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he's free now

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Morticia Addams: I support women's wrongs.

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a lot of people think the point of ned's character is to highlight the folly of unyielding loyalty to a broken sense of honor but if grrm wanted the point of ned's character to be his folly he wouldn't have people fighting for "ned's girl" in his memory out of love, if they're looking for "deconstruction of blind allegiance to unfounded codes of honour" that's BARRISTAN!

yes let’s rant okay.

i think people really undersell the effect r+l=j on who he is and how he acts. people understand it as a fun plot twist rather than like, the hinge upon which his life swings. this is partially bc we still technically don’t know that rhaegar & lyanna are jon’s parents so we haven’t seen its true effects and partially because the show treats it as just a fun plot twist. it Only exists to make drama between jon & dany, it has no actual effect on their characters or anyone around them. like, arya and sansa are not going to have a more emotional reaction to finding out ned was lying to their mom? that robb will never know the truth? that rickon died in jon’s arms and HE will never know the truth? and dany like, had NO REACTION to him being RHAEGAR’S son, the man she has admired and based herself off of (not that they include this aspect of them at all 🤧).

but it’s not a plot twist to ned, it’s his life. and the chain of events goes robert forgives and even condones the murders of aegon & rhaenys -> ned leaves -> lyanna begs him to protect jon -> lyanna dies -> ned immediately reconciles with robert. it’s like that one sansa & starvation graphic i made, im talking about the action and effect here. why does ned move so goofy regarding robert? is it because he has unyielding loyalty to robert’s regime? or is it because he’s scared robert will find out he’s been lying to him for fifteen years? is it folly for ned to be against child killing? or is it a moral code that is Correct but at odds with the world he lives in, and based on his own fears of Jon being killed? like, people are always saying he’s too honorable, too loyal to robert but - he’s not! every moment people point to about him being ~too honorable~ are moments he is clearly acting out of fear of robert’s temper! he does not cover for robert’s temper, he does not allow robert to get away with shit, he spends every step in the capital arguing with robert until robert gets so annoyed he straight up leaves!

his life is before and after, and in the after he finds that he cannot live with the sort of man robert is, something lyanna knew long before ned. THATS his story. it’s not loyalty to a code that is based on nothing, it’s this frozen fear of discovery because he knows that if he sits and thinks too hard about it, he will realize that his best friend is a monster. it’s about ned REALIZING the code is based on nothing. what matters is not what everyone else thinks honor is, it’s what You as a person can live with morally, and it’s why, when he’s sitting in the dark dungeons, his thoughts are with lyanna, with jon, with sansa - he compromised his honor for love once, and he does it one more time before he dies. It’s not the “honorable” thing but it’s the right thing, and Ned’s story is very much about realizing he cannot do what is right while he is tied to Robert Baratheon.

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Tfw when men do that thing where they pretend they have no control over their temper. LOL It’s so funny like am I supposed to pretend that I don’t know you’re completely self-aware and present during this rage performance. Or should I pretend you’re the tortured hero in a movie, possessed by a series of fabricated flashbacks of the war and your father

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good news i'm the most fuckable person at this vehicular manslaughter

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Lady Minisa Whent

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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

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Nice url

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Lol this is so real, this was me 2022-2023 going through stage 7 grief. But ANYway...

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I'm so sick of people saying water doesn't taste. Water fuckin TASTES

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happy "closer to 2050 than 2000" day everyone

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I just realized this video is not on the hellsite and that's criminal

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Religious art leaves out the best part and it’s such a goddamn shame. Livestock, Agriculture and Food is an integral part of any culture and we all need to be pushing for more realistic sheep in religious art. #FATTAILSFORJESUS