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[gallusrostromegalus]

Please tell Mr Mochi love him

I have done so, and told him he’s moderately internet famous.

He ignored me in favor of trying to open the pantry door so he can eat Charlie’s Dog Treats.

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Question! I noticed - maybe I'm wrong - that in all the adaptations, the casting for the main characters is similar: Darcy is dark haired, and so is Lizzie; Jane is blonde and (for some fascinating reason) Bingley is ginger-y. Is there a reason? something in the books that I missed? Some extra source? It seemed too much a coincidence (although I do love Ginger Bingley) thanks!!!

First off, I’m going to refer back to Mullan’s What Matters in Jane Austen? again, because he’s done a whole chapter on what her characters look like (and starts off with a basic examination of casting choices in adaptations and the admiration or outrage which always follows.) “How people look is often suggested rather than specified in Austen’s novels.�� He then goes on to quote Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, “…paint her to your own mind–as like your mistress as you can–as unlike your wife as your conscience will let you.”

All we know of Jane is that she is considered very beautiful–as much is said by Bingley, her mother (who has no difficulty criticizing her children when they displease her,) and even Darcy must admit it as a fact. Looks are important in novels where often penniless girls must rely on other attractions in their manners and person–”…words used so frequently about characters when we first meet them: handsome, pretty, gentlemanlike, elegant…”. And yet she avoids specifics–perhaps as a reaction to other novels of her era, where a heroine’s precise points of beauty are totted up among her other virtues to make her a peerless wonder. Austen’s heroines are often described by other characters, rather than the narration, as it’s important to consider who is looking, and how, when looking at their judgements. Some people use a mention in Jane Austen’s letters about Jane wearing the colour green and Elizabeth preferring yellow to be some kind of marker of what their haircolours must have been in Austen’s mind’s eye, but that’s a tenuous argument at best, and if Austen had wanted the world in general to know imagined particulars about Jane and Elizabeth, she would have set them down in the text.

We know Elizabeth’s eyes are fine, and dark, but beyond that, we are given no details. On a genetic level, dark eyes are far more likely to occur in people with darker hair, but Austen wasn’t working with genetics–and dark eyes paired with lighter hair can sometimes be a rare sign of remarkable beauty, as in the descriptions of Irene in Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga books. (A description which was entirely ignored in the casting of my future wife Gina McKee, but then Irene’s beauty and her allure is such a pivotal force in the novels that to pin it down as necessarily belonging to certain shades of colouring is to make it more trite than it truly is. Irene’s beauty is something beyond what one sees at first glance–it is transcendent charm.) Dark could mean brown, or also a very dark blue or grey–it’s impossible to tell, exactly. Anne Elliott’s eyes are mild and dark, Fanny Price’s are soft and light, Harriet Smith’s are blue, Jane Fairfax’s a deep grey, (and her lashes and eyebrows called dark, giving us some notion of the likely shade of her hair,) Mary Crawford’s are sparkling and dark…eyes are often the only thing near to a solid description we are given of physical attributes, and even then half of the description is more to do with the expression of the personality or feeling of the character through their glances and gazes, rather than specifically the colour of their irises. (Only Emma Woodhouse’s exact eye-colour is known–they are “hazle” and no adaptation so far has given enough of a shit to make certain of casting.) Marianne Dashwood has very dark eyes, and there is a general comparative description of the figures of the two sisters–but casting directors rarely, if ever, I think, take specifics of figures into account beyond an ‘acceptable’ level of Hollywood slimness.Now, for the casting trends (exceptions to the pattern you laid out being the 1940 P&P’s Greer Garson being a dirty-blonde/light brown Elizabeth, while Maureen O’Sullivan’s Jane had very dark hair; and the 1980 miniseries with Elizabeth Garvie’s Eliza also having light brown hair while Sabina Franklyn’s Jane was several shades darker–but indeed, the two more recent and well-known adaptations of 1995 and 2005 have the colourings you mentioned,) it’s probably just down to Hollywood mechanics where you’re going to have to combine the tropes of a comparative Ugly Duckling sister as well as a Best Friend/Beta Couple plotline. Coding a blonde woman (or man) as ‘good’ and a darker-haired person as ‘less good’ has been a Thing since long before cinema showed up on the scene. There’s a reason Laura Ingalls spends so much time inwardly (and outwardly) bitching about her sister Mary’s luck in being blonde (and also better-behaved, though this is never explicitly tied to the fact that Mary is blonde, but just ties INTO the overall notion that Mary is The Better Daughter.) Dark-haired heroines throughout older literature have bemoaned their lack of golden locks (notably also in LM Montgomery’s works, with Anne Shirley’s famous sensitivity about her hair being red, but also briefly in Emily Starr’s contemplation of her own black hair and atypical looks, which gets a bit of verse thrown at it which I can’t find sourced anywhere else so must have been made up by Montgomery herself: “If the bards of old the truth have told the sirens had raven hair. But over the earth since art had birth, they paint the angels fair.“So culturally, in the west, there’s a pervasive notion (especially when it comes to women,) that dark-haired women are the ‘darker’ side of their humanity…the temptresses, the more-likely-to-be-bad. (Though any reasonable reader would be like “…well, they’re human, you see, not out-and-out evil.”) But of course anyone compared to the fair-haired saintly paragon of womanhood would look bad–and so equally is the angelic blonde woman a trope in literature, often but not always used in comparisons against her brunette foil.

