faith and trust and pixie dust

youcantcancelquidditch: the assassination of franz ferdinand was actually the most hilariously...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:59:48 +0200

the assassination of franz ferdinand was actually the most hilariously botched assassination attempt of all time though like i can’t even explain to you how badly it went i mean there were six guys and the first one chickened out and the second one forgot to factor in the delay on a hand grenade so it exploded like three cars past the archduke’s so the guy took a cyanide pill and threw himself into a river, but the cyanide was expired and the river was six inches deep so the police just pulled him out and took him off to jail and then everyone else basically gave up and headed home, and then the driver of the archduke took a wrong turn and the car stalled next to the last of the six guys, and he was just like “what a crazy random happenstance” and started world war one

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And the drums went…

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And the drums went…

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on expectations, and why i don't ship jorah and daenerys

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:40:23 +0200

catelyntullystarks:

targaryenviserys:

the basic premise for daenerys and jorah as a romantic pairing is one that’s been used in a lot of fiction - a man uses his relationship/closeness with a woman for material gain but ends up falling in love with her. he either admits to this (along with his love) or is found out, and in almost every case the woman forgives him and reciprocates his feelings. there might be a moment of tension where she’s upset (“how could you!”) but in the end, she comes around. examples off the top of my head include my fair lady, she’s all that (boy i just dated myself, and yes i know it’s basically an au of the first), and anastasia.

a similar formula is followed for the setup of jorah and daenerys: jorah, exiled from his home, seeks to use his proximity to daenerys to win favor from king robert and increase his chances of being allowed back. he sends the small council reports on her movements and doings while he travels with her khalasar and gains her trust. eventually he stops sending the reports, falls in love with dany, and is later exposed as a traitor.

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#there’s also the fact that he manipulates a 13 year old girl into thinking she should trust him when she 100% should not #and makes himself ~indisposible to her #and then uses that to make her feel guilty for not wanting to have sex with him #AND SHE’S THIRTEEN

michaelpalin: jesus what happened did someone lose the throne games

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:21:22 +0200

michaelpalin:

jesus what happened did someone lose the throne games

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spatialsoloist: It amazes me that I can accurately type at top speed without looking at my keyboard...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 15:40:26 +0200

spatialsoloist:

It amazes me that I can accurately type at top speed without looking at my keyboard but still pour water down my shirt ‘cause I missed my mouth in general.

auroradearie: We all remember the bedtime stories of our...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:55:29 +0200

auroradearie:

We all remember the bedtime stories of our childhoods. The shoe fits Cinderella. The frog turns into a prince. Sleeping Beauty is awakened with a kiss. Once upon a time. And then they lived happily every after. Fairy tales. The stuff of dreams. The problem is, fairy tales don’t come true.

It’s the other stories. The ones that begin with dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. It’s the nightmares that always seem to become reality.

I'm sorry, but can someone explain to me how Talisa is a stereotype, and explain without making yourself look like a sexist or racist jerk.

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:48:47 +0200

tumblrofthrones:

talisamaegyrstark:

K, thanks.

Alright, since you keep posting about it. The problems with Talisa have been much discussed by the fandom. I don’t loathe Talisa, but she is a problematic character, because she is a cliche, and A Song of Ice and Fire is very much about subverting the usual boring cliches we see in fantasy stories.

Talisa is the plucky nurse who randomly challenges the king and intrigues him. She’s immediately set up to be “not like the other girls!” and therefore somehow better than them because she was not content to sit home in Volantis. So she has this life-changing experience where a slave saves her brother, and she decides to not help slaves in her native Volantis, a major slave city, but to go off to Westeros, which does not have any slaves. So she can help random wounded people. Why didn’t she just help people in Volantis, like the slaves? It makes no sense. It’s just a dumb story.

Also, Westeros is an incredibly violent continent and it is never explained how a young female noblewoman with zero fighting skills and apparently lacking the support of her family in this endeavor managed to get safely from Volantis (very far away- another continent), and is traveling Westeros’ killing grounds without any help.Sure, she can buy passage on a ship, but traveling around unescorted? Look how well that’s worked out for Arya, Brienne, Jaime, etc. Again, no sense.

The books establish that characters like Arya and Brienne are risking great danger by traveling alone, as females, because rape and murder usually awaits solo females in Westeros. It’s a sexist and violent society, and those two particular women adopt masculine clothing and have learned fighting skills to survive. Arya passes herself as a male much of the time. So Talisa stretches our belief incredibly because everything about her violates what we know of the struggles women in Westeros have to work against.

In the books, Jeyne Westerling is a simple young woman that we don’t know much about. She seems like a nice girl, who loves her husband. Maybe she has a stubborn streak, and some spirit to resist her mother sometimes. Seems that way, but we’re learning. But the story with her and Robb was much more believable. In trying to craft an onscreen love story for Robb Stark, Benioff and Weiss created a cliche-ridden mass of plot holes that includes the bundle of tropes that Martin has always been so good at subverting.

Oona Chaplin is a talented actress. I was extremely excited about her casting, and I hate that she got stuck with a lame plot. I don’t like it when people extend their dislike of Talisa to her, and anyone who complains about Oona not looking right for the part because she’s Latina or however they couch their phrasing is indeed racist. But I haven’t seen those complaints on tumblr- just on other sites that will remain nameless.

In trying to create a feisty modern-seeming character, they created a mess that just didn’t fit in with Martin’s world. It didn’t help that they also botched Robb this season and had him treating Catelyn poorly. It didn’t make me invested in the love story. Again, not Richard Madden’s fault. He’s gorgeous and talented, and I loved the Robb/Cat dynamic in season 1.

There are plenty of reasons to dislike the creation of Talisa that aren’t sexist or racist. The very creation of Talisa suggests that a simple lady like Jeyne, who is happy to stay at home, to be a more domestic type, and be a queen was not interesting for Benioff and Weiss. And to me, that is sexist of them.

doctorwho: “It’s been an honour to … helm the TARDIS for a...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:44:06 +0200

doctorwho:

“It’s been an honour to … helm the TARDIS for a spell with the ginger, the nose, and the impossible one.” - Matt Smith

In case you missed Saturday’s news, The BBC has announced that Matt Smith is to leave Doctor Who after four years on the show.

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turtle-ambulance: fun fact: “nolo” is latin for “do not want” so if someone says yolo you can say...

Fri, 31 May 2013 18:01:20 +0200

turtle-ambulance:

fun fact: “nolo” is latin for “do not want” so if someone says yolo you can say nolo and they’ll think its just a stupid comeback but in all actuality you’re speaking latin which is classy as shit so haha the jokes on them

Skins season 7 stills.

Fri, 31 May 2013 18:00:47 +0200

Skins season 7 stills.

Sophie Turner for 1883 Magazine (June 2013)

Fri, 31 May 2013 17:57:55 +0200

Sophie Turner for 1883 Magazine (June 2013)