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yeah alicent does come across "worse" in fire and blood. but idk why people get so angsty about the show giving alicent a sympathetic edit specifically, as if literally almost every other central character isnt also getting a more sympathetic edit... they didnt single alicent out in this. rhaenyra is worse in the book. daemon is worse in the book. aemond is worse in the book. (aegon is literally the only one who got done dirty tbh.) and even then alicent wasnt that bad in the book, like, comparatively, she was ranking pretty low on the 'evil deeds' leaderboard. she didnt get to actively commit even one atrocity. honestly these characters being more 'sympathetic' in hotd is just a natural symptom of them being written as entire, conflicted human beings rather than the cardboard cut outs with no inner lives gyldayn presents us with in fire and blood.
like you're allowed to have an issue with how they crafted that complexity, without pretending that the flat version of a character that existed in the "historical" account would be at all workable for an intimate portrayal
#god knows i do#im so fed up of arguing this point#but i will continue to do so it enters the collective hotd fanbase psyche#really dont know why people want a cersei 2.0 so badly#...actually i do. but i think its dumb.#hotd#alicent hightower#pro alicent hightower#yes even the book version#book alicent#f&b#fire and blood
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It's still interesting that TBoB called more attention to Stan's control over his mindscape (And if you go with the interpretation that the lost pages are partial truths that are heavily influenced by Bill, then he's the one insisting that only someone with training should be able to have that much control over the mind.)
Meanwhile we have a memory!Stan. Someone who apparently knows too much and is rather aware for being a simple memory.
From the Wheel of Shame, we know Bill was able dig up all kinds of dirt on Stan but... that wasn't why he was there in the first place, was it?
Bill couldn't find the code immediately despite a memory of Stan opening the safe being a few hours old at most and decided to have Mabel try find it for him (The original concept of the ep had it far more hidden but this was likely cut because of time constraints)
Ford did experiments on Stan's mind which likely meant using Project Mentem and actually looking around his mindscape, and his only reaction was to comment on his jokes-- despite what little we the audience know being enough to render us sobbing wrecks
(yes I refuse to shut up about this part cos the book's intro is extremely underrated)
Stan was able to replace his memories of Ford with the swingset instead and managed to hide Ford in his Bar Mitzvah memory. And that's not even mentioning the lack of visible Portal and Stan o' War which noticeably show up in Ford's dreamscape (the broken swingset manifesting anyway pains me tho)
He subconsciously has misdirects for his secrets that are both silly and manages to disturb everyone too
And while Bill-as-Soos being bored by the vending machine memory is a joke that's basically the crew's way of going "hey remember the thing way back in the first ep that's going to show up in the next one?" and in-universe appears to be Stan slipping up, it's interesting that they had Stan input the wrong code when it's consistent literally every other time its inputted (especially when it shows up correctly in the very next episode)
It's even possible that the safe code that Bill found could have been a misdirect too but we'll never know since the safe got blown open by dynamite.
Stan was able to buy time by making his mind blank despite being genuinely terrified when Bill enters his mind (to the point that he breaks character and uses his own voice to yell), and could conjure up his living room (in colour opposed to his mind's regular greyscale) to make sure Bill didn't have enough room to flee, slamming the door in his face before the effects of the memory gun kicked in.
(EDIT: Random door analysis here)
And maybe the twins eventually told him that Bill had already been inside his mind after their W3 reunion, but all we know was that his conscious self was left in the dark for ages and wasn't really aware of Bill until Weirdmageddon.
TBoB showing McGucket's dreamscape also brings up the idea of the effects of the memory gun manifesting differently to each person. To Stan's mindscape, the memory wipe manifests as blue flames which immediately brings to mind Bill's powers but it's a far lighter shade (maybe to more closely match the memory gun and its eventual fade to white?)
The end of TBoB and the website poem also firmly reminds us about Stan's connection to fire but there's also the question if Stan himself is actually aware of it...
