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stevenbuckys

I’m more of a soldier, than a spy. Stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man.

christophernolan

iT wAS fORsHaDOweD DAnNy wOuLd GO MaD.

sourgum

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxcs3NcnfLM/

tluohsalohcin

D&D have done many things wrong, but Daenerys’ arc ain’t one of them.

You guys just didn’t pay attention.

knives78

💯

thefudge

hey, buds

you can plant “evidence” in season 1 and STILL write a piss-poor “descent into madness” arc

just because d&d left tentative clues in past seasons - always couched safely in a glow of triumphalism and “dany is not like other targs” - does not mean they handled this arc well

remember melisandre’s line to arya about “green eyes, blue eyes, brown eyes”? yeah, they admitted they shot that in S4 without any forethought that they’d have arya kill the NK, they got lucky. in fact they went like “how about we use this, since we already said it”? aka random storytelling.

the same applies to dany’s journey. they were never sure what to do with her, they were never comfortable with making her accountable for her actions in Essos. hell, d&d have interviews from season 5 where they argue why dany is different from her father and brother and why that makes her special. if you want to write a decent antihero/villain you need to DO MORE, you need to dip your toe into moral ambiguity, which they rarely did (see also the whitewashing of tyrion)

d&d wanted to have their cake (strong, inspiring “breaker of chains”) and eat it too (emotional crazy lady) without showing the proper transition because they wanted to cling to dany’s brand of Grl Power for as long as they could.

the problem never was dark dany or the audience not noticing her “descent” but that this journey was telegraphed at best and not enough time was given to one of the goddamn protagonists of the series. in the books, dany’s actions bear more weight, she is less palatable, less likeable, and yet so much more painfully human and understandable. on the show she is rendered ridiculous. in fact, d&d and some of the clowns on this website have gone out of their way to “mock” the audience for being invested in her. in the books, dany will have to contend with so many more adversaries, including Young Griff, another pretender to the throne. the fight will be so much more complex than her simply burning KL. think of shireen baratheon’s burning, think of how quick and empty that was, how easily stannis was persuaded, how hollow and unearned that felt. this is the same thing, and we know the books will do better.

as an addendum, you can be a sansa stark stan - because i have noticed it’s these folks who are the most Smug about it - and still acknowledge bad writing when it hits you in the face. all the female characters on this show have suffered from it. your fave is not exempt.

asoiafuniversity

#and these sansa fans acting like…smug? like sansa’s story and character hasnt been a shit fest afterthought to these men? #you’re just glad her ‘rival’ dany got worse writing?? stupid (via @alayne-stonecoldfox)

porch-collapse-deactivated20241

they did my boy wrong

bloodfreakpropaganda

I admire people who do exercise with no music like you are putting your body in pain while being alone with your thoughts… that´s double torture

kyloren

you may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. you need her, as she needs you…

itsallavengers

Captain Marvel: So then he was all ‘I told you- you’re never going to be able to control yourself until you can put me on the floor without using your powers’-

Captain America: So you turned them off and kicked his ass anyway?

Captain Marvel: No lol what the fuck I’m not a dumbass, I just shot him. Who the fuck would listen to a villain trying to do his best to win a fight?

Captain America, sweating, remembering the fight with Batroc in which he stowed away his shield and dropped his helmet bc Batroc Asked Him To: Hah lol ikr….. who’d do that…idiots…

blondiepoison

Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams by Aitken Jolly | Glamour UK’s Spring/Summer 2019 (March 2019) Sophie: “Maisie is definitely my protector and I’m hers, too. I know if anything happened – especially if it was on Game of Thrones, which it never, ever would – she’d go crazy and protect me… Maisie is my strong home.” Maisie: “Sophie knows too much about me to not be my friend. I can’t tell you the amount of times Sophie said, ‘Go to therapy’ before I actually did. She really helped me through some messy break-ups and some friend break-ups. Whenever I’m like, ‘I need help! This is bigger than anything I can sort out on my own,’ Sophie is my point of call. I think therapy is so important. You should absolutely speak to someone, even if in your head you go, ‘Yeah, I knew that!‘”

funtoban-blog

221brownstone

THR: Inside Lucy Liu’s art studio, exploring “what we choose not to see”

Liu’s figurative paintings — inspired by shunga, Japanese erotic art popularized in the 17th century — are ruminations on her upbringing in a family where sex and nudity were taboo. When she first began to show these works, a dealer suggested she recut the canvases to eliminate the exaggerated genitals (the work in this article is a relatively tame example). “I can’t do that,” she said. “They were like, ‘Well, do you want to sell? Do you want to create this career?’ I found that so outrageous. [I was] being censored once again. As a child I was not allowed to ask questions but now I can’t even show …” she trails off. “I know it’s aggressive, maybe it’s not your taste, but that’s not the point of the piece.”