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You have no idea the sacrifices that were made to put you on that throne.

Will you shrink from what you set out to do? Or will you see it through and make your sacrifice?

Listen to me, Aegon. Your grandfather, the Hand, will try to impress on you that Rhaenyra should be put to the sword. You must reject this counsel. We must not rule with cruelty and callousness. For all her faults, she is your sister, your father's daughter—Do you love me?

alicent poisoning aegon…yeah…

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art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you

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I was thinking about the scene after Misty drops her glasses. And then she just…finds them. And it’s calm, it’s sunny, there’s birds chirping. Clearly, this indicates Misty’s protection by the Wilderness. Especially after you see the crack in her glasses is THE symbol. Why?

It - The Wilderness, real or imagined - often pushes them to be ruthless to survive; to exert power. But it also pushes them to stay together. Keep the pack intact. Tai tries to take some of them to find help. They are attacked by wolves. Laura Lee tries to leave. Blows up. Jackie is isolated. Freezes to death. Javi runs away and won’t talk when he gets back. Is chosen in the hunt instead of Natalie. Ben separates himself out of fear and…well, he does not have a good time.

What is it about Misty that the Wilderness would want to preserve, specifically? And why make a point of showing us in this way?

Misty is pretty unlikable early on (in my opinion) on purpose. It’s in large part because she is, socially, what most teens fear, and avoid, being. She tries too hard. She misses social cues. She’s on the periphery of the group. She’s low hanging fruit, as a teen, to be mocked and bullied. As an adult she is extremely manipulative and cruel. She is the most efficient killer of the bunch.

But she also typifies a basic human need. One that, developmentally, permeates human adolescence and, maybe to a less intense degree, adulthood. More than anyone, Misty’s main motivation in the teen timeline is to belong. To be a part of the group. Early on, she ensures that they will not be rescued right away because she feels valued and vital for the first time. She is part of the pack and her main interest is preserving that. She also has skills and knowledge necessary to surviving. She is an early follower of Lottie but I’m not sure she really believes it. But she values the ritual and the connection.

If the wilderness is interested in the maintaining the pack, Misty surviving, and being able to see, is a good investment.

I don’t think the wilderness ever wanted them to stay. It wanted them to survive. And they needed Misty to do that. It’s about balance. The scene when she finds her glasses is serene, and the first thing she does is find Akilah’s sweater thread, which leads them to bringing the whole pack together again.

Misty is unique. She always seems less torn up about the wilderness than the others. Because I honestly don’t think she has many regrets. She got a pack out of it. Friends, in her view. Natalie. She was (and is) needed, even if they don’t always see it. And she might not believe in IT…but she always follows a clue. And IT leaves clues everywhere for Misty, and maybe this scene is where that investigative drive starts.

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I can’t speculate on whether the winds of winter will ever come out because if I turn around and look for it before I walk out of the underworld she will disappear forever

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how everything’s been feeling recently..

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“The girls looked really ruthless and cruel in the pilot but they seemed so tame and normal in the actual pit girl hunt!!” yeah it’s almost like the pilot was showing us the way the world would perceive their actions as monstrous and unimaginable, but when we found out the context and saw what they had gone through, we understood that it was multilayered and we saw through the idea that they lost their minds and turned evil. It’s almost like nuance is the whole point. It’s almost like they were never evil they were just hungry??