#but also j3 having ford read dipper's entries post dd&md but not having him know about the kids' encounters with bill is so kashdskahd#cos that implies he immediately skipped the pages that mentioned stan 😭and didn't read mabel's entries#oh for him to actually react to dipper's observations about stan's mindscape....#stan pines#stanley pines#bill cipher#gravity falls#gf meta#yes of course my brain is still going ' same coin theory ooooo' at this#cos i doubt that j1 has any mention of the mindscape and it's not like stan would have studied this stuff#imagine iconic hippy hater actually mediating on purpose#i'm still waving my arms about stan potentially seeing the reader's version of tbob tho#but even if that ain't the case bill having a breakdown from him reading him like a book is still iconic#dunno if this is coherent and i'm pretty sure all this stuff is things most folks know but idk some people didn't read the journal#some folks don't know about the poem!!!! truly the biggest tragedy
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The traumatic flashbacks won’t stop this Murderbot from defending its clients by any means necessary!
#I love you Murderbot#even when you’re scared you can still do your job#okay yes version w color#colored it like a coloring book and it was fun#murderbot#murderbot fanart#secunit#tmbd#tmbd fanart#the murderbot diaries#mbd#trafosu
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Sskk redraw of a panel from The Disabled Tyrants Beloved Pet Fish
#my art#bsd#bungo stray dogs#sskk#the disabled tyrant's beloved pet fish#yes I know that title is insane and if you see the summary of the book it’s even more insane but HEAR ME OUT#DESPITE BEING A CRAZY SOUNDING PLOT it’s actually so funny and sweet#like it’s so cute I can’t believe I finished the entire first book in one day#basically a guy was isekaied into a webnovel he was reading and became a goldfish#and he had to become the evil tyrants pet goldfish as his quest or he dies#he does and he crushes his enemies with the power of being an adorable helpless fish#and like halfway through the book he gets the ability to be human for like 2 hours a day so he’s just running around the castle eating food#anyways so this scene is when the tyrant (akutagawa) catches the human version of the fish (atsushi) climbing out the window#and aku thinks atsushi stole his pet fish#anyways that’s my mini summary GO READ JT#ITS WEIRD BUT I LOVE IT
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It's always so funny to me when people call Kaz a serial killer or a murderer bc like. boy do I have news for you about the other crows.
#like idk how to tell you this bestie but every single one of them has a kill count. yes even wylan.#prime example of getting so caught up in the aesthetics or character types that you miss the actual reality of what happens in#a story#also i'm not sure serial killer is even an accurate description#similar to when people started referring to inej as an assassin. like bestie that is straight up not what she does. and if it was she's#doing a terrible job. the books tell you a million times that she's a spy#to be clear this isn't an 'uwu kaz did nothing wrong' post esp bc most of the time when ppl call him this they're not actually criticizing#his actions. it's just a pattern i noticed. if anything its a 'stop sanitizing the rest of the crows' post.#but it is interesting to me that kaz is the only character that people will really joke about having killed people#something something you've bought into the dirtyhands legend#i feel like i've made some version of this post in the past but i don't remember so you're hearing it again#six of crows#kaz brekker#inej ghafa#jesper fahey#wylan van eck#matthias helvar#nina zenik
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Unpopular Opinion: Every time a black female character (especially if this black female character is dark skinned) enters into a relationship with the popular fan-favorite white male character usually one of three things happen a. the black female character is now headcanoned as a lesbian (never bisexual or queer or anything that would leave the character with the possibility of still entering into a relationship with a man) b. white male character is now shipped with other popular fan-favorite white male character/other white female character (the popular fan-favorite white male character is usually headcanoned to be bisexual and when he is, shipped with a woman that woman is always white) or c. black female character (and sometimes their actresses) is now being talked about as if they are the devil himself.
