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[joannalannister]

What thing would be so heinous a crime in Tywin Lannister's mind that he would even touch his children, like capping or cuffing or however is said, and then what kind would make him punish them severely physically, and what would be so horrific to him that he would order any of them WHIPPED? Or is there just not a chance at all of that happening?

Short answer: No, I personally do not see any of this happening. 

Long answer: So “to cuff” means to strike with an open hand, usually on the head. It is a word I was raised with, but I’m not sure how common this word is today? It’s also a word GRRM uses, if sparingly. For example, Theon was cuffed as a child. Arya thinks about how a “man might cuff a dog” and Sansa watches as Marillion “gave [an old dog] a cuff and sent him slinking off”. 

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[claryfairhild]

i’m so done with the way girls in twenties are treated. i’m so done with people who literally create timetable for us. 20- 24  find a guy, 24-26 make him propose to you, 27-29 get married. i’m so done. i’m do not want to get 2 a.m texts from my best friend who is freaking out that she is gonna die alone. i do not want see my 20 years old friend wasting her time on some guys who are not even interested in her. i do not want see us falling for every nice guy who does not look creepy. i do not want to see girls get sad or paranoid just bcos they do not fill in the schedule. you are ok. you should enjoy your life at its fullest and one day you will find 10/10 so do not pursue 6 just because you do not want to be single. it is ok and one day you will find someone. do not split your love with people who does not deserve it. keep it for yourself and when time will come you will know. i know it hurts. i know you wish u could just open part of yourself and release the buzzing love. but not every kind of love is romantic. show it to your family, friends, plants, yourself.

[kaerya]

Not a real criticism, just an expansion really, but …  it’s not just the timetables we need to get away from, but the goal itself, I think.  “One day you will find someone,” sounds comforting, but the reason it doesn’t lay fears to rest is because we are all smart enough to know it’s not necessarily true.

My aunt is over sixty, never married, and never, so far as I am aware, ever even had a great romance.  She dated a lot, but never clicked and now seems to have given up.  My mentor is over seventy, divorced her asshole husband more than half her life ago and has never found anyone since.

We all know women (and men) like these.  And because we know them, we know that “one day you will find someone,” is just … hogwash.  Because sometimes you just … don’t.  Or sometimes you do, but he turns out to be a cad.  Or you do and the universe rips you apart in the most unfair way possible.  And because society has us so fixated on finding “our other half” or whatever, we view these women as cautionary tales.

But … 

My aunt trains dogs.  Her schipperke is the national champion for his breed.  She spent so much of her life as a librarian, nurturing the love of books in kids, myself among them.  I ride horses because of her, and it’s one of the very few things I do that makes my soul feel at peace.

My mentor is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in her state.  She has devoted her life to fighting to ensure that everyone gets a vigorous defense.  Because of her countless people have had the opportunity to turn their lives around.  Because of her, they’ve had a life to turn around.  Because of her, the prosecution and the police in her jurisdiction are forced to behave ethically and adhere to the rule of law.  She’s still, even now fighting to abolish the death penalty.  It’s because of her that I am pursuing the life I am.

These women’s lives are not nothing.  In fact they are a whole lot of something, and it makes my heart hurt that I ever, in my dark 3 am’s, thought of their lives as something to be avoided at all costs.

So love your family, your friends, your pets, your gardens.  Love your job or your hobby or your raison d’ etre, whatever it is.  Love sunsets and the smell of rain and yourself, and don’t love these as something to do as a placeholder until the buzzing, romantic love comes, but love these as things worth loving all in themselves.

It’s fucking hard some days.  The dark 3 am’s still come sometimes.  But most days, I am so much more at peace knowing that I am not incomplete or waiting, but that my life, if it ended today, is worth it because of the platonic, familial, friendship love I have shared.  And if the other kind does come someday, that’ll be nice, but it won’t make any of the others less.  It’ll just be caramel sauce on a sundae–tasty and wonderful, but the sundae was perfect without it too.

[sarahviehmann]

I needed this today.

