#we are ep1

[gunsatthaphan]

the incident // the aftermath

[infinitelyprecious]

This man is my spirit animal

[spacedlexi]

"sounds nice... having a partner"

[crismakesstuff]

RESIST VILTRUM! JOIN THE RESISTANCE TODAY!

[aprilblossomgirl]

Winny Thanawin as Q & Satang Kittiphop as Toey

We Are (2024) | Ep.01

[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).

[thewizardthewitchandthewildone]

and is burrow's end inspired by animal farm?

[sophfandoms53]

Knuckles 🤝 Tails

deserving better

Ughh real, i just wanted more done with the sillies as characters, some team sonic shenanigans and stuff bc look at them😭

My boys im sorry you deserved sm better than what you got🫶

[ad-al-ai]

Love the PCs of Dndads season 3: Boy failure, Worlds best drunk driver, Old woman yuri, and the mom from Jimmy Neutron

[hattersarts]

mother daughter mother bonding.

[gunsatthaphan]

"how did you manage to stay alive until now?"

[infinitelyprecious]

The friendships in this show are a delight

[neverevan]

9-1-1 SEASON 7: FAVORITE MOMENTS ↳ part 5/?

[catwouthats]

For all y’all pointing out that Loki took the being Mobius’ pet thing a little too seriously

I hope you realize and know the overlap between kink and queer coded.

Those bitches are queer coded.

[casualavocados]

with the greatest respect, everything that has happened in we are has been stupid, and i dont mean just the plot (which is about being chaotic and gay) i also mean the fact that the art class pulled an all-nighter to draw an apple and q and toey's shading "lesson" and literally anything that was part of the "reality" environment everyone was in. KATIE SAID IT BETTER THAN I COULD: "it's like the creators took something they have no knowledge of (art), and instead of researching it in order to accurately portray how it works, they decided to go in the opposite direction and exaggerate their lack of knowledge in the subject for an inane comedic effect. and it works."

its so stupid. it made me giggle from the sheer dumbassery. im going to watch more

[anney-baker]

Am I digging into this rabbit hole? hell yeah

Will I get anything sensible out of it? probably not

Why am I doing this? it's fun and I'm bored