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[mirandacaroll]

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[yenvengerberg]

"Will you stake so high a wager on the whims of a dragonrider?"

[mummer]

i’m sorry but it is absolutely a conservative impulse to believe that an ancient work has some kind of “purity” that can be “desecrated” by adaptation. think about what you are saying. why do you think adaptational change or reinterpretation is an “offense” to “culture” that must be answered for? what could motivate a person or movement to designate a certain story as “sacred”? when you do this, are you conjuring an idealized past? in the same breath, does this position modernity as a threat?

[goldcrescent]

he thinks himself a scholar

[snowbairdd]

LUPITA NYONG'O getting ready for "The Odyssey" photocall in Paris (July 07, 2026)

[visenyaism]

Maegor was so much of a feminist that he didn’t have a biological father because he wanted to give his mommy 100% of the credit. Maegor loved gay people so much that he married three of them. Maegor named the first female heir in Westeros history and then bequeathed her his weapon of mass destruction after he passed. Maegor literally died trying to destroy reactionary patriarchal religious fundamentalism. And what brought him back? The power of women. Maegor feminist Maegor socialist Maegor reads Judith Butler.

[gael-garcia]

Ralph Fiennes & Juliette Binoche as Odysseus & Penelope in The Return (2024, Uberto Pasolini)

[emmaziadarcy]

I have risked much and more to raise you up. Surely, you do not wish to disappoint me.

DAERON TARGARYEN and ORMUND HIGHTOWER HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.04

[daenerystargayen]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S03E04 — “Tumbleton”

[rhaenicentdaily]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 4, "Tumbleton"

[carygrantsbeard]

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA AFFIRMATIONS

DREAMERS OF THE DAY ARE DANGEROUS MEN

THE TRICK IS NOT MINDING THAT IT HURTS

MY FEAR IS MY CONCERN

THE DESERT IS CLEAN

I SHALL HAVE MY RATION OF COMMON HUMANITY

THERE IS ONLY THE DESERT FOR ME

[godlessondheimite]

A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.

[jeaniefranklins]

the Graham Platner campaign, and specifically the people who were pushing him online (Grim, Klippenstein, Stoller) was basically "aren't women bitches? aren't (((they))) keeping you from getting a better job? isn't it unfair that you can't use the r-word at work without some HR lady scold getting you in trouble? vote for Graham!" and now that the very obvious endpoint of that rhetoric has happened, they're throwing giant baby man tantrums because it turns out that the mean HR lady scolds may have actually had a point.

[jeaniefranklins]

The thing about the Nazi tattoo is that a lot of people brushed it off with "oh, he didn't know what it meant, he's not REALLY a Nazi" or "who hasn't gotten an offensive tat as a young edgelord?" (. . . a lot of people?) and basically leaned hard on him not being a Nazi, just having an unfortunate tattoo. And I think that line of argument is meaningless.

Do I think Graham Platner is an ideologically committed Nazi? Probably not. I don't he has any real political commitments, truthfully. I think his highest allegiance is to power: he is attracted to symbols that affirm his masculinity, his spot at the top of the hierarchy. He wants to feel like a big man who can throw his weight around and have the people in his orbit understand that he is more important than they are, and symbols of Nazism give him that feeling. He is probably an anti-Semite, just because someone with his pathology needs a strictly defined out-group to prop up their own self-worth. He wants to act without consequence, whether those actions are tattooing hate symbols on himself, throwing a girlfriend into a room and locking her inside to avoid an argument, or forcing his way into a woman's house and raping her.

Graham Platner is the Mr. L of Dorothy Thompson's "Who Goes Nazi?" the feted labour leader with "the brains of Neanderthal man, but [. . .] an infallible instinct for power." Does he believe in National Socialism? It doesn't matter. If it offered him the power he clearly craves, he would be the most committed Nazi you ever saw.

[pjharvey]

i'm still a leftist but in my experience women are viewed as expendable in leftist spaces, spoken over, treated as stupid, on a level that is astounding. you can get away with an enormous level of vitriolic hatred for women if you couch it in the right terms

[mummer]

it’s highly plausible that the majority of men have committed rape, and/or do not consider certain harrassments to be rape or certain interactions to be harrassment, and/or have sexually harrassed while believing themselves to be totally innocent of wrongdoing, and/or are unwilling to believe their friends/political allies/idols to be capable of rape. the question remains: How do we exist in a world such as this? How can we look any man in the eye. How do we not give into despair

[mummer]

misogyny does not bleed through the cracks of interactions, it is the superstructure through which every single action and interaction is filtered. detective work is not necessary. it is visible and plain. when men play it down, what they’re really objecting to is any acknowledgement whatsoever of a blaring and banal truth we can all see. they cannot allow us to point out the obvious and so we must become in their eyes hysterical. this makes existing in their world totally fucking unbearable

[cy-lindric]

Knights of Antēpolis, for a short story

[emziess]

Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower House of the Dragon, S03E03