#all these percentages are complete bullshit btw

[the-ghost-in-your-walls]

People making tumblr posts and it being like

[kafus]

i wont feel offended if you ignore this ask btw, i get that its asking something kind of personal! but can i ask what you mean by the internet treating DID as magical?

hi i actually enjoy DID questions don't worry LOL and i'm in the mood rn

when most people think about DID they are usually thinking about very overt cases with very distinct alters with vastly different personalities, different names, gender identities, etc. while this is a popular angle to imagine DID, overt cases like that are actually a pretty small percentage of what DID tends to look like. (of course, social media can push people's presentation to become more overt, which isn't fake/bad or anything, humans are social animals and the way we interact with each other can affect even our mental illnesses. additionally some people will become more overt after receiving therapy while they start communicating with alters for the first time. but my point is DID is not usually that strikingly obvious)

this popular perception also leaves out a lot of the rest of DID which falls in line with what people consider more "typical" disorders, PTSD symptoms galore, dissociation/dissociative amnesia, somatic pains and illness, comorbid conditions and physical disabilities. i think if people had more of an understanding of the non-alter parts of DID, it would ground the disorder a lot more and make it a lot less "magical" seeming.

but overall it all comes back to like... people not understanding that DID is just an extension of PTSD and other parts-based disorders. the same psychological process that makes PTSD/C-PTSD happen, BPD, etc, is what causes DID, it's just pushed to a far extreme due to when the trauma is experienced (very early childhood) and other factors surrounding that trauma, such as the length of time the trauma occurred over, or whether or not the child had stable caregivers and/or relief from traumatic events. DID is not some sort of completely separate category of mental illness - alters (the DID definition of them) may be unique to DID, but they come from the same place a ton of other mental illnesses do and there's a ton of overlapping symptoms between DID and pretty much every disorder caused by trauma.

i often see people act like DID is some far off life experience they couldn't even fathom or imagine living with, but if anyone just actually explained this shit properly i'm pretty sure most people, especially traumatized people, would go "oh that makes sense" and not feel so estranged from it lol. it's really frustrating because people continuing to see DID as this sort of magical, far-off experience, takes the disability/disorder out of it in conversation about it (people can only ever seem to talk about alters) and it also usually ends up spreading misinformation at the same time. there's sooo much bullshit about DID out there. good grief. it even hurts other people with trauma-based conditions that aren't DID

edit: wait also btw OSDD-1 is included in this conversation, i'm just using DID as shorthand instead of typing DID/OSDD every time and i am personally diagnosed with DID so lol

[ligbi]

Yet Another Comparison Of  ‘90-’99 And ‘14-’23 Anime Girls

Used in-episode screenshots and semi-neutral expressions to keep some semblance of consistency for accurate comparisons, and only used tv anime so no golden boys or makoto shinkais

Feel free to comment on this post or add to it- I know I had a lot more children's anime in the 90s than in the 10ishs but there were also a lot less shows back then

List of series and thoughts under the cut

90-99

knights of ramune \ nadia

goldfish warning\ future gpx

dog of flanders\yyh

akazukin chacha\slam dunk

tenchi universe/ eva

escaflone/ those who hunt elves

kero kero chime/utena

akihabara/ devilman lady

tenshi ni narumon/gto

14-23

yuki yuna/garo

rakudai kini no cavalry/ nisekoi

kuma miko/ maisou gakuen

urara meirochou/tsugumomo

a place further than our universe/ happy sugar life

endro/carole and tuesday

bna/ interspecies reviewers

drugstore in another world/blue period

lyrocois recoil/birdy wing

revolution magical world yuri/ ice guy and cool colleague

I tried to keep it younger characters/older characters for the 90s and that was not an option for the recent anime series because

There are way too many damn anime nowadays. 

