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Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel - “Big Game” TV Spot

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i’m pretty sure Frisk is a baby, or somth.

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Y'all up here acting like Snape spent his entire life in Danger because of his spywork? No. He joined the Death Eaters willingly after Hogwarts and only worked as a Spy for about 9 months (probably shorter) during the 1st war and then 3 years during the 2nd war. He had a nice, comfortable life inbetween under Dumbledore’s protection at Hogwarts. He was the only one to blame for any discomfort and unhappiness he experienced in those almost 14 years of safety. He was bitter and decided take it out on the rest of the world.

You know who did brave a horrible life full of loneliness, poverty, negligence and cruelty at the hands of those who wrongly feared and marginalized him? Remus Lupin. Who by the way also worked as a Spy for Dumbledore by living among werewolves (including the man who bit him) who supported Voldemort. Note, he LIVED among these werewolves. Always in danger of being torn apart and murdered on the spot, whereas most of Snape’s spylife involved him sulking around Hogwarts tormenting kids… Safe. And Remus lost EVERYTHING…but he smiled. Always smiled. Always put others first and never took anything for granted. It took tremendous amounts of bravery for Remus to just go about everyday life.

But no Snape’s the bravest of them all. I’m not bitter.

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reminder to myself about the process of drafting & revising:

first drafts are for making it exist

second drafts are for making it functional

third drafts are for making it effective

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Queen Rhaena I AU: The day Maegor forced Rhaena to become one of his black brides was the day he died. The young woman brought a dagger to their marriage bed and ended him with it. As the oldest grandchild of Aegon the Conqueror, she claimed the Iron Throne and became Queen of Westeros. Her ascension wasn’t met with complete acceptance. There were those who opposed a woman ruling over them in her own right, especially when she had a brother yet living. But after years of terror and bloodshed under Maegor, no one wanted war again and Jaehaerys refused to fight his sister.

Rhaena’s reign brought many changes to Westeros. She filled a number of offices not just with men, but with women who proved themselves worthy of their positions. Most notable was Elissa Farman, who held the office of Master of Ship. A born seafarer, she pushed for the creation of the crown’s own navy rather than relying on the fleets of other Houses. She also pushed for exploration to the west, which led to the discovery of a passage straight to Asshai and great riches.

The Westeros Rhaena passed on to her heir, Crown Princess Aerea, was more prosperous and tolerant of women in power than the one she had claimed.

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There’s this tired, baseless argument that is bandied around certain areas of the ASOIAF fandom regarding Rhaegar’s treatment of Elia. That for a man as gentle and as chivalrous, there must have been a reason for him to mistreat his wife so, and that too in such a public manner. That he had found true happiness elsewhere that his marriage failed to provide and that justified everything that came with it. The oft drawn conclusion is that Elia was the problem: she was either a wicked, unfaithful woman that drove him to the arms of a fourteen year old or a dull, insipid wife that couldn’t inspire any feeling in a man, so of course he had to go get the kind of woman he deserved. But the text already addressed that argument way back in “A Storm of Swords”.

“But that was the tourney when he crowned Lyanna Stark as queen of love and beauty!” said Dany. “Princess Elia was there, his wife, and yet my brother gave the crown to the Stark girl, and later stole her away from her betrothed. How could he do that? Did the Dornish woman treat him so ill?”

Daenerys is Rhaegar’s most ardent and blind supporter (aside from Jon Connington). I almost take her as a stand in for the Rhaegar adoring readers here. She (understandably to a degree) idolizes her brother, views him through the most rose tinted of glasses, even going so far to romanticize his supposed kidnapping of a betrothed teenager- at sword point, no less. And yet, so appalled, even she cannot rationalize his impossibly cruel humiliation of a pregnant Elia at Harrenhal. She cannot reconcile the Rhaegar of Viserys’ gushing stories and the Rhaegar who publicly disgraced his wife for every major lord in Westeros to witness in favour of another. Her only explanation, like some readers, is that Elia must have been to blame.

From “Princess Elia”, she becomes “the Dornish woman” who must have ill treated her gallant and devoted brother. From the butchered mother who pleaded for her son’s life as Daenerys remembers her in AGoT, she becomes the stranger who helped bring her humiliation and suffering upon herself. She must have been the cruel, unloving spouse who practically left him no other choice but to find affection elsewhere. For her idealized version of Rhaegar to hold up, Elia must become the villain. Yet that is dashed in the very next line.

“It is not for such as me to say what might have been in your brother’s heart, Your Grace. The Princess Elia was a good and gracious lady, though her health was ever delicate.”

Barristan Selmy, the Targaryen loyalist and vice president of the Rhaegar fan club, firmly states that Elia was in fact a good woman (in a later book also describing her as “kind and clever, with a gentle heart and a sweet wit”, someone that Rhaegar actually liked). She had done nothing to provoke Rhaegar’s mistreatment of her, a worthy spouse in every way, crushing Daenerys’ argument of a mean Dornish wife. There is no mention of affairs or discord as fans like to speculate. And when Daenerys then wonders if things would have been different if she had married Rhaegar instead, making him happy where poor, deficient Elia could not (once again putting the blame on her shoulders to absolve her brother, not dissimilarly to fandom), Barristan replies:

“But I am not certain it was in Rhaegar to be happy.”

If it was simply not in Rhaegar to know happiness or contentment, no woman could have succeeded where Elia apparently “failed’. The onus is not on Elia, she was not the source of his discontent, she was not fundamentally lacking in pleasing her husband. His issues were his own and Elia was not to blame. And so his actions at Harrenhal, abandoning her and their newborn baby as she lay in her sickbed, absconding with another woman to Elia’s homeland, leaving her defenseless to die- they cannot be laid at her feet, with her bizarrely being made responsible for suffering a spectacle of public shame and humiliation at the hands of her own husband.

Every facet of this argument is debunked in no more than half a page yet still Elia is vilified by Rhaegar fans who know there is no other way to justify his choices. She was not some evil thorn at the saintly Rhaegar’s side, not some scheming shrew, waiting to be exposed. Elia is the price paid for his so called love story, Rhaegar and Lyanna’s grand romance came directly at her expense and she- along with her infant children- suffered the horrific consequences of his choices.

It’s clear that, just like those who cling to this argument, it’s Daenerys who doesn’t truly know or understand her brother here. Not when he’s still so deeply buried in this twisted romantic narrative that absolves him of any wrongdoing. His actions are what led us here, and so his actions must be the ones to examine. And if the only way to maintain your pretty illusions of Rhaegar is to make a villain out of Elia… Well. I think that tells you all you need to know.

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when hozier said “with my mid youth crisis all said and done, I need to be youthfully felt cuz god I never felt young”

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the fact that there is a HP related movie out that i have no desire to see is still so bizarre to me 

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017, dir. Angela Robinson)

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30 days of pmatww: day 1

we cannot live without you

i cannot live without you

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) dir. Angela Robinson

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You will be.

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Blake Lively in A Simple Favor

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Blake Lively as Emily Nelson in A Simple Favor