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My Inquisitor Lavellan has suffered greatly during her time in Inquisition. I'm writing a fanfic, and that's exactly how I feel. I've also decided to continue her suffering in the most interesting way possible, so in the section about the events of Veilguard, I'll be featuring Inquisitor Lavellan instead of the Rook. It'll be tough.
One thing that gets overlooked in AKOTSK is how much classism is baked into the story even among the characters we likes.
When Baelor tells Dunk “I’m a prince of the realm. I’m blood of the dragon, not a hedge knight.” A lot of people read that as a cool or factual statement, but what Baelor is saying here is that there is a fundamental difference between them. Not because of character or virtue but because of birth.
Dunk is a hedge knight a poor wandering knight with no lands, no family connections, no wealth, and virtually no institutional protection.
Baelor is a prince. His authority comes from bloodline and inherited status. And that’s exactly how feudalism works. Sometimes people gets so caught up in admiring individual nobles that they forget what these systems actually are. Baelor may be one of the better princes in Westerosi history, but he’s still a prince. His position exists because society is structured around hereditary privilege.
In the same way people say “there are no ethical billionaires” because extreme wealth requires participation in unequal systems, there are arguably no fully ethical feudal princes either. Their status is built on a hierarchy where some people are born with immense power while others are born with almost none.
That doesn’t mean Baelor is evil. It means he benefits from a fundamentally unequal system. And I think that’s part of what makes Dunk such an important protagonist. Dunk constantly exposes how arbitrary aristocratic privilege really is.
He’s braver than many nobles. More honorable than many nobles. Kinder than many nobles. Yet society still treats him as lesser because of his birth.
Meanwhile mediocre or cruel nobles can command enormous authority simply because of their surname. Even when Baelor helps Dunk, it’s worth remembering that he isn’t working from outside that system. He’s working from the very top of it.
Unlike Egg, who spends much of the story deliberately crossing class boundaries and living among commoners, Baelor remains a prince first and foremost. His worldview is shaped by that position. When Baelor intervenes on Dunk’s behalf, there is genuine fairness there, but there is also politics. A prince cannot act without considering royal authority, public perception, and the reputation of his house as @moompl said HERE.
His actions are tied to preserving the image of the crown and maintaining social order. That’s not necessarily cynical. It’s simply the reality of being royalty. Which is why I think the line is so interesting. It’s not just a statement about who Baelor is. It’s a reminder that even one of the most respected Targaryens in the series still sees the world through the lens of class and hierarchy.
Because in Westeros, being “blood of the dragon” isn’t just an identity. It’s a claim to superiority.
There are actual tears in my eyes rn can you believe people are this stupid and walk among us all the time
every time my hair is greasy it’s like you might as well just take me out back and shoot me honestly
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alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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"you only deserve food and shelter if you contribute to society" says people living in countries where nobody's labor actually feeds or benefits their neighbors anymore but exclusively benefits the companies keeping the food and shelter behind the artificial paywalls
You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts
And even the oldest societies on earth all took care of the elderly or sick anyway
dudes will be like "if you don't Contribute To Society you don't get to live, that's the simple facts" meanwhile their job is like Marketing and Brand Development Specialist
I go so fucking crazy for how geralt talks to children. The way he kneels and crouches and makes himself small. The way he gentles and softens his voice. The way he asks questions in targeted ways to guide distractible kids toward actually answering him.
