I Want to be Loved by a Dog
a/n: hi!!!!! I'll make a proper introduction post later but I wanted to post a set of poems I made during the drive back from Christmas dinner with family. I'll post them separately for archive(?)-purposes. I'm aware they're not the best but like yeah.
Anyways, I hope you like them <3 Tips and comments are appreciated, thank you, happy New Year's Eve!
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I want to be loved by a dog.
And be able to lie down,
Accept the slobber.
But I was raised to crouch,
And think of the bacteria in the saliva.
I extend my hand anyways,
Allow them to trust it
And gently pet their neck.
But I can’t do that.
Avid longing, I let them.
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Stumbled across this post in looking at meta backlogs as it's one of the only times I've talked explicitly about the Dragon Quartet episode structure overlapping with possible CHET-esque structure
Short form structure version is:
Rayla wants to protect a dragon
This means risking herself
Callum isn't fully on board with it / scared about losing her
Rayla protects dragon
And, evolving from 1x03 onwards, Callum protects her (often with increasing risk to himself, and possibly also saving/defending the dragon)
We see this on the battlements with Runaan in 1x03, in 2x07 with Phyrrah, in 3x08 with the Dragon Queen, and in 3x09 with going off the Pinnacle - even arguably in 3x01 as well
There have been times where other characters dip into this structure (namely Ezran in 1x06, though Rayla moves in to be the person to actually save Ezran - and Callum gets points for 100% trying & being willing to do so!) but not to a large degree. For example, all the trio - Callum included - usually want to also protect the dragon, but normally it's them following Rayla's lead at first or her taking a different stance at first. It's her making the primary sacrifice usually, too
This structure is also part of why I think 4x05 when Rayla walks away from a dragon such a shock ("I thought that was something you cared about" "We can't save everyone, Soren")
But what I want to talk more about is how 5x08 completely subverts this structure by:
Callum is the one who is primarily trying to protect a dragon (Domina Profundis)
Like Rayla, he 'walks away' because there is "too much at stake". For Rayla we can assume it's the group's safety / world ("end of the world and all that") given that's how she frames her decision to not actively help her parents in 5x01, but it is an assumption.
Callum walks away, meanwhile, and instead puts Domina potentially at risk because Rayla's life is on the line
It is only a lucky accident (Elmer) that results in Finnegrin's death - though I'm sure either Callum or Rayla would've eventually succeeded in killing him (they both tried, after all)
To be clear, I don't think Callum and Rayla's subversion of the pattern are equal; it's a much bigger and more highlighted change for Rayla as a character, whereas Callum's choice is far more in line with previous seasons.
That said, if the Dragon Quartet (quintant? the dragon six?) is lying dead in a ditch on both sides for them right now at least partially, I do think it shows that the show's cycle is unravelling (and not necessarily in a good way) and reaffirms that they are both likewise struggling to have stable, solid senses of identity
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