Illenore

I gazed into the void of 5T4S before you could walk | Survivor of SuperWhoLock | She/They | | Power Rangers Gay | Pink/White/Blue Ranger Stan | Kendrix Morgan Stan | Baddest Outlaw On the Boiling Isles | Fincayran | Mary Winchester Apologist | Physical Kid | Hair Pin Enthusiast | Friend of Dorothea | Gèidheal | Jewish | 31 | AuDHD | Minors DNI

[thepacksurvives]

I don't know about y'all but I find it very funny and a bit satisfying that despite all the anti-feminism and conservatism and pro-patriarchy accusations Alicent was thrown, so many people of color and queer folks (and other definitely radically left-leaning people) still watched hotd and rallied behind her and flock together to defend her (despite being accused of being pro-conservatism ourselves in doing so).

And I wonder... Why is that? What nerve did Alicent touch that make us so protective of her, of her story and point of view?

[gameofthronedd]

I'm queer, a woman and firmly on the left lmao so everytime I get accused of being misogynistic & being conservative I find it very funny and ik for a fact that my mutuals on other social medias are, as you said, often in the similar boat of being women, queer, left-leaning, people of colour etc.

Personally, I kind of think it's because Rhaenyra & her story fits very nicely into easily-consumable (white) mainstream feminism. She's a female protagonist who's being set up to take a position of power but who has it taken away. She does what she wants, has her moment of sexual liberation, has a dragon, is a princess, has hot (slightly dangerous) love interests etc. She's easy to market towards girls and women, especially off the back of Daenerys Targaryen, and you don't have to critically engage to feel like you're in the "right" by being a fan of her. Alongside that, and in the same vein, for a lot of people (particularly the general public/those not engaging in feminist discourse etc.) feminism equals screw men, put women in seats of power (regardless of any other factors).

Alicent, on the other hand, is a different story. Much like Sansa, she's not the one you'd want to be in this story. Both Alicent and Sansa are women put in unfortunate situations. They suffer. And their character arcs and development is not "typical" or linear or necessarily "cool" for a lot of people. They're not characters with dragons who are in scenarios where they can say "fuck this, fuck that and fuck you too". Instead, they have to conform and learn and use their wits to survive. They're not the "perfect" or "ideal" woman, they're not the marketable female fantasy protagonist.

I think maybe we connect more with Alicent because her character provides complexity and nuance, and because she isn't the typical female protagonist. Her story also deals a lot with trauma and I'm sure a lot of us who are women, who are queer, who are people of colour, can relate to and understand more intimately those aspects of her story and character.

[saltywinteradult]

via @sad-hippie

via @alicentsgf

I want to tattoo every single word of this post and these chefs kiss-perfect additions on the forehead of every Alicent hater in the world

[asoiastarks]

the book we all need for interacting with anyone that hates catelyn, sansa and alicent:

[hauntedbythenarrative]

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers, Sady Doyle//Queen Alicent Hightower from House of the Dragon

[hymnostic]

mihcrowháve

[hymnostic]

nigella of the people

[morphemmenominal]

she'll always be famous to me

[iwanthermidnightz]

Straights listening to Betty like

[thirstkanaphan]

[jacobtheloofah]

Visit Original Link

side note, teaching myself to pronounce that last one felt like learning a new fucking language

[jacobtheloofah]

hey so uh next year will be a decade of dobonhonkeros. how about that shit huh.

[fiercestpurpose]

There’s a quality that certain books/movies/TV shows have that leads me to say, “Yeah, I can see people making fanfiction of that.” It’s something to do, I think, with how tight the story is, how much feels open-ended or like it could be elaborated on.

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.

And sometimes you’ll read or watch something and you’ll say, “Ah, low squiggability,” and then you’ll open tumblr and find out that everyone else seem to think its squiggability was very high indeed.

[homunculus-argument]

It's wild coming from a household where people would go "well we're not going to cancel everything and ruin everybody's day just because you're feeling uncomfy" when all you wanted was to be allowed to go lie down for a minute because you're sick, to living around people who'll go "okay let's wrap shit up and go home, you're sick" when you were still pretty sure you can manage if you just go lie down.

Also did y'all know that playing up your symptoms for pity and attention is a completely different thing from just not going out of your way to hide your symptoms. Like apparently those are two different subjects. It's not manipulative to be visibly unwell when you're visibly unwell.

[trench-knife]

one of my worst writing sins is abusing my power to create compound words. i cannot write the sentence "The sun shone as bright as honey that afternoon." no. that's boring. "The sun was honey-bright that afternoon" however? yes. that sentence is dope as fuck. i do not care if "honey-bright" is a word in the english dictionary. i do not care if the sentence is grammatically correct. i will not change. i will not correct my erred ways. the laws of the english language are mine.

