#god you don't understand

[djemsostylist]

Fuck it, lemme talk about HOTD.

Okay, so I never actually watched Game of Thrones, for two main reasons. The first is that I actually really liked a Song of Ice and Fire, and between the casting and the choice to age up all the characters, (plus the ugly costuming) I was never like, super excited about it to begin with. I found the writing dull, the acting duller, and as I said, the casting baffling. I think I watched a grand total of maybe 3? episodes before I was out, and never had a desire to watch more. I'm not about watching adaptations of things that utterly change the entire meaning/point of a novel.

When the first pic of HOTD came out I was like "oof." I hadn't read Fire and Blood, but idk. It didn't have "it" for me.

And then the first trailer came out and like, fuck. This was all I wanted. Surcoats and heraldry and coats of arms and helmets with plumes and actual plate mail and jousts and spectacle and gowns and lace and satin and silk and brocade and richness and color and LIFE. This, THIS was what I had thought an adaptation of a story set in Westeros would be. THIS was the beauty I had looked for and lost in an era of grimdark sci-fiesque GOT.

So I was excited. I was thrilled. If it was stupid but pretty that would be enough. Stupid but pretty was good enough for the Witcher (at least season 1, season 2 was just a lil too stupid), and as a person who has been in love with medieval pageantry since I was a child, who grew up devouring King Arthur and tales of knights and kings and lords and tourneys, this was everything I have ever wanted and more. The attention to detail, the cut/line of the clothing, have I mentioned the surcoats???? The tunics????? The COLOR????

And then, to my utter an complete shock, it was good. Like, really actually very good. The writing was tight, consistent and the acting was SUPERB. Like, literally can't look away from the screen, utterly captivated, grinning from ear to ear happy. When that joust happened---istg my soul departed my body I swear. I mean, they had fucking SURCOATS. Like, actual on god surcoats with fucking HERALDRY. Actually heraldic symbols. What is life. And the writing was just so fucking good. Like, tight and focused and character driven and the actors are just stunning in their roles.

Now this show is not perfect. There have been a few moments I have questioned, and episode 5 in particular made several choices I disagree with (I'll prob write up a separate post later). But by and large, it's the best bit of television I've watched in like, literally years. And though the time jump makes me a wee bit nervous, I can say that I can't wait for all that is too come. This show is amazing, come scream about it with me pls.

[lazylittledragon]

i refuse to believe that boycotting is hard. my favourite thing in the world is ordering maccies after a late night at work/a concert/getting drunk. yes i do miss it sometimes. but the other night i ordered from a small place near my house instead and it was the most orgasmic burger i've ever had in my life. i very rarely say this but fucking suck it up people are DEAD

[hooned]

dearest darling, my universe ♡

[willowser]

HMMMMM bakugou being just. the absolute picture of sin.

he works overnight and comes home early in the morning, around 3 or 4 am or so, and you greet him and give him a kissy and ask how it all went. and even though it's still dark outside and he's been working for twelve hours—he's still coming off patrol, right ? so he's still got some energy left, and he eats something and takes a shower and winds down as you fall back to sleep.

and it's not until much later in the day that he wakes up, early afternoon, and you're kind of tiptoeing around so that he can get his much-needed rest. you slip into the closet of your bedroom for something and you think you're gonna get in and out without a sound, but his hearing is so attuned to just about anything and everything at this point.

so rough and raspy, he grunts out, "what're y'lookin' for?" and you whip around real fast and he's just—

half sitting up in bed, bare back leaning against the headboard. an arm behind his head, so that his bicep is tense and round and stone-solid. stretched like that, his obliques are more prominent, taut and rippling up the side of his ribcage. he must have gotten hot while passed out, as he usually does, because the comforter is all askew; one of his legs is bent, the fine hair a dark gold in the waning day; the other is hanging off the bed, lightly swinging as he watches you, and the blanket has come down enough that you can see the bulge of his thigh muscles beneath his stupid tiny black boxer briefs.

and he's just so. man. in every single way.

(his hair is flat on one side, too, and his eyes are still a little puffy from sleep—but you think that adds to it, all in all)

[egophiliac]

swipes everything else off of the table to yell about diasomnia flower bookmarks

(I gave Silver one too :D)

[bloodsbane]

Kitchen Nightmares, S5 E1

[clockworkbee]

—the mark of athena

—the chalice of the gods

[knifearo]

ultimately when it comes to shipping and fandom space treatment of aspec characters i just don't accept "aro/ace people can still date/have sex" as an answer from nonaspecs. like yeah. mhm. okay. now i think we both know that you're not saying that out of real interest in the diversity of aspec experiences. so you can turn in your seventeen-page essay on why and how you plan to examine this character's aspec identity within the context of a romantic or sexual relationship complete with evidence from canon and peer reviews from multiple aspec people within the next week or i'm putting you in the pit from the edgar allen poe story

[valentjin]

[flashbastardsramblings]

We're winning this year folks

[the-algebra-thing]

I want you for ever and ever!!!

lines by me rendering by @canyourlawnmowerdothis Of course!!

[rattusn0rvegicus]

Man I feel like a lot of leftist activists would do a lot better to just use common fucking language to talk about things rather than dense academic shit that's only understandable to people with PhDs and people who spend 95% of their waking life on Leftist Twitter lmao

Like, you're talking with other academics? Great, use academic language. You're a social media account trying to interact with the general public? Don't say "decarcerate", say "find alternatives to imprisonment". Don't say "collective liberation", say "freedom for all". By GOD don't say "bodymind autonomy", say "the ability to have control over our own minds and bodies".

Yes it takes a little more effort to explain shit in common language but I promise you people will stop looking at you like you have two heads and dismissing everything you say as Woke Bullshit if you like, actually get on their level, goddamn it. Not everyone has the privilege to have a graduate-school level understanding of this type of language or spend so much time reading leftist theory that they can perfectly understand this stuff.

[theseulgis]

Red Velvet 레드벨벳 'Chill Kill' Trailer :: SEULGI

[dykeinthedark]

doing this thing i call "reading every class high school lit book i missed out on" partially because as an english minor i feel like a lot of ppl in my english lectures have already read these books in higschool partially because high school english classes suck balls and i think the way they taught kids to read books was lame and dumb as hell and killed love for reading and i think some of these books they make kids read should never be experienced in a classroom setting

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[alevens]

Zoro will say he doesn't believe in God and then turn around to give Luffy some of his food when no one's looking and kneel beside him when he's just won a fight to say "they never stood a chance against us, did they, captain?" and laugh until his stomach hurts when Luffy's doing dumb shit while drunk and do whatever it takes to get Luffy's strawhat if it gets blown/taken away and says "thanks" when Luffy kisses him and only falls asleep until he's made sure Luffy's heart still beats restless, unbothered, protected and will follow until the end of this world and the next the call of his captain and lives so he can make sure his crew is safe so they can all make it to the end together and doesn't hesitate when drawing his swords in the name of his captain and calls him an idiot yet does exactly as he says and smiles when Luffy shows the world again and again how he will do everything to become king and