it's not queerbaiting it's saving the world

the episode beginning with alicent telling rhaenyra that sending daeron away was her greatest act of motherhood and it ending with ormund forcing daeron to execute an innocent man...it doesn't matter that she sent him away, she can't save him. SO good.

the "created by ryan condal and george rr martin" at the beginning of each episode on this season of house of the dragon feels like the television equivalent of stuffing two people in a get-along t-shirt

thank fuck for the third amendment they need that shit in Westeros bad it would seem

i miss challengers so bad can they remake it every year with the exact same cast and plot but make it a different sport every time

There are US Senators dying who have never died before

genuinely sickening to think about how men pop up out of holes in the ground and you have to swing a mallet and hit them over the head to get them to stop

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.