#I’m annoyed and tired

[ratsniffer77]

At a course training day and the instructor is 45 minutes late with no warning or clue when she will actually get here.

The 50 yr old lady I front of me is playing My Singing Monsters.

The guy next to me has been watching documentaries for the past half hour.

The girl behind me just finished a book.

Wtf is happening.

[huneyism]

i’m just tired of my friend constantly feeling the need to take care of me and acting like i can’t do anything. id alwaya be up on me and wanting my attention. please let me relax

[therosevest]

[lunar-years]

? He very much did also write Ted Lasso btw. He was a credited writer on Ted Lasso. He was in the writer’s room for Ted Lasso. He was writing it!

[spoopdeedoop]

when there’s gardens across our collarbone?? or soemthing??

(fanart of this awesome fic by pittedpeaches and my god this fic keeps me up at night i reread it every day i love it so much puts it in my mouth)

bonus doodle:

[ccxssi]

Subtle foreshadowing…

[zwoftt]

how dorian and ashton feel after saying and making decisions that are in character for them based on the experiences they’ve been through and that make the story more interesting yet still manage to get backlash from it:

[nicomoon69]

a malnourished, tired, looking like death and very scarred Jason makes so much more sense to me than anything else. even if the pit magically made him taller and like buff/fixed his issues before death he wouldn’t be able to upkeep that. he might’ve been like that right after he came back and in his early RH days but as time dragged on and especially after Bruce and everyone else rejects his twisted way of reaching out he just can’t (also idk maybe it’s him finding comfort in how he lived before Bruce since taking care of himself might be too much like when he felt he was still at least somewhat cared for)

just the messy floor with trash, empty alcohol bottles and cigarette packs is perfect. I may not like how they handle everything but just the way Jason copes and how that affects him physically. perfect. love it. will draw it when I get back home

[somesthingsomething]

Once again, I would like to remind everyone- Lewis won with a shorter margin to max then max won to lando in Barcelona, at this rate he would have had him in like 3-4 laps.

Not a word about that from anyone.

Max said I’m happy to be here in the cooldown room.

Max was the first driver on track to congratulate Lewis.

He drowned him on the podium.

Not a word.no could’ve should’ve would’ve.

[whereismyhat5678]

I had a clear vision with this one.

I did NOT need to spend that much time on this BUT DAMN IT IT’S FUNNY-

Context: Peppino was annoying the fuck outta’ him and it got so bad he wanted to take him home.

He was done with his bullshit- 💀

[akindplace]

All of this is temporary, and my time on this earth is very limited, so I’m might as well deal with what I need to deal and move forward while trying to enjoy this little life of mine

[deityofhearts]

a moodboard by yours truly

[claudiaeparvier]

Interesting the way craving a canon mlm ship brings out the misogyny in so many people.

[aquared]

my brain : stop making self indulged designs for your au and calling them “ concepts ” you’re only gonna get attached and use them anyway

me asf :

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

When I see stuff like this I kinda want to bash my head into a wall:

To start off, I’m not sure whether this person was commenting on book or show Cersei, but honestly, it doesn’t even matter because she’s so much more than the ‘ambitious villain’ or the ‘murderous girlboss’ tropes in both the book and show.

(Of course, I do have my issues with the way Cersei was written in the show like most people but this is simply a rant post so I’m not going to go through the differences of Show vs Book Cersei)

Cersei is a female character who was shaped by her environment, who’s insecurities were created by her environment, and she’s a woman who’s idiotic mistakes can be traced back to how her environment shaped her. She’s much more than a murderous girlboss, she’s both a victim of the system and also a beneficiary of it, while also acting as an agent of it to keep the status quo while also desiring what the system denied her.

Cersei is NUANCED and complicated and even now people hate that about her and want her to have been a purely evil woman handcrafted in a vacuum, ignoring the context of her life because readers would rather not engage with Cersei’s victimhood and nuances because that ruins their idea of: She Was The Problem and Always The Problem. (People would rather say that she deserved her walk of shame instead of interacting meaningfully with the theme of systematic gender-based violence that is so prevalent in Cersei’s story. The exploration of patriarchal violence in Show Alicent’s story is done so horribly in comparison.)

And what really pissed me off about these tags is that this person has clearly decided that they don’t care to interact with the nuance of Cersei and are fine with flattening her, and yet they shit on others for not liking Alicent.

