#Palace politics

[unnieshimkoongkdramas]

Bloody Heart - Finally, Kang Han Na in Full Force

Actors: Kang Han Na, Lee Joon, Jang Hyuk, Heo Sung Tae, Choi Ri, Yoon Seo Ah Lee Tae is the king of Joseon. His father, King Sun Jong, was under the control of Park Gye Won, the left minister and together they deposed the king. Lee Tae is trying to regain control of the palace and his kingdom after his father gave it to Park Gye Won. His betrothed, Yoo Jeong’s family was killed during the pro.…

[necromancer-snail]

Can I offer you blorbos from my show in these trying times?

[sophiamcdougall]

God, for a country with a literal king and a generally well-earned reputation for excessive flummery and nonsense, I genuinely love how when we finally get our arses in gear to vote a guy out, he just Goes. Right then, same day, no fucking about, no months of waiting, no creaking pomp and ceremony, no TIME TO PLAN AND NEARLY EXECUTE A COUP, goodbye, the end.

[iswearimahuman]

y’know you could do a lot with Edwin’s age. And I’m not just talking about gay repression. I mean like dude died before women were even aloud to vote. You could come up with some fun stuff with that. I’m sure he’s partially up to date with modern times but like there’s probably a lot he doesn’t know about. Like he missed out on 70 years of pop culture.

[vigilskeep]

i am curious about why this is such a universally pro-bhelen website. i mean i’m right there with you i love that freak but i’m surprised it’s such an unquestioned take, especially when i don’t think the main pro-bhelen talking points online or the consequences you will get in the epilogue slides for selecting either ruler are actually very well spelled-out in game for the new player

[fusionfanatic]

Research for an au fic I’m working on: how would Azula act and behave in a modern setting? And I don’t mean re-imagine her character within a modern context and stories. This isn’t Azula, but she’s an overachieving American high schooler with strict and overbearing parents, or Azula, but she’s the soon-to-be CEO of her father’s multinational conglomerate based in Japan or something. No, I mean how would Azula as she is in canon, Fire nation princess and all, act and behave if you simply just took her from her world and plopped her into [insert current year you’re reading this]?

[paraphwrites]

I once again come to you with a proposal for later seasons dbda:

They eventually do an entire season, where every episode is supposed to pay homage to another popular tumblr show. Part of this is that episodes are release weekly, instead of dropping the entire season at once.

The superwholock episodes are of course released in three consecutive weeks. There is a jensen ackles cameo, because he's still not over supernatural ending. The johnlock conspiracy theorists swear up and down that the sherlock episode used plot points from the never released "real" final season. Everyone jokes how during those three weeks, tumblr has become unusable, despite it not being that bad.

The release of the star trek episode coincides with the irish reunification, which unfortunately didn't happen in the year of our lord 2024. Tumblr implodes.

the doctor who episode, the gang is investigating the doctor who is investigating them. it's not an homage it's fully just a doctor who dbda crossover. they go round and round in a circle of mischief and bad disguises until the doctor's companion starts hitting on jenny and it all implodes. the night nurse can't even handle the implication of all this paper work. she leaves forever to be with her lover kashi inside a whale (she cannot find the whale and returns within the hour, very wet, very annoyed, very much unwilling to discuss the situation)

the merlin episode follows crystal learning her magical abilities and trying to hide it from everyone around her. they're at a ren fair for niko's birthday (who is fully decked out in hot pink bedazzled armor) and everyone keeps complimenting crystal's special affects (magic) which edwin gets increasingly annoyed about ("my magic is far more technically complicated, i'm not relying on my feelings"). there's no direct homage but the background of every fifth shot is colin morgan and bradley james making out and/or stabbing each other (they rotate between to keep things interesting)

this series single-handedly solves homophobia and climate change. how? power of homoerotic eye contact, baby!

[lelekasalreadyexist]

I hope Polites will keep coming back to haunt the narrative some more in the next saga i don't know how but I need him to continue the tradition

[bijoumikhawal]

anyway I am going to spoil everyone's fun. The Mummy is a racist movie, it's frustrating that it's popular and no one discusses that, and let me explain why

Whitewashing/brownface/self orientalism. The Carnahan's are meant to be mixed race. Their actors are white. Oded Fehr is white and a significant portion of his career has been playing exotic brown people in media made for white people, specifically while weaponizing the ethnic ambiguity he does have. Imhotep is white- insult to injury, his actor is an Afrikaner! Playing a pre-colonial African character! The only Egyptians played by people who arent white are the sex pest warden, Dr. Bey (also a minor character who dies), and Anck-su-namun. None of their actors are Egyptian.

