tabitha
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Emerald Fennell biopic of St. Augustine: He writes by candlelight [Voiceover], “Lord, grant me chastity and sobriety…” [I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas starts playing] “But not yet.” [He leaves the room. We see an “Augustine at the club” montage]
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Fringe haver struggle. Woke up saw myself in the mirror and screamed
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Old black mirror episodes are so good. I feel like it used to ask the viewers genuine questions in a way it doesn't anymore
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Aerion has short hair because Maekar wouldn’t let him bring his airwrap or his crate of denman brushes or his various bond repair hair goo and toning slimes or his microfibre towel to Ashford with him so clearly the only option is to cut it all off
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Aerion would fall in love with Naoya at first sight but Naoya would mistake him for a woman and call him a whore probably
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if you pull out a flail or a morningstar i am not going to fight you. fuck that are you crazy
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+ anyone but especially each other results in everyone around them getting hurt or killed. Ahhhh maybe I’ll type more one day because I do have more to say about it, but let’s test the waters with this one first
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+ dragons can really effectively fight dragons, if at all, which in this metaphor can be taken as thus: a scared human child can be easily hurt, but the dragon is invulnerable and dangerous in its own right, so what’s it better to be? Only of course dragons fighting +
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+ for him as a similar coping mechanism to what Dany uses in her most hopeless moments, only unlike Viserys she’s strong enough to use the idea of dragons for good rather than for pillaging and burning. And to harken back to F&B once more, it’s notable that only +
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Viserys III is abusive and cruel to Dany, and uses “do you want to wake the dragon?” to reference his temper, but even Dany says that he wasn’t always like this—“[after] he sold our mothers crown, the last joy was gone from him”. It’s not hard to imagine that ‘the dragon’ began +
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+ strength—than it can be used as a way to victimise others and cast oneself as the ultimate apex predator. And of course there’s also the recurring theme in F&B that women are denied dragons until their marriages, because a woman with a dragon has leverage that others don’t. +
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I think the motif of the dragon in ASOIAF can be just as much an invocation to protect one from sexual abuse or victimisation—Dany “takes strength” from her dragon eggs during her marriage to Drogo, and when she considers suicide, a dream of Drogon burning her is what gives her +
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I think "Daemon gave us these cloaks and they're gold no matter how you turn them" cut to stabbing someone in the face for expecting you to betray him is EXTREMELY romantic. They have of course been broken up for years at this point but some things are eternal
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Taking over the Goldcloaks & finding some sense of purpose = this huge hulking guy is the first person who has ever been loyal to YOU rather than your family and especially your grandfather the king = give him your cloak (marriage)
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What does everyone think about my other, secret brainworm, Daemon/Luthor
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