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2020 in review: january, february, march, march, march, march, march, april, mayjunejulyaugustseptemberoctober, november 1, november 2, november 3, november 3 part 2, november 3 part 3, november 3 part 

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“Fun fact! Baby elephants, much like human babies, aren’t able to fully control their trunks because their motor skills haven’t fully developed so they plunge their face into the water to drink =)

Although this cutie is obviously playing lol 😍” 

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fehr.oded: Ardeth’s PSA: Ardeth attempts to talk about #masks and #socialdistancing

[dancinbutterfly]

BABY!

[bastlynn]

Oh he aged *well*.

[melissa-blogs]

My last argument and disclaimer on Daenerys

In a pro-Dany post I ran into a stan that claimed Daenerys deserved to be the one to “break the wheel”. When I asked them what breaking the wheel meant to them [Dany fans] she said the bittersweet ending should have been Daenerys burning the throne her ancestors built, and establishing a democracy. And for a second I though, I get it now. At least, in this specific retrospect I get why they chose to believe this, the poetry of it all, the bitter-sweetness of it. 

So, let me begin with a few disclaimers

I understand why so many in the fandom are upset with her turning into the “mad queen”. The execution of it, along with the entire season, was piss poor. She was treated unfairly in a couple of occasions this season causing sympathy for a character who, in these moments, should’ve caused nothing but apathy.

I began the show, like most viewers, rooting for Daenerys. The allure of Daenerys’ arc is her radicalism. A lot of anti-Dany fans use her actions against the slave masters, against rapists and abusers, to their benefit when truth, it was this radicalism that ultimately ignited the revolution of slaves against masters. Violence for a cause, that’s what she offered and sometimes, though we may not like to admit, violence is necessary.

That being said, it’s important to understand that meaning well and doing well didn’t always fall under the same grade with her, and at times it can be argued that some of her “liberating” actions were only made in search for her own personal gain (The Unsullied). Almost everything, if not everything “good” Daenerys did has come at a cost to the very essence of liberation. 

My last argument

To anyone saying Daenerys should’ve been the one to burn the Iron Throne, I’m not sure what you’ve been watching the past decade but everything Daenerys has ever done has been for the throne. Every single aspect of her narrative leads her there because it’s what she desired most. More than freedom for slaves, more than justice, more than “breaking the wheel”. I know this because Daenerys knew exactly what it meant to break the wheel and yet continued to seek the very thing that created the wheel in the first place, not to destroy it, but to seep in the power of it. During her time in Meereen she learns firsthand what happens when you try to rule over a city that you, not only do not fundamentally understand, but that is divided in supporting their leader. It takes a whole season but in the end Daenerys finally learns that what Meereen needed was a leader who knows and understands the people and customs to implement the liberation she fueled. By the end of that arc, she sets a system resembling a democracy in place, officially learning what it means to “break the wheel”.

Except she does this, and leaves it all at the hands of a man who immediately after proclaims “Fuck the people, fuck the city”. She does this, and leaves. The city she once ruled at their most vulnerable, with no economic replacement, with a fallen infrastructure, surrounded by enemies. Why? Because the Greyjoys came sailing and the Iron Throne was calling, and the Iron Throne would always come first and foremost.

We are continuously shown, time and time again, what her true motives are. So, to say you “stan” her and completely misinterpret this very integral aspect of her story line is to purposely remain blinded.

Had Daenerys truly wanted to liberate Westeros from tyrants, she would’ve never demanded the very thing that had been the cause of all wars for herself. The minute she burned the Tarlys for not kneeling was the minute her true colors showed. She chose the Iron Throne over liberation. That’s my argument.

Some fans are enraged because they believe her character development was wasted. It wasn’t. Daenerys’ narrative was always about power. She certainly had the potential of developing into a proper liberator, but in the end her motives did not coincide. In the same way she claims to believe in birthright and then throws it out the window the minute she realizes it isn’t beneficial to her, she throws out her liberator agenda when she realizes it means an end to the monarchy she seeks to benefit from. She used moral, righteousness, and principal to fool viewers, and I think even herself, into believing that she would be the deliverer of justice, when in reality at the core of all things her search was always after power and revenge. The power to take revenge on those who took everything from her. That’s what her story is. Getting lost along the way, almost but not quite making it out of that mindset.

People can be mad about a lot of things, be mad about what the show had to say about radical politics (As Spencer Ackerman recently said). Be mad about the way her arc was executed, turning her into a “mad” queen when, to a very brutal extent, this final action was actually tactical. Burn down a city that [she believed] had no redemption, and built it back up from the ashes. It doesn’t mean I agree with it at all, but there is a thought process there that the writers decided to erase for the sake of shock value (surprise, surprise). This was who she was, and this is what she always promised to do.

