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[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

Okay, so most of my LND posts from the past 2 weeks or so have been based entirely on the reworked Australia/US Tour version of the show. I thought that I had listened to the original London album back in 2013, but apparently I had only watched/listened to certain scenes, because I'm listening to the album right now and dying, why was it Like This

[bidonica]

I know I’m most likely reaching, but I was flipping through Tyrion IX in ACoK and this passage jumped at me (it’s right after they bid farewell to Myrcella):

He wondered again about Littlefinger. There had been no word from Petyr Baelish since he had ridden off for Bitterbridge. That might mean nothing—or everything. Even Varys could not say. The eunuch had suggested that perhaps Littlefinger had met some misfortune on the roads. He might even be slain. Tyrion had snorted in derision. "If Littlefinger is dead, then I'm a giant." More likely, the Tyrells were balking at the proposed marriage. Tyrion could scarcely blame them. If I were Mace Tyrell, I would sooner have Joffrey's head on a pike than his cock in my daughter.

Compare with the prophecy of the Ghost of High Heart:

I dreamt of a maid at a feast, with (1)purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, (2)slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow.

Now, we know that (1) has been fulfilled by the Purple Wedding, and what’s interesting about the ACoK paragraph is that Tyrion correctly guesses that Mace would rather have Joffrey dead than married to Margaery, which is what actually ends up happening one book later, with dire consequences for Tyrion himself (this chapter foreshadows Joffrey’s assassination again in its final scene). 

(2) has several interpretations - many say it’s already been fulfilled by Sansa breaking Sweetrobin’s doll after he destroyed her snow castle in ASoS, others point at Gregor Clegane/Ser Robert Strong, other as Littlefinger as the sigil of House Baelish is the Titan of Braavos. But the repeated “giant” references in Tyrion’s storylines have also been noticed - of course the most prominent is Shae’s nickname for him, but maester Aemon calls him “a giant come among us, here at the end of the world” in AGoT without the slightest hint of irony, and in the same book there’s that famous quote “When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king”. And especially this early on in the game Jon is presented as a reliable judge of character (like Tyrion himself! so of course they like each other), because those were simpler times and GRRM deluded himself he could finish the saga in three volumes so he didn’t need to conceal the endgame through layers and layers of misdirection and unreliable narrators.

Again, as I said in the beginning, I’m probably reaching. But I find it odd that we get this very correct assessment re: the Tyrells’ true intentions about a Joff/Margaery marriage side by side with a “giant” joke involving Tyrion and Littlefinger, just like the two topics are paired in the prophecy. I don’t even really know what to make of it except that it would point at the giant being either LF or Tyrion and not Gregor, I guess. But I’m putting a pin on it in case it proves to be foreshadowing of some kind.

[pharawee]

don't wanna lose don't wanna lose don't wanna lose

[myepisodecalendar]

Wheel of Fortune Season 35 - Episode 186: Placeholder 1 AirDate: May 28th, 2018, 06:30 PM

[we-devilish-few]

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[distractionpie]

I need to know, did Joe pressed Web to the work counter??? Please moreeeeee..

Trust me, Joe definitely snaps and gives into his instincts eventually, even if he is completely surprised by the direction those instincts end up taking him.

‘Finally!’ thinks Webster, who has been hitting on Joe in his own awkward Webster-ish way for weeks and has no idea that Joe has noticed his attempts at flirting but mistaken them for an evil plan to ruin Joe’s sanity.

[touchreceptors]

so, been really busy with work, RL and a short trip (not quite a holiday one) - and in the midst of that I know I probably missed the lake of dismay and despair that was the reaction to the US election result on tumblr. 

It’s probably a good thing because I find the news (and my facebook feed) depressing enough, but believe me I was shocked and upset about it for a long, long while.

Because I’m going to try not to wallow in it further, I probably won’t be making anymore reblogs about it. The rest of my posts after this will probably follow regular programming. But of course I’ll still reblog new developments which I think require action or attention, and I do still want to make this particular post right now, where I wish to get this off my chest and declare:

Some (or many) Christian teachings advise that you set aside your first fruits as offering to God. In my home, I was taught that this should be your first paycheck, and you could set it aside for God / God’s work based on how convicted you were about it. Offerings and tithes are also meant to be given to the church in order to further the good work it does i.e. support the service and help to the people that the church will render in God’s name.

Here’s the problem. I have yet to find a new church here that doesn’t possess discriminatory or problematic attitudes toward minority groups. Many of them have members and leaders who are all too similar to white american fundamentalist churches, are in fact increasingly corporatist, self-absorbed, and entitled. In the wake of the things several conservative christians have been saying about Trump, or the excuses some of them have been making for him, or the literal SUPPORT they have given him - I feel like I can hardly ever trust any of the churches (where I come from, anyway) with my money, and I doubt I will find a church that I can trust or settle into anytime soon. Men are, of course, fallible. But the God I know is loving and merciful - and I do still have they money from my first paycheck that I’ve been setting aside.

And SO that money will now be going to 2 or 3 of the organizations on this list http://jezebel.com/a-list-of-pro-women-pro-immigrant-pro-earth-anti-big-1788752078 - where it WILL hopefully go toward helping the marginalized groups who really need it, perhaps now more than ever. In the coming couple of months I will be making my observations of the situation and selecting the organizations to donate to. It’s not much, but it’s what I feel convicted to do, and I’m sure it’ll be more in line with God’s love and acceptance than whatever bullshit a lot of churches (and of course this dangerous, demagogue-ish presidential elect) would currently do.

I’m making this declaration not to fish for praise, but for two reasons: 1) to hold myself accountable to this decision 2) to remind everyone that we can still help the situation in other ways.

Democracy doesn’t stop at the polls. And you know people, we might have lost this battle, but we haven’t lost the war, and this war is far from over. If they build walls, we will tear them down. Never give up and never lose hope, as shitty as this year has been so far. ONWARD <3

[blargha-writes]

I’ve been playing The Secret World and I'm kinda surprised by how much I like it so far given almost everything about my faction’s intro sequence (@game devs please I beg of you stop shoving sex scenes in my face without asking first it’s super rude).

Anyway this is Mackenzie. A bee gave her magic powers so she’s been press-ganged into a secret society, and now she’s off to add even more chaos to a zombie apocalypse for some unfathomable reason.

Not a single word has been exaggerated and I am 100% on board with this tbh.