#yes less villains

[cezij]

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[jugglejerk]

another hit post from yours truly (save me) I love these 2 dearly

[aliceisaperson]

Saw a video and it mentioned the Myth of Hades and Persephone being pretty toxic, and literally fucking all the comments were like “ummm actually Persephone fell in love with Hades and chose to go there willingly and they actually had a very healthy relationship and you’re wrong,” and I’m fucking BEGGING these people to research myths other than reading a shitty romance retelling of it. Because like the original myth is about a mother’s devastation over loosing contact with her daughter due to a decision the men around her made over her head. It’s representative of a situation many mothers and daughter had to go through back then. Idk just the fact that people are trying to change to myth into a romance has always been pretty disgusting to me, but that fact that people are now claiming that that’s the actual original version is pretty absurd.

[francy-sketches]

I think aemond might be one of my least favorite greens rn (not that I dislike him I just like the others more) which is crazy bc I started out ready to be a hardcore aemond stan and I'm gonna be honest I think a good part of it is that he's too popular 💀 like it's not as fun to justify the crimes of your evil little gremlin guy when there's one gazilion other people doing the same. I need to be #notlikeothergirls or whatever idk

[ifyougoillfollow]

you know, we talk a lot about characters and/or relationships (of all kinds) being 'doomed by the narrative' around here, and how haunting and gut-wrenching that can be, especially when it so often takes the form of death and destruction and tragedy.

and we should keep doing that, obviously. death and destruction and tragedy kick total ass.

however. can we please spare a thought for the clowns trapped in that same (burning) room?

after all, what is a comic relief character if not doomed by the narrative to always act like a buffoon despite any and all circumstances, all for the sake of relieving narrative tension?

how must it feel, to have everyone around you dropping dead, losing limbs, losing loved ones, and otherwise being on the receiving end of unending torment - and all you can do is stand there and prattle off another zinger at your allotted time?

and what if you lose a loved one yourself, o jester mine? what if - hear me out - you lose multiple loved ones? what if it never ends? what will you do then?

well, if you're lucky, you'll get to mourn for all five of the seconds you're allowed to before the size thirty shoes go back on and the narrative moves on to other, more plot-central characters.

if you're not - well. it's a good thing clown makeup is waterproof, isn't it?

anyway, shout out to all my comedy kings out there doomed to play perpetual funnyman to their more plot-central counterparts despite being in undeniably comparable pain. you may be doomed by the narrative, but you are beloved by me <3

[arunneronthird]

honestly a lot of problems would be solved if people read the batman run morrison wrote

[nostalgia-tblr]

me: why does all the thorki fic i have written take place in thor's pov?

me, five minutes later: oh, it's for the corruption arc, isn't it? fuck yeah, corruption arcs!

[rejectedfables]

So the villain is a girldad. Who cooks?

Do they eat out every night? Get takeout or delivery Do they eat from his favorite restaurant or hers?

Does he hire a chef?

Does she cook for him?

Or does he roll up his sleeves and pick up his knife and learn to peel potatoes?

Long paper-thin swirls of vegetable skin Trash or compost? Do they plant a garden?

Did he already know how to cook? Or does he learn badly slowly starting with the easy recipes to keep a hungry girl fed Or does he buy cookbooks and oven mitts and fresh produce? Does he learn to bake?

[fluffypotatey]

I said once and I'll say it again, I don't really think late season merlin is a villain, but I do think season 1 and pre canon merlin would think his future self is a villain

agreed, anon, s1 merlin would be horrified at the decision and choices he made by s4-5

but yeah merlin isn’t a “villain” by s5. he falls into more of a gray area in my opinion. like, he is still a hero to me but just with a narrower view on his priorities and 10 years of dealing with your classic episodic enemies who want to kill Arthur

[corallapis]

from the brig’s memoir (in ‘the doctor: his lives and times’):

the restoration was in 1660.

from ‘dismemberment,’ wherein a newly-regenerated missy visits the scoundrels club:

the great fire of london was in 1666.

and then in ‘heralds of destruction’:

the third doctor (while playing chess against a disguised delgado!master) relates an anecdote about pol pot with a chummy nickname.

i think it’s safe to say that three was a member of the scoundrels club, don’t you?

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty

[cezij]

More Pro wrestling AU

Who is that girl? oh it's @cherrybombrs as guest I got help for pro wrestling information XD

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also "textless" versions of these, wahooo

[lendmyboyfriendahand]

I just watched "Damsel," here is my low spoilers* review.

Very fun movie. No idea if it was good, but it's entertained me the whole time and I cared about the main characters.

The end credits song is a somewhat hilarious choice (a mournful cover of "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash)

Robin Wright, best known as Princess Buttercup, is a wonderful evil queen.

Prince Henry's shot at the end, with his eyes closed and accepting his fate, is amazing. He is my new precious little meow meow.

I had assumed "it's a lie" referred to the map, and that Elodie would be led back to the dragon's main lair.

I love all the princesses across generations working to help the next one even when they can't escape themselves. Unclear how real the ghosts are and that is exactly right for a fantasy movie.

A lot of the plot beats were things you could see in advance, but not all of them. I was pleasantly surprised by the identity of the horsemen Elodie saw.

I love you magic glowworms.

Yay for familial love, both by blood and by adoption.

Girl power!

The dragon is slightly smaller than I first thought, but it's still huge. Maybe ten feet tall at the shoulders, eighteen feet at the wingtips?

Don't nitpick the politics or the economics, it's a fantasy movie.

The characters have understandable motivations, the magic is used for low-stakes situations before high-stakes situations, and you get a lot of cool shots of dragons.

Overall, wholeheartedly recommend if "movie where the princess evades the dragon herself" sounds like your thing!

*Low spoilers mean about as many as in the trailer and the marketing

[the-busy-ghost]

Minor throwaway sentence in a book on corruption I've just finished was talking about 1930s gangsters and about certain organisations in Chicago which the author stated were more ethnically diverse than the Italian mafia, and whose members were said to have included 'Irish, Welsh, Italian, and Jewish' gangsters.

Now call me sheltered but I've seen MANY Italian American gangsters immortalised in film, I've heard of the Jewish mob, and the police Irish American gangs but I have yet to see a movie about the Welsh mob. As a rule I don't go in for gangster movies but I feel there's an unfilled niche here and also I need more info.

[greensaplinggrace]

my love for the darkling as an antagonist and my desire to see him be more monstrous to the point of becoming an eldritch horror and devouring the world vs my critique of the racist undertones of the writing in regards to both the darkling and the setup of the grisha as an oppressed minority and the knowledge that the darkling’s dehumanization within the text is the result of prejudice against his people and especially shadow summoners. fight