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if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

#m #ararat

multiverse-of-multifandoms

2026 COLOR CHALLENGE: March + Black & White Rhaenyra Targaryen House of The Dragon (2022 - present)

#hotd

weirwould

House of the Dragon, (Condal 2022-) / "[...] the cry of a woman keening. It came from the bog': (Re)presentations of the Bog in Nineteenth-Century Irish Gothic Fiction", (Galiné, 2018) / A Storm of Swords, Bran II, (Martin 2000) / A Feast for Crows, Brienne IV, (Martin 2005) / "Rural Ghost Walks", (Bevan 2023) / Fire and Blood, "The Dying of the Dragons", (Martin 2018)

#hotd

vitaminkenjoyer

jaime and brienne + their payne companions.

jaime being filled with contempt when he recognizes himself in ilyn vs. brienne being filled with sympathy when she recognizes herself in podrick

#asoiaf

cutecipher

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

cutecipher

scientists on this post: yuuuup 👍

people who aren't scientists: um actually ☝️

#science

plumebeat

The swords kissed and sprang apart and kissed again [...] steel rang, steel sang, steel screamed and sparked and scraped [...] A red flower blossomed [...] "Come on, come on, my sweetling, the music’s still playing. Might I have this dance, my lady?”

Jaime III, A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin

#asoiaf

cephalopod-celabrator

I think one of Pratchett's great skills in writing was being able to make silly things serious, in different ways. Like, there's a fairy godmother forcing everyone into fairystales, how fun! Except in the process, she has stopped seeing them as people. She's forcing people to live lives they don't want to because she decides that's how it has to be. Sometimes she goes so far as to violate her victim's minds and deform and puppet their bodies so they'll play their part right, and anyone who doesn't do their job gets mercilessly killed. And there's a zombie activist named Reg Shoe who buries himself every year out of solidarity for the dead, how funny! Except he is filled with a genuine passion for justice and improvement in the world, and that's why he literally refuses to die. And he buries himself on a holiday that happens to be the anniversery of his own death, and he does it next to the bodies of the friends and strangers he fought alongside, the ones who didn't get to come back, so he spends one day with them. There is still a lot of silliness in discworld, a lot that's wacky and funny, but a lot of it, when you think about it, is oddly beautiful or touching or disturbing or something else entirely.

#discworld

clementine-kesh

imo you get the most out of engaging with media when you strike a balance between treating characters as people (reading interiority into their actions, considering the effect of various aspects of their identity, etc etc) and as vehicles for storytelling (what narrative purpose do they serve, how do their actions and personality function to convey the themes of the work, etc etc). because of course characters are literary devices but also there’s a reason we use literary devices written to embody realistic people in order to tell stories

#writing #end of the world

shesnake

The Handmaiden (2016) posters by J.A.W. Cooper

#the handmaiden

shesnake

Kim Min-hee as Hideko Izumi in The Handmaiden (2016)

#the handmaiden

aletheyass

amadeus (1984) was my heated rivalry

#amadeus

eyelessfog

a character who truly, legitimately goes “but why does that matter?” about their feelings when someone who cares about them asks. and the sudden falling of everyone around them’s faces as they realize that this person doesn’t recognize themself as someone who needs or should be taken care of. i want Everyone to hurt. surprise at the idea, worry for them, horror at not having noticed. do you see this person who doesn’t think of themselves as a person?

#writing #end of the world