[iheartsophieturner]

[ithelpstodream]

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

so is Victory

[ashermajestywishes]

LOVE TRIANGLE

[bsparrow]

Don’t forget Truth (Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind)

[justrollinon]

This must be why the Trump administration hates them all 

[acciowine]

The Four Horsewomen of the Trumpocalypse.

[krustybunny-deactivated20221129]

I’ve never reblogged anything so quick

[spectrometon]

The Ultimate Squad, comin’ to wreck your shit and save the world

[quentineliot]

Rb for that art doe

[arielbaratheon-deactivated20180]

“Doesn’t he look more kingly?”

“Who?”

“Your uncle Duncan,” Tywin says.

“But my uncle Jaehaerys is going to be king after my grandfather, not uncle Duncan.”

Aerys sees them watching the procession from the window. He waves. Steffon waves back. Tywin nods in acknowledgment.

“Aerys looks kingly too,” Steffon says. His cousin looks grand on his new palfrey, bursting with pride and confidence. But uncle Jaehaerys looks apprehensive, as if he’s worried his horse is about to bolt. Riding behind them, uncle Duncan looks like he and his horse are one and the same, gliding forward smoothly and gracefully.

But looks can be very deceptive, Steffon remembers his mother’s caution. Just because you look brave, it doesn’t mean you’re not afraid. And just because you look afraid -

“It’s a good thing Prince Duncan has no son,” Tywin suddenly remarks.

Steffon stares at him, astonished. “Why is that a good thing?”

Tywin clams up, looking mysterious. He does this from time to time. It annoys Steffon when he does it, or when he and Aerys drop their voice to a whisper, as if Steffon is too little or too silly to understand the grown-up matter they are discussing. Steffon is only two years younger than Aerys. Two years. That is nothing at all. Aerys himself is two years younger than Tywin, and he acts like they are the same age.

“Do you hear it? Do you hear whose name they are cheering?” Tywin asks, looking at Steffon meaningfully.

“But he can’t be king!” Steffon blurts out. “My mother said he gave up his claim to the throne when … when -”

When he dishonored Steffon’s aunt Argella and broke their betrothal to marry another woman.

“Prince Jaehaerys broke his betrothal too, and his sister’s besides. And he looks less kingly than his older brother,” Tywin points out.

Steffon shudders. “Uncle Duncan loves his brother,” he says, defensively, much too loudly. “He would never -”

Tywin shrugs. “Brothers have been known to make war against each other before.”

[racefortheironthrone]

Hi, different anon. About Rhaegar and Lyanna, don't you think that Barristan's account that "Prince Rhaegar loved his lady Lyanna", is reliable?

This is a tricky subject, because I think it’s an area where modern fandom and medieval literature have almost perpendicular perspectives. Let’s take the case of Lyanna and Rhaegar at the Tourney of Harrenhal, as seen below: 

Oh no, wait. That’s actually a painting of Lancelot and Guinevere from 1890, a classic love story that involves adultery, murder, toxic relationship dynamics, and everyone dying horribly. And a lot of chivalric romance is like that - Tristan and Isolde, Gawain and the Green Knight, Percival and the Loathly Lady - they’re not about healthy relationship, they’re about DRAMA and TRAGEDY. 

Now that doesn’t mean we can’t find something interesting/redeeming in them; a lot of feminist scholars have pointed out that the mechanics of courtly love at the heart of these chivalric romances (which often found their dramatic tension in the conflict between masculine-coded chivalry and feminine-coded courtly love) kind of results in this weird dom-sub thing where the lady is in charge of the relationship and spends a lot of time punishing the knight for not being impossibly faithful to her or thinking about anyone but her at any point. 

(I mean, I can’t be the only one who sees something in all these paintings of men kneeling in front of women, right?)

But wrt to Rhaegar specifically, the knock on him is that he abandoned his wife and kids to run off with another woman in an unequal power dynamic. But if you shift the marriages around in any of these chivalric romances - so Lancelot is abandoning his wife to run off with Guinevere, or Tristan from his wife to run off with Isolde - you’d wind up with the same dynamic. Including the necessity of both of the adulterers to die in the end to restore the stability of patriarchial marriage. 

