Porter slander is a go actually
Most people agree that he is being a dick about this, but I've seen some other people say that even if Porter is being a dick, he's actually fair here because Gorgug is struggling in his class.
But, um, case in point- He fucking isn't!
During Riz's 30 we learn that Fabian and Gorgug are doing well academically. They're not excelling like Riz or Adaine, but they're also not struggling like Kristen and Fig. The point is they're perfectly average students with beefy transcripts already because of their extracurricular with the Owlbears. Riz doesn’t have to worry too much about them.
So Gorgug. Is not. Failing.
This narrows down Porter's reasons for denying Gorgug solely on his preconceived notions of Gorgug as a student and Barbarian, and here's the thing: Porter's only in-game mechanical basis might be the cold hard truth that you can't concentrate on spells through rage, but check it out, Gorgug is not multiclassing into a wizard! He's multiclassing into an artificer! The only spellcasters that are known for making shit that helps in battle and not necessarily casting spells.
If Gorggug had to multiclass into any spellcasting class, artificer is the one that makes the most sense!
There is no front that Porter is defensible on! He's sucking as a teacher because he's failing a student before even giving them a chance to show that they can do this (“You know we start the year with an A, and it’s ours to keep, not a 0, it’s up to you actually”), and he also sucks in general. Just as Siobhan described in the AP, why do you care? What do you mean you were offended? That's weird asf. Why are you this weird about a student's personal choices?
And even without going in-depth about just how right and beautiful it is for Gorgug's character to multiclass like this and without going into too much depth as to just how shitty Porter is here, the point is, Porter is just wrong.
Also, Porter accurately assesses Gorgug's rage as protective. But then dismisses it like Gorgug is just plain wrong for interpreting his rage like this? Like, I'm sorry, but as a neurodivergent kid, teachers forcing their way of doing things onto me without explaining why my way of doing it was wrong, even if it got the job done, will forever be a gripe of mine. And Porter is just pressing all my buttons on that and- FUCK! HE JUST FUCKING SUCKS OKAY?
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ima need y’all to be real for a moment now????? MANIPULATING the grieving king viserys??? she was fourteen he was a grown man he forcibly married her… she was a fucking child bride??? she took care of him at his sickbed for DECADES?? covering up her son’s sexual crimes… yeah she literally HELPED the victim and acted in the kindest way she possibly could have like were you expecting her to start spearheading westeros’ #metoo movement???? politically manoeuvring an underhanded coup… and she literally had no idea about the planning of said coup and was shocked and outraged about ppl wanting to hurt rhaenyra like it was all literally on your screens??? BE FUCKING FOR REAL
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‘I pretend to care for the men, but in truth I don’t give a damn whether they live or die. You always did care, but you pretend not to give a damn. I never saw you waste one man’s life. And yet they like me better. Hah. There’s justice.’
— Nicomo Cosca to Monza Murcatto, Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
Forever yelling from the rooftops that Monza is a sympathetic character who 100% deserves her happy ending; a victim of abuse who walks through the hell that is gaining self-understanding and agency over her own life, coming to terms with just how futile is her struggle to be respected in a world that refuses to care. This quote reminds me a lot of that speech in the Barbie movie, the way Monza is constantly trying to play so many roles, tying herself in knots, never strong enough, never nice enough, never ruthless enough, and at the end of the day, after all that effort, it turns out that in the eyes of the men who ruined her life she was only ever supposed to be collateral damage. God, I love her.
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