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You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

obviously it’s no secret that these writers will just kind of invent any awful belief for the greens to subscribe to at this point just so it’s REALLY CLEAR that you’re supposed to root for rhaenyra, victim lamb no agency rhaenyra, no nuance here please! but good god it’s fucking hilarious that they took race supremacy, you know, that thing the targeryens ultra-notoriously practiced to the point of crazy incest for the length of dynasties, and somehow made it a belief of the hightowers. ????????????????????????????????

Alicent doesn’t truly love Helaena in any meaningful way. Alicent “favors” Helaena over her three sons only because she can more easily project onto Helaena as an extension of herself due to their shared gender. The minute Helaena acts out in a way which breaks the illusion that she is merely an object to be owned by Alicent and an extension of Alicent’s self, Alicent tries to forcibly take away Helaena’s autonomy. She can hardly even conceptualize Helaena’s selfless love and desire to die with her daughter over abandoning her.

Helaena is not the favourite, she's just the easiest to project onto. She's a girl and therefore was never taught to grow out of Alicent's jurisdiction. Her mother doesn't see her as a pacifist, she sees her as incapable of violence, harmless by nature (having no choice), unlike her brothers. Alicent's sons get to be monsters of their own because they're princes who embody the ugly nature of men in positions of power, meanwhile Helaena is trapped by the expectations and victimhood of being a good princess (girl) and all that entails. Alicent fiercely loves that part of her, the part she can identify with, but she doesn't love Helaena as a human being, only as an extension of herself. She doesn't even see Helaena as an adult. And when Helaena refuses to be what Alicent thinks she should, Alicent is quick to disrespect her because, and I repeat, Alicent doesn't want to save Helaena, the person, the mother, the queen consort, she wants to save her daughter, the girl, and therefore herself.

i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

i genuinely do not understand how people could watch rhaenyra tell ulf that the crown owns his labor and body entirely and that he is now only an extension of the throne, imprisoned in the red keep with no autonomy or will of his own, denying him access to his friends and freedom of movement, and come out of that scene thinking that ulf is a cringe loser who needs to know his place. you people are under spells.

Damn, that's useful

Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!

I think people have a genuine hatred for victims of abuse and assault. I think nobody wants to consider themselves a victim, because in their mind being a victim is the weakest, lowest, most disgusting thing in the world, and if they have to consider the fact that they might have been abused, assaulted, rape, VICTIMIZED then they are a part of that class of Weak and Low people they so despise. And mayhaps, if society so changed that victims could be treated as normal people, be given space to feel broken and hurt without rushing to move on, we might have SOMETHING of a world where hurt/hurting people aren't considered lower than the people that hurt them.

Look I don't think Supergirl (2026) is secretly a perfect masterpiece or anything (I personally thought it was like. a 6/10 fun time) but I do think it's wild that Tumblr isn't going crazy for it because this Kara is one coattailed suit away from being a Tumblr sexyman. she is the flawed messy female character people have supposedly been clamouring for. she's the popular archetype of a gruff self-destructive alcoholic middle-aged man begrudgingly having to look after a kid and growing fond of them but genderswapped and also 23. she's allowed to be visibly messy and kind of gross and her hair is constantly all over the place and she literally cries, screams, throws up, and pisses onscreen. she's caustic and mean and puts up an act of carelessness but has a heart of gold. she's heavily traumatised and coping with it terribly. if anything happens to her dog she will kill everyone in this room and then herself. she spends most of the movie in a trench coat and baggy band T-shirt. she gets into bar brawls and breaks a guy's hand. she is Going Through It 24/7 and looks the part. she stabs a guy in the throat. how is everyone else not obsessed with her.

I like that Supergirl says it’s okay to kill someone’s abuser so long as you don’t let the thirteen year old do it and I like that Supergirl says vengeance will not solve things but neither will allowing a cycle of violence to continue

And I like how Supergirl addresses the real issues and lets the girls be messy instead of "teaching her a lesson" that she needs to be nicer. She is not nice but she is kind!

I wonder how it feels to be a therapist or psychiatrist in 2026 and watch the despair of young patients and realize it’s not attributed to mental illness but a rational response to the state of the capitalist hellscape world we live in

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