In cinema, quite often it’s just to better differentiate between characters, and to use these assumptions which are deeply entrenched in our cultures to play upon our immediate and almost instinctive reactions to visual cues. Jane is super-good, so she’s blonde. Bingley is likewise a bright and easy-going character, with more elements of comedy about him, so he’s got lighter hair, too, either as a strawberry blonde or redhead–but he is definitely the sidekick. I, personally, would be all for a ginger Darcy. Or a ginger-everybody P&P. (But that’s not going to happen, because redheaded men are culturally de-sexed/made less masculine or attractive, whereas redheaded women are more inclined to be overly-sexualized. Humanity is weird.) Darcy is a brooding brunette, because darker hair in the case of a male character gives them gravitas and mystery. It’s that damn Byronic thing coming into play. Dark hair, dark secrets. It’s a visual construct we’ve trapped ourselves into, at this point. Also, when you’ve got two love-stories running more or less concurrently, an audience needs visual markers to help them quickly identify and individualize (and therefore emotionally-invest in) the characters. More morally-dubious and fascinating hero and heroine Elizabeth and Darcy are brunettes because we see them making mistakes and drawing our attention by being fuck-ups. Lizzie can’t be the Prettier Sister, so she’s more automatically made the Brunette Underdog. Darcy is brooding and mysterious–so it’s very easy to make him dark-haired. Their contrasts are in their secondary characters–Jane and Bingley. Jane is prettier, and good-hearted (moreso than Eliza, anyway,) so she ascends to Blonde. Bingley is the Good Friend, and seemingly with fewer social defects compared to Darcy, so as the Nice Man, he gets lighter hair to also differentiate him from Darcy and make him more matchy-matchy with Jane. Our brains are making these connections based on visuals even before we’ve gotten half a dozen words of dialogue from any of these people.

