Call me Arson

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

The entire scene between Hannan and Vaelus was obviously fantastic but I especially loved the line "I think when you love a version of a person that isn't real it makes you hate the version of them that exists in the real." I made a post a few months ago about the elves' relationship with Sylandri being akin to an abusive, controlling parent; Sylandri didn't want children, she wanted - exactly as Hannan said - dolls she could play with in this perfect paradise world she had created, and the whole point of playing with dolls is they do whatever you tell them.

thaisha could’ve reforged the pariah blades into something else, whether for war, gods, or vengeance. yet it was her daughter, thjazi’s niece and a rungjani who chose to follow in her father’s footsteps, who unknowingly made the true anchor. prop swords painted with the blood of her people and with the intention to show the truth: her people’s history is something that cannot be buried or erased, nor can it go unseen or unheard.

Thinking about how Thjazi not breaking the glyph was a snap decision. He didn't plan his own execution in advance as part of a masterstroke play, based on how he was joking with Hal he clearly expected to escape using the glyph. And then he saw that falcon, presumably Mara the Wing. Others have mentioned that he likely chose to die because what he was doing with the blood from the River Gavzidra required someone be in the Tenebral Reaches, and him seeing Mara signaled to him that her passage had been blocked, and he realized he had an express if one way ticket to exactly where his plans needed someone to be. So Thjazi chose to allow his own execution to proceed, and rushed out his last words to Hal in the scant few seconds he had. Circumstances very suddenly required him to willingly sacrifice himself for his cause, and he made that choice very decisively even as he was clearly scared to die. Thjazi was certainly a lot of things, but one of those things was that he was a man who was willing to give up everything if it meant living out his ideals.

the goddess of life refusing to allow her creations to create life of their own... forcing them to beg her for the blessing of bodily autonomy

I adore Wick (he's so much smarter than anyone gives him credit for,) and I also adore that Thaisha recognized his only crime is being annoying and told him not to apologize, even in full "fuck the Creed" "mage slayer" mode, even after he snapped at her. The narrative among fans that she's this incendiary pot-stirrer needs to die already; idc if they claim to "like it" about her.

So the revelation about the elves inability to reproduce really shines a very sad light on why Vaelus keeps saying "all of them" when asked who she'd want to return to life, doesn't it?

this just in: a second ginormous, inhuman, all-powerful, terrifying grandpa has hit the campaign.

god imagine that you learn a horrible secret about your family and that everything you ever knew was a lie and you go missing for a week and a half during a time of major political unrest and you start to question all of the beliefs you've held for your entire life and you nearly die several times and most importantly your mother, who agreed to this deception under which you lived for three decades, is brought to tears thinking that you would have adored Roots (Thomas Kinkade's Version)

really need to emphasize how sexy it is that julien is taking notches for every tachonis killed and thaisha just started putting notches on her belt for candescent creed/halovars killed

Happy pride to black trans people in particular I know it can be tough out here with how often the image of what and who counts as always seems to never consider us