I do think, though, that he chooses not to sing on principle. Singing is Welsknight's thing [both in RnS and literally! Welsknight has a SoundCloud!]. I feel like Helsknight would draw a firm line around his poetry as "mine" and singing as "his". Rarely, he might be caught humming while doing busy work, but unfortunately I think that's the closest he gets.
The only exception would be the pre-tournament parties where all the gladiators get together and eat/drink/be merry, in which case for morale alone, he can be coerced into singing [probably after some drinks and a lot of haranguing by the people around him]. Making sure his Colosseum buddies are feeling happy and glorious right before a fight takes major precedence over his personal discomfort.
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