I tried to just get a general assortment of different character designers for both but feel free to tell me what a bad job I did for the modern stuff. Pretty sure I don’t have any dupes for the 90s ladies

personally the issue with modern anime is less ‘uwu moe moe kyun isekai harem bullshit’ and more ‘heres a single cour cheaply made no ending adaptaion of a manga or light novel why don’t you go check those out’ big budget ads of which there are too many

i’d like to run the numbers to see if the percentage of original anime has gone down or if the original works are just being flooded out by the sea of overworked nothings that are being constantly rushed out the door

yes obviously not all original works are good (or finish well rip wep) and there are good adaptations but when people think anime once they're past shounen jump series 1-500 the biggest names are original works and sure you might end up with an fma or ouran but your bebops your evas your utenas are originals. or media mixes which are weird collabs we could get into but let’s not today 

i won’t disagree that there’s too many anime nowadays targeting lolicons (yeah yeah any anime for them is too much but we’re talking about comparing eras not judging content here) but I /think/ 80s and 90s relegated that type of stuff to OVAs generally. Don’t have the data to back that up but between ovas nowadays being only just for porn and the lemony history of ovas since the 80s.... there were just More ovas back when as well

doing a loose count on mal of all ovas from 90-99  1050 to about 750 total for 14-23. given the tv ratio for 95-19 being  around 1:6

yes yes these numbers are fast and loose and theres chinese animation in there and we can get finicky about What Is Anime but this was a conversation about what era of anime stylization is better

it’s the late 90s btw

but that’s a personal preference of course because art is subjective blah blah blah 90s character driven comedy fantasy/scifi ova are peak

PER SON A LLY

did I have more thoughts?

probably

i started this over two hours ago make less anime

Make less anime and put more effort into what you do make

less anime. more episodes. more pay. more breaks. take longer. more original stuff

stop remaking shittttttt. you already wasted time and money and effort on a mid anime adaptation of a manga. don’t do it againnnnnn

anyway watch kero kero chime 

appended thoughts the next morning less on art style and more on volume

as of mid 2023 for completed series we are at halfway of all anime having been made after ~2011 this adds up to a reddit post I found with some very nice data https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/lvvexe/chart_of_number_of_anime_per_year_over_time/  40 was a nice number of series a year about 10 a season starting and older ones continuing. 200+ is. 

yes numbers are iffy with second seasons listed as different series like sailor moon r s supers stars and mha 2 3 4 5 6 ect so for accurate numbers a human touch would be needed there is semi-finite air time to work with- obviously some companies could make new tv and satellite stations just to house their garbage but i think there is a cap somewhere in sight if anyone did crunch the numbers more accurately, total episode count is necessary. one 80s robot show of 60-80 epis is equal to 4-6 modern single cour isekais

make less anime

[andnofcksweregiven]

ASL

Pairings: Jeff Wittek x reader

Warnings: none that I can think of- weak ending though

~btw I don’t know what it’s like to be deaf or lose your hearing, this is purely based off what I’ve heard from people I know who are going through this. I’m sorry if it isn’t 100% right.~

Synopsis: Losing your hearing at a rapid pace is scary, almost as scary as finally telling someone.

You felt petrified. You get taught to handle all types of situations whilst growing up- for instance, how should you react when there’s a stranger who won’t leave you alone. However, this, this is something no one has ever prepared you for.

80% of your hearing lost, slowly over the course of 2 years and progressively getting worse- hiding your hearing aids under your hair, a beanie or hood. Luckily it was easy to hide from your friends, especially with the hearing aids getting the percentage to 50. 

At the back of your head you knew there was no point of hiding it, your friends would still love you and have your back but there was something keeping you from saying anything. Maybe it’s the fact you hadn’t processed the idea yourself- at some point you’ll be completely deaf. No music, no morning chirps from the birds, not hearing anyone's voices.

Currently, you was situated on the floor cross legged and flipping through different flyers for sign language lessons. Suddenly, a vibration on your thigh snapped you out of the stress induced coma. A notification was lit up on your phone screen, Jeff. A name that caused a smile to tug at your lips but fill your heart with guilt and sadness. 

Jeff and you have always been honest to each other- no rock unturned, no secrets unsaid (well almost all secrets) everything laid out flat in front so there was no surprises. 

Jeff

~ i’m coming over in 10 

y/n

~ and who said you could

Jeff

~ i did.

~don’t you know i’m a v.i.p ;)

This was it. An opportunity to share this with someone. Where you actually going to take it? Hell no, it’ll make it too real. Quickly, you started to gather all the flyers and rushing to a nearby draw to hide them, to busy to notice your door unlocking, to busy to realize that you had put your hair up into a messy bun, to busy to notice your bestfriend standing at the door until a loud forced cough cut through the air.

You turned and slowly looked up into his brown eyes, soft and light like the personality he tries to hide. A wide pearly smile adorning his face however slowly going down as his eyes left yours and darted left and right. 

