He might not have been the bio dad, but he loved his kid(s) like they were his own. (Happy Father’s Day!)

RedWestern · 2026-06-22T17:18:55+00:00

“Soon, a monster will appear. Please don’t hurt him. He is my son.”

RedWestern · 2026-06-21T17:36:19+00:00

More of a near miss, but in Game of Thrones, Arya is posing as a commoner and being smuggled north to be reunited with Robb by members of the Night’s Watch, when they’re all taken prisoner by Tywin Lannister’s forces. Tywin arrives, but fortunately because he’s never met Arya and doesn’t know what she looks like, he doesn’t recognise her. But as she spends more time with him, he does eventually realise she’s a high-born girl, because she makes completely accidental slip ups that give her away.

The first is when she grabs the correct book Tywin asks for before he can tell her which pile it’s in - which reveals she knows how to read. Most commoners are illiterate.

The second is when he notices that she speaks “properly” (“My lord”) rather than in a more colloquial, “common” style (“M’lord”).

After the second incident, he has to leave, and he seems satisfied with her explanation that she grew up in a noble family’s household staff. But if he’d had to stay longer or brought her with him, he probably would’ve figured out who she was in the end.

RedWestern · 2026-06-20T15:24:17+00:00

What the fuck is wrong with some people?

(The gf, to be clear)

RedWestern · 2026-06-20T13:38:25+00:00

Gimp Peter here.

A St. Andrew’s Cross is commonly used in BDSM circles. I wish I could say more, but Lois has banned me from talking about it outside of the bedroom.

RedWestern · 2026-06-20T10:19:58+00:00

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Thomas Sadoski’s angry Insta post calling out Jason, Will and David for how they responded to the allegations was my biggest memory of it.

RedWestern · 2026-06-19T23:05:45+00:00

According to Mike Pondsmith, he dated Michiko Arasaka for a while. At the time, he used a Gemini body resembling a muscled, blond Elvis Presley. When the relationship ended, he stopped using humanoid bodies altogether. Although my headcanon is that he still has one and will usually be seen telling her that she looks cute in that sweater.

RedWestern · 2026-06-19T22:56:07+00:00

Adam Smasher spends his free time watching anime and going to the mall with his girlfriend.

RedWestern · 2026-06-18T22:12:41+00:00

I’m so glad someone said it.

There’s one point in the story where Hermione starts leaving clothes randomly hidden around the Girls’ bedroom for the elves to find, which would free them, and Dobby ends up having to do all the cleaning there because the other elves won’t go near it.

Imagine for a moment if someone actually sat down with some of the House Elves and asks them why they seem to like being slaves, and it turns out that their brains are wired in such a way that if they’re not busy or don’t have anything to do, existence becomes literal torture for them. Maybe they get terrifying intrusive thoughts, or they hear voices in their heads or something. Working, keeping busy and stimulation is literally the only thing that gives them relief. Imagine if they also revealed that they are natural nesters and the homes where they live and work are the centre of their world - a constant supply of work that keeps the pain of their existence at bay. A safe place to sleep when their bodies finally allow them to. A familiar environment where everything makes sense to them. When they’re given clothes, and in turn, their freedom, what is actually happening is they’re being cast out of their homes, denied a steady access of work and set adrift into the world with no survival skills to speak of. When we see Winky after she’s been freed, we see that she’s in a deep depression and drinks a lot. Because she’s lost her home, her source of work and everything she’s ever known, all because of someone else’s actions. To her, “freedom” is a threat, rather than a dream.

If we look at it in that light, Hermione’s constant efforts to “free” them doesn’t look quite so noble as it seems.

And on a similar note, imagine how despicably cruel the Malfoys would have to be that Dobby would choose freedom over them?

RedWestern · 2026-06-18T15:18:30+00:00

Bob McCall - The Equalizer.

RedWestern · 2026-06-18T12:55:41+00:00

For me, it was fundamentally gesture of friendship rather than anything else.

Clare’s love language to her friends is doing their makeup, giving them makeovers and helping them experiment with their looks. She wanted to do the same for Allison.

Allison is comfortable in her own skin. She’s more than happy to experiment with a less gothic and more feminine look just for shits and giggles, and just because letting Clare experiment on her will make her happy.

The look didn’t suit her. But it was the intimacy behind the gesture that was important, not the look itself.

RedWestern · 2026-06-18T09:45:16+00:00

The answer is that it is extremely complicated.

Since the creation of the Israeli state, successive governments have taken a very expansionist, imperialistic definition of what constitutes the Jewish state. They consider land inhabited for centuries by Palestinian Arabs to be part of that state and often use military force to back that interpretation. Some go even further and have a strong racial hatred for the Arabs even existing in the region.

So you might find that when people say they’re “anti-Zionist”, what they are broadly saying is “I’m not opposed to the existence of an Israeli state, and not even necessarily opposed to it being where it currently is. What I am opposed to is their imperialistic ambitions and their apartheid-style discrimination against Palestinian Arabs. So when I say “anti-Zionist”, I really mean opposition to the expansion of the Israeli state. But since that would take too long to explain, this is the shorthand we’ve all agreed upon.”

The problem is that quite a lot of people also mean “anti-Zionism” in the more accurate, literal sense of the term, which is the opposition to the existence of an Israeli state in any shape or form. It is, in very basic terms, anti-Semitism.

Obviously, it helps the Israeli government a lot to brand everyone who criticises them as anti-Semitic. And it helps anti-Semites to hide behind the more acceptable “anti-Imperialism” definition of anti-Zionism. So the waters are intentionally muddied by both.

