Eunice. Post-Grad. Frequent Daydreamer. She/Her.
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I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.
(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)
Yuri on Ice was such a life changing anime, especially to have experienced in real time waiting for those episodes to drop every week. It was an open acknowledgment and love letter to queerness, to valuing and creating art, to loving yourself and loving those around you and it’s no surprise that it had such a large impact on those who watched it. Not to mention how stunning it was to be presented with an open letter to queer love during a time where same sex marriage and gender equality was still a very hot and controversial topic. It’s, in its own way, nestled itself into history.
It may not be in the way we all expected or hoped, but see you next level.
“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you…”
- Eddard Stark, 'A Game of Thrones'
I know Kaiser is definitely going through a much harder time in this last chapter (which. oof) but also Charles asking to get subbed out just because he REFUSES to pass to Rin is the ultimate fuck you move omg. Idk how Rin is pissed off at only Isagi rn when there's a 15 year old brat (affectionate) who is saying with his gameplay "you aren't good enough to pass the ball to, fuck you."
i think lee sookyoung and han sooyoung definitely discussed the nature of stories during those years they lived together and i would pay so much money to hear their thoughts. lee sookyoung who originally loved reading so much she named her son reader, went on to resent the story that saved his life, and wrote a whole book so she could change a story + han sooyoung whos writing saved her and who thinks in terms of the story at basically all times, and desperately wants to write the story that saved kim dokja's life..........idk. i think they have contrasting thoughts about the nature + meaning of writing and stories and i would love to hear them
more insane yoo joonghyuk moments from the yma side story:
he gets into a severe car crash and still goes to work. doesnt even call the ambulance or anything. millennial icon
his supervisor does cocomelon psychological warefare shit on him but hes like. well this isnt even in the top 3 worst things my bosses have done to me. this is actually my most normal employer-employee relationship yet
in the main story its said he didnt serve in the army, that he was 'exempted'. at the time i thought it was because he was mia's only guardian. but guys. no one knows mia is living with him. he avoids all authorities since its implied he doesnt have a real id or birth certificate or really any documents. or a citizenship. so does that mean he. dodged the draft?????
yeah hes lowkey living outside the law. when he becomes a terrorist in the epilouge that was actually him going back to his roots
gets a team of hitmen(???) sent after him and barely reacts. truly winning the idgaf war