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aalghul · 1 month ago
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"claiming any writer ever intended to write that jason was sexually assaulted as a child is stealing from mia" is still one of the most ridiculous takes i have ever seen. by the way
#winick: hey i like this character. im going to resurrect him from the dead after 20 yrs. i'm going to have him go out of his way to tell mia#he thinks theyre similar. when she denies that he knows her enough to make such a claim i'm going to make him bring up her past as a victim#of SA specifically to prove he knows her past well and is still saying they are similar. and then i will make him say he also had to do bad#things to survive on the street.#people: clearly this writer who likes jason wrote him mocking mia for being a victim of SA!#if you think this could possibly imply him having faced SA then you hate women. obviously.#be serious. this is me just using GA seeing red. not talking abt bftc or how winick also wrote jay's first kill to be a sex trafficker or#how his dialogue following that was a callback to judy. i'm not even making the argument that jason necessarily has to have this history in#every interpretation of him! bc ofc he doesnt most writers never even hinted at this#but you cannot whine about mia's story being “stolen” by fans when fans are simply looking at published canon#mia ends that fight without any serious injuries after jay spent the entire thing giving her what HE thought was solid advice (was it?#well no. but HE thought it was) and you want to pretend his intention was to psychologically torture her using the SA she faced?#i can appreciate dedication to being a hater but i draw the line at being intentionally stupid. you dont even have to agree on winick#implying anything abt jay's past but you cannot say he was mocking her
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sonknuxadow · 3 months ago
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it just hit me that the movie is coming out next month imgonna throw upppppppp
#to be clear this isnt an excited post this is a scared post .#i feel kinda guilty about it with how excited i was about the first 2 movies#but i just cant be anymore paramount and the scu have disappointed me so much within the past year in so many ways ......#shadow is one of my favorite characters his lore makes me go crazy and is one of the things that pulled me into loving sonic so much#but i literally felt nothing while watching that trailer aside from confusion at some of the writing choices being made#like i wasnt expecting an exact recreation of sa2 but why is sonic working with gun . wtf is gerald doing here . why are there no girls .#the only positives to me were things that were cool visually . which doesnt outweigh all the things that have annoyed/disappointed me#like who cares about another cool sonic and shadow fight scene we already have plenty of those .#Anyway. saw some of those new promotional images.#i swear to god if they actually start calling shadow+eggman+gerald team dark#like they suggested they might in that survey from a while back#im gonna become the joker for real#(insert the NO that is NOT solid snake image but it says team dark instead)#also maybe im taking the hedgehog games way too seriously here#but having gerald still be alive and present in some form feels like such a bad idea from a story perspective ... like .#for one shadow lost Everything in the gun raid having gerald still be here feels like its undermining that in a way#but also gerald's whole thing in sa2 is being long dead but still impacting the story despite that . why is he ALIVEEEE#and why is he here over rouge ???? do they just hate women or something#(before someone goes ''it would take too much time/money to animate another cgi character''#maybe the movies should have just been fully animated if that sort of thing was a concern . just saying)
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sumarmz · 7 months ago
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Mitsuri and Obanai shouldve been the ones to fight Akaza and I will fight ppl on this
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hylianane · 1 year ago
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Still not over Oda deciding to have every single male character peep on the girls’ bath in Alabasta- including Luffy, Chopper, (disgustingly) King Cobra, and the fucking camel- EXCEPT for Zoro. In fact I’m pretty sure he’s the only main guy to have never been included in any of the many pervert gags. We talk about Luffy’s sexuality and very deliberate aroace coding a lot, but I think Zoro’s disinterest in women’s bodies is just as important to how he’s portrayed, and just as intentional on Oda’s part. Like, when we talk about the extremely (and justifiably!) popular mlm Zoro HC, it’s usually just our personal readings of his relationships with men like Luffy or Sanji, or (cough) strangely sexy one-liners, nothing we actually believe was intentional on Oda’s part. But this, I do believe is on purpose.
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suspicious-whumping-egg · 1 year ago
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Does anyone else see red when a dude (usually cishet) says "oh I won't fight girls" as if it's some moral high horse when it's really just misogyny and the implication that anyone with an estrogen based endocrine system is inherently weaker... like if you wanna say "i won't fight someone unless it's fair" that's a perfectly good moral to have, but don't fucking bring biological essentialism into it.
