#to a fire at the womens one

[fuckrealityfictionisbetter]

I know I talk a lotta shit about who reid should of ended up with but my biggest au of how I’m continuing to believe the show ended is that reid and cat had a consensual conception together (doesn’t matter how) it’s twin girls and then he meets Ainsley (prodigal son: serial killer dad but this Ainsley gets pregnant by some serial killer bf who she stabs to death around the same time as the twins conception) the rest of the shows portrayal of the couple is basically a sitcom, co parenting of the ‘triplets’ with cat, a friendship between cat and Ainsley that spencer grows not to hate too much, and a serial killer father in law who’s too thrilled with the whole thing

#Spencer Reid #criminal minds #prodigal son #I like to think the conception is spencer going back to prison for some reason and the womens prison has to be put into the spare wring due #to a fire at the womens one #idk a riot or just circumstances make it so the two meet #and once he’s released he has to go to the team like ‘sooo… and I was in prison for this so no judgment’ #any way Ainsley interviews many serial killers and writes a few books about them #they have another child together that gets delivered in a prison because Ainsley didn’t wanna turn down an interview #spencer is very sleep deprived and attempts to get anyone to baby sit #there’s a mix between unspoken ‘things’ at the bau as well as many jokes about the whole sisuatuon #the youngest this all happens the better tbh I kinda replaced mave with this because a younger spencer just being like yeah I’ve got #four (4) children under the age of 6 #all of which are related to serial killers #just fucking beaming with pride as he talked about these girls who definitely bite to some nervous cop #considering hotch and Ainsleys moms actors dated in criminal minds if you want hotch to be Reid’s new dad in law that is something I am #undecided on yet

[fictionadventurer]

Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

#me reading any christian historical fiction set in england: why are none of these gentry anglican?? #they ARE all anglican and if they are not it is extremely plot and character relevant you can't just have them using evangelical buzzwords #but i'm also thinking of this because i started another charlotte yonge book #that is by far my favorite of the things of hers that i've read #because it has characters who have different upbringings and religious opinions #instead of just 'here's a bunch of high church anglicans judging people who don't live up to their victorian standard' #you have the very high church anglican rector whose wife is worldly but still a very good person #the girl raised in a very strict protestant family who is more scrupulous than the anglicans but is still recognized as a good person #you have people who are trying to work out the nuances of different issues #and that makes it so much more realistic and so much easier to integrate into the story #(the politics though are hilarious) #(most of the classics that survive are the ones that were 'ahead of their time' in politics) #(so it's equally fascinating and refreshing and a bit infuriating to see one that is very very of its time with regards to women's rights) #('why did this woman get up at the meeting and explain her very good ideas for rebuilding after the fire? she should have had a man do it') #(meanwhile i'm just screaming 'why on earth SHOULDN'T she???') #(it's almost enough to make a feminist of me)

[daenerysies]

“the dance isn’t about misogyny” one, if rhaenyra had been born with a dick the dance would have effectively been prevented (or at least stalled). male!rhaenyra would be seen as the undisputed heir to the throne, and if viserys still ends up marrying alicent (but this is an IF situation because aemma might not even die if v has no reason to keep pushing her for a male heir) the *only* excuse she would have to help usurp the throne is for her own want of power. the ‘my children will be in danger!’ line will not work and no one (besides maybe a few upstarts) will back her.

two, aegon had the chance to name a female heir after he murdered rhaenyra and didn’t. both of his sons were dead, his enemy was dead, the only other living male targaryen that he knew of was his captive. it’s *almost* like aegon knew he backed himself into a corner all on the basis of usurping a woman and couldn’t then name jaehaera as his heir. it probably didn’t help that he knew his days were numbered too once word reached the remaining green council of cregan’s army. he *quite literally* fucked himself. repeatedly. an embarrassing number of times, really. dude kept his massive loser persona in tact right up until the very end. props to him for that i guess.

