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[allfortherot]

that one hopecore message thats like "i WILL make it because i am crazy" but its neil josten who let his fucking countdown go down with no plan, no backup, no one even aware. lmao yes he is just that crazy. fate bows to his contumacious nature

[teaboot]

As someone in and around their 30’s it has been INSANE to see feminism in popular media descend through

Women can wear pants and play sports and that’s equality. Women don’t just belong inside the house. This woman has a career

This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. She’s probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But she’s still a person!

If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, that’s girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls don’t HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!

What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!

What I don’t think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually

Uh she can’t do that, that’s a blue job, she’s a pink job girly. Food? Yeah, she’s having #girl dinner, which is a handful of almonds. Time for our 15 step skincare routine, which is empowering. Hashtag #girlboss. Ew no, touching dirt? She’s just a girl. You can’t expect a girl to do that. Haha #girl logic

[doctorwhomybae]

I haven’t even seen TSITP outside of YouTube reactions and I don’t even like Jeremiah but why is it that belly can flip flop between him and his brother every other day when they’re getting together but when Jeremiah actually breaks up with her and sleeps with someone else after (which is a very well known coping mechanism after a breakup and doesn’t mean you’re a bad person) he is called a whole ass cheater… and pls don’t say its because belly retroactively decided that the break up wasn’t ‘real’ cuz she doesn’t get to decide that

[chrkrose]

I really loved your meta about the inversion of j/b’s dynamic that happens so often even among ourselves (shippers of the pairing). It always stood out to me that Jaime’s internal monologue changes after ASOS. He doesn’t stop thinking about Cersei, but the **way** he thinks about her is different. So many of his thoughts become analytical instead of romantic. He’s constantly re-evaluating old memories, noticing manipulation he previously ignored, questioning assumptions he’d accepted for years. With Brienne, he isn’t analyzing his feelings because he’s not even aware yet that those feelings exist. They just keep interrupting his thoughts. He’ll be thinking about politics or war or his family, and suddenly Brienne is there. Like you pointed out with “unbidden,” she isn’t an idea he’s consciously returning to; she keeps showing up whether he wants her to or not. I think, like you, that’s why I’ve never connected with the reading that Jaime is constantly resisting this overwhelming pull toward Cersei. If anything, the books show Jaime actively trying to hold on to the fantasy of that relationship long after the reality of that relationship has collapsed, while Brienne is the one he keeps failing to push out of his mind.

Thank you <3

And I agree with u 100%.

Your reminded me of this amazing art by @theaisyapping because that’s pretty much how his brain works imo lol

[chrkrose]

I wonder if people take Jaime’s surface-level narration about Brienne far too literally. He calls her ugly, mocks her body, and keeps reaching for insulting comparisons, so readers sometimes treat that as evidence that his physical attraction only develops later, once he appreciates her character. But Jaime pays an extraordinary amount of attention to a woman he supposedly finds completely undesirable. From his very first chapter, he notices the shape of her mouth, the color and expression of her eyes, her muscles, her movements, her clothes, her hair, and how her body looks in different situations, to name a few. And it is not just a one-off descriptive passage either; this kind of attention recurs throughout his chapters. I don’t remember this happening with anyone else he interacts with in his POVs. If it happened once, it could be dismissed as a narrative device to establish what Brienne looks like (even though we have already seen her through Catelyn’s POV), but the repetition makes it feel much more like it’s supposed to signalize something internal about Jaime than something for the reader’s benefit. Many readers don’t pay attention to what Jaime is doing and start believing what he insists he’s feeling, even when the two are contradicting each other.

I think this is one of the biggest consequences of Jaime being such an unreliable narrator tbh.