“y/n? umm” he lightly licked his bottom lip still staring at your ears “y/n why do you have hearing aids?”

“Oh you know, trying to set a new trend. Like how people wear fake glasses to look cool even though their eye sight is great” the laugh that left your mouth felt as bitter as the words you spoke.

“y/n/n...” finally his eyes were set back on yours, cautiously making his way over to you until you felt his large frame engulf you into an embrace, one you desperately needed. Clutching onto the front of his shirt, tears escaping and staining his shirt. “Come on y/n/n, you really think I don’t know when you bullshit me?” 

“Well, kind of, I did bullshit for 2 years” 

Pulling back, his arms keeping you far enough to stare deeply into your eyes “What? y/n what the hell? I thought we was the type to share everything, no rocks unturned and all that?” 

Guilt flooded you, hearing an almost broken voice coming from his mouth until you got hit with the realization- this isn’t about him, this was a big secret, a scary one, and yet he’s trying to act like the worst thing is that you didn’t tell him.

You shoved Jeff harshly away from you, furious at him for even trying to make you feel like shit for not mentioning it. “Hey Jeff, news flash, maybe I didn’t say anything because I’m scared. Maybe I didn’t say anything because I’ve still not processed the idea that I won’t be able to hear your annoying voice or Nerfs heavy breathing. But hey, lets just talk about how it must suck that I didn’t say anything for 2 years, and how difficult and hard it must be for you” Sarcasm laced your voice.

“y/n I didn’t mean it like that I just-”

Before he could finish speaking, you spun on your heel and headed to your room “just leave me alone Jeff”

“y/n”

“No! Go away Jeff!” 

“Fine! I’ll go, I’ll leave you alone, obviously that’s what you want!”

“Yeah it is, that is what I’ve been saying isn’t it?” The slam of the door closing behind Jeff reverberated off the walls of your now suffocating apartment. This wasn’t what you expected, this wasn’t how you imagined things going once someone found out.

Over the course of a month, you were still avoiding Jeff and his futile attempts to contact you. It wasn’t that you was mad or hurt by what had transpired in the apartment, it was more embarrassment if anything. Your reaction wasn’t completely fair on him, he was your bestfriend who thought you would tell him everything- big or small- so of course he’d be taken a back to find out something had been happening for 2 years. 

When you weren’t avoiding Jeff, you was busy with day to day tasks and additionally you’ve finally chosen a sign language lesson to attend. They’ve managed to teach you the basics and given you booklets with pictures to be able to practice at home. Usually, you’d practice most of the time early in the morning when you couldn’t sleep properly, almost like clockwork at this point.

You were currently sitting on your soft duvet at 4 in the morning, mimicking the picture in your booklet whilst occasionally looking up at the long mirror opposite the foot of your bed. Caught off guard, you heard a faint rapid knock on your apartment door.

You trudged out of bed, slightly exhausted from staying up so many hours, and cautiously opened the door only to find Jeff standing, disheveled and almost as exhausted as you- maybe more. 

“Jeff, what are you-”

“Just listen ok?” he said with a graveled voice which was like comforting music to your ears, after weeks of not hearing it. ”Ok?” he asked again, you nodded.

“I know you’re scared and, fuck, I’ve been thinking about it and I’d be scared too, so I’m sorry for acting like me not knowing was the worst part- because it wasn’t. The worst part was you going through it alone for so long, the worst part is you thinking you have to go through it alone so I want you to know that-” his signature hand movements changed, as he focused solely on his hand placements.

“Jeff, are you trying to sign to me?” 

“I, umm, yea I am” Still focused on how he’s moving them around.

“What are you trying to say?” a slight humor in your voice as you stared at his hands and back at his face, were his tongue slightly stuck out whilst he concentrated.

“I am signing that I love you right?” his voice carried a worried tone as his head shot up to gaze into your eyes but cut short when you burst out laughing. “What’s so funny?”

“Jeff I- You just-” Tears brimmed at the corner of your eyes as you struggled to breathe. Finally, you were able to compose a proper response. “Jeff, you just signed I fuck cats!” 

“The hell, do I look like Shane Dawson!?” That broke you both as your laughter's filled the hallway, obviously waking up your neighbors. 

That night, everything went back to normal. Jeff and you staying over at each others to watch films (now followed by learning sign language), the texting/ facetimes, the long drives with music- except Jeff started to blast them at full volume and teaching you to feel/ recognize the rhythm with your feet on the dash of his truck. You weren’t alone, and all the rocks were finally unturned and you wouldn’t have it any other way.

