#her grieve for her son

[foxgloveinspace]

I finally watched dune part 2.

I have some oddly mixed feelings about but I think I liked it???

(I put all my thoughts in the tags for some reason and I’m not rewriting them)

[kraviolis]

no, camila found her daughter a long time ago.

(and so what if she was different after being found? really, mrs. noceda, you shouldn't expect her to be the same girl she was before. what five year old wouldn't be changed from such a traumatic experience?)

[AU MASTERPOST]

[crows-of-buckets]

I cannot get the idea of a da2 au where Malcolm is the surviving parent instead of Leandra. Would both of the twins have made it out? I think they would. Because like. Malcolm, unlike Leandra, can actually fight. I don't think either of the twins would have felt the need to protect him. Would the deep roads expedition even have to happen? I assume they would probably be worse off in this au since I don't think Gamlen would lend his aid. Obviously ignoring the very valid reasons why Malcolm would NEVER take his children to Kirkwall, or anywhere near it, how different would it be? Idk why it's plaguing my head rn but LORD

[galadriel-blue]

There better be a scene in TROP sometime in the future where Galadriel dances and Theo gets to see it. She told him that story and he took it with disbelief, but I want him to see that even the most cold, heartbroken people were once full of joy, and if Galadriel can feel happiness in something so simple after so many years, maybe he can experience that joy again too

[queerdiazs]

okay but how do you hate eddie diaz

[chaoticstabby]

Hi, it's 2:30 am, I just finished the last episode of Downfall and I am crying over the Emissary

[thaliasthunder]

thinking about this tonight

[stolligaseptember]

wei wuxian, hearing his son, who he doesn't even know is his son at that point, being berated for something he didn't even do but not standing up for himself because of the lan sect's no-confrontation principles: now listen here, you cunt-

[astaticworld]

actually can't get the scene of jace hugging rhaenyra out of my head

[danothan]

lemme know if this is supported/debunked anywhere, but i always thought it interesting how significant it was meant to be that jim got hal a framed photo of him and their dad. yes ofc martin’s death makes it significant, but did hal not have any other photos of him? the line “something i wish i could’ve given you a long time ago” gives a weight to the gift like i’m missing smth, like smth could’ve changed if he had. and the fact that jim was so excited to give it to hal all those years ago that he stayed up until midnight makes it feel even more significant, secretive even

what i’m saying is that i headcanon their mom took down all the photos of their dad bc she hated having the reminder. that’s why it’s especially painful for her seeing hal follows in martin’s footsteps, he’s the spitting image of his father. without him there, even in spirit thru framed photos, it puts a lot of pressure onto hal. i can see this being a part of her coddling and overprotectiveness, how she wants to hold onto what she has left. and i can also see how her later disowning him can reflect putting the photos away, how it seems almost contradictory that she wants to protect him so she tells him to never come back. it’s that duality of grief; she loves him so much that she can’t bear to look

god hal rly grew up in a fucked up household didn’t he, no wonder he ran away

[denouemente]

there is something so tragic to me about rhaenyra losing everything and everyone important to her and people act surprised when she has the audacity to react to it!!

[unforth]

The last couple hundred years have seen society, especially wealthy, western societies, increasingly distancing themselves from the visceral, immediate experience of death. Death is to be hidden and shunned, grief to be pushed aside and made brief. This has been made possibly by improvements in health care, but also by the ever-growing emphasis on the nuclear family and the greater space between people and the sources of their food.

On a smaller scale, as we've had more space to store belongings - as homes have grown and the number of people living within them have decreased - it has been easier for people to acquire and retain belongings over long periods of time. This has led to phenomenon where people buy things they absolutely adore...and then do not use them, as they have the space to store them and they've grown afraid of the damage that will be done to their things if they use them.

Though the second is of course on a smaller scale, the lose of a beloved object still involves a grieving process, and therefore is a less severe analogy for the loss of a loved one.

I posit that the two phenomena are in fact that same phenomenon: that a fear of loss of all kinds, the limiting of space for experiencing loss in our lives, and a dissipation of the skills that enable one to grieve loss in a healthy way, have resulted in our current culture where it is safer to ignore death, and safer to preserve our favorite objects unused, than it is to risk loss.

In this essay, I will...

[guitarbypicasso]

Hotd s2e2 or as I like to call it "man fucking everything up and women bearing the brunt"

[hellerism]

i love in late seasons when a writer is clearly playing in their little sandbox making up their self contained little stories and they have to shoehorn in plot somehow

[morganaspendragonss]

can i be honest and say i’m not all that mad at kristina? like, remember that thing wille said about sweden’s grief being more important than his? that goes for kristina too, perhaps more so because she’s the actual queen who has been nothing but the model of composed and regal her whole goddamn life.

and her son is dead.

her son is dead and she can’t publicly grieve more than is deemed appropriate and her other son is involved in scandal after scandal which maybe wouldn’t be such big deals if they were anything but the most senior members of the royal fucking family. it would be too much for anyone.

am i saying kristina should be let off the hook? no, i’m not. she’s definitely made mistakes when it comes to wille and they all could have done things differently. but do i have sympathy for her? abso-fucking-lutely.

[llycaons]

'poor heroic tragic saint jiang cheng' is actually my favorite jc misinterpretation it is just so fucking funny. I'll watch the man advocate to abandon a group of political prisoners to mass murder, constantly yell about his issues, threaten his nephew and everyone else around him, and abuse his power to intentionally trigger his traumatized brother bc he's mad at him and I go online and see posts about how he's so strong and noble and a great parent/leader despite suffering so much. LIKE