enough stories about how someone learns to truely be happy through love.
i want a story where someone is desperately seeking out love thinking it's the only way to be happy only for them to learn by the end that happiness is what they make of it and they don't need love at all to make it.
HOW can you introduce the Targaryens as a lizard commanding ubermensch power love triangle ready to conquer the world and never again entertain the idea of sibling polyamory!! GRRM had so many opportunities to outdo himself and write some fucked up sibling incest polycube full of jealousy, murder, deceit, manupilation and he MISSED. Smh i hope when f&b 2 comes out he will be enlightened and have good christian boy Baelor I keep his sisters locked up in the tower as his little depraved sex slaves ❤️ keep the repressed catholic guilt and monstrous depravities alive in this family tree
I can't make any super convincing points here because it's been way too long since I read any of the books, but I am pretty sure the Targaryens swore off of Polyamory to ensure that the Faith of the Seven would accept/endorse them as rulers of Westeros - since they're a pretty big deal and their support is immensely important.
So it was either that or get rid of the incest and since the Targaryens are Grrm's version of Nazis, they gotta ensure their blood remains pure and 'supreme'.
That aside, I do think a lot of them mourn the freedom of getting to marry several of their siblings - especially the Greens are a codependent bunch and would've loved being the poly incest monstrosity we know they are <3.
(Idk if Mother/Son incest was a thing with the Targs but Aegon is in mourning everyday because he can't have his mother be his second wife, he told me himself).
Me, googling Baelor Targaryen: Oh, okay, married to his sister but not interested in fucking her??? Deeply religious boy?? I can't really see why you would want to-
Me, finding out about the Maidenvault: Oh OKAY?????
What the fuck Baelor??? One of your sisters was eleven when you imprisoned her, what kinda lustful thoughts did she entice???
(Also deeply obsessed with Rhaena being the one sister to be the most perceptible to her Brother's sway, just saying👀👀👀)
Doing some Leo studies wile watching the show again! It's so fun to see him star fish like a crazy boi. Hope you all like it! It's been a hoot of a time
Something about this kind of swimming getup for characters always immediately gives me transmasc vibes. Blue swim trunks and a tank top? Sorry man my brain already connected the dots. The vibes are there, and they’re not leaving.
A devastating and confusing thing about the Fallout setting, when you explore the pre-war aspects, is what the creators think about pre-war America. In the first games we only get hints of the pre-war world, but they seem to be some sort of wild fascist nation invading Canada. In Fallout 1, the first thing we're introduced to of the pre-war society is seeing a soldier shoot civilians and laughing.
Now, for the first 2 games and New Vegas we don't really know much. What we know is that there's a fascist military group known as the enclave who were a sort of US deep state even before the war, and that the government teamed up with corporate interests to preform vaguely MKULTRA-ish experiments with the Vaults. Basically, the government was an extreme version of the 50s American jingoism and McCarthyism.
This is well and dandy, I guess issues come up more when we get to the later games, especially 4, where it seems like none of this extreme plotting and societal civil unrest which would exist is seen. The society as presented in 4 also seems quite progressive, gay people are featured in the opening, and none of the baggage of say, civil rights not existing are included. Now on a baseline, I don't want settings to be more conservative, homophobic and sexist etc., but it becomes a very confusing setting when it's displayed both as this jingoist extreme thing with fascist tendencies aswell as a progressive place where everyone is seemingly equal. If you're focusing on the 50s as your setting, and American nationalism in the 50s, then you can't have McCarthyism spoofs and anti-communism as a societal paranoia norm while also general equality is the norm without misunderstanding why McCarthyism and nationalist jingoism is bad. A massive harm done in anti-communist paranoia is how it degrades and vilifies any progressive movements (women's rights, civil rights, homosexuality) as being morally un-American and therefore connected to communism. To ignore this just makes any critique of MacCarthyism and jingoism weird!
Basically, pre-war America in Fallout 4 becomes this both sides thing where America is both pure and equal and white fences in every instance that we see as the player (the intro), while also supposedly being this dystopic MacCarthyist hellscape that's broadcasting gladly about their war crimes in Canada, and wants to root out communism. I guess the only fix for this issue without getting into the fine print like they had to do is just not to focus too much on the pre-war world.
╰┈➤ “At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of." - Carrie Fisher
I was relistening to Ruthlessness and I heard Poseidons “43 left under your command” and I immediately thought of the “558 men who died” part of The Underworld and oh my god he remembered to include that one guy who got drunk and fell off of Circe’s roof that’s amazing