#this is chief among them

[lizzibennet]

per anon’s request, i present to you THE best version of beatrice’s monologue in much ado about nothing. i thought about cropping this but decided this scene must be watched in its full glory

#the way i've watched this so many times and it makes my heart RACE still #DO NOT SWEAR AND EAT IT! so perfect #the anger. the CHEMISTRYYYY #the change from you to thee. WAAAAAAAAAA #danielle brooks do u want my first born? do u want my LIFE? i will lay it down for u #much ado about nothing #shakespeare #video #anon i am spiraling and its ur fault #if this doesn't convince u to watch this MASTERPIECE nothing will #many reasons why this is my favorite production #this is chief among them

[daguerreotyping]

Postcard depicting the aftermath of Mensur (a student duel in which the goal is less to avoid injury than to take it stoically and wear the resulting scars as badges of honor), Heidelberg, Germany, c. 1900s

#university teaches so many valuable life skills—chief among them how to stand still and block a sword with your face #...is this not just the much older posher German equivalent of that British Lads Hit Each Other With Chair video #like on the one hand... why? on the other hand... why's it kinda hot #early 20th century #1900s #historical fashion #men's fashion #menswear #uniforms #mensur #fencing #vintage photography #postcard #vintage men

[atopvisenyashill]

what if jacaerys velaryon was born a girl, would rhaenyra name her heir of the throne?

That would be up to Viserys at that point and it would be fun bc he’d finally have to clarify what the fuck he’s trying to do with the succession.

If he names a girl Jacaerys his heir before Rhaenyra has even attempted having a second child, there’s gonna be questions like “what are we dornish or something” that he’s going to have to deal with.

If he skips over Jacaerys and names Lucerys as Rhaenyra’s heir, people are probably going to ask “well why did you skip Jacaerys but not Rhaenyra?” and he’s going to have to have an answer besides “shut up.” - and his answer could be a lot of things tbh, bc “the king chooses his heir” is Not precedent you need to be setting while at the same time, “No female line can inherit ever” is an equally terrible and stupid precedent. he’s got free range to craft whatever the fuck rationale he wants and make it sound logical, bc look at jaehaerys & the doctrine of exceptionalism. he rode balerion ffs, these people will probably mostly fall in line if he has a maester draft a technicality rule!

I think especially if he skips Jace, names Luke, and then marries them to each other (huge risk if they’re still obviously harwin’s kids, btw), Alicent is just gonna be sitting there like “now wait a goddamn minute.”

If you’re sitting here thinking “both of those options sound like a mess” that’s because it is a mess :) “No female line can inherit” and Rhaenyra being named over Daemon cannot exist in the same world because according to GC 101, an uncle comes before a cousin and a male cousin comes before a daughter, every single goddamn time. Viserys doesn’t clarify his position here bc his position is “my brother is annoying as shit and i feel guilty that i left my daughter without a mother the way i was left without a mother” and that’s not like, a law, it’s a vibe. he then continues not clarifying after remarrying, having a son, AND naming that fucking son Aegon. But if Rhaenyra also has a firstborn daughter, it's not as easy for Viserys to just kinda "aw shucks" and mumble his way out of the room.

I also genuinely don't know what Rhaenyra would do. She's not fighting for absolute primogeniture (though she would have been in a better position if she had decided to fight for it). What she's fighting for is her father's right to name her as heir and her own right to be named as heir. It's about her situation specifically which was complicated when she was named and became more complicated after her brothers were born; there's precedent in story that someone can just name their heir and bypass the whole ~structure~ if there's not a clear line of inheritance, like Jeyne Arryn bypassing her first cousin (because he attempted to usurp her) for her fourth cousin (because he was loyal) and the Iron Throne backing up Jeyne's decision, and this is clearly how Rhaenyra is treating her own ascension. Rhaenyra is the exception the same way Targaryen incest is the exception to the Faith.

