Are you all just watching the trailers and combining it with headcanons?
Because at what point did Rhaenyra seem ready for war? When she's asking her husband if he supports her or when she's scolding him with every look? Or when others are reprimanding her for not drawing blood or reminding her not to draw blood?
She seems ready to serve the realm and ascend the throne as strategically as she can. She is extremely similar to Alicent and the way she seems to be trying to keep some semblance of order with Aegon’s ascension and keeping the throne.
I love hating, I really do, but the trailers, even within my explanations, are spliced together and are not linear. Let's just wait and have fun, then we can plot and toil against the writers who weren't on set.
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The Rabbit Story = Who won the scholarship?!
During the video (that is is being filmed by Joke's younger brother, and Pok's secret boyfriend, Jeng!), Zo mentioned that THREE YEARS AGO, the debate team won a competition where the prize was a study aboard scholarship to Finland. In the rabbit story in the very beginning, Zo mentioned the girl rabbit leaving the boy rabbit to go on a journey around the world.
So who is this rabbit story really about?
Option 1 - Wave and Trin (the past)
Wave is Zo's senior. Pat stated Wave adored Zo, so they both expected Wave to easily give into Zo's request, yet Wave was adamant that Joke NOT join the debate team, and it seemed to balance on the fact that Joke is from Public Administration. Also, Wave didn't finish his statement about why Joke wanted to join the club. He said "does he want to join to improve himself or . . ."
Trin is Joke's senior, and he immediately asked if Zo was Wave's mentee.
Then, he told Joke to be wary of them.
Were Trin and Wave close, only for Wave to leave on his study abroad and things fell apart? Did Trin perhaps join the debate team at one point with ulterior motives, and that's why Wave doesn't trust Joke?! Do Trin and Wave see history repeating because they were Zo and Joke?
Option 2 - Nita and Zo (the present)
Because Zo refers to the rabbits by gender, this seems the most obvious. And the debate team is the tribe.
The core group should be juniors, no? They all met during freshmen year. But when did Nita join the debate club? She did it after the recruitment process ended, so did she join her freshman year? And is that why Zo couldn't give Joke an answer of why he joined the club? Because he joined to get closer to Nita! Or was Zo already a member when Nita joined?
Nita was dating Joke, but they broke up.
So did Nita win this scholarship? Did she study abroad, and the rabbit story is obviously about Zo declaring his love for Nita.
Option 3 - Joke and Zo (the future)
Zo hasn't won the scholarship . . . yet.
But he really wants to.
It seems unlikely that Zo won the scholarship their freshman year, but the beginning of the rabbit story where Zo talks about the boy rabbit being stuck in a trap until the girl rabbit rescues him sounds very similar to the reason there was bad blood between Zo and Joke their freshman year - Zo offered himself up in the freshy competition in Joke's place.
Following the rabbit story, Zo is the girl rabbit and Joke is the boy rabbit with his foot stuck in the trap (freshy competition). Joke fell for Zo then, but has been pining after him for years. Now, they will meet again as Joke becomes a member of the tribe (the debate team). However, Zo wants Nita, and I think Zo will get Nita. The rabbit story had the girl rabbit being in a relationship and then breaking up with that person before going on her journey around the world. Will Zo get Nita, win the competition, break up with Nita because his feelings are conflicted, and run away to Finland on the scholarship leaving Joke alone with his feelings?
The trailer showed us that Joke confesses at some point, but is that confession all part of the role-playing that Joke is using as a guise to get closer to Zo?
So . . .
Who is the girl rabbit scholarship winner?
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Hey, I just wanted to thank you for your readthrough of Whipping Girl! You have a lot of excellent commentary on it, and although I've read the book many times myself and recommend it to all the other trans women I'm friends with, it rooted itself so deeply in my mind that I can't always tell when I'm drawing on Serano's argument. You've helped me to see the book in a new light.
thank you right back! It’s an incredible book and I’m learning a lot from it. It’s also a really good book to have productive disagreements with - I’m pretty skeptical of Serano’s conception of social constructions (or “the social” more broadly - basically, the social elements of gender) but that has more to do with the liberal framework of the book and her background as a biologist - every academic believes their field is the key to unlocking all other fields lol. I’m also sensitive to the fact that this is like a foundational text in trans theory and she has to deal with the biological essentialism embedded within virtually all discussions of gender, so i think reading her concessions to biology as charitably as possible is probably the best way to deal with those elements of the book
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