[branwinged]

ALICENT & HELAENA HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-)

[hrokkall]

We are so bat

[temporary-gentleman]

House of the Leaving, Dead

a Pathologic short improvised comic, inspired by Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves

[orlopsexdungeon]

god the stewards rule. "all-male feminized support class in the imperial death machine" is one of the concepts of all time

[orlopsexdungeon]

Billy in particular being a part of this is group is so juicy because of the oppression he faces for being queer, especially because his queerness entails being a bottom in an agrubly gendered way. so his place is to be woman-like but if he's caught stepping into being too woman-like he'll be brutally punished by the same system feminizing him through the kind of labor he preformes in/for it

[orlopsexdungeon]

which is so much of what makes gibson/irving dynamics soooo compelling to me. what do you MEAN you're legally bound to preforming wifely duties for this man who sees you as his inferior and also seeks to control and limit your sexuality. the navy is crazy

[eira-kuso]

the way Capcom treats their female characters in Resident Evil is horrible. Jill Valentine, probably the most recognizable face of the franchise besides Leon, somehow hasn't continued her story and hasven't been seen in canon since RE5. and the only thing she's been in was the RE3 Remake, which was so incomplete and short and kind of bad tbh, meanwhile the two remakes she's in between are some of the most work Capcom put in a game. And don't get me talkinhg about Claire, She hasn't been seen since Revelations 2 meanwhile her papercut action movie generic guy muscly brother have been in every mainline game since 5 except Requiem. and a story that says that survivors of the Raccoon City are infected with some sort of T virus, and no mention of either Jill or Claire is made? Capcom loves to use her nothing personality brother in every thing they make, but refuses to put even a mention of her on the game that they come back to Raccoon City???? I like Leon but RE2 was mostly a Claire story, and not making even a mention of her in this game is insulting. Way to discard off some of your most popular characters to the side so the big muscly cool men can do all the work. Thank you for never fisnhing neither of their stories ina saisfying and interesting way, thank you for bringing back RE2 shit without anything that made me like that game to begin with.

[alaynesnow]

but how can you bash sansa for liking stories about knights and adventure when you’re the one reading asoiaf

[gaya-the-k]

I can't stop thinking about this

[goryhorroor]

do you have a favorite movie of all time?

yes

no

definitely not only one

Voting ended onFeb 4

ONLY PUT ONE MOVIE IN THE TAGS (sorry for the caps but i wanna make a new letterboxd list updated with one movie of everyone’s favorite) (does not have to be a horror movie) (purpose of picking one movie is just for my letterboxd; i get everyone might have multiple just for this list)

and here’s the link to the list (x)

[hickeygenderarchive]

i love that hickey's immediate defense mechanism to anything bad happening to him ever is to break out in the most scuffed patrick bateman type smile imaginable while he stalls for time to come up with a more sane response than either spitting vitriol or taking a chunk out of someone with his teeth.

his bitch wife having the gall to divorce HIM (god's greatest gift to bottoms and a known catch)? sniles. being unjustly flogged bloody in front of the crew after his genius 1000 iq plan doesn't pan out and land him an irish dilf? sniles so sneetly. telling goodsir to butcher billy, getting called out for killing his miserable ex-wife himself for din-din but reasonably drawing the line at meat processing, being clocked as growing up BROKE, and hearing "no" from a man he thought was a doormat?? i know in my heart that when he's sitting there for a moment with his rictus grin, his internal monologue is just incoherent violence like

[the-hittite]

When this game released, US troops had been in Iraq for 7 years.

[hoenursey]

HOLY SHIT

GUYS IM UP IM HERE WE'RE SO FUCKING BACK

[lhurluberlu-hululant]

i hear the captains are planning to abandon the ships

[corvidfeathers]

legend of the galactic heroes is a serious anime

[rylandsgrace]

Challengers (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[ilynpilled]

@bidonica

[bidonica]

#v interested in what a 'conscious examination of gender roles' written asoiaf would be different#i understand generally but would love an elaboration

Well I didn't word it super precisely (that's on me for being on tumblr while I work) (@ my employer: this is an exaggeration. I am Locked In all the time) but basically what I meant is that I don't think his angle comes from being well versed in feminist literary theory or anything, he is "just" very good at getting into the head of his characters and empathize with their plight even when they are not straight able bodied adult males (which, as someone else said in the notes to this post, it's really an indictment on the many other straight male authors who don't even attempt to empathize with women and keep a firm outside look on them).

I do think he did reflect on tropes, inclusing gendered ones - the way Brienne dismantles both the "warrior girl but she is waifish and hot" and the "ugly girl is secretly beautiful and can be fixed with a makeover" stereotypes is very intentional, for example. But I think this is more about him being genre aware, and coming from an angle of "but what would a REAL person and not a stock fantasy character do in this situation" rather than a direct examination of like, the patriarchy specifically. Though he does end up commenting on the patriarchy anyway because he's interested in the power structures your average medieval fantasy story is based on.

However, his main framework, imo, is always an examination of the fantasy genre first and foremost; and while it often results in vibrant, realistic female characters whose arcs lends themselves well to a feminist reading, I don't think he set out to put a specifically feminist lens on his story. Which is why you still get the occasional whiplash-inducing male gazey moments and the sincere romanticization of some unequal/abusive relationships like Dany/Drogo and, potentially, Rhaegar/Lyanna (I'm keeping it in the hypothetical because we have no definitive version of it; but I highly doubt he is going to take the "she was groomed" standpoint part of the fandom is hoping for). It's not as bad as the orientalism which truly goes 99% unexamined, but it's there.

[greenbloods]

[addictivecontradiction]

Les parapluies de Cherbourg, 1964

[sitpwgs]

edit challenge vs. ​@wespers ♡  round four → favorite character from the raven cycle

In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan squandered however many second chances he gave him. Gansey was just a guy with a lot of stuff and a hole inside him that chewed away more of his heart every year.