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in the better version of asoiaf in my mind that’s exactly the same except the faith of the seven canonizes people saints they did st. sebastian the fuck out of criston cole getting shot by riverlands firing squads btw

myrtlesandasphodels

Okay but Criston Cole being posthumously sexualised by thousands of gay guys and artists for generations is exactly what he would hate and I would LOVE

knightsickness

criston screaming in the afterlife because the westerosi baroque movement is doing this to his image

#asoiaf #house of the dragon

clementine-kesh

imo you get the most out of engaging with media when you strike a balance between treating characters as people (reading interiority into their actions, considering the effect of various aspects of their identity, etc etc) and as vehicles for storytelling (what narrative purpose do they serve, how do their actions and personality function to convey the themes of the work, etc etc). because of course characters are literary devices but also there’s a reason we use literary devices written to embody realistic people in order to tell stories

tsunflowers

I’m reading this book about the changing arctic and the author stayed with the Nunamiut people of inland alaska for a while and talked to this high school kid who was like “ugh I hate going to school in the spring I wish I was hunting caribou” and I thought that was charming. you often hear about people who are devoted to preserving their traditional culture and knowledge but it’s rare to hear about someone who’s invested in the old ways out of pure teenage selfishness. school is lame and hunting caribou is awesome

nudityandnerdery

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So, there’s a post about how Bertie Wooster’s “what ho!” is a corruption of Beowulf’s “Hwaet!” And @fremedon and @oldshrewsburyian wrote up some things I decided to voice.

#beowulf #medieval literature

nataliesscatorccio

YELLOWJACKETS

1.01 Pilot | 1.08 Flight of the Bumblebee | 1.10 Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

#yellowjackets

tlirsgender

Honestly I think a lot of fantasy authors could take a lesson from sci-fi and just, have their fantasy worlds explicitly *not* show The Entire World as it exists in-universe. If that makes sense. Like in space exploration stuff it's common to namedrop a bunch of shit we're not unpacking right now to signal the expansiveness of the universe without having to do extensive worldbuilding for like 100s of cultures you're only gonna see once. It's honestly weird that high fantasy rarely ever does this! This is the easiest ticket out of (gestures broadly) the whole "one (1) country for Africa and Asia each" thing. Maybe it's not relevant to the plot maybe your map is only covering a specific corner of the world where the story is happening. It can still exist in the background. You can just do that

tlirsgender

[ID: tags from @athousandgateaux that read, "#honestly think this is a function of modern fantasy being so indebted to tolkien #like tolkien basically set the model for all modern fantasy and he was a little freak about exploring the lore of his world in-depth" /end ID]

Yeah that'll do it. Much love to lotr but we don't all have to make Middle Earth 2. Like you Can't feasibly Unpack All Of That at a certain scale but you literally don't have to ... and in making Middle Earth 2 you are also going to inherit Tolkien's Racism

tlirsgender

The general principle behind the humble Random Background Alien could be applied to human people. Or fucken elves or whatever. If you'd all step outside of tolkien's tolkienism for a second

the-quasar-hero

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

mayhamster

Holy fuck

supagurls

comic fans we've gotta stop with the "it's not that deep". everything is that deep. we should be thinking more critically about the comics we read

supagurls

"what is this about" everything!!!! the minute you critique a story or author for being misogynistic or racist or bigoted in any way, people come out of the woodwork with the "it's not that deep"s and many other phrases like it, trying to justify and defend something just because they like it.

a critique doesn't mean you can't like something! you just need to be aware of the bigotry in the media you're consuming and how it affects every part of the story. you need to be thinking critically about why certain things happen to characters of certain demographics. you need to be aware of misogynistic and racist tropes. don't just mindlessly read.

#comics

intactics

so-called "free thinkers" when Gasolina comes on

needlesknick-knacks

Once i read all of golden age and silver age and bronze age and pre-crisis in general and post crisis and new52 and rebirth and all the different events and crossovers and learn all of the writers’ histories so i am aware of their biases and influences when creating those stories and familiarise myself with the cultural/social/political climate of when those comics were written to be able to understand and analyse them well from both a watsonian and doylist perspective it’s over for you all

#dc #comics

berry-camargo48

Goofy-ass family photo

"Aaawwww, they're a familyyyy 🥺"

Gets me every time. Completely out of the blue too, this story has nothing to do with him. This was just a special treat.

-> Fantastic Four: Full Circle (2022) by Alex Ross.

#marvel #fantastic four

cinemaocd

THOMAS CROMWELL AFFIRMATIONS:

NOW GET UP

THE BLACKSMITH MAKES HIS OWN TOOLS

STALL FOR TIME, BRIBE PEOPLE, AND IF NEED BE MAKE A STRATEGIC RETREAT

DON'T ASK DON'T GET

THERE IS NO TALENT THAT I POSSESS THAT ENGLAND CANNOT USE.

IT'S TIME I SAID MY PRAYERS

PUT AN EDGE ON IT

#wolf hall

userarmand

Four Fred Stein's in the album! Four! You made me look foolish! You just assume it was me.

#iwtv

aliteralchicken

I know everyone always goes on about the pants and I think the bo staff and the updated Robin symbol itself are massive additions to the lore but I think Tim drakes greatest contribution to the Robin mantle was putting black on the cape that shit slaps

aliteralchicken

yeah thanks for being the first sidekick to get a solo fully putting Robin in the hero spotlight rather than just a sidekick or a teammate role and reclaiming Robin as a queer icon after seduction of the innocent did years of damage and all that but have you considered fun little cape and matching black boots being so very slay

#dc #tim drake