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Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.

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 “Fireflies”

Inspired by frenchweasly’s and zainclaw’s edits  ❤

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Stiles Stilinski + The Elements

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do you guys think grrm was twirling his hair and grinning to himself when he decided to write gendry meeting the bane of his existence: lord edric dayne of starfall?

i'm rereading arya's asos chapters and it's so funny how arya and gendry meeting a 12 year old blond boy with dark blue eyes that almost appear purple makes gendry jealous in the spot, like a switch that went off, even before realizing said boy is nobility and the lord of starfall.

#arya stark #edric dayne #gendry waters #gendrya #nedrya #asoiaf

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I think what makes it even funnier is that the first time Arya and Gendry are at High Heart they walk the circle of weirwood stumps together, but the second time they are in High Heart, Arya takes Edric to walk the circle of weirwoods LOL

do you guys think grrm was twirling his hair and grinning to himself when he decided to write gendry meeting the bane of his existence: lord edric dayne of starfall?

i'm rereading arya's asos chapters and it's so funny how arya and gendry meeting a 12 year old blond boy with dark blue eyes that almost appear purple makes gendry jealous in the spot, like a switch that went off, even before realizing said boy is nobility and the lord of starfall.

#arya stark #gendry waters #edric dayne #gendrya #nedrya #asoiaf

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the way grrm does house-based appearances for the more prestigious houses is so funny to me bc its exactly the way a thirteen year old girl would do it. outside of the starks and maybe the florents or manderlys he never describes actual facial features or body types that are passed down its ALWAYS eye color + hair color double whammy to the point where anyone from these families can be recognized as a member by their eye and hair color. its soooo ridiculous can u imagine being some random merchant with green eyes and blond hair and EVERY person you meet is like wow you MUST be a lannister 😉😏 and u cant even be annoyed about it in public bc rich ppl r crazy and will track u down for ‘insulting their house’…

#🤣🤣🤣🤣 #GRRM is a 14 year old girl #asoiaf

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 kind of early)))

#hey there little red riding hood #you sure are lookin' good #you're everything a big bad wolf could want #sterek #teen wolf

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Hey, could you hold my hand? And could you carry me through no man’s land?

Creator: kaneshirotakeshi Type of Work: Gifset

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no, baby, this is not an illusion;                             i’ve really got my heart out on my sleeve

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Are the Starks cursed for the sins of their ancestors?

The whole "Starks must stay in Winterfell, bad things happen to them when they leave South" is always posed in fandom as this shining badge of honor, as if it's because the North is this unmatched pinacle of the world to exist in (it's not).

We know the First Men desecrated indigenous lands, were almost anihilated by White Walkers for it, had to build a magical Wall and are tasked (burdened) with guarding it.

Meanwhile, they can't leave (though plenty of them are excited to see the world) without tragedy and death. Bran is targeted with a big destiny, has different dreams about his life, and gets his legs cut from under him to stay put, for example. It doesn't sound to me like a benevolent distinction from the gods.

#food for thought #maybe it is not dany who needs to answer for the sins of her ancestors but y'all's precious starks #<<<< #house stark #asoiaf

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What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Jon Snow - and family that haunts him, because sometimes ghosts make for the best love stories.

#jon snow #lyanna stark #rhaegar targaryen #asoiaf

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#I wonder how many students and teachers were absolutely terrified of Stiles in that school? #There were probably rumors he was a serial killer #and that the Sheriff was covering up his sadistic crimes #time and place Stiles JFC #stiles stilinski #teen wolf

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Sansa knew all about the sorts of people Arya liked to talk to: squires and grooms and serving girls, old men and naked children, rough-spoken freeriders of uncertain birth. Arya would make friends with anybody.

so i've seen this quote used in a "see arya is not an outsider" kind of way, and here are my two cents that nobody asked for.

for me arya being an outsider is deeply connected to her self-esteem issues... so in this badly written essay i will (just kidding i couldn't write an essay even for the life of me):

imo this quote is a passive way to show sansa's classism, yeah arya is a friendly little girl, that's true, but i take more this quote as sansa meaning arya's comfortable in making friends with "the lowest of the low". there's a reason why jeyne poole and beth cassel were only sansa's friends and not arya and sansa's friends. growing up in winterfell, arya's mother, her assigned teacher and her older sister and her friends told and showed arya time and time again how she's not an adequate lady and how her behavior as a 9 year old child is completely unacceptable of a lady from a great house. (which is a little hypocrate coming from someone who once was 12 year old "mud pie maker" catelyn tully)

hello "arya's self-esteem issues that people love to ignore", there's a reason why when gendry tells arya she looked pretty and ladylike (i know the phrase used is "a nice oak tree" but guess what my book copy is in spanish and here gendry says "un roble bonito" and bonito is directly translated as "pretty") arya thinks gendry is mocking her, because she believes only her father and jon would say something like that of her while being truthful.

for fucks sake, it gets even worse. arya was anxiously worried about her mother and brother not wanting her back because she had to survive in middle of a war, she had to pass as a boy to avoid sexual violence, which women, girls and even femme presenting people are the primary victim of, she had to kill in situations where it was "kill or be killed", she had to work as a slave, she's dirty and could be simply defined as a mess, completely the contrary of the idea of someone "ladylike" that has been drilled into her head by many people.

arya is loved by her brothers, smallfolk and the people that worked for the starks, but was made an outsider in her own homeplace because she's not good at performing the gender roles expected of her. nobility treats her as an outsider, just because this little girl is gender non conforming. arya is still growing up with low self-esteem with the feeling that nobody would ever want her except for jon. a feeling that was born of failing her obligatory "lady duties" and being bullied and mocked by this fact, by the very own teacher employed by her family and some family members alike. we have arya's own mother constantly comparing the child who excels at her tasks in with the child that fails these tasks in an attempt for the child that is failing to improve, which is horrible methoding and only ends up with arya feeling even more inadequate as someone who is a member of a noble house.

even the "arya was clearly ned's favourite" is laughable for me, because even in the part where ned gives back needle to arya, and decides to indulge her with water dancing lessons, he's only doing this with the hope that this is simply a child's interest that arya will grow out of it, and she will finally have the realization that her only place in life is being a "dutyful lady wife" whose sons will be able to be everything she ever wanted to be only because they will be born with a cock between their legs, that's what he tells her. so there we have ned stark passively enforcing gender roles on the child that asked for the possibility of breaking gender norms while she's in a possision of power.

and having both parents telling her in one way of another that her behavior is wrong and not what is expected of her, this only reinforces arya's idea of how inadequate she truly feels, how she will never fit in nobility and how she will have to let go big parts of who she is, to comply with westeros's patriarchal idea of what a noble woman needs to be.

#arya stark #anti sansa stans #asoiaf

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I wasn’t planning on doing art for Valentine’s, but then this happened. I don’t know why I thought it would be a good idea to draw them at such a difficult angle /o\

Artist notes and references at my LJ

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