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Season 3 of House of the Dragon kind of makes me miss the good old days when my biggest problem with the show were the costumes :,))

I stayed silent. This was the game we played, that we’d been playing since I’d been brought here. The Apparat had done a lot for me. He was the only reason any of my Grisha had made it out of the battle with the Darkling’s monsters. He’dе given us safe haven underground. But every day the White Cathedral felt more like a prison than a refuge.

Let me summarize this: The Apparat — recruiting twelve years olds to die for Sankta Alina, isolating her from Mal and any Grisha with the exception of Genya for a reason, and keeping her sick. And Alina is just fucking starting to realize that she's probably trapped.

Yet it's the Darkling who is a manipulator and "stealing the Grisha children for a war", isolated her in the fucking Palace full of people she's free to talk with, and The Big Bad, huh?

"Human soldiers AND Grisha." And Grisha soldiers are what, zebras?

1) I showed this post to my spouse and they went, “I don’t get it, who is Eduard Hab-OH.”

2) while there are absolutely Habsburgs out there in the world who are just, like, hanging out (see also the Borgia family chip shop), it adds a special something that this particular guy is a Hungarian diplomat currently serving as ambassador to the Holy See

3) he has written several books and articles which appear to be at various degrees of tradcath, but these are the most recent of his publications:

It's not well-written at all. There is absolutely no build-up, no organic development to their "relationship," not even scenes between them that would indicate any romantic dynamic, but there are scenes that plainly contradict any development whatsoever.

The actual "romance" goes like this: the girl meets a guy, thinks he is a soulless monster, talks to him four times, shows zero interest in him as a person, gets kissed by him, which makes her wet, admits they are strangers and are not in love with each other, hears someone confirming her assumption about him being a soulless monster, runs away, and spends the rest of the books berating herself for still getting wet for him and blaming him for her hormonal outbursts (because heaven forbid a woman experience sexual attraction on her own volition, not in that puritanical fable! She must have been seduced, manipulated, tricked and led astray by the devil himself!)

Because Alina's puritanical hysteria is not "complex" and "nuanced", it is pathetic and off-putting. Because her weird Darkling-specific Madonna-whore complex (a monster/boy dichotomy) is genuinely creepy.

Because Aleksander casting pearls before that particular swine isn't cute either—it's baffling and frustrating. Because Alina as a person has the romantic potential of a dead flea-ridden rodent, and everything about her is unattractive, unappealing, and downright repulsive.

Because due to the poor (read non-existent) relationship development, even their "iconic" quotes ring hollow.

Because his "evilness" is told but not shown, and her nastiness is very much shown but is labeled as "goodness." It's not morally ambiguous; it's morally rancid.

Because their "likeness" is based on nothing but the fact they are both rare types of Grisha.

Because there is no genuine moment between them that wouldn't be marred by Alina's ignorant, bigoted, dehumanizing bullshit.

Because their relationship is interesting only as long as you don't familiarize yourself with the source material: the concept is there, but the execution is dreadful.

Ruin and Rising- Chapter 7

The nichevo’ya swarmed into the room on wings of molten shadow, filling the air with the whirring buzz of insects. “Get the King to safety!” Nikolai cried, unsheathing his sword and running to his mother’s side. ... Vasily still stood at the table, the King cowering beside him. “You did this!” he screamed at Nikolai. “You and the witch!”

And I'll start with Nina and Matthias, and I'm not even angry, they just ring so hollow and are just a waste of time, making Nina look like a complete idiot with Matthias' penis for a brain.

Forget what I just said, that dirty scum of a traitor should have been killed right there, and just give them this Drüskelle and replace him with another, fuck it.

So they did only one right thing — they got rid of the stupidity with Novokribirsk. They did everything else wrong, and the writers are stupid. Leigh wrote the original, how can it get any stupider? Well, the writers did a good job being stupider. Ivan, kill this stupid trash, pls. Sasha, shut up. Alina's really useless even as a flashlight.

I beg myself sorry that I just watched this stupid clowning 🤡. I'm sorry, I have no other comments, this is stupid and BORING, and they keep showing to us these scum on the Earth and believe it's possible to root for them.

I'm pretending Ivan killed this poorly working flashlight (she's really pathetic) and THE END.

Writers are stupid, they're writing down the most cringe "badass" lines, and thinks it's catchy.

I'll do you one better, I'd go as far as to say that Aleksander presents a lot of traits I would never tolerate in someone close to me in real life. You can't cut off a toxic family member? More so, you refuse to cut off a toxic family member? After you realized that keeping them in your life won't do you any good? That's too damn bad, there's only so much sympathy I have to offer before I run out of patience for someone who does not want to get better. You have absolutely unlimited patience for people who does not see nor appreciate all of the effort you put into your job? Your solution for dealing with insults is always and only to just turn the other cheek? Again, I can help you if you're willing to change. Workoholic without a life outside his job? Who would rather forget he needs life outside his job, than to get one? As above.

Genuinely, why is the standard for ~morality~ so different for what is arguably the most "tame" taboo topic somebody could explore?

I see a new call out every day over some bullshit. "This guy draws incest" who fucking cares. They're not real people. "They're glorifying/romanticizing/fetishizing it!!" One of my main OCs is a violent sociopath and a serial killer. He's a fan favorite. Never once have I depicted him negatively or put out some disclaimer saying "THESE THINGS ARE BAD".

Generally, it's an unspoken understanding that artists and writers who depict things like murder are NOT okay with them IRL. So why exactly do people who draw incest automatically also get labeled as incestuous and condoning it??

"Well everyone knows murder is bad, they're influencing people who don't know better about incest!" If you don't know incest is bad, you're either living in the deep south bumfuck nowhere, or you're a fucking kid and too young to be on the internet anyways.