I have never been wise

idk man there's just something about the lights of the Candescent Creed visible at the top of Dol-Makjar where Azgra once ruled. there's something about despite its diverse population, Dol-Makjar primarily being the city of the orcish revolution only for a priestly house of the human shaper to swoop in not a century later and set themselves up as a new power divinely appointed. it's why Thaisha unabashedly standing against the Halovar envoy hits so hard, a reminder that for all their machinations, this isn't their city, both literally and figuratively. their charges mean nothing. Halandil Fang cannot have stolen the blades that belong to Thaisha's family because he is her family. their daughter is holding what is rightfully hers. the Halovars may have money and magic and influence, but they will never be what the Lloys are to Dol-Makjar. "welcome to our city." you are guests, here, and the second that hospitality is betrayed, you are intruders.

no it's fine i just don't understand why he needed to speak into "his panting mouth" specifically. furthermore why was this particular information necessary to write down for posterity. like thank you, for that. i mean. okay i guess?

I actually love the Louis and Regina subplot because it really is a continuation of the way Louis has always treated women, as a source of emotional labour that he can throw money at and have them make him feel better. It’s Miss Lily all over again, it’s “paying a whore to sit in a room and talk with him”. Making Claudia was always about Louis’ feelings under the pretence of saving her from the fire. He wants to save Regina from poverty but it’s all to make himself feel better. She sees through him but she’s so broke that she can’t afford to say no

Also really interesting to me that Louis only proposes this after he finds out she does sex work. Like, I don't know if it's necessarily a conscious connection he's making, but he definitely feels like this is someone whose time can be bought. Just like Miss Lily's time could be bought...

EXACTLYYYYY!! I also think it’s significant that it’s always young black women who he treats almost as commodities in this way. He has come from a society where he is used to his labour being exploited but instead of breaking that chain he continues it with the only group directly below him

it’s unreasonably funny to me that armand showed back up after going to a support group with written apologies to make amends to the people he wronged and saying he worked on himself but we also know that we’re getting machete armand sometime in the next three episodes

louis narrates like he's in the great gatsby. armand narrates like he's in rebecca. lestat narrates like he's in katy perry's hot n cold (2008)

sometimes i have strong opinions but they're also so inane that halfway through writing a post i'll be like "yeah, this is Absolutely not worth the energy it's taking" and delete everything. but then the opinion is still in my head. and i still want to share it. so within five minutes i go "you know, i bet i can phrase it more succinctly this time" and anyway. you all see where this is going. sometimes i do this four times in a row before i give up on the specific inane opinion and instead write a vague post about the concept of opinions as if that'll satisfy the urge to post the entirety of my inner monologue online. may or may not be relevant to what you're reading right now. and now all our lives have been enriched. you're welcome