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Gee, I thought these people were the ones who were like “If you don’t like it, you can just move to a blue state.”

And now they’re mad the guy is doing just that?

You can’t oppress and discriminate against someone then be mad when they take their highly useful skill elsewhere.

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another hot take : in the book, alicent upheld the "son inherits over daughter" rule simply because it served her purposes - to remain in power and protect herself and her family. there is nothing in the text to indicate that alicent or any of the greens had anything against women in power and a lot to suggest the opposite. alicent and helaena attended aegon's councils and he listened and respected their opinions. alicent ruled the city after aegon's injury and was very politically involved throughout her time as queen consort and queen mother.

alicent wasn't fighting against women, just like rhaenyra wasn't fighting for them. they both had the same objective - stay in power and protect their children. the path to power for alicent was fighting for her son's claim to the throne on the basis that he is the firstborn son.

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765874 Unification - Short Film from The Roddenberry Archive, OTOY, William Shatner and the Nimoy estate, in commemoration of 30th anniversary of Generation being released.

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It was down for about 3-4 days. Thankfully it's up again as you pointed out. But it was a hard 3-day span lol. 😭

Help they deleted the original official Magnificent Century channel and all of the episodes with it all of a sudden 😭

Now I have to watch from the English one with a VPN

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what was expected of me?

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she turns on my cloak till i reek

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sweet sansa 🐺

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Queen Alicent Hightower & Prince Aegon Targaryen a lovely commission by lonelymagpies

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ao3 turns 15 today

reblog if youre older than ao3

(there's a lot of people asking about this, but the legal age to use social media is 13, except in few countries. so yes, there are people here under 15)

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— Fiona Apple

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Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

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we used to have alicent hightower

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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

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Art by Essi Välimäki

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she really just like me fr fr

Sansa stark, everyone [crowd goes fuckin crazy]

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okay discourse over we’ve settled it now

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“When the handle has snapped off the basket that held all your eggs…” gone girl tier monologue