When the question of women inheriting over brothers comes up, she sides against absolute primogeniture because Corlys advises her to do so - and I like him but I am once again saying that Corlys is to blame for almost all of the dumb shit inheritance decisions that Rhaenyra makes, because Rhaenyra defaults to his "wisdom" as her advisor. Obviously Rhaenyra is incredibly short sighted in both placing too many unhatched eggs in Corlys' shit ass basket as well as treating her own ascension as somehow different than women inheriting over men, but you can kinda see the argument she's going for, she's just doing it badly (because she has bad advisors). She's saying her ascension was special because of the lack of heirs at the time and that you can't unname the Crown Princess, and she's very clearly backing away from setting any sort of precedent regarding literally anything else. She's amazingly similar to her father in that way; conflict averse but with a terrifying temper. And like I said up top, a girl Jacaerys forces both Rhaenyra and Viserys to finally look at the mess they, the Hightowers, and Jaehaerys made of the line of succession and fix it.

#viserys the peaceful #rhaenyra targaryen #gender politics in asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #jacaerys targaryen #asks #anons #to be clear this is 100% book verse. show rhaenyra is different in many ways chief among them being she's in a worse position politically #AND socially while also having the moral high ground more firmly. #i thought thorugh this one a lot alskjfkldj it really is the ultimate question about her

[susielesbianism]

Been watching people play Home Safety Hotline recently and oh my god y’all please fuckinng play it it’s so good

#heed the content warnings though. it is a horror game and as such can be heavy at times #chief among them is unreality. including but not limited to the fact that the game uses a windows 95-esque ui #the game also has implied child death and implied animal death at certain points #there are also phobia settings that you can check and uncheck if you don’t want to see certain things #other than that it’s the type of game you should definitely experience as blindly as possible #I know im posting this on the ut/dr blog but I have more followers here so. exposure yknow

[5amanthus]

Went shopping and had to get my gay old men.

They’re in love your honour.

#Halo #Master Chief #John-117 #The Arbiter #Thel 'Vadam #Master Chief/The Arbiter #John-117 x Thel 'Vadam #Yeah John has two guns but he needs at least one hand to hold Thel's #ALSO! They spelled Thel's name wrong on the box they put Thel 'Vdam #I pointed it out and my mom literally googled it to check if I was write #Like thanks mom but also I've written so much fanfic of these two #I KNOW HOW TO SPELL HIS NAME 😂 #Also the limbs are so fucking hard to move I spent ten minutes posing them and trying to keep their hands together BUT I DID IT #I have them on my Among Us shelf cause I don't have any other display spots atm cause most of my shit is packed up to move some day

[everythingodysseydd]

Two thoughts tonight:

1) It is very seriously missing Lykaon hours. I need more of that little love on my dash <3

2) The idea of Daphnae being to Artemis what the Oracle is to Apollo is just...👌 So many plot holes answered. And the concept of Artemis being a little in love with Kassandra (aren't we all?) and trying to woo her distracted ass toward the Daughters? And Daphnae being collateral? All the thoughts. All the feelings.

#I need more energy in my life for so many reasons #but these chief among them tonight #if anyone feels like following a prompt... ;) #jk but also #Lykaon #Daphnae #Fanfiction

[dragonjesterwrites]

One thing that will bug me probably forever is one of Moon's new lines in Help Wanted 2.

"What makes you so special?"

Like- he says it with such bitterness. Why though. Is he jealous of the player? Over what? What do you mean by that Moonman

#help wanted 2 #hw2 spoilers #moon fnaf #moon help wanted 2 #spam tagging so more people see it and can maybe share ideas #i have a few myself (chief among them that the virus brings out repressed feelings-) #(-and Moon's bitter about not being seen as competent enough to fix things himself-) #(-but being corrupted so long has scrambled his processors and he can't communicate that very well) #he wants his merry-go-round fixed damn it!! he could do it himself but this annoying tech is here instead smh #moon: says this #refuses to elaborate #carousel catches fire #??? #<rattles him> give me your lore

[krysmcscience]

ELIJAH WOOD IS GOING TO BE A VA FOR THE AMONG US SERIES??? ELIJAH FRODO WOOD???

HELP, THE DESCRIPTION OF HIS CHARACTER IS KILLING ME

"Elijah Wood will voice ‘Green’ – Unpaid Intern

Happy to be there

Task: whatever they’re told

Fun Fact: gets paid in pizza"

WHAT IS HAPPENING?????????