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orcelito · 11 months ago
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I'm on ep5 of LOK and remembering why I have never gotten past the first season of this show. The love triangle shit is driving me INSANE in the worst of ways. It feels like fucking high school drama.
I will stick it out... because I have heard the show gets better... and also the promise of endgame Korra and Asami.... I will stick it out this time....!!!!
But God. It's so annoying 😭😭😭😭
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greekromann · 1 year ago
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the version of tashigi that lives in my head is soooo much cooler than anything oda could ever hope to write about women. oda doesnt understand her I Do Though
#the smoker and tashigi episodes that live in my mind. oda wishes. he wishes he were me#this is true of every woman in 1pc but its so frustrating watching any scene with tashigi bc like#yes shes clumsy scatterbrained etc etc those are fine those can stay bc through all that shes. SUPPOSED to be competent. shes been /said/#to defeat strong opponents and theres a /reason/ shes smokers right hand but odas allergic to letting women fight onscreen. bc hes a coward#im taking her away from him im taking away his tashigi rights. Girl You Are So Cool To Me#this is like. gdjgffgjdhf between tashigi and kuina oda does this thing where hes like. ''what if i almost engaged with being a woman in a#heavily gendered society in an interesting way and i /talked/ about doing so but then never follow up on that. so rather than creating a#story that includes gender norms for the purpose of questioning them i just /talked/ about questioning them but then reinforced them with my#starring cast of characters bc im incapable of writing a woman who isnt Dainty. what then.“ and what happens then is i Bite him#and by 'allergic to letting women fight onscreen' i mean. women can only fight women and if theyre NOT fighting women they still have to be#Elegant or Feminine about it and occasionally a woman could defeat a Man™ but shes always gotta be Pretty about it. nami complains about#fighting and robin Only Slaps People Bc She Doesnt Like Punching :( and tashigi (whos fighting style is more traditionally. yknow. Fighty)#doesnt get to Do that often or when she Does she gets put out of commission early and its. Bro You Are So Close#head in my hands. 1pc is good i love it dont get me wrong but i could make it Better
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jrueships · 1 year ago
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THEYRE AFRAID OF HIM NOW
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gods-favorite-autistic · 19 days ago
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The only things I know about Catullus is that he called his lover in his poems Lesbia by choice and her actual name was Clodia and it used to be Claudia until some reverse adoption happened and her name got changed
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windydrawallday · 11 months ago
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Excuse me for adding a bit more to your post! This illustration gave me a good memory trip of high school reading years, seeing books with similar illustrations, and after rummaging on my scans from that era... I found some of them!
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But the one that I'm glad I saved in full is... this one
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Because this was my first exposition to anything Phantom of the Opera... since then THIS become THE Phantom on my mind! It ruined me forever to watch anything else that didn't portray him in this way x'D (To the point I even gave tribute to this design in an old fanart coff).
STILL, LOOK AT THAT! Both horrible and tender... how not to fall in love with a story that puts you in the middle of the struggles of these characters?
Btw the artist is [Ignacio Noé], an Argentinian Illustrator who was commissioned to do dozens of pictures of this caliber by a children's magazine of the same country, "Genios", under their collection "Grandes Clásicos" (circa 2000) that gathered old-time classic novels wrote down in very summarized chapters as a first introduction to literature for high schoolers.
It's not hard to find them being sold on the web separately but so far for me at least, this one is a grial because I only saw it in a few libraries, not always intact.
Still, I'll forever cherish this man and book for putting such a picture in my head ♥
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Erik at his organ, from a Latin Leroux edition
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piosplayhouse · 3 months ago
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Not to get cancelled again but does no one else remember the way wwx became a local legend by harassing the flower damsel multiple times while continuously getting thrown out of her garden just because he wanted to see her face
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filthyjanuary · 1 year ago
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the only thing i have to say about That Music Video is "satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize”
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never-quite-buried · 5 months ago
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Gene once said “we certainly had the feeling that the affection was sufficient for that, if that were the particular style of the 23rd century” and while I don’t trust the money chasers at paramount to honor what this ship represents to so many, it absolutely feels homophobic to know we’ll likely never have it canonized. Surely we’re on track to a 23rd century where that sentiment could be realized, right?
