it’s cool that when i say ‘the stark kids’ everyone understands i’m talking about age range 3-16 and when i say ‘the lannister kids’ i’m talking age range mid to late thirties
almost halfway thru a clash of kings...interesting how robb stark has been primarily defined by his youth and inexperience slowly pressed under the weight of vast and deadly serious responsibility. i’m sure this will turn out fine for everyone
convincing taylor swift she was a joan baez level lyricist who needed to pursue poet laureate status was a huge fucking mistake pop music will never recover. poptimism will sit at the hague one day for its crimes
love love love the way grrm plays with the different pov characters, especially the ones on different sides. thinking specifically about tyrion introducing jaime like this is my older brother his greatest character flaw is that he never takes anything seriously literally one chapter after we saw jaime attempt to murder a nine year old from the perspective of the nine year old
I’m really interested by the violence westeros enacts on children. the violence girls and women go through in these books has been discussed at lengths but that same violence is also enacted on helpless characters just out of boyhood. jaime was only seventeen when he was given to the king and the older sworn brothers never once protected him from the horrors he found in king’s landing. grrm invites us to laugh at lancel alongside tyrion but then affc comes along - and we see the kid who was sexually abused beneath the ridiculous and self important wanna be knight. aeron, theon and sam were all hurt because they couldn’t fight back - and so many of their choices stem from the fear of being hurt again. podrick is just a little squire and everyone abandons him to die : ‘I’m his squire! but he left me.’ the young priest on victarion’s ship, mycah, the miller’s sons, craster’s sons… violence is everywhere! the land is truly one in that sense
OBSESSED OBSESSED OBSESSED with the idea that the dead mother wolf from agot ch1 was "Ned's wolf" not only because of dead-before-the-story-starts, doomed-by-the-narrative reasons but also because it makes Ned mom-coded. Mom-coded and fate-pilled. Get doomed, loser.
"Christ on a cracker" well actually I think you'll find Christ is the cracker. And also the wine. But you wouldn't know that you fucking protestant heathen
anyway last night I delved deep enough into the various tags for The Menu (2022) that I started finding the "it's fine that Tyler was a foodie but couldn't cook though that's #valid!" takes and let me just say. posts written at clown college. Tyler didn't even really like food.