love how one of jaime’s main flaws is that he is a coward. like in a more existential sense. his archetype is the brave knight, and on the surface he is that: the text keeps emphasizing that he is brave, so many characters give him that, even if they hate him. he is so strong, reckless, and unafraid of ‘physical death’ etc. but he is so terrified of things deeper than that. he keeps looking away and running away from complicated things, creating safe delusions for himself. the weirwood dream shows that so much of this is about terror. brienne calls him a craven for a reason. his arc is also very much about learning to be existentially brave: it is about existential courage
do you think if cas had reached out just once and let his fingers brush against dean’s when they were standing right next to each other that dean would’ve just burst and all his feelings would’ve flooded out the bottle and he would’ve confessed to cas right then and there?
re: driving hcs kyle would say things like the pedestrian never has the right of way and kenny has no license (driving lessons too expensive) but knows how to highjack a car with ease (self taught)
A little skeptical of the takes that paint Zerxus as having hubris on the same level as the mages because "he thought he could fix a betrayer god." that's not where the hubris was. That implies Zerxus saw anything for he himself to reform. He believed Asmodeus to be repentant of his own accord and that his role as the one who could reach him was to enable him to carry out that change. Zerxus didn't do anything but believe in the power of anyone to change. He's a paladin. That's basically what they're for.
The hubris was in denying the power and the nature of the gods themselves the way everyone else had and approaching Asmodeus the way he would a hurt man on the street, despite every written account of what it meant to be a betrayer god. The hubris was in deciding that Asmodeus had been hurt due to a spat among the gods that didn't involve Avalir or Exandria anymore, if it ever did. It was in believing those stories were exaggerations of mortal affairs to begin with. Zerxus didn't try to fix a betrayer god. He tried to help a broken man only he was in the position to help, a man who did not feel worthy of that help and who humbled himself in a way I guarantee you no mage ever did. Zerxus did what he was called to do and he did it flawlessly. That's why it was such a good trap. He was not asked or compelled to do a single thing that went against his values. He was led only to help.
"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw
"average cat owner spends 3 years in prison" factoid actualy just statistical error. average owner spends 0 years in prison. Miette's mother, who kicked her body like the football and went to jail for One Thousand Years is an outlier adn should not have been counted
This has been in my mind since August but I couldn't figure out which character would say it. Then I started a Karlach Origin run and realized: Karlach. Karlach has a face that knows what The Grinch is.
The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.
Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.
frankly, the people whose kneejerk reaction to bisan asking for a global strike form the 21st-28th is to say that it takes years to organize a general strike are really unhelpful! no one is saying otherwise, but palestine will be a smoking crater if we all wait for years to do anything - bisan is asking us to do something now. Like are we only supposed to do something if we can do it perfectly??? At some point it’s a valid critique about the work that goes into social movement, and at another point I feel like some people are just trying to absolve themselves from not putting any effort into observing a week of economic inaction.
like idk! I get it, okay! People have bills to pay that don’t magically go away for a strike, we don’t have nearly enough social infrastructure in place to support people to fully stop going to work for a week. But fuck, dude! Stop immediately responding in such a defeatist way! Cut out unnecessary purchases! Try to shop local! Put more effort into promoting Palestinian voices online! Attend a protest, call a local rep, do something!