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TikTokers are such pussies when it comes to ships. “B-but they’re not canon 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😖😖” honey back in my day we shipped characters from entirely different medias uphill both ways in the snow

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sorry I’ve been laughing for ten minutes because word

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🔥Fire and Ice❄️

By Animon

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Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen from HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’. I just started watching this show a few weeks ago but I’m already in love with it. 

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I'm sorry, I know I don't know these people and it's really none of my business, but...am I the only one who feels like what David Benioff and D.B. Weiss did to Emilia Clarke was really fucked up? The optics are, anyway.

Like, they plucked this early-20-something woman straight out of drama school, gave her a lead role on a big Hollywood TV network in which her character was naked and abused for most of the first season and she reportedly felt very vulnerable and terrified during filming (she said on a podcast that Jason Momoa demanded proper treatment of her during nude scenes because she was too afraid to speak up for herself for fear of being fired, like giving her a robe to wear (which should be the production's responsibility...but it's apparently okay because she comes out of the fire with three dragons at the end? Ugh.) Then, she rose to the absolute pinnacle of stardom during the worst years of her life (when she almost died twice) and apparently they supported her through that (although she has also said that she felt like she had to hide her aneurysms from everyone else other than the showrunners and was afraid she would get fired for being "too sick", so she worked even harder to prove herself despite her fatigue and increased anxiety--she describes having what sounds like panic attacks on set in one of her S8 interviews.) Her character became this MASSIVE pop culture sensation, arguably THE face of the IP, a feminist icon so beloved that people literally named their children after her...and then, all of a sudden, they decided to end the show by brutally destroying this character so utterly and in such a way that was so ideologically disgusting (to frame an abuse survivor and former sex slave who tried to use her power to fight for the oppressed and end slavery as a mentally unstable, genocidal Hitler-coded dictator), all the while being gaslighty about it to both the fandom and the production (But see? She didn't cry when her brother died! She was always "mad"!) Then they left Emilia to deal with the fallout, to defend them to the press, to parrot their victim-blamey, ableist (because "madness" as a concept is ableist and they played it straight) talking points in behind-the-scenes content and interviews while simultaneously making it clear in every possible way other than criticizing their writing decisions outright (which she couldn't do, because that would be unprofessional) that she felt, at best, deeply uncomfortable.

I don't mean to ascribe malicious intent, but the whole situation just feels weirdly coercive. Yes, I know she signed a contract. Yes, I know she got rich and gained a huge amount of cultural capital from playing Daenerys. That doesn't negate the fact that she had NO say in how her character's story ended, is clearly completely morally opposed to it ("It’s not that I wanted to show her as “mad,” because I really don’t like that word." - Daenerys Tells All, New Yorker interview) but she had to go to work everyday and act out the utter decimation of the character she credits with saving her life, knowing the world would be outraged once they saw it, convinced that everyone would hate her once they knew Daenerys "went mad." And she couldn't talk to anyone about it. For two years.

When did Benioff and Weiss decide they were going to end Show!Daenerys's story that way? How long did they string Emilia Clarke along without warning her? (She didn't get any warning; she read the S8 scripts and was so distraught she walked around London in a state of shock for four hours.)

Also, the fact that they could have ended Show!Daenerys's story in any way they wanted to and they CHOSE to give an actor who cared very deeply about the feminist impact of her character, who had first-hand experience with the objectification of women in the film industry (on their set!), who has since gone on to say that she was afraid of her own mind (that she feared she couldn't trust her own perception of reality) after her second brain surgery went wrong a script where her character "goes mad" and has to be murdered in the most misogynistic way possible. I mean...maybe some trigger warnings could have been nice??? Her S8 performance is incredible, for sure, but at what cost?

Maybe I'm projecting. I didn't mean for this to be so long. I might delete it later. Once again, not my business. I've just been thinking about this again lately as I've been writing my Daenerys essay and the whole situation still makes me so, so angry. Probably too angry. I mean, I have my own complicated emotional hang-ups about Daenerys as well, but I also felt so heartbroken for Emilia when everything went down. I still feel heartbroken for her. It was definitely a very calculated PR move for her to launch her charity right before the show ended, to try to make something positive out of it.

No wonder she didn't return for that cameo in House of the Dragon. (And don't get me started on how HBO didn't even give her a wig, and they're still making money off of Daenerys with all the Targaryen shows. Yes, I know it's the business. It doesn't mean that it's ethical or right.)

(Also, there's a fan theory that the original script for 8x05 just had Daenerys intentionally burning the Red Keep, which would then accidentally set off the wildfire caches. There's concept art of this. So it's possible that Emilia found out Daenerys intentionally burned the entire city in the final cut VERY late into production, and possibly in public at a screening, since actors usually don't see the CGI in progress.)

(ALSO Emilia has since said that she is moving into more of a producing role because she felt like a cog in a wheel as just an actor and wants more creative agency in her career. I wonder why?)

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New Snowstorm art got me convinced that they’re soulmates because they are. I love jota.s.art (on Instagram) so much 😭💙🐺❄️❤️‍🔥🐉🔥

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May I read a passage from Diderot? The Great (2020–2023)

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me talking in the tags on tumblr dot com

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There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

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if i raise my voice if i raise my voice

if i raise my head if i raise my head

could i change my fate could i change my fate

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Save My Family from the War Nightmare in Gaza🌹🕊️

Our lives used to be normal, filled with hope and hard work, until war came and destroyed everything.

I need your financial support to secure the basic needs for my family until the border crossing is reopened to move my family to safety and peace.

Please help us through your small donations or by sharing our story with others❤🌷

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🍉 The ceasefire was stopped 🍉

⚠️ don’t ignore my text ⚠️

This is my new account.

Vetted by @bilal-salah0

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For the sake of my family, I beg you to help me

In order to rise again in this life

After the ceasefire in Gaza, hope has returned to us once again, giving us the strength to rebuild our lives.

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So…we all agree that Drogon is lightbringer, right?

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"Snow," the moon murmured. The wolf made no answer.

"Snow," the moon called down again, cackling.

"Snow," the moon insisted. ( Jon I, ADWD)

«Off in the distance, a wolf howled. The sound made her feel sad and lonely, but no less hungry.» (Dany X, ADWD)

I love my ship when they yearn for each other, even though they’ve never met and are on opposite sides of the world.

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