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ok. years have passed and we've had some distance, so i'm finally gonna take the leap of faith that tma fandom is finally ready to hear me on this. let's talk about tannins.

161 was the first tma episode i heard on early release, and i felt the bit where martin declines wine and cites tannins was pretty obvious in its implications. cool, got it, say no more.

imagine my surprise when i was one of maybe three people i saw read between the lines there, in a fandom famous for red stringing--a fandom that immediately caught the much less obvious thread of ignition sources in the same episode. i'll spell it out: alcohol is an issue for martin.

maybe it just felt obvious because addiction is a pet issue for me--as it is for jonny, who has said everything he writes is filtered through a lens of addiction. i don't know if that's due to his own experience or a loved one's, and i won't speculate; i also don't know if martin personally struggled with drinking or just avoids it for fear he would, but alcohol would fit what we know of his family. his dad walking out and his mum spiralling into bitter wallowing and verbal abuse? i'd bet one or both of them drank, yeah.

on a basic level martin tries to decline alcohol, and that alone should have raised eyebrows given what we know of martin and, again, a fandom that dissects everything. we already knew martin "K" blackwood lied about his personal life and his family in particular, especially pre-canon, which is when this flashback took place. i was shocked that everyone took his flimsy excuse at face value with no further questions.

and the excuse is flimsy. martin turns down wine by--nervously--exclaiming tannins are "a proven headache trigger!" which sounds like trivia from a magazine cover and not the words of someone who actually has headaches--and it hasn't come up before or since. jon, confused, points out that tea, a drink martin consumes to a degree that is memetic both in- and out-of-universe, also contains tannins, and martin squawks a panicked, "what?!"

if tannins are enough of a concern for martin that he knew they're in wine and so avoids it, why didn't he know they're in his drink of choice? why does he still drink tea at the time of canon, and why doesn't he struggle with constant headaches from consuming 'a proven headache trigger' day in and day out? why, indeed, would someone avoid wine and not tea?

when sasha insists martin drink he caves and agrees to 'just a drop'. i imagine him pouring it in a plant, which admittedly he could have done if tannins really were the issue. i will say that i, for one, would be less likely to falsely agree to something that makes me physically ill than to a private issue that i'd rather not be pressed on any further. this scene also establishes martin's birthday was an ice cream party instead of the more traditional visit to a pub.

also, this scene was in the first episode of the final season, as one of three flashbacks that could have been to any pre-canon event in the archives. prime narrative real estate. not really time one would waste on establishing the important character context that martin has... headaches. which never comes up before or after, even regarding the week he spent in spiral town. but you know what is pretty crucial character background...?

it felt like a no-brainer, and yet all i saw was h/c fluff about jon attending to martin's headaches. and i hate feeling bitter about disability representation. i want folks with chronic headaches to feel seen and have fluffy escapist fantasies. i don't want to be mad about people portraying a character with a disability. but, guys? you got the wrong disability. jonny sent a clear message, and it went over fandom's head.

#tma #martin blackwood #tma meta #meta

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D-16 | MEGATRON Transformers: One (2024)

#transformers #megatron #transformers one

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when the stream was 3 minutes late chat started spamming "CAPTAIN" and i vote we add that to the hoard of Jorge's nicknames

#I remember the viewers were at like 6.4k and someone commented ‘6000 MEN’ #epic the musical

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technically anyone who was in the trojan horse could count—“alright, my brothers, listen closely”

Is there anyone other than Eurylochus that we’ve heard Odysseus refer to as “brother”?

Tiresias uses the word “brother” and if the only one referred to as brother by Odysseus is Eurylochus… oh boy

#surely that won’t affect his relationship with the remaining crew :) #keikoayano #conversations

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“the blood on your hands is something you won’t lose / all you can choose it whose” is presented as a single rock-and-hard-place decision but was apparently the terms and conditions for the rest of odysseus’s life

#epic the musical #*

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the underworld saga thoughts part 3/3:

“I’m the only one whose line I haven’t crossed” is such a line! he’s semi-aware! won’t prevent the eventual mutiny but it’s neat to see!