Wanting characters to explore their sexuality is fine but I always find it odd how this always happens when one member of the relationship is a black/blackish woman. *forgot to mention the suddenly polyamorous relationship the three (black female, white male and white male/woman) characters are now without a doubt in*
Anon you spoke nothing, but facts right here 🙌🏽
(The only thing I’d add is that they don’t just do this when the woman in question is with a white man, see Namor and Shuri and the backlash some shippers got for shipping them).
You aren’t the only one who has been noticing this trend.
I say trend loosely because really just a new stereotype to add to the bunch😒
It would be one thing if it was a want for actual representation, but every time now like clockwork. as soon as they see a Black woman who looks like she’s going to have a romantic arc with said popular fandom man, boom she must be gay😑
Hell, it’s getting so bad that these shows/movies are automatically just writing their Black women characters in that way.
If people can’t see how this can be harmful/dangerous, that’s cool, but anytime you want to paint all of a group a certain way and won’t show them in any other setting, that’s how you end up birthing new stereotypes.
This isn’t creating diversity. It’s limiting it(once again).
It’s so all or nothing with our media representation. Black women don’t want to be shown as one thing(which seems to go right over most people’s heads).
We just want the same opportunities as everybody else and not to be put into one or two narrow boxes of acceptable characterization that doesn’t threaten the status quo(aka you can't have Black women looking desirable especially not when there is an available white woman right there next to her).
#bnask#bnasks#fandom misogynoir#misogynoir#I understand the need for representation but it can't just be all one thing#there is a really good thread I want to link on this#but I’d rather not have people flooding that website#lol this reminds me of the people obsessed with Laena velaryon and Rhaenyra Targaryen#Look at how they won't even draw laena with her husband 🙃#yes I’m aware she’s a race bent character but in the show her and Rhaenyra hardly interact#she isn’t her lover(and she’s probably not in the books either) yet y’all just love to draw that version of them together#and refuse to draw that version of her with daemon 🙃#let’s not get into how there were some trying to say nettles is a lesbian with no proof#or baela and putting her with nettles#again I understand representation but it’s all very suspicious considering this is the same fandom that likes calling black people dirty 🙃#the bear fandom is another one that likes to do this#sydney adamu#nettles#laena velaryon#shuri udaku#baela targaryen#tagging all the ones from recent years#y’all rarely do this with white women#she breaths next to a male character and it’s ‘I ship it’🙄
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ITS EVEN IN HIS DLC SPRITES?!
#it seems like they made dlc versions of all of yakou’s sprites#but man the COMMITMENT to this sprite even if it already went unused haunts me#and yes i bought the art book for the sake of the brainrot#rain code#rain code spoilers#yakou furio
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reddit:
literally every other WOT viewer in the world:
#they've been saying this ever since the finale aired and it drives me CRAZY#have your personal opinions all you want but to say that 2x08 was objectively a weak episode is simply not correct#cinematography acting vfx choreography music EVERYTHING was at the absolute top of its game#and despite being an Exciting Battle Episode it was completely anchored in character moments & emotional resonance which is no easy feat#so much going on yet there was time for every major character to get a huge developmental/emotional beat#(yes even those like nynaeve whose beat was a loss rather than a victory)#every season arc was either wrapped up in an immensely satisfying way or was set up for a deeper examination next season#and 90% of the general audience absolutely loved it#and yet reddit acts like it's an Accepted Fact that it was poor quality#just bc the book-to-show changes in that episode weren't to THEIR PERSONAL taste#touch grass#wot#seeing as season finales will always have the biggest moments it's kinda inevitable that hardcore book fans#will always be the most sensitive to any changes made in those particular episodes#not to mention that the changes made in eps 1-7 will snowball and culminate in the finale#so i feel like finales are always gonna be judged the most harshly by readers#like if dumai's wells isn't an exact 1:1 recreation of the book version#readers are 1000000% going to flip their shit no matter how objectively good the show's version actually is#wot book spoilers#for the replies
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My wife and I just spent over three hours hatewatching a movie that is less than two hours long...we had to pause every two minutes at the start and multiple times later on because we kept losing our fucking minds over and over again
#it's based on a book that we both hate with passion#and the movie version only got like 1.5 stars so we had to see if it was even worse than the book#and the answer is yes it somehow was#while also managing to have better ending than the book#or should I say more conclusive open ending idk about better#anyway it was bad and we hated it :)#personal
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do you ever think about the absolute culture shock of edwin "book nerd" payne missing the most of modernism and post-modernism. cause i do. i think about that a lot.
