#this COULD have been prevented

[crowskullls]

Oughhh. :((((

[endlessnightarts]

Hey vaccinate your fucking pets

[thatonegreyghost]

Guess who's positive for Covid!!!!

[meirimerens]

youtube shorts is just tiktok without being on the app the amount of "i'm a [qualification] and [misinformation]" could make one turn their skin inside-out in protest. "i'm a board-certified OB-GYN & it's only been about the last hundred years that women have actually experienced menopause. We didn't live long enough to experience it" how can you be so incredibly wrong about something so integral to your practice. King of the Hittites Hattusilis III was told in 1250 BCE that his sister was too old to reproduce at age 50+. Aristotle wrote in the 4th century BCE that women stopped menstruating between ages 40 to 50, common menopause ages today still. i cannot begin to tell you how 4th century & 1250 BCE don't really count as "the last hundred years" unless that -s is doing a lot of heavy lifting. waiter waiter more misinformation laws.

[sporkberries]

There goes Antigone, off to pray

[a-silly-stained-glass-anomaly]

[the-force-awakens]

Still not used to this life or death situation stuff. That's good, 'cause I'm not either. You never get used to it.

[kyonshi-8610]

a realization i had about a month ago

[laniidae-passerine]

I am so not immune to a Medea moment. my beloved has left me. we had a life and a love and a child. my beloved has left me for another. I have lost my life and my love. I still have my child. my beloved deserves to pay. all he has ever really loved is our child. here is a stage. here is a role. here is the chorus to sing my sins. here is my beloved with his horrified gaze, fixed on me. here is my beautiful daughter. here I am, in her countenance, her phrasing, her cruelty and her mirth, mother that I am. punishing him. letting the light in. letting my daughter burn. and here I am, in those beautiful eyes of the girl I helped raise, the very last thing she ever sees before she dies. I am her and she is me; and all that is left of us both is utter agony

[tswwwit]

I feel like if Dipper were ever reincarnated as a demon, he wouldn't fit in super well with the others. Yes, he's been raised to vie for power and step on everyone in his way using whatever means is necessary - it's the same toxic bizz as when he was a human, appealing to gender norms. He's tougher, scarier, more powerful (than ordinary humans, that is), but when it comes to asserting control - being Evil - he doesn't have it in him. Given enough time, I think he'd grow pretty vocal about leaving living things alone. NOT torturing organisms for the hell of it, or stealing people's souls, or conquering planets. Sure, he's a demon. That's no excuse to be a MONSTER.

It's a VERY unpopular opinion amongst neighboring demons, and rumor spreads fast about the Goody Two-Shoed Activist imp raining on everyone's blood-splattered parade, so much so that it makes it to Bill, who's immediately intrigued. Call it intuition, but only one soul's capable of overriding goddamn demon nature for some preachy bullshit about "Doing Good." Lucky for him, demons occupy the same plane of existence, so all it really takes to verify the guy is a snap of his fingers, and POOF! He's floating right next to him. Sure enough, Dipper's fashioned himself a new and improved demonic form, and it is lovely!

No one likes Dipper's kumbaya "Can't We All Just Get Along" ideology, but Bill's almost instantly smitten with the guy, whoever he is, so he's gotta be at least somewhat powerful. Demons take notice when the all-powerful Bill Cipher starts lending his time (and magic?) to some low-leveler like Dipper. Is he being blackmailed? Are they working together? No. Not possible. Bill doesn't "work" with anyone, save for whatever human catches his eye every few decades. Doesn't look to be doing him any benefit, either. The opposite, even. Lending power to a saint like Dipper only makes it harder to cause chaos, after all. Why would he actively go against his OWN best interest to cater some imp's? It's almost like he's. He's.

A henchmen.

(Bill's also 30% more affectionate the first month they reunite, because he still can't believe that his adorable little human husband came back as the same SPECIES as him! He'd never complain over having a sweet human to squeeze, but one with teeth and claws and cute pointy ears doesn't hurt).

