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[yeyayeya]

QUEEN YUSHI HUANG WE FINALLY GOT AN ILLUSTRATION OF HER SHE IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!(back off Pei Ming its my turn)

And He Xuan????? Omg he looks fucking amazing (he even got matching couple tattoos with Qingxuan look at them they’re so cute 🥰)

I need the short film and Season 3 SO BAD

[darlingofdots]

the recipe for the brownie baked oats (regular baked oats but with cocoa powder in them, I make mine with frozen raspberries and chocolate chips) calls them a "guilt-free treat" and like ma'am I would have and in fact have had regular brownies for breakfast and did not feel even the slightest twinge about it, the oats just go better with yoghurt

[mushroominaforest]

Arti makes a very smart not flawed at all decision

[stil-lindigo]

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[chaos-potat]

First Kiss, also only one part, after the next comic I'll be doing the in character Q&A :)

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[carp3tpasta]

Dancin' 😎

[nok-joke]

I think they would team up to be a little silly

[areallyyellowmango]

Hope, Faith, Love and Luck

[trainingdummyrabbit]

woe

Hod

thanks

SHES JUST A LITTLE THANG....

the first character to kick my ass when going through lobcorp for th first time... idk WHAT they put in her t . joke cancelled. They Wrote Her In A Way that utterly fucking destroyed me in such a strangely specific and uncomfortably well timed way that that was just IT for me after that. if im being honest.

theres something so painfully resonant about that deep-running guilt that drove her, trying desperately to reach the idea of "being a good person." its the type of character i dont really see written often, not in that way, and they hit it out of the fucking park with her. i adore how they set her up as a Token Nice One and then flesh it out so thoroughly with what happens in her past, and how she reacts to it in her present.

though, i dont think i could do much with that thread without simply reiterating whats already been said for her. but something i especially love, looking back, is how utterly strained she seems the entire time during lobcorp. drawing thin like a wire ready to break. that scene in part 5 of her segment, where she keeps trying to push forward with her usual upbeat attitude before suddenly snapping back, almost as if she were surprised to be doing it herself.. i think about it a lot.

in fact, that Entire scene was fantastically written. how hard it is to tell the difference between different voices-- even her own. its deeply, deeply compelling. and how they dont shy away from confronting the selfish source of her intentions, yet still dont close off the way forward.... head in hands.

and then seeing the difference in how she carries herself between lobcorp and ruina... still nervous and kind of uncertain, but she feels so much calmer there. icant really describe it in any way other than I Am So So Proud Of Her.

[m0e-ru]

it sucks that p4's final antagonist had to be a woman. it sucks that p4's final antagonist had to be trans. it sucks that p4's final antagonist had to have an ambiguous gender identity. it sucks that p4's final antagonist had to be inhuman. it sucks.

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Going through life with horrible memory is forgetting when people did nice things for you and seeming ungrateful.

It's also being unable to remember quotes from any podcast you love but haven't listened to more than twice

[blackjackkent]

I was about to say we've cleared everything in Heapside that would have caught Rakha's attention, but there is one more building here that she does have a connection to at present.

The name rings a bell, and she scrounges in her pack and pulls out the by-now-deeply-crumpled bloodstained sheet that she got from the hidden room in the Flophouse. Franc Peartree is one of the names on the Bhaalist murder list.

The building's boarded up and marked as "under investigation by the Flaming Fist," but the Fists' activities haven't really stopped Rakha from doing what she wants up to this point and they're not really going to start now.

In retrospect, she isn't sure what she expected.

She feels a little dizzy, standing in this room spattered with blood, decorated with the gory body of a man sacrificed to her dark Father. The beast growls, satisfied, in her head, as she paws at the body and finds a scribbled note in his pocket.

The lordling. Orin's doing, then, not that she doubted it. Half-driven by her own morbid curiosity and half by the beast's hunger, she pulls open the door to the basement.

More blood. Another body killed in effigy. A magical flame with a human heart burning in the center of it. It's a lot to take in.

She loots this second body, and finds a severed clown arm and another scribbled note from Orin.

