#famously

[voidwhalebone]

me and my completely normal diet that definitely consists of things other than just chicken and potatoes

[maranull]

5 bloody pills in one night (2 are the same) they should all work independent of each other (doc would had warned me if there are conflicts, right? right??) but I am a bit worried I've never taken so much medicine at once before :/ can't say I'm thrilled about it

[nomaishuttle]

i need t start talking 2 ppl more.. i kkow i always say this im always like Ooo ill be more social ooo ill go outside more and i dont. due to my illnesses. but i rly rly rly want to

[dyk3-on-a-byk3]

yeah <3333

negative self talk "im going to die here" vs positive self talk "im going to start killing"

[bixels]

Baffled.

[malinastharlock]

One tiny fungus

-Green Day

[fesenmoon]

no fucking way

[koifishhies]

This tag is very interesting to me, because you’re not wrong @perksofbeingalittletwat! That is indeed the point. This post came from a place of “it’s humorous to point out the dichotomy between enjoying a specific type character while hating that specific type of person.”

I think it’s okay to enjoy these characters so long as there is an active discussion about and awareness of the fact that they are not good irl.

(There is a line tho!! I’m only talking about, like, having fun with a good old royalty fantasy while still acknowledging that monarchies are antithetical to democracy and should be dismantled. Not proship/dead dove content.)

That being said I think “I'm going to detach these characters from the context and just enjoy them as characters" and “the fact that this character is likeable is a political commentary in and of itself, those in power can appear likeable and still be corrupted” are takes that can coexist.

“you’re not supposed to like richard he’s a tyrant king” then why did you cast david tennant to play him huh? why did you cast david tennant and give him the most lusciously beautiful long hair and make him kiss men while crying and lamenting like a pathetic little baby huh? you think I can resist such a girlfailure of a character? you’re WRONG. he’s my blorbo now.

[katakaluptastrophy]

There's a lot going on with tea in Harrow the Ninth.

It's "overwhelming" and "too much" for Harrow, yet John regularly summons her to sit alone with him and drink it.

You did not understand why anyone ate these biscuits or drank this tea.

In the scene where John gets Harrow to admit what her parents did to create her - nobody has to know! - the entire exchange is framed around descriptions of how much John is enjoying drinking his tea and eating his biscuits, and descriptions of how much Harrow does not want to consume them at all and yet feels unable to do anything else. She understands herself as "required to drink it."

When John tells Harrow about the Tomb and the Body, we again get multiple descriptions of his enjoyment of drinking tea. Harrow is having a much less enjoyable experience: "you had not known you were shaking until God himself reached out to still your wrist, so that you mightn’t spill your tea over your knees." He asks her if she likes poetry or biscuits, and she makes it clear she isn't interested in either. He insists she eats two biscuits, and begins to recite the Poe poem associated with Humbert Humbert's first victim to her by way of reminiscing about who he buried in the Tomb.

In moments where Harrow tries to assert her own agency, tea is there too. When she tells John about the Saint of Duty and Cytherea's body, her tea is "stubbornly undrunk" and John's biscuit crumbles into his tea. John is drinking tea when Gideon finds him interrogating Wake, and when the game is up and Mercymorn and Augustine turn on him, they both smoke and tap the ash from the cigarette out into John's empty mug.

Conversely, we see John drinking coffee by himself in the Mithraeum kitchen when he's not interacting with anyone. Harrow is also offered coffee by Abigail Pent, and "accepted a cup, mainly to warm her hands." Despite Abigail being another powerful figure of whom Harrow feels wary, there's no sense of compulsion or discomfort in this offered drink (despite it otherwise being a situation of gentle compulsion). Harrow feels able to accept it on her own terms. Which brings it roughly in line with how Harrow feels about physical touch from both John and Abigail as well.

But Katakaluptastrophy, you might be saying, sometimes the tea is just tea! Yes, but sometimes the author was a secondary school teacher in the UK, where this is a popular video for explaining the concept of consent to teenagers:

[raggedclawsscuttling]

Famously died of brain cancer is such a strange way to put it

[rainbow-sunshine-unicorn]

No one has fathered the way Anthony Bridgerton is about to Father

[yuukirita]

Here you can see the exact moment his spark broke in half

Here's where you can read this au!

[greenbloods]

love how both tywin and ned are genre definingly different from the predecessors from their houses. lannisters have always been the clever house, from lann the clever swindling casterly rock to tyland lannister splitting kings landing's treasury. but tywin's 'low cunning' and use of brutal crushing military force to solve his problems which he employs in the reyne-tarbeck rebellion and the scouring of the riverlands and the red wedding is different from the historical version of house lannister. it's a new brand of lannisterism, tywin's version, and it is this version of lannister legacy that he passes on to his children.

ned on the other hand very much likes to distance himself from the stark features of the wild and the wolf's blood, which other starks like brandon and rickard and cregan and even lyanna are defined by, adopting instead an ethos of duty and honor more like the tully words or his foster father jon arryn. he does this because he thinks that it is this wolf's blood that killed them in the end. just like the lannister kids contend with their father's idea of a good lannister, the starklings contend with their father's idea of a good stark.

[expensivemistake]

think it's fucking hilarious that props had a whole subplot of sue telling kurt to wear a dress and sing a solo at nationals and he's like "fuck that" and then gets next to nothing in the nationals set

[higgsbison]

I need you to understand my vision

[relaxxattack]

this line in particular is pretty good sollux characterization imo. this is like his whole deal. you broke sollux down to his bare essentials