Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
1d ago
The king/royal family would do royal processions every few years, touring the kingdoms and bringing the dragons with them to show off. During the targaryan golden age, if you lived in anywhere slightly significant, like Maidenpool or wherever, you probably saw a dragon once, that time the royal processions came through when you were 5.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
This sounds like a cat trying to talk about this red-dot-shaped bug that moved impossibly fast even for a bug, could not be caught with a paw, then vanished mysteriously.
Skulldrinker
2d ago
I'm pretty sure it wasn't a secret, the death of any dragon is a big event, the critters are famous and the targs show them off as part of pageantry.
Apparently as time went on, the dragons got stunted and deformed and unimpressive until the last one hatched was the size of a dog.
Skulldrinker
2d ago
One thing those articles never engage with is Westeros' seasonal weirdness; summers last a long-ass time and outside of the North winter doesn't seem that bad, that changes a lot of assumptions about agriculture. Everything in Westeros is on a larger scale and has that classic fantasy "thousands of years" timescale for its civilizations. The seven kingdoms have history that goes back further than the roman empire; when Europe was full of dudes who painted themselves blue, they were building castles n shit. That's a lot of time spent in the steel age, even with fantasy medieval stasis in effect. I can believe they have better metallurgy/materials technology and architectural knowledge than the IRL middle ages did, and we as readers don't hear about it because none of our viewpoint characters are architects.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
I'd be interested to know if adherents of gender ideology agree that it's transphobic for a straight man (or a lesbian woman) to categorically rule out dating an individual who would traditionally be thought of as a man but is of the female gender.
I'm pretty sure they do think that. Or at least that's what I've seen ostensibly-straight gender-ideology-adherent women posting angrily about on social media.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
One of the dumbest things I've encountered IRL was a petite, plain-at-worst FtM complaining that gay guys didn't want to fuck him.
So, you want to fuck people with dicks. And you have a vagina. But, instead of dating one of the numerously eager people who like vaginas and have dicks, the dick that fucks you HAS to like dicks, which despite your grooming and manner of dress, you do not have. And instead of compromising on your rather esoteric preference, you choose to waste everyone's time with this woe-is-me bit. Also, I suspect you only have this preference for dicks-that-like-dicks because, despite being heterosexual, you've been conditioned by external influences to think dicks-that-like-vaginas are bad. And no one is allowed to tell you that your desires and how you go about seeking to satisfy them are back-asswards.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
Even to the point where a another person's sexual preferences should go to the gender, not the sex, of a potential romantic partner.
I'm pretty sure you're not entitled to anyone else's sexual desire. I remember being told this by Social Justice during the NiceguyTM era of dating discourse.
This is also the crux of why I find gender ideology so dementedly self-centered; your gender is ultimately only truly relevant when it comes to who you want to fuck and who wants to fuck you, which is a basic drive of being human. If you're ugly enough that a very narrow band of people will fuck you, that sucks. If you groom yourself weird, act/dress weird, and mutilate your body into something weird that an even narrower band of people want to fuck, that's a self-own. You don't get to shame and berate people for their sexual preferences because you made yourself less attractive to 99% of human beings, who's sexual preferences are tuned towards finding a fertile mate that they can produce offspring with.
Skulldrinker
8d ago
Why are you expecting me to watch Brokeback Mountain as a media literacy test?
I was at Chicago's Navy Pier the other day and the theater there was showing ads for a play of Brokeback Mountain.
Skulldrinker
8d ago
Yeah, that little dig sticks out as being the most narrative-over-reality. I distinctly remember Trans being pushed as the new demanded-empathy super-stimulus that every BPD person I knew was torn up about way back in 2012. Back then it wasn't even about encouraging people to be trans, it was "LOOK at these POOR people TRAPPED in the WRONG body" with much beating of chests and tearing at shawls in sympathy.
It's amazing how you can bootstrap a social movement by this method; suddenly every alt girl reacted to the R-word or mis-pronoun-ing the way a 20something beardy arab guy reacts to disrespect towards the Prophet, or an Italian guy reacts to something said about his mother by someone who has never met his mother.
It's not bad as sci-fi, but I find the prose itself a bit uninspired, and the film is a much better film than the book is a book.
Blindsight is also a first contact story that's superficially similar in premise, but much beaker and more pessimistic, and the prose is a lot purple-er.
Tchaikovsky is someone I have a hard time liking for some reason, but I have to respect his hustle. Service Model felt like a drawn-out joke, but a good joke. Alien Clay was interesting until it got all ineffable and commie, and I found the villainous regime to be a bit cartoonish. Made Things was cute.
She's a maskie. If you don't think that's bizarre and off-putting, you spend too much time among urban leftist queers.
Skulldrinker
16d ago
Not to pooh-pooh, but I found the series took a dive around/shortly after Ghost Story, or it's possible I just aged out of the books. They're romantasy for lonely dudes (but still way better than the romantasy for women, as far as I can tell secondhand)
Skulldrinker
18d ago
If anything, I was impressed with the restraint of the film itself. It could have dropped a lot more extraneous details or references to modern gender dating war cliches from one side or the other. My impression was one of the writer expressing his commentary, regrets and self-loathing regarding his younger-self stand-in MC. Other negative depictions of men just pile on buzzword stereotypes ("and then the tech-bro situation-shipped her due to his toxic insecurity and red-pill-negged her, something-something-agency, something-something narcissism, podcast")
Skulldrinker
18d ago
You're doing that thing that leftists do right now.
Skulldrinker
18d ago
It viscerally captured a bunch of feelings and experiences that I haven't seen portrayed before. Took me straight back to my 20s in a not great way. The worry that the person who says they love you is just mentally ill and loving you is a symptom of their mental illness.
Also loved seeing The Simpsons references.
Skulldrinker
19d ago
This might be an example of the classic Little England attitude; they're all from foreign parts.
Skulldrinker
23d ago
Dang, you beat me to the Noticing
Skulldrinker
23d ago
Waaaaait a minute...isn't this just courtesans all over again?
Skulldrinker
24d ago
Yeah. But, well, Influencers.
Skulldrinker
24d ago
Tankie left will selectively use the language of the Mental Health Left when it suits them, to cover or to pander.
Skulldrinker
24d ago
Yeah, you just don't mention it again and everyone assumes it was a miscarriage and you don't want to discuss it. But yes, Influencers are obnoxious, I know.
Skulldrinker
24d ago
Maybe aborting your downs-y fetus is something you should do in private. This is intentionally trying to court controversy.
Skulldrinker
28d ago
Instead of "white people being disfavored," maybe "shitty people who happen to be People of Color will take advantage of the special protections afforded to them to victimize others or avoid consequences. They know that if they say 'Racism' people like those cops or you will immediately jump to their defense. So maybe be slightly less credulous when someone cries wolf/racism." might be more convincing?
Skulldrinker
28d ago
Is the video taken by the victim available anywhere? All I see is bodycam footage. Or the videos taken by the perp where he says the stabbed guy isn't stabbed?
Get off the internet and learn to have a disgust reaction whenever someone IRL brings the internet into RL.
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