[tervacious]

So here is atlasobscura, writing gender non-conforming people, mostly women, mostly lesbians, out of history and deciding to trans them all, en masse.

Excerpt about Nell Pickerel, aka Harry Allen:  “This opportunity for reinvention seemed to be particularly available to people assigned female at birth who lived their lives as men. In an 1908 interview with The Seattle Sunday Times, Allen articulated his discomfort with his assigned sex. “I did not like to be a girl; did not feel like a girl, and never did look like a girl,” he said. “So it seemed impossible to make myself a girl and, sick at heart over the thought that I would be an outcast of the feminine gender, I conceived the idea of making myself a man.” Allen’s identity fascinated local papers, which cast it as part of the zeitgeist of the American frontier. One publication framed him among “the scum of the West” for his active career of saloon brawling, bootlegging, bronco busting, and horse stealing. The press gawked at his swagger, foul mouth, and penchant for hard drink. Allen found near-infinite possibility in men’s attire, and worked as a bartender, barber, and longshoreman.”  Note there is no mention of her life as a seducer of women.  She was absolutely famous/infamous for this, with all kinds of drama attached to her for it, but somehow this article manages to not mention a crucial part of this person’s life.  We have no idea how, in the modern era, this woman would see herself.  Would she be a trans-identified female?  Would she be butch?  We do know, she was a lesbian, and this article erases her.  So does Wikipedia, btw, and people have the audacity to claim you are “deadnaming” her if you use her female name or quote the papers of the time.  She did prefer the name Harry Allen, and apparently did use male pronouns, but a good half of the butches I’ve known have used male names/nicknames and male pronouns and were still not trans. 

The article makes a good point about male crossdressers, in that a woman dressing as a man stood a good chance of surviving on the frontier with advantages, better pay, access to better jobs, etc., whereas a man dressing as a woman usually did not have better chances in terms of money and access.  Except then the article skips over the fact that historically, most men (not all) who crossdressed were gay, and a solid percentage of them were prostitutes.  Boys and men wearing women’s clothing were often mentioned in the context of prostitution (obviously boys were victims of the sex trade and were usually foreign or people of color, and the odds of surviving to adulthood was not high).  Every male person mentioned and retroactively transed in this article was gay, every one of them were in relationships with men, often one after the other.  Gay men went west in well documented numbers-- there’s a reason San Francisco was a gay Mecca by the turn of the last century.   And crossdressing was always part of that culture.

There have always been people who hid out as the opposite sex.  In a violently sexist culture it is logical that women would disguise themselves as men to be free, regardless of their sexual orientation.  It is logical lesbians would disguise themselves as men.  It’s no accident Nell Pickerel was known to be a woman, for example-- it’s not because the papers of the time were busily OUTING her and DEADNAMING her and MISGENDERING her.  She was a woman, she candidly discussed being a woman (if we are to believe the notoriously unreliable papers of the day), and discussed how that didn’t work out for her.  But to extrapolate trans identity, in the modern sense, from this is bizarre.

Even more interestingly, the upshot of this article makes no sense:  “As the West changed, so too did its apparent prevalence of non-conforming dress, which could not coexist with settled, civilized America. “As the frontier closed and the Wild West disappeared, these people who found a life there, found validation there, also disappeared from our history,” Boag says.” 

Listen, if there had been a trans identity of any kind on the western frontier it wouldn’t have just magically disappeared.  That’s not how things work.  Gay men and lesbians didn’t disappear.  Crossdressing didn’t stop.  Bisexuals continued to be bisexual.  In cultures with what we now call “third gender roles”, those continued on as well.  Because none of these things were “trans”.

People really don’t want to admit that modern gender ideology is MODERN, and it is a completely ahistorical creation.  Gender variance is normal because gender is not a concrete thing.  “Third gender” roles are normal.  They almost always involved two requirements to exist:  extreme patriarchy AND acceptance of homosexuality as natural and inate-- in other words, as something that can’t be changed so you have to find a tidy slot to fit it in to your society. 