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some people are dodging the point so hard. like yes shaunas the "bad guy", shes the one who wants people dead (and maybe lottie too ig) but this story has always been about why its even possible for that to matter. shes literally just one person so why dont they all just refuse to participate? nat does, repeatedly, but no one stands with her so lottie and shauna get what they want. we saw that shauna literally backed down when tai stood up to her, she isnt some unstoppable force.

this is and has always been about passive violence. how being silent in the face of violence, not actively standing up and saying "No" is complicity. tai and van rigging the cards so it will be the "outsider" who gets hunted is complicity. it is commentary on how we allow "fringe" members of our communities to be cast out, othered, hunted, because we're too afraid for ourselves to stand in solidarity with them. but then in the end when the violence comes for you or your friend or your family theres no one left to stand with you because you abandoned those "others" who could have stood with you. shauna and lottie only have the power that the girls give them by being passively complicit in a similar way to how shauna was complicit in tai's plan for allie in the pilot. and so it goes again and again. they all ostracised jackie, watched javi drown, let shauna intimidate and lottie lead them to vote against ben. this show is literally inspired by twin peaks, a story in which an entire town is found to be complict in the murder of a girl they all snubbed every possible opportunity to save. the point is not that shauna is the villian but rather that she is only able to hurt people because the others have created an environment that indulges her worst impulses.

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everybody ready for the toxic mad scientist exes yuri reveal

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YELLOWJACKETS, 3x09 "How the Story Ends"

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Something about that moment as teenagers, the confirmation that Van really is stacking the deck, that every single death is going to be on her hands most of all. No wonder she ran. No wonder she fled it all. No wonder she died without bloodying her hands further. How could she do more, after all that? After actively trying to distance Taissa from murdering Ben? Not being able to do the same for herself? After everything, so much is on her shoulders. Hers. Nat’s. Lottie’s. Maybe the three of them most of all. God, my kid. And she still got to go out a hero. Kind to the last. The same kid who pulled a sheet over Melissa’s humiliation and led her away. The same kid who only ever wanted to go home. Running into a not-quite burning house she couldn’t escape from.

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jon snow at politics: Sam my close personal friend Sam who would die for me just rigged the nights watch lord commander election for me because he is charismatic and good at talking to various different oppositional factions of the watch to get them to support me which is the only reason I have the power I do. What should I do with an ally that has that skillset? Exile him to wizard school against his will on the other end of the continent by himself for multiple years🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️I should only allow my enemies who want to kill me near me☝️

jon snow at municipal loan negotiation for some goddamn reason:

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please be nice to me unless youre being mean in a hot way

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"Nat, what did you do?" "Lottie, what did you do?"

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YELLOWJACKETS 2x05 "Two Truths & A Lie" | 3x06 "Thanksgiving (Canada)"

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mr. milchick ordering eustice huang to sacrifice something of hers for the “betterment” that awaits her after completing her wintertide fellowship and it’s her little plastic handheld game that has a swimmer trapped inside of it that she used to play with all the time and she is made to smash that game and figurine into broken pieces with the statue of the literal head of jame eagan in an episode that starts with helena eagan swimming in a pool surrounded by glass walls. which could mean nothing.

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Also please let’s discuss the Other Tai of it all, because this is important to me. She isn’t evil. It’s incredibly important to understand she isn’t evil. She’s hungry. She’s hungry for all the things that kept Taissa alive in the woods. She IS the thing that kept Taissa alive in the woods, in her own way. She was the very essence of nature. She was dirt and trees and need. What kept Tai alive out there? Food. Meat. Van. What does Other Tai naturally gravitate toward, trying to steer Taissa toward the things she needs? Food. Meat. Van. That political career? Theater. That family polished to a shine? Facade. What really matters, when everything else is shorn away? Food. Meat. Van. Base impulse. First loves and full bellies. She isn’t evil. She’s trying to keep Tai fed and alive, as she always has. It just comes at such a terrible cost.

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the lannisters get a purple wedding in exchange for the red wedding (sansa’s word on joffrey is what condemns him finally to death at the hand of the tyrells). jaime pushes bran out of a window so he gets the hand he pushed bran with chopped off. ned stark unjustly executes gared and lady with ice, and his head is ignominiously chopped off by ice. sansa marks jon as her bastard brother, only to end up having to play a bastard herself. cersei uses sansa as a hostage by keeping her close and betrothing her to her son, and myrcella is shipped off to dorne to be used as a hostage betrothed to trystane. theon