To continue straightwashing k/s feels like an admission from the creators that we will never be that society, that they cannot envision a future where the puritanical standards of today don’t permeate the entire universe. That in the 23rd century queers will still be sidelined, we’ll still be living in the margins and hiding. I don’t like what that says about our future or the faith we as a whole have to make it a better one.
i'm honestly at a loss right now. like... what even is happening on the SNW star trek reddit thread?
i know i shouldn't be surprised at this point, but the level of pushback and dismissal when it comes to even the mere possibility of spock being queer is just... baffling.
like, i get that reddit has its share of toxicity and closed-mindedness, but for some reason i thought the star trek fandom would be a bit more evolved, you know? this is literally a franchise that has always been about inclusivity, diversity, and pushing social boundaries. and yet here we are, in 2024, still having to justify the basic idea that hey, maybe the character with a decades-long history of queer subtext and coding could, in fact, be queer.
it's just wild to me that this is even a debate. like, i'm sorry, but the idea of kirk and spock's relationship having homoerotic undertones is not some fringe tumblr headcanon - it has been acknowledged and explored by literal cast members, writers, and even gene roddenberry himself. the term "slash" in fanfiction comes from kirk/spock stories, for crying out loud. this is not new!
and yet we have people in that reddit thread acting like the mere suggestion of a queer spock is some sort of sacrilegious retcon that would ruin the character forever. as if spock's entire 50+ year history would be erased if he so much as looked at a man with anything other than heterosexual brotherhood.
it's just so frustrating and disheartening to see this level of knee-jerk dismissal and erasure, especially in a fandom that prides itself on being progressive and imaginative. like, we can envision a future with warp drives and aliens and literal magic space gods, but a queer vulcan is a bridge too far? okay then.
and the thing is, no one is even saying that spock is definitively, unquestionably gay, or that every single iteration of his character needs to be explicitly queer. all we're saying is that there is room for that interpretation, and that queer stories have just as much right to be told as any others. but apparently even that is too much for some folks.
it's a reminder that even in supposedly "enlightened" geeky spaces, homophobia and heteronormativity are still alive and well. and it's exhausting, honestly. as a queer trekkie, i'm just so tired of having to constantly justify my existence and fight for scraps of representation.
you know what, i'm gonna say it: the erasure and denial of spock's queer subtext, and specifically the spirk ship, is not just frustrating - it's straight up homophobic.
like, let's look at the facts here. kirk and spock's relationship has been coded as romantic and even erotic since literally the beginning of the franchise. the term "t'hy'la", which has been used to describe their bond, translates to "friend, brother, lover" in vulcan. that's not subtext, that's just... text.
and the evidence just keeps piling up from there. the way spock is the only person who can pull kirk out of his darkest moments, the way they constantly risk their lives and careers for each other, the "this simple feeling" speech in the motion picture... like, come on. even the kelvin timeline movies had scenes of them practically eye-fucking on the bridge.
and don't even get me started on the plethora of literary references that heavily code their relationship as queer. kirk and spock's dynamic has been compared to achilles and patroclus, gilgamesh and enkidu, alexander the great and hephaestion... all classic examples of homoerotic male partnerships. the iconic back-to-back pose from the episode "bread and circuses" is a direct visual reference to the novel "ishmael" by barbara hambly, which depicts a gay romance between two men.
these are not coincidences or fan delusions - they are deliberate, well-documented artistic choices layered into the very foundation of kirk and spock's relationship. and the fact that so many people are eager to ignore or downplay them in order to cling to a heteronormative fantasy of male friendship is honestly pretty telling.
and look, i get it. it's easy to claim "they were just best friends" because that's what we've been culturally conditioned to see as the default. but the reality is, intimate male relationships have been historically desexualized and stripped of romantic coding in order to maintain heterosexual norms. the achilles/patroclus model of male love used to be widely understood as having a romantic and even sexual element - it was only in the 19th and 20th centuries that it was aggressively reframed as "platonic friendship" in a textbook example of straightwashing.
so when people insist that kirk and spock's bond could never be anything other than a sexless bromance, they are literally upholding centuries of homophobic revisionism designed to erase queer love from our cultural narratives. and i'm sorry, but that's not something i can get behind as a queer fan.
you cannot look at the overwhelming evidence of kirk and spock's queer subtext, the decades of analysis exploring their relationship through a romantic lens, the undeniable impact and influence of queer interpretations on the very fabric of this fandom... and tell me with a straight face that it's all meaningless or invalid.
