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[mrsjadecurtiss]

Tagged by @vibratome 🐱🫵 thankyouuuu

last song: Emission Control - AC/DC

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last book i read: Elric of Melniboné i think... i miss him i gotta read the rest when i feel spiritually ready

last movie: A Complete Unknown

last tv show: currently watching severance!

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relationship status: single 🫃

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[mrsjadecurtiss]

The idea that it is somehow "bad writing" if rhaenyra has a better character than aegon imo is fundamentally misunderstanding the point of the conflict

The dance is not about two completely equal factions where you choose the one you prefer ro root for like a sport's match... the point is that rhaenyra's succession as the by far eldest child was set in stone by viserys, and yet people argue and doubt it and want to depose her exclusively on account of her gender; if she had been a man noone would even be having this discussion

The point is that even if Aegon is a s*x pest and not qualified and never even wanted to be king anyways people will still think he somehow is the one deserving of the throne over rhaenyra and call him the only valid king of this conflict in the annals of history, for no other reason than that he was the firstborn male child of viserys

And for sure Rhaenyra and her faction will do their own share of war crimes in the future once everyone starts playing dirty, but it is important that she is presented as just a normal person in the beginning; her succession is not doubted because she is uniquely bad of character, it is doubted because she breaks centuries of patriarchal tradition

[mrsjadecurtiss]

every time someone says “why didnt the eagles fly the ring into mordor” it pisses me off so much cause its usually a “casual watcher of the movies” criticism but the movies literally give the answer right there

like come on man. thats why they didnt. it was supposed to be a stealth mission. the end. cant have the eagles get hacked apart by huge fuckass dragons or hell speared by arrows or whatever cause theres a literal all seeing eye watchtower over the land

[mrsjadecurtiss]

Not fond of the many theories i see about jon taking mance' cloak and becoming king beyond the wall, like that's pretty much the plot of avatar (2009)... Not the direction i want asoiaf to pivot to. One of the best things about the wildling plot in acok/asos is the very fact that it doesnt fall into the typical pitfalls of "man from the oppressor class joins indigenuous culture" type stories, like jon stays in a side role, doesn't overtake leadership, doesn't become the main special boy that everyone else bows to, learns from them but then leaves to use what he learned to influence the politics of his own people instead of staying and "doing it better than them" because of his unique oppressor class skills

[mrsjadecurtiss]

watched a clip of utena and theres like a little monkey creature that ive seen noone ever mention or talk about and im supposed to accept this

[mrsjadecurtiss]

fandom has a lot of trouble grasping the concepts of "characters may lash out and say things that they dont mean" and "characters may say things that they meant one way but are received as having a different meaning by other characters"

[mrsjadecurtiss]

i always feel mance and his role going forward is criminally underanalyzed in fandom... not only is he one of the first mentioned characters in the books (name dropped early in the prologue) but he also appears by name(!) in grrm’s super old first outline of the books

[mrsjadecurtiss]

Lear in the pokemon masters story: hoopa was my friend for years but i never used a sync move... i fear i only trust in myself... i need several chapters of redemption to finally learn the power of friendship

Ghetsis who keeps telling me about how foolish he thinks pokemon trainer bonds are with his kyurem that he tortured for his evil deeds in the main games story: