robinante

an enthusiast of simple things

[robinante]

One day I’m going to honor my promises and make a master post of book recommendations based on Dimension 20 seasons.

[eggelette]

hey op did you do this :3

[robinante]

I’m actually still working on it! I want to make a list of 1) the books that inspired the season and 2) which book(s) I’d recommend based on the vibe of the season— but I’m also trying to re-read these bad boys before I go recommending Willy Nilly! It’s def in the works.

However, if any of you are super into this idea, I should let you know that the whole reason I wanted to make this list was because The Unsleeping City reminded me of a mix of The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare and The City We Became by NK Jemisin. I definitely recommend the later if you’re a TUC fan :)

[robinante]

I think Rosa Pansino should be allowed to hunt Mr Beast for sport

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I hope The Locked Tomb never gets a live-action movie adaptation but I also hope that, if it ever does, they let Robert Pattinson loose on set until he freaks his way into one of the roles.

[robinante]

I need everyone who loves Smosh VS Aliens to read the Paper Girls comics IMMEDIATELY. Four pre-teen girls in Cleveland, Ohio work the same paper route, and one strange Halloween night, they get involved in a time war that leads to sci-fi shenanigans! Smosh Vs Aliens feels so incredibly Paper Girls coded, I’m obsessed with it.

[the-southern-cereal-king]

As my good friend once said ‘there’s something wrong with you’

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[the-southern-cereal-king]

As my good friend once said ‘there’s something wrong with you’

[marisatomay]

“maybe the curtains are blue because the author just liked the color blue” set human critical thinking skills decades back

[marisatomay]

you get it

[afterthefeast-deactivated202604]

the tragedy of rhaenyra and alicent is that they cannot ever truly see the other without destroying the foundations of their own self-image. rhaenyra cannot see alicent as a child married to a man old enough to be her father because that’s rhaenyra’s father. and the image she has of both viserys as a just and kind man and of herself as the beloved daughter of that man would collapse under the weight of that realisation. the resentment she holds against alicent would have to turn upon viserys. if she recognised that viserys treats alicent little better than a broodmare, she would have to realise that fundamentally that is all her mother was to him too. if she understood why alicent was disgusted by her marrying daemon she would have to see herself not as someone with agency marrying a man she loved who happened to be her uncle but as someone manipulated and groomed since childhood. the agency she clings to, which is so important to how she sees herself, would be revealed as an illusion. by extension she would have to see her family as one in which the familial is warped almost beyond repair. her self-image, so rooted in targaryen exceptionalism, would collapse.

likewise alicent cannot fully grasp why rhaenyra was so upset that she married viserys because she would have to fully see viserys not as the king but her friend’s father. she would have to face the horror of her life head on. moreover she would have to see viserys in her own father. for her to accept that rhaenyra is not selfish or undutiful for having affairs and trying to carve out whatever agency she can, the pedestal on which alicent places duty would have to be destroyed. she would have to realise that duty is only as important as she believes it to be, that it has no meaningful moral weight to it, and that all of her suffering has been for nothing. alicent tells herself that her sadness is a condition of her existence, as a woman, a mother, a daughter, and that by trying to claw whatever happiness she can from the world rhaenyra has turned her back on all of those things; she is the wrong kind of woman. if she could ever accept that rhaenyra had slept around and birthed bastards without judgement the core of alicent’s identity as a good mother/wife/queen would collapse. she would have to face the reality that nothing that happened to her was justified, and crucially that her submissiveness at every turn was not noble or good and was never going to let her win, but only trapped her further. every cognitive barrier she has built up to protect herself and provide some sort of meaning to a life in which she has only ever really suffered would have to shatter.

and they both realise these things to some extent, rhaenyra knows that viserys is flawed and fallible because she’s experienced his mistakes firsthand (and she is definitely aware of daemon’s violence) and in many ways alicent is so viciously judgemental of rhaenyra’s choices because she wants that level of freedom so desperately for herself, and they so clearly love each other still that they both want to believe there’s something good in the other. but they bury those doubts under layers and layers of cognitive dissonance so they don’t have to face deeply painful realities, because neither of them can truly see the other without destroying themselves.

[t-hirstreview]

Game Changer Season 6 Finale

[robinante]

Zac Oyama I want you to win a billboard so bad

[nocturnal-artist]

Damn how much would it piss Gorgug off that these girls would be such good friends

[robinante]

One day I’m going to honor my promises and make a master post of book recommendations based on Dimension 20 seasons.

[chushanye]

i don't think im using this template right

[robinante]

Every Zelda Donovan enjoyer deserves a cigarette after this season

[robinante]

I’m actually a big believer that not all villains deserve redemption arcs so I’m actually fine with the Rat Grinders having no redemption (although I find their backstory pretty lackluster). But that being said. I simply couldn’t give a hoot about how evil they are. They are funny to me. Little freaks. I love you Mary Ann.

[best-character-named-x-poll]

Best Character Named Zelda

Princess Zelda (Legend of Zelda)

Zelda Spellman (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

Zelda Zenuba Heap (Septimus Heap)

Zelda Goldman (Pet Sematary)

Zelda Donovan (Dimension 20: Fantasy High/The Seven)

Zelda Fuller (The Shape of Water)

Voting ended onMay 20, 2024

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[cryptid-quest]

Cryptid of the Day: Specter Moose

Description: Since 1891, hunters throughout Maine have encountered a massive moose, said to be 10-15ft tall & weighing over 2500 pounds. Some even say the moose glows white & can disappear at will. The moose was seen in 2002, and shortly after, a restaurant burned down near where it was seen