kirk/spock walked so that every other slash pairing could run. it is the ur-text of queer shipping in modern fandom. and while it may have started as subtext, it has long since transcended those limitations to become an integral part of star trek's cultural legacy.
but at the end of the day, i know that fandom will always be what we make of it. no amount of downvotes or closed-minded rhetoric can change the fact that queer interpretations of spock have been part of his story since day one, and will continue to be so long as there are lgbtq+ fans who see ourselves in him.
so to my fellow queer trekkies: keep boldly going, keep reading the subtext, keep telling our stories. they can call it illogical all they want - we know the truth. and as a wise vulcan once said: "there's no point in denying the facts of one's nature." 🖖🏳️‍🌈
#side thought:#i would like to posit that they’re attempting to cover gene’s tracks with the tpring/christine dynamics#like we all watch the show and are like wow he really is full on disinterested in women#got a whole mental bond with a woman and doesn’t even give a fuck#has a pretty blonde willing to drop everything for him at a moments notice#and to the power fantasy writing showrunners that must be so confusing! so we get blade the pussy smashing Spock instead#so rather than spock having no desire for T’Pring due to the whole Bonded At 7 And Barely Saw Each Other#its because they had a bad falling out during his vulcan rumspringer#and instead of spock simply not being attracted to christine he’s just bitter over being broken up with through a mediocore song#so it can’t possibly be that he’s simply uninterested#it’s like they watched the show and saw exactly what we did but instead of deducing anything through logic#they decided ooooh he must have already smashed and passed#absolute lunacy when homosexuality is just. RIGHT THERE. its right there and makes far more sense#and it doesnt throw canon in a blender#like i liked chappell! i genuinely liked her in tos and now i truly dont like her#Before she simply had a badly suppressed crush (add in tas and she literally drugged him w a love potion but w/e girlboss gaslight etc)#now she’s an emotionally unavailable woman who breaks up an engaged couple#strings guy along while he fights his literal cultural identity to be what he thinks she needs#and she just basically tells him to fuck off in the most humiliating of fashions in front of a crowd#so now with all this backstory she looks SO MUCH WORSE for love potioning the guy SHE broke things off with#it makes tos Chappell look pathetic and inconsistent and like a fairly bad person#it makes her look manipulative petty and obsessive#yay character development???? 🙄
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i9messi · 26 days ago
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She's my lady — Charles Leclerc
You're a figure skater competing in the Winter Olympics and Charles doesn't hide he is your biggest fan.
note: i know winter olympics are in 2026, but let's pretend they are in 2025 for the sake of this fic. also, reader and charles are in an established relationship.
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holidays with you 🤍 charles_leclerc
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user1 so beautiful
user2 did she spend holidays with charles' family?
user3 yesss, she spent holidays with her own family (of course george was there) and the leclercs
carmenmmundt I love you, angel 😇
yourusername I love you too bonita
charles_leclerc I don't have enough words to describe how much I love you, I guess I need to remind you right now. Let the phone and come with me, I miss you
yourusername omg Charles ☺️ I love you, wait for me
georgerussel63 😡
yourusername say something nice or I'll block you
georgerussel63 okay, I love you and I guess your relationship with Charles is fine
yourusername I love you big bro
yourfriend miss uu
yourusername i miss you more
yourusername
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i'm back ⛸️
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user1 YESSSSSS
user2 counting the days to see her in the winter olympics
arthur_leclerc you're awesome!
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francisca.cgomes teach me how to skate on ice pls
yourusername whenever you want🤍
francisca.cgomes are you free tomorrow?
yourusername of course, send me a text xx
charles_leclerc you're so special to me, I love you
georgerussel63 oh stop being so annoying, carlossainz55 come to help me and say something to him
carlossainz55 charles man, stop setting the bar too high
charles_leclerc I'll never stop
yourusername 🤭
charles_leclerc
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my beautiful girl, good luck on the winter olympics. I am already proud of you and I'm the luckiest man to have you
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user1 I don't know anything about figure skating, someone explain
user2 she's competing in the winter olympics, a championship of sports related with ice. she's in the category women's singles, which means she doesnt have a partner, she skates alone
user3 is she good?
user2 yess, she has medals already
yourusername i love youuuu, thank you for the support baby
charles_leclerc have I told you i'm your biggest fan?
user4 can you fight?
charles_leclerc yes.
maxverstappen1 good luck on the winter olympics yourusername!
yourusername thank you max🥹
user5 two of the current best athetles in the world interacting wih each other. oh, and they also are charles girlfriend and boyfriend
charles_leclerc just posted a story
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caption: so much talent, so much passion. it's you, it's always you
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next round!
