guest admiral timehopper

OK I'm going insane but do yall think that not even reinhard and kicheis ever truly understood annerose. not from a "i am privy to her private thoughts" perspective but from a "she is my equal and therefore I will make efforts to understand and listen to her" kind of approach. I think to reinhard, annerose's trust in him was always going to be unfaltering, reminiscent of how a toddler is sure that their mother will always believe them. Their sibling dynamic feels more like parent-child rather than as equals---like, generally one would expect that siblings will fight with and question and oppose each other, even when they unconditionally love each other, that they would share who they are with the other and truly know each the best and worst aspects of the other person. Maybe it's the age difference between them but annerose to me never takes on the role of a sibling in whom reinhard can confide and who feels able to confide in reinhard as a friend, rather she seems more suited to the role of an elderly mother whom the child must take great care not to worry. Even kircheis,though demonstrating more awareness than reinhard, arguably can't get closer to annerose because reinhard exists (and it would be a "betrayal" of reinhard to understand annerose more deeply than to understand reinhard). When annerose returns to the capital I also don't get the feeling that reinhard treats her with any more maturity than before---like I get that's hes young and his views are informed largely by the culture of war that continues to exist in the empire---but i would have expected some greater acknowledgement of how badly, in a sense, he had treated his sister by neglecting to connect with her on a deeper level, as equals. But after a few brief meetings, reinhard is back at his conquests and annerose is sidelined to waiting for her brother once again. I understand that reinhard liberated annerose physically from kaiser friedrich's abuse but she's essentially stuck in the same place as she was before in terms of her emotional and psychological isolation. I think the situation was such a disservice to annerose---she loses her last remaining family member without having built a connection that would allow her to express anything other than guilt for kircheis's death and fondness for reinhard. reinhard (and the new leaders of the empire) just built a nicer cage for her to sit in

YES THIS!!! All of this! and also the fact that yes Reinhard and Annerose lived together briefly after Friedrich's passing but it's important that Reinhard was not the one who freed Annerose. Friedrich just... died due to heart failure. Reinhard is explicitly angry about this because it robbed him of the chance to free Annerose himself. Reinhard has never been able to save Annerose - he's always the one that needed to be saved by her. So because he couldn't do that, and because he needed her as a mother rather than as a friend or equal, it really is that she was moved into the nicer, bigger cage that Reinhard built for her, until she chose to free herself from it when Reinhard did loose his only friend - and free herself from the role of "mother" vs "sibling."

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

ngl i treat the dean ambrose of it all like a death. he left and changed his name and became someone else, the closest thing to a character dying in the wwe….which means the dean ambrose seth knew and wanted to be accepted and forgiven by, is dead and he will never come back. the dean ambrose that was by roman’s side and believed and supported him is gone and roman just has to deal with it. except he can’t. neither of them fucking can’t. they know he’s gone and it’s okay but it’s not and the story is unfinished and we will never see him again and i hate him for leaving and i hate you for betraying us and we blame eachother and everything reminds me of him, of us. the absence of dean ambrose has left roman and seth sinking their claws deeper into the past and not letting go. it’s all we have of him, of eachother. i hate your face but the way my jaw clenches in anger reminds of dean and i’m addicted. i hate your face but it’s the one i know the most. i hate you as much as i miss him. miss you. miss us. you’re my weakness and i have remove it but in doing so i’d have to let go. and i can’t. won’t. so we’ll play this little game until our bodies stop us and maybe one day we’ll get closure and move on. but i don’t think we will. because to move on would be to accept it happened. and neither of them can.

"the most unrealistic thing about project hail mary is that a woman is in charge" WRONG look up the glass cliff. women are much more likely to be promoted to positions of power when things are going poorly and people need a woman to blame. she refers to herself as the "world's whipping boy." the person put in the position to have to commit ecological and humanitarian crimes of that scale in order to save the earth would only ever be a woman.

Also, it's abundantly clear to me - at least in the film- she will miss him! They are friends by the end of this. That's half the tradgedy of it.

This is such an awesome story 🥹

oftentimes two guys who want to fuck each other not fucking each other is hotter than if they fucked each other