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One of the most important things to unpack and unlearn when you’re part of a white supremacy saturated society (i.e. the global north) and especially if you were raised in an intensified form of it (evangelicism, right wing politics, explicit racism) is the urge to punish and take revenge.

It manifests in our lives all the time and it is inherently destructive. It makes relationships and interactions adversarial for no good reason. It undermines cooperation and good civic order. It worsens some types of crime. It creates trauma, especially in children.

Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of "how can this be stopped, and prevented" instead of "you’re going to regret this!”

Imagine dealing with a problem or conflict from the perspective of “how can this be solved in a way that is just and restorative” instead of “the people who caused this are going to pay.”

How much would that change you? How much would that have changed for you?

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D&D is the Taylor Swift of TTRPGs by which I mean it's something with broad mainstream appeal and name recognition and also there are people out there who pretend it's gay

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I will NEVER not fuck with women using a traditionally masculine title. Tell me more about that girl that's also a prince.

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headcanon: MCU!Wiccan lights a yahrtzeit candle every year on the anniversary of the car crash, as a way to mourn the boy he used to be before everything changed

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If you haven't read Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke this is your sign to read Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke

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A Superman & Lois Observation after Episode 1.11

Clark may be the Man of Steel, but Lois Lane is made of the sternest stuff in that whole family.

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Sometimes a family is just a large group of hazards to society and 3 time tony award winner patti lupone.

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trying to figure out the reason I'm so emotional about agatha as a show and particularly the finale, and I think there's something about growing up with all these wlw ships where one of them would always inexplicably die at the end or they would break up in a way that made zero narrative sense and it felt like such a punch in the gut, not because of the death/breakup itself but because of how it seemed to be orchestrated specifically and exclusively to exploit queer suffering, even at the expense of good storytelling... and then to have this wlw ship which was beautifully developed and so deeply layered and narratively brilliant, and then for them not to have a happy ending, yes, but in a way that actually makes sense for their story and who they are as people and that beautifully completes their narrative arcs... in a way that doesn't remotely imply that their story is over or that their love wasn't meant to be in the way that all those other shows did... just the idea that there is a way that can be done beautifully and as a a tribute to the characters as opposed to just a dismissal of queer love.... that this can be an acceptable, satisfying, good ending for them and make sense and not feel violent... don't know if this makes sense but it feels so so so refreshing

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The outfit [GUNSHOTS] Her hand in her pocket [SIRENS] Her mannerisms [SCREAMING NOISES] Her hair [VIOLENT SOBBING]

I feel like we as a collective moved on from this look far too soon. She's been a homotron her entire life. I know the men in the villages hated to see her coming. Many marriages were ruined in her era. Agatha Harkness the lesbian icon that you are

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"toxic yuri" enjoyers when the yuri is toxic ...

honestly cannot believe how many people are disappointed that agatha and rio did not make up. rio is a romantic antagonist. they are exes. the whole fandomy approach where hopes are geared toward "endgame" doesn't work with that dynamic. in fact, it cheapens it. and we still got a kiss out of it; that's a win for me.

i guess it's not surprising that some people's goal for characters is for them to end up happy together. but that gets boring. billy and his boyfriend can have that cute, young, unproblematic love. but i'll take the messy, painful, deceptive, tense, and yet-there's-still-desire-there-despite-everything agathario story we got over it any day. criticizing things like how their meeting was omitted? fair. wanting to take all of the tragedy and hurt out of it? no thanks.

tldr: i love when people who loved each other hate each other i love points of no return i love hand in unlovable hand.

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so can we talk about the metaphor for miscarriage (and some other things) for a moment in agatha all along

something i really really loved is how the show was able to explore struggles of womanhood — lillia feared herself and her own potential and felt forgotten with age, jen felt bound to the material world and disconnected from herself and her passions, alice’s struggle with her mother is a testament to a lot of women’s strangled relationships with their mothers and their fear of grief and their comfort in anger

and how the show was able to connect it to witches was so smart and well written, because witches literally were powerful and intelligent women who gathered together in sisterhood, who throughout history were killed for their power and knowledge and strength and emotion

nicholas would have died if it weren’t for rio, and there is no telling whether agatha herself would’ve survived if she had a miscarriage while giving birth on her own

agatha has always seen herself as someone who could only bring about death, and at the same time, she fears it and cannot be with it or accept it. both when her son passed and when the lights were flickering during the last trial, agatha says she needs more time

the last test agatha went through was that of creating new life, and after losing her son and only having him for as long as death would allow, agatha felt that she could no longer create new life, no longer create anything living or good or pure. after losing her child she felt could no longer create new friendships or loves or create anything of her own, and her test was regaining her confidence in herself that she could still create new life as a mother who lost her child

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ok I'm not done. I gotta say it. The show was never about Agatha and Rio. As much as I ADORE them and their chemistry and story we were never gonna get some huge lore drop about their relationship?? Like it's 9 episodes?? and it's MARVEL?? The lack of media literacy is showing i fear.

There's so much room to BUILD and CREATE their story it's actually such a gift in the long term. Maybe a couple more one off lines about their time together would have been cool but still?? Even the way Rio buries Agatha is so intentional and beautiful like their love for each other always shined, even through their vicious words. We don't NEED to know everything, I don't want someone hand hold through their entire relationship, actually. I like the gaps. I get to fill them in.

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Honestly, I don't understand the people who are bitter about the way Agatha All Along ended. I thought it was freaking amazing.

Agatha and Rio got to be angry and in love and epically drawn to each other. And petty as all hell.

We got a kiss (and Rio's face those seconds before Agatha kissed her and she felt it coming). We got to see the wounds Agatha left in Death. We got to see a moment where Agatha essentially forgave Death (even if she wouldn't acknowledge it to Rio). We watched Rio cover her grave in the color that meant most to Agatha. We watched how Rio gave Agatha the time to love her son (because even if the older Agatha refused to see it - because it hurt too much - she would clearly have taken that gift a second time if she found herself back in that moment).

And it wasn't even the end of them, because if you don't think Rio is going to keep pursuing Agatha's soul now that she's floating around as a ghost instead of coming home to her, you're wrong (you're just... wrong).

It might not have been a "happy ending" but it was freaking glorious.

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I saw some people pissed by Agatha not getting a redemption arc at the end of the series, but the real reason is: she shouldn't get one.

She killed so many witches and did terrible things and nothing is going to change that at the end of the day.

I think what they gave us e so much stronger, you see how she’s filled with trauma and can't make herself trust anyone besides herself and her son.

She doesn’t kill witches, because she feels like. She’s a succumbs, she needs the energy in order to survive and that’s something her mother could never understand.

After she figured out how to control her powers I’m sure she could have joined a coven and she’d receive help from them.

But who would trust a kind of witch who has a defense as an attack? And how could Agatha trust anyone after her own coven and mother tried to kill her?

Redemption arcs are more times than not extremely forced, people’s actions shouldn’t be forgiven by a single action. They made us understand Agatha as a whole character, with flaws, traumas and depth and know that, ultimately, her life lead her into doing terrible things, that have no excuse.

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WICCAN AGATHA ALL ALONG (1.08)