In the modern era something new happened to create the genderist ideology we see today-- for-profit medicine was the first, followed by technology and technical knowledge and the experience of the last eighty years in plastic surgery.  I’m convinced the modern trans movement is entirely a creation of those factors, combined with post modernist bullshit taking over academia.  And post modernism has been one of the most insidious capitalist ideologies to appear in recent times.  It is brilliant, really, it makes everything unreal and immaterial, it makes people stop thinking clearly, it muddies the waters and pretends everything is up for debate, that there is no history, no concrete science, and no expertise.  Add a dash of social media, and you’ve got the modern trans ideology, conveniently built upon the exact same social mores that forced lesbians to live short, violent, unhappy lives, like Nell Pickerel did, and forced women generally to deny their real selves in order to get the bare minimum of freedom.

Bad job, atlasobscura.  But congrats, you scored Faux Woke Points with some hipster brocialist somewhere.

[joannalannister]

Ok I'm sorry I'm asking a lot of questions. Do you think Jaime has a stronger feminine side/is more in touch with his feminine side then most guys in westeros due to his hella close relationship with cersei? And if so, how does it manifest itself in his thoughts/feelings/actions/beliefs? Also, do you think Jaime thinks about women in general differently then other men due to his relationship with cersei? (Btw I've also sent a similar q to queenaly to see what she has to say - is that ok?)

I thought about this for a few days, and I guess I’m not sure what it means for Jaime to be “in touch with his feminine side”? What is a feminine side, exactly?

For example, when Jaime and Cersei switched places as children, Jaime might have picked up a few skills that are considered more “traditionally feminine” like sewing – but Tyrion knows how to sew as well, and he specifically says he enjoys needlework, so could we also say that Tyrion is also more in touch with his feminine side? And Jaime occasionally dressed in Cersei’s clothes as a child, but Samwell was also dressed in women’s clothing as a child, so does that make him more “in touch with his feminine side”? 

So I guess I don’t think it has to do with activities or clothing. But I don’t know if the conventional definition of being “in touch with his feminine side” has to do with those things?

I’m literally gonna go google “in touch with his feminine side meaning” because I don’t know how else to approach this? 

OK top result on google: “6 Ways To Get In Touch With Your Feminine Side.”  This is how it starts:

Everyone has feminine and masculine qualities that define who they are. Your masculine side gets expressed when you’re working toward a goal, making progress, getting things done, and pushing forward. 

Ok, wow, y’all should see my face rn reading this is sexist bullshit. I didn’t know that getting shit done was considered masculine.

Google Result #2: “In Touch With His Feminine Side -TV Tropes”

A character who is In Touch With His Feminine Side, also known as a Tomgirl or Janegirl, is a male who lacks certain stereotypically male traits and may adopt some stereotypically girlish traits. Such characters are sometimes referred to as being “sensitive.”

Ok, this is slightly more useful. TV Tropes goes on to list a number of traits, so let’s see if those apply to Jaime:

Lack of athleticism - nope, not Jaime.

Lack of aggression - ohhhh boy, definitely not Jaime

An Open, Emotional Personality - No? Jaime’s rather emotionally guarded? It took him ~16 years to open up about killing Aerys.

Typically (traditionally) feminine interests - No. Jaime likes “swords and dogs and horses”. He “thirsts for battle” 

Effeminate or Non-Masculine Appearance - No. “This is what a king should look like.” 

“To qualify a character must have a large percentage of these traits and/or have their effeminate-ness be remarked on in-universe“ - No.

Imma say no, not in touch with his feminine side by this definition. 

But I think this feminine side/masculine side thing is kinda BS to begin with 

(women aren’t athletic? Catelyn Stark wasn’t ready to murder people with her bare hands on behalf of her family? Women have a monopoly on emotions now? See, this is BS) 

so let’s try a slightly different question:

Compared to the average male, does Jaime have a better understanding of the female experience in Westeros, given his incestuous relationship with his twin sister?

I think not. 

(Honestly, text format can never accommodate my sweeping hand gestures while answering questions.)

Take it away, Cersei:

“Yet even so, when Jaime was given his first sword, there was none for me. ‘What do I get?’ I remember asking. We were so much alike, I could never understand why they treated us so differently. Jaime learned to fight with sword and lance and mace, while I was taught to smile and sing and please. He was heir to Casterly Rock, while I was to be sold to some stranger like a horse, to be ridden whenever my new owner liked, beaten whenever he liked, and cast aside in time for a younger filly. Jaime’s lot was to be glory and power, while mine was birth and moonblood.“

“But you were queen of all the Seven Kingdoms,” Sansa said.

