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This is better than any ATLA live action remake we could ever hope for
I can't stop laughing!
i like when fiction treats love as a more complicated force and not something that is inherently pure or redemptive. portray it as flawed and complex as any other human impulse. give me love as prejudice, love as possessive stasis, love as addiction, love as blindness, etc.
at that, i find it disingenuous to frame it as “if the person hurt you they could not have loved you. that is not love.” just not a productive definition of the word to me
the love was there and it fucked us 🙏
in the world where the dothraki are written well doreah and jhiqui are sansa and arya parallels, irri is a robb parallel, the bloodriders foil the kingsguard (genuinely loyal to dany but willing to call her out on stupid shit), jhogo basically gets show!jorah's arc of being hopelessly in love with and devoted to dany, and rakharo and aggo are a Comedic Duo like pyp and grenn except they band together to mercilessly make fun of jhogo's downbadisms. my mind palace
easy to forget but book jon snow is great actually. he gets so drunk he cries in his first chapter. he's 16 years old and laser focused on loan negotiation. he keeps getting promoted against his will. he's the chosen fantasy protagonist with the worst genre awareness ever. he implements pro immigration social reforms. he has a giant albino pet wolf. he cuts a guy's head off. he thinks he invented cunnilingus. he's been dead for 15 years.
my life isnt perfect but at least im not doing a mans laundry
I feel personally attacked
I am not taking a risk
Not risking it pals
U know what I want potato of luck
Damn right I’m reblogging. See previous post re wrath of whatever from high atop the thing.
potato I will never ask you for anything else in my lifetime please potato for fuck's sake
Forgotten Arya & Egg parallel wip
reading asoiaf is not enough i need to be inside brienne’s head to know literally every little useless detail about her.
I think strange horrible things should stop befalling my friends
I think strange wonderful things should start befalling my friends
rb to give prev strange wonderful things
one of my favorite aspects of jon’s relationship with ygritte is how he’s essentially playing the traditional role of a woman (just like robb does). ygritte is incessant in her sexual advances despite jon’s repeated refusals, he lives in genuine fear of her anger/suspicion if he openly rejects her, he’s finally worn down when he realizes that he has two choices: he can either have sex with her or be ousted from free folk society/executed for being a traitor. give her what she wants or suffer the consequences (think of what ned tells arya about the consequences of refusing to do her duty as a woman, his not-so-subtle warning that she could end up like lyanna “beautiful, and willful, and dead before her time”). and the whole time jon is being told that it’s his own fault for “stealing” ygritte, despite him obviously having no way to understand that aspect of her culture. he’s a woman, and women are seductresses, they tempt men into sin, they “ask for it” (the irony is that he’s closer to being the rose of winterfell than he is to being bael the bard).
but then when jon DOES finally give in to ygritte’s advances, she teases him for being a “maid”, which he counters with “I was a man of the Night’s Watch” (he was a man. is he still a man? who is he if not a man?). of course the question is, how is jon supposed to have had any experience with sex if he took vows of celibacy under penalty of death at the age of 15? (“No one had ever told Jon just what lords did with their ladies”). how are women expected to get married, have sex, and undergo pregnancy/childbirth when no one ever prepares them for what that means? (see: sansa’s entire storyline). jon did his duty by not asking questions, but he’s still laughed at/emasculated for not knowing the answers. so jon tries to convince himself that it’s all going according to plan (“I had to make her trust me”) and that he actually holds the power in their relationship, despite being keenly aware of how little choice he has (“If I refuse her, she will know me for a turncloak”). but the power clearly lies with ygritte to spare his life, to accept him as one of the free folk, to teach him about sexual pleasure based on her own experiences as an older woman (“Ygritte had been his teacher”) while constantly reminding him that she holds all of the knowledge that he needs (“You know nothing, Jon Snow, but I can show you”). by westerosi standards, jon is her wife. the only time that he actually takes her by surprise is when he performs oral sex on her, which is both the complete centering of female pleasure (finally!) and another instance of jon playing the woman who “gives” pleasure to ygritte.
and ALL of this is happening while jon is simultaneously learning what it means to be a woman who doesn’t fit into a song (via gender inversion with ygritte and his time among the spearwives and other free folk women). he’s playing the part of the “ideal” westerosi woman while being surrounded by women who refuse to conform to that mold, but who are clearly still existing within a different brand of misogyny (based on what we know about the free folk tradition of “stealing” women and even ygritte’s complete unfamiliarity with oral sex being performed on women). so if jon is a woman by westeroi standards, what is he by free folk standards? can he still be a man with ygritte? will he still be a man when he climbs back over the wall?
of course the difference is that jon is not in fact a woman, so when he gets the chance he can simply escape back to the safety of the all-male order of the night’s watch where ygritte (the “man”) can’t follow him. and when she dares to try, a fellow man kills her and leaves jon to hold her as she dies…before jon regains his power as a man and ascends to the role of lord commander. it’s also notable that what permanently “taints” him is not really the fact that he had sex despite his vows, but that he did so with a free folk woman (the “other”, the “unnatural”, the feminine).