#LetTheInternLive

#among us #random shit #krys rambles #seeing red as the captain and purple as chief of security is hilarious to me personally because of breach #where it is the exact opposite xD #in other news now i have to put a lord of the rings decal somewhere on green #it is a requirement to me personally #LET THE INTERN LIVE!!! #he can be impostor too that's fine and would honestly be hilarious lmao #skeld crew dies to unpaid intern #serves them right

[sangfielle]

this feels like an offensively bad way to divide these things

#in a number of ways. ehhh. #chief among them being 'middle eastern' being used at all #which as i grow older i have less tolerance to even pretending thats not a racist turn of phrase #but also. there are 'middle eastern' ethnic jews. that exist like as an ethnicity. #indigenous is so broad as to basically mean nothing. #ethnically jewish being a distinct category at all. these people are either white or they arent #depending on which group they're from. a large number of them are white. #i was going to keep complaining about other issues but i just realized: its a tumblr poll #and the fact that i politically take offense to my arab part being lumped in with #the part that was arabized . is like. nobody not involved in swana racial politics gives a shit

[boasamishipper]

so is the whole 'sam is a leader on this team and the new highly sought after star footballer of afc richmond' storyline ever going to get brought up again, or are the writers done caring about sam now that he isn't rebecca's love interest anymore

#this season has so many problems #chief among them is that toheeb is credited as a main cast member and he hasn't gotten shit to do in six episodes #even in 3.03 his restaurant was just a plot device in rebecca's love life #like why isn't sam getting special one on one training sessions with roy. that would actually be interesting #their relationship in s1 was so good and we've only gotten crumbs since and it genuinely saddens me #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #sam obisanya #i will eat my words if the next six episodes are good and do sam justice #but i doubt it #i really don't think the writers went into this season knowing what to do with anyone but ted and colin #even nate's 'redemption' arc is all over the place #it's been six episodes and we've only seen him in three!! we haven't focused on him enough!! #his eventual redemption is not going to have the emotional catharsis it could have if nate's storyline was given weight in every episode #like who gives a shit about that model and his date at a taste of athens #but that's a rant for another time

[eoinmcgonigal]

Paddy's regret at ending up in prison that second time is just so cruel, because if he wasn't there maybe he wouldn't have joined the SAS. Eoin wouldn't have died the way he did. But Paddy, faced with a second charge and being parted from Eoin and maybe never seeing him ever again because Eoin could very well die in this war and Paddy would be left behind...

Fuck the whole missing out on the action thing, it was missing out on being with Eoin, and that forced separation with the threat of permanence, that Paddy was thinking about when considering the offer. He's a man of strong, immovable principals. He'd endure whatever was thrown at him out of spite.

But losing Eoin? He's the only aspect of the equation that makes him falter; Eoin's the one person he regretted being parted from and couldn't bear to be without. Eoin's 'if you jump, I jump', yes, but Paddy will jump out of a burning plane without thinking twice in order to be with Eoin. He will leap, and pull Eoin with him to his death.

Of course, he doesn't know that.

Not until it's too late.

#paddy mayne #eoin mcgonigal #eoin x paddy #paddy x eoin #sas rogue heroes #document type: intelligence report #look i just have a lot of feelings about that whole moment okay #chief among them being the tragedy of paddy being unable to make any other choice #you can't tell me that paddy gave a shit about some prison time he'd survive whatever was thrown at him #APART FROM losing eoin and being without him #that's what made him weak #thinking of mistletoe now

[sonyapaxtonapologist]

fleabag, fleabag | “to love someone is to see the face of god” - les misérables, victor hugo

night so long, haim | dreams tonite, alvvays | girls against god, florence + the machine | to me (your face is love), donna missal | do you realize??, the flaming lips

