mhm... bunny.
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mhm... bunny.
Just spent all morning freaking out that I bricked my PC.
It updated last night (sleeby, not thinking) and was taking a long time.
Got up the next day, black screen, still on, suspicious.
Monitor reports "no signal". Fretting.
Restart. No change.
Restart. No change....
Power down. Unplug everything. Plug only K/M and monitor.
Turn on. LOG IN! But it's so slow...
Support recommends installing lastest drivers.
Start the install. Crashes. Red screen. Panic!
Restart. "No signal". Paaanic!
Thinking. If the card had a bad driver install, maybe old 1050ti will work?
WORKS!!!
Revert to old build. Uninstall Nvidia drivers. Shut down. Put new card in. WORKS!!!
Reinstall drivers.
Cry from emotional damage.
I can only *imagine* the writing quality in this community. I'm sure its award winning.
No way I saw a post about OFF in 2024.
Oho, an Unicron is still around.
All is well in the world this evening.
its barely 10am and my mother is yelling at some poor man on telephone about her taxes.
beware that this post constaints sensitive content (!)
discussing mereen, astapor and yunkai and the plot threads of book V, not including her marriage to HIZDAHR and how awfully wrong it was portrayed in the show:
the book makes some things quite clear about the slave masters: first, is that there is no distinction between the ‘guilty’ and the ‘innocent’ in a systematic system of slavery, and that is proved by how the noble in special react to the fall of said system. second, that dany personally hears and asks the families to deliver the responsible for crucifying the children outside of the city and that it did not happen arbitrarily. she did not need anyone to make her question that decision, though, and did so herself, coming with the conclusion that it was time the take the bodies out of disposal too and constantly reminding herself of why she is doing it to begin with (her terrible decisions, or as we can put out, her acts of extreme violence, often come for a reasoning that leaves her worried about her own morals and the perception some might have of her considering her family but as she often does, she comes to the conclusion it is necessary to shown straight against oppressors — though i believe, personally, that she shows more restraint than not and that it is something which will change in the next book as seen by her admission to fire and blood by the end of ADWD).
dany first preoccupation is restoring peace in mereen, yet the nobles murder the former slaves as punishment against her new regime, something that is never discussed or brought up in the show. much of her decisions about mereen come from her advisors instead of herself, so we don’t get a glimpse of her politics, or how she uses religion as a political coin to ensure the rumors about her dragons are true ( something to be discussed in another meta).
Every morn the sun rose upon fresh corpses, with harpies drawn in blood on the bricks beside them. Any freedman who became too prosperous or too outspoken was marked for death. (ADWD Daenerys II)
These Meereenese were a sly and stubborn people who resisted her at every turn. They had freed their slaves, yes … only to hire them back as servants at wages so meagre that most could scarce afford to eat. Those too old or young to be of use had been cast into the streets, along with the infirm and the crippled. And still the Great Masters gathered atop their lofty pyramids to complain of how the dragon queen had filled their noble city with hordes of unwashed beggars, thieves, and whores. (ADWD Daenerys I)
still, though her actions were violent they did little result in solving the biggest issue in the slave bay. and that’s what makes her even more stubborn to make it work by marrying without love, yet again, and constantly sacrificing her views in trying to end slavery in a way that’s non violent ( such as allowing hizdahr to make an agreement with yunkai and astapor, returning ''commerce'' in the city ). but what does the universe itself say about her crucifying the masters? is it too much, a sign of her cruelty and tyranny? well, not really. there are rumors about those that speak against her being killed violently yet that’s not true because it is established that collective punishment is considered fair in mereen, as show by the children themselves. and she did not do it out of bloodthirst, but revenge, which she tries to justify ( of course, it is up to the reader wether the violence was justified but, in sum, it was an act made out with hurry and anger):
She had them nailed to wooden posts around the plaza, each man pointing at the next. The anger was fierce and hot inside her when she gave the command; it made her feel like an avenging dragon. But later, when she passed the men dying on the posts, when she heard their moans and smelled their bowels and blood ...
Dany put the glass aside, frowning. It was just. It was. I did it for the children.
and it was not an isolate act, but an alignment to her bigger goal, ending slavery:
The cedars that had once grown tall along the coast grew no more, felled by the axes of the Old Empire or consumed by dragonfire when Ghis made war against Valyria. Once the trees had gone, the soil baked beneath the hot sun and blew away in thick red clouds. “It was these calamities that transformed my people into slavers,” Galazza Galare had told her, at the Temple of the Graces. And I am the calamity that will change these slavers back into people, Dany had sworn to herself. (ADWD Daenerys III)
which is supported by her actions towards the former masters as they continue to commit crimes, act against her people (though she considers them her people too in an attempt of union) and constantly try to bring slavery back:
“Kill them all and take their treasures, I say. Whisper the command, and your Daario will make you a pile of their heads taller than this pyramid.” “If I knew who they were—” "Zhak and Pahl and Merreq. Them, and all the rest. The Great Masters. Who else would it be?" He is as bold as he is bloody. “We have no proof this is their work. Would you have me slaughter my own subjects?” (ADWD Daenerys IV)
first and foremost, daenerys' crucifixion of the masters was a powerful message sent to the slavers who had oppressed the people of meereen for generations. it was a demonstration of her resolve to break the chains that bound so many innocent lives and a stark warning that the days of unchecked cruelty were over. by taking such decisive action, she not only sought retribution for the countless lives lost under their rule but also aimed to create a climate of fear among those who profited from the slave trade. though, perhaps, it wasn't so calculated as one would think.
if her goal was to rule through cruelty and oppression, she could have continued her campaign without attempting to negotiate with the masters or exploring non-violent solutions. instead, she chose to engage in diplomacy, offering compromises and seeking peaceful resolutions through marriage alliances and other means. this approach demonstrates her willingness to avoid unnecessary bloodshed and her desire to create a just society.
The daily question of am I hungry or just incredibly over caffeinated