#i’m so annoyed rn

[indigosparkle444]

I absolutely hate having low confidence days..

[euthymiya]

This abyss floor 12 is actually so hell

[joshnekuu]

Hey TikTok???? Wtf Bud. It’s one thing to arbitrarily flag all my nature vids as violating community guidelines, but my fucking pride art???????

[vergilboyfriend]

Think I have a serious crush again I’m not attracted to anyone rn fucks sake who is it this time

[hauntedbestie]

Massive pet peeve is that my mom will stop a conversation to answer her phone. Like what you have to say is not important if her phone rings.

[long-lost-potter143]

I’ve been doing more internet quizzes for another Moodboard set and tell me why some websites have it set up so you get the same result no matter what answers you choose????? Maybe it’s easier to code BUT ITS SO ANNOYING

Your telling me I took 10 minutes doing this quiz a second time with entirely different answers and you think I won’t notice it’s the same answer?????

[echothefandomeater]

Haven’t watched anything for the last two weeks, tbb and tlou included. Last week I got back from Germany beyond exhausted, got busy over the weekend and then on Monday I broke my fucking glasses meaning I can’t see my TV or laptop to watch anything 😭😭

[thechaosthatismybrain]

My learners permit has expired so now I have to start over from the beginning fml

[kaseyloverstaylor]

I ordered two signed cds (one for me, one for my friend) and only one of them is signed. they literally sent me a normal cd

[lovecoredeity]

i felt that Sapphia’s design was lacking so I decided to give her hooves and a tail to tie in with the unicorn aspect of her design! I think it was a fun change, lmk what you think though! also here’s my attempt at designing a constellation for Sapphia, the current name of the constellation is “Somnium Amoris”(Love’s Dream)

♡ if you like my art please consider buying me a kofi ♡

[blairamok]

out of curiosity i tried on my ren fest kilt with my aziraphale cosplay

can’t believe i still don’t have a coat though 😩

bonus:

[lynnbutlertron]

do you guys fuck with the scudlertron badges….. i put them on my tote bag i need everyone to know i am SO annoying

[cptnwynnie]

I love it when girls are unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

[ravenpoets]

just realizing if someone asked me to recite dead poets society word for word i probably could and im also just now realizing that might be somewhat of a problem 😇

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

When I see stuff like this I kinda want to bash my head into a wall:

To start off, I’m not sure whether this person was commenting on book or show Cersei, but honestly, it doesn’t even matter because she’s so much more than the ‘ambitious villain’ or the ‘murderous girlboss’ tropes in both the book and show.

(Of course, I do have my issues with the way Cersei was written in the show like most people but this is simply a rant post so I’m not going to go through the differences of Show vs Book Cersei)

Cersei is a female character who was shaped by her environment, who’s insecurities were created by her environment, and she’s a woman who’s idiotic mistakes can be traced back to how her environment shaped her. She’s much more than a murderous girlboss, she’s both a victim of the system and also a beneficiary of it, while also acting as an agent of it to keep the status quo while also desiring what the system denied her.

Cersei is NUANCED and complicated and even now people hate that about her and want her to have been a purely evil woman handcrafted in a vacuum, ignoring the context of her life because readers would rather not engage with Cersei’s victimhood and nuances because that ruins their idea of: She Was The Problem and Always The Problem. (People would rather say that she deserved her walk of shame instead of interacting meaningfully with the theme of systematic gender-based violence that is so prevalent in Cersei’s story. The exploration of patriarchal violence in Show Alicent’s story is done so horribly in comparison.)

And what really pissed me off about these tags is that this person has clearly decided that they don’t care to interact with the nuance of Cersei and are fine with flattening her, and yet they shit on others for not liking Alicent.

Because of the way Alicent is written in this show, she almost always has a ‘woe is me I can do no wrong’ attitude, which of course drives people away from the character (woe is me I deserve to take a child’s eye 🥺). However, what actually annoys me is how she’s made out to be stupid, foolish, ignorant, and inconsistent due to the horrible writing of this show, all of which are deviations from her book characterization. Also, I despise it when people want me to support writing decisions and changes made in adaptations that are downright misogynistic and are meant to attract the male gaze.

But what pisses many people, including myself, off is how the changes made negatively impacted many other characters. Alicent’s terrible characterization is like a black hole that distorts and warps the whole story! It’s annoying af!

So when people like this say: ‘She’s nuanced and people just can’t handle it 🙄;’ I say: No. She’s horribly written and a different character from the book and people have a right to be critical about these changes that stripped a female character of 1) her agency and 2) her intelligence!

And the thing is, there was little reason for the writers to have made all these changes to Alicent’s characterization! In the book she is an interesting character with clear motives and understandable reactions. She’s cunning and ambitious and acts the way a noble lady who became queen would. And despite her clear ambitions and dislike of Rhaenyra, she still makes a comment wondering about who would protect the Princess from Ser Criston, and yet she then takes Cole into her service after his falling out with Rhaenyra. That’s a perfect example of nuance! Show Alicent could never compare to book Alicent’s clear moral values and consistent disregard of said moral values in pursuit of power.

And because of this, Book Alicent isn’t easy to stomach. It’s hard for most people to come to terms with a character like her and it’s even harder for people to feel sympathetic for her at the end when she went mad with grief.

On the other hand, Show Alicent was designed in a way to garner pity, and when the writers felt like her current arc wouldn’t be enough to garner the specific reaction they wanted they would then throw in a time skip and suddenly she’s completely different and yet still Thee victim. She’s designed to be as sympathetic as fucking possible! The camera angles, the background music, and the lighting is set up in a way to make sure you the viewer feels pity or sympathy for her! Cause that’s her role in this series! She’s thee Ultimate Victim!

But too bad for the writers as many people are fed up with this kind of inconsistent writing. Even when the writers created a whole new challenge for Alicent where she’s shitted on by the green council and forced to face the beast she helped to raise, I and many others could never feel any satisfaction as it was clear that once again Alicent was being made to be Thee Ultimate Victim who was just led astray by the patriarchy and was a victim of it and was only just realizing it so don’t you pity her don’t you feel sad for her and now she’s trying to do the right thing so pls pls pls pity her 🥺~ So it shouldn’t be surprising that many people are annoyed by these eNLiGhtEnEd changes that have led to a complete deviation from the source material.

To summarize: Cersei is an excellent fucking character who’s by no means easy to stomach, and because she’s not easy to stomach she’s often reduced to annoying ass tropes by dumbasses who are reading above their comprehension level. But when you actually try to understand her, you can easily see why she turned out the way she did and you can feel sympathy for her while understanding that she’s both victim and perpetrator! On the other hand, Show Alicent is a mess and HOTD is trying to make her serve a different narrative role than she did in the books so ofc people are going to be unhappy with the changes as book readers are once again faced with the annoying reality that the writers don’t give a fuck about the source material.

[solargeist]

Why do the watchers and Xelqua call Grian sunset and does it have anything to do with the fact that Grian literally means sun in Irish?

(I'm sorry if you've already answered this I'm on mobile and looking back through posts takes forever)

Yeah it’s bc his name means Sun ! I’m sure the Watchers had some more symbolism to the nickname than I do haha, tho sometimes pet-names just Happen, he lived on the ocean, I’m sure Aether saw the sunset a lot and started to compare it to Grian (plus his dirty blonde hair is very bright in sun light.)

Xelqua is being sarcastic when he says it to Grian though