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btw what if I actually finished this

trying a stark family portrait now btw 🐺

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dunk requested by @reactionfaces !

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Jamie and Tommen go and see Cersei. Happy quite belated Father’s Day!

OH THE OTHERS TAKE ME I PUT JAMIE’S STUMP ON THE WRONG ARM

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me contemplating the human condition

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From our French vacation

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ok least fav fruit now

melon tbh like the flavour just makes me gag 😭

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do you have a favourite fruit?

real questions. yes peaches

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how do you think Jaime was treated post king slaying but pre cersei becoming queen? There was a year (283-284) where he had to be kings guard and was basically in limbo. Any thoughts on how he coped?

i think he would’ve basically faded into the background for about a year, like the KG is decimated so he’s just left w the judgement of Barristan Selmy while Robert, Tywin et al set about resetting the realm. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the time in which he really started to lose sense of self and starts the Cersei tunnel vision - like there’s nothing else to turn to, there are no other distractions from everything he’s seen and he’s only just barely made it out alive himself and what does he have to show for it. so I can imagine everyone kind of ignoring him at court out of contempt bc Robert has spared his life but not his reputation, so they just pretend he’s not there and Jaime starts developing his own contempt in turn towards everyone who’d judge him. and that’s how we eventually end up w someone who basically lives for nothing but sleeping w Cers for the next 14 years.

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bunch of wolves

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Child Braiding A Crown, detail, 1874.

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i am legitimately so frustrated by the stupid unfunny destiel confession news thing u losers r still doing. destiel “the us has bombed iran” do u ppl not understand how obnoxious this is? the bit has run its course and been unfunny for years now anyways but doing this shit is so fucking offensive and irreverent

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do you think Jaime will knight brienne in TWOW?

I think if he does ever knight her it’d be in ADOS. to take a guess at how GRRM is going to pace their relationship TWOW is for UST and the pair of them kind of realising their feelings but not yet acting on them. the knighting thing would be a pretty big declaration of Jaime’s feelings, and it makes more sense to have it towards the end of Brienne’s story. but in any case yeah I do think there’s a good chance it’ll happen - it’s just conspicuous that they’ve kind of had the conversation that makes it apparent to both that that is what Brienne wants, and their stories are massively preoccupied with what it means to be a knight, so that seems to me a fitting end to that dialogue.

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one thing men love to do is brag about how early they get up. i am not sure how this became a point of pride. congrats derrick, it's noon and you've been up for 8 hours, you were useless at 5am and you're still useless now

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Did you ever attend any school with a uniform and what's your general opinion on school uniforms?

yes - love them

yes - like them

yes - neutral/no opinion

yes - dislike them

yes - hate them

yes - nuanced/mixed opinion

no - love them

no - like them

no - neutral/no opinion

no - dislike them

no - hate them

no - nuanced/mixed opinion

just kind of curious about this because as someone who exclusively went to schools with uniforms up through high school, I actually kind of liked them because they made things so much easier? but that doesn't seem to be the popular opinion lol

my only real complaint about them were that they were expensive af ($60 for just one damn skirt at the time and probably costs more now 😭)

just kind of curious about this because as someone who exclusively went to schools with uniforms up through high school, I actually kind of liked them because they made things so much easier? but that doesn't seem to be the popular opinion lol

my only real complaint about them were that they were expensive af ($60 for just one damn skirt at the time and probably costs more now 😭)

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The Veldt

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I mean this in the nicest way possible but everything I have ever learned about GOT and GRRMs writing has sounded awful to me. What makes it so compelling to everyone?

So it is deeply flawed in many ways. But it is huge and complicated and has something for everyone also. However dubious the prose can be from time to time the character writing is really tight. The POVs all feel like distinct, sympathetic, and complicated people. Everyone ends up being an unreliable narrator who is lying to themselves about something to cope in different ways for a really large and varying cast. I still think “what if the POV was King Arthur’s mother and not Arthur” is like one of the most progressive and interesting questions the series asks and he came up with that in the 90s. 

The series also has pretty great thematic complexity and depth in my opinion. GRRM has a lot to say about feudalism, violence, trauma, gender, war, politics, etc. Most of the commentary is about deconstructing the impact those patriarchial institutions have on both their enforcers and the people they oppress. It is not consistently perfect or woke by today‘s standards, (especially in terms of orientalism) but it is pretty consistently interesting.