✵fëanorian defense lawyer ✵

on the sixth day god created white tank top with no bra and he saw that it was good

i love how everyone in this show is everyone else. aemond is quite literally daemon. daemon wants to be rhaenyra. rhaenyra wants to be daemon and is supposed to be viserys but shes actually rhaenys. aegon wants to be rhaenyra. jacerys is no one that he wants to be. rhaena wants to be baela. baela wants to be her father. alicent wants to be anyone but who she is and instead shes all of her children at once and thats why she cannot stand to look at them and thinks maybe if she saves helaena she can save herself

one of many things i really loved was how anticlimactic rhaenyra taking kings landing is. there is barely any action, barely any spectacle, barely any dragons. they just walk through the halls functionally unimpeded and all we see is their silver targaryen hair as they walk through halls that are familiar to us by now but where they feel out of place. there is tension in the fact that there is no tension at all. we know daemon is a better fighter than any hightower guard. we know they have more dragons. even the goldcloaks rushing in lasts barely more than a second. otto's death is imperfect and unsatisfying. there is no revenge or catharsis behind her swing. all of this build up her entire life the moment she has been waiting for through all of the death and grief and she hobbles up to the throne in tears because there is absolutely no glory in taking the iron throne, none of it matters, but its too late to do anything else but sit.

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

right before you have major life commitments is the perfect time to get into a new fandom

i’m starting a new stereotype that people with loving fathers are actually annoying as hell

he’s an ELF, he’s a NECROMANCER, he’s a DETECTIVE, he’s DEPRESSED, he’s GAY, he’s in his EARLY-MID THIRTIES, his VOICE is fucked, his COAT is fucked, he LOVES CATS, and he LOOKS LIKE SHIT!

"i asked chatgpt" "i asked grok" well i asked thara celehar, witness for the dead, and he said it was too late because the body had already been dead for too long but he would investigate the regular way anyway and then he solved the case within a month

In my opinion, the funniest thing is reading The Goblin Emperor and meeting Thara Celehar, who acts like he's fucking ancient and ready to die of old age, and then you get to The Witness for the Dead and you find out this bitch is like, 30 years old

tbh im not entirely immune to a villain with a tragic backstory but i do think villain origins are a lot more interesting when the focus is less "here is the original sin, the first big bad thing that happened to them that made them who they are" and more "here is the first time a person who maybe otherwise felt powerless in their life realized that they could hurt someone and get away with it"

you can get a lot more mileage out of analyzing a truly abhorrent character through the lens of like. what sort of conditions would allow or even incentivize this kind of cruelty? what kind of person benefits from those conditions and how? over the more typical who hurt them type analysis. imo.

i'll forever miss how the internet felt before you had to second-guess the authenticity of every single piece of media you came across. silly videos used to be just silly. fun was coincidental. wonder was just wonder. digital art had character and soul. AI has taken the taste out of everything and irreversibly poisoned the creative sphere and the people still pushing it forward are the doom of joy and hollowing out the quality of being.