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charles_leclerc I LOVE YOUUUUU
charles_leclerc YOU WERE INCREDIBLE
charles_leclerc YOU'RE EVERYTHING
user1 and you're just ken
user2 i want a man like charles
user3 i want a gf like y/n
georgerussel63 that's my little sis!
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oscarpiastri good luck mom
yourusername thank you son xx
user4 charles and his gf adopting oscar as their son is making me really happy
landonorris are cute girls there? invite me next time
yourusername even if i know i really want to win, i don't need you distracting all the girls around
user5 she was so good, I loved her performance!
user6 she's my favourite figure skater in the championship
charles_leclerc just posted a story
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caption: my lady won a medal!
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I know how hard you have been working to win a medal and make us proud. You won, baby. I just see how lucky I am to have you and I'm so happy with the fact the people now can see how talented and wonderful you are. You're kind and a beautiful soul. I love you so much. You make me proud, just want to tell the world how much I love you. Forever yours, Charles.
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yourusername oh charles baby 🥹 i'm yours and i love you. thank you for all the support you gave me during these last weeks and for your kind words🤍
charles_leclerc ❤️❤️❤️
user1 can charles fight? like for real, can he really fight?
charles_leclerc I would murder for her
user1 okay sorry sir
charles_leclerc she's my lady in case you have forgotten
user2 you never made us forget she's your lady, you're like always remembering us
maxverstappen1 we lost him
landonorris you mean, you lost your boyfriend
maxverstappen1 shut up
user3 get a man who posts about you and writes cute words for you
user5 the bar was never too high like now
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I won a medal and my boyfriend proposed: luckiest girl alive
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georgerussel63 my little sis is gonna get married, i'm already crying
yourusername I'm not that little anymore
georgerussel63 you'll always be a baby
yourusername fine, old man
carmenmmundt congrats beautiful❤️
yourusername will you be my bridesmaid?
carmenmmundt omg yesss
francisca.cgomes oh my godness, i'm so happy for you!!!
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oscarpiastri yesss, congrats for the medal and for the ring
user1 how do you feel about your parents getting married?
oscarpiastri i'm now a happy kid
yourusername i love you son 🤍
oscarpiastri I love you mom❤️
landonorris yessssss, congrats you two!
user2 omgggggg I knew it
user3 rumors were true
charles_leclerc
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she said yes, and now I can say "SHE'S MY WIFE!!!!!!! HAVE YOU SEEN HER? SHE'S INCREDIBLE"
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yourusername oh boy, you're making me cry again. I love you lots, you're the best thing that ever happened to me🤍
charles_leclerc I love you wife❤️❤️❤️
maxverstappen1 congrats!
yourusername charles still loves you
maxverstappen1 what? don't say shit like that
yourusername i'll keep your secret
user1 adopt me pls
oscarpiastri no, I don't want a sibling
user2 it's a love story and she said yes ❤️
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hauntingblue · 1 year ago
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Watching 3d2y bc I can't resist it anymore 🫡
#are they gonn show me ace dying again? do they know it makes me sick in the head???#damn speedrun#survrived it ☝🏻#once again luffy fighting someone becaue of foof#they came here to give me food I WILL go and fight that guy to get them lmao#was hesitant to watch this movie bc i find them unecessary but like.... hancock and luffy team up how can i not#PERONA??#this fucking guy telling luffy he is too weak and that he couldnt even save his brother... count your days bastard... wait til i get there..#the old woman leaving hancock with less clothes 😭😭 now she is even MORE effective lmao#the woman saying shes never been interested in women 💀💀 thats a compliment even#imagine you eat the mero mero devil fruit but you are so ugly it doesnt work on anyone#what a waste#also realized that sanji parted his hair on the other side so now he sees with the eye that zoro can't.... just a fyi#buggy being shichibukai still doesnt sit right with me. they just ask anybody these days....#world and luffy being both little brothers who wanted to travel the seas and save their other brother lmao#oh he thought nakamas were just tools... he maaad 🤣🤣#FIRE PUNCH??? FIRE PUNCH????#for ace 😭😭#mihawk to the rescue damn#i guess zoro is still with the monkeys#i find it so funny that perona is just there to accompany him xd#that ending was kinda beautiful. that little old man....#mihawk just there to find out what hancock is doing with luffy i guess#welp. movie over#talking tag#watching one piece#watching 3d2y
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prideprejudce · 6 months ago
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I think alot more people would enjoy the show if they learned to see Rhaenyra and Alicent as Unreliable Narrators, and characters who are supposed to have glaring flaws and weaknesses.