This happens often in films and TV shows–in Coppola’s Dracula, Sadie Frost (a natural brunette) was made a vibrant redhead as Lucy to contrast to Winona Ryder’s more sedate and mysterious Mina. (Though this also had the fun effect of tying in a possible reference to the historical link between redhaired people and vampires, and the whole mythos of redhaired women in particular and sexual allure/witchcraft/spiritual evil–particularly as THIS version of Lucy is much more heavily sexualized compared to her book counterpart. I don’t know how much of the hair-colour-change was on purpose from Coppola’s perspective, and largely it’s just handwaved as being so people could really tell apart the ONLY TWO MAJOR FEMALE CHARACTERS IN THE FILM, but personally I think it’s an interesting choice–particularly compared to Katie McGrath’s blonde Lucy.) Again, we see the contrasting of virtue coded in hair-colouring, as Lucy is a character known for her sweetness and purity…as well as being a secondary female character to the heroine, and hence her more-virtuous foil…with lighter hair. Mina’s place as an educated, working, and married woman, with a more active part in the narrative, particularly as her brushes with dark forces mark her as ‘unholy’, makes it easier to code her as ‘complicated’, i.e. a brunette. Interestingly, this is set on its head in Penny Dreadful, where Mina becomes the blonde, doomed damsel, and her friend/lover Vanessa is the raven-haired woman at the center of a maelstrom of fucked up shit full of vampires, witches, and devils. Essentially if you want your heroine to go ‘bad’ a little (or a lot), give her a better-by-comparison blonde friend and have at it.Of course, since these tropes are so pervasive, we do see stories where this is purposefully mirrored or mocked, where the icy blonde is the femme fatale or turncoat who uses her appeal to deceive others–but this relies just as heavily on the initial assumption that a fair-haired character is intrinsically ‘better’ on a moral level.To conclude, this is why I think we see that general trend with colouring when it comes to casting/styling these characters in cinematic adaptations, as we have really very little in the text to go on, but from the characters themselves there are long traditions to draw from for visual cues to quickly and adeptly condition audiences to draw certain assumptions about these characters which enable us to rapidly bond with and understand them to some degree. I want to specify “Western” audiences because the blonde/brunette thing is at its roots kind of a colourism thing which is grossly pervasive in a white supremacist society going back for centuries, and Caucasian beauty standards do not and should not apply globally; but as the media most of us are familiar with is dominated by this white heteronormative patriarchal history, these tropes and codings exist for ultimately gross reasons. Frankly we could all do without them from this day forward, but change can be slow and so these stereotypes continue to exist and blonde people on-screen for now often continue to be the tacit code for ‘these people are the purest bestest people’ while the darker-haired people are almost always more morally-grey, complicated–even troubling–and made more ‘fascinating’ by their more flawed natures. It’s a shitty way of doing things, but we’ve been culturally conditioned to respond to things like that, and so it works.Anyway, thanks for asking this one–my answer went to places I wasn’t fully expecting me to go, but I enjoyed blowing the dust off my film studies qualifications and I always love yelling about culture.

[incorrectpride-prejudicequotes]

Mrs Bennett has a point

okay this ties in PERFECTLY with this reply to the post!!!!

At the end of the day..... mrs bennet's heart is in the right place, she may come on way too strong but she just doesnt wanna see her family put out on the streets and honestly!!!! i dont blame her!!!!!

also hell yeah mary is a classic case of early 2000s romcom crime of Being A Brunette Around A Lot Of Blondes. she's pretty and she doesnt need a makeover guys

[donewithwoodenteeth]

Against everyone that says that Arya+Gendry's is not a romantic relationship bc Arya is too young to have such feelings, doesn't Bran quite literally says in the books [now I don't recall the precise words, it has been a while since I read them] that he's in love with Meera [Reed]? And he's younger than Arya. Sorry, I realise now this is not properly a question =P

No, it’s fine! <3

Umm yes, Bran says he’s in love with Meera in ADWD, which would make him 9. Arya is 10 when she’s with Gendry in ACoK/ASoS.

He wondered what Meera would think if he should suddenly tell her that he loved her.

I’ve seen some people write it off as actually Hodor’s thoughts (???) or that he’s just infatuated and doesn’t understand love. That second one is fine, what 9 year old really understands the true depths of romantic love? But the point remains that Bran thinks he loves Meera, which means he at the very least has a crush on her. Crush = romantic thoughts.

The funny thing is I think people aren’t really putting this in perspective. I remember in fifth grade wanting to have high school dances so I could go with guys and thinking about dating. Young kids think about it, they can be interested and have crushes (many, many do,) it’s just not sexual.

I really think that some fans are kind of confusing sexual attraction with romantic feelings. And young people can have feelings of a romantic nature without recognizing what they truly are. 

More importantly, these people are kind of crazy because in text we have Sansa fantasizing about her wedding thousands of times, she and Jeyne talking about handsome guys and marriage, saying she “loves Joffrey”, ect.

She’s eleven.

And what age is Arya now? Oh, yeah. Eleven.

Arya has textual romantic undertones with Gendry.

Arya thinks about men’s attractiveness.

