#thatwhitecloak

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Thatwhitecloak >>> Tylandlannister

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thatwhitecloak replied to your post: thatwhitecloak replied to you...

Wow. I don’t know how the men are treated, but I assume better than that. That is pretty morbid, which kind of interests me… But wow.

The Shane and Rick triangle with Lori played out per how the show did it, from what I understand. Daryl doesn't exist. And I honestly don't remember anyone else. I've done my best to lock the comic away in the "well, that was an experience" box, and am glad I never bought an issue or TPB. (My brother got them out of the library.)

theonewiththecandy replied to your post: thatwhitecloak replied to you...

I’ve read those things about the comics too and I really don’t feel like reading them because of those facts. I think the tv-show isn’t that harsh and brutal. (And Carol for example is more balanced and interesting in the TV-version)

headtripxhoney replied to your post: thatwhitecloak replied to your post: Do you...

In the show, Carol’s abuse and her feelings for her abuser are shown realistically and talked about intelligently. Maggie is nearly raped, but the narrative prioritizes HER feelings and not Glenn’s - he apologizes for only thinking of himself. 

That whole storyline was handled startlingly well. The show isn’t great, but it’s better than the comics. Andrea and Lori aren’t always handled consistently or well.

So I understand from your posts. (It's the images I try to savior, not the text posts.) If I could handle the zombies -- and I'm pretty damn sure I can't, I had trouble with Warm Bodies and that was mild, zombie-wise -- I probably would enjoy the show far more than the comic.

Though the comic left such a bad taste in my mouth, so maybe not. :P

thisislucreziasand replied to your post: thatwhitecloak replied to you...

ugh yes! and the writer was SUCH an asshole when he was criticized for it.

Robert Kirkman is on my "never again" list for a couple of reasons, and that's one of them. Mark Millar is another. Nothing he has done from Authority onwards has given me any other impression than "lol edgy", and Wanted and Kick-Ass -- the comic versions specifically, the movies are far less awful I understand, though I won't watch them anyway -- overtly disgust me. Don't let me get started about Millar. (And the guy who writes Fables is kind of a douchebag but I really like that comic most of the time so I try to avoid everything else about him.)

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thatwhitecloak replied to your post: kanyejolras asked: [[MOR] any thoughts on...

Out of curiousity, who is grrm’s fancast for arianne?

Apollonia Kotero, as she looked when she appeared in the movie Purple Rain. (Not as she looks now, 30 years on.) I edited to link to the post I made when someone mentioned the fancast to me.

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Do you have any Balon Greyjoy feels or headcanons? People are always like "balon who?" and it makes me sad

I in fact, do have Balon Greyjoy feelings, which can feel a bit silly sometimes because I am not that fond of him, but I have a lot of feelings?

Also like keep in mind I am crazy tired so this is probably going to end up sounding weirder and weirder. 

Like Balon was a freaking prodigy and people spend so much time laughing at him that they forget that he was basically naturally good at everything. Like the dude was a beast before his balls dropped. He could sail and reave and fight and basically kick ass. He was as hard as they come. He was famous with his own people for being a fearless badass basically. 

I don’t know what was up with that particular family line, but I know that all of them have this obsession with the old way that had sort of diminished an died down over the years. So you’ve got this guy who is so talented and proud and powerful and he knows it. He sees his people living under the iron fist of Westeros and I think, more than he wants to be king, he wants his people to have the freedom to follow their own customs and to get his people’s land back. 

Of course, Ironborn customs are largely bad news bears for non Ironborn, but I think the sentiment in terms of their perspective is nice??

ANYWHOO, Greyjoy rebellion, blah blah. In Balon’s mind it was all about freeing his people from oppression. The Rebellion is mocked at or looked at as a troublesome setback, but for him and the people who believed in him, it was a big fucking deal. It was his rage against the machine if you will. 

and I do feel like personally, the Iron Islands SHOULDN’T have their independence if they are going to abuse it like Balon wanted them to, but if you are a person from that culture with the mindset that it’s your god given right to be pirates, having that right back is FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM111!!!11. 

