#...wait a goddamn minute

[egophiliac]

I'm still processing 7-13, in the meantime have this super quick thing! of all the things that happened that I didn't expect, one of 'em certainly was a not insignificant subplot revolving around Silver unintentionally committing international mail fraud.

[guillotine-drop]

Connected two dots that absolutely are not there and now I inflict it on all of you:

I was thinking about the White Gloves and how they have cooks in their basement kitchen blasting Brahmin with flamers to roast them

Then I thought about how the White Gloves were, historically, cannibals

Which made me realize, there’s only one other NPC in the game who both uses a flamer to cook shit and is also an aggressive cannibal:

Cook-Cook.

So now I’ve all but convinced myself that Cook-Cook very well could’ve been a member of the Proto-White Gloves before House took the strip back over and banned them from cannibalism, which caused him to fuck off to the west and join up with the Fiends so he could keep indulging in human meat

(My other piece of evidence is admittedly flimsier, but it’s the fact that he’s the only Fiend in the game who, instead of wearing the fiend helmet, wears a mask that covers his whole face (much like the modern White Gloves and possibly Proto-White Gloves))

[lygma-nygma]

Being a batfam fan is funny because people will make a post like “here’s my headcanon-“ and it’s just something that’s directly canon to the story then post about major canon events and get everything wrong.

[silverhalla]

just thinking about the Lucanis banter where he mentions gifting a knife to his crow crush and getting rejected HARD vs. Rook buying him a wyvern tooth dagger before the coffee date….. same love language :’)

[darkestspring]

Yandere Conquerors ( Visenya / Aegon / Rhaenys) and third wife reader.

"I don't need a third wife." Was the words Aegon once said, and never once had he thought that he'd regret speaking those words.

Not until he met you. You. You. Lovely you.

You were Torrhen Stark's eldest child, a lovely thing that had both beauty and brains, not to mention your inclination for spoiling your direwolf, loving cooing at it as you went off to hunt with the beastly thing.

Aegon had never felt himself want for something so much, not since the conquest began. He wanted you, so desperately. he wanted to tangle his fingers in your hair and hear you giggle as he devoured you whole.

He glanced towards his sisters who were both stuck staring at you, not a single trace of envy or jealousy on their face. Rhaenys' cheeks were flushed red, not from the cold Aegon assumes, and Visenya's eyes were filled with a look of utter fondness, which was rare. Visenya hated people more than she liked them.

You stood there, laughing as you threw balls of snow between you and your brother, Brandon.

A loud laugh left you, happiness making your eyes light up as the snow started to drip off of you as it turned into water. "No fair! I wasn't expecting it!" You pouted at your brother.

Brandon laughed, "That is why it was the best time to attack, my dear sister," He took notice of the three before you did and straightened up.

"Dear one." Torrhen called out to you, gesturing you closer and you raced closer.

"Father, welcome back!" You greeted him with a smile before gazing over at the trio of targaryen's and the smile on your face nearly falters but you'd been taught strictly by your mother.

"Welcome," You spoke softly, bowing your head softly. You'd been given the news and you didn't particularly care about going from a princess to a lady. It let you play in the snow with your brother, so you were fine.

"This is my daughter." Torrhen introduced you to them and you smiled up at them.

"It's an honor." Your murmured softly.

"Lady Stark, the honor is solely ours." Visenya took your hand into hers before the other two could even reach out and placed a kiss on the back of your gloved hand and your cheeks flushed bright red at the gesture.

Aegon had determined he was damned by the gods in that moment, he wished he could eat his own words. He needed to find some way to marry you. He was a king now, he could very well do that but Torrhen didn't look like he'd very easily let you go.

"You should visit us on Dragonstone!" Rhaenys spoke softly, leaning down to gaze at you with a smile. "We'd be happy to have you there!"

Torrhen had the odd feeling that he was watching three vultures flock around his daughter. No, that was absurd, it was well known throughout westeros that Aegon refused to take a third wife. Yes, he had no reason to worry.

[starmocha]

Big fan of this actually 🥹

[ariel-nb]

I can't believe there's a colour pallette that I just can't think of without being scared for my life, thank you Game Changer for the trauma! Also everytime I think of Sam, I just think of a little Sam cardboard cut out in my head saying "I've been here the whole time" this is ridiculous

[put-me-on-a-hitlist]

Gonna have to talk them into shifting to a reality where they’re girls because they’re guys but

✨ W O M E N ✨

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

part 4 / part 22

[invinciblerodent]

Hitting the "not interested in this post" button over people's endless navel-gaze-y catastrophizing about how "discouraged" and "critical" they're feeling over Veilguard should be an Olympic sport, and brother, I'd bring home the gold

(thank you for the plethora of undodgeable, untagged spoilers btw, bunch of terminally pessimistic dicks)

[dreamlogic]

E has dubbed this spring the "season of pain" and she's. not wrong.