Arya is not outside the realm of romance at all.

And the idea that Gendry/Arya wasn’t hinted at because of Arya’s age is absurd.

So yeah, I don’t get it and I think it’s either an attempt to hate by people who don’t like Arya’s storyline having romantic tones or just don’t like Gendry/Arya. Or it could be some people over thinking it and confusing romantic with sexual feelings.

[thebibliosphere]

Hello! If I remember correctly you had an ask a while ago about what to do in Edinburgh and so. I tried to find it but I couldn't. I am going there this summer and although I have been already, by bf hasn't and I want to give him the best time. Any suggestions? You are such an inspiration btw, always. Thanks!

Ahh, you are too sweet, <3 and I think I know the ask you are talking about, let me see now, ah yes here we go:

It’s January Scotland so make sure you have an umbrella. Also yes we do tip (Edinburgh is tourist central so the servers are usually students or foreigners on 0 hours with very little job security so tipping is appreciated) from experience the average is usually about 10%, although 20% is appreciated. If Bella Italy is there I’ve always had good service in there and the prices aren’t too bad, also look for the small local looking coffee shops, they tend to have the best food, and it’s where the locals eat so the prices aren’t extortionate. 

For Scottish food, ETD and I rather like “The World’s End” on Royal Mile as well. But also Broadies at the middle is good too. Just basically eat your way from one of the mile to the other and you can’t go wrong.

As for places you should see: the castle goes without saying, the royal palace if it’s open is also fun (but expensive) and the Edinburgh dungeons are always a hoot, as is King Mary’s Close (on the Royal Mile) which actually takes you under the city in to the old city on a guided tour, that’s probs one of my fave things to do while there. Here’s a link http://www.realmarykingsclose.com/

This is probably one of my fave things to do.

Fair warning the Edinburgh Dungeons requires audience participation and has some jump scares so it’s not for everyone.

Also there’s lots of ghost tours and stuff and walking tours which you can find the info for outside the St Tron Kirk on Royal Mile. Oh and the St Giles Cathedral is really pretty inside and that’s also on the Royal Mile.

Another fave of mine is the Optical Illusion Museum which is across from the Whiskey Experience, which let me tell you, don’t go see those two in the wrong order.

Some other things I would recommend are:

The National Museum of Scotland: http://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/

The Surgeon’s Hall Museum (if you’re into that sort of thing) https://museum.rcsed.ac.uk/

The Writer’s Museum (we have a lot of museums okay) http://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/The-Writers--Museum.aspx 

Also the zoo is a nice day visit (someone please tell me they still to the penguin parade?)  and there are guided tours of parliament which is much the same thing these days.

You also can’t really go wrong with a hike around the city or up to Arthur’s Seat, provided you get a day where it’s no raining sidey-ways.

@ Scottish tumblr fam if I’ve missed something you think should be on here please add it!

[systlin]

H E L P I've always adored Mad Sweeney but Pablo Schreiber ain't making it any easier ;_;

GOD DAMMIT I would climb him like a TREE

Everyone on American gods is too pretty help

[simprising]

Hi! I love your legacy. How are you going to choose the heir? :)

hiii thank you very much for your always so kind words :-) i’m going to choose the one i like better and the one you guys like more or think would be perfect for gen 4 :-) 

[wildlyminiaturesandwich]

Hullo I wanted to ask (if it has not been asked before) you said that one can have several familiars at once but that also means that all the possible familiars are available at once? Like no quest or level to unlock them? They just... pop up in the menu? Thanks!!

Hiya! Nope, no quest or specific level to unlock them. You buy them from the merchants in Caster’s Alley int he Magical Realm (or steal the couple that in Magic HQ teehee), click on them and select “Bind”, and then when you click on your sim after that and choose Magic > Familiar > Summon Familiar you’ll get a pop up list with all your familiars listed in there!

[rincewindsapprentice]

eorlsdotter replied to your post:There are so many places where you can start...

I didn’t start Discworld from The Light Fantastic the first time around (although I did when I started re-reading them in English) but why would it be a bad choice to start from there? Besides “too obvious”? Also, what’s wrong with Snuff? (oops)

Well, since the Color of Magic comes right before, The Light Fantastic is one of the few Discworld books that is pretty much a sequel, like truly a sequel to another book, it doesn't fit as independently as most every other book.

