The Substance (2024)

The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

Can you still hold me tight? I forgot to stop dreaming of you.

"you're no son of mine"

but he has your eyes and wears your face

“They chronically miss each other. Especially her relationship with Aegon.” 😭🔫

"They are the only people who could possibly understand each other, and yet they are completely incapable of it. They chronically miss each other. Especially her relationship with Aegon. They're the only two people who have that relationship with their child in common.

They’re the two people who could make each other feel better, and they can’t. In an ideal world, I’d like to think there is some coming together over this shared grief, but I think they’re all too wrapped up in the blame they have themselves."

— Phia Saban about Helaena's relationship with Aegon for Vulture

you like knives during sex???wow that’s so weird???????? what wrong with you???? how can you like that??? you’re sick……what’s your number??? your address???

no one can never make me like viserys and the team black in general

I was thinking once again about how Viserys was a terrible father with obvious favoritism even in the worst cases. Aemond had lost an eye and he didn't care about the life of his legitimate son.

We also need to contextualize and Aemond suffered more than in a modern context with advanced medicine. There was a lack of hygiene, the concept of sterilization didn't exist. In fact, the instruments were not disinfected for the operations adequately and so bacteria could proliferate. Rudimentary methods were used and herbs and substances were taken that hardly alleviated the pain.

There were no painkillers, anesthetics. You had to suffer.

Furthermore, there were no antibiotics and bacterial infections could easily spread and be lethal. Precisely in reference to this, sepsis is an inflammatory response of the organism that can also lead to death. Sepsis was lethal in the Middle Ages. There was no vaccine against tetanus (so the blade that had wounded Aemond could also cause a lethal wound for this reason).

After the previous premise, Aemond could lose not only an eye, but also his life if his body reacted badly and due to gangrene or sepsis. If the infection spread, death was almost certain. That day Viserys, instead of caring about his son, treated him like the worst of beasts without feeling a minimum of empathy for him. He did not treat him as a son, blood of his blood. He even questioned him, while Aemond was in shock, asking to answer to him as his king and exercising his power over his son as a sovereign even in such a difficult time for him. So not only did he not punish anyone and did not say anything, but he blamed Aemond almost as if it was something he should not care about in the slightest. The missing eye, the life of Aemond were the last thing on his mind.

oh sweet xavier. getting the good ol’ steve harrington treatment. worst most hatable character ever to loveable pathetic loser in a matter of episodes