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for someone who likes hotd as a general rule and understands f&b is too complicated to be adapted verbatim for tv, i have to say the punishment for alicent through sexual assault is getting too much. that jasper wylde scene could have been avoided and nothing would have changed.

sometimes you stumble across a blog that's perfectly preserved from 2014 and you feel your soul leave your body a little bit thinking about how the internet used to be fun.

no! explanation of the gaps will kill Reader! she needs narrative lacunae to enjoy the story!

everything so scary & forever .

people, both in fandom and in general, would have a much better time if they admitted all of their opinions are deeply shaped by personal experiences and who they fundamentally are instead of trying to attribute everything to either moral or intellectual superiority. but you guys aren't ready for that conversation. the actual way to get close to the truth is to listen to the world and take little bits and pieces of everything you encounter and then incorporate that into your own unfiltered responses. you have to listen without being a blind follower while doing your best to preserve your individuality. that is all.

goddd literally the characters in mbf are Too Real to me ... like. sure there are other, non-mbf characters who feel extremely real to me (in the sense that i feel connected and close to them in a deeply personal way, the traditional reader-character lines blur such that i feel they are imposing themselves on me). but none like elena & lila & literally any character in mbf!! like when i say i am missing antonio this morning i truly mean it. it's not that i am wishing i had more content of him or whatever which is USUALLY what i mean, it's that i am feeling distraught over the absence of my real good friend antonio cappuccio and i want to know how he's doing. elena ferrante has this power.