#Power Pill

[bookfangeek]

any old designs of the characters still lying around?

HI sorry for the late response it's been kind of a hectic week haha.

I'm not really the type to make multiple designs for my OCs actually! The Power Pills have all stayed surprisingly consistent since their first drawings, which actually were all on a base.

So unfortunately I haven't been able to identify the maker of the base that the Power Pills were originally designed on, but this was the first art of them and their superhero costumes!! They really haven't changed much at all haha. Kristy is the most different one, I'd say.

The SUPERHERO costumes though....

Also just in case you were talking about the Escapist Fiction cast! Those were relatively unchanged as well! Aside from some outfit and color tweaks...

Again... the magical girl costumes though.

[tobiasdrake]

My understanding of evil, age 0-10: MY NAME IS SMOG SMOKESLY AND I RUN THE POLLUTION FACTORY, IT PRODUCES POLLUTION!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

My understanding of evil, in my teens: You can't really boil things down to good and evil. People are complicated. Everyone is the hero of their own story, and someone who seems evil to you is actually doing their best from their own perspective. If you could walk a mile in their shoes, you'd understand. There is no such thing as evil.

My understanding of evil, in my twenties: Look, it's basically just tribalism. We are all necessarily thrust into competition with one another. There are always going to be winners and losers. Whining about evil is just being upset that you lost the game.

My understanding of evil, in my thirties: MY NAME IS SMOG SMOKESLY AND I RUN THE POLLUTION FACTORY, IT PRODUCES POLLUTION!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[whoisthetank]

Once again waking up at a crazy hour because of Ateez. And for what? To discover that half of the group found KQ's scissors and decided to cut their hair, but mainly to see the prince catholic yaoi aka Yunho becoming a ninja to avoid a kiss and making everything look 10x more gay. I mean, you can see the moment when Yunho realizes that Mingi is going to do something and holds his hand so he can't kneel (and propose, now with Yunho family on audience) or maybe kiss Yunho's hand. I don't know. And then the moment when Mingi realizes the opportunity to kiss Yunho since he's being pulled and he spins to avoid it, very impressive. Ninja.

Tomorrow is the last show. Apparently it's the last time Youth will be part of the show and it's going to be Yunho's birthday. I'll wake up early again and probably be impressed by some another dodging move from the prince.

[synchodai]

HBO's Continued Insistence on Dumbing Down Westerosi Politics

So there have been countless thinkpieces already on how GOT simplified the feudalist politics of Westeros (by giving a lowborn sellsword lordship over The Reach, by having no consequences for destroying the Sept of Baelor, etc.), but I haven't seen a lot of people talking about that for House of the Dragon.

The worst being that the show presupposes that Rhaenyra is the lawful heir when the books showed there are plenty of lawful arguments why she wouldn't be.

Mind you that I've been enjoying the show a lot so far. This is just to vent out my frustration with the writers' failure to fully engage with the values and protocols of the Middle Age-inspired setting. The show seems uninterested in laws of the Realm in a story ostensibly about politics, save for when they're using it as an excuse to amplify depictions of sex and violence.

Blacks vs Greens wasn't a matter of misunderstanding of who each side thought Viserys wanted on the throne. It was the Targaryens' belief of their absolute authority clashing with the Realm's established traditions. Everyone always knew who Viserys chose as heir. In Fire and Blood, Grand Maester Orwyle said as much when he was parleying with Rhaenyra on behalf of the Greens.

Rhaenyra heard his terms in stony silence, then asked Orwyle if he remembered her father, King Viserys. "Of course, Your Grace," the maester answered. "Perhaps you can tell us who he named as his heir and successor," the queen said, her crown upon her head. "You, Your Grace," Orwyle replied. And Rhaenyra nodded and said, "With your own tongue you admit I am your lawful queen. Why do you serve my half-brother, the pretender?" Munkun tells us that Orwyle gave a long and erudite reply, citing the Andal law and the Great Council of 101. Mushroom claims he stammered and voided his bladder. Whichever is true, his answer did not satisfy Princess Rhaenyra.

(For non-F&B readers: Munkun is the Grand Maester who served Aegon III, the king who came after this civil war. Munkun's book, The Dance of the Dragons, A True Telling, is one of Fire and Blood's source texts. Mushroom is the King Landing court jester from Viserys I to Aegon III's reign. One is a source written with academic rigor but is secondhand at best. The other is a firsthand eyewitness account but is from a literal fool who will take every chance to make things more scandalous and sexual to please the crowd.)

In House of the Dragon, they replaced Orwyle with Otto and Orwyle's discussion of legal precedent with Otto handing Rhaenyra a book page from Alicent. It's quite evident here that the writers, much like Mushroom, thought a discussion on the actual laws of the Realm were negligible in this story about a succession war.

Even Alicent made no pretense that Viserys chose Rhaenyra over her children and I have no idea why the HBO writers decided to make her mistakenly think otherwise. Maybe they thought a queen regent pushing her son to take the throne over another woman made her appear unsympathetic as a character, but if anything, this only makes show!Alicent less politically savvy and more delusional than her book counterpart, fully believing an addled king's vague muttering on his deathbed was sufficient grounds to change heirs last minute.

Book!Alicent following Andal laws instead of her husband's wishes makes sense given her Andal upbringing, her devotion to the Faith of the Seven which enforces said laws, and her desire to protect her children from Rhaenyra given that Rhaenyra has shown she's not above murdering family (see: Laenor).

In the books, there was a long discussion between the former king's council on who should succeed Viserys.

Here are the arguments for Rhaenyra:

Rhaenyra was older than her brothers and had more Targaryen blood

the late king had chosen her as his successor, that he had repeatedly refused to alter the succession despite the pleadings of Queen Alicent and her greens

hundreds of lords and landed knights had done obeisance to the princess in 105 AC, and sworn solemn oaths to defend her rights.