And I think that’s what GRRM did, he took these stories that he’d grown up on and switched it around so that it was the prince running away from his wife instead of the queen from her king. 

So does that pass muster with modern fandom’s conceptions of a healthy relationship? No. It’s not meant to (if only because unhealthy relationships are easier to mine for drama and tragedy). 

A Romantic story is not the same thing as a romantic story. 

[joannalannister]

#yeah this aspect is definitely there#which is why so many of us have that growing fear that GRRM will use the skeleton of the trope to make it a true love story#a lot of what we know about lyanna and rhaegar are straight out of pre-raphaelite paintings (via @lyannas)

[breeeliss]

quick queer rant

im really tired of people within the LGBTQ+ community pointing fingers at each other and saying “you don’t really belong because you benefit from [insert type of privilege here]”

a cishet asexual still suffers from marginalization. their sexuality has been pathologized as a mental illness right along with gayness and transness. in a hypersexual heternormative culture where we’re told we must enjoy sex and we must be in relationships, an asexual person is made to feel as if they’re broken, as if they don’t exist, as if forcing sex and intimacy on them is a corrective measure to “fix them”

a straight trans woman still suffers from marginalization. being able to “pass” as a woman while also being in a relationship with a man does not negate the fact that trans people face the most violence out of anyone in the queer community, must face a society that enforces a standard of womanhood that may not necessarily apply to them, and must navigate a political climate that seeks to banish them from public spaces and paint them as criminals

a bisexual man in a relationships with a woman still suffers from marginalization. compulsory heterosexuality not only erases this identity but enforces this idea that bisexuality is a phase or a kink that can soon be grown out of. bisexuality is the largest subset of the LGBTQ+ community yet has the least amount of representation and leaves bi people more likely to have mental illnesses. being constantly recloseted when you date different genders has psychological and emotional consequences

individuals in a polyamorous relationship still suffer from marginalization. they exist in a society that hails monogamy as the only acceptable relationship model and attempts to make polyamorous individuals feel as if their relationships are abnormal, deviant, and inappropriate for children. they are treated as the example of what not to do, seeing as how society fails to acknowledge the breadth of relationship models that don’t necessarily have to include just two people. 

examples like these can go on and on and on and on

these critiques also exist without the context of race, ethnicity, immigration status, ability, and/or religion. we’re so focused on worrying about whether certain queer identities even belong in the LGBTQ+ umbrella yet fail to see how whiteness, Christianity, citizenship laws, access to disability services, etc. further compound on the experiences of those who are told by a cishet world that we are abnormal. 

and that’s what it comes down to: there is a formula for privilege in our society, and part of that formula involves being straight, being cis, wanting to marry, desiring sex, and believing in only two genders. queerness was always meant to represent those who live in opposition of those formulas, in opposition of systems that enforce and perpetuate those formulas. 

our job is not to gatekeep our community because that is childish and unproductive. our job is to understand the systems that oppress us, figure out how to navigate/change these systems, and advocate for all people who fall victim to the violence and oppression that these systems were created to enforce. 

we don’t do that by telling people that they don’t belong in our communities bc “they’re not as oppressed as we are.” this isn’t the oppression olympics. this is a time to fight, to love, and to advocate. 

[megatraven]

fucking preach, thank you

[commander-uhura]

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.

Camille Paglia  (via mirroir)

[kingofthelannisterpride]

I didn’t write the quote below, my friend wrote the quote below, but they don’t wanna touch this fandom with a ten foot pole, but I really liked what they said so I’m just quoting them anonymously! Quote not mine!! 

Jaime/Cersei is a fascinating ship between an antihero and a tragic antagonist, a ship that represents so much of what’s wrong with Westeros in general and the Lannisters in particular. Incest, in ASOIAF, often symbolizes the way highborn families isolate themselves from the rest of society, consolidate their power, hoard their resources. It’s a way for the nobility to reinforce their own superiority politically (the Targaryens) or emotionally (the Lannisters).

