i think i love tragedy as a genre because narratively, human life is a tragedy. and i do not mean human life is inherently tragic, or bad, or sad, or meaningless. not in the slightest. but that our lifetimes fit the genre conventions of tragedy in the classical sense because the end is written from the very beginning; we die. there is literally no other option. we are as powerless against death as oedipus was against killing his father and as phaedra was against falling in love with hippolytus. and we spend every day knowing this. and so our lives are, like tragedies, about the series of choices we make with the knowledge of an inevitable end written in stone always waiting for us in the finale, and how we choose to arrive there

i think i love tragedy as a genre because narratively, human life is a tragedy. and i do not mean human life is inherently tragic, or bad, or sad, or meaningless. not in the slightest. but that our lifetimes fit the genre conventions of tragedy in the classical sense because the end is written from the very beginning; we die. there is literally no other option. we are as powerless against death as oedipus was against killing his father and as phaedra was against falling in love with hippolytus. and we spend every day knowing this. and so our lives are, like tragedies, about the series of choices we make with the knowledge of an inevitable end written in stone always waiting for us in the finale, and how we choose to arrive there

obviously im biased but modernly hotd and cyberpunk 2077 are the best examples of this. the dragons are all going to die. rhaenyra is going to die. it cannot be stopped. we know this. it doesnt matter. we want to know how it gets there. V is going to die. it cannot be stopped. we know this. it doesn't matter. we want to know how they get there. you are going to die. it cannot be stopped. you know this. it doesnt matter. what matters is how you get there.

The exact translation is “ale killed us” which is somehow better

Stealing this from twitter but I liked the concept: put in the tags where were your 8 great-grandparents from (given modern borders) ?

We need more women characters who are Male Protagonists. You know. Slightly haggard. She's splashing cold water on her face and gripping the edge of the sink staring in the mirror for a minute. She's coping badly with her deadwife

Trying to do a good job as status quo restabilizer monarch when your three advisors are your uncle who groomed you who is your husband saying “BURN EVERYONE WE WILL INVADE DORNE AND ESSOS AND YI TI AND CROWN A NEW EMPIRE OF THE DAWN WE SHALL RULE AS GODS anyways I’m leaving see you never, your girlfriend who is your uncle’s ex girlfriend whispering about how the most important factor in maintaining monarchical power is of course just consent of the peasantry you are governing you ought to alienate yourself from your minor nobility completely and permanently to appease the people, and your middle school girlfriend you are repulsed by the thought of displeasing going you have to do shit that makes me mad to rule effectively but I will be mad. and also you have no fuckingggg money

And all of them want you