Here are the arguments for Aegon II:

many of the lords who had sworn to defend the succession of Princess Rhaenyra were long dead [...]

Ironrod, the master of laws, cited the Great Council of 101 and the Old King’s choice of Baelon rather than Rhaenys in 92

the hallowed Andal tradition wherein the rights of a trueborn son always came before the rights of a mere daughter

Ser Otto reminded them that Rhaenyra’s husband was none other than Prince Daemon, and “we all know that one’s nature. Make no mistake, should Rhaenyra ever sit the Iron Throne, it will be Lord Flea Bottom who rules us, a king consort as cruel and unforgiving as Maegor ever was [...]”

Should the princess reign [...] Jacaerys Velaryon would rule after her. “Seven save this realm if we seat a bastard on the Iron Throne.”

Once again, the show chose to cut out this long political discussion. Instead, the council had already made up their mind and decided to stage a coup (when in their perspectives from the books, it would definitely not be a coup).

For all their marketing how two sides are equally grey, HotD is actively delegitimizing Aegon II. The strongest argument for him is how his claim follows the laws of the Realm, but the show doesn't seem to care about the laws of the Realm or the political need to maintain a more predictable/tested transfer of power.

Instead, the show focuses on Viserys's relationship with his daughter and the mysticism of the Targaryen bloodline. In doing so, they emphasize Rhaenyra's strongest arguments for succession — that she's more of a Targaryen than her half-brother and that her father prefered her.

And what for? Because in our modern-day, we don't have male-prefered inheritance and people can only imagine misogyny as the only injustice here? What about the injustice of a monarch exercising absolute control, thinking that his "superior" heritage makes him above the established laws of the native people?

This is not to say Aegon II is unquestionably the heir. But this is to say that the show removed the political nuance of why people are questioning in the first place. Precedence isn't the end-all-be-all of succession, but neither is "because daddy said so".

[reality-detective]

You know it's bad when CNN fact-checks a demonrat 🤔

I'll say it again... Enjoy the Show 🍿

Red Pill 💊

[dinsbeskar]

[samualcheese]

had a shit day today but atleast i got that tpot 13 dawg on me

[draconiclights]

Summer is near ☀️and so are blackout showers when yo generator shits the bed!!!

[s0fter-sin]

through the virtue of training an ever revolving door of rookies, price recognises pretty much every ailment the human body can come across

he’s seen every illness, every delayed puberty spike and weird rash and he can and will kick your ass to medical for your “i swear it’s just a cold sore”

it’s not even a parental thing, it’s the pure exhaustion of being an adult in charge of a bunch of basically children who’ve never been away from mummy this long before and he’s sick of talking a bunch of cherries through UTIs and the clap

[nyoaeuikhoudu]

I love my small fandoms. I love existing in small fandoms. I don't cry myself to sleep thinking about the fact that there's little to no fan content. I'm happy here.

[nyikondlovu]

After Act 3, if you claim to be a Jayce and Mel fan, you gotta admit that the pregnancy fan theory would’ve worked better than:

Jayce:

-being manipulated his whole life by Vikkktor;

-losing autonomy;

-leaving his mother;

-randomly cussing out a woman who only ever supported him;

-becoming a vikkktor dickrider to the point of mischaracterization.

While Mel:

-loses her mom;

-loses her oldest confidant;

-now is the head of a war mongering clan;

-is slapped by her mother;

-is villainized by her partner.

Like damn, it seems I thought through that half baked pregnancy theory and what it would mean for their arcs more than people paid to do so.

But jayvikkk shippers won’t pay attention to the desecration of Jayce’s character because their meow meow isn’t held accountable and somehow Mel being a good investor negates Vikkktor setting Jayce up to never live his own life (or the fact that the writers still say it’s familial affection)

[booksnbolts]

Oh, hey, what are you doin' here haha... hey my arm kinda hurts a little I'm just gonna... [collapses]

PLEASE READ MY WEBCOMIC @powerpills OR ON WEBTOON OR TAPAS

[powerpills]

In which Power Pills temporarily becomes Danganronpa.

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✧ Reblogging helps the comic grow! ✧

NEW MOBILE READERS, CLICK ME!

✧✧READ POWER PILLS ON✧✧ Webtoon | Tapas | GlobalComix

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PATREON | Redbubble | More Merch! | Buy the Books

[bookfangeek]

AAAAHHHHHHH POWER PILLS BIG ANNIVERSARY COMING UP!!! PARTY PARTY PARTY!

READ THE COMIC | @powerpills | Webtoon | Tapas | GlobalComix (WIP) | Own Website (Even more of a WIP)

SHORT VIDEOS | TikTok | Instagram | YouTube | Oh, yeah, and I'll probably post 'em to this blog too now that I think about it.

LONG VIDEOS | YouTube (This is a different channel to the one above sorry)

BONUS!!!

I mostly censor future Power Pills members for readers who don't want to know, but I have no problem showing off the cast!

Spoiler version of the first image in the post under the cut!

[reality-detective]

Many women who come off the pill, end up not being attracted to their partners or their smell anymore.

This is a major issue if you're married! 🤔

[chaotic-would-you-rathers]

Would You Rather...

A: Gain the ability to allow/force yourself to be possessed by the main character of the last media you consumed at will (and they will be forced to carry out a specific task of your choice)

B: Gain the ability to curl up into a ball and temporarily grow a bulletproof woodlouse-like shell at will, which nobody will think is strange in any way (though they may consider it rude to do in conversation etc.)

C: Instantly know the floor plan of any building you enter