#She doesn't deserve any of this

[juliemolinaz]

I honestly did not expect the angst at the end to happen, lol. But, honestly, the misunderstanding created by the end of the episode makes a lot of sense.

The Queen really liked Chungha, knew about Chungha’s feelings for the Crown Prince, and ultimately wanted her to be the Crown Princess. She knew that Chungha had a great chance of being put forward because Chungha was Minister Yoon’s daughter and Minister Yoon was in the Queen Dowager’s pocket. But, the Queen knew that if she ever showed a preference for Chungha, then the Queen Dowager would do everything she could to make sure that Chungha didn’t become the Crown Princess.  So, she formed the plan of pretending to want someone else as the Crown Princess so the Queen Dowager wouldn’t put up an issue about Chungha.

Leading up to the wedding ceremony, Kang hears all about how the Queen Dowager supports Minister Yoon’s daughter while the Queen supports someone else. And then when he finally meets the new Crown Princess, he sees that it’s Chungha. The girl he really likes is supposedly on the Queen Dowager’s side. He starts questioning and doubting whether any of their interactions were real or if Chungha had been playing him this whole time. He hasn’t really had any time to talk to his mother or figure things out because of all the wedding festivities. So, Kang walking out on Chungha makes so much sense.

I do wonder why the Queen didn’t tell Kang that she met Chungha. The Queen was clearly trying to do some fishing to see if Kang felt the same way about Chungha, so she definitely could have said something there. So, there might be more to this part of the storyline that we’re aware of. I also want Kang to realize that there’s no way the Queen would let someone who’s on the Queen Dowager’s side become the Crown Princess.

Poor Chungha. All she wanted to do was marry her man and be ride or die for him, but all these court politics that she doesn’t even know about is getting in the way.

I’m hoping that everything gets resolved by the end of the next episode. There’s just so many opportunities for Kang to be like “something is not right here.” The Queen really likes Chungha, so Kang could see them being buddy buddies together. Chungha might stand up to the Queen Dowager in a way that she wouldn’t if she were on the Queen Dowager’s side. Chungha might even say something along the lines of not even wanting to be a part of the Crown Princess selection until she found out he was the Crown Prince. There’s just so many opportunities and it doesn’t need to be dragged out for multiple episodes when there is still so much other stuff going on.

[supercool-here]

Marcela knows Armando doesn't love her anymore, she knows there has to be someone else and he is falling for her, she is even wondering wether staying in the relationship is worth it or not. Meanwhile Betty is here speaking her heart, being honest, telling her "I wouldn't know if Don Armando doesn't love you anymore" and "marrying Armando is worth it". Like. This person never intended any harm on anyone.

[cyarsk52-20]

Meg deserves better than what she had to endure in the last two years. I’ll never not be outraged by the fact she was so emotionally and mentally drained because of that pos and his toxic masculinity. That Canadian cuntery deserves worse than two decades of prison and deportation, he deserves to be unalived(in other words murdered) . To bully and dehumanize someone who wanted to protect you from the cops at first considering the fact that same person who wanted to not see you get locked up (or if you’re a black man woman or child become another Rodney king, or a George Floyd or other black life taken away or forever traumatized as they scream out for their mothers) has been through traumatic experiences and other traumatic events is the sign of someone who is described as a sociopath. And a narcissistic sociopath to be exact.

This that type of stuff is why shows like deadly women lasted over ten seasons and snapped going on it’s 30th season(not counting the spinoffs).

all facts. also checkout the thread

Within days of Megan Thee Stallion being shot, bloggers and hip hop podcasts began trafficking in the narrative that she lied. Now, as Tory Lanez is on trial for the shooting, @CiCiAdams_ and I investigated how their misogynoir has influenced the case.

[diamondsandlemons]

they don't even let her have gay sex on her birthday

[nataliescatorccio]

PHIA SABAN as HELAENA TARGARYEN House of the Dragon, 'Rhaenyra the Cruel'

[lancabbage]

Personally, I think the real reason people keep insisting MDZS is told from WWX's POV, even though they admit it's third person omniscient, is because JC is addressed by his birth name 'Jiang Cheng' throughout the entire novel and not his courtesy name. So people wrongly assume it must be from WWX's perspective...

Well, those that cling to such a take aren't going to like the real answer to this... But that's still not the case. If it were from WWX's perspective, JYL would be addressed as 'Shijie', LWJ would be 'Lan Zhan' and JFM would be 'Jiang-shushu' etc. JC is addressed by his birth name throughout the novel because even the narrator thinks he is a clown.

Sorry, but that's the reason. They do not think he deserves respect, just as the rest of the cultivation world doesn't either. If you actually look at the text, you'll notice behind his back, nearly everyone calls JC by his birth name out of disrespect - it's literally in the first few chapters for all to see. He's rarely called by his courtesy name by anyone other than LWJ, WWX when he's pissed and later by JGY and XY in the extras. That's it. It's a show of disrespect throughout the novel and the narrator shows the same. JC isn't called 'Sandu Shengshou' for nothing you know, it's a running theme of disrespect for a character that doesn't deserve much if any at all.

