#arthurwilde

[medievalcat]

6, 16, 27, 34 :)

Which book or character did you not like at first but eventually grew on you?:

It took me a really long time to get around to reading Fire+Blood. But here I am

Favorite sibling dynamic:

Asha and Theon T_T and shoutout to Aeron and Urrigon rip

I'm also really hotd/dance era pilled right now and I have a lot of thoughts on Helaena and Aemond's relationship (I don't ship them) and how their shared abuse at the hands of Aegon both gives them common ground for them to have empathy with each other but also separates them because both their positions are essentially to serve him. I love Baela and Rhaena's relationship too, the fact that their differences and separations don't ever weaken their bond isn't something we often get to see in the series (esp. between sisters) <3

Favorite canon ship:

Uhh

I love the Stavos wedding scene <3 ??

on the subject of being hotd/dance pilled I like Alysmond a lot her love language is skinamarinking people <3

What’s something people get wrong about your favorite character?:

I answered this about bad Dany takes but to do another one.... I think its a fundamental misreading of the text to state that anything good or that would give them "leader potential" about Asha or Theon comes from them being somehow "not of their culture" (which makes even less sense with Asha because she ... very much has no other culture than the islands. Also Theon's arc is going in the direction of him reclaiming his stolen cultural identity as an islander.)

[septembersghost]

happy happy birthday my beloved, we've exchanged like, millions of words at this point so i know you know what you are to me. i adore you, i'm grateful to you, my life is richer for having you in it, i'm sorry you have to share a birthday with Super Natural but let's be honest it's hilarious that you do, i love you

*pepe silva meme* in the pilot episode of the x-files, mulder and scully lose nine minutes of time, and he says, "I looked at my watch just before the flash, it was 9:03 - it just turned 9:13." this set into motion a series of chaotic paranormal events wherein their somewhat related spiritual successor simply had to premiere on the corresponding date to that time, and had to be delivered directly to my brain via television waves thus making me bananas and necessitating my signing up for tumblr approximately five years later, subsequently leading me to cross paths with specific beloved people here like you. i drag it in jest but where, nay, who would i be without it? it had to exist to bring us together! hilarious poetic fitting showstopping never the same

i'm thankful every day that you're in my life and apologize for the whackadoodly antics you graciously entertain and i love you so much!

[simptasia]

what do you think boone’s hobbies are besides secretly being a star trek fan and crying after sex because he accidently pictured shannon again

[ettadunham]

you know what fringe IS a very pro-drugs show. walter enjoy your psychedelics and share them with the class

right?? and he does love to share! and the fbi is of course turning a blind eye because government agencies know damn well what they did, and also, that the persecution of many drug users was intended to target specific subgroups, it's all an elaborate social commentary you see...

[via-whitmore]

so i think oz is like. an amazing cook when he wants to be. like he'll go for an intricate cake recipe and it'll be the most stunning delicious thing you've ever seen and also he makes his own jam but the vast majority of the time he thinks that cereal and/or freezer burned hot pockets are a completely acceptable dinner

SEE I GO BACK AND FORTH ON THIS YES. PART OF ME THINKS HE IS A SECRET CHEF AND PART ME IS LIKE, "NAH, HE EATS LIKE A RACOON." I think after he becomes a werewolf he has to start eating healthier because his body just starts rejecting junk.

[flippyspoon]

FLIPPY have you seen the bakeoff holiday special w the cast of derry girls bc holy shit

GASP NO I DIDN’T KNOW THAT’S WHAT IT WAS THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME

BTW honest to god sister michael is one of my favorite characters in comedy in like a decade.

[janiedean]

is. is the italian dub real is this real

... APPARENTLY IT IS LIKE I’M WHEEZING

[onionjulius]

@maddie-grove replied to your post “So, I feel like I like Robb Stark, a lot. I thought he was a super...”

That’s the innovation!

@arthurwilde​ replied to your post “So, I feel like I like Robb Stark, a lot. I thought he was a super...”

focusing on cat instead of robb is one of the most important things the books did!!

Yes, but not only because of who gets to say things, but also what is being said.

People really latch on to this idea of the independent kingdom of the North, because Robb strikes a really dashing (and sympathetic, in the sense that he’s trying to live up to his family expectations) figure. 

But the independent northern kingdom is really a white elephant?

Like, people should ask themselves WHY are we seeing this story unfold from the POV of the mother who cares more about human survival than independence?

And people should ask themselves WHY the choice to become an independent northern kingdom just *happened* upon Robb, with no philosophical argument to convince the reader that it is actually a cause worth fighting and dying for?

People should ask themselves WHY Martin stuck the scene at Tristifer’s grave in right before the Red Wedding.

People should ask themselves WHY we’re not following Robb and his generals as they hatch strategy (if they did at all...) and tactics, why we hear more from the common people whose quality of life has nothing to do with which side is winning, why other factions are pulled in to the story who have no stake in Robb’s “cause” (if it’s even his), and why there’s so much in the story about the need to come together against the common enemy.

It’s totally fine if Jo Reader would have told that Robb-Stark-Hero-Of-The-Independent-Northern-Cause story in GRRM’s place, that’s why we have fanfiction, but it’s not the story GRRM is telling, and it’s all intentional.

Sometimes (even with the smart meta writing BNF contingent,  so not just easily dismissable knuckleheads dudebros) it feels like people think GRRM chose Catelyn as the POV by accident or for reasons of mere quota. But the substance off her story has every bit as much to contribute as any other POV character? POV’s are not infallible, but they do contribute something of worth.

Like, when Cat says stuff like “Why not peace?” and “Fight for the living, not the dead” -- are these supposed to be just utterances into the void? Mere color in the overall tapestry? Or are they supposed to have resonance above and beyond utterances of characters not chosen as POVs have? 

(And the kicker is giving her that place doesn’t make Robb any less sympathetic or a cutie patootie, just not the righteous warrior king people want him to be ...)