Come for The Dragons, Stay For The Hugs

Hi, I’m Tine (she/her.) I post about writing, books, tv series, theatre, and learning the hurdy gurdy. And of course, dragons.

[irlplasticlamb]

i want to fight for winterfell, lady sansa.

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[colortheparacosmist]

how monumental it is that orpheus and eurydice’s first meeting is their introduction. we, the audience, must be present for the start of their story, and the start of the story is when they meet. and that is how they are introduced, because they are orpheus and eurydice. they are a package deal and in the end the story is for us, so we are watching them meet each other as we learn of who the are again.

[swingsetindecember]

i feel like people think companies will be altruistic and do the right thing regardless of government intervention. like no, companies are driven by capitalism. to make the most out of the day and money they have and maximize profits, especially fortune 500 companies

like without government intervention, strawberry jam would have wood in it. like it's a thing. food companies realized that they could use less of the expensive strawberries as ingredients and just use wood. there are laws you cannot legally call it strawberry jam if you do this. you have to call it a strawberry product or spread. food companies are always trying to get that shit through. they have lobby groups pushing that all the time

it is more expensive to put metal detectors in a food processing plant. companies want to cut costs. it is a legal requirement in a lot of countries to have them. so it forces companies to install them.

also to do routine inspections. that is a government requirement. so are building codes. a lot of codes are the bare minimum. like some companies will exceed the code and have more protections but a lot don't. like if it is not in the code, they don't do it. so that's why having governing bodies that regulate building safety, worker safety, food safety and product safety are crucial. because without them, your employer will not see the need to have exit doors with quick release handles, or do routine fire sprinkler inspections or have road salt for the sidewalks. some of it is basic fucking stuff.

companies when left alone do not regulate themselves. it's been historically untrue. companies want to give you a product that is cheap for them to make and that they can sell at the highest price so they can get the most profit. for everyone who loves capitalism, that's what it is. the free market will not self-regulate. if you don't have anti-monopoly laws and anti-wage theft laws and workers' protections, the open market will not fix that organically.

when government officials talk about removing protections it is not good. like they were put in place for a reason. like drinking water and food regulations were written in blood. same with human rights and freedoms. like people died for the building code to be written. people died for occupational healthy and safety codes to be written. there is a reason food safety codes are there. companies will look at 100 people dying and say it was the cost of doing business. it is the government's job to say that is an unacceptable and for companies to do better

[ieatneongreenglowsticks]

“You want STARS, I’ve got a sky full!!”

Amber Gray’s performance from the pro-shot is one of the best things I’ve seen in the screen this year, I’d go back to watch her on the big screen again and again and again, I hope to see one her performances live in the future.

[lepetitghostcat]

Cause here's the thing. To know how it ends. And still begin to sing it again. As if it might turn out this time. I learned that from a friend of mine

[andrew-garfielld]

If your world is to survive, I must light the way. Because I am the Shield of the People. I am Rhaenyra the Chosen. I am the Prince That Was Promised.

Emma D'Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S03E08 | "The Treasons at Tumbleton"

[gameofthronesdaily]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON "The Lord of the Tides" A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS "Seven" GAME OF THRONES "Mockingbird"

[loveyazy]

Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, First of her name, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms, protector of the realm.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-?) 3.02 | Queen’s Landing

[stupendousnightinspo]

me when I’m a lesbian who was forced to have children as a child and my fated half is getting eaten out and praised by another woman and my daughter is having a breakdown and a child and I’m miles away and the assassin sent with me to kill my son is killed by my son and so I have to kill my son who wants to kiss me to somehow get back to my daughter and I don’t want to kill my son with my own hands but most of all I don’t want my son to kiss me again and my son’s witch lover won’t let me kill my son and won’t let me be gay even in dreams and so I’m trapped with my scary son I tried to kill and a hot 200 yo witch who hates me

[queerautism]

Extremely fucking stupid bc genuinely who cares. Walking sticks are literally for anyone. They help you when you walk around. Perfectly healthy and abled bodied people use them while hiking because they just work.

And what if it was just a fashion thing? It used to be trendy. It gives your outfit a different vibe. Experimenting with fashion is fun, there's literally zero things wrong with using a cane because you like the way it looks or how it makes you feel.

Every single person choosing to use a mobility aid in public normalises their use, and makes it less likely for me to get harassed out there. It just becomes a regular thing you see while out in public. And that's the exact thing ableist TERFs like Stock are actually against - Not even mentioning the absolutely obvious misogyny here.

Covid was a mass disabling event. It continues to affect many, many people. Denying reality and gaslighting disabled people will not make us go away

[ramblingandpie]

My neurologist is thrilled. Even just 10 years ago, he had so much more difficulty getting patients to use canes or walking sticks. Especially when, like me, about 80% of my walking is just fine. That 20%? Migraine with hemiplegia/hemialgesia/hemianalgesia (yes all in the same hemi). Chronic pain in my feet, which sometimes means cramps that make me unstable. I use a cane for short distances, rollator for medium, and have a mobility scooter for long distances.