"Another of the Bhaalspawn you killed?" she asks Jaheira tersely.

"Mm. Yes." Jaheira shrugs. "He tried to make himself invulnerable by means of a spell on his heart." Her lips twitch. "It did not work."

[cerealmonster15]

haikaveh... save me haikaveh...

i KNOW it's been talked about to death but. the haikaveh research project. it literally haunts my mind. i cannot get over the implications. alhaitham going through his school life as someone that most people dont even really know about because he keeps to himself and doesn't socialize, with kaveh being the one exception to that, finding his way into his life as his Best Friend, and then leading to alhaithams one and only time he participated in a research topic. his bio says he only ever did ONE joint project!!! one!!! the one with kaveh his best friend and i think also his only friend at the time!!!! and then it ended in not only the project falling apart but also alhaithams only friendship. kavehs best friendship. they were each others closest person. they had no family around - alhaithams parents having died when he was young and his grandmother dying before he joined the akademiya, and kaveh's dad dying when he was young and his mom having moved to fontaine. like even if you dont look at it through a romantic lens it's still undeniable how important they were [and are] to each other..........

i'm getting off track but my point is very specifically for alhaitham, the one time he got close to someone, made a friend, even agreed to join one(1) group project ever, it ended in disaster. it led him into a fight so bad that his one and only friend said he regretted that friendship!!!! it was so bad alhaitham left the project and he and kaveh didnt speak for ages until they just happened to run into each other again at the tavern!!!!! like obviously it has to be incredibly awful for both of them but i just think how this probably had alhaitham in the cynical mindset that friendships and collaborations like that might just never work out for him because the one time he let someone into his life, it blew up on him and he was all alone again. even though alhaitham never seems to care much if people dont like him, that clearly cant still apply to someone he was exceptionally close to. like if he didnt care he woudlnt have been the one to take his name off the project and mutually not speak to kaveh...... kavehs words are the ones that hit the most significantly to alhaitham.......... kaveh is said/implied to have had at least some other friends while at school / people knew who he was, but not so much alhaitham. people didnt know him and the ones that did just knew he didnt socialize/he was not easy to get along with. he only had kaveh and then, for a while, he lost him too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ilynpilled]

I feel like as the resident dishonor/honor guy enjoyer I have to speak on honor as a construct and how it seems to operate in asoiaf in my eyes. I will be stating the obvious here imo but: violence IS inherent to it. Be it directly or through the enablement of it. “Honor”, as a feudalistic moral construct, revolves around the reinforcement of a status quo. It is a moral construct that is embedded into a feudalistic structure, one that is inherently violent. It can be deeply flawed and destructive as a result of deeply rooted systemic issues. Being “honorable” is very complicated because, again, it does not exist based on a very sensible moral framework. It ends up contradicting itself because the way society is structured in Westeros.

Almost nothing embodies this more clearly than the KG. They are supposed to be the paragons of honor: an unsoiled white cloak.

Vows are social contracts this society is built on. This is why Jaime is very restricted in a lot of ways in his world by his label. Breaking one of the most important contracts (one that happens to be key in reinforcing a feudalistic structure: it places the king’s will above every single other moral or ethical code) makes it so he is not believed or trusted and he is unable to operate properly within their society in a lot of circumstances, as we witness in his chapters. It is honorable to protect the weak and the innocent, but it is honorable to protect your king in all circumstances and reinforce a status quo. To obey your family and play your societal role. To obey laws, even if they are unjust. To keep your word, to be honest. Loyalty to a tyrant has to be inherently more honorable (especially in certain positions) to maintain this status quo, even though it contradicts other oaths and we know it is inherently immoral. Balancing values is the most interesting aspect of characters dealing with ‘honor’ and morality. Feudalism is what makes the honor system collapse. Honor itself can be a more vague concept, “the quality of knowing and doing what is morally right”, but the way it is defined and how it operates within this society is so fucked. The KG appear in the weirwood dream (mirroring the imagery of The Others, conflating the honorable white cloak with snow and cold and death.) “You swore to keep your king safe” “and the children as well.” Yeah, the innocent children of kingslanding as well, that would have burned to ash. It is honorable to save your king, to protect the weak, to save the children, to save the innocents of KG, to obey your father. He tells this to them in the dream, he explains his reasoning for killing Aerys, but they do not budge. That is what Jaime fears the most, the complete collapse of everything that holds meaning to him, heroism becoming undefinable with these conflicting moral codes, which is likely another huge part of him keeping it a secret. It is something he feels powerless against. The way things are prioritized is wrong. Morality becomes skewed. In Jaime’s mind the enemy and primary source of doom is this nonsensical moral construct that contradicts itself represented by institutions that make no sense. It is what makes his symbolic fire go out. His moral code conflicts with this society’s code of ethics, which eventually leads him to cynically accept amorality. It is disillusionment that tears the idea of heroism and being “honorable” apart and leads to moral nihilism.

