#i jsut have a lot to say

[atlastmyself]

nothing drives me more crazy than people who claim alicent's jealousy/anger towards rhaenyra is just because "oh she's sad/regretful and wants someone to suffer with her". don't even get me STAAAARTED in what way is her anger and resentment selfish? or maybe it is, and that's the point

actually the WHOLE POINT point of the show is the stories between these two women, and the way misogyny has affected them in different ways. r/haenyra's rightful rule has been undermined, shamed, and belittled at every turn because she is a woman. alicent's entire life has been formed by decisions made by the men in her life

the difference is that r/haenyra has some form of independence due to her status that alicent never had. additionally, she had a father who supported her rather than a father who wanted to use her as a pawn to rule. not to say r/haenyra didn't suffer and wasn't a victim -- like i said, she absolutely was -- but from alicent's perspective, she's always gotten "what she wanted" while alicent's whole life has been dictated by others. she got to marry who she wanted while alicent didn't, she had the support her father while alicent had to watch her children be blatantly ignored by viserys at every turn, and on it goes.

in her eyes, r/haenyra has gotten everything she ever wanted while she had to live her life in service of duty, and give up her own autonomy and independence in order to help the men in her life come up around her. due to the space between them she's obviously not going to find out otherwise. in turn she's pushed herself lower and lower. she's queen but she's not. she has control but she doesn't.

and yet, throughout all of this, her love and adoration for r/haenyra has never once faded. we already know she loved r/haenyra more than anything as a kid/teenager, but if we continue with the theory (which has been pretty much confirmed lol) that she was in love with her, then it's a thousand times worse. all she's ever wanted was a life with her best friend, and all she got was the opposite. and then she has to watch r/haenyra have a great relationship with her father, her children, her husband, from her perspective and she's gotten the opposite. a father who uses her, children who don't trust her, and a husband she never wanted.

it's resentment, it's love, it's all of it. that is why i am not interested in hearing the opinions of ANYONE on the knife scene unless they can give me this whole speech beforehand too lmao. SHE DOESN'T EVEN TRULY RESENT HER, she resents HERSELF, she resents her OWN LIFE. it made her bitter, angry. and don't even get me started on how if she had turned out to be not angry and bitter then the fandom would've loved her more because god forbid a woman be imperfect/angry/mean. i'm so sad.

[airocats]

[silasplaskett]

i cannot bring myself to find teds ending tragic. he gets to be the father in his sons life. he knows he made a lifelong impact on multiple ppls lives on a whole other continent and knows that they can all keep going without him bc of the work he put in to help them. his ex and the reason he left in the first place is clearly happy to have him around now even tho she needed space away from him before. i feel like ppl were projecting dreams onto ted that were never actually shown in the show and thats why theyre upset by the ending.

[statementlou]

Louis might not be chucking bricks at No. 10, but people are responding like he’s never displayed leftist politics or challenged a government position on anything. He supported demands to the government about a fix for UK touring musician post Brexit and Marcus Rashford’s petition about food insecurity. He fought the police about their social media use in 2018 and criticised the UK government position/support for factory workers in the pandemic. The things he speaks about are usually UK issues and meaningful to him or his family and friends. He’s also most likely to speak when he isn’t working. Also that specific anarchy has a punk anti authoritarian message as well. That statement fits Louis pretty well. He has been a poster boy for not sitting down and shutting up and doing what you’re told since 2012. If he was he probably wouldn’t have a solo career and he definitely wouldn’t have sold out the O2.

I like this point about him speaking out more when he's not working, I think that's a really great and useful observation and makes so much sense. I feel like it makes sense in two ways right now: like first, I don't blame him for not wanting to do things that would jeopardize how beautifully everything is going for him right now after the number of setbacks and troubles he's had to get here, it must feel so precarious. And knowing for a fact that any political statement you make will spawn a dozen tabloid stories and all kinds of outrage is bad enough, but add to that the fact that it's simply impossible to predict which thing will turn into a huge viral mess- it's a lot. And second, he's not just working, he's been on TOUR! I've been around musicians my whole life and one constant is that tour is time outside of normal time and life, it's a bubble, it's only paying attention to right where you are and what's in front of you and the people there with you and everything else is put off and neglected, is for when you get home (and have massive post tour letdown depression and fatigue). I'm not saying he can disconnect with the outside world entirely... but putting everything on pause? I would be surprised if it were any other way, and I would be surprised if he's been following the news and counter news and so forth closely enough to feel comfortable speaking out publicly about anything when it will be so scrutinized and picked apart. I would add to your list supporting the rail strike (something we wouldn't even know about if it hadn't been tossed in as an aside by an interviewer in the print only version of a piece, he didn't post about it or anything) and attending and posting about the BLM protests (not to mention telling people to pirate his stuff come on how punk is that), and I agree he is much more likely to speak out about UK issues which makes sense: most people are most moved by issues that are close to their lives in some way, and it's his brand. And I agree that even though as an anarchist I love talking about what anarchism as a political ideology actually is, the symbol does also have a common meaning in the world as just basically standing for anti-authoritarianism, and Louis as a guy who rejects authority and the status quo is nothing new at all and one of the reasons we love him, and in the last few years I feel like he's been going further in that direction both aesthetically and politically, and we love to see it! Plus he has pretty much always sported this slightly punky aesthetic to some degree, even when he was being dressed up like a little ken doll he snuck in skater looks and indie band tees and so forth (something something it's part of why his fanbase was so primed to love his new sound and it wasn't the risk he feared it was because people were always drawn to him who were already into that aesthetic even when his sound wasn't that yet) it's not like it's just a brand new out of nowhere side of him or something.

