Color Me Curious
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
EXPECTATIONS
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YOU ARE THE REASON
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So how is it that second-hand embarrassment is the single most powerful and weakening emotion one can feel from media?
Tragedy? Delicious.
A hard-earned happy ending? Wonderful.
A convoluted narrative? Keeps you glued.
Simple slice of life? It’s entertaining.
Second-hand embarrassment? Hang on, g, I gotta pause this for fifteen minutes, no, I cannot continue watching this right now, I am just not strong enough.
we have to bring back the erotic thriller. in the 1970s a beautiful man could go to a beautiful italian villa and fuck every member of the family living there and then leave and that was the entire movie. and you could smoke indoors
Ad blocking/reporting should have some sort of an "I never want to see this fucking ad again and if you fail me and show it to me again I will track down where you live and fucking kill you" option.
I love when Targaryens randomly lock in and serve devastating amounts of supermodel cunt as the camera focuses on them for several seconds
Every Targ character deserves at least one moment like this I think
Team Black. House of the Dragon fanart.
Do readers understand that when reading ASOIAF or Fire & Blood, we’re supposed to criticize the misogyny, not justify it?
We’re meant to read about women being usurped, abused, or sold into political marriages and disagree with it, not adopt the same misogynistic worldview the characters inside the story have. The text is showing a patriarchal society, but that doesn’t mean the reader is supposed to side with it.
GRRM is a known liberal, and that perspective shows in his books. He constantly critiques those systems through the narrative and through many of his characters, especially with the main five (arya, dany, jon, tyrion and bran), who are outsiders and society rejects
#fave fictional fail marriage 💜
Like I’m sorry I know Dumbledore has to be the Ice-Hearted Chessmaster but!! I think when he saw ten year old Remus and his living situation (no friends, his parents terrified of anyone finding out), he saw his sister.
Just like when he saw Molly crying about Percy still not coming home, he spoke to her as someone who knows Exactly what Percy has to overcome. And truly empathizes.
He looks at Draco and feels real pity. He looks at Harry and feels a real sense of dread of what has to happen.
I think we can talk about Dumbledore’s flaws and his use of people…without denying his humanity and genuine feelings/fears about doing this The Right Way. The best way he can. And maybe he doesn’t achieve that—but he felt that burden, for sure. And not everything he did in his life was for power or to move a chess piece.
Honestly I feel like one of the most… upsetting… things about Dumbledore is precisely that: Dumbledore is warm and human and cares deeply about people. He cares deeply about Harry. He grieves over every ruthless choice he makes. One of the most unsettling things about Dumbledore is that he is not a heartless chessmaster. He’s a chessmaster who loves and cares for each one of his pawns and makes the plays he needs to make anyway.
I think the reason the fandom wants so badly to make Dumbledore a bad guy is that it’s kind of horrifying to think that a good person, who cares very much about people, could do what Dumbledore did. But Dumbledore does care, he wants to act for the best, he wants to be kind. Dumbledore wants desperately to be exactly what he appears most of the time: a kind old man with a preoccupation with muggle candy. Unfortunately, he’s also the Savior of the Wizarding World. He’s personally responsible for seeing that Voldemort is dealt with, and before Voldemort, he was personally responsible for dealing with Grindelwald. Is that responsibility self-imposed? Probably. But also, we don’t actually see anyone else stepping up to that plate.
Certainly, I think that’s the thing about Dumbledore that f***s Harry up the most: that absolutely, undeniably, Dumbledore loved him. Harry, who was with Dumbledore in the cave and on the Astronomy tower, knows how deep Dumbledore’s regrets went. The sacrifices Dumbledore made hurt him, and he made them anyway. And now Harry has Dumbledore’s job: he’s the Savior. And Harry has to wonder: would he be able to make the calls that Dumbledore did? Would he be able to set up some kid who had to die?
It’s a lot more comfortable to imagine Dumbledore to be cold.
(three decades into my life) sorry I wasn’t paying attention, can we start again?
SO the other day we were talking abt Gansey Family Homophobia and how you said gansey's family thinks/assumes he's gay - can u expand on that?
I had like, seven hundred words of an answer for this written, but hey! Whatever!
Disclaimer: I don’t think this was the authorial intent but I don’t care because the author is dead, the Gansey is bi, etc.
Basically, rereading that conversation where Helen finds out Gansey bribed the headmaster for one of his friends and immediately goes, “Are you sleeping with Adam*?” makes me feel like that’s a suspicion that Helen has had for a very long time.
(* I’ve seen people read this as her thinking it’s Ronan, but I read the scene over multiple times, and her dialogue is “Which one is it? The trailer park one? Are you sleeping with him?” and Ronan isn’t mentioned in dialogue until later on when Gansey says brings up a dead father. Also, Helen’s appearances largely tend to be connected more to Adam than to Ronan.)
