Over Thinking It

A blog for rambles, analysis and headcanons (Adult-They/Them) inbeautifulwriter on AO3

[chillinglikeashilling]

I was joking about Thaisha's metal spine being a sort of fantasy scoliosis representation (for those unaware the corrective surgery for scoliosis involves the insertion of rods and screws into your back to hold the manually straightened spine in place) but...

I am now remembering that her PC Decima from when she guest starred on Bards of New York also had various magical metal prosthetics (that heated up!), and that Aabria mentioned in the Study Hall interview that she irl had multiple sports related injuries including a disc to the back that was the final end of her sports career.

So, I do wonder if the plates do speak to some chronic disability management or the magical intervention into some sort of serious injury that we might learn more about now that Thaisha is traveling alone.

[vinceioum]

"hazel levesque is such a mom friend!!" Shes 13-14 for majority of hoo do you hear yourself. She is not the "mom friend" for a bunch of 15-17 year olds stop being racist

[mollflounders]

belinda "do you say that to all the girls" chandra and rory "you have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you're around" williams and donna "your friend? did she trust you?" noble and martha "this is me, getting out" jones

[visenyaism]

Alicent saying Ormund acts fatherly to Daeron and then we cut to Ormund in fact acting how Alicent perceives fathers to act towards Daeron was also so awesome

[visenyaism]

Sending your last son away to oldtown as a babe in a desperate hope that he will avoid the fate of his Targaryen siblings only to have him get groomed into a dynastic tool for seizing the throne by his nefarious father figure like a Hightower AND get groomed into a tool of (re)conquest carrying divine magical purpose by a nefarious ethnic supremacist uncle figure like a Targaryen.

[viewtiful-kim-deactivated202105]

Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

[animatedamerican]

… I am unironically here for this

[oldfilmsflicker]

this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

[kabesattic]

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.

So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.

[spicedtealeaves]

A post about this went round recently, and I’m delighted to announce she’s since come out as trans and goes by Jasmine 🏳️‍⚧️

Jasmine Brimsmayd

Actor and Writer

There’s a whole series of the Hamlet videos on her YouTube, as well as a bunch of other films she’s made

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

"we cut the nobody scene from the odyssey" "we cut the religious trauma and parental abuse from carrie" i'm starting to think that studios barely funding original films is starting to have an effect where directors make up a story and then slap an IP on it in order to sell. or maybe some bitches just can't read anymore idk it's one or the other

[kingalicent]

so people can in fact see that teenage daeron is being abused and manipulated by an older relative into a position he never wanted but have for some reason been unable to extend the same understanding and sympathy to alicent who went through exactly the same thing at his age……right.

[goldcrescent]

one of my largest concerns about hotd is the showrunners honest to god appear to be under the impression that they wrote viserys as a good person

[natequarter]

silence in the library/forest of the dead is so delightfully fucked up. world's most suicidal man tries to kill himself to save the library and then a woman he barely knows who claims to be important to him in the future chains him up and fries herself to a crisp in front of him. he will be haunted by her dying face for the rest of his lives when all he wanted to do was die himself.

[fanonical]

one thing i am very disappointed in the last series of doctor who for was that, per the media and particularly rtd's interviews, there was an implication that there would be a lot more meaningful disabled and transfem rep in the show, and what we got just...fell kinda flat. particularly when rose's entire role was just to stand in the corner with her arms folded and say nothing. i think we deserved better than that

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Classic Who's last scene before the show entered wilderness years: Seventh Doctor and Ace returning to the TARDIS for their next adventure. New New Who's last scene before the show enters wilderness years: RTD basically screwing over Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor by sandwiching it between nostalgia and nostalgia, with zero plans on what to do with it.

[luna-azzurra]

Writers cannot watch a movie normally. we are sitting there going "oh that's the inciting incident" and "they introduced that object too early it's obviously coming back" and "this dialogue is doing three things at once good for them" while everyone else is just. watching the movie. having a normal experience. feeling feelings without labelling them. i envy that so much and i would never give it up.

[kingalicent]

alicent unintentionally dooming two of her children to the same fates as her. helaena in an unhappy arranged marriage to be sexually abused from the age of fourteen and pop out heirs while she disassociates. daeron being sent far from home, being groomed and abused by his father figure into a position he neither wanted nor asked for but is being forced into for the sake of power and is unable to say no.

she could never save any of them.

[dragonologist-phd]

the thing about heavy handed symbolism is that sometimes. it's fun.

[grumpytuftedtitmouse]

Just finished the Schemer's arc (yes I am behind) and I am chewing drywall about Azune Nayar. His eyes are like the sunset. His sister showed up to commit an assassination that he thwarted, said she'd never be happier after taking a near fatal blow for him, then immediately teleported away. Murray told him he had to find his sister so that she could corroborate what Murray saw, told him she'd help, and he entirely sincerely said he'd do literally anything for Murray if she did. One of his coworkers caused problems for an employee of Hal's and he offered to "take care of him". He killed a man in the sewers, confirmed he was dead, and counted him. He has a list for everything. He was perfectly willing to trade his life for Thjazi and was heartbroken he wasn't able to. He has given a dozen tiny notices that he has truly done some awful things for Thjazi. He lies incredibly well and looks incredibly trustworthy. He changed his face to what he would look like if Thjazi was his dad and went to sleep like that. He doesn't know who he is. None of his friends have ever seen his apartment.

[weirwould]

did i or did i not just watch alicent hightower sit down in front of the lemon tree mural, as she told rhaenyra that she sent her last child to the house with the red door home she barely remembers so that he might grow up outside the suffocating walls of the red keep. so that he might live as a hightower instead of a targaryen. but in her attempt to keep him from becoming his father, she cursed him to become her instead. an outsider among the natives. who doesn’t know what he wants beyond his father figure’s desire to make him king of the seven kingdom’s. the blue queen in chains.

[queenaegon]

alicent thought she was doing a good thing by sending daeron to oldtown. in a way, she was right. he’s considered a good boy by most everyone who knows him. what we’ve seen on screen shows him to be kind and considerate as well. but it’s clear that he was raised by a cruel and mercurial man who treats him as nothing more than a dynastic tool, in much the same way that otto viewed alicent. he is truly his mother’s son and that is the great tragedy of it all.