[zukkababey]

thank you to everyone who came into my inbox and explained the matt damon and ben affleck lore. surely this won’t awaken anything in me.…. (it already has)

[clairedaring]

Thank you for always writing the posts to share information from the creators/writers' point of view of Spare Me Your Mercy. But what is your opinion on their approach?

Hi nonnie 🥰

Aww thank you for enjoying my posts ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ when I'm really just spreading machine translations of interesting stuff I find (huge shoutout to @recentadultburnout who actually provided us with many fansub videos from the promotion cycle of SMYM). Hmm... Good question nonnie. I'm assuming you're referring to screenwriter Lux's 'we tried not to put NC scenes in this so fans will focus on euthanasia rather than the romance' so I'll focus my thoughts on that for this ask.

I think I'm a rather emphathetic person so I have a tendency to try to put myself in their shoes to try and understand what the writers aim at conveying so I do get what they tried to do. While I appreciate how they did to present the topic of euthanasia, I think the scriptwriting kind of undermined the beloved novel!Wasan I had known prior. Actually both characters kinda suffered from the writing choices that were made but Wasan/Tew definitely got a bit more undermined.

Had they have more times/episodes, I would have loved to see the mindset change of Wasan and how he came to terms with Kan's reasons for euthanasia and his principles. Like I know it's very cliche, very cheesy, very HEA for Sammon to write like that for novel!Wasan but it's what audience wants to read no? If the characters started out with a clash of ideals and they're expected to be romantically involved by the end, since it's only natural for characters to undergo character development.

The series wrote itself into a corner where with its set up and the characterisation they had given Kan and Tew, the only logical and natural ending is the one we got in EP.8.

But from the interview with Lux, I could tell this was her (and Wo's) passion project which they spent five years developing. I could see that she tried to challenge herself to write two characters who had feelings for each other (i don't dare to use the word 'love' because i know many people will contest that) even if there were little to no ROMANTIC (i wouldn't even use NC because they deprived us of romance in general, not nc/explicit scenes) scenes.

I'm not Thai but being chronically in Thai twitter sphere, I think their approach has worked for their intended mainstream audience with many online discussions generated about Kan's actions, about euthanasia, about the living will, about health care inequality, about health problems caused by air pollution. Not to say that their approach is to be credited for this at all, I personally think a well developed romance would have elevated the script.

In fact, a good comparison for me would be between another OneD original Thicha, which is a revenge story that surface-levelly touched on human trafficking through the narrative of the protagonist, while Spare Me Your Mercy is a PSA-like series for euthanasia with an investigative storyline and characters' relationship as plot driving catalysts or plot devices. I like the comparison between these two vastly different stories because with similar runtime (8 episodes), you can see in Thicha - how a well written the romance between the leads (with only two episodes) can effectively drive its plot forward but at the same time when the revenge part isn't well thought out/executed, the ending can feel rather flat and as if there were no justice served for the antagonist/human trafficker.

On the other hand, SMYM had a thinly developed romance but it managed to cover more about the targeted social issue it aimed to raise public awareness on than Thicha did. SMYM conveyed multiple views of a resentful ableist who misunderstood that euthanasia can be used to free relatives from caring for terminally ill people, the ungrateful children who are sick of taking care of their parents, the people whose loved ones had chosen euthanasia, the palliative doctor who is helpless at the sight of his patients in suffering... Different approaches to peaceful deaths like Kan with Wasan's mom where you can see a proper and principled case of euthanasia for him or with the monk who doesn't need euthanasia to pass away peacefully.

Not all views are presented equally or sophisticately, but it's enough to instigate public discussions, which I can understand is their biggest end goal through this series.

funnily enough both series had foreshadowed their sad/open endings but i still ate these oned originals up like it's breakfast ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ

tldr: i think that 8 minute final confrontation scene between kan and tew effectively conveyed whatever they wanted to say on euthanasia/health care/rule of law and their approach made smym a very decent psa-filled series without going into preachy territories as they had promised at the start of the promotion cycle for smym. i will forever be in mourning of the beautiful romance between novel!kanwasan but it'll always be there for me to revisit. this series had its own agendas and they served it well.

[st4rboyloser]

WOAH HEY ITS SIRIUS BLACK’S BIRTHDAY GUYS

[philosians]

YOU FUCKER WHY WOULD YOU COCKBLOCK YOURSELF

his expression fits too in the far right pic U SHOULD BE ASHAMED JERK 😭😭 I hit such hard pity too man :((((((

[the-kipsabian]

i swear theres nothing worse than having a scheduled maintenance that requires ppl to come into your home and then they post a notice about it like "yeah somewhere between x and y hours" and its literally a nine hour window on three different potential days