of saints & heretics

let his sword break and his shield shatter

[helvarcult]

“some people would say those toys were well loved.”

[mideias]

we had visenya "the sorceress" targaryen and rhaenys "given to flights of fancy" targaryen but I'm supposed to accept that the ice and fire dream came to aegon. right.

[hunterschafer]

Carol (2015) dir. Todd Haynes // Thelma & Louise (1991) dir. Ridley Scott // Emily Dickinson to Sue Gilbert // Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory // Killing Eve (2018-)

[poetrylesbian]

heated rivalry is set in a wild fantasy world where male professional athletes deserve to live

[viasolaris]

little melancholic meow meow for the soul

[ghostinwinterfell]

sansa’s hairnet being used to poison joffrey without her knowledge is so horribly poetic because it perfectly embodies her role as a political pawn. by attaching the poison to her hairnet, sansa’s physical body is quite literally being used as a political tool by littlefinger and the tyrells without her consent, which they get away with by pretending to care about her in a very surface level way (olenna fussing with sansa’s hair like a mother would so that she can secretly take the amethyst from her hairnet). and if something goes wrong, the hairnet/poison is physically on sansa’s body, so the blame will be pinned on her.

basically it’s just literalizing the way that the bodies of highborn women and girls are regularly traded/sold for political gain through marriage pacts and alliances as an inherent part of how the ruling class functions (sansa and tyrion, dany and drogo, “arya”/jeyne and ramsay, lysa and jon arryn, cat and ned, alys and sigorn, edmure and roslin, arya and elmar, etc.). unless of course those women intentionally or unintentionally transgress those social boundaries in any way, in which case they’re quickly discarded and treated as objects of blame and disgust (losing their perceived honor/virtue/purity if they have sex or children outside of marriage) because women and girls are reduced to their physical bodies and the reproductive labor that is expected of them, so the blame for sex beyond the confines of marriage is placed entirely on them. and now sansa’s own body is being used as a weapon against her in the most literal way possible. lucky girl.

[derryctor-who]

"Virtue is only virtue in extremis." DOCTOR WHO | 10.07

[bumblecrisp]

like im tearing my hair out over here. the careful deliberate explicit lack of sex btwn catherine & heathcliff, the constant dancing around it in the narrative making the empty space conspicuous is SO KEY. they are NOT fucking they are doing something WORSE they are NOT having sex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and NO ONE ELSE SEES IT. HELLO. HELLO

[zandraart]

playing with colors

[mideias]

Armand the abortionist is always on the mission

[in-yeop]

#yearning

[barbiehelmet]

the zendaya thing isnt even a new phenomenon by any means!! the article mentions margot robbie wearing the taj mahal diamond as well, and in addition to that i also want to remind people that diljit dosanjh's request to wear the patiala necklace for the 2025 met gala was denied by cartier because they said it was in a museum and could not be loaned. however they had no issues at all loaning it to emma chamberlain, a white woman, for the 2022 met gala, while they turned down the request of a punjabi man who wanted it to honor his heritage.

this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.

of course this is not to imply that any of the people involved here - zendaya, margot robbie, or emma chamberlain - had any sort of malicious intentions. but the ignorance is just as bad in my opinion. the ignorance is just as harmful, if not more. because it means we are not even an afterthought. it means that the real people and histories and heritages of the global south do not even register when these people are putting together looks for their movie premiers and met gala appearances. everything is just reduced down to a shiny piece of jewelry whose history they need not bother with. it's just a continued reminder of the way colonization affects us all even long after independence, of how barely-healed wounds keep being reopened even decades later. even now, we are being denied connections to our histories and heritages while they are freely being given out to those that have nothing to do with it and don't care for it. and i'm sick of it.

[mysookee]

Kim Yoo-Jung and Kim Young-Dae for Marie Claire Korea

[mideias]

i like the tonal shift that happens in episodes 10 and 11. Dear X as a whole is kinda filmed like a crime drama where instead of the mc solving mysteries she is the one getting away with her crimes. but as she becomes a wife she is no longer the predator, she became the prey. and the show reflects that by filming her in a gothic atmosphere, the scenes at her house are very reminiscent of rebecca and gaslight.

[userarmand]

armandisms i find particularly endearing

[funeralspirit]

anyway, this was all lestat's wet dream until further notice. if the writers want to parrot the unreliable narrator spiel so much, who am i to deny them. literally none of that happened

[flapjacku]

My fave vale gals (mya, myranda, sansa)