#then your husband dies

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

i’ve found a tiny sliver of sympathy for book Alicent. imagine that every societal norm, every tradition, and every custom tells you that sons inherit before daughters. now, imagine that you are marrying the king, and your scheming father is happier than ever because the kings only child is a girl. if you have a son, he will be named heir, and your blood will sit the throne. this is as good as it gets. this is the highest position a woman in your society can reach. you played the game and won! your stepdaughter isn’t terrible either, and you two get along. everything is going so well. shortly after your marriage, you get with child and deliver a boy. perfect! you’ve done everything right; now it’s time for the reward. but then something terrible happens—something that sends your world crashing down around you: your husband refuses to name your boy heir. you are horrified, embarrassed, and angry. every societal norm, custom, and tradition tells you that your sons birthright is being stolen from him—from you. you’ve worked so hard, and this is what you get for it? it’s not fair. it’s maddening. you try to broach the topic many times, but your husband considers the matter of succession settled, and your father is eventually fired for pestering him to name your son as heir. you cannot believe this is happening. you are humiliated. a girl inheriting the highest position in the country? over your son? preposterous! she’s a thief! everything is ruined, and it’s all that damn whore’s fault!! said “whore” is a twelve year old girl btw

[cidnangarlond]

[twobabkas]

the old guard (2020)

[raggedy-spaceman]

S02E04 The Hitchhicker

[yourangle-yuordevil]

Once he gets a taste you know how it is...

[morgan-n-cheese-91]

old Obi-Wan is so funny to me because his sass and overall bitchiness is like the last thing he's got and I'm so proud it survived the great depression of his 40s.

[fictionadventurer]

Maybe Jane Austen's real genius was that, unlike other authors at the time, she didn't have long sections where characters share their backstory. Or rather, when she did it, she set it up like a mystery so we'd want to know the backstory.

Instead of having a character be like, "Here's three chapters about my life," soon after showing up in the novel, she'd sprinkle little clues through the story that make us wonder, "What's Colonel Brandon's deal?" and then closer to the end of the story, Colonel Brandon would tell us what his deal was. We'd wonder "Why does Mr. Darcy do all those horrible things?" and then he'd give an explanation that includes a lot of backstory.

And these infodumps always come in response to significant moments of the story. She'd engage our minds and our emotions and then give us the infodump at a point when we care about the information it contains. Compared to some other authors (even some that came long after) it seems like a significant innovation.

[lautific]

nicely tousled

[canisalbus]

out of curiosity, did Ludovica and Vasco ended up having children? I know they probably wouldn't like the thought of it much, but I bet their parents would have at least ask again and again about when they're having kids.

They most likely ended up having offspring, initially to give in to their parents' relentless pressuring, but later found out they're both good with children. Right now I'm thinking they had twins, a girl and a boy, and both survived into adulthood.

[daenysdefender]

When news reached Lady Dayne in Dorne about Valarr Targaryen's death, she did not weep. Instead, simply drew in a deep breath, speaking plainly:

"Please bring me a parchment and some ink. I must write to Lady Myrielle."

[elswif]

Because my name is close to Coraline, I decided to do a Coraline doll picrew bc why not :D (the picrew) The challenge is to make yourself as a Coraline doll bc why not 👍

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[bettercostume]

di feisheng, in drag and a veil for some dumbfuck li lianhua scheme to infiltrate a local mansion: [whispering] just ask for a fucking room

fang duobing, so hard he can barely see straight trying to speak to the guards at the gate: my wi---my wi---wife---my wi----wife, my wife,

[agentark]

do you ever think about how in the literal very first scene with Rebecca, we learn that Unit Bravo had no idea she even had a kid

she chose UB and The Agency over the detective so consistently, so frequently, that her team didn't even consider that she had some kind of life outside of them, with someone waiting for her at home

[vigilskeep]

there’s this one tidbit they keep throwing around in the proving where they keep saying that trian used to call piotin “the horns of my army”. but in that proving he’s fighting for bhelen out of house loyalty still. can’t even imagine what’s going on in the background of all that

[lillian1396]

Im dead, yo many pics and videos of Luca today 😍😍😍

[beebopboom]

1967 still makes me want to scream and cry

like what do you mean

they are so soft and scared for each other just-

what the fuck - why are they like this