Because of the way Alicent is written in this show, she almost always has a ‘woe is me I can do no wrong’ attitude, which of course drives people away from the character (woe is me I deserve to take a child’s eye 🥺). However, what actually annoys me is how she’s made out to be stupid, foolish, ignorant, and inconsistent due to the horrible writing of this show, all of which are deviations from her book characterization. Also, I despise it when people want me to support writing decisions and changes made in adaptations that are downright misogynistic and are meant to attract the male gaze.

But what pisses many people, including myself, off is how the changes made negatively impacted many other characters. Alicent’s terrible characterization is like a black hole that distorts and warps the whole story! It’s annoying af!

So when people like this say: ‘She’s nuanced and people just can’t handle it 🙄;’ I say: No. She’s horribly written and a different character from the book and people have a right to be critical about these changes that stripped a female character of 1) her agency and 2) her intelligence!

And the thing is, there was little reason for the writers to have made all these changes to Alicent’s characterization! In the book she is an interesting character with clear motives and understandable reactions. She’s cunning and ambitious and acts the way a noble lady who became queen would. And despite her clear ambitions and dislike of Rhaenyra, she still makes a comment wondering about who would protect the Princess from Ser Criston, and yet she then takes Cole into her service after his falling out with Rhaenyra. That’s a perfect example of nuance! Show Alicent could never compare to book Alicent’s clear moral values and consistent disregard of said moral values in pursuit of power.

And because of this, Book Alicent isn’t easy to stomach. It’s hard for most people to come to terms with a character like her and it’s even harder for people to feel sympathetic for her at the end when she went mad with grief.

On the other hand, Show Alicent was designed in a way to garner pity, and when the writers felt like her current arc wouldn’t be enough to garner the specific reaction they wanted they would then throw in a time skip and suddenly she’s completely different and yet still Thee victim. She’s designed to be as sympathetic as fucking possible! The camera angles, the background music, and the lighting is set up in a way to make sure you the viewer feels pity or sympathy for her! Cause that’s her role in this series! She’s thee Ultimate Victim!

But too bad for the writers as many people are fed up with this kind of inconsistent writing. Even when the writers created a whole new challenge for Alicent where she’s shitted on by the green council and forced to face the beast she helped to raise, I and many others could never feel any satisfaction as it was clear that once again Alicent was being made to be Thee Ultimate Victim who was just led astray by the patriarchy and was a victim of it and was only just realizing it so don’t you pity her don’t you feel sad for her and now she’s trying to do the right thing so pls pls pls pity her 🥺~ So it shouldn’t be surprising that many people are annoyed by these eNLiGhtEnEd changes that have led to a complete deviation from the source material.

To summarize: Cersei is an excellent fucking character who’s by no means easy to stomach, and because she’s not easy to stomach she’s often reduced to annoying ass tropes by dumbasses who are reading above their comprehension level. But when you actually try to understand her, you can easily see why she turned out the way she did and you can feel sympathy for her while understanding that she’s both victim and perpetrator! On the other hand, Show Alicent is a mess and HOTD is trying to make her serve a different narrative role than she did in the books so ofc people are going to be unhappy with the changes as book readers are once again faced with the annoying reality that the writers don’t give a fuck about the source material.

[fairyfairchild]

Honestly the one thing I don’t miss at all since I’ve distanced myself from fandoms is this discourse of “proship” and “anti proship” that feels more like stupid standards on both sides like you either are a horrible person or the pure uwu child of god personified and there’s no in between. There’s only WRONG ships and RIGHT ships and god forbid you have nuance. This has been around for a while (I certainly remember being called “problematic” for shipping Sheith in Voltron a couple years ago) but nowadays is absurd and EVERYWHERE. Take One Piece lulaw as an exemple. Law is 26 Luffy is 19 so it’s a WRONG ship cause that’s unacceptable. Or “they are both consenting adults” as if only underaged ships can be abusive. When it’s completing different when you take, let’s say, someone that loves Law as a character, relates to him, also loves Luffy and can understand how Law’s fucked up traumatize ass would fall in devotion for this annoying sun personified OR someone that draws Luffy like he’s a fucking twelve years old. Unless LITERAL CHILDREN are involved, no ship in inherently good or bad and blindly defending either of those statements is stupid. People are good or bad. Behavior is good or bad. Not fucking checklist information of fictional characters.