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reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to

#as long as i gaze up waterloo sunset i am in paradise

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WHO was going to tell me that the Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird is set to the tune of Streets of Laredo/The Unfortunate Rake??!?!!? And it’s WRITTEN LIKE THAT IN THE BOOK?!?!???!

Like the fact that it’s supposed to be her lamenting her own impending death?? And she chose the most famous folk song about someone lamenting their impending death??? Hello?!??

#thg #the bing crosby version is so beautiful cause there’s also a chorus section

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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Sarita Choudhury in Fresh Kill (1994) dir. Shu Lea Cheang

#sarita choudhury #fresh kill

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can we just have, like, any feminist movement whatsoever. did everyone just stop caring?

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INCREDIBLE take. girl what

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hey hey hey

Assigning you a song that makes white people go nuts (from experience)

#dont stop believin

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hey, uh. what the shit

#to be free

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I will be 70 years old and I still will never have gotten over the time the Mythbusters used a rocket powered steel wall to - and I use this word as literally as possible - vaporize an entire car into red mist

#to shreds you say?

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serf: 🫱🌾🌾

lord: and the rest?

serf: apologies, my lord. a rot spread o'er much of the barley

lord: a feeble excuse for such a paltry cum

serf: ..my lord?

lord: has this rot spread to your ears as well?

advisor: (leans in and whispers)

lord: 😳

serf: may i lea-

advisor: his grace will be shooting you with crossbows

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Fare well

#atla

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the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight

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#palestine

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Hi Butterfly! I'm a huge fan of your blog. My question is, what do you think of Vaes Tolorro? What is the reason GRRM created this abandoned city and describe it in so many details, only to leave it so quickly? What does it symbolize?

Vaes Tolorro is part of Daenerys Targaryen’s messianic journey in her first chapter of A Clash of Kings – beginning with following a star, wandering in the empty desert, flensing away all her illusions – arriving at a city of dust and ghosts, yet filled with natural innocent pleasures in the form of ripe fruits and pure cold water – before being greeted by three wise men who will take her to the next stage of her journey, the city of decadent pleasure and temptations.

Vaes Tolorro is also the symbol of hope among the ruins, peaches so sweet you almost cry. Life, sprouting wild and fierce and defiant, amidst nothing but death and destruction. Life finds a way. An oasis of life and hope, glorious and beautiful, still standing after everything, as @joannalannister says.

Vaes Tolorro, the City of Bones, is also one of GRRM’s many creations that give his world “flavor text”, a feeling of an epic, beautiful, and lost civilization, beyond our reach, beyond our full comprehension. It’s a lost city, like Chroyane (once a glorious festival city, now a place of mists and silences, haunted by stone lepers), part of the grand tradition of lost cities in literature, as @racefortheironthrone says. Or as @boiledleather says:

I’m saying that whatever theory you can hash out and write down is likely beside the point. The point is how it makes you feel. Do you feel that something of tremendous, awesome importance has happened that you can never fully understand? That there are forces at work in this world beyond even those of the Others and the Children, beyond R’hllor and the Seven and the Old Gods, beyond the Stranger? That you are, in some fundamental and inescapable way, at sea?

The sea is the point. Not the land you could perhaps construct amid the sea, holding it at bay for however long—the sea. The sea. THE SEA.

Or as Susan Janet Ballion says:

#asoiaf #daenerys targaryen #between the darkness and the dawn

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posts that have changed my reading of asoiaf and that still influence me to this day :

1) the starks derive their legitimacy from the mostly forgotten mythos of the long night :

2) volantis must fall :

3) daenerys’s story is also about healing :

4) ned’s legacy vs tywin’s in affc and adwd :

5) true knighthood and how it functions within asoiaf :

6) euron is terrifying and he’s messing with dany :

7) little walder frey is an interesting character :

8) the significance of the sigorn and alys wedding :

9) sam is a thematic key within the narrative :

#asoiaf

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