I realize I am a week late with posting this realization, but I think I know what’s going on with Talisa.

So, they revealed last week that (a) Talisa is accompanying Robb to the wedding at The Twins, and (b) she is pregnant.

Robb Stark’s novel wife, Jeyne Westerling, does not attend the Red Wedding (her absence is noted), and is forced to drink a whole mess of Moon Tea after Robb’s death to make sure she doesn’t give birth to a new Winterfell heir, which might rally the North to rise again.

So the Talisa development could go a couple of ways.

• She might go to the Red Wedding and be killed alongside Robb, but this seems unlikely, because then what was the point of telling us that she’s pregnant? Just to make her death more tragic? Yes, because Game of Thrones is so lacking in tragedy.
• She might go to the Red Wedding and be taken hostage after Robb’s death. They might allow her to keep the baby, in order to hold more leverage over the North, or they might force her to miscarry per the logic in the book. If they go the “Talisa as a hostage” route, the BabyFate could really go either way.
• OR MAYBE SHE IS DEFINITELY THE LANNISTER HONEYPOT. If Talisa is the Lannister Honeypot, she is very likely going to The Twins to deliver the new heir to Winterfell to the enemy.
  Holy shit the leverage.
  The Northmen think Bran and Rickon are dead, Robb will be dead, Arya is missing, Sansa is married to Tyrion, and if the Lannisters have Robb’s only child as a hostage, they have the North by the balls. 

Like, when I say I was an outsider who didn’t really have any close friends, I don’t mean, “I was too cool for everyone. No one was on my level. I was surrounded by peasants.”

I mean:

• I was accused of witchcraft because a kid went home sick after I called him ‘cantankerous’ in retaliation for weeks of having him and his friends picking on me in homeroom.
• When my homeroom teacher said, “Oy, you, stop picking on Margaret,” this kid responded, “You don’t understand, miss, she put a spell on me!”
• When all his friends were telling their algebra class that I had cursed him, they were surprised when someone I had gone to middle school with actually said, “Hey, I know Margaret and she is actually a human being with feelings and emotions and shit.”

People who are self conscious and insecure are easy targets; no one stands up for them, and there are consequences for standing up for yourself.
There was never physical violence, but when your first experiences of high school are that people mock you and spread rumors about you, it colors how you perceive everyone else. 
If I talk to this person, what are they going to say about me behind my back? If I open up to this person, how will they use it against me? What if this person isn’t really my friend? What if I’m actually annoying this person or inconveniencing them in some way?

If I tell someone, “hey, I didn’t enjoy high school because I was kind of an outsider,” I’m not bragging. This isn’t something to be proud of.
It was shitty. I ran cross country for four years, I was an honors student, I joined clubs and volunteered for events, I’m conventionally attractive, and within the first month of high school, I was singled out as an object of derision.   

People seem to think bullying happens to the stereotypically nerdy or obnoxious, and that people outside that mold who are bullied must intentionally invite scorn for “cred” or to “be cool.” 
No, actually, I really would have liked to have made friends.
I would even have liked to have done my work without attracting any attention at all, because while there were people who were kind and friendly, it took me years to realize that I was actually someone who was worth being friends with.
Even though the mean people were a minority — really, only a few students out of a class of 200 — negative attention has so much more of an impact than positive attention does. It sticks with you and gnaws at you, because it confirms insecurities: I am unlikable, I am weird, people do not like me, people will not like me.

So if I laugh while telling you that I was accused of witchcraft and torturing cats (because that’s a natural conclusion to draw from my interest in Schrodinger’s Cat, right?), it’s not because my high school experience was sooo ironic and trendy, it’s because who fucking does that?

So I’m not going to apologize for saying, “you know what, I’m glad high school is over, and I would never go back.” 
I graduated from college this month, and college was overwhelmingly positive for me. It had its rough patches, but I really feel like I’ve pulled my life together. I have strong friendships and relationships and skills and goals and gosh darnit I’m just very happy with my life right now, okay?

And, you know, I don’t run around telling everybody about how I got accused of witchcraft when I was 14. But if I’m having a conversation and we’re talking about high school, or bullying, or weird things that happen in our lives, it seems kind of relevant.

Sorry this has been a bit of a rant.

