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how it feels to be in your 20s and getting sent TikTok videos from your friends but you don’t have a TikTok and it just redirects you to the Apple download page for it.

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i want to shake many young women and say you can grow in private. and what i mean by that is that you don’t have to publicly self-flagellate when you don’t know something or when you say something a little insensitive or whatever else. you don’t have to report your Bad Thoughts and Ignorance to the crowd who waits to judge you. you do not have to pay penance. you do not have to issue public statements. nothing more is gained from burying yourself in shame than you could gain by thinking “oh i don’t know about this” and looking it up real quick, or thinking “hm, that wasn’t how i want to behave, i’ll do different next time” and then moving on with your life. no need to choke yourself with it.

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Guy who is touch starved but emotionally repressed goading you into punching him for completely normal reasons

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“He was very fond of me, and i of him” NOOOOOOOO ALICENT STOP THE AVERAGE VIEWER DOESN’T HAVE THE MEDIA LITERACY TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU CAN’T VERBALIZE YOUR OWN ABUSE DUE TO YOUR UPBRINGING AND YOUR OWN COPING MECHANISMS AND THAT IT MEANS YOU SPEAK KINDLY OF YOUR ABUSER IN A WAY THAT IS NEITHER TRUE NOR DESERVED

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The vitriol spewed at Alicent reveals the warped view of modern feminism in these online circles. People criticize her for reinforcing traditional gender roles, while they praise Rhaenyra as this "feminist revolutionary" who defied the status quo.

Some online communities that claim to espouse progressive values seem almost oblivious to the fact that any freedom or independence received by female characters is rooted in a fragile foundation. These shallow analyses perpetuate ignorance, completely disregarding the social structures and complex power dynamics employed within these fictional universes.

When King Viserys passed away, Rhaenyra's supposed 'independence' vanished with his death - a reminder of the fragility of a woman's power within the rigidly patriarchal society. Although her father had bucked tradition by making her heir, she still functioned within the confines of the same feudal system, refusing to grant inheritance rights to Rosby women and Lady Stokeworth. Her authority was never truly absolute; it could be overturned at any moment by those more entrenched in power. In this way, Rhaenyra's 'agency' was, ironically, dependent upon the king.

Alicent and Rhaenyra were both prisoners of an archaic system, their freedom bound by the shackles of patriarchy. But while Alicent had power as long as she followed the status quo, Rhaenyra felt the full brunt of her restriction once her father - the king - passed away!!

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do you think alicent thinks she’s incapable of ever loving someone. do you think she knows what love actually is, to feel it correctly, to know that what she’s feeling is love, to do it correctly. do you think she’s been clouded by obligation for so long that the thought of intimacy beyond what is purely her own duty is drowned out, sunken so deep in her that to feel something, feel anything so intensely in her own control ever again might break her. do you think that a love so unworldly could kill alicent

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Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower House of the Dragon | 2.06 "Smallfolk"

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here's a funny conversation topic i had a with a friend: if you're over the age of 25, when's the last time you really *ran* in a panic, like you were gonna be late? (things like a marathon don't count) and what was it for?

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favorite dragon age companion - BORING

tell me your LEAST FAVORITE dragon age companion

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For your viewing pleasure, trailers beneath the cut!! vvvv

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Always wanted to see Alisaie in RDM set. :)

Now available as a print from my etsy shop!

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my love of murderous women and their questionable outfit choices

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text from @terramythos's post, which inspired this particular comic

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mass effect 2's cold opening of having to float your way through the destroyed normandy after being attacked by a giant hyperintelligence squid with the coldness of outer space, minimal lighting, and your breathing as the only sounds. i think the kids call that popping off