He constantly tells us one thing while his thoughts and actions are telling us another, never mind his unconscious thoughts that he doesn’t acknowledge on page. But people take his self-assessment at face value and ignore the narrative surrounding it. George is practically begging us to read between the lines when it comes to his chapters. I think this is why Jaime has some of the wildest takes in the general ASOIAF fandom. 😭 People either believe everything he says about himself or reject everything he says about himself, when the whole point is that neither approach works when it comes to him. He’s lying to himself as much as he’s revealing himself, and the fun of reading his POV is figuring out where those two overlap. Yes Jaime, she’s ugly, yes Jaime her muscles are something else, yes Jaime a dress looks terrible on her, yes Jaime her mouth is too wide and her eyes are too blue and that dress looks a bit better than the last and yeah ok she has more of a woman’s shape now but pal, listen… how is it that you noticed so much and why are you looking in the first place? Let’s talk about that yeah.

I think the white sword tower scene is one of the best examples of his unreliable ass:

Someone had dressed her in woman’s clothes again, but this dress fit much better / Brienne glanced down at herself, flustered. “Septa Donyse padded out the bodice, to give it that shape. She said you sent her to me.”

[a-fire-of-ice]

sometimes the perfect fancast is just a norwegian footballer

[doctorwhomybae]

Can anyone help me? I’m looking for an old andreil fic where one of Andrew’s abusers gave him the Cassandra curse, and he goes his whole life not being believed about anything until he meets neil and neil breaks the curse unknowingly

[alayne-stones]

my favorite genre of asoiaftwt

[timetravellingtyrion]

on one hand it's very easy to make fun of jaime lannister, on the other. pause post i didn't even mean to do that

[witchlingcirce]

Wow I hope this doesn’t have any repercussions!

[romantichopelessly]

when people say Andrew continues to heal post-series but then all their examples of what this would entail are about being more hetero/amatonormative with Neil

[everyfandompossible]

I know it’s not for everyone but I adore reading the way Neil talks about exy

He’s so passionate about it and it really makes you care abt what’s going on in the games

[franmikas]

Neil being a demisexual and how obvious it is by how he uses simple terms when meeting people like just saying their hair and eye color. He doesn't even bother describing people he doesn't find important. Meanwhile the difference between meeting Andrew for the first time vs him having fallen in love with him has Neil waxing poetry about Andrew and it's so funny. Miser i don't swing was down bad by the second book.

First time meeting Andrew: "Andrew Minyard didn't look like much in person, blonde and five feet even."

After falling in love with Andrew: "Andrew looked as he always had, and Neil knew his face as well as he knew every iteration of his own. Despite that, something seemed different. Maybe it was the sunlight streaming through the window, making Andrew’s pale hair shine brighter and his hazel eyes seem almost gold. Whatever it was, it was disorienting. A wordless question buzzed under Neil’s skin, leaving him restless and out-of-sorts."

[psu-foxes]

hey i know we don’t really talk about this or anything but it’s fine if you tell neil im gay and single. like if it comes up in conversation where hes wondering about my sexuality or relationship status its fine to tell him that i am gay and also single. and its even fine if you tell him that im gay and single when hes not asking about it its fine if you casually tell him that. you can tell him i like men and am currently not in a relationship. however you want to tell him is fine with me. really, it’s fine, renee, if you tell neil that im gay and single, i have no problem if you mention to neil that i am not only gay but i am also single. if he was wondering. or not wondering. or whatever. i don’t care. but if you wanted to tell him im gay and single it’s fine

[jordiipordii]

do you ever think about how badly Andrew wanted Neil and for how long and so you just want to yell into the void because. same.

[max-worm]

every time i reread the extra content and read the words "back when there was going to be a fourth [foxhole] book" my heart breaks a little 💔💔 we could have had more andreil

[jessaerys]

i think it's beautiful that cats eat you if you die in your apartment and nobody finds you for a while. i don't know why it's used as anti-kitty cat propaganda as if eating you means they don't love u. if i died and no one found me for a while i would want my kitty cat to eat me bc i love her so much and i don't want her to starve. it's not her fault i'm too dead to give her her fancy feasts. she's going thru something scary ok. i don't know a single cat owner who doesn't feel the same way