#there is no other *intelligent* way to view the story #grrm has proven this to be the case over and over again within f&b and asoiaf #targaryen women have been stepped over and shat on ever since aegon conquered westeros #it’s why daenerys being azor ahai/the one to finally break the wheel is so important #rhaenyra targaryen #pro rhaenyra targaryen #team black #anti team green #anti team green stans #fire and blood

[drakaripykiros130ac]

Green stans logic:

Rhaenyra should be hated for not helping advance women’s positions throughout the Realm (even though it was a hardship to get stability for herself as the first reigning Queen of the Seven Kingdoms).

Meanwhile, Aegon Hightower should be applauded for taking away a woman’s legitimate right to the throne at a time when a couple of women were found in positions of power throughout the Realm (Lady Jeyne Arryn of the Vale being the most notable example).

Seriously…try harder.

#The usurper is the one who viewed himself as the exception #And people kind of missed the point where Rhaenyra being Queen creates a precedent for more women in positions of power in the future #She doesn’t have to do anything. She just has to take the throne that belongs to her and rule. #team black #rhaenyra targaryen #pro team black #anti team green #anti aegon ii targaryen #anti team green stans #anti green stans #queen rhaenyra #asoiaf #anti greens #hotd #fire and blood #aegon the usurper #the blacks #house of the dragon #pro rhaenyra #asoiaf meta #canon asoiaf #jeyne arryn

[bastart13]

I might have controversial opinions on the "Faerghus Four." Mostly that it doesn't exist, and at worst, it exists to exclude Dedue.

Yes, Dimitri, Ingrid, Sylvain, and Felix grew up together, but that was as children. While that history is significant to their relationships, it ignores everything after. With the tragedy of Duscur, Dimitri and Dedue became inseparable while Felix was sickened by them, Ingrid couldn't overlook Dedue's connection to the tragedy, and Sylvain's apathy grew.

Past the age of ~15, you can't ignore how Dedue and the tragedy affects their relationships. I don't see just the four of them as a friend group, especially not without him because he's so important to Dimitri and the themes of Faerghus.

#fe3h #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #dimitri blaiddyd #dedue molinaro #ingrid galatea #sylvain gautier #felix fraldarius #faerghus four #art #i love fe3h and the blue lions but holy shit i have my issues with how the writers and the fandom treat dedue #eg. why the hell was he replaced by gilbert post timeskip?? #dimitri and dedue's relationship is so important to both of their characters #dimitri can't stand people ignoring or insulting dedue #including ingrid or felix #and even though sylvain is the one who respects dedue #then it's dimitri who finds the way he treats women uncomfortable #i love the idea of them all as a group becoming friends after character development #but then that includes dedue because again he's very important to the themes and story surrounding faerghus #he deserves friendship and respect and that's part of what he has to learn so he can live freely

[thefemalejoker42069]

Rest in Peace to Samyia Spain, a 19 year old from Brooklyn who was stabbed to death on Sunday night after turning down a man who asked for her number. Her twin sister was also stabbed in the arm and taken to the hospital but is expected to survive.

I am so so sorry sweet angel, you had your entire life ahead of you and you deserved to live it fully.

#I am fucking furious #radblr #memorial post #they swear women are the emotional ones and then will fucking kill a woman if she says no #fuck the piece of shit who did this I hope he gets set on fire

[atopvisenyashill]

Thoughts on the Alysanne is Maegor's daughter AU? I feel like it has some interesting potential, and it vastly recontextualizes different parts of Jaehaehae (I do not like him sjsjsjs) and Alysanne's relationship (such as Jaehaehae's treatment of their daughters) but I wanna hear what you think about it!

I’ve touched on this a bit before but since you actually want to hear my thoughts, allow me to present to you my Jaehaerys Is The Goddamn Worst, And Alysanne Annoys Me Too: An Essay lmao but my answer is basically “yeah all of what you just said.”