[simplykorra]

more photos of alba from the tribeca film fesitval

[smitten-miqitten]

Got Solavellan brainrot on my mind.

My Lavellan responded angrily to unceremoniously getting dumped next to a pond in the middle of buttfuck nowhere. Seemed the reasonable option to pick, given the circumstances.

But she's not normally a violent person (apart from killing bad guys of course), and the little shoves she does when she's arguing with Solas really stick in my brain. She would regret getting physically violent with him the instant she cooled down even a little bit. There's so many ways to make a point and even though she's hurt and furious, that was the wrong way. He doesn't even defend himself. It'd eat at her, but they're not exactly on speaking terms for a bit, and she never really gets to apologize properly.

And I can just picture Cole bringing it up to Solas in his delightful Cole-y way:

"She's sorry she shoved you. She meant it with her heart, not her hands. She wishes she could take it back."

"I know, Cole. It's alright. It's... deserved."

"You wish she'd shoved you harder."

"...yes."

[inktonic]

I think Alastor as a parent, while caring about Ophelia, still needs to keep her under constant control. I mean, you really can't have your daughter ratting you out for being a serial killer?

She definitely found out when she was young, but because she was raised to never question her father, Ophelia stayed quiet about it. Alastor caught on, but he was confident she wouldn't tell. She was never the confrontational and outspoken type.

Even in the afterlife Ophelia still felt that crushing guilt, even if she couldn't remember why.

[bittersweetresilience]

so do you think he succeeded?

[skrunksthatwunk]

love like you / maternal pang

bonus under cut:

the first stephanie + the maternal pang tone destroyer i couldn't include bc it's a serious comic

[thefirstknife]

The thing about the final lore tab is that, besides the fact that I'm devastated in ways I can't put into words, the way Saint was affected by this whole thing is unique.

This is obviously primarily Osiris' trauma that we can't really properly comprehend, but Osiris wasn't fully conscious for most of it. It fell to Saint to wait, and hope, that Osiris would be brought back and that he would wake up. There was no certainty for him there. And even before that, he watched "Osiris" being strange and distant and acting weird but obviously nobody could even begin to speculate that the person he interacted with wasn't Osiris at all, so the trauma went from there, from learning that he lost Sagira, then to the shock of Osiris being kidnapped and then the quest to bring him back and then him being brought back in a coma and then the 9 long months of waiting until he woke up.

The state of constant anxiety he experienced for almost 2 years total is nervewracking and gutwrenching. I don't think we can fully understand the impact of that on someone. And the best, or worst, thing is that Saint is infinitely patient. He is infinitely emotional and merciful and opts to be the better person and to wait and wait and wait. And hope that it can be fixed.

Except it can't. It can't be fixed. And not only can it not be fixed, but there will never be justice for it. It's impossible. There isn't a way to truly punish Savathun for what she's done. There is no relief or catharsis for Saint. While Osiris can mostly move on, Osiris did not really have to go through what Saint had to go through. Their traumas are different and Saint's is the type that no one can really understand and there is nothing he can do about it.

A younger Saint would've killed Immaru and then Savathun, 100%. But now he can't, because he isn't that person anymore. And yet, the grief and trauma remain and he has no outlet for them and nothing that can be done to enact any sort of justice. So he settles for pure rage, letting himself essentially vent that anger out, but still leave everyone alive. And there's really no true release here. He got a brief satisfaction of killing Savathun over and over, but at the end of the day, she will walk away and nothing will change and there will be no fix.

Which is why he comes back and just cries. As he said, this wasn't for Osiris, it was for him. It was his outlet for anger and nothing else. After that, there's nothing else left to do but cry. No one can really help him carry the burden of what he's gone through and besides: he's a Titan. He's the one carrying other people's burdens. Which just added to the trauma because for so long he's only cared for others, mostly for Osiris, and never really let himself fully grieve or talk about it. Saint never really processed the horrifying ordeal of constant concern for his loved one, then the realisation that his loved one isn't even with him, then the desperate search and then waiting for months and months for the hope that his loved one might wake up. Then Osiris is awake and we're forced to play allies with the person who traumatised both of them in an incomprehensibly terrifying way. Saint had no other way of attempting to make his peace with the situation.

Year of processing grief. I'm in shambles.

[saym0-0]

go lesbians!

[ruvviks]

The Dobrynin family is a corpo family through and through, rooted in Arasaka and Orbital Air going back by several generations; though their powerful position within the corporate world ends with the children of Nadya and Matvey Dobrynin. With Vitali and Daniil fired from Arasaka and Kang Tao respectively— the former indirectly getting his parents fired, too— and Roksana having refused to set foot within a megacorporation from the start, the family begins crumbling apart at the very seams when clashing interests lead to grudges, betrayal, and pointless acts of revenge. ↳ read the unrevised fic here if you're interested!

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[moodyseal]

Iris in a literal courtroom with a judge and two lawyers and several witnesses watching her: If I had known that Dahlia was planning to kill Nick I would've killed her first :)

[pinkysberg]

"i don't like abigail x john bc they're toxic and she yells at him" u fool. uve missed the entire point! that they're imperfect and john DESERVES TO BE YELLED AT