yknow it must be said that sometimes a season of television is so so so bad and just atrociously written, terribly paced, cheap costumes, characters assassinated left and right, you wonder why you're even watching this all unfold still, but sometimes, also. also that season of television will also have your favorite character, the character that is your best friend in the whole world, the character you consider a close personal bestie so wholeheartedly, well sometimes he & his boyfriend will be pretty much the only ones left in-character. and then they get to get very sweetly engaged & then gay married. seconds after the character whose downfall you were praying for finally fucking dies. an incredibly funny death too. and so maybe sometimes a terrible season of tv can still have, like, one thing. two things. and sometimes the posts that come out of it afterwards are so funny they almost make it all worth it
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"The newly widowed Elizabeth (Woodville) was exceptionally vulnerable. Several of the trustees responsible for her jointure refused to hand over the manors that were meant to sustain her in her widowhood. Moreover, her brother-in-law, Edward Grey, had seized estates that her son Thomas should have inherited from his paternal grandfather, while her mother-in-law’s new young husband, Sir John Bourchier, had prevailed on Lady Ferrers to settle her principal properties on them jointly for life, ensuring that Thomas would have to wait far longer for this inheritance too. Rivers and Scales were pardoned in July 1461 and swiftly moved into the Yorkist establishment, which perhaps explains the success of the chancery suits Elizabeth launched to regain her jointure. Her son’s inheritance proved harder to recover. By 1463, Rivers was often in (Edward IV's) company and on his council, but Elizabeth needed someone with much stronger influence over the King. She turned to a distant kinsman, William, Lord Hastings, the King’s chamberlain. Hastings drove a very hard bargain for his aid but it was probably amid these negotiations that the King’s desire for Elizabeth was kindled."
-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: the Knight's Widow", "Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty"
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Although I understand why so many western posts about the genocide in Palestine mention the number of women and children who are injured/ killed, it always upsets me that the adult men of Palestine aren't really given as much focus. They don't deserve to be hurt or killed, either! I don't know how universal this is, but in the US there's this sort of implicit, insidious idea that men are somehow like. less innocent by default, and it's not as big of a deal if they die.
I know it's probably just splitting hairs, but I can't help but be put off by it, since the men of Palestine are just as victimized by Israeli occupation as anyone else.
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i just feel like saying we are all writing publicly on the internet which is vulnerable enough but on top of that we're doing collaborative writing. we depend on others adding on to our views feelings ideas and style. as much of a hobby as it is and as unseriously as you want to take it it's still a form of art, it's innately personal and vulnerable. engage with other people's writing as you would with any art whose author is in front of you. comment and contribute if you feel strongly enough about it but always for the better. you don't have to love or praise or keep interacting with what isn't for you but you do have to respect it.
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sort of hate people who leave negative stuff in the bookmarks of a fic tbh. like sure yeah you have no obligation to write anything, but if you are going to write something why the fuck would you make it a bland as list of all the things you disliked about the work
like bro, you could just keep it in your head. say it out loud even. write it on a post it note if you must. but like damn why the fuck would you ever write a laundry of your shitty little peeves somewhere that the author is able to see it. authors can and do browse peoples comments in the bookmarks of their works bc people sometimes leave really touching heartwarming stuff there
just like. jesus fuck. if you have nothing nice to say then youre honestly free to shut the fuck up and move on
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also a favorite “play” method or tactic that goro uses is becoming “your mirror image.”
the mirror isn’t a necessity to show a “reflection” ... but it does add a creep factor he likes given people are already so distrustful of their own reflections. (we’ll talk reflections in another post with ren/yori shortly). it’s basically appearing to you as yourself, but in a way you would recognize.**
** this plot for like anything is always hard for me because technically we wouldn’t be able to really see our clone / doppelganger / etc as looking like us because we don’t know what we truly look like, if that makes sense. we always see reflections, we don’t see ourselves, so recognizing “us” as an entity outside of our reflected vision, which can already be skewed by a variety of factors (from lighting techniques to mirror types to emotional view of the self, etc). so...you know me, i have to make it somewhat reality oriented, so i think goro would appear to you in the way you would recognize yourself. taking your face for real would mean he’s taking you as you really are, not as you see yourself, which is how other people would also see you. the first is taking an emotional form whereas the second is more equivalent to taking the legitimate physical form of someone. i say “face” but he really does take the whole body, especially if he’s taking that identity for himself. there’s no limit to “who” goro will become, seek out, or engage with. **
he likes to bend or distort reality, so he typically uses this technique (this “trick”) mostly for fun, but sometimes to move a “plot” along. it’s a way to a) challenge someone, who better than themselves? and b) to have fun, it’s boring having ji-hun and deng (and others) do everything. so, while he doesn’t do everything himself, there are some things he still enjoys doing, and he likes to “get out in the field.”
since he is not “taking” the actual face, just “using it,” it falls under his “parlor tricks.”
i also use this imagery for ren, but that’s in the comic with another character. it’s good imagery.
a lot of it comes from when i first saw evil dead 2 when i was a kid. this part really stuck out with me, and i’ve used it before in other storytelling, but not as obvious. i also find it fitting to other characters i’ve ended up writing, such as yagami raito, because mirror imagery and mirror play are used a lot in death note to symbolize specific changes in yagami when becoming kira.
“i’m fine...i’m fine...”
“i don’t think so!”
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i don't care about alicent tbh but fandom hypocrisy is getting to me too esp when they make inappropriate comments when her character is still a teenager
Yeah that's what I can't stand lmao
There's nothing wrong with hating a female character but when you're constantly using gendered insults against them or sexualising a teenage girl for “seducing” a grown man (especially when so far she's been miserable with the entire situation)... that's fucked up and definitely misogynistic
There's definitely female characters I can't stand and drag but there are things that go beyond fandom and not being a misogynistic ass is one of them. I thought we were all adults who understood this but I was clearly wrong.
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Wouldn’t it be funny if you yourself had a narrator? Honestly, it’s impossible to reliably rule out such a possibility, considering the nature of the story, and how the medium interacts with the story.
That would certainly be interesting, though it's just me and Stanley!
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