#this has been sitting half completed in my drafts for months #that said — i’m finally satisfied with it #wanted to explore the idea of Faces and Facelessness #bc there are obviously many wonderful examples of pwb’s face to pull from #the iconic Look (TM) being chief among them #but i’m just so fixated on that first still #of her in the car and she’s faceless in that frame #reminds me of godmother rendering her faceless in the portrait #and how lost fleabag feels and how she finds herself in others (for better or for worse) #so what do the faces of others mean to her ? #reflections memories signs idols #maybe esp bc i’m so bad at recalling faces too lol #fleabag #claire (fleabag) #dad (fleabag) #hot priest #boo (fleabag) #fleabag x the priest #intertextuality #mine #photo set #text

[wheresjonno]

If Jonathan dies maybe (eventually) Lucy can introduce Mina to a certain 29 yr old lunatic asylum doctor with a strong jaw and good forehead....maybe that's why he's there taking up the plot, to "not avoid the pits of hell" 🤔

A reason to vote for option 5: dead? Or a reason to vote against option 5: dead? You decide!

#dracula daily #for the jack/mina shippers #chief among them: Lucy #is this a promise...or a threat?

[averagejoesolomon]

WAITTTT. I know you said that Full Circle was inspired by Matt's journals in book number 4. I did a little rereading. I just realized that Joe waited A WHOLE MONTH. A month before telling Rachel??! Do you think Joe wanted to tell her personally even though she already knew through the agency? How dare our favorite sad guy sit in that torture for 31 DAYS. YIKES.

I always pictured Joe as being the final nail in the coffin, so to speak. The certainty in an uncertain situation. When Matt misses his call-ins, Rachel may have her suspicions, but there would still be plenty of hope—agents miss call-ins, it happens, he's just hung up somewhere and it'll be fine. He'll call.

Then, if the agency declares him anything, it'll be MIA first. Although it's worth noting that Matt's journal pretty definitively outlines that the Circle mission was fully off books. Totally under the radar. That's why Joe was put on desk duty, right before Matt's final mission. Matt goes to Rome not as an agent, but as a civilian with CIA training. And there's a good chance the CIA isn't taking any responsibility for him when he does so.

So he's missed his call-ins. And maybe the agency marks him as MIA, but maybe they don't mark him as anything at all. Agents disappear for months at a time. It's not ideal, but it happens. Matt's got buddies all over the intelligence community, so maybe there's a quiet, unofficial search, but that leads to even more unofficial hope. He'll be home any day now, with bruises along his skin, and ribs showing, and dehydrated, and sleepless—but they'll deal with that when he comes home. He's going to come home.

But when Joe comes home instead? With that look in his eye? With that understanding that Rachel doesn't even need him to put words to. Nah. There's no hope after that.

Joe is the confirmation in an otherwise unconfirmed situation, and I imagine he doesn't want to tell anyone, anything. Because he knows that he's the one who is going to take away all the hope. But he tells Rachel first, because Rachel deserves to know.

#Joe 'Sad Boy' Solomon is the love of my life for many reasons #but chief among them is that he is the killer of dreams and a hefty dose of realism to everyone he meets

[tinfoil-catholic]

I have been struggling deeply with my value as a wife and a person, and I thought maybe I could just get through Easter and the joy would help, but.... tonight has been quite emotional and I am having a hard time

#and it just sucks because i do not have friends to go to #i cant truly bring this to my husband for various reasons on my part #chief among them being that i am already burdening him and stressing him out by not having a job that i dont want to make it worse by laying #my grief and anxieties on him

[musashi]

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#> cut person out of my life for a multitude of reasons #one of the chief among them being they OBSESSIVELY copied me #literally everything i did. my mannerisms my phrasing my way of existing #if i was in a mood or a certain state of health they would COPY THAT TOO #if i was venting they would suddenly be venting too #literally could not just let me exst #obsessed with me and intent on stealing every single thing about me #to the point that other people noticed and got uncomfortable and approached me like hey are you okay with this cause im #upset on your behalf #anyways. havent talked to them in like a year. life significantly better #(save for the part where they lied to a bunch of my friends and those friends all ditched/hardblocked me without a word) #i find out. through the most INSANE means imaginable #(posting shit on ao3 and coming across them in the wild) #that they are STILL TO THIS DAY #COPYING THINGS I DID WHEN WE WERE FRIENDS #every day i thank the fucking lord i pulled the plug on this shit #i was so fucking miserable back when they were in close proximity