[dragons-and-handcuffs]

How dumb was Viserys? He named Rhaenyra as his heir, then married Alicent and had three sons, reinstated Otto as his hand, and gave so much power to the Hightowers when he should have given it to Rhaenyra. It's almost like he wanted the war to happen.

[barbwalken]

Those 7 years changed something in their eyes

[ineffectualdemon]

The idea that men don't ever belong in the same space as women or that they are creepy to want to be in those spaces cuts off even cis men from much needed community

When I was a young mum (before my gender journey) the few single dads (or dads whose schedule let them come to these groups more than mums) were always nervous or worried they would be unwelcome at baby groups or mums groups

Their babies needed socialisation and play just as much as ours

And they needed support and reassurance and help just as much as the mums did

But they either felt unwelcome or had been made to feel unwelcome in these spaces before

And while I tried to reach out to them and reassure them that they belonged there were women who eyed them with obvious suspicion and subtly excluded them from the conversations

These are dads who are there to do the right thing by their child and they are being treated like some kind of predator for that

The belief that men can only be predators. That they have no sense of self control and can only want to hurt women is so harmful

It's harmful to the trans community

It's harmful to men

It's harmful to women for many many reasons

Are there men who are bad?

Yes

Does the patriarchy reward or protect those men a lot of the time?

Yes

Does that mean most men are inherently evil?

Of fucking course not!

And things won't get better if we don't believe men in general can ever be good and support men who are reaching out for community support

[reireichu]

dearest gentle reader, it is with sincere regret and pain that i must inform you that as of s02e07, ARMAND STILL HAS NOT YET FUCKED THE OLD MAN.

[gh-0-stcup]

I Could Not Prevent It. I love this as a title for the episode where Claudia dies sooo. fucking. much.

Yes, it's the clear lie Armand says to get out of being held responsible for Claudia's death. It's his justification, his way of keeping his relationship together. He's the one who speaks the line.

But it also applies to Louis. His choices led Claudia to her death as well. Louis wanted to go to Paris, Louis wanted to be with Armand, Louis refused to listen to Claudia when she told him Armand threatened her and assaulted her. Louis who always put his relationships over Claudia's wellbeing. Louis who started the fire that nearly killed Claudia, Louis who wouldn't let her die human.

Louis could not prevent Claudia's death. He had his heels slashed and the coven was melting his brain. He was as much a captive as she was.

It also applies to Lestat, standing on the stage watching his fledglings be condemned. Able to break whatever control they have over him to run out into the audience and condemn a homophobe, but not able to break it for his daughter. Lestat who abused Louis and Claudia until they had to run from him. Lestat who couldn't tell them the details of his past that may have prevented them from running into danger. Lestat who founded this theatre.

Lestat could not prevent Claudia's death. He was weak, possibly (probably) mind controlled into complacency.

Claudia did not have to die this way. She did not have to burn alive for the entertainment of an ignorant audience. There were a hundred choices, a hundred failures that lead up to this moment. Any one of these men could have prevented Claudia's death, if they had only loved her enough to put her first. Loved her enough to protect her the way they protect each other.

But Claudia was always more a symbol than a person to them. A band aid for a broken marriage, the one good thing to come out of an evil act, a tragedy whose life will be nothing but misery. A companion when there's nobody left, a burden and a nuisance when there's other options.

Even Claudia's death wasn't about Claudia. She was just caught in the tornado these men created. Caught in their cycles of abuse between each other for no other reason then she happened to be nearby.

[connecting-the-stars]

Cody and Fox Dynamic is so interesting to me (there was a great post discussing them - I’ll have to find it)

Their moralities is something I want to dissect:

“You can’t save them all”

Fox: “I know.” Still cares and mourns those he failed to protect. Sits heavy upon him as the industrial planet marches ahead without sparing the dead a glance, he drags himself after it. The next deaths hurt, and the next, and the next.

Cody: “I have to try.” Counts the dead and then counts again. Maybe it’s changed since the last time. How many has he failed? Were they shinies? Were they seasoned? This vulnerability let them be cornered, he will rectify this. Where are the gaps, where could there have been openings for advances? His heart seizes. The next deployment will be different. (It has to be.)