#help help I'm being repressed

[queer-ragnelle]

I'm so irritated. I have so many more retellings and medlit to share but I was holding off editing those lists until I could make a new html page to sort everything but tumblr support hasn't gotten back to me about my javascript errors. :^(

[saienby]

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

🤔 Is a king like Robert, who basically abdicates and lets better people rule instead, actually a decent king, considering?

Well, no, because it's still a monarchy with advisors appointed by the monarch, and nobody voted for these people either. Also, for every Ned Stark or Jon Arryn as Hand, there is a Petyr as the man in charge of (and embezzling) the money. And Renly in charge of laws, doing fuck all. And Janos the chief of police, being actively corrupt, disregarded by Robert.

The look the king gave Slynt was cold. "Janos was hardly the first gold cloak ever to take a bribe, I grant you, but he may have been the first commander to fatten his purse by selling places and promotions. By the end he must have had half the officers in the City Watch paying him part of their wages. Isn't that so, Janos?" Slynt's neck was purpling. "Lies, all lies! A strong man makes enemies, Your Grace knows that, they whisper lies behind your back. Naught was ever proven, not a man came forward..." "Two men who were prepared to come forward died suddenly on their rounds." Stannis narrowed his eyes. "Do not trifle with me, my lord. I saw the proof Jon Arryn laid before the small council. If I had been king you would have lost more than your office, I promise you, but Robert shrugged away your little lapses. 'They all steal,' I recall him saying. 'Better a thief we know than one we don't, the next man might be worse.' Lord Petyr's words in my brother's mouth, I'll warrant. Littlefinger had a nose for gold, and I'm certain he arranged matters so the crown profited as much from your corruption as you did yourself." —ASOS, Samwell V

It may be impossible to properly rule over an improper system, but it's perfectly possible to improperly rule straight up. And Robert did. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If there's any point to the books re monarchy, @amber-laughs, I think it's this:

"Why do the gods make kings and queens, if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?" "Some kings make themselves. Robert did." "He was no true king," Dany said scornfully. "He did no justice. Justice... that's what kings are for." —ASOS, Daenerys III

robert looking up from the seven hells after he dies like

[robz-stays-silly]

it’s always

“are you sure you’re okay, you haven’t taken your meds”

and never

there is no hope left for me, the ever-marching force of time has come to a standstill, the drums have ceased to beat, and life as a whole has stopped like snow on a fresh winter morn. the fog has arrived

[cinnamonsikwate]

"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White

[gatheringkeepsakes]

Been thinking about Jaune and Weiss parallels lately.

How they both come from big families with long lines of huntsmen heritage. How Weiss' house is full of conflict, but she had both pressure and opportunity in equal measure to live up to that family name. Whereas Jaune seems to have a lot of fond memories of home, but was given no opportunity to follow in his ancestors footsteps. How he had to sneak his way into Beacon just for a chance to be the hero.

How Weiss acted like she was la crème de la crème but had so much to learn, while Jaune knew he was so far behind everyone else that he struggled to see how much talent he had. How quickly he grew.

I also keep thinking about how they fiddle with the Princess and Knight roles. Starting out as Snow White the Ice Queen and Jeanne d'Arc the Greenhorn Knight, but by V9 Weiss is heir to neither kingdom nor crown, and Jaune has become The Rusted Knight incarnate. I wonder where they'll go from here with both those archetypes of theirs having crumbled quite a bit...

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

“i’m not team black, i’m team rhaenys.”

i think it’s incredibly idiotic to argue over which woman is the rightful heir when you could be arguing about how all of the women who were passed over/usurped are the rightful heirs 🤷‍♀️ rhaena should’ve been queen followed by aerea, rhaenys should’ve been queen followed by laena and then followed by baela, rhaenyra should’ve been queen followed by jace as king, etc. instead of continuously pitting the women in this world against each other, why don’t we just admit that the system as a whole is sexist and hold the people (cough couch men) upholding the patriarchy and denouncing a woman’s right to rule accountable instead.

they ALL should’ve been the mf queen.

[who-is-page]

dude from the bottom of my heart, why do sysmeds talk like anime villains. i promise it's not censorship and oppression that someone blocked u on social media or maybe made a post unrebloggable <3 have they ever considered that completely outrageous and overblown reactions like that about people reinforcing boundaries and choosing their own terms of engagement are in fact precisely why people block sysmeds <3 i wish sysmeds the best in recovering from their chronic cases of making mountains out of molehills get better soon tho <3

[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

one thing i really deeply wish is that i'd had access as a kid to the plural community and information that are more easily available today, instead of my first experience with plural community which both took it seriously and was nonjudgmental having been 10's era tul/pa.info lmao

[spocks-kaathyra]

"ur repressed" okay well have u even considered that emotions r purposeless and only serve to cause harm to those around u and I have achieved a unique transcendent state beyond them. have u considered that

[aishabellasbigblogofeverything]

No one:

Me whenever I see yet another blog I respect and admire make/reblog a post on how the lesbian/comphet masterdoc is biphobic/inaccurate:

[pisshandkerchief]

had Rocky Horror rehearsal tonight and started thinking that really I should be playing Brad Majors....none of these bitches get him like I do.....

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

one of these days i'll write up a post about the parallels and foils between vivi and hermes and why it fucking kills me. for now all i can say is in hindsight the 'latched onto vivi Hard as a kid' to 'latched onto hermes Hard as an adult' pipeline is Real

[lesbiansanemi]

I'm so tired

[no-pasaran-99]

you know what. sometimes i am in fact bitter. and sometimes i am in fact also vindictive, a little.

[frankensteinmutual]

tw sa/csa ic