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so i feel like you're imagining this possibility based on the whole cycle of abuse of the show and the fact that it's ambiguously canon that logan (and perhaps others, like ray) pissed on tom after the events of boar on the floor, so 'oh what if tom on some later date passed the baton and pissed on greg as a weird show of dominance' - which i guess is a fair thing to wonder, but... well the short answer is no. the long answer is that there IS already an extension of boar on the floor into tom's behavior with greg hence and it's him getting greg to use jonah's back as a footstool with him in the next episode. which is a total rejection of the structure of tom taking shit out on greg. he's instead trying to invite greg to get some kind of revenge with him, so they can both feel in power. tom doing this signals to me that he'd have no desire to humiliate greg in that way (IF the pool scene even really occurred in-universe to begin with)
and if this hypothetical isn't meant to be related to that missing scene from hunting and is just a matter of "would tom do this," i think i have to even more definitively say no. tom says/does a lot of weird sexually charged stuff to greg because he wants him bad and doesn't know how to express it except through Acceptable Male Friendship Roughouse and also Corporate Dominance type stuff; actually whipping his dick out and pissing on him is definitely out of the realm of the plausibly deniable, as far as i think tom would see it. i also do feel certain he'd find that Way Too Far in the realm of humiliation even if the thought ever crossed his mind, even if they were both at the urinal together and all it would take is turning 90 degrees mid-stream. in his own words: he's not some beast.
finally, i think on both a character and a meta level, tom just doesn't vibe with piss. he's vanilla and he doesn't like being humiliated, and i dont' think he actually enjoys humiliating greg either, not in a regular or sexual way. he's also just clearly a hygenic person in a way that makes me certain he'd find it gross in any context. then of course there's the fact that piss is specifically logan's thing, like, symbolically. if tom is linked to any bodily fluid it's just semen.
i may be for the first time realizing that "favorite" here is not just tom saying nero liked sporus the most but actually the specific political term describing the particular role played by an intimate companion of a ruler that would otherwise defy classification (very often a same-sex lover)
i guess it doesn't add much to the scene, given that tom outright describes nero killing his wife so that he can marry sporus right after, but i would say that it is interesting that tom would use basically this coded language that's a stand-in for "homosexual lover" when he's about to describe a homosexual marriage (albeit within a different, ancient cultural context) anyway. it's another hidden dash of sincerity and legitimacy in his story. it's an extra sign of all the things tom wants to say but can't. he can say the truth only in language that he doesn't think greg will understand.
marcia's role in the s3 finale episodes is actually fascinating both in spite of and because of its subtlety. i'm not gonna lie, it took me about 6 rewatches to even be that conscious of it. and part of that, i'm sure, is this literally camoflauging outfit they put her in in all the bells say:
like the exact shade of green as the hedges all around, making her blend into the background and making it extra easy to miss what the sibs say about her and whether she "knows something." you barely even get a glimpse of her whole face in those 2 episodes. she has no lines, either. she's part of logan's brief show of a stable marriage when he arrives and then she's this flitting thing in the background.
and as a matter of fact, she does know something. she's absolutely aware of the gojo deal because she benefits greatly from it; earlier in the season, she demanded "very large numbers" from logan in exchange for not making a public stink about their relationship ending. that payout plus the DOJ fine directly led to logan being so strapped for cash that he was willing to put aside his pride in his company and more or less sell it.
so essentially a big chunk of why logan did what he did was to pay for his affair(s) lol
Also kind of related to the last alicent ask-- how objectively funny is it that the targaryens pulled alicent kicking and screaming into their weird blood purity incest tangle. For them, having uncle fathers and brother husbands and just generally blurring all the lines between family and romantic interest is sooooo normal. Yes its done massive damage to their psyches as we've seen with daemon in particular- but its passé to them at this point. For Alicent its breaking her BRAIN.
Like, Alicent who's deeply religious in a very westerosi faith and has classic nuclear family adjacent issues in contrast- overbearingly strict father, dead pedestalized mother to emulate, estranged sibling- is just SHOVED into the targaryen familial polycule and told to figure it out.