I don’t understand people who feel the need to be unkind when they reblog things they disagree with. Like, why do you have to call people names and degrade them just because you disagree with them about a Disney movie? 

dresdendollface:

evelynvincible:

Quick couple things I noticed in Mulan:

1. Her jawline changes depending on how we’re meant to perceive her.
   In scenes where she is being feminine (matchmaker, swimming with the guys, revealed in the tent, battle in the palace) her face is very round and her jawline is very curved and smooth.
   …

So…you’re upset that a movie about sexism shows sexism in the movie?

Are you serious right now jfc

No? Where did I say I was upset? I’m pretty sure all I said was “these are four things I noticed and found interesting.” Nothing here is about OMG WAI WASN’T MULAN ALLOW3D TO JOIN THE ARMY AS A LADEE THAT RB SEXISSSSM. It’s mostly about the actual construction of the film, which, hey, I can critique all I want.
Since you appear to have missed the point, let me clear it up for you:

1. They changed the style in which Mulan was drawn (not just her clothes and hair, but the character herself) depending on how feminine or masculine they wanted her to be perceived. This is literally just an observation about style.
2. This is weird to me because it kind of indicates that Mulan herself is a bit sexist; seriously, the men she approaches in the crowd aren’t officials or soldiers. They’re just everyday people.
   Given that, there is no reason NOT to approach women to warn them about an imminent threat, especially in a movie that, as you say, is about sexism. These men are not in positions of power; their only asset is that they are men.
   What would the women of the city have done had they been given the chance? Or is it really a movie about Mulan “not being like the other girls,” rather than a movie about how girls can be as good as boys? I don’t think this is a frivolous or unreasonable question.
3. It’s weird to me that we are explicitly told there are women in this space, but we still don’t see any actual women there. It’s just a weird thing. I’m not crying myself to sleep at night over it.
4. Finally, this just seems like a stupid thing to me. Har har drag is funny. Mulan spends the entire movie dressed as a man. As a man, she is taken more seriously (even when everyone thinks she’s an obnoxious, half-mad little punk) than she was as a woman. We are never meant to find Mulan dressing as a man comical. 
   But then we dress her army buddies as women, in order to gain an advantage in combat, and it really seemed like it was intended as funny.
   What makes me think it was supposed to be funny? Well, the guys in drag were comic characters, and even though Shang was part of the party (and the only member of the party NEVER treated as comedic), he wasn’t in drag. 
   Why wasn’t he in drag? Because he’s the love interest, so he has to keep being macho and manly.
   This isn’t sexism in the world of the movie, this is sexism in the animation studio. A woman in drag is a serious person making a serious statement; a man in drag, even if he’s in drag as a matter of life-and-death, is still painted as comical.

So there you have it. I am not “upset” about anything. I am just a person who watches movies and notices things.

Jesus fucking Christ, indeed.

m-azing:

girljanitor:

defira85:

ouyangdan:

sanityscraps:

imnotamisandristbut:

I’m not a misandrist but if a man plays video games then he should  just expect to get messages asking him to show pics of his dick. Everyone knows video games are for women. 

Perfection.

Show us your junk or fucking get back outside and finish mowing the lawn, who even let you in the house

THE GRILL’S NOT GONNA LIGHT ITSELF

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I hate being upset about things everyone else thinks is stupid.

Like my boyfriend passive-aggressively dissing me in front of our friends. 

I really like that Shae is being characterized differently in the show than in the books, but it’s kind of bothering me that random ladies are getting excessively romantic plot lines. 

• Osha could have known about (and adequately feared) the wights without involving an SO. 
• It seemed really out of character for Ygritte to admit to loving Jon Snow (not even to him, but to another wildling!) Clearly she is attached to him and interested in him, but come on! 
  And then the skinchanger is all “Ygritte I want u so baaaaaad.” Da fuq? Why did we need a love triangle? #hawkward
• Why is Talisa pregnant? Why is she going to the Twins? This Lannister Honeypot business keeps seeming more and more likely. 

When it was just Shae getting an actual relationship (as opposed to simply being a very talented prostitute), it was refreshing.
“Oh, yes, I am liking this character a great deal more now that I am seeing her having actual feelings for other characters I like! How nice that things are going nicely for once!”
But when it’s everyone having a cutesy romance?
(Well, obviously not EVERYONE *coughTheoncough*)
It’s too much. No me gusta.

