OMFG so yk or not tht i hvent really been using my mood/symptom tracker which is also where i track my cycles so ik when pmdd is averaged to start etc. well friday remember how i was suddenly irritable i was also so fucking horny n then this morning the brain screams n restlessness n i also realized oh ouch my boobs hurt n these coincidences are playing in my head but i'm like it can't be pmdd yet bc like idk i thought it was starting like the 14th n i kept thinking oh my period only ended last sun so i'm fine i hv another week forgetting tht if it ends at 7 days n 7 days hv past it's day 14 so it's pmdd again n like so i finally opened my tracker and it IS pmdd again and i just lmao ok like there is no doubt tht i hv pmdd i mean i think i stopped doubting a while ago but it's pretty certain now it's not just a all in my head thing bc i was literally not even aware it was starting i was preparing for later this month but all the symptoms are there n sigh yh i feel depressed already as it is but also it's just the constant repetitive realization that yh i do hv pmdd n there's nothing i can do abt tht n i'm not even as 'lucky' as other who only hv hell for like 7 days literally like clockwork once i ovulate which with my luck doesn't even always exactly occur on day 14 but b4 my mood changes n sigh i can't do this. every. single. month. for the rest of my life bye
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The more I think about the choking scene the more I think it fits and is a really great deconstruction of daemon and rhaenyra's relationship... Some people have problems w it I think because they see it as daemon demonstrating his power over her and rhaenyra being a passive character but I think it's the exact opposite? Idk if this is what the writers were intending (obviously there's the indication of daemon's character- love cannot change a man's nature) but I see it as an enforcement of rhaenyra's power over him. I think what really makes it is rhaenyra's smile after daemon releases her and she realizes viserys never told him about the prophecy- the quiet triumph as she realizes she was always the first choice. Daemon may be physically more powerful, but she is (to viserys, the only person whose opinion and love matters to both of them) the prophetic savior, the heir always meant to follow him on the throne. She is aegon and he is visenya: she is the leader and he is the follower. She is the king, and he is the consort. And there's power in that! There's power, for her, in knowing that even if he has the ability to hurt her, if his anger provokes him to violence, she's still the one in control. He may be the sword, but she's the one wielding it. She smiles to herself because she was trusted in a way he never was- the crown is hers in a way it never would be his, and they both know it. rhaenyra knows she's the favorite, and is the only one who can sit the iron throne (would their bannermen support them if it was a quest to sit daemon on the throne? Doubt it) and daemon knows it too- his hands may be around her throat, but he's on one knee for her, making her queen above him. He's nothing without her- not the prince consort, not a general. Just a violent, chaotic nuisance, the beast under the boards that house targaryen keeps locked away to keep pretending they aren't built on blood. He needs rhaenyra to have real, concrete power- he needs her to be able to face himself in the mirror. Their marriage makes him nearly king, and their connection, their targaryen heritage evident in every interaction, makes him human. Daemon has his hand around her throat and rhaenyra smiles because she's the one in control- because he could no sooner kill her than kill himself, and they both fucking know it.
It's also interesting when compared to the rest of their scenes in the episode- before this scene, you have daemon acting out, arguing with her in public, insulting her decisions, generally making a scene and disrupting their marriage. And then after it, there's just the scene of daemon telling her of Luke's death which is... Completely different in tone. There's no sound obviously but you have daemon offering comforting words, holding hands as he delivers the news, the two of them turning toward the fire in unison, in harmony together again. That scene is the breaking point in realizing, finally, where they stand with each other. The power dynamic has been shaken up, rewritten. And. Well. we know who the prince consort is, and who the queen.
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I haven’t read the book so I can’t say but something that struck me in James Ivory’s 1987 Maurice is the fact that Maurice & Alec’s relationship is started by Maurice unknowingly sending a signal to Alec, which Alec largely misinterprets, but it works out anyways, and much later at the end, when they meet at the boathouse, Alec goes “did you get my wire” and Maurice goes “what” because again he completely missed that signal but it doesn’t matter because he’s here anyways. And it’s like. There were a million mistakes to make and a million mistakes they made, but somehow, they find their way to each other, almost unwittingly. Maurice says “It’s a chance in a thousand we met” but I don’t think that’s true. I think it was always going to be like this, in every world they would have found each other. It’s the way they fall into each other’s arms so easily and they try to get away from each other but they can’t and they’re separated by so much but they still collide... This story is SCREAMING at us that no matter how impossible it is no matter how alone and repressed you feel you mustn’t lose hope because your love will find you and you can’t avoid it! You will be happy!
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LOOK WHAT I FOUND
so naturally this happened
and while I was on this train after what FEELS like a while, I decided it's time I explore more of my version of Dadbastian
Dadbastian is not at all cruel(to the phantomfam mhmm), but being that he is in the end a demon being introduced to human emotions, and has not read The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, I imagine that he can at times still come off as toxic... so, sorry. but, I thought it was a good step of growth that I wanted to shine light on.
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