“The Man Who Lies Ill In Bed Sometimes Discovers That What He Is Ill From Is Usually His Office, His

marlena by julie buntin

“Man’s unhappiness, says Descartes, is due to his having first been a child. And indeed the unfortunate choices which most men make can only be explained by the fact that they have taken place on the basis of childhood. The child’s situation is characterized by his finding himself cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish, which has been fashioned without him, and which appears to him as an absolute to which he can only submit. In his eyes, human inventions, words, customs, and values are given facts, as inevitable as the sky and the trees. […] He is allowed to play, to expend his existence freely. In his child’s circle he feels that he can passionately pursue and joyfully attain goals which he has set up for himself. But if he fulfills this experience in all tranquility, it is precisely because the domain open to his subjectivity seems insignificant and puerile in his own eyes. He feels himself happily irresponsible. The real world is that of adults where he is allowed only to respect and obey. […] Rewards, punishments, prizes, words of praise or blame instill in him the conviction that there exist a good and an evil which like a sun and a moon exist as ends in themselves. In his universe of definite and substantial things, beneath the sovereign eyes of grown-up persons, he thinks that he too has being in a definite and substantial way. […] He can do with impunity whatever he likes. He knows that nothing can ever happen through him; everything is already given; his acts engage nothing, not even himself.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

Detail from the painting The Birth of Venus (1912), by Odilon Redon.

Girl Arranging Her Hair (1918-19) by Abbott Handerson Thayer

Seeing stan wars over asoiaf never fails to make me laugh. Why are you putting any of them on a pedestal???

Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon by Claude Lorrain

Ballerina(2023)

Dir. Chung-Hyun Lee

I cannot take seriously any self proclaimed Targ stan who’s “horrified” at the mom and son Alyssa x Daemon scene but wholeheartedly and with their whole chest defend - niece x uncle, nephew x uncle, sister x brother, aunt x niece usually with an absurdly repulsive age gap added into the equation 🙃

Also we already saw weirdo psychosexual subtext in canon - in the weird sexual ownership Jaehaerys felt over Saera and the Alysanne’s mommy knows best dynamic with Baelon. Whatever Maegor & Visenya had going on, like why are we shocked here.

This is extremely on point for House Targaryen and yall are fake freaks.