She keeps trying to bind herself to westerosi gender roles for comfort and safety, but bc of the targs she's now married an father/uncle figure, the girl who was supposed to be her sister growing up is now her daughter AND shes in love with her, her children are basically her siblings, and ALSO she's two of their mother in law(s?). Throw in the desperate parentification of aemond bc its not like viserys is helping her raise these kids-and its fucking her up!!! how is she supposed to have any sense of self when every role she would define herself by in a patriarchal westerosi culture has been fractured into twisted branches!!
It spiders into her other rationships too!! Her father otto has been treating her like both a daughter AND a pseudo wife, criston her lover keeps trying to assert himself over her choices in a very fatherly condescending way, and her brother gwayne is out in oldtown fathering her third son.
I sent an ask a while ago about how the tragedy of the alicent/rhaenyra/aegon triangle is that its an allegory for how targs just cant acclimate to westeros at all and end up breaking their dynasty AND the country by trying to force their culture to fit anyways, and i think you were so right in ur response that its not just rhaenyra/aegon/alicent who are the allegory but its ALL the targs in relation to alicent thats the allegory- they just cannot work with Alicent/westeros while she/its trapped in the current westerosi culture.
its hilarious bc it really is like having ONE catholic nun in an insane echo chamber hedonism cult and then being like 'why are you going insane bc of the incest and sex we're so over it it hasn't effected us whatsoever maybe if you try the kool aid you'll chill out' while she's desperately pretending none of this is happening and she's Not Involved.
this is a great point, and if you also go back to her as a child saying "you targaryens do have very queer customs" with noticeable disgust on face, and flash forward a decade later where she's marrying two of her children together in typical targaryen incest practices. I wish they had explored this more in the show and looked into how she feels about this currently, but I can't imagine she feels too great about it, and it's probably the reason why she went ULTRA religious with a five pound star medallion almost hanging from her neck. she wants at least some repentance for playing along in targaryen incest rituals, which goes against everything she was raised to believe
and like you mentioned, if you look close enough, almost EVERY relationship that alicent has is majorly twisted by either targaryen customs or her own stunted growth from being a child bride. she's now a grown woman who still has the mind of a 15 year old and is trying to navigate a civil war that she helped ignite in her rage and jealousy over her own private hell for last decade. she also swings from a protective parent role to having an almost eldest sibling like relationship with her kids who desperately crave more motherly affection from her that she is just not able to give (because she cant completely seal off her deep down resentment of them)
and to top it off, the purest relationship in her life (rhaenyra) with genuine love was also twisted into a familial one through an arranged marriage. if you also headcanon her possible romantic feelings for rhaenyra, you can times three that trauma on your score card as well
alicent literally was forced into the targaryen world of the snake eating its own tail (reduced to a bargaining chip for otto) with decades of inbreeding and family infighting for power and control and was told to play nice with them. no wonder she's out in the woods wandering around and dissociating lmao
I love that Les Misérables is one of the most profound and devastating historic-tragedies ever written, but also has chapter names reminiscent of a Percy Jackson novel
it's so fascinating how we joke about barricade day like it’s a time loop. are any other fandom holidays treated as such? are other holidays in general celebrated this way? every year by our own fanaticism it resets and we go down the same path and make the same jokes. "surely this year the people will rise." but that's the point isn't it ? we keep on going, just as the stage show is performed again and again. revolution does not end. injustice persists, the fight for change persists, and therefore so does our need for this story. "So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use" and such...
easy to forget but book jon snow is great actually. he gets so drunk he cries in his first chapter. he's 16 years old and laser focused on loan negotiation. he keeps getting promoted against his will. he's the chosen fantasy protagonist with the worst genre awareness ever. he implements pro immigration social reforms. he has a giant albino pet wolf. he cuts a guy's head off. he thinks he invented cunnilingus. he's been dead for 15 years.
Mainly I think he’s romanticised by his author. There’s a long essay on Pottermore which outright states that Snape is the lynch-pin around which the whole story turns, or words to that effect. All that stuff about Voldemort being defeated by the power of love, and in the end it was Snape’s love (and Harry’s lack of self-interest) which defeated him. That’s why the final chapter is called The Flaw in the Plan - the flaw in Voldemort’s plan was that he didn’t understand love, so he didn’t know that Snape would never have truly served Lily’s killer.
