– If you’ll swear to do as you’re told I’ll let you serve me for the tourney. After that, well… we’ll see. I don’t have much, but if you prove worth your keep you’ll have clothes on your back and food in your belly. The clothes might be rough-spun and the food, salt beef and salt fish, but you won’t go hungry. I promise not to beat you. Except when you deserve it.
A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS 01.01 – The Hedge Knight
I hope that major media companies spend the next 75 years depicting ICE officers as cheap, disposable mooks against whom the hero can enact consequence-free, family friendly violence. Like the Nazis in the Indiana Jones movies.
if vampires existed in real life i think there would be shady companies advertising “organic blood” sourced from “willing donors” who are coincidentally all poor people being paid like $5 per blood donation. and like haughty vegan vampires who only drink a synthetic blood drink thats brewed in a way thats actively worse for the enviroment. and radical traditionalist vampires who go on tiktok and claim that true alpha chads have to drain and kill people and anyone who leaves their victims alive is a liberal cuck. enter the world of hypothetical insufferable vampire politics with me.
Not “The Character did nothing wrong” or “The Character is irredeemably awful” but a secret third thing: The Character may display moments of deep love & compassion, may even have a strong sense of ethics, and may also be capable of brutal cruelty that is irreconcilable with those traits. The constant tension between the different sides of The Character’s nature is exactly what makes them compelling, and attempting to reduce them down to simply “a terrible person” or “innocent & misunderstood” is missing the point of the questions a media with nuanced characters is asking you to consider
they could never make me hate you morally gray manipulative female characters who do unforgivable war crimes especially for the purpose of a greater good