but jon STILL can’t win! maybe he’s still a woman after all. he does everything that he’s supposed to do (“I am playing the part the Halfhand told me to play”), but he’s punished for it anyway. he’s a brother of the night’s watch so he must be celibate, but he’s a brother of the night’s watch so he must maintain his cover and have sex with ygritte. there’s no way out for him, no right answer: if you’re not really a wildling, why did you sleep with her? are you saying that you didn’t want it? are you saying that you didn’t enjoy it? are you saying that you’re not disgusting and traitorous and deserving of death? and 16 year old jon simply doesn’t have the words to articulate that no, he didn’t want it. but he did enjoy it. but she forced him. but he loved her. but he did as he was told. but he no longer believes in everything that he was told. but he had no choice. but he made a choice. but it wasn’t right. but all of these feelings can coexist together, can’t they? can’t they ?? not when you’re a woman, jon!
brienne deserves better than jaime is the funniest argument ever ok well she doesn't want better she wants the sisterfucker twice her age whose diaper she changed and if you don't like it take it up with god and george rr martin 🤷
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arya’s defense of mycah and her confrontation with joffrey gets me every time. how that chapter features the casual dehumanization of the “common” people during the lead up to the event, attitudes that are so prevalent and socially-acceptable that they’ve already been ingrained into eleven-year-old sansa’s head:
Sansa knew all about the sorts of people Arya liked to talk to: squires and grooms and serving girls, old men and naked children, rough-spoken free riders of uncertain birth. Arya would make friends with anybody.
This Mycah was the worst; a butcher’s boy, thirteen and wild, he slept in the meat wagon and smelled of the slaughtering block. Just the sight of him was enough to make Sansa feel sick, but Arya seemed to prefer his company to hers.
. . .
Sansa could never understand how two sisters, born only two years apart, could be so different. It would have been easier if Arya had been a bastard, like their half brother Jon . . . And Jon’s mother had been common, or so people whispered.
. . .
. . . and when they grew hungry, Joffrey found a holdfast by its smoke and told them to fetch food and wine for their prince and his lady.
(AGOT, Sansa I)
and this all culminates in joffrey toying with/hurting mycah just because he’s bored and drunk and he can, while mycah is forced to stand there “trembling” because he’s expected to put up with every violent whim of a prince (even as sansa notes that joffrey’s “commanding tone [] took no notice of the fact that the other was a year his senior”).
contrast that with how arya puts her ENTIRE body into defending mycah, this skinny little girl mustering all of her strength to protect her friend with nothing but a stick against a steel sword. it’s a passionate act in defense of a fellow human being, an act that most of the other characters would only ever reserve for a fellow highborn:
Arya went for him.
Sansa slid off her mare, but she was too slow. Arya swung with both hands. There was a loud crack as the wood split against the back of the prince’s head, and then everything happened at once before Sansa’s horrified eyes.
. . .
She picked up Lion’s Tooth where it had fallen, and stood over him, holding the sword with both hands.
. . .
Arya whirled and heaved the sword into the air, putting her whole body into the throw. The blue steel flashed in the sun as the sword spun out over the river. It hit the water and vanished with a splash. Joffrey moaned. Arya ran off to her horse, Nymeria loping at her heels.
(AGOT, Sansa I)
it’s also a nice little throwback to arya’s very first chapter when jon says, “I doubt you could even lift a longsword, little sister, never mind swing one” (AGOT, Arya I). now of course longtooth is lighter than a regular longsword because it’s “adroitly shrunken to suit a boy of twelve”, but arya is still a skinny nine-year-old girl who not only lifts but THROWS it into the river. plus the whole reason that arya is out there practicing swordplay with a partner in the first place is because of jon’s advice, and he would have been so proud to see that she CAN in fact lift a longsword…and that she does so in defense of her friend mycah.
and if anyone should defend mycah, it should be someone in arya’s position (though it’s absurd that this responsibility falls to a literal child). arya has a level of immunity from the consequences of her actions thanks to being highborn, which is strengthened even further given that ned is the second-most powerful man in the country (of course this doesn’t prevent lady’s death or nymeria’s exile, but arya herself is spared the consequences of raising a hand to the prince). if this highborn girl doesn’t defend a “common” boy from a prince, who else will? who else can? surely not the king or the kingsguard or a knight of the realm ?? are there no true knights among you ??
Man I’d love to see more of these from different cultures.
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shout out seventeen year old Jaime Lannister for after undergoing the most traumatic incident of his adolescent life, breaking his Kingsguard oath to murder the evil king he was sworn to protect and also 3 other people because they were about to nuke the city, deciding that the most reasonable course of action afterwards was to sit on the iron throne and hang out for a bit.
he was aura farming
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