you are not immune to propaganda but also some of y'all literally do not know the definition of propaganda

the best piece of relationship advice i ever got was “a relationship isn’t 50/50, it’s 60/40 with each party excited to be the 60”. which to me means that you should be with someone who makes you want to do more, be more, open your heart even wider. why WOULDNT you like making life easier for your loved one(s)?

When so much time has passed that she has forgotten almost everything else, just before dawn, the girl will remember you, dear reader.

the thing about heavy handed symbolism is that sometimes. it's fun.

every lannister ever: i am the only sane and normal member of this family

of course instantly it is framed as given that dragons, again living beings used by human beings for their violent, political, social purposes, are straightforwardly corrupting their riders, as a metaphor for the sinister corruptions of power. i think this is just a first, ethically questionable way to look at it re humanity’s relationship to the non-human - if humans are changed by these animals, it is only because they changed these animals first! the animals are not evil, so to reduce them to a metaphor for evil is frustrating (insofar as the series plays this straight, it is and will be frustrating). second, it is dull to me. to look at this suggestion - these people magically bond with these non-human magical, intelligent beings, and this changes them, makes them less human somehow, in turn, a mutualistic process of transformation - for a didactic, moralistic, predetermined end. rather than an open question about the perils and pleasures of such a disturbing form of symbiosis. i guess what i wish is hotd fandom would look at things through a butlerian (octavia) lens.

are we going to start acknowledging that cancel culture does not work on oppressors and has thus created a system of impossible morality which makes people stagnant and fearful instead of empathetic and productive members of society. and those under the most scrutiny for moral purity are most often the victims of the so called cancelable offense

crazy how the two remaining underworld children are like “uuu agony guilt misery, ohhh we belong to another time, no one understands we walk this world alone” meanwhile if bianca were still alive she’d be like. in varsity volleyball probably

going into the junkyard of the gods, i sure hope no one steals anything

By Talos This Can't Be Happening

i even think that my favorite type of villain generally tends to be the cynic or pessimist. i am really drawn to characters who when confronted with the injustice and cruelty of the status quo are battered into seeing it as this eternal and inescapable feature of existence itself, and by treating it as an enduring metaphysical condition, they preclude any serious possibility of transformation. what follows is the coping strategy of apathy, resigned acceptance, or even active participation in perpetuating the very system they recognized as unjust. i like that jaime’s arc and development is about this changing