 (last GoT post of the night, yes?)

I cannot handle them.
I love the plot of ASoIaF, I love a lot of the characters, and I accept that these scenes are necessary for the story to unfold in a way that makes sense to people who haven’t read the books (you can’t just leave Theon out of the show for 3 seasons, after all)
And I know there are probably going to be character arcs in later seasons (assuming they don’t get cut) that will require some pretty gruesome stuff in regards to torture.
But it’s gotten to the point where every time Theon is onscreen, I either switch my attention to another window or avert my eyes from the television. I just can’t bring myself to watch it. 
NO THING THAT LOOKS LIKE A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT WILL ACTUALLY BE A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT. DO NOT BE FOOLED.
PLZ THANK YOU.

I imagine the Theon fandom needs some hugs right about now.

And maybe also a Doctor?

First she tells Stannis, “Nah bro, you are too weak to make more smoke assassin babies with me. I must road trip (over the sea).”

Then she’s all, “Gendry, there is power in a king’s blood” *sexy eyes*

THIS CAN ONLY END IN SHIPPING (or murder)

(EDIT: Saw next week’s promo. Most likely ends in murder.)

WHY DO THEY PRONOUNCE AEMON AY-MON,
AND AERYS AY-REES,
BUT AEGON EGG-ON?

I realize in DWD, Maester (MAY-STER) Aemon calls his brother “Egg,” but I had assumed that was a bastardization of “AYG”, not a hint towards some anomalous pronunciation of the ever-present “ae”.

Mother Gothel gets a lot more hate than she deserves. I’ve felt this way basically ever since I saw Tangled, and I can’t help thinking it has to do with the fact that, unlike every other Disney Villain, Mother Gothel isn’t actually out to hurt anybody.

That isn’t to say she doesn’t hurt anybody: keeping Rapunzel locked up and isolated is obviously unhealthy for her (though, one can’t deny that she’s remarkably well adjusted), and obviously Rapunzel’s birth parents suffer because of Gothel’s actions. But her intention is not “hurting the king and queen,” or “emotionally abusing a child.”
Mother Gothel’s goal is to keep herself alive. Point.

Unfortunately, ensuring her survival means making sure that no one cuts Rapunzel’s hair, which means making herself the Keeper of the Hair. Once she has Rapunzel safe and sound, she does everything she can to give her a happy, fulfilling life within the confines of her tower. It just so happens that, no matter how many things Rapunzel has inside the tower, he greatest desire is to see what’s outside of it. 

Compare this to other Disney Villains:

• The Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) hires a hitman to kill her stepdaughter in the name of vanity.
• Lady Tremaine (Cinderella) enslaves her beautiful stepdaughter out of envy that her own daughters aren’t as attractive as Cinderella.
• Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) curses Aurora to get revenge on King Stefan and his queen.
• Ursula (the Little Mermaid) curses/ sabotages Ariel to get revenge against Triton/ attempt to usurp the throne.
• Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) commits Belle’s father to an insane asylum to blackmail Belle into marrying him.
• Jafar (Aladdin) tries to kill Aladdin so he can steal the Genie, enslave Jasmine and her Father, and name himself Sultan.
• Scar (the Lion King) kills his brother, frames his nephew, and ruins everything because he has jealousy issues.
• Governor Radcliffe (Pocahontas) tears up virginia, shoots Powhatan, because he really wanted that gold.

The list goes on. But what these other villains have in common is that their plans deliberately set out with the intention of hurting people to achieve their goals. People getting hurt isn’t a side-effect or an occupational hazard, it’s in the damned blueprint. 

Mother Gothel isn’t trying to hurt anybody; she just wants to live her life. She was able to mind her own business when she had the flower, but after they fed it to the queen, her choices were pretty limited.
No other villain was in a life-or-death situation where it was either the hero or them. Everyone else had the option to peacefully coexist, but chose to create a conflict. Mother Gothel’s options were conflict or death. I’m not going to auto-hate her for choosing conflict when she had the option to live.

phil-the-stone:

ianocheetos:

kiss-the-tot:

pheebadohdoh:

0shawhat:

davidbowiesgroin:

no-one-sees:

I love you most.

She kisses her hair instead of her forehead.

