#the livelong day

[ejzah]

It’s one of the least egregious things she’s done, but every time I watch Hetty ruin Deeks’ train set, I get irrationally angry. There was zero reason for it. It’s not at all amusing as they tried to play it off.

[mikimeiko]

Albums I listened to in 2023

The Livelong Day - Lankum (2019)

[reckonslepoisson]

The Livelong Day (2019), Fake Lankum (2023), Lankum

What if Swans were Irish? And what if swans were Irish? So many questions, so many. This succulently mopey Irish drone folk stuff comes with heaps of perhaps-undeliberate Pirates of the Caribbean vibes... it’s quite cool, but not that cool.

Pick(s): ‘Bear Creek’, ‘The Turn’

[navree]

"rhaenys could have ended the war by dracarysing all the greens right there" yes because a distant relation to the throne deciding to barbecue an anointed and publicly positively hailed king and his entire family who is well loved within the city and in multiple other parts of the country for the sake of the succession of a far-away princess no one was ever on board with who hasn't been seen by the populace in literal years, her psycho husband, her three obvious bastards, and two toddlers from the psycho husband would go over super well with westeros and especially in king's landing where scores of the still-cheering population were killed for no reason by that same dragon who would do the barbecuing, because when targaryens act unilaterally without thinking of how the people would react there's never any problem, which is why the storming of the dragonpit and robert's rebellion were actually just collective delusions dreamed up by readers who hate rhaenyra and not key parts of the story and house targaryen's history that directly contributed to their demise and are intrinsic to the plot

truly team black stans are made up of only the most genius and media literate amongst us

[coquelicoq]

@loreofcardigan tagged me to list 5 topics i can talk on for an hour without preparing any material ! thank you nym 🧡

umm i guess my first question is whether i need to say accurate things about the topic for an hour or if i can just sort of bullshit it. lol. so how about i list five things and then say how much of the hour would be bullshit?

crossword construction. this would be 0% bullshit. many a person has rued getting me going on this topic.

french phonotactics. this talk might be hard to get started without a specific prompt, but once i found an in, i could keep it up for an hour. >50% would have to be bullshit (or be qualified with a lot of "my guess is..."es) because i haven't formally studied this and hell i can't even distinguish all the french phonemes. but i could sound very convincing to people who don't know anything about french or phonotactics!

i bet i could talk about murderbot for an hour. 15% bullshit of the "mmm...that's a reach" variety, but most of my theories are i think pretty well supported.

that poem about the ocean i wrote a few years ago. i recite poetry to myself sometimes when i'm upset or have insomnia or just for funsies, and one time i couldn't fall asleep so i tried reciting this poem but got distracted analyzing it and stayed up an hour explaining it to myself. but i wouldn't have been sleeping anyway so it was fine. generally i should be able to talk for an hour about any poem i've written, as a poem is a dense and intricate system for communicating something, and to communicate that something in another way, or to break down the way in which the poem is communicating it, would be pretty involved. but that one in particular i know i could talk about for an hour because i've done it before. this would be 0% bullshit because i wrote the fuckin thing lol.

paintings of light reflecting off water. one of my favorite topics, however it would be nigh on 80% bullshit because i know nothing about visual art except how it makes me Feel. how does it do what it does, and what techniques are at the artist's disposal to make it do that, and what context is any one painting (or style of painting, or artistic technique, or motif, etc.) in dialogue with? fuck if i know. but boy could i make stuff up about it.

tagging @joelletwo, @qserasera, @uovoc, @grammarpedant, @dangerliesbeforeyou, @opalescent-potato, @treecakes, and @ctl-yuejie but as always no pressure <3

[angelstrawbabie420]

ive got to go to school for something involving drugs and addiction it is the only interest ive had since i was a wee lil lad and im so passionate about it

[icedteaandoldlace]

There's a very specific, very odd feeling of asexual outrage when you see your fave in a smash or pass poll with majority "pass" votes, and you quickly remember that in a real-life scenario, you would absolutely pass, no doubt about it, but everyone else is saying it for the wrong reasons.

[jenniferstolzer]

Katamari Bobacy

[mothmanns]

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[moved-to-cinnamon-phrog]

genderqueer and autistic!? just like me for real. you're cool™️

Thank you!!!!

Eheh, yeah. Gender has always been a weird thing for me. I've always been a girl, and I am feminine-alighned mostly, but at the same time... it also doesn't feel completely right.

Not a girl, not a boy, not nonbinary, not fluid.

But a secret fith thing: Me.

I'm a girl but in a way that Lesley or Sketchbook is a girl. That meaning feminine-alignhed in concept and pronouns, but also... not?

Which doesn't an entire amount of sense, but... eh. Gender is simply a cobstruct made to sell pink coloured atomic bombs for reaveal parties, so sod that.

[mimble-sparklepudding]

Send 🪞 to see them as a villain (if they are a hero) or vice versa.