The way he ANSWERS kids' questions in direct and gentle ways - tries not to outright lie, is honest about his intentions and what he's trying to do, but doesn't try to sow false hope or lie for the sake of sparing their feelings
He likes kids!!!!! He gives them so much slack compared to adults!!!! They remind him of Ciri and he loves his daughter but even the kids that are nothing like her, he just likes them and he likes to make life better for them when he can 😭
ive been having a lot of fun with the style of the ginkgo embroidered items recently and i wanted to make another ginkgo pattern that matches more closely :)
i hate that the cost of true intimacy is vulnerability. it should cost 50 cents and a gumball.
i cannot overstate how good it feels to watch older movies where the actors were still allowed to look kinda weird and not be conventionally attractive. like it is genuinely healing
plus, you can actually tell the different characters apart!
some of you are painfully unaware that part of the whole reason many kinksters are like "what happens in my or someone else's bedroom is no one else's business"
is because people have been arrested and put in fucking PRISON just for having gay sex in the privacy of their own homes. in the United States. this millennia.
if you think i'm joking, look up Lawrence v. Texas (2003). 14 out of the 50 US States STILL had laws on the books criminalizing sodomy--and yes, you could be imprisoned for multiple years and sometimes even life for repeat offenses.
in the years directly leading up to the landmark case, enforcement even in those 14 states varied, but it was absolutely weaponized against queer people, especially when stacked on top of other offenses to make up a longer sentence.
um so anyway, what happens between two or more consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes is none of my OR YOUR business, and i'm not fucking kidding!
A lot of these people who were criminalized for being gay before 2003 STILL have their names listed on sex offender registries, even though they did nothing wrong, because they can't afford the absurd legal fees or find a judge sympathetic enough to take them off of the registry.
Think about that when politicans start spreading propaganda about stripping away the rights of sex offenders.
U dont understand i had to write the first 70,000 words because if i didnt the sex wouldnt be as perilous or emotionally fraught. Which is the POINT.
i can’t stop thinking about the time my roommate and i asked our insanely ripped neighbor brian who wore flip flops year round and sunglasses on the back of his head for help with carrying a solid wood dresser up to our apartment. he wanted to get his son who was home from college to come help too so he takes out his phone and goes, “siri, call christian christianson” and turns speaker phone on while we stand there sort of stunned by the name and after a few rings cc answers, “what the hell do you want” and brian just hangs up without responding and is all, “kids, am i right” then carries the dresser up four flights of stairs pretty much by himself. we offered him a six pack of rainier as thanks which he immediately opened in our kitchen and downed 2/6 beers in 10 mins while telling us about his 1989 dodge ram 1500 he was trying to get his son to restore with him to no avail. really nice guy. we never saw his son before he went back to school but any time i ask my roommate for help with lifting stuff or reaching something he says, “siri, call christian christianson” and we reminisce about brian and his truck.
Knight shaking blood off from war like a dog shaking off bathwater
When my son was about to turn two, strangers would offer condolences. There’s a collective cultural dread of toddlers, who get described more like animals than people. Kids in their "terrible twos," I was warned, are illogical, unregulated, and feral. "Good luck," people would say. "He'll grow out of it."
I'm lucky: My son is a very easygoing kid. But I remember the first tantrum he threw for me. He was standing by our front door and asked to go outside. So I opened the door and grabbed his shoes. But as soon as he stepped onto the porch, he pointed back into the house.
"Inside," he said.
"Okay," I said. I picked him up and brought him inside.
But as soon as I shut the front door, he pointed outside.
"Outside!" he said.
You know where this is going. We went back and forth, inside and outside, again and again. He got more frustrated. And I got more frustrated. Eventually he wound up straddling the threshold of our house, sobbing. When I tried to comfort him, he screamed at me. "You go wherever you want!" I said. He just got madder. I felt trapped, convinced he’d concocted the whole episode as a pretext to unleash his rage at me. It was ridiculous. I consoled myself with the thought that he was just being a toddler.
But later I kept thinking about him wailing at our front door, one foot inside, one foot outside. His misery wasn't unreasonable, or trivial, or silly. My son was experiencing the agony of wanting two things that were impossible to have at the same time. What a fundamentally human sorrow! My son wasn't being a toddler; he was being a person. Adults may not walk around howling, but that same pain rages within us. In that moment, as a father, I was powerless to solve my son's problem. I told him he could go wherever he wanted, but of course I was wrong. To be where he wanted was impossible.
Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children by Mac Barnett