“When it comes to swords, a queen is only a woman after all.”

Westeros systemically denies women their humanity. Even a queen is worth so much less to Westeros. 

I don’t think Jaime could ever understand what it was like for Cersei to have her body commodified and sexualized since childhood, to be wedded off without any say at all, to be raped as often as Robert liked, whenever he liked, without any recourse at all. 

I don’t think Cersei ever shared or expressed these things to Jaime, either. For example, I don’t think Cersei ever told Jaime how Robert would hurt her: “Never on the face before. Jaime would have killed him, even if it meant his own life.” If Robert had hit Cersei in an obvious place that wasn’t covered up by clothes, one that Jaime could see, Jaime would have flown into a murderous rage. So Cersei has to hide that shit.

(I guess this is an unpopular opinion, but I think Cersei is very guarded, even around Jaime? Like, I don’t think she confides everything to him. She never told him about the valonqar, she didn’t tell him about Robert’s abuse, she didn’t want to tell Jaime about Rhaegar as a child when she was drawing that picture. And same goes for Jaime - Jaime didn’t tell Cersei about the wildfire / killing Aerys. Even in his own POV, Jaime leaves so much unsaid to Cersei / says it only to us. How close are Jaime and Cersei, really?)

(God, I sound like an anti! Sorry! But my love for Cersei and Jaime derives from the tragedy of their relationship. Their misconceptions. The ways they hurt each other. The intensity of their love and hate. Their mutually-assured destruction. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold….) 

Also. There’s this passage in AFFC, and it has one of my favorite lines:

“I took her on Raymun Darry’s bed after stepping over Robert. If His Grace had woken I would have killed him there and then. He would not have been the first king to die upon my sword … but you know that story, don’t you?” He slashed at a tree branch, shearing it in half. “As I was fucking her, Cersei cried, ‘I want.’ I thought that she meant me, but it was the Stark girl that she wanted, maimed or dead.” The things I do for love. “It was only by chance that Stark’s own men found the girl before me. If I had come on her first …”

“As I was fucking her, Cersei cried, ’I want.’

Jaime thinks he understands, he thinks Cersei wanted something as simple as one dead child. 

I don’t think he understands at all. 

Cersei’s wants are so deep, so vast, that she doesn’t even have the words to articulate them. “I want _______.” 

Cersei wants everything, she wants it all, everything that’s been denied to her. 

And Jaime’s had all these things. They all came so easily to him that he valued them very little. 

“You were Robert’s queen. And yet you won’t be mine.”

I really don’t think Jaime understands at all.

(If anyone understands what it’s like to be Cersei, and what a precarious position she’s in, I think that’s Tyrion. Cersei was denied, because she is a woman. Tyrion is denied because he is not able bodied. Like, there’s this quote of Tyrion’s in AGOT: 

“Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day. Another him was a thought too dreadful to contemplate.”

That’s one reason why Cersei and Tyrion hate each other. They’re twins, in a way. It’s hard enough for each to face himself/herself. Cersei and Tyrion facing each other … “too dreadful to contemplate.”)

So how does Jaime’s complete lack of understanding of the female experience manifest itself?

In really gross ways tbh:

Sansa Stark, that ought to put a smile on Tyrion’s face. He remembered how happy his brother had been with his little crofter’s daughter … for a fortnight.

When Jaime hears that Tyrion has married Sansa, he thinks nothing about how Sansa was a hostage, married off into the family who murdered her father. He thinks nothing about a little girl, not yet 13 years old, being forced into a relationship where she must always be available for sexual intercourse with a member of the family who murdered her father. 

Literally all Jaime’s think of is, “Way to go, bro!”

Sure, in very obvious cases of rape, Jaime is against it. For example, he wants to protect Rhaella from her husband, because he could hear her crying out. Jaime’s not 100% awful. 

But it didn’t really bother him that Sansa could have been raped on her wedding night. 

And now he wants to smash Cersei’s teeth in, because she’s slept with other people. He’s mad at her, because she hasn’t been faithful, without understanding that Cersei never had the luxury of being faithful to Jaime. 

Jaime’s misogynistic. He’s not as bad as someone like Randyll Tarly, but that’s setting the bar pretty damn low. 

So I’m sorry, I don’t think this was the answer you wanted. 

You said you also sent this question to @goodqueenaly? She writes much better things than I do, so maybe she can give you a better answer?