He went on a mini-rant a while ago that was basically thanking me for using one because know what happens when someone is 80% fine to walk without a cane?

Falls. Major fall injuries including head injuries and TBI. Minor injuries leading to avoidance of walking and the resulting deconditioning leading to that 80% becoming 60%, then continuing to decline.

Whatever helps people move and reduces their risk of injury is amazing.

Mobility devices are great!

[queerautism]

I talk about this a lot - People simply do not take falls seriously enough. They are extremely dangerous. Anything you can do to mitigate fall risks, especially as you become older, is very very important.

As you said, the stigma against mobility aids used to be much stronger, and many older people straight up refuse to use them. They are the main demographic that are the expected users, the 'understandable' use case, that most people agree makes sense. Their doctors are often begging them to use them. And yet the stigma is so great, and has such power, that people with very reduced mobility would rather continue to struggle and push through without them until they have a fall that greatly injures them. It's so unnecessary and so heartbreaking.

We need to push for mobility aids to be seen as a normal, regular part of society. Something for every kind of person who can benefit from one in any way. That's the only way to eliminate that stigma and empower everyone, so no one is put in the position to sacrifice their safety for the sake of not becoming othered and judged.

[luna-azzurra]

It is easy to think writing only becomes real when someone reads it, likes it, comments on it, publishes it, buys it, validates it. But the work already mattered when you made it. You practiced attention. You built a scene from nothing. You turned a feeling into language. You learned one tiny thing about craft. An audience can give the work a second life, yes. But the first life happens when you sit down and make it.

[jaxs-beanie]

Had a sad thought about how Persephone dances every time she comes up top, and Patrick Page says Epic III is the first time Hades has danced in thousands of years.

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Possible readings of Eurydice taking Hades’ offer (not mutually exclusive!):

Sexual. Definitely implied by a lot of language in the musical (“Hey, Little Songbird” being presented as seduction; “a lot can happen behind closed doors”, etc.; Hades going for her to make Persephone jealous) and by Orpheus’ feelimg of betrayal.

Her starving to death or dying of exposure. Pros: she’s constantly mentioned as hungry and cold leading up to it, she’s dead, “Flowers” has death imagery. Cons: she has no agency in it.

Depression. The palpable sense of exhaustion in all her words, “I want to lay down forever”. Hoplessness, despair, giving up. Enough of a choice that she could in theory be blamed for it but clearly shouldn’t be.

Collaboration. I like how this one lets you play with the story. She’s joining in with “Why We Build the Wall” when she gets to Hadestown. It adds something to the muses’ “there’s no telling what you’ll do” and the overall “When the Chips are Down” song. Joining the people causing your misery to get a paycheck, food, shelter. Politically a stronger metaphor than the sex one, and strengthens Orpheus’ sense of betrayal and Eurydice’s feelings of regret. Selling your soul and realizing you got nothing for it. Eurydice like Hades is a pragmatist, Persephone and Orpheus are the idealists. Gives her a stronger character arc – in any of the first three readings I think Orpheus is 80%+ to blame, for ignoring her, but this one equalizes it more.

[tine-aislinge]

Love these so much! And I agree with what people were saying in the tags that it could be any of these and all of them at once. I remember thinking when I first saw it how it also reminded me of an accidental drug overdose.

What I wanted was to fall asleep Close my eyes and disappear...

Lily white and poppy red I trembled when he laid me out You won't feel a thing, he said When you go down And then when the raw realization hits her on the line:

Nothing gonna wake me now

It just reminded me of desperately seeking relief from the pain of living and starving for awhile, but not intending to die.

The last one you mentioned- Collaboration- is so compelling I agree. I am just in awe of how well Eurydice is written as a character. I love how you can completely understand her motivations, her tragic flaws and her worldview in a way that makes you empathize with her. You can't judge her for what she chose even though it fills her with regret. And her arc of hope! I love her so much. I wish there were more women characters so well written. I mean, Persephone is as well!

[visenyaism]

The thing is I feel like Helaena suicide was in fact extremely clear as to the reasons behind her doing it and George complaining about lack of “fresh new horror” in terms of Maelor is kind of indicative of his overall poor writing of women in f&b as a whole does this make sense

Like can a woman not kill herself for her damn self these days does a baby have the be involved in everything

[visenyaism]

you really could do some compelling thematic work with the graybeards and the winter wolves. like they are a suicide cult come down from the isolated north to take the lives of younger people in this horrible kind of meaningless civil war they have little actual stake in because dying violently is more masculine AND killing yourself is expected of men of a certain age in this culture because surviving the winter is for women. Like Roddy the Ruin was following 15 yr old Oscar Tully around constantly encouraging him to escalate the war crime count on the Ormund-Gwayne season and throwing his life away at war because being already dead has caused him to lose the entirety of his humanity in the Criston Cole season would have been so interesting to get into at all. But the masses need their keys jangled I suppose

[vhagar-balerion-meraxes]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S03E07 - "The Dragon In Winter"

[corpusants]

they really put her through all that in the second episode. when she was only two episodes old.