[racefortheironthrone]

Why didn't the people supporting Robert Baratheon simply give the Targaryen children to the Night's Watch and the Silent Sisters respectively? It puts them out of the line of succession, but denies the propaganda defeat of "the Baratheons kill babies!" I get the Lannisters maybe just wanted to be brutal to show loyalty, but Robert and Jon Arryn could have easily had Viserys captured and given to the watch.

I get the political logic, but that’s not what happened. Tywin had lethal custody of Elia’s children before either Robert or Jon Arryn arrived in King’s Landing, and the entirety of the Royal Navy was standing in between them and Viserys on Dragonstone, so it’s not that easy.

[kingofthelannisterpride]

Also, it’s a long way up north - plenty of time for something to, uh...go wrong with transporting the prisoners, as with Bittersteel after the Third Blackfyre Rebellion.

[joannalannister]

Wedding Renaissance Dress on etsy by AlentradaSHOP

[joannalannister]

Royal Opera House Collections – Dame Joan Sutherland

[creative-universe]

Okay guys, I normally don’t go into politics but this is really really really really important. You might have heard of it, but the election of our next President is currently taking place in France, so I’ll write this quick words, in both English and French, in hope that a lot of you will read it.

This is me begging you to go vote on May 7th. I kept scrolling on twitter today and all I could see was hashtags terrifying me. #JamaisMacron (Never Macron) #SansMoiLe7Mai (Without me on May 7th)… On April 25th, we voted for 2 candidates. Despite our hopes, the two names that came out were Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. You might not know them if you’re not french, but both those names held different stories. While, yes, Emmanuel Macron is a guy that can’t keep his mind straight, change his words every five seconds, is said to be too young to be President, have some « peculiar »  and stupid ideas , he is nothing compared to Le Pen. She is the leader of the far right, the « Front National », and she is a fraud. a political leader behind a party you should be scarred of. Racist, antisemitic, homophobic, anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalism are some of the words that could be used to describe them.

Truth is, I don’t want either of them to become my President, but we have to put pride and hatred aside. We are French, guys, we are free, we are a nation, we are a beautiful madness, WE are France. Terrorists attacks can’t divide us. I know I’m scarred, I don’t feel safe, and I don’t trust our politicians, but never, NEVER, will I give up my freedom and my identity to elect someone like Marine Le Pen. No, she’s not Hitler, she’s not the devil, she’s just a woman, a human being, and we have the power to keep her from ruling our country. That won’t be done by sitting on your couch on May 7th, or by giving an empty envelope when you’ll go vote, or by putting the hashtag « Sans Moi le 7 Mai ». You have more than a right to vote, you have an obligation, toward yourself and toward your country. You might not like it, you might hate Macron even, but you have a voice, and we all know one voice can change everything. So go vote on May 7th, vote for Emmanuel Macron, not because you like him, or because you like his ideas, but because giving him your voice means blocking the way to a party that will destroy our country, our beliefs and most certainly our life. Please, please, please, don’t sit this one out. Go vote, because if you don’t, then you’ve made your choice, you chose the National Front and everything it stands for. It’s not voting for, but voting against. Who’d you rather have, a weird liberalist with no party and early alzheimer (and a very bad way with words), or a woman who’s going to destroy everything being french means ? It is not easy, but necessary. Choose life, guys, choose France.

With all my love, a very concerned french citizen. ——————————————————————————————————-

Salut tous le monde, je ne parle normalement jamais de politique, mais cette fois c’est vraiment, vraiment, vraiment, vraiment important.

Je vous supplie d’aller voter le 7 Mai. Toute la journée, je n’ai vue que des hashtags qui m’ont fait atrocement peur sur twitter; #JamaisMacron - #SansMoiLe7Mai … Le 25 Avril, on a voté pour 2 candidats. Malgré nos espoirs, les deux noms qui en sont ressortis sont ceux d’Emmanuel Macron et de Marine Le Pen. Vous ne les connaissez peut-être pas si vous n’êtes pas français, mais ce sont deux noms avec deux histoires bien différentes. Il est vrai qu’Emmanuel Macron est un homme qui n’a pas l’esprit clair, qui change de mots et d’avis toutes les cinq secondes, qui est dit trop jeune pour être Président, et qui a clairement quelques stupides idées très « particulières », mais il n’est rien comparé à Le Pen. Elle est le leader de l’extrême droite, le Front National, et c’est une arnaque à elle seule, un leader politique derrière un partie dont vous devriez avoir peur. Racisme, antisémitisme, homophobe, anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalisme sont quelques mots qui pourraient bien les décrire.