I think it makes Alysanne much more palatable (to me) as a character because as she stands, she just fixates on forcing her daughters through these fucked up marriages at too young an age bc it traumatized her to be married and pregnant at 15 too but she’d never admit that being a willing participant in her own kidnapping by her brother-husband was the single worst thing that ever happened to her, and because Alysanne doesn’t want to admit it (and Jaehaerys would never see it as wrong or a mistake) F&B really shies away from delving into the fact that Alysanne is as deranged of a mother as Cersei is. So as she stands, she’s very flat to me because she’s presented very flatly and inconsistently. She’s so in love with Jaehaerys, she’s maritally raped by Jaehaerys, she’s a loving and doting mother, she forces her daughters into marriages when they’re the same too young age she was, she accuses her teenage girls of being scheming whores then gets angry when her husband accuses their teenage girls of being scheming whores, and worst of all we are just told “Maegelle tells them to make up so they do” so we don’t know why Alysanne gets over all of this. What is the point of riding a dragon when you never use that dragon to protect your daughters from unwanted teen marriages? We’re just not given a good enough justification for why her behavior is so weird and frustrating towards her daughters.

Make her Maegor’s daughter though…most of her behavior as an adult makes more sense. Like a worse version of Rhaenyra’s childhood almost - a father desperate for a son, but lowkey obsessed with his daughter, who makes all his hang ups about his parents the problems of every woman around him, except Maegor is out here blood sacrificing and torturing and starting wars and forcing babies on wives he discards quickly and brutally. Then here comes Jaehaerys on a white horse green dragon to save her from the horror her life has become, and he loves her so much he runs away with her even though Alyssa says they shouldn’t marry because people won’t like it. And they have beautiful children, and a beautiful marriage, and build a beautiful kingdom.

Then her pregnancies start getting dangerous. Gaemon, then Valerion, die. Alysanne thinks of the shriveled up mutants she called brothers, if Maegor’s taint has passed to her. Her perfect husband ignores her no, and forces Gael on her. Alysanne remembers that he said nothing to Rogar when Alyssa died, merely wept. Then her daughters start to die. Daella, Alyssa, Viserra, all within a few years. Then Jaehaerys makes Saera watch as he murders her boyfriend, calls her a whore, and says Alysanne cannot follow Saera to Lys. Alysanne thinks of Maegor torturing the Harroways over Alys’ presumed infidelity. Jaehaerys says he’s sorry, and her daughter badgers her into forgiving him, and she remembers how she helped Jaehaerys badger Alyssa into forgiving Rogar. Not two years later, Jaehaerys passes over Rhaenys. Alysanne thinks of how she was never enough for her father, how she felt so superior to Rhaena banished to Dragonstone and resented by Aerea, yet there she is dragging Gael away from court because she can’t stand to be with Jaehaerys. How her father was surrounded by dead women and dead babies and how Jaehaerys is surrounded by his own dead daughters, but surely she did the right thing, surely Maegor was worse, surely the realm is better off? Is he right to pass over Rhaenys? Is she enabling a man just as monstrous as her father? She will never decide, because Maegelle will guilt her about keeping Gael isolated at Dragonstone, and Alysanne will do as she’s told, just like Rhaena, and Alyssa, and Jeyne, Elinor, Ceryse, Alys, and Tyanna, just like every one of her daughters.

I do get why Alysanne is Alyssa & Aenys’ and not Maegor’s. The weird Targ babies, the line not descending from Visenya, Jaehaerys and Alysanne being held up as the perfect Targaryen couple specifically because they are brother and sister and dragon riders. I do even think canon Alysanne is likely traumatized by her time as a hostage on Dragonstone, and the ensuing war, and the trauma bond that caused with Jaehaerys, and it makes her idolize Jaehaerys, and then he isolates her at Dragonstone so he can swiftly and safely marry, groom, and knock her up. It’s not like,,,, a fun time, and it’s enough to make anyone crazy and weird about their daughters, but I think having her father be Maegor makes Alysanne herself much deeper because it gives her, as the most beloved Targaryen queen, a blood tie to the most hated Targaryen king, and a marriage to the most beloved Targaryen king. It fits better with a lot of the themes of the main series (again, imo) - forcing the spotlight on the outsiders to see how the affect the story from behind the scenes. The fall of Aegon’s sons, and The Long Reign, not told from the PoV or to serve the PoV of any of the kings or princes, but of the queen that tied them all together.

