Nobody wants to marry me 😔

Why are people so judgmental about culinary preferences!!!

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I'm a Crusader Kings 2 truther but the #AGOT mod got me finally playing my copy of #CrusaderKings3

I wanted to be a Green in the Dance but then this lady won my heart

How could I resist being a sadistic lunatic cannibal witch WITH BATS at Harrenhal

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Colorful doodle for today's #DrawAFlowerADay

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#PoetsOfTheFall released a new song and I still love them

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Jiang Cheng illustration

Gorgeous Twin Prides of Yunmeng illustrations from #mdzs donghua x Nanmanshe for the upcoming series《灵泣》 😍❤️💜

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🔥The Fire Lord 🔥

I feel this 😭

Having to work with tools you don't know while under the pressure to provide professional speed and consistent quality is incredibly stressful, even just doing it for a day

And he does that constantly, with ever-new dishes!

I love watching Kitchen Impossible, which is a show where pro chefs have to cook dishes unfamiliar to them or figure out by trial & error an unknown cooking procedure, often with ingredients they don't know, or use equipment that they weren't trained on

It regularly leads to breakdowns and tears

dishes for the tastes of an audience that is used to different tastes, different intensity of flavors, different textures

That takes a lot of skill!

Most of us would already despair at learning to use a wood stove so consistently we can make a living cooking on it

kitchen, or simply not being able to get certain ingredients, you also won't get ingredients that are available in the (pre-processed, easy to store, easy to use) way that is the only one you have ever worked with

And then once you have mastered all these problems, you have to adjust your modern

Being a modern-trained cook and then adjusting to professionally cooking modern-day dishes with different ingredients AND different equipment just by figuring it out for yourself, that's no mean feat

It's not just doing without basically all the tools you would be used to having in a restaurant

Continue to love this show and this family!

They're all so cute and loveable

While I was cooking, I was thinking about Shen Dad getting teased for declaring himself the best chef when he is just cooking regular modern dishes. Rightfully so since he can be insufferably smug!

But!

He's not wrong!

you rise with the moon, I rise with the sun #zutara

#zutara 💦💖🔥

Even if you stick only to the "safe" CGI feast, that is still a political message by refusing to engage with the political message

You can't really have these debates without real-world implications, they all hit too close to home and real situations that they are allegories for

I just don't trust this not to turn into a giant mess, or to attract the most terrible people

Idk

Wouldn't have Valyrian steel

Their empire had both the greatest splendor and technological advancement and the greatest suffering

Both is real. Both is part of that history.

And that's not even getting into the morality of the Conquest itself, which fandom is already deeply divided on

Anything related to Old Valyria is just SUCH a loaded topic

That they were the most advanced empire of the world, almost mythical, yet all this glamour was built on the backs of conquest, of slavery

Without their entire mining industry carried by slaves intentionally worked to death there, we

The wigs are cheap and the plot is soap opera

So it feels like higher stakes for failure while I feel like the best to realistically except is a CGI feast (with hot babes)

Valyria cool cuz they have dragons to enforce their will onto others and men get to have many wives, and they used to basically rule the world

Idk idk

I just have mixed feelings about this

If it gets handled badly, there is far higher risk of badly in a IRL offensive way than just badly as in

Aegon from the background texts actually has very little in common with what the official art makes him seem like

He conquered by usual might makes right

But then did not proceed as you would expect a Valyrian to do, he didn't follow their playbook at all

But I expect a movie will reduce it to

That the man behind Andor will be in charge gives me some hope, but I just can't see the studio wanting anything beyond cool dragons blowing fire while manly man and his harem of hot babes conquer

Which would be such a waste of this story

Aegon is an incredibly interesting character and the

I worry what kind of crowd it will attract, and what that will do to the already poisonous fandom

But also about the movie itself, though there it's more lost opportunities

With it being just a movie, I expect it will be more of a superficial CGI battles feast than anything with a lot of plot

Looks like plans for the Aegon the Conqueror movie are solidifying and I have such mixed feelings about it

Aegon's Conquest could be an amazing topic to explore, but it's such a difficult one to handle tastefully - especially in the current political climate

The irony lies in the fact that history keeps repeating, just with different definitions of what "free for grabs" means for different groups of people

Is it not populated by humans?

Not populated by people of the Faith?

Do not have dragons to enforce self-rule?

the logic behind it is the same

Depicting First Men vs Andals vs Targaryens as native vs colonizers misses the point

It's an eternal cycle of violence between colonizers who all come to Westeros with the same attitude of claiming land for themselves that they consider free for grabs according to their world view

That just speaks of how thoroughly they did their job

First Men colonialism was actually even far more bloody and genocidal than Andal colonialism, if you insist on comparing such things

It's just that after several waves of new colonial masters, there is so little left of the native population that it *looks* as if the first colonists are the natives

I love fics about the North and the Starks as much as anyone in #GoT fandom, but I have a pet peeve

North fans tend towards depicting the First Men as the native population of Westeros, who were persecuted and forced back into the North by the Andals

They are not

They are the first colonizers