La vérité étant que je ne veux qu’aucun des deux ne devienne mon(ma) Président(e), mais nous devons mettre de côté notre fierté et notre haine. Nous sommes français, les gars ! Nous sommes libre, nous sommes une nation, nous représentons une magnifique folie, merde, NOUS sommes la France. Les attaques terroristes ne doivent pas nous diviser. Je sais que j’ai peur, que je ne me sens pas en sécurité, que je ne fais pas confiance à nos politiciens, mais jamais, JAMAIS, je ne renoncerais à ma liberté et mon identité pour élire quelqu’un comme Marine Le Pen. Non, elle n’est pas Hitler, elle n’est pas le diable, elle est simplement une femme, un être humain, et nous avons le pouvoir de l’empêcher de gouverner notre pays. Ca ne se fera pas en restant assis sur votre canapé le 7 Mai, ni en rendant une enveloppe vide lorsque vous irez voter, ni même en écrivant ce fameux hashtag « Sans Moi le 7 Mai ». Vous avez plus qu’un droit de voter, vous avez une obligation, envers vous-même et envers votre pays. Vous n’aimez peut-être pas ça, vous détestez peut-être même Macron, mais vous avez une voix, et nous savons tous qu’une seule voix peut faire toute la différence. Alors allez voter le 7 Mai, votez pour Emmanuel Macron, pas parce que vous l’appréciez lui, ou même ses idées, mais parce que lui donner votre voix veut dire bloquer la route à un partie qui pourrait détruire notre pays, nos croyances et probablement même nos vies. S’il vous plaît, à tous ce qui lisent ce mots et ont le pouvoir de bouger les choses, à tous les français, ne faites pas l’impasses sur ces élections. Allez voter, parce que ne pas le faire, c’est déjà faire un choix, le choix du Front National et de tous ce qu’il soutient. Rappelez vous que ce n’est pas voter pour, mais voter contre. Qui préférez-vous, un libéraliste étrange, sans partie avec un alzheimer précoce, ou une femme qui pourrait détruire tous ce qu’être français veut dire ? Ce n’est pas facile mais nécessaire. Choisissez la vie, les gars, choisissez la France.

Avec tout mon amour, une citoyenne française très inquiète.

[wormsdyke]

Anyone who posted about the American election needs to reblog this.

[thyladyx]

France, don’t do the same thing we did in the USA. Don’t do it. Go vote for that young guy.

[akiyty]

The racists are voting. Go meet them at the polls

[elletromil]

For all my French followers go vote seriously. It’s important. Look what happened in the USA.

Sérieusement, allez voter. C'est important. Regardez ce qu'il c'est passé aux États-Unis.

[theyhaveacavetroll]

France - I am so not kidding about this. DO NOT DO WHAT WE DID. The nightmare that is Trump and his followers and every idiot he has put in charge of anything so far is… look, it’s only been 100 days and it feels like 20 years already. We’re headed for something truly terrifying in this country and it’s because people didn’t vote. Don’t do that.

[joannalannister]

collavella submitted:

Hey, I hope you are doing ok, I just saw a gifset you posted and got myself wondering about Myrcella Baralannisteon and the very few things we know about her. I understand she’s not the most important character and that there are many others (especially female) waiting to get more fleshed-out, anyways, after getting a close look to Joffrey and Tommen it would be sad if the only thing we knew about Myrcella was “She existed, was pretty and gentle and got killed by the sand snakes”… Do you have any headcanons about her? Thank you!

Hi! I don’t like talking about the show, I’m sorry.

In the books, Myrcella is pretty fleshed out? I mean, for a tertiary character who is still a young child and not a pov character, I think we know a decent number of things about her?