Answer to Do you think Snape is romanticized by his fans? by Claire Jordan
Video showed Charly A, one of 51 men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot, discussing plan with Dominique Pelicot
A young vineyard worker accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot on six occasions over four years when she had been drugged by her husband also proposed drugging and raping his own mother, a court has heard.
Charly A, 30, is one of 51 men on trial over the rape of Gisèle Pelicot, whose then husband, Dominique Pelicot, crushed sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into her food and invited dozens of men to rape her while she was unconscious over a nine-year period from 2011 to 2020 in the village of Mazan in Provence. Dominique Pelicot has admitted the charges, telling the court: “I am a rapist.”
Gisèle Pelicot, 72, a former logistics manager, has become a feminist hero after insisting that the rape trial of her ex-husband and the other men be held in public to raise awareness of the use of drugs and sedation to rape women, having said: “It’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them.”
Charly A, a vineyard worker who later packed lorries for a cement company, is accused of driving to the Pelicots’ home on six occasions between 2016 and 2020 to rape Gisèle Pelicot in her bedroom alongside Dominique Pelicot, who had drugged her into a comatose state.
On the first occasion, Charly A was aged 22 and Gisèle Pelicot was aged 64. Charly A and Dominique Pelicot are also accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot in her bed on the night of her 66th birthday.
Charly A denied rape, saying: “I never had the intention to rape.” He said Dominique Pelicot, whom he had met online, had invited him to the couple’s home and told him that Gisèle Pelicot would be “pretending to be asleep”. He said: “I was told it was a scenario in which she was asleep. In that scenario, she was consenting. For me, I didn’t intend to rape. I didn’t want to rape her, I didn’t want to do something bad to that family.”
Charly A had spent part of his childhood in Mazan and lived a 30-minute drive away.
Video evidence showed a whispered conversation in Gisèle Pelicot’s bedroom between the two men, in which they discuss a plan to drug and rape Charly A’s mother in the same way. In the footage, Charly A says he will give an address and date for this to take place. Both men told the court this conversation took place, but said they did not rape Charly A’s mother.
Charly A’s mother, a personal care assistant and mother of three, had lived in Mazan and in different parts of the Vaucluse area of southern France.
Charly A was asked in court why he had suggested he and Dominique Pelicot rape his mother. He said he was afraid of Dominique Pelicot, who had asked him if there was another woman in his family or entourage who he would like to rape or see raped.
Charly A said he suggested his own mother “because it was the only woman who came to mind”. He said Dominique Pelicot was “insistent”, so he gave him a photo of his mother. Charly A told the court he had never intended to go through with it and kept making excuses. He said: “I gave the excuse that my little brother was home and my mother had to look after him, so he couldn’t come. Because I wasn’t OK with it.”
Dominique Pelicot gave Charly A three sedative tablets wrapped in silver foil in order for him to sedate his mother, explaining that he should crush them into her food. Charly A told the court that he threw the pills out of his car window that night and never used them. Dominique Pelicot contradicted this, saying that Charly A had instead returned the drugs to him.
Asked in court if he was angry with his mother or hated her, Charly A said he was not. He told the court: “I love my mum as any son loves their mum, nothing special.”
Police testing on a hair sample from Charly A’s mother showed a very low presence of sedatives consistent with a sporadic or single use of sedatives. She told police she had never used that type of medication. “I don’t know how it could be in my body. I don’t understand,” she said.
A court psychiatrist who interviewed Charly A said his “very intense use of pornography” from his early teenage years – including what the psychiatrist called pornographic cliches about mothers and older women – had played a role in his objectification of women.
The psychiatrist said the fact that Charly A regularly went to the Pelicots’ home in December, around Christmas time and in January, could have been related to his depression at having a dysfunctional family, affected by divorce and separation, around the holiday period.
Other accused men have said they were lonely at Christmas. One 63-year-old who is accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot but denied it, said he was “lonely” as “Christmas was approaching and I was going to be on my own again”. Another man, 37, who is accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot one New Year’s Eve and also denies it, said he “had nothing else to do” because his brothers hadn’t invited him to their New Year’s party.
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