#what a fascinating man

[janebcnnct]

liebgott giving shifty grief about the hunting only to immediately be concerned when he alludes to having to stay in the army…i see you good friend liebgott

[cr0wleather]

"I lived by YOUR mandates!"

[homosexual--mothman]

Saw a post about submission in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to the sheep it kills wolves for and it got me thinking about Jayne Cobb. He spends, like, the whole show getting his leash yanked by either Mal or Zoë; off the top of my head I can think of 3 examples from the first episode alone, and about 5 in total. . In The Message Womack calls him a dog left off the leash. In my heart, had the show been continued, he would've been redeemed into more of a "jerk who actually cares, very deep down" kind of guy, in large part because of that scene from the first episode where he's kneeling at the window to the infirmary watching Simon operate on Kaylee, but from a place where no one's gonna see him, or see that he cares. In my transgender interpretation of him, dysphoria and how a man is "supposed" to act also plays into this. I really cannot fault people for not liking him in canon (especially when he has lines like "She's cute, too! 'Cept I don't think she's all there. Course, not all of her has to be!" about a 17 year old girl. I really think that's out of character because he's set up as an asshole, not a rapist. I feel there's a distinction to be made there) but the version I've rewritten in my head is so special to me.

Also I feel like there's something to be said for trans men and affinity with wolves/canines in general (my favourite animal growing up was the humble dingo), and also dehumanisation, being perceived as aggressive the moment we medically transition, so on and so forth, but 6pm on Christmas Eve is not my prime thinking time, so if people are interested and I can muster the brainpower I'll elaborate some other time.

Anyway. I mourn what Jayne could have been, had the writing not been so cisgender and misogynistic, and also had the show gone on longer. I really need to get around to that rewrite.

[burningdreambanana]

I do actually wonder where Murad is being more truthful. Does he genuinely believe that the Ottoman Empire will have a better chance with a new dynasty, or is it just a pretext, and he wants to take it to the grave with him?

Is the idea that the big factions (janissary, sipahi, harem, statesmen, scholars) + the people would accept the Crimeans feasible? Did he believe it to be even if it wasn't?

If he wants to destroy the state, is it just about not letting Mother win and/or the belief she is destroying the state from inside, or does he also believe it doesn't get any better than him?

It's probably a mix of all of these tbh.

[jellogram]

Jim Morrison's interviews and journals are always wildly entertaining because on one hand he was a very complicated person who was flattened by his fans into a one-dimensional sexy poet bad boy, and this really bothered him. On the other hand, he once wrote a very flowery poem about his cock.

[ferretteeth]

I love Jerma. who else could feed an autocompletive generative text AI the sentence “I eat boogers hahha” and end up with erotic Korra fanfiction

[radiaking]

coop would call someone pretty but it always would sound like an insult....

[thehollowwriter]

The more I learn about Walt Disney the more I dislike him and the more I want to study him underba microscope