fashioned for love

all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.

[pushing my glasses up with an air of unwarranted superiority and gesturing toward a painting without a minotaur] the Minotaur is implied.

unclean = adj. of or pertaining to uncles

I think a lot of the rage about child support comes from the fact that it means a dad is still held responsible for his children even if the mother isn't willing to be his personal servant.

the restorative practice called going to the movies alone, very important to me like taking vitamins

the reason rhaenyra’s line about “the boys who hid their little faces in my skirts, dead so i might sit in a throne of swords” was as i like to say “giving twitter” was because this is the formulation people love to drop about the show: everyone’s aspirations here are futile and ridiculous because it’s all just for a big throne made of swords. that throne of swords does actually make you one of the most powerful and wealthiest people on the planet if you can sit it securely, but again, this actually subtle thing of buying into monarchy as pure mystification, supposedly to puncture the mystifications that advance power, but which just ends on eliding power in a maddening way. never for a second as a viewer of this show can you let up for a second in your insistence that all the characters’ beliefs and values are fucking stupid, lest someone believe you are pro-feudalism. of course, this line owes a lot to a distortion of the robert baratheon line in the main books, but that makes sense for him - does it make sense for RHAENYRA, the character with the staunch belief she has a messianic, fated, religious mandate to sit the throne, for her to deride it as empty scrap metal, reduce it to only physical material, to suddenly see through the transcendent myth of what it stands for and the profound meaning invested in it? well. not really!

You show a cat something and they're like sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff ooooh I understand now. Don't care

If you're a man and a showrunner first of all you need to kill yourself

I just heard the mighty bellow of a beast outside. Great. Just what I need.

anon who seems to be under the impression that you have had extensive PR training because you have a post with more than 10k notes would like to ask you a bad faith question about the current state of the world

just remembered shows used to have 20-25 eps per season