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Do you think Clark Kent's first few major articles were about the continued presence of lead pipes in parts of Metropolis' water system

MIKE'S FRIENDS DO NOT HATE HIM! the party all loves each other yet in so many fanfictions I see the others getting annoyed at him easily or being genuinely rude to him. the only ones with that sort of relationship are him and max the others may banter with him but not at the degree shown in so many fanworks!!!!!!

thank you omg. lucas literally encourages and laughs at him in s3 when he's like that (not out of maliciousness lmao lucas just wasn't like oh this is serious to will and also gay) and we know for a fact lucas and dustin don't get pissed off at mike in s2 like... ever!!! will gets annoyed a little bit in s3 but he was defintely worried, overwhelmed, and upset about the rain fight and because he was dealing with so much shit. that's the only time someone genuinely got pissed off with mike for a good reason (wheelclair s1 era was like... not what this applies to lmao). even in s4 when mike was in his angsty teen boy era in ep1, lucas or dustin didn't get pissed like! no one in the show hates mike at all. like no one lmfao not hopper, not jonathan, not the party, not even max. it's like people take the friendship between the party away from mike and will in fanfics and water down their bond, even in scenarios that aren't supposed to be AU's. it's just misinterpretation.

Mad Men doesn't have a significant fandom because aside from the period setting there is almost nothing fantastical about it. No action, limited violence, mystery mostly cleared up within the first season, no overarching love story you're pushed to root for, the rich people use their money to live comfortable, pretty unremarkable lives, most of the action takes place inside on sets we're familiar with. So then what you're left with is the nuance of reality which uh, people don't like, especially when it results in them relating to people they saw do bad things. Obviously in fandom villains and antiheroes are often glorified (and/or blorbofied) but that usually comes with some trappings of separation from our reality.

People wonder why Mad Men never got the treatment Succession is getting. Ostensibly they're extremely similar, but Succession and its constantly changing scenery and helicopters and ease of access to influence over politics are much, much farther away to us than the time period of our parents and grandparents and the people who are our parents and grandparents. When you look at the way people talk about Mad Men characters, they are very afraid to come right out and say they like them. There's usually a justification and disclaimer coming with it that no one feels the need to apply to their enthusiastic comparisons of Tom Wambsgans to Princess Diana. People are afraid that if they just say they love Pete that denotes condoning his actions whereas it's implied you don't condone anything bad the Roy siblings do. And this is not a Pete defense post but he's outspokenly liberal and means it, yet people stay terrified of identifying with him because that might mean they're also capable of hurting people they care about in the fruitless search for finally getting something they really want, all at once. Identifying with the Roys mainly involves sympathizing with their reactions to things that have been done to them while eschewing thoughts of the harm they inflict, because they inflict harm on a scale you could never actually achieve.

As an aside I also think those of us that love Mad Men enough to rewatch and rewatch get hooked on it from the humor which is simply not going to hit for the average viewer, as harsh as that is to say. How often do you hear people who watched it as part of their golden age of television curriculum mention that it's funny? Usually doesn't come up

but it’s SO clear that visenya and rhaenys did 99% of the actual conquering and ruling and aegon was just a convenient man to be king. this is why grrm’s work is so compelling and frustrating in turns—he’s WILDLY aware of how gender and gendered violence in feudalism works, but there’s always just one element of critique missing even though he’s clearly aiming to criticize feudalism. and women keep dying in childbirth! and the princess of dorne is still unnamed! and we know more about tyrion’s missing uncle than minisa whent or joanna lannister combined!

First ever recorded snowball fight (1897)

Happy Holidays And Merry Christmas To All!

Something funny to me about Percy Jackson is the family tree. The greek gods were wild and married and had kids with relatives. It's all pretty fucking incest-y dude. But that makes the demogods related too. Like. Lemme point out a few connections.

Percy - Annabeth: 1st cousins once removed

Percy - Nico: 1st cousins

Percy - Piper: 1st cousins once removed* OR she is his great-great-great-grand aunt/cousin**

Piper - Leo: 1st cousins ALSO could be in a weird kinda stepsibling situation because Aphrodite and Hephaestsus are divorced

Like what's that like??

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Demigod #1: ugh you're a bitch

Demigod #2: I'm your aunt so shut up!!

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Percabeth: making out, living the life, happy for fucking once

New demigod: you're actually cousins. Did you know? You're kissing a family member :D

Percabeth:

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You're some poor guy listening to group of weird fucked up teens and half of them are dating. Then one of them fucking just looks at you and is like

"Technically we're all related you know"

* According to Homer, Aphrodite is Zeus' kid

** Aphrodite is Uranus' kid, who is Zeus' like great-grandfatger, according to Hesiod

I’m finally reading the Accursed Kings series by Maurice Druon, I had not realized it covered the case of Marguerite and Blanche of Burgundy and ummm….. really has forcibly put HoTD back into historical perspective for me.

For those not familiar with it, the daughters-in-law of King Philip the Fair of France, Marguerite (married to the eldest son Louis) and Blanche (married to the youngest son Charles) were both caught having an affair with a pair of brothers. Needless to say, it does not end well for any of the parties involved. The men were flayed, hanged, and beheaded, and the two princesses were imprisoned, with Marguerite being murdered a year later so that her husband could remarry. And her daughter, Jeanne, who would have been the heiress of France, may or may not be a bastard, so is forcibly removed from the line of succession by the invention of Salic law, which dictates that the crown can only pass to men through the male line. (Since Louis who may or may not have been her father died without any male heirs) Unsurprisingly, this causes problems! And partly sparks (among other things) the Hundred Years War between France and England.

Having bastards is serious business with serious consequences for married women. And YES, it is absolutely unfair and ridiculous that men can do it with far fewer consequences, but the show downplayed what those consequences can be. In GoT, the whole starting point is that Cersei has illegitimate children and passed them off as her husbands, and people are killed to keep that secret. Not to mention the humiliating punishment that she has to endure, and she was only being punished for having sex as a widow!!!

My point is that Rhaenyra having bastard children is kinda downplayed in the show, and that this IS a big deal both historically and in universe was glossed over.

Every time Sean Astin makes a statement on whether or not Sam and Frodo were indeed gay for each other in lord of the rings he’s always like “well we have to acknowledge that attitudes around sexuality have changed dramatically over the past several decades and since authorial intent is only up to speculation, the story is open to multiple readings, some of which might have different significances for different groups of people also they kiss on the lips because I said so”

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