Funny because in theory Dahae is the one using the Boks yet Gwiju doesn’t entirely see her as a person and time and time again is interested in her only as a means of getting closer to his daughter and finally being able to ‘save’ someone with his powers
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lately i've been really interested in the portrayal of sansa & her ability to lie:
acok sansa i
acok sansa ii
acok sansa iii
also acok sansa iii
this early in the book, it seems like it's general consensus that sansa is a bad liar. it's something she and everyone around her are very aware of, yet she still manages to get herself out of these dangerous situations (joffrey's anger at his tourney, being caught sneaking back from the godswood, & being trapped in the hand's apartments where she'd be unable to sneak out, respectively) not despite, but because of this fact. because she's often telling these obvious, bald-faced lies, people easily project their own assumptions of sansa's thoughts onto her, though these assumptions are often wrong. being so obviously 'stupid' to those around her, few can seem to fathom that she could be planning anything else, or bother to seriously interrogate what she might be thinking but not speaking aloud.
like it's pretty obvious that sansa is not going to be able to escape king's landing with ser dontos any time soon, but it is her first foray into really making her own plans for her future. however it ends up failing, it is significant as a little piece of defiance that previously seemed impossible to her. it's also proof that no matter how bad at lying or naive she may be, those around her are also unwise for how they underestimate her. we're watching her slowly learn when and how to lie, right under her captors' noses.
in other words, this is a theme i'm definitely going to be tracking for sansa! it's the fallout of her storyline in agot, and feels soooo important bc of how vital these perceptions of her are to her survival.
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ohhhhh i’m going insane utena decided to become a prince to save anthy from eternal torment and she doesn’t even remember it. climbing the fucking walls i need to be sedated
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oh my god it’s hitting me that the doctor literally sculpted rose… u cannot be fucking real rn 😵💫 how reverent were his hands, how exact was his memory to get rose’s broken fingernail on her right hand 😵💫 how deep did his longing go when he carved her face from stone, how his entire being wanted to touch warm flesh instead 😵💫
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i cant think about clementine midnight burger for too long at a time or i start feeling like this
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I find unreliable narrators fascinating. It doesn’t mean the narrator is purposely lying. They just believe that their version of events happened. If you honestly believe something, then you aren’t deliberately lying. You are just stating your truth.
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another year of being convinced spotify wrapped it rigged. are you genuinely trying to tell me my top artist is taylor swift? i don't think i've listened to a single song of hers all year on spotify. and what do you mean my top song from her is "tell me why" i have never heard that song in my life?? great way to find new music tho, by spotify telling you it's your favourite 😭
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I really feel like such a helpless adult baby sometimes. Some things just take too long while to heal, and even when I think I've got no more pain left, something refuels it. Some wounds feel like putting a fireplace somewhere in innermost part of one's being; as long as it is there, there is a risk of someone throwing fuel in it and making it burn. And these fireplaces are so, SO darn hard to uninstall. Just.. how do I heal this?
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the way yellowjackets maintains ambiguity by crafting a world where some sketchy/spooky things are legit just a coincidence and entirely explainable and then some things are absolutely fuckin not is so good
i get why it drives some people nuts (if everything is coincidence or nothing is coincidence, there is a simple answer to everything either way and you don’t have to keep asking yourself which is which) but living in the same forever uncertainty as the characters is thematically resonant + a neat little narrative trick to force the audience into the same headspace while watching
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