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“one long hand was palm up on the blankets between us, as if in offering, or beseeching something of me. i reached over and set my hand in his. he did not seem to wake. strangely, i felt at peace.”

EWAN MITCHELL as AEMOND TARGARYEN in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-) s2e8 "The Queen Who Ever Was"

Targtowers 💚💛

inspired by Triple Profile Portrait by Lucas de Heere

What even is a Draco in Leather Pants?

Look, I really like the Television Tropes website. It’s fun and you can spend a lot of time reading it. The tropes it has formulated are, for the most part, the tropes you can actually discern and find quite often in fictional works, and the descriptions are usually quite witty and well supported. The examples and their justifications can be…questionable, since anyone can provide them, and may lead to a debate between contributors (i.e. anyone who has bothered to register and post), but still, usually the majority of examples make sense and more or less fit with the description provided at the top of the page. 

But not always.

There’s supposed to be a trope called Draco in Leather Pants, which I had been vaguely aware for a while (basically, that it had something to do with people in the Harry Potter fandom stanning the character of Draco Malfoy and thinking he’s hot), and have been recently reminded because I’ve recently seen at least a couple of mentions of “leather pantsing”in various comments in fandom discussions, or links to the Television Trope page for said trope (for instance, a link to that page was provided in a page of a podcast about Jaime Lannister… who isn’t even among the examples listed on that page, BTW). So, it seems that this is supposed to be an actual trope and that people know what it’s supposed to be about.

Well, since I’ve actually looked at the above mentioned page, read the description and looked through the list of examples from various media given on that page, I understand even less what it’s supposed to be about. If anyone has a better understanding of it, please help me.

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Leo Ashton & Ewan Mitchell as AEMOND TARGARYEN | parallels

4/13/25

Dialectical Materialism-

https://youtu.be/bGPSKZgFH70?si=kYXafU_gjLnoz4Ca

Materialism: hard reality/ material conditions shape our ideas/ human thought

Idealism: our ideas (religion, culture) shape our material conditions

Philosophical debates center on which shapes the other; the material or the ideal?

Dialectics: dialogue, interaction; Hegel believed idealism comes first, but he understood back and forth relationship between ideal and material

Historical materialism: applying dialectical materialism to our understanding of history; how do hard economic realities shape how people thinks; and how do the ways we think impact how our economic realities

Marx subscribed to dialectical materialism; he believed material conditions were the primary shaper between itself and ideas, but he differentiated this from mechanical materialism; ideas still shape material conditions, but ideas are primarily shaped rather than shaper; it’s a dialectical relationship

Sarah Snook for The New York Times Style Magazine Australia Feb 2024 💙