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The problem with having a child with an attorney that has spoken to the child like an adult since birth is that she's 4 years old and she's negotiating the order in which we're going to complete tasks as a family to best suit her idea of an ideal day.

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"The trick shot by Laura was actually made in one take. They had planned for a pool expert to make the shot after cutting away from showing Laura hitting the cue ball. But to everyone's surprise, she actually made the shot. Both Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke stayed in character and finished the take, thus the genuine look of surprise on their faces."

In the second gif, she's holding for applause before saying her line.

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Out of a moment of aching sadness and fury and manic impulsivity, a wizard turns a killer whale trapped in a theme park aquarium into a human so she can smuggle it out of the park and back into the wild.

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oh also? An absolutely freaky thing I'm seeing yt leftists do?

STOP TRYING TO TRACK DOWN PROTESTORS THAT DO 'BADASS STUFF'. STOP POSTING ABOUT IT ONLINE.

PEOPLE FUCKING DIE.

AND IT'S USUALLY SOMEONE MELANATED.

THE GOVERNMENT IS WATCHING YOU FUCKING DUMBASS.

y'all are so stuck on egoistic heroism that every time someone does something 'sick' at a protest you wanna turn them in to the next celebrity to have a parasocial relationship with and then they go missing.

Tf is wrong w y'all.

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It makes me happy when they listen

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bat at hornets nest maybe but "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" refers to low income communities needing to choose between survival vs being eco friendly. not you continuing to watch the harry potter movies

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There’s two ends of the horror spectrum

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Don’t mind me just thinking about étoile again

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Can never forgive them for getting rid of Dean’s jewelry </3

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You know what I've never really seen realistically depicted in fiction? The way that people in places that get a huge amount of snow deal with said snow. Specifically in the cities. I get that it's probably not exactly an intuitive thing to think about if you've never lived in a place that gets a lot of snow, and even if you do, you probably figure that they must have some really sophisticated infrastructure systems specifically for this purpose. It's not like they'll just scoop the snow off the streets and gather it into huge piles, and then just climb over the progressively larger and larger snow piles every single year for months while waiting for the piles to melt in the spring.

We do. There's no point in planning more sophisticated systems to get rid of something that'll eventually just go away on its own. So they just pile the snow into randomly designated spaces that cars or people aren't supposed to go through, and let it pile up. There's significantly less street parking available in the winter because some spots where you could otherwise park a car are currently the parking spot of a snow pile three times taller than a car.

You get used to it. And if you grow up around here, it never even occurs to you to think of it as something strange in the first place.

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screaaaammm somebody just called me a bootlicker for being annoyed that my coworker is so bad at her job thats its making everyone elses jobs way fucking harder i can never ever ever ever turn anon off

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Is this a problem?

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One of my favorite things about both Theon and Jeyne's stories both coming to the forefront again in ADWD is how Winterfell/Stark heavy their stories are with neither of them being true Starks. Their entire lives prior to the series kicking off had been to be the yes man/woman, number 2 choice, best friend to the actual heir - firstborn lord and lady of Winterfell - in their friendships with Robb and Sansa. I don't doubt that their friendships were true and that they really cared about them, but they definitely must have known their own statuses in comparison to Robb and Sansa. And so having Jeyne return as 'Lady Arya' and Theon as both the Prince and Ghost of Winterfell AND both of them reclaiming themselves in a way all while in the bedrocks of their childhood home....is really good lol.

l as well like how their ending (so far) is one of the truest to 'undissected' high fantasy romance we have seen so far. By romance I don't mean like they're actually in love with each other. I enjoy Theyne as a ship but only as a several years later type AU lol. But by romantic I mean how the actions Theon takes to save Jeyne are absolutely the kind of deeds that get people songs written about them in this series, romantic in the idealized way people imagine stories like this, and I think that's kind of beautiful as well as horrible. It is dissecting classic high fantasy in a way as it's showcasing the absolutely monstrous things that precede someone doing something like saving a maiden from an impenetrable fortress, all of the awful and unsavory parts that go along with it. But Jeyne and Theon still get that almost fairytale ending in Dance and I greatly enjoy that Jeyne - our lady of a minor noble house sold into sexual slavery and then forced to pass herself off as Arya, and Theon - our hostage turned turncloak turned regretful turned Reek turned Theon once more - are the ones who get to experience it. 🥲

"Abel had doomed them. All singers were half-mad. In songs, the hero always saved the maiden from the monster's castle, but life was not a song, no more than Jeyne was Arya Stark."

This quote is fantastic because I think it cuts deep into the heart of Jeyne and Theon's story. In any other story this is true and honestly in this one it is as well. No one would find it worth remembering Reek and Ramsay's frightened wife or Jeyne the whore. But in a song they can be more than that. They ARE the hero and the maiden escaping from the monsters castle, regardless of what anyone else may tell them. It doesn't matter that Jeyme is not truly Arya bc they still live out that trope and live to see another day for it. They are the antithesis and the blueprint of what makes up the songs of this series.

Anyway, I'm a little wine drunk and Jeyne and Theon subverting and also living out the tropes of fantasy as part of their regaining themselves plot is very special to me. 🥲

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“. . . but it was the Young Wolf who was the monster. More beast than boy, that one, puffed up with pride and bloodlust. And he was faithless . . . Robb Stark betrayed us all. He abandoned the north to the cruel mercies of the ironmen . . . Then he abandoned the riverlords who had risked much and more for him . . . to wed the first western wench who caught his eye. The Young Wolf? He was a vile dog and died like one.” (ADWD, Davos III)

“monster” “vile dog” you mean the 16 year old boy who died looking to his mother for comfort? who spent his last moments terrified that his wolf would be killed too? who begged his mother not to give herself up as a hostage? THAT’S your big bad villain?

“The Merman’s Court had grown still. Davos could feel the chill in the air. Lord Wyman was looking down at Rhaegar as if he were a roach in need of a hard heel . . . yet then, abruptly, he gave a ponderous nod . . . ‘A dog, aye. He brought us only grief and death. A vile dog indeed. Say on.’” (ADWD, Davos III)

when the frey propaganda is so repulsive that even lord manderly lets his mask slip for a moment. oh house manderly’s vengeance is going to be delicious.

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young jon old jon grey jon black