In an alternate Eorzea, where Mimble has not broken away from his family and has fully embraced their plans for The Black Shroud and the world beyond...

A militant Mageocracy that would sweep away all resistance, banish all wickedness and save the world from iniquity. After all, if no-one is free to sin, then everyone will be free from sin... And won't that be nice?

[fideidefenswhore]

@theladyelizabeth​ replied to your post:

Ngl for me it only makes me laugh because I’m just imagining a pair of ducks on someone’s chest quacking away and that just sends me into a fit of giggles lolol

hever castle shop is soooo funny...

[navree]

https://twitter.com/AemondZafiro/status/1615852704525611009?t=6h3Fd91m0qfx8U56XieUXw&s=19

They would do this wouldnt they

They miiiiiiiiight but I just can't see what the point would be? Most of the changes beyond the fundamental backstory change between Rhaenyra and Alicent has mostly been about stuff that was considered "vague" in the Fire&Blood histories, and the battle of Rook's Rest was very well chronicled, seeing as it was a large battle with several important outcomes. This is also predicated on the idea that Rhaenys narratively needs to atone for not killing the Greens, which has never been suggested in either the writing or filmmaking, as well as the fact that Vhagar and Sunfyre being involved is seen as a sort of plothole(?) that this would solve. Not to mention, as someone who has had positive feelings for Rhaenyra and is trying to keep myself neutral on the Blacks even while being pro-Green, this wouldn't make Rhaenyra a more compelling protagonist, it just makes her look kinda dumb if she, a claimant queen and the only member of her faction with any legitimate claim to the throne, gets herself in trouble and needs rescuing by a lesser royal. There's a reason why when kings fought in wars in our world, they still had guards around them to make sure they never came to real harm, not to mention that this got phased out (in England, the last king to die in battle was Richard III in the 1480s, and Henry VIII had to be physically stopped from going into battle and potentially getting himself killed). If Rhaenyra does something stupid and reckless that costs her multiple allies and makes her seem like an idiot, that's not going to endear the audience to her.

(Not to mention, Aegon already has enough motivation to want his revenge on Rhaenyra? Her fight for the throne is what caused the entire war in the first place, which means that if she hadn't done it his brothers and his youngest son wouldn't have died and his beloved Sunfyre wouldn't have been so injured, and it was on Rhaenyra's authority that two thugs broke into his mother's chambers and physically assaulted her, before murdering his very young son in front of his sister/wife and his daughter, that alone is reason enough to want revenge on Rhaenyra and have a determination not just to see her dead but make sure she suffers)

But here's the thing I think the thing most people don't understand is that Rook's Rest shouldn't even really be about the battle itself. For one, it's a blaze of glory for Rhaenys, to show her as how she was meant to be, a battling warrior fighting for her cause, the Queen Who Never Was But Should Have Been. Considering how much the show has shown that everyone around Rhaenys, not just Rhaenys herself, knows she would have been a better ruler, this is the culmination of that, before she dies and gives her side an advantage in Aegon's injuries. For two, it's not about Greens vs Blacks. It needs to be about Aemond and Aegon.

Rook's Rest comes at the end of a period time that saw a) Aegon being the only member of the family to stand by Aemond and publicly support him after Storm's End and b) a serious tragedy being dealt to Aegon because of Aemond's actions. That's why I said here that I wanted Aegon's role in the battle to come as a shock to Aemond and Criston, if not the audience. It's the kind of thing he would do, he is in fact restless and more chaotic than Rhaenyra, and it needs to be a culmination of a severe up and down relationship that has seen Aegon and Aemond at their closest and then at their most distant as Aegon grieves, to say nothing of how he might end up blaming Aemond for Jahaerys's murder. The emotions from the aftermath of the battle should be about Rhaenys dying, because a major character is gone, and Aegon choosing to make the brother he knows is ambitious for the crown to be his regent, and Aemond not seizing that as an opportunity for power but using that to prove himself worthy of the task to the brother who supported him, the brother who blamed him, the brother who saved him. That's the core of it; it's not about Rhaenyra. It needs to be Rhaenys centric and Aegond centric or it's going to look bad and sloppy, and despite the shit I'll give these writers for when I think they've got it wrong, they're not stupid. They know what they're doing for the most part. They don't want to be writing a shallow show, and for the most part they're not, and if they make this change, they're turning what should be a hugely charged moment into something shallow.

And they've also got George as consultant, and they seem to be keeping him fairly involved in the process, so I doubt they'd make such a huge change unless he approved it, which I don't think he will otherwise he would have written it into the original book, which doesn't have Rhaenyra do any sort of fighting. So at the end of the day, yeah they could make that change, but even just looking at it from an objective writing standpoint, I don't see any reason why they would, or how that would better serve anyone except pro-Blacks redditors.

[browzerhistory]

HATING TERFS is not enough you also have to LOVE TRANS WOMEN and i'd argue that the latter is more important

[arcane-memories]

Time for some changes

here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of