#anti jaehaerys i targaryen #f&b critical #fire and blood critical #asks #thesadboy #like he kind of does this with aenys & maegor by focusing on alyssa and rhaena and the wives and visenya. #but the Moment jaehaerys enters the scene he completely dominates it. the same way daemon and aemond do actually. #but this is not. it should not!! be their story. that’s not how the main series is told anyway!! #if f&b isn’t told by a dornish maester than it should have been written by a septa!!! #nuns wrote books!!!!! #rich noblewomen wrote novels and poetry!!!!!!! #GEORGE DO YOU READ WOMEN. I AM NO LONGER ASKING POLITELY. #i went to look for her mother and apparently this was just a mistake elio made and i’m even more depressed. i can’t believe i’m saying this #but elio damn your mind. #i bet he saw that and went ‘wait which one is her fucjing mother’ and george was like what in the goddamn hell are you talking about. #idk who would be her mother in this au. if we want to keep her within 3 ish years of jaehaerys it Has to be alys or ceryse. ceryse hightowe #is the hilarious and obvious choice. but don’t count out alys harroway second wife here either. #then there’s rhaena as her mother which with the canon timeline makes him 12 years older and isn’t THAT horrible let’s stop here actually.

[sammygems]

#my polls #tumblr polls #pirate women #pirates #cat burglar nami #nami #one piece nami #op nami #straw hat pirates #nico robin #devil child nico robin #beidou #captain beidou #miss fortune #elizabeth swann #pirates of the caribbean #league of legends #fena pirate princess #fena houtman #boa hancock #revy black lagoon #may guilty gear #sonya fire emblem #i already know that Fena is gonna get like #0 votes 😭

[ride-thedragon]

The worst thing about Rhaenyra is the inherent need her fans have to moralize the protagonist. Rhaenyra isn't a good person.

That's okay.

Rhaenyra isn't a feminist.

That's okay.

She is not a girl's girl and that's fine.

It's so unfair that people can unapologetically Stan Aegon and Daemon but draw the line at morally questionable women.

We love gray characters until a character is truly gray and a woman.

Rhaenyra isn't better than Alicent, nor is Alicent better than Rhaenyra. These women are both brought to the heel of their patriarchal society at the helm of the most power it affords to women.

Neither of them are intersectional thinkers or necessarily progressing women's rights. Rhaenyra would rule then her son. Alicent will just have her son and grandson's rule.

It's a disservice to her character to pander to the idea of moral righteousness or bettering.

What happens to her happens because she is a woman. At every turn, her womanhood and the role of it will pigeon hold her in this society. That does not excuse her very questionable behavior.

Two things can be true.

For example, using my favorite girl, Nettles.

Under Viserys' rule with Alicent and Otto ruling this young girl is a sex worker to sustain her life. She is assumed to have lost her virginity to eat and was disfigured as punishment for wanting to eat. That was her assumed life under their rule. The entire time she has the capability to be a dragon rider.

Had it fallen normally to Rhaenyra nothing would've changed for her and like most of the women we see in that line of work she'd die at the hands of someone or from illness or pregnancy all while being able to claim a dragon.

Women do not need to be exceptional.

( Not everyone can be Nettles)

Women can just be legally named the heir and be heir.

But to impose a moral code that these characters can never live up to is unfortunate. Again, I rise and say I love Rhaenyra, and I understand that she's been groomed by a crazy person and has the moral compass of every Targaryen after the conquest. She's that girl. I'm sorry for those who don't get it or feel the need to justify it.

I also love Alicent, and as a victim of white people's nonsense in 2020 and the Hollywoodification of the feminist movement in the 2010s, you'll never see hate a woman when men are to blame. Seeing someone try to care about something, she has no understanding or ability to truly escape from is hard and a lot of you project the lack of understanding most people have had when it comes to feminism on her as a means to seem above her and what she does. We all fall short and to villanize her for it, is crazy, especially when the person we compare her to has access to do better and doesn’t pursue it.

