fashioned for love

leia, 26, she/they, ace mostly asoiaf & legend of zelda

[lesbiangiratina]

Youre always so kind and gentle with me olive garden

[dogpuppy]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there's not a single example I could give that's better than this

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

anyway rn my notes are full of a lot of "you should never try too hard to befriend people because you might make them uncomfortable" and "you should never tell people you're attracted to them because you might make them uncomfortable" and I guess I'm just wondering why we're acting like a little social awkwardness is the worst thing that could happen to a person

[cat-claw]

this is about writing smut do not derail

[bish0ps]

omg if i was an oracle i would be LYYYYYINGGGG

[cutecipher]

basketball players fight over the basketball because they are hypnotized before each game to believe it is their egg

[ganondorf]

i wonder if this whole Calling Typical Misogyny "Porn Addiction" thing wasn't just a successful psyop to shift feminist critique into a right wing framework i.e. trying to make it about "modern degeneracy" and thus paralyzing discourse on the root issue

[ganondorf]

everything these people claim is "porn addiction" is literally just misogyny. porn could be dismantled globally and men will still view and treat women as sexual property because surprise! turns out men have expected sexual subservience from women loooong before porn ever existed

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[imagine-darksiders]

[human-pet-they]

normal guy playing wordle: "i really recommend ATONE and GUILT" for starting words

[cryptotheism]

"with the information I gleamed" < the glistening reader

[nongunktional]

i really hate the way the "boobs vs butt" thing got broken down into this implicit idea that butt is the nobler stance. it's really stupid. personally im a woman guy. [realizes how that sounds] [purses my lips in thought] [nods confidently] im a woman guy

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

me and my buddies are building a silk road between our houses to make trading of spices, tea and oils easier

[ilynpilled]

if brienne is knighted, and i go back and forth a bit on whether i would prefer this to happen or not, i want it to be poignant. brienne was wholesome chungus knighted to a room of cheers and then was later appointed lord commander of the kingsguard (lol) in the show. it is not something that can even give me much catharsis as it was intended to bc it cant help but feel fraudulent and untrue to the ethos of her character and arc in my eyes. if she gets knighted, not that this officiality is what actually defines a “true knight”, that is the whole interrogation and deconstruction happening in these books yadda yadda, i would like it more if it was very private and maybe not even witnessed by anyone else. if it is denied her by most of her society, which it realistically will be, it is still true to her, to jaime, a select few, and, most importantly, the reader. i think that would hit the right beats for me. i like brienne as the true hero of this story who wont really receive her dues and be rewarded, wont be embraced and heralded, but the text nonetheless making the case that this fact does not render what she is any less meaningful. i think that is bittersweet in a p beautiful way for her character

[ilynpilled]

#an ending for brienne in which she transcends her gender/class through exceptionalism #spits in the face of everything grmm has done with her character so far #brienne is exploited for being a naive heiress by the knights in renly's camp #despite outperforming them in the 'male' art of combat #and she's as unpopular in renly's camp after winning the melee (an incredible feat) as before #just as selflessly defending a group of orphans (the act of a true knight) gets her the same kingslayer's whore epithet as cersei #a lack of approbation doesn't stop her from trying to fulfill her oaths. that's what makes her endearing! #brienne winning over a select few while being misunderstood by westeros at large is so much more attuned to what asoiaf is *about* #than an 'and everybody clapped' ending

via @fortunate-hal

her getting knighted by such an infamous knight who is largely despised and viewed as a complete failure at knighthood by his society is something that i do actually like, and think works with this:

as you’ve said before, jaime and brienne’s relationship is one between misunderstood people who are attracted to qualities in each other that will never be acknowledged by most of westeros. but the truth will always be there between the two of them, this is what defines them

[ilynpilled]

[pooblet]

SOURCE

I SAW THIS & IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF @shrimp-bird

[fortunate-hal]

game of thrones is so deeply reactionary that you can reverse engineer which behaviors writers designated more suitable to a wife and mother or inappropriate in a married man by what was cut to make jb into “braime”

caring for a man in sickness and in health is the duty of The Wife, so their brienne can’t be shown tending to jaime after the amputation. caring for children is for The Wife, so their brienne is abusive towards podrick. jaime giving brienne money and a forged document would be treason by The Husband, so their brienne wanders around the riverlands griping about money. jaime writing brienne into the white book is infidelity in The Husband, so that’s replaced with an incest sex scene and by their brienne, chastened by misguided dabbling in casual sex, using the white book to affirm cersei and jaime’s marriage.

pervasive anxiety about divorce and the nuclear faimly dictated how jaime and brienne were written. myrcella, recast to be more attractive, tells jaime how happy she is that he’s actually her father on her deathbed as treacly music plays. it's unintentional farce. to give kingsguard brienne credence is to pretend the production team that omitted "returned safely to king's landing by brienne, the maid of tarth" from an elaborate prop book ever gave a shit about asoiaf brienne.

[fagcrisis]

game of thrones is a tv show in which jaime tells myrcella that hes her dad and that shes an incest baby and not only is she fine with this she tells him shes glad hes her father. and then she immediately dies of poison. this show won 59 emmys

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

my buddy knows george rr martin and the reason he hasn't finished the book is he's forgotten how to spell "incest" (keeps writing insect). he's furious with himself. keeps cutting his little hat with scissors