But don’t be mad about “the message you’re sending to abuse victims” or how “her character was ruined”, because this was always endgame for her. Don’t sit there and pretend you cared about the feminist agenda when we have Yara Greyjoy leader of the Iron Islands, and Sansa Stark leading the North. When we have Arya Stark, and Brienne of Tarth kicking cultural gender roles to the dirt. Daenerys was powerful the same way all female characters in this world are, but it just so happens that not all powerful women are women worth idolizing.

[gaelgarcia]

I don’t plan on knitting by the fire while men fight for me.

[sakura-haruka]

Goodbye Theon

[onyxstorms]

Everything you did brought you where you are now, where you belong.

[lydia-warden]

Arya: You said I’d shut many eyes forever.

Melisandre: Brown eyes, green eyes… and blue eyes.

Me:

[inthenameofsephiroth]

[anxietyproblem]

how

[ahsteria]

destroy the idea that crying is negative. crying is relief, a way to let all of the sadness, anger, joy and emotion out. end the idea that we need to stop crying, stop letting out emotion, stop being human. end it.

[conners-kent]

“I’ll finish this,” Thor excitedly said.

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Fanon Robb Stark: Love obsessed cinnamon roll who needs a hug! Can’t keep his dick in his pants and lost the North. Doesn’t deserve to be king and lost the war because he got married. Boring good guy obsessed with honor and love. The only people who remember him are his fans or people ready to say he was a bad king.

Canon Robb Stark: The entire realm was literally pissed scared of Robb Stark. He was the young Lord turned King who was destroying, straight up destroying Tywin Lannister. Tywin Lannister! The man who got a song named after him for being a fucking nightmare and Robb Stark was embarrassing him at every turn. He captured the King Slayer, one of the deadliest swordsmen in the series, destroyed the west, saved the Riverlands, and basically became a legend overnight. Robb Stark with his mother’s help was leading and winning a war on his own skill. Seriously, he wasn’t called “The Young Wolf” as a cute play on words since he was a Stark. They called him that cause they thought he could turn into a fucking Wolf! He was also a Warg, the only one besides Bran who even understood what the Wolf dreams meant. It took being betrayed by his best friend, 3 sworn house armies, and Tywin organizationing the Red Wedding, which is the equivalency to burning a church in our time, to defeat him and still to this day GRRM, the creator of ASOIAF/GOT says that he had to kill off Robb or he would’ve been unstoppable.

I think this fandom seriously forgets how motherfucking badass this character was and how it took literally the worst mother fucking luck a king in the north can motherfucking have to fucking defeat him. Seriously the motherfucker was fighting in a war with fucking four other KINGS! Fucking Four motherfuckers Kings! Who’s to say who could’ve done better?! Fuck of Robb was still alive fucking the Lannisters would be taking it in the ass right now! Daenerys?! Do you really think how that meeting would’ve been the same if he was there

Dany: The last King in the North was Torrhen Stark.

Robb: Aye he was, until your ancestor Aegon The conqueror burned thousands alive in the fields of fire…Do you wish to repeat history if I do not kneel?

Dany: Under a Targaryen the realm has always had peace.

Robb: Has it? The Faith Militant Uprising, The Dance of Dragons, Blackfyre Rebellion, War of the Ninepenny Kings, and of course Robert’s Rebellion, the war your father and brother started by killing my grandfather, uncle, and kidnapping my aunt.

Dany: Don’t judge a daughter for her family’s sins

Robb: But yet you want their power…How does that work? Wanting the Targaryen’s legacy but not their sins?

Dany:

Robb: I came for Dragonglass, but I see I must find it elsewhere.

Dany: I haven’t given you permission to leave yet.

Robb: Can you fight more than one war at once, Daenerys? I’ve done it before and it’s not easy. You’re fighting the Lions, don’t make the Wolves a threat too. If you truly want to prove you are not your father, let us have have the dragonglass. In exchange, I’ll aid you in securing the Irone Throne.

Dany: You would withhold the North from me?

Robb: And the Vale and Trident.

Dany: Under what grounds?

Robb: under the grounds that it is my family’s land and they named me their king. If you are a Queen because your family held the crown, then remember so was mine. If you truly mean to make the realm better then understand my people know no king but the king In The North. They will fight the dragons till their last breath. Then what will you have? Ashes. If you burn King’s landing, the Trident, and the North, then invade it with your army of rapists, you’ll only be known as the Mad Queen of the Ashes.

Dany:….So What do you purpose?

Robb: Cersei will never surrender, not even if the dead, dragons, and wolves are at her door. Her arrogance made her start a war, even when I tried to sue for peace. She ignored it.