Also, Snuff just... rubbed me the wrong way. I don't know what it was about it, but it just didn't feel right. I was not a big fan. Plus, as I read people's other reactions to it, and as I analyze, and read analysis of, the whole goblin thing, it starts to upset me a bit. No other book is that White Saviour, and it gave a lot of power and omnipotence to Vimes which don't really belong.

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

eorlsdotter replied to your post: anonymous asked:I saw your commen...

Why don’t you like the show cast for Robb? (or, at least, you think it doesn’t match?) Yes, Richard Madden is much older than Robb is in the books but he’s one of my fav casting; but maybe just bc I like(d) Robb so much and Richard Madden is a cutie

I do like Richard Madden as Robb, never said I didn't. (He did quite well, I mean, at least considering the scripts he was given.) What I did say is that he doesn't nearly resemble Robb's book description and pre-show fanart as much as Sophie Turner resembles Sansa's book description and pre-show fanart.

Some examples of pre-GoT Robb depictions btw:

(he's the one on the far left)

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I am rewatching Persuasion (2007) AGAIN and I get this feeling that Charles Musgrove is still ...taken? by Anne? Like he's obvs happier to see her, and apparently cares for her more than for his own wife. We know Charles proposed to Anne first but I dont recall any particular attachment in the book. Am I reading too much into this or do you think it was a conscious directoral choice? Thanks in advance!

Hmm I don’t remember much of the 2007′s dynamic between Charles and Anne, but I think the general rule in adaptations is showing that Anne was and is still the superior choice, and that Charles has definitely ‘settled’ for the fractious and needy Mary. The actors and directors might have consciously decided to have Charles still lowkey pining for Anne, which is definitely one way to play it.

I’d have to do a re-watch to get a firmer idea on this one, but from a narrative perspective I don’t know how much it adds to the story to have Charles carrying a torch for Anne. Maybe as a mirror of how Anne carries a torch for Wentworth...only Charles moved on really quickly? Maybe as a commentary on the fickleness of men? Or, specifically, how Charles and Anne compare in terms of loyal affections. I never had any notion that Charles felt pretty deeply about Anne, at all, given how he moved on to ask Mary afterwards. I suppose in theory he could have desperately wanted to spite Anne and show her what she had lost in making a show of proposing to her younger sister (he was probably terrified of Elizabeth and also knew he wouldn’t stand a chance with the proudest eldest Elliot,) and/or knew he could stay in Anne’s life by marrying Mary. Which is kind of a darker and twisted way to take things and frankly I don’t think Charles has it in him.

More likely the familiarity of Mary has bred contempt for his wife, while Anne’s distance still keeps her on her pedestal, and so even the goodwill he feels towards her appears more affectionate than his behaviour towards Mary, even if he only feels brotherly friendship for Anne or not.

[ariaste]

So since you seem to know lots about stones and jewelry (why am I even surprised? you Do know everything) I was wondering- how are other stones compared to diamonds? That is- I read your reply about why Pearls Are A No Go for rings, but I do not fancy diamonds that much, I think they are boring. Other colored stones that are ok to wear in rings?

All this stone knowledge posting started when I suggested created white sapphires as an affordable alternative to diamonds on the “Why aren’t millennials buying diamonds” post :D

Sapphires are the second hardest gemstone (9 on the Mohs scale, right after diamonds, which are 10) and they come in literally every single color. Created (aka manmade) sapphires are HELLA cheap, to boot, so they’re definitely my top recommendation for a ring that you’re going to wear a lot, like an engagement ring. You want a green rock and you’ve been thinking of emeralds? Get a green sapphire. You want a pink rock? Pink sapphire. You want a sky blue rock? Sky blue sapphire. You want something NEAT AS SHIT? Star sapphire.

But okay, maybe some rocks other than sapphires, eh?Alexandrite is an 8.5 on the Mohs scale, and it’s a COLOR CHANGING WIZARD ROCK. 

