#every woman in that book is a god

[mads198-9]

Daisy Jones apologist first, human being second.

[flame-cat]

relistening to the gravity falls commentary and hearing alex call grunkle stan a "deep well of sadness" really hit dif after the book of bill

[moghedien]

less people should be writing myth retellings and more people should be writing myths

[criscura]

I want to get to the good part of this blastvoid thing I'm writing but i do NOT want to write the part before it and I'm procrastinating so fucking hard

Like i know what i want and it'll be satisfying but it's like the reverse of eating beef jerky, where this is the tough gross part you just need to swallow before getting to the fucking SPPIUCCE

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

I hate my hangup with reading Wonder Woman comics bc I spent my formative years as a Greek myth lover and I know I'm not going to enjoy the feminist revisionism that seems to be the Greek Pantheon of DC

I want to read her stuff, but dear god I don't want how they write the gods in any story I've heard of

[novelconcepts]

Moseying along in book 2 of The Expanse, and I cannot stress enough how much I am digging this series—except. There are Marines on Mars. We have fancy spaceship-travel shenanigans. There’s a body horror god molecule having its merry way with Venus. We are in Space, Motherfuckers. Why have I not met a single queer person yet????

[dulcewrites]

I mean, I don't think they shied away from portraying Rhaenyra in a bad light, they're just doing it slowly, she literally put a bunch of blood relatives from the smallfolk to be burned to death and is coming to see herself as tptwp, they'll certainly go deeper after Jace dies and Aegon disappears. As for Alicent, it was pretty obvious she was gonna betray team green and choose Rhaenyra/Helaena. She never wanted to forsake Rhaenyra and we see in the season is her being over her head in the war—she tries to turn back time, she sleeps with her teenage crush, she seeks absolution from her father (that's why I disagree with you she sees Otto as someone who pimped her out, she merely points out she followed him blindly, not that he abused her, he's still someone she loves and respects), she feels bitter towards her children and prays for Lucerys (not to make Rhaenyra look good, if that's the ga interpretation whatever, it's to show she's a kind person who despises violence) and, by the end, after seeing her daughter physically attacked by Aemond, the person who cut her power, she turns for Rhaenyra in an effort, perhaps naïve, to turn back time, "speaking from a distant dream", wanting to run away, and trusting Rhae because she risked her life going to the Sept and because she feels punished by the gods. It's fine if you didn't want it but it is good writing and people were already clocking this since she chose to put her kids at risk rather than kill Rhaenyra. As for being under subjugation, she was under Targ subjugation in KL under her misogynistics sons... Rhaenyra came before, was the first choice, first friend, first love. There's never complete freedom for any woman in Westeros, but she chose Rhaenyra out of her own desire and volition. I think some people just wanted to keep her life meaning and actions tied to her children and...

I did say that my problem with it wasn’t the choices made but how we got there… and I still believe that. It’s lazy writing at best, poor at worst imo

“I’m sorry but even as someone who has gone on record to say that I think the change they made to Rhaenicent was the best, I can’t just let poor execution slide. I don’t even think Alicent having little legion to Aemond or Aegon comes out of nowhere. She has constantly, to a fault, reaffirmed her trust in Rhaenyra.” - directly from my previous anon about how felt about s2

I’ve noticed this since the final ep was released, I hope this doesn’t come off mean bc I appreciate your opinion, but when people push back on the writing. You have a faction of being like “oh, you just don’t understand Alicent.” Nope, I get what they are going for. I just think it’s incorherent writing, and the quotes given by the writers themselves sort of only further prove that to me. People seem to act as if this plot is some sort of revelation or favor to Alicent as a character… when it is not. Not a fan of her arc, or lack thereof in s2 🤷🏽‍♀️.

[gigantomachylesbian]

Guys. I did not know before now that writing could be painfully millennial in a full prose book but the pho*nix ke*per has proven me wrong and I have to complain about it in the tags

[chameli]

i fucking hate books where the plot is “boring bland heroine is forcefully married off to an evil guy, but is planning to seduce & kill him (for whatever reason) but omg! she ends up falling in love with him because he’s SOOO hawt and sexi!!111”

like what the fuck. i want to see the plan actually go through. where’s the murder?

[hussyknee]

Firstprince fics keep getting Alex and Pez to say they want to bone Taylor Swift. A Nigerian man and a half Mexican's idea of ideal womanhood is this physical embodiment of a vanilla wafer? Please stuff this doohickery in a white character's mouth instead of hot-blooded mellanated ones' I am begging.

[transcrypttid]

when will white women stop writing M/M romance novels. when will i be released from the racist and homophobic dichotomy of waify white bottom and strong tan (but still white) top. i hate it here

[alveolaraspergillosis]

in an effort to do more efficient Fun Free Time Activities i have started reading the hunger games in german (had planned to reread hunger games + getting back into language study) it’s actually really gratifying how few times ive had to look up words so far

[lilacerull0]

elena knows how to be alone wayyyy better than lila does

[jaggedwolf]

wanted to read some f/f romance novels set in college while I let the longfic draft rest. already fucked up with the first book I started on because one of them is in grad school (wrong type of college!) and the other is running for congress. there's also a fictional mayor of new york who does not have something deeply wrong with him, which is a requirement for the office imo.

and yet, all of that said, I cackled out loud at how the main two women meet in-person because I got one page of anticipation of how ridiculously it was going to go down. that was good.

[owedfavors]

this is absolutely the wrong blog, but in the absence of a blog for hyacinth ( yet )...

gareth may have lost literally all my respect the moment he went 'oh let's make sure she can't back out of this engagement' like the idiot he apparently is...

but hyacinth choosing that moment to bicker over his use of the english language, and insisting that if she's "sufficiently annoying" she's sure she can get her way, and then climbing out of bed because oh no, we forgot about our heist plans!! I won't miss that fun for anything!! is just... absolutely everything to me.

[isekyaaa]

Reading the spoilers of otome light novels always be like, "Wow, people really hate men."