#also context clues will help

[mysicklove]

the amount of ppl asking where my kinktober fics are that i have not finished will bring me to insanity btw

[lunamond]

The disproportionate hate show!Criston gets is so bizarre. No argument I’ve seen his haters make sofar has made any sense to me.

He is outside of Mysaria the only siginficant lowborn character we meet. He rises up from the son of a steward of a minor house to the position of King‘s Guard thanks to Rhaenyra, who then pressures him into having sex with her, sth that could get him executed. Afterwards she not just rejects his proposal, but laughs in his face.

And when as a result of this experience Criston is shown to be emotional distraught and bitter, people call him an incel? (I assume that they refer to his ideology and not his actual status as a celibate, because not being celibate is literally what started this mess)

It really rubs me the wrong way, when people remove all context from this situation. A lower class person getting a well-off position from a person with authority, who they then end up having sex with is ALWAYS a relationship with a power imbalance (Obviously there are irl relationships like this, who work out and manage to be relatively healthy, but that doesn‘t remove the imbalance of power and the increased likelyhood of abuse).

We see Criston‘s reluctance when Rhaenyra makes her move. It does not matter if Criston was attracted to her or not. The simple fact that he is in a vunerable position makes him denying her a risk. It also does not matter that Rhaenyra had no malicious intentions, the simple fact that she ignores Criston‘s refusal and continues pressuring make this whole scene super uncomfortable. Her ignorance and naivety does not erase the impact of her actions.

Criston growing to hate her afterwards is perfectly justified.

As a man who grew up in Westerosi society, he inevitably holds misogynist beliefs, which is reflected in the insults he uses after this. But compared to the acts of every single character on this show, singling out his character is pretty ludicrous, when we have plenty of male (and female) characters who have done worse:

Like commiting SA (Viserys, Aegon), grooming young girls (Viserys again! I really hate this man, Daemon, Otto, Corlys and Rhaenys because telling your daughter she has to sleep with a grown man when she is 14 is pretty much the same thing Otto does to Alicent) and the only major crime Criston is guilty of sofar: murder (Daemon killed his wife and the servant in Driftmark, also he did large scale police violence which people love to forget about, Rhaenys killed potentially hundreds of smallfolk at the coronation)

Obviously, anybody is allowed to dislike whatever character they want, but a lot of people flatten Criston into just a misogynistic bitter incel who is just mad that Rhaenyra has sex, ignoring every bit of context we get for his behaviour.

This becomes escpecially weird, when those same people have no problem stanning Daemon, who calls his 1st wife a „bitch“, „uglier than sheep“ and then murders her, because he sees her as inferior as a none-valyrian. But Criston calling Rhaenyra, a person he feels personally wronged by, a „spoiled cunt“ is apparently a too far.

It is just really frustating when the character with the canonically lowest social standing gets afforded the least amount of nuance by the fandom (the writers are obvs not excempt from this criticism either).

[cathodic-clairvoyant]

Oh hi there transfem discussing her experience in the trans community i just had a quick question about your post

What does tme mean?

Oh okay i see i understand, thank you.

What does transmisogyny mean?

Ah I see, I get it.

What's a trans woman?

Oof scary. One last question.

What's a woman?

Thank you for being my own personal google (not like you had anything better to do right?) and derailing the point of your post for my own personal education. I will now add nothing of value to this post in return. Bye bye!

[unproduciblesmackdown]

costume design, set mockup, and rehearsal photos from this guide to the show that's like really thorough in providing Context like, mini articles about the creators of the original movie, musical, and movie musical, about other versions of productions, the history, quotes of other commentary, interview quotes, context of other / preexisting genres like b movies, faustian stories, "what if a plant was weird" stories, glossary of terms (such as references that may generally be less obscure if you were in the '60s, e.g.), suggested further reading....haven't read it top to bottom but i think it's fantastic, link to the pdf as post source

[dctrfate]

the master and margarita book that made me open thirty thousand wikipedia articles about christian scripture and had a cat with a gun and was one of the best commentaries on art i've ever read so what more can i ask for really

[nerosdayinanime]

more jjk sillies bc theyre fun

[kepler69b]

splatoon needs a difference between this way as in "superjump i'm safe!!" and "HELP ITS A 3V1 HELP HEPLEHELP" because the amount of times ive been jumped to whilst in the middle of a fight is ASTOUNDING like??? YOU THINK IT'S A SAFE JUMP IF ALL THE TURF AROUND ME IS PINK AND IM GREEN>??

[prodigalhound]

i get lowkey embarrassed when mfs are really lame in the tags of my posts…man dont associate your weird opinions with my weird opinions

[rincewindsapprentice]

I gotta say, I am sort of glad that all of the gen z'ers and zillenials or whatever are on tiktok because it means that my students won't accidentally follow me on here

Gods forbid I was teaching back in 2014.... I cannot even imagine.

[kienium]

i have such a hard time with tone indicators still because i don't know what the fuck i mean either. how am i supposed to fake it until i make it in these conditions

[dakogutin]

15 questions 15 people

vv late bcs im hardly here and my activity is all just queued lmao.Thanks so much for the tag @demidreamer 🥺

1. Are you named after anyone? so my real name has hispanic origins and is after one of those old spanish queens. my other name (bcs i have two first names) is from a famous main character from the 80s my parents loved.

2. When was the last time you cried? last night bcs of tinkerbell and the neverbeast (fck that film)

3. Do you have kids? pfft

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot? nah i mean everything i say all the time ive never joked in my entire life.