Pretty much… for a ring or bracelet I was planning on wearing every single fucking day, day in and day out, I wouldn’t go for any stone below a 7.5 hardness, unless I was prepared for it to get scratched up over time (I have a lovely bracelet with amethysts (7), garnets (6.5), citrines (7), and peridots (7) and the edges of the facets definitely have taken some wear). That’s the thing – i’m NOT saying DON’T BUY SOFT STONES FOR YOUR RINGS, I’m just saying “Be educated so you can know what to expect and how to take care of your jewelry.”  Turquoise is a terribly soft stone, about a 5. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a turquoise ring, just means you should choose what days to wear it. 

Alternatively, get your beloved softer stones in jewelry items that don’t go on your hands! You can have pretty much any stone you fuckin’ please for earrings or necklaces and not worry about it beyond your usual common-sense kinds of things (please take your pearl and opal jewelry off before you get in the shower) (please don’t put soft stones in a sonic cleaner) (please be gentle when you’re cleaning your jewelry) (please don’t get chemicals on your soft stones; you can polish your silver with a dry silver-polishing-cloth, you don’t need fancy cream for it unless it’s tarnished REAAAAAL bad and even then you can get it bright again with a bit of elbow grease). :D

[donewithwoodenteeth]

(1) So, it's probably just me bc I'm very defensive of Jaime Lannister; but it kinda irks me everytime I see a gif set where him saying "Tell Robb Stark that I'm sorry I couldn't make it to his uncle's wedding - the Lannisters send their regards" to Roose Bolton is paired with the same Bolton stabbing Robb and saying "The Lannisters send their regards"; bc it doesnt seem to me like something Jaime would do/approve of. Yes, Robb Stark was an enemy; but the Red Wedding was not ok.

(2) Am I letting my favour for Jaime getting in the way of my objectivity, was Jaime’s sentence to be interpreted the same way that Bolton delivered it; or…? I don’t remember the books precisely, but wasn’t the Red Wedding a Frey+Bolton initiative to ingratiate themselves w/ the Lannisters? (sorry for the long ask!)

This is a hard one- not because of the bit about Bolton’s interpretation, but because Jaime doesn’t have as consistent ideas what is right and wrong. He can try to kill a seven year old innocent child and he can plan out the murder of hundreds and sending a newborn son through a trebuchet to his father. He’s definitely not above morally questionable tactics to get what he wants/feels he must.

But I don’t think Jaime is a huge fan of the Red Wedding, no.

Karyl Vance turned to Jaime. “Lord Piper spoke from grief. Marq is his firstborn son. Those knights who accompanied him to the Twins were nephews and cousins all.”

“Traitors and rebels all, you mean,” said Edwyn Frey.

Jaime gave him a cold look. “The Twins took up the Young Wolf’s cause as well,” he reminded the Freys. “Then you betrayed him. That makes you twice as treacherous as Piper.” He enjoyed seeing Edwyn’s thin smile curdle up and die.  Jaime, AFF

He states that the Freys betrayed Robb and are “twice as treacherous” as a man who supposedly took up a traitor’s cause. He views the men who took up a supposed traitor’s king cause and turned on him for the supposed true king to be twice as treacherous. 

And his opinions on Sybell Westerling say it all.

“Joy is my late uncle Gerion’s natural daughter. A betrothal can be arranged, if that is your wish, but any marriage will need to wait. Joy was nine or ten when last I saw her.”

“His natural daughter?” Lady Sybell looked as if she had swallowed a lemon. “You want a Westerling to wed a bastard?”

“No more than I want Joy to marry the son of some scheming turncloak bitch. She deserves better.” Jaime would happily have strangled the woman with her seashell necklace. Joy was a sweet child, albeit a lonely one; her father had been Jaime’s favorite uncle. “Your daughter is worth ten of you, my lady. You’ll leave with Edmure and Ser Forley on the morrow. Until then, you would do well to stay out of my sight.”  Jaime, AFFC

Jaime was not a huge fan of the Red Wedding, you’re definitely not only seeing what you want.

