#its very stark

[handweavers]

saw an article about how the water crisis in catalonia is causing problems for british travelers' annual spain holidays by 'forcing pool closures' and just the fact that water crises are positioned as annoying inconveniences for wealthy people on vacation rather than a very real problem for The People Who Live There Always is such a perfect example of how classism is applied on a global/international scale. i couldn't give less of a fuck about a brit's spain holiday being ruined, tell me how the water crisis is causing problems for locals and how tourism is exacerbating the issue.

[doodlefox2]

good girl

[edwinisms]

george rexstrew deserves awards for many things but i have to say. edwin’s bloodcurdling scream as niko gets killed deserves a whole award unto itself. like. that scream did not feel at all like a tv show scream. to a somewhat jarring degree. and i can’t express how much I respect that

[joetavis]

Another day, another heartbreak over those idiots.

[ofswordsandpens]

"the Gabe and Sally dynamic in the show is abusive" and "the way they've portrayed Gabe in the show is distinctly different from his book counterpart and fans can criticize that" are two discussions that can coexist

[ilions-end]

wishing we had a complete third part of the epic cycle for no other reason than to have a surviving epic that'd be undeniably The Worst One so we could stop with the endless "iliad versus odyssey: which one rules which one drools" non-discussions

[lycorim]

Love is stored in the using your cloak as a big hug.

[maidensfantasy]

the roblya failmarriage has SO MUCH potential. theyre both miserable, robert is still mentally in the vale and thinks lyanna is Close Enough to be able to be with ned, lyanna initially was resigned to marrying him but after he began whoring again she just mentally logged out forever. robert hates her because she’s breaking the mold he made for her in his head and lyanna hates him because he can’t keep a single promise + the humiliation that comes with being a stand-in for your brother. anyways they hatefuck sometimes.

[sukibenders]

I get the appeal for Cregan and Jace, but I'm already nervous about how the fandom will treat Baela and her relationship with Jace as a result. Could both ships coexist? Yes, but this fandom has proven many times over that whenever a black person, specifically a black woman, is involved said ship is often overlooked or dismissed. This can be said for many of the ships in the show, which I've talked about, and Baela's treatment even outside of mentions of Cregan (I love Heleana, but it is not lost on me how some Jace/Hel shippers dismiss Baela). Like, this isn't the case for everyone, but enough for it to be very apparent. All in all, I just want the best for my girl Baela Targaryen.

[jackwhiteprophetic]

Oliver and Ryan having to hold me back if I find out Chris actually isn't gonna be back until Christmas

[infiniteaugends]

The Tommy/Buck break up came out of no where and makes no sense. Did they think we would celebrate or enjoy losing queer representation? Especially in such a cruel way! I don’t get it. It feels icky that for the first time Buck’s love interest doesn’t get closure is when it’s the queer man. Especially a man who has expressed feeling alone and isolated. This is by far the worst of Buck’s breakups and it means a queer character’s arc ends with isolation and heartbreak. What message are they really sending with this?

For me as a bi person it feels even more icky. “You’re gonna break my heart.” “I’m your first, but not your last.” These feel like illusions to the bi stereotypes that we are indecisive, cheaters, and greedy. Like Bobby married the first woman he dated after the death of his family. Athena married the first man she dated after getting out of a very long marriage. They didn’t need to ‘explore their options’, but Buck is Bi so that must mean he can’t just choose a person. He needs to demonstrate it, onto the hamster wheel we go.

I was so excited about a well done Bi character (they are few and far between) and Oliver Stark said they were doing it with care. This is not with care! This is horrible, and harmful, and it makes me so upset. This is literally the second time this week that a piece of media that was supposed to be safe (that I was excited about), became a source of shame and borderline biphobia. Along with the results of the election, I’m just so tired and heart broken.

I’m sure many Buddie shippers are going to be cheering on the downfall of queer representation in the name of getting what they want. The hate and vitriol they have spouted at a queer character and an actual real human being has just been rewarded. They were right Tommy Kinard was just a plot device, another in a long list of used and abused queer characters. It all just sucks so much and makes me want this week over that much faster. This was a cruel decision done without care for queer viewers.

[fan-of-chaos]

I think the one thing that makes me feel the saddest for Azula is that she was a child soldier, made into a deadly weapon by her father, who then, as soon as he stopped needing her, abandoned her like yesterday's trash. She spend her whole life turning herself into a tool for her father's war, only to be used and discarded as soon as he reached his goals.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Gummi Editor

[synthshenanigans]

something something the window in light & night is a mirror and its all just been Whole looking in a mirror thinking about himself/his brain

[eroguron0nsense]

Ace and Biblical Allusion

(grabs you by the shoulder): "You know, manji/swastik controversy aside, Whitebeard's Jolly Roger being changed to a cross actually has some very interesting theological implications and the retcon could be interpreted as a foreshadowing of Ace's persecution, public execution and eventual martyrdom, but also the fact that he is in many ways, however unintentionally, a Christ figure who survived a violent mass infanticide by a horrifying, oppressive ruler a la the biblical purges of Herod/story of Moses, whose mother gave birth to him through a biological impossibility, who brings light and little miracles to people's lives in the same way Luffy does, and after 3 days (and 2Y) his brothers effectively fulfill the biblical resurrection by inheriting his will/spirit/power and moving forward to bring a new dawn to the world and the only thing that could possibly make Ace more of a Jesus figure would him be Coming Again In Glory To Judge The Living And The Dead and his kingdom having no end. I should know a weirdly coincidental and salient biblical allusion when I see one, I'm an ex-Catholic–"

[hewantshisbrideback]

After years of living on the run under assumed identities and burying her past deep down where it couldn't be weaponized against her or her loved ones, her own name has grown near foreign to her. On the bright side, seeing as the press can't keep the name Princess Arya Stark out of their fucking mouths and off their fucking cover pages, the novelty will probably wear off in no time, she's sure.

A SONG OF INTERVIEWS AND FAKE NEWS: ARYA'S RETURN