[portland-sunshine]

Not a sin at all!

This is what's called a poetic epithet, and it happens all the time in writing. Consider, for example, Homer and his wine-dark sea, or Shakespeare and his death-mark'd love.

If you were then to start using them instead of the word they're describing, you'd be making a kenning. For example, if instead of describing the sun as honey-bright, you said "the honey-drop in the sky". Kennings are best known from Norse writings, like "the path of serpents" for gold, or "Grímnir's lip-streams" for poetry itself.

So you're not sinning, you're participating in an ancient literary tradition!

[i-scan-your-poems]

Scansion:

◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – The sun / was ho/ney-bright / that af/ternoon

Metrical form: iambic pentameter

[arborealgargoyle]

this post is a moving example of the poetic power of the creative spirit,

an illustration that language and its associated rules exist to lift up human expression and not to hinder it (and are both constantly changing and maintaining helpful usage to suit the needs of the moment),

as well as a devastating reminder that whenever you think you’re doing something new and oh-so-scandalously inventive, it was probably actually the well-trodden pasttime of a glorified theater kid several thousand years ago.

isnt language beautiful?

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[tiktaalic]

jack: dean did you have two dads like i do?

dean: [hacking and choking] what?

jack: well grandpa bobby’s your dad but your mom was married to someone different so did you have two dads?

dean, doing furious mental math on whether it’s better to make up a total lie out of whole cloth and if so WHAT the fuck his lie is going to be or if he should stick with the mealy half truth that he pulls out for strangers or if he should tell a baby about a fraction of the john induced trauma: hey if you go grab your coat i’ll take you to see trollz world tour

jack: ok!

[sheikahfication]

I need a blowjob but I don’t have a penis or a strap on and I’m not taking off my pants so you’re just gonna have to figure it out

[thatadhdmood]

Trying to convince myself to start taking adhd meds is hard because what do you mean I need to take a drug to change who I am? What do you mean I'm not enough, that I need to be more? Why can't who I am now be enough?

this is why i did an investigative assesment on the effectiveness of adhd meds in highschool for my personal essay question. cause u can pick anything

understanding how adhd meds worked helped me feel less weird taking them

its all about dopamine reuptake inhibitors: thats the meds

tonic and phasic dopamine: tonic is ur baseline dopamine, while phasic is the type thats released for task.

adhd people have a lower tonic dopamine baseline.

basically when neurotypicals do a task it releases dopamine, but it leaves a little dopamine out between the gap of the receptor and doesnt take it all it, and it makes doing the next tasks easier

with adhd it takes all the dopamine out so then theres no dopamine lubricant inbetween the connections to make it easier to keep doing tasks

the medication, stops the neuron from taking all the dopamine between ur neurons, and leaves a little out, so then you have more ease doing tasks

this is why doing so simpler tasks after taking adhd meds can help it start getting working because the dopamine start getting between the receptors as your tonic dopamine levels go up

having low tonic dopamine levels makes it hard to focus and makes you crave quick dopamine hits like using your phone in order to supplement it so you can feel alert and normal.

the meds are just evening the playing field with neurotypicals

thats what i learned from my research

hope this helps!

[thatadhdmood]

i feel you may have been looking for a more emotional based compssion driven response to this

but for me facing the logic and facts helped me come to terms with it most and take away the magical thinking of a little pill thatd make me normal, if i can understand the mechanisms of whats happening in my body when I take it and how my body differs from a neurotypical for it to be able to work

[aliveboydean]

ok wait also. the famous bobby chasing john off the property with a shotgun line IS explained in the Supernatural: Bobby Singer’s Guide to Hunting book. Somewhere around the mid 90’s john drops Sam and Dean off with Bobby to go on a hunt in Montana and then essentially drops off the face of the earth. he’s gone for so long that Bobby eventually decides to tell Sam and Dean that he must have died. sam apparently takes awhile to process this and goes very quiet and dean gets really angry. bobby says this is the biggest fight he and dean ever had. then dean disappears into the night and returns hours later with john in tow. dean’d tried to hitchhike to montana on his own to find john and accidentally caught his dad, totally unharmed and completely fine (capable of answering bobby’s phone calls, bobby takes care to mention john did own a cellphone at this point), on the way back. john packs the boys into the impala and tells them they’re going to stay with somebody who “actually cares about them” and bobby becomes so enraged that he pulls out the shotgun and starts firing.

[paranormal-taters]

"i feel besquintled", said no one ever. because that's not a word.

[paranormal-taters]

okay nevermind it IS a word now and this is exactly what it means.

[paranormal-taters]

EVERYONE SHUT UP AND LOOK AT THIS NEW AND BETTER WORD