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Both jaimie and brienne being in love with their respective king/queen, both being sworn to them as knights, and therefore both being a part of the chivalric idea of courtly romance (their love never truly being consumated or otherwise acted upon)- but jaime failing to live up to that through actually being with cersei whereas brienne would never consider even the idea of actually being with renly (although i'd say it's impossible to differentiate how much of that is her being a 'true' knight and how much is her thinking that he'd never want her anyway)

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And having one conversation with his mother is an immensely hard thing to do. and people throw rocks at him when he walks past their villages. and he has to deal with 500 weird men who want to marry or have sex with or impregante said teenage daughter. he is just trying to get her home to their weird drafty mountain home so she can be with him and Yen and her bitchy uncles.

Geralt is such a good protag to me because he is an impossibly good monster hunter and swordsman, has 1/3 of the continent's population (male and female) in love with him, is very articulate and intelligent- and yet he is still a bit of a loser. Girldad to deeply concerning teenager. Is in a 30-year-long situationship. Falls out with his best friend like they're on the playground. Spends all the money he barely scrapes up on a new jacket. Immediately ruins said jacket. So it goes.

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Geralt is such a good protag to me because he is an impossibly good monster hunter and swordsman, has 1/3 of the continent's population (male and female) in love with him, is very articulate and intelligent- and yet he is still a bit of a loser. Girldad to deeply concerning teenager. Is in a 30-year-long situationship. Falls out with his best friend like they're on the playground. Spends all the money he barely scrapes up on a new jacket. Immediately ruins said jacket. So it goes.

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Replaying Cyberpunk rn: evil corporations, rampant consumerism, the worst guy you know also being your best friend- all very realistic, but what makes me call the game's reality into question is that it tries to convince us of the idea that V could have passed their driving test

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Everybody acting like meredith being hot is some kind of revelation-she is an older lady who wants to kill you real bad. This is a tried and true formula.

Literally forever thinking about Meredith Stannard. The last major dragon age villain who wasn't 98 percent cartoonishly evil (because she was only 83 percent cartoonishly evil). She dresses like Andraste (this has to at least be a little sacrilegious?!?!). She wanted to make the man she considered her father proud. She serves as a foil to Hawke, and knows it. Right at the very end, after everyone has turned on her and she has committed to doing whatever it takes to rid the world of evil-she asks if she is truly doing the right thing. She is an inch away from turning back, and she refuses to do so. She has a cursed glowing sword that is 2/3rds of her height.

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Two days before period: I can't live here anymore. This place makes me feel so small. While I'm here I'm haunted by the girl I was and all of the women I might have been.

Day of period: A banana with some peanut butter sounds so good right now.

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There's something about Dragon Age 2, compared to every other game in the series.

Celene briefly touches on one of the main ideas here during part of her narration in the masked empire, "What Orlais needed, she thought, was another Blight. Not that it would seriously help, and she would never wish such destruction upon her empire. But Blights were, if not easy, at least simple. Gather everyone who can fight, throw them at the darkspawn, and hope the Grey Wardens could destroy the Archdemon." (The Masked Empire, pg.95).

And there is some truth to that. In a Blight once the archdemon is dead, it will take years for the land and people to recover, but other than some clean-up operations, the fighting's over. The day's won. Slaying an archdemon, sealing a breach, defeating elven gods, these are all immensely difficult, but they are also clear win conditions. Once our protagonists achieve these, they can mostly chill. (This is kinda twisted in Awakening and in Tresspasser, where our heroes learn that not everything was tied up so prettily, and not everything they did will last. But by the end, Corpheyus and the archdemon are still defeated; thats not undone.) There is no such win condition for Kirkwall.

Hawke defeats the Arishok, and the Qunari leave, but the mage/templar conflict is only getting worse. Hawke cuts down some criminals, but the vacuum they leave will be filled by this time next week. Slavers will return to the city for as long as there is profit to be made in the trading of flesh. The only permanent wins are for the companions through their personal quests. And even then they don't all get full victories. Hawke fights so hard, for years, but this city was built to drain the life from it's people.

And this all ties to Hawke's original goal, surviving, building a new home. Because these are works without end. Trying to defeat a great enemy, or saving the world, you've only gotta do that once. But saving a city, or a person, is a lifelong effort.

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if you have been really enjoying the tv show severance. and are looking for something similar to tide you over until season 3 then I'd have to recommend the video game Prey (2017), by arkane studios.

The games sci fi, and tackles themes like the relationship between memory and identity, capitalism and science, as well as family. and no spoilers, but the protagonist has a similar journey to mark, where they have different versions of themselves, and the question is asked, can these different yous ever be reconciled? are they all really you? are you them?

If you've played other immersive sims like dishonoured and you haven't played this then you need to get on it yesterday.

The games reactivity and writing blew me away when I was like 12 playing this for the first time and they still blow me away today. the game has so much heart and love behind it and that's pretty much my recommendation :) the game is £25 on steam but it goes on sale for less every now and then. i played it on console and it ran beautifully. (minus slightly long loading screens i guess, but this was on my ps4 and if im gonna be real it was a miracle that thing ran at all)

uh other selling points: benedict wong. sumalee montano. yuri subplot. beautiful level design.

(i guess this recommendation also goes the other way if you've played prey but haven't seen severance. then get on it i guess. or take your time we have a while until season 3)

screen caps below.

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Found this interaction posted on reddit and I'm biting drywall rn what is their deal???? 😭

Legit losing my mind over this they could really be exes cause clearly Eris has the capacity to be sweet like this I can see how a relationship could have initiated from things like this but then fall apart cause of *waves hand* everything else.

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you are two months old. for the entirety of your life you have wanted to escape the hell you were born into. you escape for less than an hour. you find out that you and your family made hell. you are forced back in. your evil twin commits identity theft against you. you take back your body and swear to help find your bfs missing wife. he gets her back. after everything. he gets to escape hell but at the cost of you and everyone else in it dying. you have wanted to leave since you were born but it is all you have. it is better than nothing. he gets everything he wanted and instead of taking it he stays with you. you take each other hand in hand and walk back into hell. for however long you will be allowed to stay. you are still two months old. this is also all happening while you are only eating like a quarter of an egg everyday. Just another day in the life of perhaps lumon's least enthusiastic macrodata refiner.

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Jame watching Helena eat one sixth of a hard boiled egg vs Helena watching mark house six platters of Chinese food

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LaCroix: There you are. I was informed of your presence in the building. Since you're here, I'll take the liberty of assuming you've destroyed the warehouse.... This is correct, yes?

The fledgeling with fifty dollars, a tire iron, a knife, a severed arm, and two pill bottles of estrogen up her ass:

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severance love... triangle???

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Slaughterhouse-Five/ Hadestown

who else up pondering how innately human it is to look back. how we can never help but do it. even when it dooms us, or especially when it dooms us.

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robert making stannis the lord of dragonstone kinda the original khia asylum.

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The Scoundrels