Today my heart goes out to Astrid Becke, who DID have two boyfriends who were also boyfriends, but tragically lost one of them to a massive mental breakdown and, worst of all, morals. Stay strong queen

This scene makes me so upset.

It's the first time in the series Jon decides to walk away from something instead of chasing it's knowledge to a self-destructive degree.

And his "rewarded" for not feeding The Eye by being framed for murder and having that thought drilled into his head, "If I didn't look away, Elias might not have had the same opportunity to kill Leitner."

This moment literally teaches Jon that he's correct to be paranoid about knowledge slipping through his fingers, and he's right to push himself too far to get it. He's not even allowed to take a breath after speaking with the man who ruined his life with his books without their being disaster. And I think this moment has a lot of implication for his actions later in the series.

the implications of jonah magnus being a queer man in the 19th century and choosing to serve an eldritch manifestation of the fear of having your secrets exposed and judged and condemned by the wider world,,,, I’m sick

When I criticize jk Rowling do not assume I always hated Harry Potter. I knitted hogwarts house scarves. I got my first binder to dress as Draco Malfoy for Halloween. I reread the books multiple times. I read probably every pottermore article there was at the time.

I’m not here to validate your smug feelings about not liking a children’s book series 20 years ago. I’m here to discourage others from spending money on it and to give myself and others words and space to work through some feelings. I’m a trans person that made Harry Potter one of my cornerstone interests. One of my favorite things. I’m not some cis person doing cope.

Harry Potter was a big thing. Like. Big in a way that’s difficult to fully understand. It still is. If you were caught up in it during your formative years it’s normal to need to process all of the horrid things now associated with it.

Having to burn down the house you grew up in is going to be hard even if it turns out that the house was always rotten from the inside out. Even if it turns out that the foundation was made of straw. But the destruction and deconstruction must happen if one hopes to move on and move forward. That’s why I talk about it at all.

martin is such a good character because he's the last guy you'd expect to hold insane grudges. and yet

it's so crazy we literally have elphaba saying i love you and glinda saying i love you too and then elphaba makes glinda hide in a literal closet while elphaba goes to "die" cuz glinda can never reveal that she loves this woman without the public turning on her and no one in popular press has asked if this is a metaphor for anything cmon people what are we doing here

“Is this monster design cool or am I blinded by my love of teeth” the never ending saga

"You're not your thoughts you're not your brain you're just a character you made" Thanks Will Wood

fun fact if your music is loud enough Thoughts Do Not Exist And You Are Calm. do not pay attention to your heart rate and do not accidentally hit pause

wicked: this story is about showing that the lives and motivations of people can be nuanced and complicated even when we think we know them, and that polarised terms such as "good" and "wicked" are fundamentally unhelpful and can be weaponised by the establishment and media to push an agenda

wicked fans, for some reason: wow glinda is actually a monster

I love how Martin isn't even subtle about how fucking gay he is for Jon, he was being questioned about him being suspected for murder and he was focused on "people say we're close 🥺👉👈?"

What i think the rite of the Watcher’s Crown looked like. (Jonah is in the panopticon)

“I asked chatGPT” oh okay, well I asked Grand Admiral Thrawn and he said perhaps

"average employer feels neutral about workplace injuries" factoid is incorrect. the average employer hates workplace injuries because it reflects badly on the company and they'll have to file a bunch of paperwork about it. OSHA Violations Elias, who loves paperwork and whose stated intent is to make sure his favorite employee gets as many workplace injuries as possible, is an outlier adn should not be counted

life is fraught-less

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