My new ADHD med isn't doing shit be I was gonna take a shower and then I saw someone call Jod Wake and the Lyctors a "six person polycule" and got in my head about whether they're one hexacule or two throuples and spent three fucking hours making this:
scenario: someone who you’re really close to is planning on committing suicide. everything is pretty much set and they ask you if you could be with them before/as they go through with it so they may leave the world with at least a little bit of love and comfort. of course you don’t want them to go through with it, but you also believe in people’s right autonomy (like with medical euthanasia). the method this person is planning on using is reversible with interception, they would be unconscious and unaware until it’s already reversed. this person who you love says that if you’re going to intervene to not even bother being there. they say that by reversing it you are forcing them to live a life of suffering even if it gets better at some vague point in the future, that (since you must call paramedics) you will be actually making their present circumstances worse as they will be placed in a mandatory psychiatric hold. (their last psychiatric hospitalization was traumatic and caused more harm than good) thus, suggesting that you would stop it means that they will not share the exact time and place they plan on doing it. if you lie and reverse it anyways, they will not forgive you, that it’s selfish and that it’s more important for you to feel good about yourself than to finally allow them to have relief from a life of agony. you absolutely want to be there when they die with all the love you have if that’s something that must happen, but knowing you let them is something that will forever haunt you.
what do you do?
go with them and intercept
go with them and grant them their wish
don’t go with them and hope for the best*
I never wanna have to pick irl/results
Voting ended onJul 20
*the best being a stranger intervenes or they’re somehow otherwise stopped. if the suicide works, there’s no one who will be able to tell you.
Bonus poll: Since John Gaius was determined to be a member of House Targaryen (or at least, that’s the Great House he’d be most affiliated with), if he was around during the Dance of the Dragons, which side would he support?
can you please do john Gaius from The Locked Tomb? Thank you.
If John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) was in Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire, which Great House of Westeros would they be part of or at least the most affiliated with?
House Targaryen
House Stark
House Lannister
House Baratheon
House Greyjoy
House Tully
House Arryn
House Martell
House Tyrell
Voting ended onJul 11
Ways to approach the poll if the character isn’t a royal:
If you think they’d be from a smaller house, go with the Great House that that smaller house is sworn to (ex: House Manderly —> vote Stark)
They don’t have to be a nobleperson, they can be someone working for the house or being ruled by them. Roles could be a sworn-sword, a septa, a butcher, a blacksmith, or even a lowly peasant.
You can consider the region itself. For example, if you feel the character would be from Dorne, pick House Martell.
You can consider the personality of the character. For example, if your character is all about honor, then consider either House Arryn or House Stark.
Last, but not least, be creative with it! For example, there was a comment I read that the character who was the subject of the poll would be pulling a Littlefinger, so they went with either Lannister or Tyrell as that would be that character’s target houses.
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Okay I finished Witcher Blood Origin and it was really bad. The plot was nonsensical, the characters were barely characters, the relationships weren't developed at all, the elves were just humans with pointy ears (like if you watched only this show and nothing else, I'm not confident you'd even know that they have longer lifespans than humans), the songs were stupid, the political situation felt extremely underdeveloped, it takes a sledgehammer to pre-existing lore (to be fair the lore is pretty vague afaik but I'm pretty sure there were at least some contradictions), everything about stories felt weirdly self-congratulatory and quite unearned, also it seems like it portrays the Scoia'tael in the main story as uncomplicated good guys and while I'm not quite up to date for show canon, in the books they are a lot more complicated than that.
This part is only in regard to the German translation that I watched, but in addition to all of that I felt like the translation wasn't very good and there was one very egregious dubbing mistake where one character's dialogue was still going while on screen another character was already talking. I blame Netflix and crunch time.
Man why are there so many stories with elves where they are being slaughtered en masse or being genocided or otherwise leaving the world it's such a bummer
After finishing Netflix Witcher season 2 years ago, having hated it even more than season 1, I have now started watching Blood Origin (I'm at episode 3 out of 4) and I think it's really bad, but man, seeing people on reddit complain about the show is so exhausting. How is it that the show is so incredibly bad (in my opinion) yet most vocal critics of it are so annoying to me? Maybe it's because l looked on reddit, that's probably my first mistake.
I'm rereading the Witcher books right now and I'm just continuously blown away at how good these are. The prose, the voice, the world, the plot, the themes, the CHARACTERS??? Sapkowski is a fucking genius, make no mistake about that. And to think that I even preferred the Hussite books over the Witcher, I need to reread those too, to see if that judgement still holds up.