#a lack of agency

[celestialscarlet]

Alicent misunderstanding Viserys…. Aemond not meaning to kill Lucerys…. Daemon not actually telling B&C to go after Helena and the kids….

[gibsalotdoodles]

so john has complete control of arthur’s left hand, yeah?

[katabay]

someone’s hands have always been inside of you

[crazymecjc]

always the pawn in someone else’s game. ♟️

[necromancer-snail]

Haha what? Of course I slept! No, don't look at the time, check out this cool thing I made

[swordsonnet]

three specific kinds of terror, jacob geller / working for the knife, mitski / the magnus archives, ep. 92 "nothing beside remains"

[theriverbeyond]

also ive been rotating how Gideon absolutely considered Wake to be her MOTHER before having that fantasy ripped away from her and like, that experience of learning the bedrock of your existence is a lie and the person who made you did not love you and did not want you and what do you do with that when you did not ask to be born. and also of course Wake's own experience as someone who likely never saw herself as a mother and whose only claim to the title is the result of a hail mary pass so desperate that it wasn't even a choice at all. something about directly contradicting agencies creating a tangle of tragedy...... Gideon cannot have a mother who loves her because Wake was not a mother but at the same time Wake can never escape the fact that Gideon is a child that she created

[paddysol]

sooo derap vodwatching means he knows where zams base is (presumambly).. and like, idk it kinda makes me a little sad. its only thing that honestly belonged to her at the end of the day

[sacredashes]

MYTHAL as JUDAS ISCARIOT

"You have murdered me! You have murdered me!"

Dragon Age The Veilguard | Jesus Christ Superstar

[wardensantoineandevka]

this is relevant to a lot of fanspaces, but I'm feeling it most with CritRole C3 right now, though it applies to a lot of other works too: I feel like a lot of fans mistake "the work had the potential to expound on XYZ themes and tell a narrative about such-and-such with these particular building blocks" for the work actually telling that narrative and working with those themes

the building blocks merely existing in a text does not necessarily mean that the text has that particular narrative at all, let alone is telling that narrative well. a lot of the time, a text has the potential for it but is not using those elements to actually tell that story and is just plain ol' missed opportunity

[motothrowaway]

[pandorem]

Fascinating to me that Hunter in the owl house not only fills the “child soldier of the villain who switches sides” archetype but if we are going through the tropes of fairy tales that The Owl House likes to play with, is a little bit the princess in the tower??

[bumblingbabooshka]

Thinking about the headcanon of T'Pol as a transwoman and how that'd interact with her continually being confronted by biological children she didn't have a choice in making which die or disappear. Inspired by this post by @cmdrtpol [Patreon | Commissions]

[goldensunset]

i’ve said it three million times but i will always be obsessed with ‘ventus’ on @projectdestati ‘s darkness album bc of the way the drum improv section in the second half of the track makes it sound like a march. like that’s one of my favorite things about ventus- he’s a victim of horrible circumstances, for sure, but also he’s always been notable for how much agency he has in the face of all this

ven chooses to stand up to the darkness that used him and to absorb it once more, he chooses to take down vanitas even if it means taking himself down too, etc. ven marches headfirst into the tragedies that befall him. he repeatedly willingly volunteers himself as a sacrificial lamb. his story is sad, bittersweet like a lullaby, and his original theme reflects that really well. but this arrangement being split into two parts- one more like the tragic original, and one reflecting the moment he gets up to make a resolute decision- more fully captures his character i think. he is so strong and so brave and so determined AUURHHGH i love him

[nenoname]

honestly??? i still dont know what to do with the idea that there might be a bunch of clone fords out there???? it honestly makes me so unhinged??????

[deadoldmen]

I’ve been thinking about Mark trying to take agency over his body.

The show tackles abuse of power—sexualized, racialized... violence against children too. But with enough distance that it’s not unbearable to watch for victims of these things. A recognition and reimagining of harmful power structures, not a direct reenactment.

Mark is both Frankenstein and the monster, both Orpheus and Eurydice. Created without his permission though a new science. Half way suicidal, living half a life, finding his dead wife... And finding love in that afterlife...He calls his sister Persephone, it's really him! Helly/Helena is Hades. One of the gods, going among them in disguise.

So Mark, ends up in the passive "feminine" role. Getting pulled along by the people around him. Caught in these strange, gendered/class narratives—Treated as a vessel for other people’s plans. "pregnant” not physically but narratively. He's a child, a bride and a surrogate.