nesquik enthusiast cries herself to sleep

there seems to be a fundamental disagreement between microwave oven manufacturers and the producers of microwave meals over whether the customer should know the wattage of their microwave or if such details should be abstracted away from them

the microwave rice demands 800 watts of power for 2 minutes, but all the microwave can offer me three settings: one low, one high, and one somewhere in the middle. I turn it to the one in the middle as I happen to know 800W is the average power of most microwaves. the light comes on and the bag of rice starts slowly turning, but rather than hearing the usual rumble of the microwave, I instead start hearing short snippets of conversation - words snatched from the ether. the lights flicker and a chill runs up my spine. the voices remind me of those "spirit boxes" ghost hunters use. I double check the setting on the microwave. "ah," I say, remembering that I had set it to medium,

simon trying to pacify aemond like he did daemon was so fucking funny like nooo this one’s crazy crazy

god it’s just like. otto was the reason everything between rhaenyra and alicent went sour. he was responsible for betrothing alicent to viserys, he continued to drive the wedge between them their entire adulthood, told alicent she’d have to choose between rhaenyra and her children, planted that seed of resentment and distrust that festered and twisted and decomposed until the love they still have for each other was almost snuffed out completely. and then rhaenyra kills him, and it’s the first person she’s ever killed, a man she’s known all her life and who at one time might have even held some affection for. she kills him and he is alicent’s father as well as the man responsible for taking alicent from her. and then she takes her throne, leaving behind a trail of his blood and locks eyes with alicent over her father’s body. this is the best show in the world

The City Watch showing up to win the pissing contest at the Red Keep in S3E2 feels like Daemon Targaryen finally got rewarded for his internship… just 20 years too late.

The biggest trick the patriarchy pulled on the HOTD fandom was turning the central conflict into an online team-sports catfight. The entire narrative of the show is a tragedy about how a patriarchal society traps, isolates, and destroys two women who actually wanted peace. But the fandom completely ignores the systemic critique, using patriarchal slurs and metrics to root for the destruction of one woman over the other, wholly missing the point of the story. People are so desperate to have a "right" and "wrong" side that the thesis of the story is lost: the patriarchy destroys women, regardless of whether they rebel against it (Rhaenyra) or rigidly conform to it to survive (Alicent).