5. What's the first thing you notice about people? their presence

ok but fr. their general vibe? idk how to call it. the way they carry themselves, their body language, and speech... all that. (yes i overthink and analyse everything)

6. What's your eye colour? brown

7. Scary movies or happy endings? scary movies can have happy endings tho?? well.. guess im going for happy endings bcs i choose it a lot more often 

8. Any special talents? i can cram a months worth of work in one night

no, ok.... i speak 4 languages? idk

9. Where were you born? my home country in south east asia

10. What are your hobbies? reading, writing, music(playing, listening), watching.. the uzh. im not special.

11. Do you have any pets? i live with my sister who has one. a crusty asian white dog (shi tzu)

12. What sports do you play/have you played? i only did it for school (forced) volleyball, badminton, table tennis, basketball, swimming, chess?

13. How tall are you? 164cm

14. Favourite subject in school? english. music. arts. social sciences (psychology)

15. Dream job? my childhood dream was to become a teacher. now, for personal spiteful reasons, i want a doctorate in psychology but bachelor’s degree is already wearing me out so idk anymore. i dream of no labour 

tagging: @thomasbrodiesandwich lmao and literally anyone who sees this like tag me and sht id love that

[c6jpg]

hello, fellow bad chinese speaker here! i had to ask a fluent friend about the joke CN cyno actually said in place of the ENG collei flower joke.

after cyno asks paimon if she ate valberries (落落莓/luòluò méi) she replies, "wouldn't that mean if i ate zatyun peaches (墩墩桃/dūndūn táo), i'd become chubby?" both terms follow an AAB structure, which is common for CN names in genshin, like the name for hilichurls (丘丘人/qiūqiū rén).

so when cyno notices tighnari say "柯莱来/kē lái lái," which has an ABB structure, cyno replies with another ABB phrase: "pile 'em up" (堆高高/duī gāogāo).

he then proceeds to mention that wolfhook (钩钩果/gōugōu guǒ) is more appropriate for naming conventions in teyvat, as it has an AAB structure.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH okay i see, thank you so much!! okay wow yeah it probably really helps to know the chinese names for all these in-game things ajsdflksjdfl i was like how did we get from collei's name to 堆高高 (which i was also like ??? what is this. google is giving me nothing here). but i definitely never would have caught onto the AAB/ABB thing oh my god the more you learn right

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[shidoukanae]

Some things of note about The Mighty Extra LN (that probably wont impact the manhwa so i can speak about it): 

-Helene is in possession of the Dragon's Heart Fragment necklace and watched Lyla take it from the vault. It kind of disappeared from the story, but she was wearing it on her person and hid it away in a pocket dimension when Paris came looking for it. She then bargained with him for it, telling him she'll give him the necklace if he kills her three siblings (Odelia, Tyrone and Lyla). 

-The owner of the Dragon's Heart Fragment was a dragon who gave up its heart to its beloved and had the pieces split: most of the pieces vanished somehow but Helene has one of them. This necklace gets forgotten about and it’s only purpose was to be a bargaining chip. Tbf, the manhwa adds an implication it can increase a dragon’s power so maybe in the manhwa it will serve another use.

-I also wouldn't be surprised if all the red accessories Helene is wearing in her hair/on her choker is the Dragon's Heart constantly put into different forms to hint she's always had it on her or something. I have no proof of this but i HAVE noticed she's constantly changing out accessories while keeping her red color scheme + clothes so idk

-I will never get over baby Helene referring to baby Lyla as a cotton ball. That is the cutest fucking thing and I adore her doing that

-Helene getting drunk is a scene I need to see. Never thought I’d say this of a fave but god do I need to see this. 

-Fian is really, REALLY annoying in this take. Manhwa him might be kind of one-note in personality but he's not as bad as his light novel counterpart. Out of 187 chapters, it feels like 120 of them are dedicated to Fian either saying he loves Lyla or is annoyed at her for XYZ problem. It's obnoxious and boring and I hate light novel Fian and wish the story purely revolved around Lyla, Paris and Helene because it would have been way better off if it did :<

-Sienna has two siblings, Lyla's aunt and uncle, who help her against other mermaids (Water dragons? but not Kylon dragons? i genuinely don't know and don't get it) who coveted Lyla bc of her powers

-Paris is genuinely one of the best characters in the light novel. He's unhinged and you really understand why Lyla is spooked by him in the manhwa, but tbh he's still somehow one of the funniest and most chill characters around. And if not for Helene still being the best character in the story, he would actually be my favorite

-On that note, Paris and Lyla share a much deeper relationship in the light novel than in the manhwa, with Paris helping her get close to Fian and Lyla begrudgingly getting along with him (and i kind of got big brother vibes from him toward her and little sister vibes from her to him and waaaaaaah i liked them getting along because it showed a lot of interesting depth to both of them every time they were given a chance to talk)

-Paris taking a dragon-shaped stone and breaking it in half to give to Helene before the banquet was such a cute scene. The fact it's that stone that ends up saving Helene and Lyla later on by summoning him was such good set-up. And the fact it's so far been omitted from the story makes me D: because it means when/if the coup does happen, we're not going to get that lead up into the joke that Paris and Helene are having a love affair which is awwwwwww to me

-there is a whole lot of characters in the light novel. I s2g the author named every character in existence from background maids to background knights to randos off the street. i gave up keeping track of them all except when i recognized them being mentioned in the manhwa (Aka the Duke of the North Lyla supposedly went to the academy with and was gifted a prize from does show up)

[relicsongmel]

ABYSSAL RUINS MENTIONED???????

PULL OUT THE CONSPIRACY BOARD MEL'S ABOUT TO GO FUCKING HAYWIRE