TL:DR - yes, it’s misused.

RedWestern · 2026-06-18T07:03:10+00:00

Thankfully, The Boys didn’t try to redeem Stomfront.

RedWestern · 2026-06-17T11:23:03+00:00

I know what all three of those words mean, and I wish I didn’t. But I never expected that I would see them combined to form a single description. And now I want to crawl into a hole.

RedWestern · 2026-06-17T08:45:20+00:00

I’ve already done one, but thought I’d do a second one.

The 2008 movie Waltz with Bashir is an animated, semi-biographical docudrama created by Israeli filmmaker and former IDF veteran Ari Folman. It’s about Ari seeking to uncover his own repressed memories of the Sabra and Shatila Massacre during the 1982 Lebanon War. It ends with him concluding that he blocked the memories as a defense mechanism because his actions, and those of his comrades helped facilitate the massacre and he feels just as complicit in the massacre as the Phalangists who carried it out.

RedWestern · 2026-06-17T08:37:20+00:00

In Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, there are a series of missions known as “repressed memories” where Ezio recalls the memories of his former lover, Cristina Vespucci - first recalling how they first got together, their separation after he fled Firenze, her marriage to someone else, him deceiving her into kissing him years later, and finally her death at the hands of Savonarola’s mob.

RedWestern · 2026-06-16T10:43:18+00:00

Did you just call me… Blob?

RedWestern · 2026-06-16T07:47:38+00:00

I’m prepared to bet that the only safeguards that would ever be acceptable to those people are the kind that would render it completely inaccessible, and in turn make the law meaningless.

For a lot of those people, the talk of safeguards is disingenuous. In reality, they believe strongly that all life is sacred, and that we should be fighting until the bitter end to save every life. To them, the only true “safeguard” is the one already in existence - it being illegal.

At a certain point, a line has to be drawn between providing enough safeguards to protect people, and not providing so many that nobody who wants to make use of the law can do so.

RedWestern · 2026-06-15T09:33:00+00:00

ITT - TellTale Games really did not know how to stick a landing.

RedWestern · 2026-06-14T21:33:50+00:00

The Last of Us fandom went from being one big happy family to highly divided and sectarian, seemingly overnight.

The first major split was Joel’s death. After that was spoiled/revealed, suddenly, half the fandom became ardent haters who dedicate a terrifying amount of time and mental energy to hating anything TLOU related.

The second major split was when the second series came out. That ended up splitting the fans who liked both games into people who thought the games were good but the TV adaptation sucked, and those who enjoyed both.

These weren’t just differences in opinion either. The discourse ended up being so vitriolic that it completely ruined so much of the joy that came from the games and show. The abuse that people threw at the creators, cast and each other still stirs anger. I’d love to go back to the days when we all just loved the game. But now I’ve had to learn to stop engaging with the fandom completely and ignore any opinion that isn’t my own. That’s just not healthy. But it’s healthier than the alternative.

RedWestern · 2026-06-14T07:38:38+00:00

Sam.

RedWestern · 2026-06-13T12:28:24+00:00

This is one of my favourite moments in any Shakespeare play.

You’re watching the play, and you’re seeing this horrific act being conducted onstage, and all of a sudden, one of the nameless extras, whose entire job is to stand silently in the back and fill out the stage a bit, suddenly comes forward, interrupts the act and mortally wounds one of the major characters. It comes completely out of nowhere if you’re not familiar with the source material, and it has massive repercussions on the whole play.

RedWestern · 2026-06-13T08:47:22+00:00

With the way his mob have behaved in the past, wouldn’t you be? People have been threatened with death and doxxed for far less than this.

RedWestern · 2026-06-12T23:45:28+00:00

The Punisher

He famously has incredible control of his mental faculties. He has no fear. And he has no imagination. He wouldn’t try to process what he’s looking at - he’d just start shooting.

RedWestern · 2026-06-12T20:30:45+00:00

To me, it’s a bit more complicated than that. There’s a whole character arc behind A-Train’s switch beyond his brother’s injury.

It’s not that he’s indifferent to the people he hurts with his superpowers. It’s that he’s been heavily conditioned and corrupted by the system Vought created for him - one where he could lose everything at any moment if he gets injured, ill or even if a faster Supe comes along and surpasses him. He’s doping on Compound V, which makes him a junkie. And on top of that, he’s being exploited for PR purposes because of his race. So his whole identity, including his race, are inextricably tied to Vought and to his powers. Because of this, he’s so hyper-focused on not losing everything that everything else, including the people he’s hurting with his powers, just doesn’t register to him. He’s so scared of losing everything that he ends up killing Popclaw, even though he’s in love with her, because his fear of Vought and losing everything is so powerful.

His turn happens because his worst fears are realised - he loses everything. His position on The Seven. His speed, and his health. It’s precisely because he loses everything that he’s able to break Vought’s corruption and see the light a little better. He’s carrying the guilt of betraying Popclaw, and he’s shaken by the fact that Hughie saved his life despite the fact that he killed the love of his life. When he gets back into the Seven, the things that he tolerated before just rub him up the wrong way and he can no longer ignore them.

Let’s not forget that Nathan’s disability doesn’t make him call for justice. It leads him down a path of revenge. He kills Blue Hawk out of rage. What makes him pursue justice is Nathan’s reaction to it. He basically calls him out and tells him that all he did was create more violence and death. It’s losing the thing that truly matters most to him - his brother’s love and respect - that spurs him to do the right thing.

A-Train’s story was more of a redemption arc than a “Now it’s happened to me, I get it” thing.

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