It's Giving Willow On Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 5 And I'M HERE FOR IT.

It's giving Willow on Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 5 and I'M HERE FOR IT.

so have we talked about Claudia, under water with her pentapus tentacles, having to repeatedly go back to her potion to keep up the effect and how much it looks like someone reliant on recreational drug abuse and the implications that has for the addictive quality of dark magic

Hey kids, remember that sage piece of advice not to pick on your skin? I hope you're good at following it. I haven't been for the past twenty years and it was fine, really, untill today I woke up really hurting and unable to open my left eye because a pimple I repeatedly popped and squeezed inflamed. I have cellulites and I'm hospitalized taking intravenous antibiotics every four hours for at least the next three days to deter any chance of sepsis.

Thinking about all the fics set in a pre modern world where characters die of blood poisoning after minor wounds.

honestly we don’t talk enough about meera reed. not only are the reeds super interesting and mysterious or whatever but like she’s also the only person i completely have respect for in the whole series. i mean when you look at the posse of people meera currently has with her you got her incredibly weak and malnourished psychic fifth grade brother who is always ominously talking about when he will die, a disabled and also psychic fourth grader who is your liege lord, a very strong but developmentally disabled man who is disabled due to aforementioned psychic fourth grader (though she doesn’t know this yet), and an undead creature who proclaims himself a monster and we know nothing about. she’s the most competent person there, actively trying to take care of them despite the fact she’s currently in an arctic wasteland in winter and she is from a swamp and can’t remember her last winter which happened when she was a baby (because she is max 18 years old) and you know what? she keeps going. she doesn’t know what’s happening, where she’s going, or even truly who she is with, but she just keeps going. mad respect. she’s struggling through the snow despite being pretty small compared to coldhands or hodor but she keeps up? hunts for real food for them instead of just “pork”. is being pursued by the horrors beyond your comprehension. meera baby you deserve the world.

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the funeral (a grotesque display of two queens’ grief, forced on them against their will) being interjected by images of aegon beating blood into a bloody ruin says something about how women’s grief is exploited and paraded around as a virtue while male grief is only allowed to exist in conjunction with violence.

female sorrow is expected to be public, dignified, and even noble, it serves as a symbol of quiet strength and resilience. otto uses it as a tool to gain sympathy for their cause. notice how he forced alicent and helaena into it, while he allowed aegon not to participate. wouldn‘t the king being at the funeral send a powerful message? yes, it would. but otto looks at aegon with contempt, the other councilmen and alicent do not know what to do with his tears. the realm cannot be allowed to see the king grieve. not like this.

male grief is denied its own space and validity unless it manifests in aggressive or destructive acts. aegon realizes this to some degree too— he lashes out publicly by killing the rat catchers. he shows his grief by being violent, by spilling blood.

the toxicity of it all is very effectively shown at the end when aegon is crying by himself. did he retreat there to be alone and finally let it all out? his mother is either letting him have that moment alone or she’s deeply uncomfortable with it and chooses to leave. no matter what motivated alicent in acting the way she did— the moment still reveals how male vulnerability is something people fear. it shows that even the most human expressions of pain are not acceptable for some.

i have to speak my truth i do not understand what everyone has against sara hess I feel like every episode she is involved in she swings for the fences and a very interesting way? it does not always work for me but having someone in the writing room who is clearly willing to push a lot of the adaptational conventions for a book that is not very good on its own is a net positive. I feel like people just wanted to find a woman to blame for everything they didn’t like.