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What did they do to MY BABYGIRL!! 😭😭💔

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I actually wonder if they wrote this with Audre Lorde in mind - "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" - because it's almost, but not quite, a complete misquote of her original statement, which was given to criticise the feminist movement's lack of diversity, now heard inverted (intentionally or not) from the pen of one middle-aged white man and the mouth of another.

I wonder if they say "condemned" because Luthen knows as we do that the Empire was born out of the Republic; to rebuild the Republic would be to recreate the conditions that allowed the Empire. Likewise, to be a white American man making a tv show about revolution for other white American men, under the power of a media conglomerate, is to be crushingly aware of your own limits, the space you're taking up in a structure that would never have given the space to anyone else, regardless. Crushingly aware, regardless of if you can even admit it to yourself, that you're building your work on the backs of countless women, especially Black women, who pour their whole selves into their art but will never be given the kind of credit you're getting, the kind of salary and exposure you're getting. Because from their pens, their mouths, these ideas might pose an actual threat.

To make art for the Disney corporation at all is to embroil yourself in a never-ending loop of nostalgia and branding, where the very concept of rebellion becomes a game, a commodity. To destroy the Empire is to rebuild it; to make art under capitalism is to destroy the power of your revolutionary ideas by the very act of voicing them. But what are you gonna do, then, not voice them? Not rebel, not make art? Not make the best art you possibly can, if you're given the chance?

Condemned, for sure.

I know it’s not equivalent but something about the line “I am condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them” in an explicitly antifascist, anticapitalist show, funded and distributed by the disney corporation but written, created by artists, feels fucking meaningful

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I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.

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Ngl there is something deeply poetic about K2 being created by the elven oracle, wielder of the sword of sight, but molded from the saint of mystery and doubt, saying “god blind me” and getting unmade by the corrupted clouded goddess of twilight and uncertainty. I could not possibly begin to tell you what that deeply poetic thing is, but it’s there.

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Okay but.

You've spent your entire life chasing the highs of heroism. You've whittled away for highschool years watching. Manipulating. Circling your prey like a hawk. You have died. You know your target down to the last detail, your rival, your nemesis. You have built your everything around defeating the golden boy, the rogue who's unfairly blessed.

In the middle of your climactic showdown, the culmination of all your cat-and-mouse, you watch.

As he wanders off.

And very deliberately goes and jumps into a pool of lava.

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between the Assembly taking over Aeor and the Tishtan site and his behavior towards the Grim Verity and the fact that I bet they probably did the same to Pride's Call, I have to wonder if there's just a rag-tag group of furious historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists who are amassing to murder Ludinus Da'leth over that alone

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what demonstrates the rat grinders vs the bad kids SO perfectly is oisin sending that guess you didn't see the storm coming message being like hehe im gonna put her on a ship in a storm and kill her just the same way the last elven oracle died and adaine is just standing on the deck like ok?? and one-punch killed an ancient dragon

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There’s something so poetic about nepo baby Oisin getting his dragon grandma murdered by Riz “Kalvaxus killed my dad” Gukgak

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adaine's ongoing beef with kipperlily is so funny. she may be your narrative foil, but i'm gonna kill her dead

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Currently thinking about the fact that Kipperlilly was already infected with this rage god stuff at the point of “what are you like four different dogs” and how Kristen is lucky she wasn’t just killed on sight

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LILIANA THINKING SHE'S BEEN PLAYING THE MOTHER HEN TO LUDINUS AND THE WEAVE MIND WHO HAVE ALL EXISTED AND BEEN PLOTTING AND MURDERING AND USING EACH OTHER FOR HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE SHE WAS EVEN BORN. GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I was expecting anything but not Bard

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guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is a beautiful film but my god no one has adapted that story like neverafter. you can never look at it the same way again after listening to lou wilson, a black man, explaining that he chose to play as pinocchio because it’s a story about a little boy who isn’t allowed to make mistakes. that in pinocchio's story, he is fundamentally barred from childhood at once upon a time. he must earn something that everyone else is granted from birth. the other boys get to tell lies and play and get into trouble, but when pinocchio does the same thing there are grave and violent consequences. his pinocchio is trying to understand why the world is so unfair, why the rules are so different for him, why everyone else gets to be a real boy.

and I think about it every day.

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thinking about how peoples blorbos tend to be men on here (makes sense with the trends in fandom of men being prioritised etc etc) SO please reblog and tag your female blorbo(s). this is NOT the post to be like “[male character] becuz he’s a woman to me” i Will come to your house and bite you. anyway i’ll go first mine are susie and julie from dbd and carly jones from house of wax 🖤