#(however i AM kinda thrilled abt this season's regendering of Uncommunicatively Angsting Blorbo vs Their Long-Suffering Support Person)

[aeide-thea]

wot show is so obsessed with architecture and tbh i'm not mad about it???

#the number of like. elaborate little symmetrical rooms they have for things to happen in… #part of me is loling but part of me is like. you know what? they've got a theme. respect. #tvblogging #(also i'm just getting to 2x08 now and like. it IS funny being a show-only*) #[*ok technically i read like. two? three? of the books back in like 2020 or something but. they weren't Formative Texts of my Adolescence] #(bc i remember everybody on here was *freaking out* abt‚ i think‚ 2x07) #(and like. in retrospect i guess i understand what that was about! but i gotta admit it didn't quite have the same emotional weight for me) #(even though intellectually i understand it was supposed to) #(i mean i also think i like. often don't get that emotionally invested in romances i see onscreen?) #(not sure if that's fundamental to the medium for me or if it's because everything is so compressed) #(however i AM kinda thrilled abt this season's regendering of Uncommunicatively Angsting Blorbo vs Their Long-Suffering Support Person) #(also honestly i always really love when we don't have to do a whole performative abasing reconciliation situation) #(and someone's just like. look. our relationship is so much more deeply rooted than this one wobble. obviously i'll take you back.) #(i think honestly bc it's like. a confidence fantasy.) #(like you got SO much witcher fanfic where geralt had to‚ like‚ prostrate himself at jaskier's feet) #(to acknowledge the harm geralt had done him and how jaskier deserved so much better etc etc etc) #(and it just felt to me like the writers were really speaking to their own insecurities and what *they'd* personally need) #(bc that interaction would've thrown *them* into a tailspin so obviously it must've thrown jaskier into one) #(and like. that's valid or whatever‚ obviously! but like. sometimes don't you want to imagine what it's like to feel secure instead???) #(like 'actually i know i'm good‚ you know where to find me when you get over yourself and remember you know it too'?)