I think that Gansey’s parents–much like Adam’s parents–probably get the impression that he’s not straight. With Adam, that’s textual canon–we have Adam mentioning that he’s terrified of what his father could have found in his room and then later mentioning that he has magazine clippings of men he finds attractive, and then we get the rude comments about his relationship with Ronan later on. With Gansey, it’s more of a thing that you can infer through reading back through the Gansey family scenes with Helen’s assumption in mind.
Helen’s very interested in Blue’s first introduction into the group, which follows a scene where Gansey is incredibly visibly edgy about Blue and Adam holding hands.
Helen makes several comments throughout the series about finding Adam attractive, and those comments start up after she sees Gansey’s response to Adam/Blue. (Her original comments about him before this scene are the general “Who, trailer park boy? The poor one?” etc classist garbage.) You can read this as her making flirty comments about Adam in order to see if she gets a rise out of Gansey, because she’s trying to feel out just who he was jealous of in that situation.
Gansey brings both Blue and Henry around to the Gansey Family Brunch or whatever, and I got the same impression about everyone trying to feel out which of the two Gansey was actually dating. He doesn’t say it out loud in this scene, as far as I remember. The Gansey parents are far more kind to Blue than they are about Adam and Ronan, regardless of Blue representing just as much of a departure from their lifestyle. Helen ends up prodding Gansey about how he should kiss Blue, and it’s–it’s again one of those things where, to me, it’s like, “If you’re dating the other one, keep her around anyway.”
The positive response to Blue from the Gansey family also like, reeks of “thank god he’s dating a girl”.
A lot of stuff in Gansey’s past that I talked about earlier this week also comes into play here–like, how little his parents seemed to be concerned about keeping him close as a kid. A lot of that is that Gansey’s response to trauma is not pretty or neatly packaged, which makes it good for them to let him be an Eccentric World Traveler instead of That Child Who Has Fits At Senator Johnson’s Brunch, but I think if they think he’s gay then letting him stay out of the public eye is also beneficial to them.
Lots of the comments about Adam and Ronan–Ronan specifically–make me think that the Ganseys know Ronan’s gay and don’t approve of Gansey’s closeness with them. Helen says something in the first book about how their father calls Ronan and Adam much worse things that she does, and I’m sure that in addition to poor/new money/etc there’s some shittalking about Ronan’s sexuality in there somewhere.
This post is not any shorter than the other one I wrote, but it’s hopefully more coherent, lmao. I could talk for days about the parallels between Adam’s relationship with sexuality and his parents and Gansey/Gansey’s parents, but that’s not what we’re here for!!!
i find it so interesting when people take adam’s analysis of gansey as fact when it’s clearly shown that there are parts of gansey that adam doesn’t know yet, and that sometimes both his idolization and resentment alters his assessment of him:
an example is adam saying to blue in trb that gansey is friends with ronan because “it makes him feel better about being gansey” which is such an interesting take that he says with such certainty. it definitely has some truth to it but also comes from adams at the time lack of understanding of ronan and jealousy of their friendship. gansey is friends with ronan because ronan is fiercely loyal and honest, which adam doesn’t really understand yet, so he states what he understands of it as fact.
another one is gansey on fire, which ronan clearly tells us that adam has never seen because gansey significantly calms down when he’s with adam. adam talks a lot about ganseys innocence and ignorance, especially when it comes to more of the darker things they deal with (whelk, kavinsky, greenmantle) but he has no idea that gansey himself can be just as wild (like he has no idea gansey watched ronan punch kavinsky at the substance party and threw a molotov cocktail at kavinsky car) so when adam describes gansey, especially at the start, he still thinks of gansey as this innocent magnanimous person because that is all he sees
taking adam’s perception of gansey at face value as fact really dilutes their relationship and their characters and i think is where a lot of mischaracterization of gansey comes from. gansey isn’t just the innocent golden boy, and adam is not a perfect narrator, especially when it comes to his view of gansey (but is also seen with blue and ronan too) — i think as their friendships deepens he gains better understanding but it’s important to remember for both of their characterizations!
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Rereading the raven cycle for the third time since the first (first time was after Blue Lily Lily Blue came out) and I feel so paternal about these kids now. I was 15 reading these books and just turned 25. I see them and see younger self in them, but I still feel like I want to grow up to be like them. Is that odd? Probably.
During my first and second rereads (the last one was in 2020-2021 based on my handwriting) I annotated the fuck out of all the books. It’s interesting (read: slightly disturbing bc I was in the throes of unmedicated depression and anxiety) to see my thoughts down on paper and how they’ve changed since then.
sexually repressed people be like “i have an ancient evil stirring within me. no one can know” and its literally just craving intimacy
It's such a disappointment that tearing someone's throat out with your teeth kills them. Sex would be so much more fun if we could maul each other and come back from it.
I think if you get killed in a sexual context the universe should just give you that one for free and let you go again.
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a decade later and this is still the best piece of television dialogue ever written
