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"you came back." I say, my eyes filled with happy tears. "never left." answers the show about queer pirates that changed my life.

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YOUR DRAGON NAME

last two letters of your first name

middle two letters of your last name

first two letters of your mother’s name

last letter of your father’s name

mine would be Urlelan. Reblog and tag this with yours!

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i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

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rocky horror is the worst and is also transmisogynistic can we please finally get over this shit movie

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what you need to understand about recommending a show to me is that no matter how much we both know I'll like it, I can't watch it until the Neurodivergence Department in my brain approves it. I don't know when that will be, and I don't have any more control over it than you do.

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This. This is what I want.

Mary's definition of love in episode ten was beautiful, and everything Stede needed to hear to put the pieces together and have his closure. But it wasn't *entirely* accurate.

Love *is* like breathing. Natural, unavoidable, and sometimes? If something has gone wrong, if something doesn't quite fit properly, if some piece of someone is injured? Painful as fuck. And Hard.

...and I need Stede to face *that* part of what Love Is in season 2.

Thinking about how so much of season one is just a happy accident. Stede wants to become a pirate and he ends up with this crew just by happenstance. He doesn't understand what piracy really entails. He kills Badminton on accident, twice. He goes into everything fumbling and naive. Ed finds him and falls in love with him by accident. There's nothing deliberate about any of it. He wasn't expecting to find this bizarre little man in the middle of the ocean with his fireplace surrounded by books on a wooden vessel and he wasn't expecting to fall in love with it. He wasn't expecting to hear "you wear fine things well" and Stede wasn't expecting it to mean so much. They keep stumbling into each other and pressing on parts of themselves they were never sure were okay to lean into.

and I think, I hope, that the second season has the reverse of that. we already see it at the end: with Stede being deliberate about his choice, finally. He deliberately gives up his wealth and goes into piracy knowing what it means. He deliberately chooses his crew. He is going to have to be deliberate about loving Ed, choosing Ed. He's going to have to look at his life and choose all of it for any of it to work: the violence and the poverty and the family and the love.

And I'm sure that Ed, who has already chosen, already been deliberate about loving Stede in those final episodes, is going to have a steel-lock on his emotions. So Stede is going to have to woo him on purpose. Break down those walls he cracked already on accident but this time again with intent. Once more with feeling. Once more with purpose. After all love is so often falling in love with the accidental and sticking around for the intentional.

Because at the end of the day choice is the important thing, no matter what lucky stars led you to it in the first place.

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"Martin was only speaking out of trauma and self-worth issues and even in the most boring, utterly pedestrian of situations or universes, he and Jon still would have met, maybe disliked each other at first, quickly discovered it was only because of some kind of ridiculously silly misunderstanding or misinterpretation, fallen head over heels in love, and the blossom of their romance would have been unequivocally equally disgustingly sappy and beautiful blooming in adversity or mundanity" is a hill I will WILLINGLY BLISSFULLY INSISTENTLY die upon every single time FULL STOP.

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Subtitles and Closed Captions that say things like “[SPEAKS GERMAN]” or “[SPEAKS NATIVE LANGUAGE]” are an accessibility failure and studios should do better.

I don’t care if the characters wouldn’t understand - a viewer who knows German will understand a German character.

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It feels like deeply maladaptive that the human body's response to intense hunger is to feel nauseous. Like what was the goal there

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do you ever think “ogggghhhh narrative parallels that’s crazy” when you’re experiencing your real life

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I couldn't stop thinking about this? Because...

The fact that Icarus and his father used the wings to literally *escape prison*? Isn't part of the story you hear repeated. Sure it's there, but it's not discussed. It's not the focus. The Captivity, the *experience* of The Captivity is all but left out of the narrative. Hell, most people probably don't even remember Icarus' father was *with* him when he fell because they only know the name from the symbolic references.

So the idea that he'd just gone from zero freedom to what felt like total freedom is lost, and all we see is someone taking their freedom too far. Not the conditions that led them to that pendulum swing.

i can't vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. "oh i'd never do that i would have remembered my father's warning and been fine". do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn't want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you're too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you'd be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.

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I had noticed a trend in some of Alex’s characters recently, and I just had to make a collection of what I had heard.

Warning: spoilers for MAG 186 and RQG 177. 

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Describe your handwriting without using the words “messy” or neat”

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What are the first three tags you get when you type 'then'

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damn we got 2022 tomorrow

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It’s interesting, both from a narrative perspective and from a worldbuilding perspective, that barring Bill Cipher, nothing supernatural ever enters the Mystery Shack without being, in some way, “invited” by its human residents. In this way the Shack is presented as a sort of refuge from the supernatural even before it explicitly gains that status during Weirdmageddon, making cases where the sanctuary is breached (Gideon Rises, Scary-oke, A Tale of Two Stans, as well as any time Bill is involved) hit all the harder. In this essay I will