THAT JUST BLEW MY mIND THANK YOU

I just noticed, when she says ‘you most’ she breaks eye contact to look at her hair

There’s so much symbolism in this movie though like when the mirror breaks at the end and all the stuff about the hair so along with being extremely cute and catchy Tangled is also really deep.

I could watch this movie forever.

Gothel directs most of her loving gestures towards Rapunzel’s hair. In “Mother Knows Best”, Gothel gives a particularly noticeable, prolonged look at her hair and rubs her cheek against it. She also calls Rapunzel her “flower” several times.

First time watching “Tangled”, afterwards I thought, but Mother Gothel did seem to care for her in the beginning. Did she actually care for her, just a little? But after watching it a second time, I noticed all of her subtle ways of emotionally manipulating Rapunzel into being dependent on her (convincing her that staying inside was for her own good, and constantly chipping away at her self esteem before dismissing it as “just teasing” with a smile and a wave, keeping her compliant with small kindnesses like going away to get Rapunzel the shells she wanted), and all of the subtle signs that even as Gothel acted like she loved Rapunzel, all she really cared about was her hair.

Basically, “Tangled” is really clever at showing an emotionally abusive, parasitic and manipulative family relationship. It’s effective because it’s so subtle.

Something else I’ve noticed is that every time Gothel touches Rapunzel’s hair, it’s to bring it to the front, closer to herself, while every time Flynn touches it, it’s to push it away from her face so that he can see her, not the hair.

Okay, no.

Tangled is not deep. Disney has chosen to tell a basic overbearing mother vs. rebel boyfriend story, and they’ve done a damn good job of setting up their dichotomy.

They give you a mother who sounds just like your mother when she tells you you can’t do something you want to. “You’re not old enough, it’s too dangerous, don’t ask again.” We’ve all heard it. 

Then they give you the attractive, devil-may-care heartthrob who just needs to be saved, and, of course, Our Heroine is just the girl for the job.

Yeah, they give you some great moments of Gothel swooning over Rapunzel’s hair, calling her her little flower, but this is basic.
They also take literally everything for granted in her upbringing; she couldn’t be more educated if she had grown up with a suite of suitors in the palace: girl can read, chart stars, do math, cook, sew, and paint. Why? Because a heroine needs to be admirable; you have to be able to look up to her. But also: because Mother Gothel fucking taught her.

There is literally no reason for Gothel to have bothered educating Rapunzel except for Rapunzel’s own enrichment and happiness. Mother Gothel’s life would have been much more secure if she’d kept Rapunzel ignorant and uneducated, but she doesn’t. She wants Rapunzel to be happy, but she also wants her to be safe.

Why? Why is it so important that Rapunzel be safe and sound?

BECAUSE FOR MOTHER GOTHEL, THIS IS GOD DAMNED LIFE AND DEATH.

This isn’t rocket science, people. Mother Gothel is alive because of that flower (which, side note, the prologue condemns Gothel for keeping it’s healing powers to herself, but then the Queen eats it, ESSENTIALLY DOING THE SAME THING. The only reason it’s okay for the Queen/ Royal Family to hoard the Flower Power is because we’re supposed to like them). Without the flower’s magic, Mother Gothel will die.
You can argue she’s lived long enough, but you try telling anyone who has the option to keep living that they don’t deserve to.
Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Oh, but why didn’t she just break in to the castle to use the magic whenever she needed to?!
(1) because if she gets caught, they may well kill her.
(2) because as soon as Baby Princess gets her first haircut, the magic is gone forever.

Mother Gothel is damned if she does, and damned if she doesn’t. She can’t let Rapunzel out; it’s too big a risk, and, yeah, it sucks for Rapunzel. I’m not saying her situation is great. But can we stop with how OMG GOTHEL NEVER LUVVED HUR.  Gothel gave Rapunzel way more than you people give her credit for; just because she needed Rapunzel to survive doesn’t mean she didn’t have any feelings for her or sense of obligation to her.

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They handling of Ros’ death was bullshit.  It would have made 1000x more sense for Littlefinger to have sold her to the Boltons, where she could have taken over the role Kyra played in the books.
I don’t actually know if they’re including the Kyra storyline, or if they have a Kyra cast, but they’ve been consolidating characters left and right, and Ros was already a prostitute who we know knew Theon, so she would have been pretty much perfect.
How would Littlefinger have known the Bolton’s were in the market for Theon’s Old Flames? Not my problem. They could have made it work.