People all over Westeros, people who hated the Starks even, despise the Freys and disapprove of the Red Wedding. The RW was so much more complicated than a simple coup. Breaking guest right shatters trust of every noble everywhere. How can you attend a wedding, a feast, or any sort of parlay if you can’t trust anyone to abide by the rules that made this possible in the first place? How can you ever go anywhere unarmed? How can you trust again? That’s why it’s so poorly perceived. It’s not just a massacre, it wrecks the stability and peace that guest right brought. It’s a sacred law that has now been broken. Who can trust it to be upheld now? It was unheard of to break guest right before for a reason. 

Keep in mind that Jaime says a lot of stuff that he either doesn’t mean or says basically to piss people off. He’s snarky and likes to appear arrogant and self-assured at all times so he can appear to have the upper hand. A good example of this is Jaime’s running trend of making himself smile.

 Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile, if you let them. Jaime, ASoS

But the important thing is that Jaime did say give his regards when he was verbally sparring with Roose Bolton without any knowledge of the Red Wedding.

“The Trident is in flood,” he told Jaime. “Even at the ruby ford, the crossing will be difficult. You will give my warm regards to your father?”

“So long as you give mine to Robb Stark.” “That I shall.” Jaime, ASoS

A man in dark armor and a pale pink cloak spotted with blood stepped up to Robb. “Jaime Lannister sends his regards.” He thrust his longsword through her son’s heart, and twisted. Catelyn, ASoS

And this matters a lot despite the fact that Jaime A) didn’t know about the RW when he said that, and B) doesn’t really approve of the Red Wedding anyway.

Why? Well, Jaime’s definitely meeting Lady Stoneheart soon, the woman with a memory of Roose Bolton killing her supposed last son in front of her in supposedly on orders of some kind from Jaime. This is one of the reasons she so firmly distrusts Brienne and wants Jaime dead. LS thinks that Jaime at least helped plan the RW and that when Catelyn set him free, she helped cause her own son’s death.

So it’s a significant thing, I understand why people make so many gifsets illustrating that parallel.

[thebibliosphere]

1Hello! Thank you for being amazing. Also, I am in need of baking advice. Prelude: I found a "Indian Spices" syrup at my local supermarket so I am on cloud 9 bc I get to make chai lattes at home. But it also came to me that I can use it for flavoring

2 in baking for example (chai cheesecake anyone?) But I was wondering: do you think the taste will become stronger or weaker after baking? I will taste-test raw and need to know how strong it needs to be (or any other suggestion that you feel giving) 

Yaaay I love when you find things like that :D.

I still remember when I found out Torani made an actual cheesecake syrup. I know it’s meant for coffees but with my recent inability to enjoy full fat dairy it’s been a really great way of getting the flavor of cheesecake back into my life, whether by hot drinks or in frostings or in a sponge cake.

I think a chai cheesecake sounds fabulous, but without knowing the brand or how strong it is in concentrate I’m going to have to advise you do multiple taste tests for the sake of science.

For instance, when I am making my violet cream mixes, the syrup is just so subtle I always end up throwing in an extra two tablespoons to make sure you can taste it. With rose or lavender however? I’m usually a tablespoon less than what the recipe recommends because they are just such powerful flavors—the lavender in particular. And it’s the same brand of syrups, same syrup consistency and strength, it’s just the way the flavors are and how they work while baking goes on.

I’m thinking with a flavor like chai, you might find you lose some of it, not so much with a cheesecake because the fat in the dairy will likely be a good carrier for the sugar in the syrup, but if you’re throwing it into a sponge or a cookie mix where your oven will likely be baking at a higher temperature and you’ll have other flavors going on? I’d be inclined to cream it in with your butter before adding it to your mix, (or if you are using a recipe that calls for milk or cream) to ensure an even distribution through the mix.

Alternatively make it into a sauce and drizzle it over the top. Personally I think a chai caramel sauce sounds fabulous which you could make very easily by melting a cup of brown sugar down with about 4 tablespoons of butter, 100ml of milk (a little pinch of salt to keep it from being too sweet) and 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract with, hm, two tablespoons of the chai syrup? But again it depends on how strong your syrup is, so one might be enough.

I’m afraid you’ll just need to take one for the team and try it out :p

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