#I don't fucking know man I also don't have a very firm grasp on numbers. but something's not right here

[francy-sketches]

The age difference between tommen and myrcella bothers me way more than it should like sometimes it's 2 whole years sometimes they're the exact same age like grrm wanted to make them twins but he forgot. Girl what is the truth

#.txt #grrm has a loose grasp on numbers unfortunately #in agot myrcella is 'not quite eight' and in affc she's 'not quite one-and-ten' ok so she went from 7 to 10 in 2 years? #and in 2 years tommen went from 7 to 8 uhhh if she's almost 11 he should be 9 at least right #maybe he is 9 but everyone just forgot his birthday lmao #BUT in the agot appendix it say's she's 8. which makes more sense. if she's 8 turning 9 instead of 7 turning 8 #but BUT the wiki (my best friend and worst enemy) says she was born in 290. bc they take the 'not quite 8' thing as fact #which. ok after pacing around the house talking to myself like a madman that's not possible. it has to be 289 ☝ I think. um #I don't fucking know man I also don't have a very firm grasp on numbers. but something's not right here #idk grrm definitely fucked up some ages in affc bc it says joffrey died at 12. damn he died so hard he aged backwards 😔 #btw this is the second time I've gone insane thinking about grrm's bad math today. and that was only considering time #imagine if I also thought about space too hard...thank god my understanding of distances sucks ass

[utilitycaster]

Threatened this once as a throwaway tag, so: let's talk about why "Justice for Adeen Tasithar" as an attempted criticism of Essek is absolutely wild as a choice.

Disclaimer: there are many deeply annoying fans of Essek who do not seem to understand that the narrative and the cast (and by extension, merch/official art/comics) will treat him differently for being an NPC, even if he is a very important NPC and a member of the Mighty Nein, and you are justified in being annoyed. There are also a number of equally annoying Essek haters, most of whom are bitter shippers who have (correctly) realized it's slightly more palatable to others in the fandom to openly hate on Essek than on a PC; or else they are the miserable souls who think that every minute spent on a character other than their personal favorite stolen and wasted time. I am a firm believer in this post; everyone is annoying and complaining on your own blog about it is your absolute right. Also, both in regards to the fans mentioned above and the characters mentioned below, it is possible for people on two opposite sides of a position to both suck.

The first issue is the phrase itself; it co-opts a statement usually used for victims of hate crimes or political prisoners in the real world, and makes it unironically about a pretend guy who had precisely one scene, which is certainly a choice. I'm not actually opposed to using "Justice for" jokingly in fandom, but it is weird to use it relatively seriously in fandom.

The second is that Adeen Tasithar is a member of one of the Dens of the Kryn Dynasty, and is a Taskhand, a term reserved for people with high-level military responsibilities, and is a member of the Bright Queen's Court. During wartime. Coupled with the fact that Essek, who, as described below, is never portrayed as particularly cruel nor petty despite his many flaws, thinks Adeen genuinely does suck, this means that at best, Adeen Tasithar is heavily involved in military operations at a very high level and is in some way personally unpleasant. At, frankly, not even worst, we're talking D&D Donald Rumsfeld. Now, we can debate whether Essek is a war criminal or merely traitorous (not on this post though, because I don't care and it's not relevant), but, while we know very little about Adeen Tasithar, it's not an overreach to say that this man has a pretty strong chance of being guilty of his own war crimes. In general, calling for justice is something I'd hesitate to use in an "the enemy of my enemy" manner, especially if it's well within reason to consider that you're talking about Ludinus Da'leth's Kryn counterpart.

The third is that while you're under no obligation to like Essek, he really is, in general, portrayed as a decent judge of character and a terrible judge of whether selfishly following his own ambition was appropriate and what the consequences might be. He detests the members of the Cerberus Assembly with whom he works; he likes the Mighty Nein despite them ultimately being his potential undoing. He has a few friends in the Dynasty and cares about his (unambiguously good) brother, and feels remorse about his father. Essek has done terrible things in the service of his goals; but directly throwing an innocent under the bus (vs. setting into motion things that will, as a side effect, lead to innocent collateral damage, which he obviously will do) isn't his style. Again, at the very least, Adeen Tasithar is someone whom Essek genuinely believes is a bad person (note that Essek, by this time, also considers himself to be a bad person, and Trent Ikithon to be a "fuck hole", which might help your understanding of scale here). This doesn't mean Tasithar deserves what he got, but frankly, in a campaign about people who got a lot of things they didn't deserve, it's a pretty blatant straw-grasp onto a side character with the briefest of appearances to decide he's your poster boy victim just so that you can go full spiked bat on a character you dislike.