[gurorori]

if you say shit like 'autism is not a disability' i hope you actually have really bad things happen to you and you are banned from the autism community for the foreseeable future. get another fun weird club if you so badly need one

so profoundly tired of people trying to make autism into this whimsical quirkiness when it's for most people a serious and debilitating life altering disorder

[todayisafridaynight]

i’m pretty surprised that you can be in a fandom without really checking the tags regularly for new content or discussions that’s pretty impressive

ive got twitter for that and twitter has shown me enough as is

[flamboyant-king]

I had an Isaac run where it was so stressful my heartrate was at a 145bpm and it persisted for 6 hours. After that, like every day that followed, my heart would just suddenly shoot up to 120-140bpm for an hour if I so much as thought about something I've been stressing over recently. Everybody encouraging me to go to the ER. And I'm just like "Oh please I've actually always been like this, I'm fine." Had to chop down my Adderall dosage. But I swear I've felt like this since high school, but I guess the medicine enhances the feeling and that feeling was ANXIETY.

So, suffice to say, playing The Binding of Isaac™️ almost gave me a heart attack.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[a-stitch-in-time-and-space]

benjamin sisko autism

benjamin sisko as a man with mental health issues of some kind

the visions of joan of arc the trials of moses, you will bleed into the story until you are more mythology than man, more dream than dreamer

mythologies and religion is the same as science and travelling you will die if you keep having these visions

sports creating narrative structures you cannot know until you have reached the end

despite the feeling that the end will bring sorrow, you must continue 

benjamin sisko as larger than life and as a relatable man who is struggling with how his mind works

[deityofhearts]

irl I say a lot of random shit which becomes quotes that my roommates and other such irls start saying to be silly and one of those is “creeps in the trees” which I said during a serious discussion in a local park in the context of “no one is around to see us” (I didn’t wanna be perceived crying in the park) to which I replied “you don’t know, there could be creeps in the trees” and now months later we still refer to them, the creeps in the trees

[myorgansaremelting]

Me one random day in 5th grade deciding to force the “they just hate you because they’re envious” mentality on myself knowing it’d be genuinely the best choice in my life

[hertwood]

GIRLS WHO SURVIVED UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO GANGGGGGGGGGGG

responding to both of these together I LOVE YOU i never got 2 finish my degree bc they refused to accommodate very reasonable disability accommodations OR give me medical leave :)))))) but when covid hit they were SUDDENLY able to give online classes to everyone :) i still deserve a i survived UoT certificate instead of a diploma at this point

[stardustdiiving]

Suddenly cursed with the desire to write out detailed paragraphs about my dozen aro and/or ace headcanons for genshin characters

[animationismycomfort]

just unsubscribed from vivzie after realizing that these shows aren’t gonna go anywhere and they’re pretty horrible in terms of everything and I am UPSET about it

but other then that cheers mate🧃

[sonknuxadow]

feeling the need to be a hater about sonic shipping again but i cant think of anything to say about any specific target . so i just wanted to say that no pairing among the existing sonic cast should be canon ever except for maybe whispangle depending on how they would handle it . peace and love

[3416]

everyone’s a hater of mitch’s 4 light ginger hairs on his face but i’m here to hype it up! he shaves and his face looks CLEAN. not one fckn spot. like a BABY. not many men can say the same! put some respect of the lil hairs okay? mitch get behind ME 🫵👫

flksdjflkdsjfklsdjfksdlfjlkJKLFSJFKLS. no fr.. i love him no matter what he does to his face tbh... growing the hair or not.. but there is some instinct that kicks in when he's growing it out and suddenly i am a cat who so badly wants to rub cheeks with him . dont ask