I'm still waiting for y'all to dislike Daemon for killing a wife, sleeping with a woman at his wife's funeral, and strangling the other after she miscarried their child. Let's not mistake splinters for planks.

#house of the dragon #hotd #a song of ice and fire #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #nettles #i love women #stop letting men ruin things #targ men deserve to burn #queen rhaenyra #yall like her because of daemon #i like her inspite of him #i like women inspite of Daemon #burn in hell phantom of the opera stan #anti viserys i targaryen #anti daemon targaryen #one kiss would end all this confusion #Rhaenyra doesn't need to be good #let women be evil #let women be morally gray #rhaenyra being right doesnt discredit wrongs #anti asoiaf men #i say we can always blame these men for most of the issues we have #house targaryen #nettles is the bar i hold people to #she's a good bar to set #alicent being right doesn’t discredit her wrongs

[tubbytarchia]

Different anon but shaking you by the hand shinyduo/gempearl shippers are WINNING this season in terms of content. 3-ish episodes in and we already have sooo much ship fuel. Hnnnnnnnrrrrrggggg oh my goshhhhhhhh

SHAKES YOUR HAND AS WELL WE ARE WINNING ANON WE ARE SO WINNING. I CANT BELIEVE IT ANON I CANT BELIEVE HOW PLENTIFUL THE YURI IS I COULD CRY

Acro model by Zuruya

#took way to long too edit this abomination #blabber #theres a huge assortment of lesbian flag dinosaur fire images out there with captions like “BOOBS” and “I LOVE WOMEN” #needed one for yuri. minecraft yuri specifically #shak's shitpost

[addaerontruther]

what if i said Viserys did, in fact, have Harwin killed, and Larys, being who he is, found out and spent the rest of his life trying to destroy House Targaryen? he was the spy on the Green Council to ensure mutual destruction and did whatever he could at every opportunity to get as many of them killed as possible, then during the Hour of the Wolf, chose death over taking the black because he'd accomplished his goal: the dragons were dead, and all that remained were traumatized children.

#when rhaenyra took the city #he only managed to save aegon.... and the one single female heir of a faction fighting against women's right to rule #the betrayers #the poisoning #i'm right #i could write an essay on this #in the book obviously #the show rewrote viserys #as george himself said #him saying that makes me think i'm right x2 #larys strong #viserys i targaryen #viserys targaryen #harwin strong #rhaenyra targaryen #larys clubfoot #harwin breakbones #fire and blood #aemond targaryen #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls

[daenerysies]

why are alicent stan’s so gleeful about what the show has done to her character? book-wise she was an antagonistic, ambitious, manipulative woman who knew exactly what she wanted and how to get it; versus the show, where she has been turned into a constant victim to the men around her with no autonomy or agency what-so-ever. whether it’s otto, viserys, aegon, larys, she’s been reduced to a hypocritical, bitter, puppy-eyed woman with no want for anything in her own life; just a doll to be played around with and eventually discarded.

instead of being the calculating and intelligent woman who dog walks viserys up until his death (and even after) she's now his victim because of the decision to age her down to 15 rather than 18 like her canon age, and in turn age viserys up in order to further emphasize the age-gap and power dynamics. she is portrayed as an abusive mother on screen (physically and mentally to aegon, mentally to helaena and aemond), falling into the 'abused becomes the abuser' trope, which is a rather harmful stereotype. she told aegon that he would be king, but then began having 'second thoughts' when the actual usurpation took place, of which she apparently had no idea, "am i to understand that members of the small council have been planning secretly to install my son without me?" once again reducing her to a pawn of the men around her. these second thoughts took place because of her apparent 'reconciliation' with rhaenyra, as if a few words and hand holding could ever undue the years she spent undermining rhaenyra and attempting to have her and her children disinherited and shamed (mayhaps even killed due to the bastard rumors). she is now a victim to larys as well. larys, despite his lower standing than her THE QUEEN, is able to 'manipulate' her into doing sexual favors for him in order for her wishes to be granted. she has no control over the men around her and no respect from any of them because they know she is willing to bend over backwards to please them. she openly admits that she knew her father had been manipulating her for years, and she still fed into his bullshit. she only wants aegon to be king due to her 'misunderstanding' the words of a drugged up and dying man (and it being HIS 'wish' for aegon to succeed him, not hers). her only want in the show is 'to make a window in the wall of her prison.'

the greens were named for HER in the book. not aegon. not otto. not house hightower. her.