Mandatory preface- There are Issues™️ with season 2 that are its own other ask- but the complaints ive seen about character assassination on both women kind of tells me ppl just wanted to see the two just GirlBossing around, not being tragic characters trapped in their own circumstances.
For Alicent specifically- she just isn't written to be Cersei 2.0, and while it was really interesting to see motherhood from cersei's point of view, its already been done!! I actually prefer seeing Alicent's mercurial clinging to and abandoning motherhood- its interesting!! She was made a mother at what- 15? An age where you truly arent mentally developed enough to raise 3 kids, AND be a child bride, AND be a queen, (AND be a lesbian).
Alicent is interesting to me because she's stunted at 15 years old, she's an adult woman who talks to and sometimes bullies her kids as if they are her peers, and is obsessed with her childhood crush(es). She hasn't built any new relationships* past the ones she was entangled with as a teenager, she's obsessed with both acting out to make SOMEONE see that shes suffering, (she's honestly pretty blatant for someone who prides themselves on being the Temperate Voice of Reason) but also to erase herself and reset to before she had to marry the king, before aemma died.
I think most of her 'bad out of character' decisions are just these two impulses winning out, her trying to force a reset, go back to a time where none of this had happened yet, when things were simpler and she had love and every day wasn't the worst day of her life™️.
She sleeps with cole, the man she thought was pretty at 15 (her last uncomplicated attraction just before it all went wrong and aemma died) -she doesnt seem to like it that much, but she does seem compelled to seek him out, esp when upset- shes obsessed with, and desperate to reconnect with Rhaenyra, her childhood best friend (and first love) and get back to where they were as kids, AND she still treats and asks her father for absolution as if he's still the only authority that matters to her just like she did at 15. Alot of her 'victim complex/bewildered they took it so far' behaviour in the plotting of rhaenyra's usurption reads to me like a teenager in over her head, she talked big game and now its real and shes panicking!! She's tragic BECAUSE she's still a teenager- so stunted shes unable to meaningfully grow up and learn to make healthier choices for herself, or move on and stop trying to grasp at the 'if i could just go back' urge.
As a mother, I think this creates an interesting dynamic as well, and I do like that in the casting even, she seems closer in age to her kids than rhaenyra does to hers. I think the contrast ppl are drawing with Alicent Protecting Her Kids in season1 compared to her giving them up in season two isn't bad writing to me, just massive differences in context. Sure she protected Aemond in driftmark, but we cant ignore that she probably felt humiliated by her husband choosing rhaenyra's side over hers in front of everyone, did it seem like a grown woman fighting for her son?? or a teenager furious with her ex winning one over her again? or both!! both sides twisted together is still interesting! When she protected Aegon from Rhaenys, is stepping in front of her son the king to protect him from the enemies dragon fire not the most romantic daydream of a deserving death a child bride could come up with?? Was it the impulse to protect the son she couldnt decide if she loved or hated, or was it to have the most heroic death possible to escape the reality that she sees coming. And if Rhaenyra hears about how Brave she was in the face of a dragons maw, and cries about it forever and feels sooo bad and regrets it til the day she dies, thats an added bonus. I think Alicent loves her kids, but is teenager selfish about HOW she loves and protects her kids, and is unable to be a mature, consistant, protective mother to them when she also sees them as having ruined her life. I think in season 2 when she 'gives them up' shes relieved, and once again following the compulsion of 'if i reset to when Rhaenyra was heir, i had no sons, and i wasn't married or queen, everything will be better'. I think theres complexity to it, i think she does love her sons and feels insane about it, but I think Alicent has been trying to Go Back in more and more Intense ways ever since she got married, and we might be giving her sanity more credit than it deserves when it comes to the need to wipe the board clean and go back to being 15.
hey anon are you trying to get married to me or what
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