just. think about edwin encountering The Waste Land for the first time and finding it very moving and reflects his own experiences very well, but also finding that very weird because like??? yes, the nihilism is great and all, he's never felt more Seen in his life, but he's also been to hell and what do you mean an entire generation of writers apparently just get what that feels like????
#ara rambles#dead boy detectives#edwin payne#like. modernism was already a thing before edwin was born but the major influence of it was still world war 1#which edwin died right in the middle of#so the primary audience of modernism was also too busy dying in a trench while he was alive#edwin's primary education i imagine would still be primarily the classics and the romantics#and even if he did have relatives who would have read modernist or even its precursors#i don't think they would have handed a ten-year-old who was studying virgil like. fucking james joyce or god forbid ezra pound#and i think modernist writing in general tends to circulate best in university circles so i think edwin would have been too young for it#so like. it existed in his time. but i doubt he's that aware of it. but after he gets back tho. the influence of modernism is inescapable.#writing literally does not look the same anymore. like. it visually does not look the same from the books he read.#like. even just in his favorite genre.#he read penny dreadfuls he's definitely at least touched on the earliest versions of comics#guy picks up watchmen one day and goes what the actual fuck happened to comic books charles the fuck am i reading#he picks up a book with detective comics one day thinking he's in for a fun lighthearted read#and is met with like. dark knight returns or something#(yes i know they're dc characters but work with my vision here for a minute)
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Which version of this do you prefer?
This polls is part two, and focuses on non-film adaptations. Part 1, which only featured films, was posted earlier (though the 60s Batman series was also included on that poll because of Batman 66). A third poll combining the favorite options from both may be posted at some point in the future
*obviously with comics there's lots and lots of different runs that can have wildly different qualities and everything which kind of complicates things, but as the source material it does need to be included on the poll- you can just think of this option as indicating a general preference for the comics stories instead of being attached to a specific Batman run in the comics
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#to keep things basically even I only included versions that feature a version of Batman or Bruce Wayne the character in a significant role#hence why Gotham was included and some other live action tv versions weren't#because most of the others feature other batfamily characters (alfred or batwoman or various people for gotham knights etc)#ditto for a series like harley quinn where batman is present but not a lead character#batman beyond and btas share a continuity- both being dcau- and therefore under my usual rules would be one single option#however I decided to separate them because theyre different enough in focus that I imagine people might have different feelings on them#however the new batman adventures is falling under the btas umbrella here#because tnba is a continuation of btas and is often all packaged under the name btas#and yes i am including hmb i have included full on parodies on these before so#batman#batman the animated series#btas#batman beyond#dcau#the batman 2004#batman the brave and the bold#batman arkham series#beware the batman#gotham#gotham 2014#telltale batman#telltale games#batman comics#the new batman adventures#holy musical batman#holy musical b@man#starkid#comics#comic books#superheroes
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on the subject of the differences between fire and blood and house of the dragon. i do feel its actually very believable the men writing the histories in f&b wouldnt be able to see alicent with any complexity. that they would be happy to present her as just a bitch, and never actively dispute it in their writings despite the evidence of a gentler side to her... and its very fucking ironic that much of the fandoms reaction to hotd alicent mirrors that misogyny.
