This may be an unpopular opinion in the HOTD fandom but I'm still going to say it: Rhaenicent and Laenyra both could have existed in the show's narrative without overshadowing or taking away from (when done right because the writers treat Laena so terribly) any of the characters involved.
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When I saw the new cover for the next part of @tmntredline this meme immediately teleported into my brain.
Donnie you got some 'splainin' to do!
@coffinpal and @0ddbugs I hope you guys are taking care and make sure you don't overwork yourselves! You have both shared so much phenomenal art with us I can't believe that the next Redline part is soon!
Also yay that makes it all the redline boys I have now drawn!
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the way franklin has silna's father's body disposed of in ep 3 is a really fascinating indication of how the english see the inuit to me.
because yeah, obviously it's incredibly disrespectful in ignoring the man's own burial traditions and even from an entirely english pov as a way to "bury" someone. but on top of that i find it very telling that they felt it was their place to bury him at all--if they truly didn't think he was worth the trouble, why not just give his body to silna?
they must have felt on some level they had a claim to his body and, perhaps in their seeing themselves as a last outpost of civilization, a duty to make sure it was taken care of. even though they clearly didn't care one bit about the man they were actually burying.
this moment is one of a few in the show where the english seem to assume, entirely without question, that they have authority over the arctic and the people in it. that just by virtue of being english they are naturally and immediately the highest (worldly) power present. which obviously betrays a deeply imperialistic worldview.
and in showing that insidious assumption of authority in interaction with more baldly racist disrespect and disregard towards a netsilik person, i feel this moments highlights the twofold superiority the english feel over the inuit: both as having a exclusive claim to power and as having a exclusive claim to personhood
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“You think a song’s gonna get a rise out of me?!” shouts local vampire dripping river water all over your floor after swimming the Mississippi and kicking down a door just to break six years of the silent treatment
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what you’ve got to understand about working conditions in education (and also other care-oriented careers) is that if they’re shit, two things are true at once:
that does not ever excuse being cruel to a kid, no matter what
until those conditions are fixed, education will continue to suck absolute shit
this is because when working conditions for teachers are really bad, many of the good teachers who recognize when they are reaching a point where they can no longer be the sort of teacher the kids deserve due to burnout WILL quit. they will do the responsible thing and go away for their own sake and the sake of the kids. and you end up stuck w a combination of new teachers who are trying their best but won’t last long, burnt out teachers who are trying their best but have nothing left to give and therefore aren’t very effective at actually teaching, and cockroach shitheads who take out their misery on the kids.
we have all had terrible experiences with bad teachers, many of them flat out traumatic, but for fuck’s sake please try to look at the systemic underpinnings of the problem for one minute. spitefully declaring that teachers don’t deserve good working conditions or even the right to complain about bad working conditions because ms. whoever in 5th grade was a bitch is only going to create more of her. if you want good teachers then we need an education system they can survive in
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like yeah ok izzy is a horrible little nastyboy but ummm have you considered that he’s also my precious wil baby and I want to hold him and pet his hair
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When the Pokemon anime writers bring you back after 18 years and canonise your status as a dual-region champion, just to hand you two on-screen losses in your only matches for a likely permanent 0-2 professional record...
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