[sportsbored]

The chances of Lamar Jackson going to the New York Jets are SIGNIFICANTLY less that zero due to just about every move we’ve made in the offseason

MORE THAN. Twas a typo. I meant MORE than zero.

Soo, I’m already anticipating the downvotes. Why? I won’t shut about Lamar Jackson. I understand. I’m actually annoyed at the amount of hours I’ve invested researching. I used to have a life sobs. But, in my time investigating, I found a lot of things and..

I think we might draft Lamar Jackson.

But I probably can’t convince you that because media and mocks and blah blah. So, I’ll just say:

The chances of Lamar Jackson going to the New York Jets are SIGNIFICANTLY more than zero due to just about every move we’ve made in the offseason

But I’m not basing this off gut or any of that bullshit. I’ve found some interesting quotes from Bowles and info about our personnel that suggest, schematically and philosophically, Lamar is too much of a fit for the direction the team is going in to not be considered. (Please read before you downvote)

Before the draft hype started happening, Josh McCown went on a radio show and was asked what QBs he thought about becoming a QB coach or scout. What he thought of the QBs coming into the draft. Without being asked to comment specifically about Lamar, he went on a spiel about how effective Lamar could be in the passing game with his ability to run and read the field.. Now, I will say, this was before McCown came back to us. He might not even have us in mind. I mean, we all know McCown is vying for a QB coach, or coaching position in general, after he retires. Maybe input on who he likes best? But this was also at a time when the Polian quote was hot. Could mean something...?

Buuut, It also could mean a whole lotta nothing. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

This all starts from a video of Bowles during the combine, explaining why John Morton left. Basically, he said that Morton wasn't the best person for going in the new direction of the team. He said they are trying mesh their run and pass game several times. Hmmm... If you wanted to mesh those two things, there IS one perfect guy... But again, ahead of ourselves. Bowles repeated this several times (seriously it’s funny the way he emphasizes it lol) and, with the moves the FO made, it makes sense.

Jeremy Bates, our new OC, is a West Coast system guy. Besides being a better OC for our newly meshed run pass game, Bates is a stickler for footwork. Here's a cool article about it. Wonder why McCopter's throwing was better this year than you remember in his TB and Browns days? Footwork. Now, everyone - sans Rosen - in this draft class has footwork issues. I won’t act like fixing one of the few valid holes in Lamar’s game (which is the [easy thing to fix)[(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3qDroheNw8)] in a QB btw) makes the Morton connection a special fit for Jackson. But a good system might.

Bates runs a West Coast Offense. The West Coast Offense is perfect for Lamar, as it's centered on short and intermediate passes, timing and anticipation. Coming from an Erhardt-Perkins system (think Patriots, hence the interest), reading defenses was a requirement, and Partrino would actually stop practices when Lamar was tempted to run as an underclassmen. Despite draft media saying ridiculous things like he doesn't read coverages or throw with anticipation, he thrives on taking advantage of windows in zone reads. Here's a sheet from a longer contexualized report by Ben Solak explain things with numbers and such for all the QBs. But it doesn’t just take a system that matches, but a commitment to that play style... Well according to Bowles...

56:07 ish Depending on the team and depending the scheme [mobility in a quarterback] can be very valuable. Half the league has drop back quarterbacks and half the league have mobile quarterbacks and do more zone read stuff so depending [on scheme] you may look at it as a benefit, you may not, but it has its place in this league...

What is a zone read offense? According to this, a "zone" blocking up front, with the quarterback giving or keeping based upon the "read" he makes. Keep that in mind.

My perception doesn’t change the quarterbacks we have ...we tailor the game to their strength and not their weakness so it really doesn’t matter to me.

Hmmmmmmmm.... funny saying this, while also saying this.

1:49 Bates is 3 steps ahead of the ball game... Jeremey gives us the chance to think ahead and do certain things that I don’t think we had in the past, so, combined with Dennison, and the rest of the Offensive Coaches, I think it was the right thing to do.

