The Evanescent Gremlin

•• i lurk in the shadows of fandemoniums and feed on delusions and deliriums •• °° | she/her | has no idea wtf is going on | °° °° | here for the tea (verbal not herbal) and filter coffee | °°

[sambhavami]

Folklore is good actually.

It captures the pulse of the discourse around the 'canon', carries the thread of changing interpretations through the ages and preserves an extremely important, parallel literary tradition.

Most of the time these unknown authors are amazing at picking up implications and logical alternate storylines from the 'canon', which often leads to great character inspection.

At a more granular level, these stories preserve important snapshots of local traditions and value systems.

The selective rejection of such stories also warrants inspection as to which stories and voices are being suppressed, intentionally or otherwise, in this process.

Thanks @friend-shaped-but for helping 💛

[madi-xx-digidiary]

[dearxeli]

idgaf, judge me all u want hoes

[medievaljournalist]

can i borrow the mandate of heaven for like 5 minutes

[messsssmer]

"Shake spear?" Mostly I just stab people with it actually

[prokopetz]

When you say "Shakespearean" you mean everybody dies at the end. When I say "Shakespearean" I mean interrupting the lead-in to the climactic scene to burn five solid minutes doing a 4/10 bit where two characters argue about the definition of a word.

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

[thesaraltype]

Do you ever think about Krishna only ever having learned to speak in rural UP-region dialect from Nanda and Yashoda. Like the sorta Rajasthani/Bihari mix that sounds so….homey, tough-love, real. Him having to adjust to sounding royal and proper in Mathura. The gap between Kanha and Krishna becoming wider as the years pass.

[thesaraltype]

Krishna loved dancing back home in Vrindavan. But I’ve heard 0 stories of him dancing as an adult. Just think about him being stuck in long meetings as a teen running a kingdom in Mathura, hearing folk music play outside and settling for tapping his foot beneath the table. Balram notices and says nothing.

Him listening to the ragas played by trained court musicians on their veenas - beautiful music, he can’t quite understand why he’s itching for loud drums that make up for beat with enthusiasm, for a wandering minstrel’s lute that misses a string but not the rhythm, for the play of firelight on Radha’s face as she sways along with in the music.

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

I like to think he used to visit in between. When he couldn't ignore that part of him anymore. Maybe sneak in the shadows as dark as him, just to catch a glimpse, sneak a peek at what it used to be. But all he would find was a haunting but subtle silence. It was bleak in the most nuanced ways. Then he used to return as quietly as he came, heart heavier than before with the weight of the present which would have been spotted with the now absent glimmer of the past.

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

does it happen to anyone else that you let a thought brew for a while, so much so it becomes repetitive to you but when you say it out loud turns out it is a completely new idea no one ever thought of?

[5thhorsemnftheapocalypse]

Aziraphale and Crowley diddnt "save humanity" they just killed everyone to replace them with new people. All they did was bring about the flood.

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

EXACTLY, atleast the first Armageddon was thematically coherent. This was just anticlimactic as hell ( if it even exists for them that is).

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

that urge to buy earrings and bangles and nose pins and anklets till you are swimming in debt

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

waiting for the day when i can finally financially afford a longsword

[oldinterneticons]

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

lwk thanos before the infinity stones idea struck

[novqfz]

One character I'll forever be jealous of is Henry winter because oh my god he knew seven languages, loaded, six guys couldn't pull him off during a fight, had everyone in the greek class losing it over him

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

no one knows whether to want him or want to be him

honestly why not both

[rhysaka]

Icarus: umm! Sun! Let me fly to it and chill out with my newfound freedom!

Hanuman:

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

one was ambitious

he saw liberation

other was hungry

he saw mango

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

that feeling when u wanted to be the main character but u wound up being richard papen

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

i'm sorry i didn't catch what you said, all i heard was blah blah blee blee blu blu

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

what most people miss about alicent is that she isn't just supposed to be the forever suffering pitiable being who couldn't free herself of the clutches of the patriarchy and westerosi politics, into which she was thrust into as a young girl, suffering years of abuse, birthing and raising children where she was too just a child herself and taking on responsibilities as the queen. She is a product of the very system that made her suffer in the ways she did, and while the political aspects can be argued as necessary so as to survive in such an environment, the patriarchal ones- where she subjected rhaenyra to unsolicited scrutiny and humiliation to invalidate her position as the next in line to the throne over the years- all because she believed rhaenyra did not suffer as much to get where she did, hence perpetuating the cycle of oppression. this belief that sacrifice is something that defines everyone's character and capabilities just because they themselves went through it is something the patriarchy as such counts on for its sustenance. alicent was a victim, yes, but that didnt stop her from being the torchbearer of the very system that doomed her.

[thesaraltype]

I’ve only recently gotten into HOTD but this is astonishingly accurate, and the precise reason that these are self-perpetuating systems. There really are two kinds of people- those who think others should suffer because they did and that’s the way it works, and those who think no one else should have to suffer that way, because they did.

I think it’s why I like Jon Snow and Tyrion as characters (again, very shallow knowledge of GOT, too) because suffering and pain builds character in them, instead of breaking it.

[dimensionlessabstractentity]

Ikrrr like many people just assume she's a victim and coddle her with sympathy too much. same set of people who fawn over jon and tyrion because they have 'so much trauma'. not here to shame anyone for it, i do the same lol, but they use the trauma only as a sympathizing point. as u said, it can build or break them and there's a certain beauty in how either can play out. especially when it comes to breaking vicious cycles.

also valid af fav characters