odysseus compares himself to demigods and poseidon and to his past self—does he consider himself to have been a monster at troy, and think that later following polites’ open arms philosophy changes that? can a monster become a man again? this is something I’ve been gnawing on a lot because I interpret him as leveling up to become a monster after killing the infant. like leveling up in a video game. when he was a man at war, he killed other men. when he became a monster, his foes were other monsters.

odysseus has obliquely admitted to monstrosity before. his rebuke to polyphemus claimed that he was “neither man nor mythical” and what else is left to be but a monster?

when he dreamt of his family, his mind depicted them refusing his embrace while he pleaded that he’s the same

it’s not until this song that odysseus embraces what he’s subconsciously known himself to be —that’s why his line is “and if I got to drop another infant from a wall / in an instant so we all don’t die? / Then I’ll become the monster”. he uses what he did at troy as the metric for monstrosity.

the pampam, as jorge calls it at 3:30, has an electric buzz to it. our boy’s being cunning again

#epic the musical #the underworld saga #tlbs #*

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the underworld saga thoughts part 2/3

“I see your wife with a man who is haunting / a man with a trail of bodies” / “WHO?!”

hmm would the body count happen to be in the 600s? just curious. also reminds me of that post about odysseus being a ghost and the odyssey as a horror story

loving the spiraling music. very interested in what the choir’s singing there

“I see the sacrifice of man” interesting choice to use sacrifice. remember when odysseus refused to abandon his men to circe when eurylochus argued to cut their losses? maybe he’ll make a different choice next time. alternately, odysseus sacrifices his humanity in favor of monstrosity in order to get home

“I see a man who gets to make it home alive / but it’s no longer you” SO interesting that tiresias says man here as odysseus is about to forsake being a man in favor of being a monster. when does a man become a monster?

but also. callback to keep your friends close as odysseus pleads to penelope that “so much has changed but I’m the same / yes I’m the same” odysseus wake up to the fact that you’re not. you’re no longer you

#epic the musical #the underworld saga #tlbs #*

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the underworld thoughts (per the watch party) 1/3:

sounds like they start out sailing on the ocean and hit a portal to the underworld at ~31 seconds and I can just imagine how a stage production would change the lighting to depict this

“this land confuses your mind” immediately before we’re asked when a man becomes a monster. the saga ends with odysseus choosing to become a monster. odysseus keeps thinking of the infant from that night. he’s not sober!! someone needs to take his keys!! more thoughts in part 3 on this?

having mircsy as the animator for polites’ cameo when their animatics featuring him are so popular was a neat touch

the “waiting” calls back to full speed ahead (penelope’s waiting for me) and plants the seed of fear that grows throughout this saga that odysseus won’t make it back to his wife and son

the way odysseus’s voice breaks a little on “mom?”

honestly reminded me of potc3 when elizabeth sees her father. I wonder if any of the animatics will frame it similarly

#epic the musical #the underworld saga #tlbs #*

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They were so insane for this

#nimona #memes

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📸: travel memories

#art

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FARSCAPE

3.18 Fractures

#ka d'argo #farscape #john crichton

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some more Nimona!

#nimona #fanart #nimona fanart

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jus in bello script why didnt they include the sam stuff im crying

#HE WENT TO STANFORD #spn #sam winchester

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PACIFIC RIM 2013 | dir. Guillermo del Toro

(for @seriemorder)

#pacific rim #raleigh becket

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world heritage post: avatar femslash fans on livejournal discussing the possibility of a lesbian or bi lead in the legend of korra in 2010, 2 years before the series first aired. four years later, korra and asami walked into the spirit world together holding hands.

happy korrasami day!

#korrasami #avatar #korra

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The tragic gays occupying my heart. Artwork by me <3

| "I gave you a rare gift, but you didn't want it."

"Didn't I?"

#hannibal #hannigram #hannibal fanart #fanart

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Ask a historian, “What was mankind’s greatest invention?” Fire? The wheel? The sword? I would argue it’s history itself. History isn’t fact. It’s narrative, one carefully curated and shaped. Under the pen strokes of the right scribe, a villain becomes a hero, a lie becomes the truth.

-Gaal Dornick, Foundation

#black sails