When we dumped Morton, we not only promoted Jeremy Bates, we hired a new Offensive Line Coach, Rick Dennison. Dennison is a master of, what else, but the Zone Blocking Scheme, a scheme that encourages Lineman to run down the field to block. This scheme is especially good with runners that can make quick cuts like Crowell, or Powell...or Lamar. Oops I dropped some film of Lamar tearing up Syracuse with some ZBS concepts. Ok, we might be running zone blocking, and Bowles might have said mobility is valuable for teams who do things like zone reads but... I don’t think Dennison means much, right? Did I mention that Dennison was once Tyrod Taylor’s QB coach and also the coach for Jay Cutler and Matt Schaub when had their best completion percentage numbers? No? Well, this does.

Speaking about accuracy, Lamar’s terrible right? How can he be a choice as a number 3 QB if he’s a terrible thrower? First, Josh Allen's % is worse. Besides that, well, he’s not really inaccurate. Lamar had the most incompletions due to drops of the QBs available, this was even in his heisman season. Even with an inconsistent base, Lamar’s accuracy concerns makes adjusted completion percentage was 3rd best of the 5, *right behind Rosen. He even had a better adj comp % than Rosen before his god awful bowl game. Unless you think Darnold is inaccurate, you can't say the same for Lamar.

But he has terrible mechanical issues! Terrible, no, inconsistent, yes. This article explains the details of what Lamar’s problems are regarding mechanics (which is technically a hip and elbow problem but whatever). Regardless, despite Considering his ball placement is already in the top tier of draft eligible QBs (according to the godly Ben Solak) Seems like Lamar’s already coming along, although not perfect yet. And we have Jeremy Bates to help him fix whatever other gap exists. It's really his one glaring flaw and we have the coaching staff and scheme to fix it...

But I haven’t heard any rumors about LJ to the Jets! The Jets are hush mouth about what prospects they want, but were SUPER hush mouth about Hack during his draft process. We didn’t didn't even release the fact they had a workout with him (and I checked google). That’s why the Baker & Jets marriage didn’t make much sense to myself. Mayfield is much more vocal than we usually are about these things. Either way, there hasn't been a word yet about the Jets working with Lamar, even though there were rumors earlier (super paper thin, will say) in the draft process . It also appears most other teams around our draft pick have at least met with him at the combine. You’re telling me we haven’t met with him at all and he's a perfect fit for our offense? Speaking of Hack, people say Mac loved him because he was a tall strong armed white guy, but his mental processing abilities were impressive. Guess, what? Lamar's are pretty damn impressive too. And his arm, pretty strong too.

But is he worth the top 3 pick? Yes. He’s gotten injured the fewest of the top 5. His “frail” frame isn’t a valid complaint. RG3 has 10 pounds on him. Muscle mass doesn’t make you less prone to injury (per Mississippi State athletic dept), flexibility however does. And according to his old coach, he was gumby. Also, his pocket presence is one of the most mature in the class hands down. The narrative against him was only because draft guys don’t know where he’d fit. In fact, his stock keeps ‘rising’ (they didn’t know where he’s going because he has no agent tiesand they don’t know where to place him schematically) and Schefter says he sees him going in the first, and it’s not close. Now he’s getting reports about mid picks. He’s shown more dynamic play and mature pocket ability than any of the guys in the draft. If he’s a better 2010 Mike Vick, and Vick was #1, why not Lamar?

Could this be confirmation bias? Certainly. I’ve been on this man’s tip since the end of the college season. I could be painting a magical fairy tale all in my head. Buuuutt, adding all the Bowles quotes together, since our offense is clearly going in a more of a meshed running and passing game, and Bowles thinks an offense designed for a mobile QB would be the team..

Well, we’re a pretty damn good fit.

As a disclaimer, I must say that Mayfield, Darnold, Rosen and even Allen also somewhat fit the in the way we have built the team. That’s why I don’t think Mac or Bowles is lying when the said they have 4 or 5 guys they could take. They are also very capable of thriving on rollouts and have a bit of athletic ability to execute a similar type offense (Rosen will have to play a more pocket west coast game). However, if you want a west coast offense that thrives on utilizing ZBS to get lineman down the field to block and creates a great running game, Lamar fits the scheme the best and will be the most dangerous in our offense. From picking up Crowell (a back that could make quick cuts to maximize the ZBS) to Spencer Long (a O lineman that could do both ZBS and Power Blocking), we’ve made a commitment to our scheme.

One thing's for sure, Bowels says

45:47 ish Bates has a good plan in place to do what we want. Has the staff to do it. Have confidence to execute it.

So whoever we pick, we’ll be in a good spot but don’t flame if it’s Lamar Jackson because that would absolutely be great for us.