“the beacon on the hightower, do you know what color it glows when oldtown calls it’s banners to war?”

“green.”

except that it doesn’t in canon. house hightower’s only set color is grey, and their only beacon is the regular depiction of red and orange fire. there is no green to be scene anywhere to represent the hightower’s or oldtown or their beacon. the color green didn't have any meaning to her. alicent chose it for herself. she wasn’t ’showing off her allegiance to her father and house after being scorned by the targaryens’ it was a political statement that she CHOSE TO MAKE for herself. she was the leader of team green and was the main culprit in usurping rhaenyra and crowning aegon. she didn’t do it for her father, or her house, or viserys; she did it for herself, because SHE wanted aegon to be king.

there are ways to add complexities to characters without completely changing everything about them, and what they stand for. alicent might have partially fallen into the evil step-mother trope in the book, but considering it’s a historical account; we have next to no information on how she really feels. they could have deep dived into her feelings regarding the succession, how marrying the king without a male heir should have given her the privilege of being the future king’s mother, instead finding out the harsh reality; that viserys would not remove rhaenyra as heir, and that she was negated to only being the king’s wife and giving him spares. they could have played into how complicated her relationship with rhaenyra is, how angry and self-righteousness she would have felt considering the only reason viserys was made king was due to male preference primogeniture. why she felt the need to isolate and bully a child because of said child's father’s decisions. there were plenty of other roads that the writers could have taken to add actual nuance into alicent’s story, and not just adding in more unnecessary and brutal violence towards women.

all of this to say that aging her down and turning her into nothing more than a abused child-bride was not the way to go to add nuance to her story. women shouldn’t have to be tortured, neglected, raped, abused, etc. in order for the audience to like and feel sympathy for their character. that’s an inherently sexist and abhorrent point of view, and considering how virtue signaling a lot of her fans are it’s not surprising that they’re willing to overlook it for the sake of continuing their poor baby alicent ‘always a victim to the men in her life’ rhetoric; as if that was ever a core part of her character.

what they gave us in house of the dragon was not the real alicent hightower, just a cheaply made original character with alicent’s name slapped on her in place of a discount sticker. hotd's biggest crime was reducing powerful ambitious women to side pieces in the big bad men's war. why do women in this universe have to suffer in order for the audience to feel sympathy for them and their plight? and no, i'm not going to argue with anyone going, "b-but OBVIOUSLY you just don't understand her character uwu," i understand her plenty, thanks.

if you actually like alicent (or any of the women in general) in fire and blood you should be seething in outrage over house of the dragon's portrayal of them.

#asoiaf #fire and blood #house of the dragon #hotd critical #anti hotd #book alicent hightower #anti show alicent hightower #anti alicent hightower #anti alicent stans #otto hightower #viserys i targaryen #aegon ii targaryen #larys strong #rhaenyra targaryen #all of these choices were made in the name of 'feminist writing' #and they are probably the most misogynistic choices one can make #women do not need to be playthings to the men around them #for their characters to be sympathetic #i'm prepared for the mob don't worry #me not putting anti in front of the men is hurting my soul #but they're not the purpose of this post so fuck them #hotd rant #team black #anti team green #anti team green stans

[drakaripykiros130ac]

How exactly can Aegon the Usurper justify his claim to the throne when he allows a woman such as Lady Jeyne Arryn act as Warden of a Kingdom during his so-called “rule”?

