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[helladventurers]

Watching ff16 while i wait for the sleep meds to kick in, and it's such a bold move of square enix to move final fantasy into exclusively action oriented combat when they don't know shit about how to make good action gameplay

[pokeberry5]

directionless anger

(or, something like: the robin mantle is a curse, but that isn't inherently anyone's fault and someone has to wear it)

i adapted the two pages below the cut bc they were haunting me—tim having a nightmare the day of his mother's funeral, from Batman (1940) #455: “Identity Crisis, Part 1”, from this post

[ecoplasma]

what smoking two packs a day does to a mf

[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).

[anglerflsh]

giovanna d'arco

[fanficmaniatic]

do you guys ever think about how a good chunk of Ninjago would not have happened if Borg just... decided to not build his tower in the place the devil was killed.

[eliounora]

I have life advice to offer to people who wonder if their feelings for someone are platonic or romantic, ie. if they're heving a crush or is it just friendship. first off, throw away all those set categories of platonic and romantic relationships and other objective indicators of what any relationship should be, look, or feel like. ask yourself what you want to do with your feelings, and to be more precise, what do you want to do with this person? nothing has to (or should) go beyond what you want to do.

if you're into this person, as in you like-like them, you will know. it's the oh. moment from the fanfictions! it won't necessarily hit you like a brick, but the gist of this is that you will consciously know your intentions with someone. even if it's not entirely clear right away (and it might never be), keep doing what you're willing to do, whatever it is. only you can give your feelings or relationship a name, and sometimes they don't need any. trust yourself to know your feelings.

[rudnitskaia]

yay a week until my 29th bday ✨🔥😎🔥✨

[cosmicwhoreo]

Finally you return to do cookie run Kingdom drawings.

bro, I draw what I want, when I want. I'm a feeling. not a consistency and I refuse to apologize for that.

[larrylimericks]

14Aug23

Ten years! The betrothed, we wish well. From the record, someone’s been expelled. Not the swinger of purse — No, in fact, the reverse: It’s Louis who’s now been Danielled.

[14dayswithyou]

hiii sai, i veryveryvery much enjoyed your game and characters<3. i wanted to say that this mitski's song reaaally made me think about ren/redacted if they were in relationship with abusive(like trashlor abusive) angel. kisses!

✦゜ANSWERED: In Mitski we trust 🙏 But aaaaa I don't really feel comfortable romanticising/talking about Ren being in an abusive relationship with someone he loves... Even if it's Angel >.< It just doesn't sit right with me and it's not somethin I wanna encourage. I'm sorry!!

[jvcmk]

@14dayswithyou I come here to ask for Rendacted to be my boyfriend with marriage in mind, btw. I got the boys here to help me with the serenade.

[ethicstownpod]

Thinking about potential costumes for a potential live show and I wanna hang a sign on Ollie that says '14 y/o girl' like Terry in that one episode of B99

[pauls1967moustache]

What Beatle biographers don’t understand is that all the dynamics and problems between John, Paul and George can be easily explained if you’ve ever experienced a toxic female friendship when you were a teenager

[dirtytransmasc]

I'm sorry but the moment Alicent decided to obey her father she knew what was going to happen she knew she would have to have sex with him and have heirs. It's the only reason viserys remarried

"decided"????

what else was she meant to do? this was a day and age where women, especially young girls were controlled by their fathers, to some if not a great extent until they were married off (children of nobles typically betrothed for political reasons not love, these betrothals arranged by their fathers to whoever they pleased and saw fit, no matter what it could mean for the daughter). was she supposed to say no? was she supposed to disobey? what could have happened to her if she did? there was no point in which she could say no, when she could disagree. she was a girl, a child, all she could do was bite her tongue and pray for a miracle, pray for Viserys to not take to her, that at the very least he would wait to get her pregnant (the fact a 14 year old had to worry about that is sickening)

she was 14, she was grieving Aemma and reliving the pain of the loss of her mother, her father gave her an order, though disguised as a suggestion, one she could not deny. it didn't mean she wanted to, it didn't mean she wanted him to marry her, it doesn't mean she would have been forced to bear heirs as a child herself (especially because Aemma died because Viserys tried to get her pregnant to young and cause long lasting health issues that eventually lead to her fatal pregnancy), it doesn't mean she wanted any of it. but she didn't have any other choice, she didn't have a choice when her father sent her to his chambers, when Viserys claimed her hand, when Viserys assumed her consent and raped her in their marital bed, when she bore multiple children before she was 18, when she had to take care of him in his illness, when she had to practically rule in his stead. women didn't have choices at the time, nine of it was s choice she could have said no to, she just had to take it, all of it, cause her father told her to and it's her duty to obey him, and then Viserys married her and it was her duty to serve him.

y'all are so quick to blame a CHILD for the actions of her father and the king himself and forgetting the time and place she was in. nothing she could have done would have spared her fate, if not bringing her a worse one.

[zellk]

- Family - (Rhithin, on the left (they/them) belongs to @shuuzaar ! - Mitas, on the right (he/him) belongs to me - And of course Meteion is from FFXIV >:^) )