So who was Balon to his people then? A freedom fighter. A warrior. A prodigy. a perfect example of a leader who did everything he could for the good of his people.

and of course, Asha knows better because she realizes that biting the hand is going to do nothing but kill the people that the Greyjoys are fighting so hard to liberate. Better advance your position by getting in good with the people in power rather than trying to seize it with brute force. 

But then there is Balon the father, which is again, a double sided issue. Balon is sort of the Lucille Bluth of Westeros. “I love all of my children equally. I don’t care for Theon”.

He loved Rodrik and Maron and mourns their deaths to his dying day. Neither him or Alannys ever recovered from losing both sons in the rebellion. They are a really great example of what happens to a real family when children die; the split apart. 

Asha was everything to Balon and more. Despite the rest of Westeros and his own brothers sticking up their noses at him for it, he gave Asha everything and ultimately saw her as no different than he would a son. I really believe that too. Balon had full confidence in Asha. He was proud of her and saw her as a fit and rightful ruler and leader of men. His male heir comes back on a silver platter with no strings and still he favored his daughter; whom he KNEW would have a harder time sitting on the seastone chair. Whom he KNEW Westeros as a collective would never accept as his heir or respect him for favoring. Balon is this super, super archaic guy who believes in the old way, and yet he still idolized and loved his daughter and believed she deserved ever privilege a man could have and gave it to her. 

and then There is Theon, whom we know from Asha was sort of the runt of the litter. A shy quiet boy who would get beaten and bullied by his brothers. Who was partially raised by the Starks, his enemies. I think that Balon wanted to love Theon (as in that Ironborn way where you hardly express it) but the relationship never really got the chance to repair itself. 

In my Theon stan bias, I am bitter that Balon didn’t just scoop Theon in his arms and welcome him back. I’m bitter that he seemed to always have looked at Theon as “Weak” and “unworthy”. If I am looking at it from a relative culture perspective, it makes sense that he distanced himself from Theon (aka his youngest, weakest son who’s developed an affection for his captors and has no training what so ever in the ways of being a lord or a sailor and came to him with a proposition from Robb  Stark)

We also know that Balon was sort of the Jaime Lannister of his siblings and kept them peaceful with each other (Euron and Victarion for example) Aeron, the youngest, looked up to Balon despite his later reservations about how he raised Asha. 

Like I guess what I am trying to say is that overall I don’t like Balon as a person (Salt wives + his glorification of the old ways + mistreatment of Theon) but I GET him and I feel like there is more to him than that “loser wannabe king”. He’s actually a ballsy badass that just become too arrogant because everything in his life had come easy to him. He’s also a father who’s lived with the deaths of two sons that he watched grow, fell estranged from his wife, and appears to have attempted to make up for all if it by putting his life into his daughter. 

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TAG, you’re it! The rules are to state ten random facts about yourself. Then send this to the fifteen nicest people on tumblr.

Okay ;)

- I had bacon and eggs for breakfast today

- I currently have a huge crush on Joel Edgerton (go watch him in gatsby people!)

- I slept super well last night but I'm feeling sleepy rn . wtf

- I enjoy driving but hate parking

- I've been addicted to lemonade all summer

- My favorite lipstick shade is vibrant coral by Dior

- Over these past few days I've become re-obsessed with Abba. So much nostalgia :')

- I hate changing earrings all the time .

- I overthink too much

- I'm obsessed with 'The Great Gatsby' OST

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As a swedish viewer I just have to share that her subs are pretty bad, really. She misses essential parts of the lines, doesn't keep the comedy of the funnier lines, and she can never really decide whether she is going to translate the name of places or not. It just such a mishmash of translated and not translated, quite jarring tbh.

I'm sorry you get shit subtitles but that's kind of hilarious

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thatwhitecloak replied to your post: thatwhitecloak replied to your photo: ...

I was just joking lol, referred to this post though: thatwhitecloak.tumblr.c…

I will remedy this

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thatwhitecloak replied to your photo: Kept seeing those macros with comic sans all over...

Not getting over the fact that you didn’t reblog mine back in january, was pretty glorious tbh

Uhhh I don't really know what you're referring to