The fourth is that there's never any connection to how Essek not being friends with the Mighty Nein (or entering a relationship with Caleb) would provide justice for Adeen Tasithar, who is in an Empire prison by the end following the exchange during peace talks. It's actually entirely possible that the Empire eventually figures things out re: Adeen, notably because memory modification as a criminal act is going to be really fresh in their minds following the Ikithon trial (and if they interrogate Trent, it's also possible the Empire finds out about Essek). Essek is already a fugitive from the Dynasty and cannot move freely through the Empire as a drow whom assembly members would recognize. The guy didn't get off scot free anyway, so really, he is going to suffer to some extent; you just want him to experience abject and total misery, rather than constant fear tempered with a small degree of happiness, like some kind of sicko, or megachurch member.

The final one is that "justice for Yeza Brenatto" or "I don't like that Essek worked with the Assembly even if he wasn't happy about it" would actually be far more reasonable statements to make. Yeza was, in fact, a simple alchemist who was forced to become a pawn in the game being played by, among other people, Essek, and suffered immensely for it. The Assembly does in fact suck. And yet, rather than admit Caleb also considered working with the Assembly for selfish reasons, or that Veth, you know, exists people jump to woobify some random NPC about whom we know basically nothing other than "Military guy, well-connected politically."

So anyway: feel however you want about Essek; but if you're on Adeen Tasithar's bandwagon, I don't think you actually are terribly bothered by hypothetical fictional war crimes. I think you just are too spineless and online to say "I dislike Essek" and needed to construct an elaborate poor reason why.

#i feel like tagging this discourse is elevating it above what it is. this is straight up fanwank and I'm well aware of that #but if you need it tagged lmk #cr tag #queue

[obsessive-ego]

Someone mentioned the idea of Beej being unfaithful the other day and I know it's lame but it really bugged me. How do you HC the Juices? Personally I think MovieJuice would probably cheat but he gives off more fuckbuddy vibes anyway but MusicalJuice and ToonJuice are a different story. MusicalJuice is too needy, he loves his breather and isn't risking losing them for fling with a ghost. And ToonJuice isn't skilled enough with romance to cheat, he's still not sure how he got a partner tbw

I getcha

I read a reader insert fic once of musicaljyice cheating, and it left such a nasty taste on my mouth

If someone LIKES f/o content of being unfaithful, that's fine, BUT it's not my thing and in fact it makes me ill

I agree with you

Moviejuice screams friends with benefits/ fuck buddy

I also don't have a firm grasp on the character to elaborate, but like, yeah

Musical juice is a horny guy, and has had flings, one night stands, and stuff along those lines for ages, but nobody sticks around

"WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP LEAVING ME?!"

So if he finds someone who genuinely likes him, and has romantic feelings towards him, he will NOT let that person go, would never do anything to ruin his now happy home, the man spent Millennia alone and now that he has a home 'life' with someone who wants him around, no strings attached, he's sure as hell not gonna throw it all away for a cheap thrill.

He will still flirt among friends, but it's all in good fun, his heart will always come home to you

Treat the man with kindness and he's yours

He does have a bit of an inferiority complex in the sense that he feels he doesn't deserve you, but at the same time gets crazy jealous if he sees someone flirting with you, and that jealousy turns to angry when you become visibly uncomfortable.

Toonjuice, like you said doesn't have the skills to seduce, like you said, infact he isn't very much liked to begin with, so the fact that he somehow manged to snag a s/o is baffling

If anything this is a friends to lovers situation,

Toonjuice is a needy guy, almost as much as musicaljuice, wanting your full attention and your encouragement on his awful pranks is his number one mission, So doing anything to hurt you, especially on purpose is totally out of the question, cheating would never be an option.

He does still flirt, mostly to be annoying and disgust the other party, but his heart belongs to you and nothing in the netherworld or living world can change that

And like I said with musical juice, toonjuice also has thoughts of not being good enough for you, but is also incredibly jealous when others get to chummy with you