finding out from gandrel’s corpse that he was hunting astarion, and this is the confrontation + a different explanation for cazador + how he comes clean eventually about his vampirism
Not an old lackadaisy fan (knew the webcomic) nor a brand new lackadaisy fan (just watched the pilot) but a secret third thing (discovered the pilot and then proceeded to read the whole ass comic in only one night and all the bonuses in another, currently scrolling through the blog's archives starting from 2011)
"There is a worrying tendency to attempt to hide behind some claimed complexity of the history, as if it's simply too difficult to understand without a PhD in the history of the region, and thus who can really say if it's okay for the IDF to blow up all these children today. Maybe there's some justification lurking in the very complicated history, who knows?
This is just cowardice you hear from people who don't want to admit they are not living up to the values they would like to think they uphold. They'll condemn atrocities, but only in retrospect, when the bodies are buried and the historical consensus is already formed.
The history of Israel and Palestine is complicated in one sense: in that a lot of things have happened, but morally, the situation is not complex at all. In fact, the more you learn about the history of the region, the less morally complex things become."
funniest thing ever is being recommended so many videos recently of people reacting to taylor swifts new songs n stuff (over instagram mostly) and them treating it like its this great and horrible tragedy. but then i hear the lyrics and its the most dogshit, half-assed writing you could ever imagine
I've seen a few people saying "he's a nepo baby 😕" when they find out Toby Stephens is Maggie Smith's son, and yes, by definition he is a nepo baby.
But he's that brand of nepo baby that is very talented at what he does, that he would be famous regardless of who his parents are. He's not famous simply because of who his parents are (his dad was also an actor), which is proven by the fact that so many people didn't know who his mum is. He's famous because he's such a damn good actor both on stage and screen. He has worked hard for his fame and has earned it