I understand turning on your King after what happened with Liam, but maybe don't go full on 'plunder and pillage from everyone' Killian?

That feels - maybe going a little too far in the other direction?

I gotta admit, I can't imagine what Pan finds fun about Neverland. It seems unutterably boring for him. And yet, he loves it.

Fucking weirdo.

Like, evil, yeah, but Rumple and Regina and Zelna and Cora and so forth - they're comprehensible. Pan's just a little freak.

...he'd probably thrive on Tumblr though,

...

I'm not sure I know what this means? Is this agreement?

I'll say it again - Hook and Regina.

I kinda ship it.

If they'd kept Neal alive and had him with Emma, Hooked Queen would have been a very fun ship to eventually become canon.

I'll say it again - Hook and Regina.

I kinda ship it.

If they'd kept Neal alive and had him with Emma, Hooked Queen would have been a very fun ship to eventually become canon.

Yea I’m convinced 6 eps in this already top 3 greatest tv shows ever made. Just masterful from visuals to acting to direction. Generational run of media rn. War finally here next week

"the correct answer to the trolley problem is to reject its premise" That's explicitly not an answer. If you are the agent in the trolley problem, and you say "I reject the premise", the people still die. It is a made up scenario, yes. It was made specifically to illustrate in a real-world situation where you have limited influence and none of your options are perfect. There are many problems in the real world that you cannot solve by pulling a lever. However, you also cannot solve them by doing nothing. And unlike the trolley problem, you can't just "reject the premise" and exit the scenario. The consequences still happen.

The point is to demonstrate your ethical reasoning. Nobody wants to accept the premise, we want to revise the scenario, or exit the situation, or just find the trick answer that solves everything perfectly, and ultimately, many people decide not to pull the lever. Why? Because it feels worse to take action in a shitty situation than to do nothing and pretend that you never had any influence to begin with.

Except, even if you do nothing, you are still just as complicit in the consequences as if you had pulled the lever. The point is that inaction feels like an inherently neutral choice, even when its consequences are demonstrably worse. The point is that there is no solution where you don't have someone's blood on your hands. Yes it sucks. Yes you want to reject the scenario. That's supposed to happen, you're supposed to feel that conflict, that's part of the test. What we're looking to find out is what you do with that conflict. Do you prioritize emotional comfort or external action?

Maybe one day we'll have built a future where nobody has to confront that sort of problem, but right now, those problems are real and numerous, because whether you accept it or not we were born into a world where people already built massive systems of cruelty, and we all have very limited influence over them. Obviously we don't want these systems to exist. Obviously it won't be solved by a single decision. But if you want to dismantle them you have to actually do something when you have the chance. If you wait around for the Perfect Choice That Fixes Everything, you will die waiting. You can't fix everything all at once. And doing nothing only makes things worse. So do what you can.

What is really funny in Season 2 is that everyone keeps double-crossing Hook, but honestly, he probably intended to keep his word almost every time he gave it.

Word Count 4-29-24

1455 Words.

I wonder if Robin Hood would have been better recieved by the people who called him boring if Tom Ellis had still been handy to play him.

I'm not bothered, I was just confused by what seemed like a bit of an apropos of nothing comment. I apologize if I came off as hostile. That wasn't my intention, fwiw.

And as for the caravans, that's fair enough, I didn't know horses in particular were still such a significant part of Romani life in the modern age. I admittedly envisioned more travelling in cars and trucks with trailers and the like, when/if I envisioned it at all (which, tbf, wasn't often) TIL. Always nice to learn a new fact.

But I would still say the Mongols, Cumans, Kipchaks, etc, are more what people mean when they say 'horse nomads'. At least, I should say, in my experience. I know it's considered something of a slur, but the 'g-word' is still what I tend to associate with Romani, as a visual trope, as it were. More Varisian from Pathfinder, than Dothraki from ASOIAF, for instance.

The Dothraki aren’t based off a real culture, they’re based on every bastardization of real horse nomad cultures in previous fantasy fiction.

I do wish they'd given us some reason why Tamara was so anti-Magic,

I don't know what goes on in Europe or anywhere else, nor is my familiarity with the culture Romani or any regional subgroups, etc that high, but when I think 'horse nomad culture' the Romani - any variation thereof - is not the first example that comes to mind, or even the fifth or tenth or... millionth. I think the Rhoynar (or at least the Greenblood Orphans) are more "based" on the Romani than the Dothraki are. (For a given value of "based", which isn't very hight)

I wasn't strictly criticizing Martin either. I was criticizing people who say that the Dothraki aren't realistic, because realism isn't the point with how they're written. ASOIAF is explicitly a work of fantasy engaging with other works of fantasy, and believe me, the Dothraki are not the first bad caricature of the Mongols to feature in fantasy fiction.

What the Dothraki are, however, is showing the logical endpoint of what those caricatures would be. The actual Mongols were a lot more than just rape and pillage and burn, but the Dothraki are just that, and that's sort of the point. They're not a long-term viable culture, and ASOIAF shows that in ways previous fantastical caricatures of the Mongols and other horse nomad cultures of history never really did.

The Dothraki aren’t based off a real culture, they’re based on every bastardization of real horse nomad cultures in previous fantasy fiction.

An AU where Cora just trades her daughter to Rumple like in the original deal, and Regina is raised by Rumple.

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Word Count 4-28-24

900 Words.

Milah: "I don't want you to go fight, what if you die!?"

Milah: "You didn't fight, you could have, now I hate you!"

like what do you mean the whole scene was inspired by "in the mood for love"... their unspoken tension as the sexiest scene in the show... are you insane!!