[vampireb4it]

I DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU END AND I BEGIN.

unknown / jennifer’s body (2009) dir. karyn kusama / twin peaks: fire walk with me (1992) dir. david lynch / crimson peak (2015) dir. guillermo del toro / yellowjackets (2021-) dir. karyn kusama

[swamplamp]

Well, do you think I'm cool?

Dinner in America (2020) dir. Adam Rehmeier

[vampireb4it]

Thank you so much for the Arya comm ❤️

no thanks necessary 💘 she’s one of my all-time favorite characters, so you can expect more where that came from!

[bounckery]

I am not immune to the jossam propaganda

[vampireb4it]

until dawn 2 but without josh/sam

[fadeintoyou1993]

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS | 2.08

[the-key-five]

arya stark appreciation week → day 1: quote

Only the kindly man knew the Common Tongue. "Who are you?" he would ask her every day. "No one," she would answer, she who had been Arya of House Stark, Arya Underfoot, Arya Horseface. She had been Arry and Weasel too, and Squab and Salty, Nan the cupbearer, a grey mouse, a sheep, the ghost of Harrenhal . . . but not for true, not in her heart of hearts. In there she was Arya of Winterfell, the daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and Lady Catelyn, who had once had brothers named Robb and Bran and Rickon, a sister named Sansa, a direwolf called Nymeria, a half brother named Jon Snow. In there she was someone . . . but that was not the answer that he wanted.

A Feast for Crows, Arya II

[thelaughingtree]

🌻(if you're still in the mood for 🌻)

new ask game send me a 🌻 and ill just tell you whatever the fuck i want

i've been thinking about daenerys & arya similarities, parallels, points of contrast recently, since i think as a duo they're really undercompared.

what immediately stands out is that dany & arya - both contrast to their siblings - show far less interest in the idea of status, titles, the world of princes and princesses, and far more curiosity about the wider world outside of those spaces, showing an interest in the world of the common born:

It's also their interest and ability to adapt to the world outside of the nobility that allows them to survive:

but interestingly, dany's integration into the dothraki is one that allows her some degree of independence and self-determination - relatively, in contrast to before. it's a transformation that then allows her to take the mantle of leadership and queenship and embrace power, though it's a fraught thing - her ambitions of queenship are ones grounded in the view of the common people, in giving them plenty, but also requires her to balance the need for conquest required to attain power:

inversely, arya starts in a position of comfort, with all the love dany wishes she has - having the security and warmth of a loving family, having a strong sense of home welcoming her back (including nobles who'd rally for her and her name!), and in particular, an elder brother than would quite literally die for her freedom.

more interestingly, arya in some way is living out the fantasies dany has about being a 'normal child' - arya smears her face with dirt and mud to hide, arya runs like a common born child in the alleys and gutters, arya travels on a ship and learns sailor's knots, intermingles with them at the docks. she even returns to Braavos, the city of dany's childhood. but these adventures - the sorts of things arya used to think she wanted - haven't brought her much happiness. instead, she's lost herself in the fantasy of the dissolution of herself, in removing herself completely to remove herself from her grief, and it has brought her very little:

which i think - and this is some conjecture - but i think may signal the way things will go when daenerys attempts to find 'home' in westeros, again a fantasy that helps her justify the necessity of conquest and reclamation of the iron throne. but unlike arya stark, there are no bannermen rallying to dany's name there. there's no one secretly sewing dragons into their banners, there's no one so devoted to the stories of the targaryens as viserys wished they would. it's a fantasy! a dangerous fantasy. one that will likely take her further than her dreams of a kingdom where people are happy, with bellies full, one that will even take her further from dreams of travel and adventure and sailing, one that will not give her 'home', truly. daenerys targaryen might end up being someone far away from dany the girl (indeed, there's probably a contrast to be made here between dany v daenerys v mother and arya v all her various guises).

in any case, we have two girls with a lot of commonalities: being curious younger sisters, who want to explore and learn more about the world, who are gifted at languages and horsemanship, who both are forced to transform themselves and let go of noble comforts to survive, and who have gone through inverse arcs, in some ways, with daenerys being elevated and struggling to balance that common perspective with her position as queen, while arya has let go and almost lost her sense of self in an attempt to survive and bury her grief. in some ways i think knowing each other could help each other greatly - arya could offer daenerys a greater sense of on-the-ground perspective of westeros and even braavos, of what it means to be a commoner in different walks of life, while daenerys could show arya how her name and identity - things dany has always had to cling to, since they're often all she has had - can in some ways be important touchstones for enduring and pushing past terrible losses.

[polartss]

the mockingjay

[vampireb4it]

thrift pull of the century

[blacksailsblr]

BLACK SAILS 2.06 “XIV.”

[resetme]

This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery. There is... possibility. There is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it. And who has been so close to doing it as we are right now?

BLACK SAILS 🏴‍☠️ January 25, 2014 - April 2, 2017.

[theecarcrash]

don’t look but someone cloned the fucking stark siblings

[percyfraser]

HANNAH DODD photographed by Mei Tao for Netflix

[sstrawbearri]

basically the best thing a story can have is a woman who is doomed. massive points if she destroys the people around her in response.

[halidki]

arya stark and nymeria

[lyriumsaber]

“what’s so bad about being with me?” ❣️🪦

movie: obsession, directed by curry barker.

song: “change (in the house of flies)” by deftones

frame count: 606

this movie has sat with me since i saw it last week. it’s just mean, as one of my besties put it. beyond unsettling and beyond incredible. this is a must-watch for anyone who likes to be scared.

as always, all frames printed and remixed by hand. no ai used. :)