Another aspect of the honor code and its violence is the fact that it places more value to individuals based on class. It is dependent on class and a flawed social structure. This is despite the fact that vows of knighthood call for the protection of those that are too weak to protect themselves: the underprivileged. Jaime keeps having this epiphany of an inherent equality in death that seems to contradict the way society is structured. Aerys’ life is worth inherently more according to the honor code than Rhaella’s, than the lives of thousands of innocents, than Jaime’s. Yet, a lowborn hand, no one, seems to die harder than Aerys does (and nobody cares). A crown is worth nothing when crows feast on victors and vanquished alike, and the rightful heir himself. We are all equal in death, so the text is indicating that something is not right here.

When it comes to characters and their relationship with honor the important through-line is examining whether they are being “honorable” in the abstract sense, if they base their actions around empathy and a sense of actual justice, or if they are abiding by made up flawed constructs. Being viewed as honorable by this society does not make you a good person. In fact, in order for you to abide by the honor code you would likely have to turn into an amoral individual. For example, if you try to keep the cloak pure white you will metaphorically soil it. Like every one of Aerys’s kingsguard did. To keep their oath to the king, they broke vows to protect innocents and protect women. They should lose their honor by a lot of definitions, but that would mean the status quo collapses. Jaime’s knighting for this reason is very much like a boy being sacrificed at an altar. It is not just about drawing a parallel between young girls and boys being sentenced to bloody doom by violent constructs created for their gender.

“Blood is the seal of our devotion.” He bleeds on his plain white tunic. It was never “pure white”, it was always all tainted in blood. It is inherently violent. You can argue that is when “the boy died.”

Very rigid and hypocritical honor codes built for feudalism lack nuance and lead to amorality. I think George aims to address, interrogate, deconstruct, and then reconstruct honor, as with most other key concepts present in fantasy. Honor can be redefined. Examples like “No chance, and no choice”, among many others, are at the root of that reconstruction. Even then, the reconstruction does not conflate it with pacifism necessarily. For example, Chelsted did the ‘honorable’ thing, in the abstract moral sense, of quitting his job and not supporting a tyrant anymore, but that act achieved nothing in preventing the wildfire plot. Same with essentially everyone important at court abandoning the situation that is Aerys, turning away from a gaping wound and not addressing it before it was too late. Jaime had to soil the ‘white cloak’ and disrupt the status quo and lose his “honor” within those terms by murdering his king and his pyromancers as a kingsguard and actually save half a million lives. It was not glorious, nor was it anything like the songs, and the city is still doomed because there is no way to get that festering corruption out of there at this point, metaphorical of the greater problem with KG, but it was heroism, a choice with meaning, and a form of triumph, even if the consequences break Jaime down the line. He gets no answer to the question of what it means to be a knight and a man of honor if society’s version of it is so skewed. Then, Jaime and the readers get an answer in the form of Brienne: “I dreamed of you.”

[camelliagwerm]

i really need to sit down and take some time to outline valerius' relationship with sosiel and seelah because god. he has such an interesting dynamic with both of them, especially as he and seelah somehow managed to stay on decent terms despite everything and sosiel ended up being one of valerius' biggest oppositions amongst the companions.

[1tsjusty0u]

man. totk couldve been so good