#hotd#alicent hightower#alicent apologist til death#yes even the book version#fire and blood#thank u#galesong#you reminded me i wanted to make a post about this
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I'm sorry I can't take your call right now, I'm becoming unhinged about Transformers again,,,
#i just. man#first of all i was super into it when i was younger. optimus prime has long been a projectable (and ratchet too‚ from tfp)#but even that's like more recent. when i was SEVEN i was running around in circles to the transformers 1980 theme and re-binging the movie#(autism? what? who? where? but fr it was like a daily thing p much where me and my brothers would just lose it to that song. good ol' days)#transformers#for the search function lol. anyways back to the ramble: the obsession started young and continued throughout my teenage years#the transformers prime version was ABSOLUTELY peak and clears every time. still SO good my brothers and i binged the heck out of that too#but i don't think we ever got to watch the movie??? or maybe it was season 3??? either way i remember being like WHAT OPTIMUS IS EVIL???#and never getting resolution which i still need to do (also reminding me of clone wars...never did finish that one and still not spoiled)#anyway yeah the nintendo 3DS transformers prime game was yet another staple of my childhood. fave main was optimus obvs#but it just fills me with joy to see the resurgence in this and also makes me feel some complex emotions because it's a part of little me#and that version of me feels like so long ago...my own orion pax in a way#11-year-old me checking out giant lore books and speeding through them (i need to find this one book!! it's been years!!#it was the first transformers tome i ever read and told the story of orion pax!! and i vaguely remember the cover? but not the title! help!)#ANYway yes just feeling a lot of feelings and. i love transformers#kay can i just catch my breath for a second#kay has a party in the tags#also if you're reading this: i voted and you should too!!!
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Plz plz plz let old Daniel become a vampire. I want his sardonic condescending ass to have to deal with this forever. It is not because I think it would make his life better. Probably it would make it -and him- worse.
#That said he might have what it takes in the long run#And/or becomes this universes Beckett#Iwtv#interview with the vampire#even more yes for later books where he’s just got the ‘not this bs. Are you kidding me? What the fuck is this shit” but apathy face#I’m also curious how unhinged he could get#Like. Tbh he be Armand are kinda foils in the show version for a reason and i am so intrigued
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heavy is the head that wears the crown or whatever shakespeare said
#unfortunately i have near encyclopedic knowledge of thg books and someone saying incorrect things as if they are true pisses me off!!!#TITUS WAS NOT IN THE 66TH GAMES. WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT GAMES TITUS WAS IN !!!!!! PLEASE SHUT UP#“a few years ago” could be anywhere from 72 to like. 62 tbh. maybe even as far back as 61 but katniss was like 3 then so unlikely#probably within the 68-72 range in MY opinion but guess what! that's an OPINION !!!!#it's okay i'm normal now (← lie)#this post will self destruct soon probably#also yes i know the actual quote is uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. i literally have that line number tattooed on me#this is incorrect for a little teehee#bc this is the version that ppl know
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After Midnight. Marvel Superheroes: Official Game Adventure (Vol. 1/1990), pg. 29.
Designer: Anthony Herring; Editor: Mike Breault; Illustrator: John Statema
#Marvel#Marvel comics#Marvel 616#Marvel Superheroes: Official Game Adventure#After Midnight#Moon Knight#Marc Spector#Black Widow#Natasha Romanov#I definitely should make sure to double-check the list of Moon Knight appearances because it does on occasion get updated#and with gems like this!#If you ever wanted to check out a rp/choose-your-own-adventure book that features Moon Knight as a potential option#there’s apparently a whole series of them and pdf versions are available pretty easily online alshdkdj#this one even features The Shroud too!#anyway yes this is Marc and Natasha defusing a box of plastic explosives labeled «hammerhead doodles chocolates»#but for real though I’m digging the 90’s designs#the short-hair high-collar Black Widow look was such a time (imo)#plus after Secret Avengers and that one Age of Ultron timeline I do wish we could see more team-ups with these two
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