For example, she’s very smart and she has the potential to be a great strategist, considering how quickly she took to the newly imported game of cyvasse. She likes games, she likes to play inside/outside, she has her own garden in the Red Keep. Seems like she was enchanted by Robb when she visited Winterfell, so that suggests to me someone who is conscious of her future role in Westerosi society to marry the son of a great lord to form a marriage alliance. 

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[uppityfemale]

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[powerfulwizard]

i love in fantasy when its like “king galamir the mighty golden eagle and his most trusted advisor who would never betray him, gruelworm bloodeye the treacherous”

[feynites]

When my sister and I were kids we had this one action figure, who was actually a brutalized batman doll without his cape (the dog chewed half his head, too), who we dubbed ‘Evil Chancellor Traytor’. The idea was that in the fictional society of our toys, ‘chancellor’ just came with the word ‘evil’ in front of it, as a matter of ancient tradition. Like ‘grand’ or ‘high’ or something along those lines.

Anyway, the running gag was that the king (an old Power Rangers knock-off doll) had absolute and unwavering faith in Evil Chancellor Traytor, who basically comported himself like a mix between Grima Wormtongue and Jafar from the Aladdin movies. Everyone was always sure that Evil Chancellor Traytor had something to do with the nefarious scheme of the day. The dude even carried around a poisoned knife called ‘the kingslayer’.

The additional twist on the joke, though, was that he never was behind anything. The king was actually right. Evil Chancellor Traytor was the most devoted civil servant in the entire Action Figure Dystopia. He spent his nights working on writing up new legislature to ensure that broken toys had access to mobility devices, was always on the lookout to acquire new shoeboxes for expanding city infrastructure, and drafted a proposal that once got half the ‘settlement’ in my sister and I’s closet moved to the upper shelf so that vulnerable toys were less likely to be snatched up by the dog.

The knife, as it turned out, was as symbolic as the ‘evil’ in his name. See, Action Figure Dystopia had a long history of corrupted monarchs getting too big for their thrones and exploiting the underclasses. The job of the Evil Chancellor was to always remain vigilant, and loyally serve a good ruler - or, if the regent should became a despot, to slay them on behalf of the people.

But since killing the king would be a terrible crime, the Evil Chancellor had to be the kind of person who would willingly die to spare the people from the plight of a wicked leader; because the murder would be pinned on them, in order to keep the ‘machinery of politics’ working as smoothly as ever.

Anyway, Evil Chancellor Traytor had a diary, in which my sister I would take turns writing out the most over-the-top good shit he’d done behind the scenes. Usually after everyone else had finished talking shit about him. I don’t know why but we got the biggest kick out of being like:

Barbie With the Unfortunate Haircut: Oh that Evil Chancellor Traytor! Why can’t the king see how wicked he is?!

Charmander From the Vending Machine: Char!

Jurassic Park Toy of Jeff Goldblum With Disturbingly Realistic Face: At least if someone puts a knife in the king’s back, we’ll know where to look!

Evil Chancellor Traytor’s Diary: Today I was feeding ducks at the park when I noticed another legless action figure sitting by the benches. I put a hundred dollars into his bag while he wasn’t looking. I really need to increase budgeting to the medical treatment centers. If only we had enough glue, I think we would see far fewer toys trying to get by without limbs… *insert iconic evil laugh*

Anyway, Evil Chancellor Traytor eventually fell victim to one of my mom’s cleaning sprees, and she decided he was too busted up to keep and tossed him out. My littler brother, who tended to follow my sister and I’s games like he was watching a daily soap opera, cried so hard that we had to do a special ‘episode’ where one of the toys found the Evil Chancellor’s diary, and so he got a big huge memorial and the king threw himself into the empty grave and then ordered the toys driving the toy bulldozer to bury him so that ‘Traytor’s grave would have a body’ (this seemed very important for some reason).

And then we had the Quest For a New King. Somehow or another that ended up being a giant rubber snake called ‘Tyrant King Cobra’.

[forest-of-stories]

This would make an awesome kids’ movie, is what I’m saying.

[jeff22003]

Get Kevin Conroy to voice the Evil Chancellor.

[luckydecknapier]

So, this was made.

Dramatic documentary narration just said: “The mutant called MAGNETO.”