The portrayal of Egyptian men. The warden and Jonathan are both portrayed as pathetic, weak, morally circumspect, and the warden is a pervert. Imhotep is also a pervert, frankly. The Egyptian public at large- mostly male crowds and male workers- are literally canon fodder and senselessly killed on multiple occasions. They're turned into mindless zombies, with no consideration given to what happens to them afterwards. Did hundreds of people just die? In public? The only two Egyptian men that aren't utterly horrible are Evie's boss, Dr. Bey, and Ardeth.

The portrayal of Egyptian women. The only two we actually hear speak is Evie and Anck-su-namun, both of whom have orientalist tropes applied to them- Evie, when they make her dress "local", and Anck-su-namun with the whole titlating "the pharaoh has me walk around naked and covered in wet body paint so no one can touch me without him knowing" nonsense- similar tropes are applied to Ardeth, frankly, with how his tattoos are portrayed, his ethnic background, etc. They specifically chose tattoos a Western audience would still find sexy (which aren't based on the actual local tattooing traditions). Face veils in early 20th century Egypt didn't really look like that, even the ones you might call flirty, and I find portrayals that make Ancient Egyptian society's overall often greater comfort with bared skin into titillation for the audience pretty offensive, especially as there are currently existing cultures in Africa viewed through lenses like that. It's not merely ahistorical, it's apart of a broader issue with how living people are viewed by others.

This is more of a me thing, other Egyptians may not agree: I think mummies as a horror trope are racist. The key fear to mummy movies is that white people might get punished for disturbing the graves of the honored dead. You are asked to identify with literal colonizers and view the local population as antagonistic (past and present in this case), especially in this movie, which is set before England started pretending it wasn't controlling Egypt (and by the damn way, ask ANY Egyptian when the country got independence and we'll say 1956. Between 22 and 56, England still had explicit control over some of the government, notably foreign relations and military, it used this an excuse to justify control of Sudan, and it was militarily occupying the country, especially the Suez area. When King Farouk tried to make a decision they didn't like, they put his palace under seige. That is not independence. Whoever made the 1922 declaration the first result on Google is manufacturing apologia for imperialism).

[gengarcrystal]

"corrupted mind palace" yeah girl it's called being mentally ill

[infiniteorangethethird]

man the realization that I can do literally whatever the fuck I want within my daydreams/paracosm because I'm the only audience who will ever see it has been one of the most freeing thoughts I've had in a long time. ain't nobody can judge a story they don't even know about

[pinkcore-png]

[quadrantadvisor]

Sometimes I still think about The Owl House Gang all trying to watch ATLA together but then Zuko's backstory in The Storm retraumatizes Hunter so bad they have to stop

[probablyasocialecologist]

King Charles and the late Queen Elizabeth II have received payments equivalent to more than £1bn from two land and property estates that are at the centre of a centuries-old debate over whether their profits should be given to the public instead.

An investigation by the Guardian has established the full scale of income extracted by the royals from the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, which run giant portfolios of land and property across England.

The duchies operate as professionally run real estate empires that manage swathes of farmland, hotels, medieval castles, offices, shops and some of London’s prime luxury real estate. They also have substantial investment portfolios, but pay no corporation tax or capital gains tax.

Duchy accounts, held in parliamentary and state archives, reveal how the queen and her first-born son, in his capacity as the Duke of Cornwall, benefited from a huge increase in their revenues from the duchies during her seven-decade reign.

[inexpressiblybeatiful]

Me @ US rn:

[the-lost-marauder]

when i was spoiled abt ling wen being a traitor ngl i imagined it to be more dramatic and not.

Xie lian: i believe you stole from the palace of divine might

Ling wen: are you…accusing me of being a thief? this is quite… displeasing.

Xie lian: sorry

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Xie lian: are you going back on your word?

Ling wen: yes unfortunately i am betraying you.