#Door 24

[gendryamas]

by @thatsaysalotalotalot

Christmas Eve: Gendry

If the Fates Allow

If anyone had told 22 year old Gendry Waters that the gangly 17 year old best friend he said goodbye to when she left for university in Braavos would return four years later a stunningly beautiful, accomplished woman, he would have laughed in their face. 

But here he stood with the unmistakable proof smiling at him from across the ballroom at the Stark's annual Christmas Eve party. As he strode across the dance floor, sweeping her into a tight embrace, he felt her return his hug with equal passion. Though he'd spent Christmas with the Starks for years, he suddenly realized that this year was different, the woman before him was different, and his feelings were definitely different.  He promised himself he would never let her go again. 

[apropensityforcharm]

[petit-papillion]

We may be a clown team at times, but we have our moments, thank you very much!

[inkskinned]

there's a video on instagram of a man kicking his partner's door in. the top comment is (with over 4 thousand likes): "how about you tell us what you did to make him that angry?"

barring emergency, nobody should be kicking anybody's door in. many of us lived in houses where it was always, somehow, an emergency. there is a strange, almost hysterical calm that comes over you in that moment - everything feels muted, and you almost feel, however incongruently, like you should be laughing. you are living inside of "the emergency." oh my god, you think. i am now a fucking statistic.

there is another comment with 2.8 thousand likes: "if this was a woman doing it to a man, nobody would give a shit."

do people give a shit now, though?

barring emergency, the door should remain standing. the emergency should be panicked, desperate - "i'm coming in there to protect you." many of us know what it feels like when the emergency is instead "i'm coming in there to get you."

1.5k likes: "and yet you post this for notes. glad to see being the victim has become your whole personality."

hysteria is a word connected to womb, from greek. what you're experiencing is so senseless and inhumane that you (a rational creature) try to find any ground within what is irrational and cannot be explained. one of the most frustrating things about staying in bad situations is that we also lie to ourselves. we also ask ourselves - wow. what did i do?

women can be, and often are, also abusers. abuse is not gendered. abuse is not just a "straight person" problem. abuse does not have a face or figure or sexuality. you cannot pick an abuser out of a crowd. an abuser could be actually anybody.

and then so many people rally behind the man kicking the door in. here is something nobody should be doing, right? you want to ask every person that liked that first comment: do you ask this because you side with him? do you ask this because it helps you feel safe from this ever happening?

in some ways, you're weirdly sympathetic to the top comment, because it is the same logic you see frequently. the idea is that the average, normal, sane person doesn't just break down a door. doesn't just shoot up a school. doesn't stalk and kill women. doesn't threaten sexual assault. doesn't run over protesters. doesn't shoot an unarmed black person. doesn't scream at underpaid walmart employees. doesn't just "lose it". something had to have happened, right? because the default (white. straight. cis.) - that is someone who is always, you know. "sane."

(right?)

on a podcast, you hear a sane, normal, rational person. "if you piss me off, i'm going to need to hit something. sorry but i'm not apologizing. that's just who i am that's how it is." his voice almost sounds like he's laughing.

you think of the door, and how you were almost laughing behind it, too. ironically, every real emergency in your life has almost felt peaceful in comparison. fire, car accident, flash flooding - these felt quiet, covenant to you. you'd stood in all of them, feeling them pass over and up to your chin, never actually overwhelming.

but when the door was coming down, you had felt - is there a word for that? there has to be, a word, right.

surely one of us has figured out the word for that, i mean. it's such a large fucking statistic.

[lotsofcelebs]

Elisha Cuthbert

[homkamiro]

You're feeling very sick inside, well, okay...

So you've had a bad day?

I don’t know what to say...

Look what’s become of my doctor...

[linoyes]

[ptieuca]

Maybe we should think about getting a few mirrors. And maybe a drawer, you know for some of my stuff. Because that's what couples do. They have drawers.

[aewmoves]

[torra-and-the-toons]

Okay hear me out hear me out

Wally painstakingly learning Japanese and the only thing he's learned so far is the word "himé", which means "princess", and it refers to Kuki obviously

AWE this is so adorable I love it so much! XD

I could totally see him learning it on accident too

Despite this, he still uses it when it's just the two of them to see her smile :>

[heybiji]

Any other hair styles that Dandelion would like to try?

dande gets to try on so many looks because of his disguises that that's where he gets to play with his look most, so usually he's not overly fussed with how he looks normally (I think he does the two ties of hair at the front out of habit from his forgotten years in the feywild). he's had lots of different hairstyles over the past century, though!

though it's a joke with my group that i will allow my character to be maimed horrifically but they can NEVER get a bad haircut

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

DeLorean DMC-24, 1981, by Italdesign. Giugiaro's design for a second DeLorean model line. The failure of DeLorean meant that Italdesign recycled the car which was later presented as the Lamborghini Marco Polo

[ncthandrake]

JOHN "SOAP" MACTAVISH ↳ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

[notsqu1d]

I’ve just been sobbing because of falsettos every night at 1:30 am for the past week, haven’t skipped a day, I’m getting sick of crying so much but I can’t stop rewatching it, it’s addicting

[jessiesjaded]

I really, really wish people who don't have the capacity to properly take care of animals would simply accept and acknowledge that about themselves. This isn't even a post of me trying to be mean or judge anyone, I'm sure most people go into getting an animal with good intentions, but intentions and actions are different. If you don't have the time and the space and the care an animal needs, the animal will suffer. The fleeting joy of having a kitten or puppy or anything else doesn't last forever and they aren't toys to be put down and forgotten once you've moved past the inital excitement. If you don't have the ability to properly care for an animal, just accept that and simply admire them from a distance.

[hoshizoralone]

color wheel challenge with many characters