#He was the exception here not Rhaenyra #His faction doesn’t have a leg to stand on #They say Rhaenyra didn’t fight to have women’s claims recognized? Well #What did Aegon do to establish the patriarchy that was the only thing he could use as an attempt to make his claim legitimate? #He let a woman command one of his kingdoms while he was trying to prove to the Realm that he had more claim to the throne than his sister 😂 #anti aegon ii targaryen #anti team green #team black #pro team black #house of the dragon #hotd #asoiaf #fire and blood #canon asoiaf #asoiaf meta #jeyne arryn #aegon the usurper #anti greens

[greenbloods]

i know hotd is still on season 1 and thats the reason but i want more discussion on aegon ii outside the family dynamics. aegon who made his sigil gold because thats his dragons color. the claimant who had to be convinced to take a throne he never really wanted. whose family and advisors were only too eager to fight a war on his behalf that was never his idea to begin with. the boy who was out of commission for most of his own war, recuping from injuries he took while dancing with dragons. the boy who fought again despite that, who flew to dragonstone, who avenged his sons. the king whom they had to poison to finally kill. isnt that what all the boys want in the stories? to bond with dragons and ride and fight, and be brave even when it hurts?

none of this need have happened. the pain did not make him better. but all the same, a man was forged from the boy amidst the fire of war.

#hotd spoilers #fire and blood #aegon ii targaryen #sunfyre #aegon the elder #obviously being a man in this story is not always about being a good person #and often goes hand in hand with being the chain and prison to the women in your life #and ofc its hard to empathize with his character when the shows first characterization of him was as a rapist and the books imply it too #but for one moment i wanted to celebrate the positive aspects of aegon ii #because i dont see it being done really #valyrianscrolls

[blazingblorbos]

What is up with them

Genuinely what is wrong with them. You have to understand how much power this holds over me.

What is it with the recent Hoyo women who can just... command horrors, the likes of which no one has ever seen?!?

#I haven't played Penacony yet. #I have NO clue what the relationship between Black Swan and 'Something Unto Death' could be about #WHICH BY THE WAY IS SUCH A FIRE FUCKING NAME #HOLY SHIT HOYO #great job cooking with that one oh my lord #women when they command horrors the likes of which no one has ever seen #I can't with them #first it was Ruan Mei #which was already too much for a pathetic sapphic heart like mine to handle #AND THEN #the bane of my existence ms. Black Swan #'What are you afraid of?' LITERALLY YOU #this is outrageous #those 2 monstrosities better move aside. I need them to command ME like that #blazingshitpost #blazingshitpost star rail edition #Black Swan #Ruan Mei #Honkai Star Rail #HSR #Honkai: Star Rail #hsr black swan #hsr ruan mei

[uncanny-tranny]

I think if we are to do marginalized communities good, it'll help to remember that often, marginalized people who seem to be "forgotten about" in the mind of bigots aren't being treated well by them either - so many marginalized people are forcibly erased and made invisible. That is not a neutral action; it is a form of violence. Not all violence will present itself in the extreme of facing physical violence. The core of any violence against marginalized peoples will often come from a similar level of hatred for them. That's why it's so important to combat all violence, even the forms of violence you don't perceive "as harmful" as other forms.

#politics #like for example in some spaces people think that because transphobes tend to 'forget' about trans men* that means we face no violence... #...when we are often forcibly erased and the other forms of violence we face tends to also be erased - like... #...seeing people who go 'lel trans men are going to be forced in women's bathrooms if we go by ASAB' as if... #...we don't face violence for using said bathrooms. that's what i mean by the violence is still there but it's made invisible #and that's a common tactic i think. because if you MAKE people invisible then it's easier to dehumanize them and pretend they don't EXIST #it's just weird when people see that and don't perceive it as violence because it doesn't 'look that bad' #not all violence is fire and brimstone levels of brutality and indeed most violence done unto marginalized people won't look that way #to present violence as ONLY being the extremes we are permitting other forms of violence to exist and be carried out onto people #this ISN'T to say that extreme forms of violence are not atrocities and that they shouldn't be recognized for being brutal but that... #...we cannot narrow our view of violence so much that we still permit it so long as it isn't 'the most extreme' #just like physical abuse is not the only form of abuse one can face - it is analogous in this situation to recognize other violences #i hope this makes sense - i'm writing this with a time crunch and it's a bad habit