Tyrion: You see no point in even trying?

Robb: What do you think your sister will do with the choice of kneel or die?

Tyrion:…She’ll fight till the bitter end and take as many lives with her.

Robb: Right. You may not believe my stories of dead men, but you at least believe in a form of peace. We can form an alliance. You made one with The Greyjoys, you can make one with me.

Dany: How did you-

Robb: The Ironborn would never work with you unless they would gain something. Let me rule over the North, Trident, and Vale. The rest of the realm will be yours. We will avenge our families that have suffered under the Lannisters and work together to stop the dead.

Dany: I still do not believe in stories of dead men, Robb Stark.

Robb: Aye, and I hadn’t believed in the return of dragons. The dead will come, yet the Lions are here now. One war at a time…Queen Daenerys.

Dany:…Very well…King Robb.

I only say that the meeting would have gone differently because Robb was raised and trained in history and how to negotiate and how to deal with Egos. I love Jon and his amazing Ass to death, but Ned didn’t raise him to be a Lord and definitely not a king. Jon was at the Wall during the war of the five Kings and was out of touch. Even Sansa and Tyrion had to tell Jon that he doesn’t understand Cersei like they do and he doesn’t. At the Wall there is barley politics, just survival. You can argue that the war for Dawn is different, but it takes someone to know how to deal with these people and their ego. That’s why Theories of Political Jon even exist. Going beyond the Wall wasn’t just to prove the army of the dead exist to Cersei, but to Dany too. Robb would believe Jon by default because he trusts and loves his brother. Robb would also understand just from the war of the five Kings that Cersei will never bend the knee, so it would be easier to convince Daenerys to fight with him like it was for Renly.

Build an all star North: Robb as King, Jon as a knight commander of the army, and Sansa as hand of the King.

My whole Point is that some people in this fandom need to start giving King Robb Stark some credit! He was a fucking Badass and when the creator of the damn series itself says he would’ve been unstoppable you listen.

Edit: Robb was the only one of the 5 Kings in the war who didn’t name himself King. His people did! The first king in 300 years! It wasn’t just the North either like most would think.

The North and the TRIDENT declared him their King! Two fucking continents declared a teenager King because he was that fucking badass! Seriously!

Tyson’s line: “Any man who must call himself King is no king at all.”

Stannis, Renly, Balon, Joffrey, all those fucks had to defend or fight for their claim. Robb Stark was given the crown. Two separate continents gave a teenager their crown! And he fucking wrecked everyone. Stannis and Tywin even had to respect him even though they wanted him gone. Fucking Renly wanted to work with him cus while his people loved him, Robb’s fucking people worshiped him. It’s been 5 seasons, 3 books and this mother fucker is still relevant in the fans eyes! Like fuck! Fuck You if you only remember as the tragic hero, he was more than just that.

Jon: Saw him as his best friend and hero. In the books and show he even claimed Robb was his better. Which maybe it was hero worship or maybe it was fucking true! Jon wasn’t a one man army in the books and in the show Robb didn’t have his guards. Fucker just want into war on his fucking own. Mind you that means he found a way to capture Jaime on his own too. Jon and Robb were close as fuck and the only reason book Jon didn’t join Robb was cause he thought he would’ve been killed for desertion. Jon still cries for Robb.

Sansa: Literally the poor girl took strength in Robb’s memory. It was the only comforting thing she could think about half the time. Her older brother, her hero, coming to fucking murder the Lannisters. Seriously from the day her father died till the day Robb died, he was all she thought about. She looked up to him, loved him. The fucker was her hero. She looked Joffrey right in the eyes and said “My brother will storm this fucking city and kill you all.” She always said she has to be strong like Robb.

Arya: She was just like Sansa. She looked at Robb like a hero. You show fans don’t know, but Arya loved Robb just as much as Jon. She thought about him daily and prayed for him to kill the Lannisters.

Bran: The boy wanted to go to war with Robb! Funny thing is while Bran wasn’t as good with the bow and arrow like Arya, he was better at swords. Bran wanted to warg into Summer and fight side by side with his brother. Just like his sisters he wanted to be strong like Robb.

Rickon: Robb was like a parent to him when Ned and Cat left. He took care of the kid, played with him. As he did with Bran .

The North and Trident: Those people books later still talk about him being their king and damning the oath breakers. Even the Karstarks still respect him. Seriously read the fucking books.

We know no king but the King in the North who’s name is Stark. King Robb Stark. The Young Wolf! King in the North and the Trident! Fuck the Oath breakers!

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March 8, 2019

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meirl

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you know who deserved better?

jesse pinkman and hank schrader.