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No because what do you mean they were best friends as kids and Ekko had a crush on her, and then he tries to ‘rescue’ her from Silco but she doesn’t want to go with him and they end up on opposing sides as enemies and he insists that ‘Powder is gone, only Jinx is left’ but he paints a mural for Powder as one of the people they’ve lost and when he has the chance to kill her he can’t bring himself to do it because he still cares about her and she tries to blow them both up because she views death as mercy and wants to die with him and then he gets sent to another universe where she’s still Powder and he falls in love with her all over again and he goes back to his universe convinced he can save her and he has to watch her kill herself over and over again before managing to convince her to live and join the fight and they do and he wears her paint and then she just… dies anyways and now he’s lost her for like, the NINTH TIME

Arcane writers you will start coughing in 10 days

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she really just like me fr fr

Sansa stark, everyone [crowd goes fuckin crazy]

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I don't remember this Bible's verse

Why can’t we just stay right here?

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Vi and Rhea Ripley, on emo/goth pitfighter makeup.

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I am delivering an interesting prompt for art. I trust you, we shall be together.

@barron-kun

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Modern AU but Theon got kicked out of the Starks' house at 18 (because Catelyn just couldn't deal with him anymore and he was probably spreading his bad influence all over the children), got kicked out of the Greyjoy residence (because Balon disowned Euron a month before that so might as well get the other headache away from here), and is now living in a village in the middle of the Northern nowhere with two prostitutes (Kyra and Ros, who took him in because he's the only one that can cook with more than two ingredients (eggs and pan)) in a property given to them by Littlefinger in exchange for tax-free stweardship. And they go out into the city every day on a bus numbered 47 that passes by the village only at 6am and 6pm only on workdays for Theon to try and find work and stop freeloading and maybe go to university one day but the only place that is willing to hire him is the Butchers' round the corner (Theon would've gotten over the bad work conditions and the mould on the walls if it weren't for the fact that the Butcher keeps looking at him with his weird ass pale blue eyes like he wants to snap his spine and eat his pith every time he passes)

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Went on a proper reread of ASOIAF in english recently and I don't know what happened.

Never really cared for Theon, never understood the obsession some had with him, and when reading his chapters in ACOK he was even worse than I remembered.

Then I got to ADWD again, and now I understand....

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Can we all agree that Boltons would dress like this?

Like, their outfits are always on a thin line between swag and tacky, and I love it.

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“Are you the three-eyed crow?” Bran heard himself say. A three-eyed crow should have three eyes. He has only one, and that one red. - Bran II, aDwD

Bran Stark meeting Bloodraven

happy birthday @quaithe !! ❤❤❤

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🐺ASOIAF Themed Asks 🐉

(feel free to include TWOIAF as well!)

Favorite Great House

A minor (or extinct) house you need more lore on

Favorite sigil/house words

Favorite Valyrian sword

A dead female character you need to save

Which book or character did you not like at first but eventually grew on you?

Which Free City are you retiring to?

Build your own Kingsguard with any characters alive or dead

Build your small council with any characters dead or alive

A quote so good it makes you crazy

Favorite bastard

Who are you traveling the ravaged Riverlands with?

A death that still hurts to think about

Who are you bringing back from the dead with the power of R’hllor?

Favorite parent

Favorite sibling dynamic

Favorite theme

A mystery you need solved NOW

A theory you’ve adopted as canon

A theory you pray never comes true

A moment that made you cry

A character so queer-coded you’d argue it to GRRM’s face

Two characters you need to interact

A ship that gives you the absolute ick

A crackship?

Favorite “problematic” ship

Favorite canon ship

If you write fic, is there a ship or au you would like to write for, but haven’t yet?

If you read fic, what’s a trope or interpretation of your fave that you absolutely can’t stand? Which AU/trope will you read every time?

A POV character you wish wasn’t

Who would you elevate to a POV character?

A fancast you absolutely can’t stand

A fancast that just IS a character

What’s something people get wrong about your favorite character?

A character you just don’t get the hype of

What’s something you wish GRRM handled better? (a character/theme/world building etc)

An event/era in TWOIAF that you would love to see a film/tv adaptation of

Is there a house would you fit in with based off your own looks? A house you would fit in with based off your personality/ideals/vibes etc?

Your Drunk History topic (a character/theory/event/etc)

Be honest, are you still waiting for TWOW?

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I’ll never forgive the sequels of the Rambo franchise for the way they have destroyed the first film.

First Blood is a tense examination of trauma, PTSD, police brutality, isolation, and the dehumanizing effects of warfare.  The characters explicitly discuss the lingering results of training and combat on the lives of the people who fought the war, but had no say in it.

Though it has action in it, it is not an “action movie”.  There’s only one death in the entire film, which is itself an accident and the point at which John Rambo actually tries to give himself up.  The emotional core of the climax is John Rambo’s complete breakdown as he reflects on what he experienced during the Vietnam War and the way it continues to haunt him even in peacetime.

But the sequels went so hard into bloody, violent action that everybody thinks that’s what the series was all along.  So over-the-top that the name “Rambo” has become a synonym for hyper-masculine violence.  Big men with big muscles and big machine guns blowing things up.

All of the Reactions I’ve seen from people who are new to First Blood are filled with “Oh yeah, he’s going to mess up these guys so good!  I can’t wait!” and “He’s got the gun now, he’s gonna go on a rampage!” because that’s what pop culture has told them to expect.  It’s not until more than halfway through the movie, sometimes not even until the very final scene, that they realize we’re not going to see a Terminator run through the town.

The need to turn it into a franchise, to churn out sequel after sequel, has completely undone everything the original film tried to do.

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i will never EVER forgive them for what they did to Rambo after First Blood

i think about this minimum once a week so rant time

ok so, First Blood has so many important points and so much of a deeper meaning behind it, like showing police discrimination and brutality, him having mental health struggles and PTSD (which they just like ignore later on??) and being so very anti-government and anti-war (very much a rant for another time).

but after that, and i’ll let First Blood Part II slide, it gets so much worse. To me it just becomes so incredibly apparent that they just want to make more movies for ~money~ and don’t really care about the actual message First Blood was trying to portray!!

actually not so fun fact gents: in the book First Blood is based off of, he DIES AT THE END, this was never supposed to be a series… look i appreciate that he dosen’t die but (to me at least) it’s so obvious that they just want it to be an action movie franchise.

and to be fair, there’s still some of the anti-government vibes later on, and him not fitting into society and being an outcast, but so much of his character gets completely ignored.

ALSO I HATE how they make him out to be this ruthless killing machine later on. HE’S NOT. he very intentionally dosen’t kill anyone in First Blood!! even though they’re actively trying to hurt him!! he has a very clear moral code that they just decide to toss away in the later movies.

HRGGGH THANK YOU FOR COMING THIS HAS BEEN A PSA

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Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s lonely man.

Taxi Driver, 1976 dir. Martin Scorsese

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Today is 2nd June 🏳️‍🌈🌙.Just about a week ago, I randomly fell down the rabbit hole of Sailor Moon. I was a MASSIVE fan as a kid, it was an obsession lol. However, like in most countries, the original anime was censored. Many things were cut off, including the whole final episode in my case. One thing they erased is the relationship between two of the heroines, Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus. In fact, I found out they were a couple only when I was ~16 years old!! And Neptune EVEN was my favourite character..

In the original show, there's nothing sexual shown on screen, not even a kiss between the two, so there's NOT A SINGLE REASON to censor it, and besides, there are far more "traumatising" scenes, like murder, torture, a suicide... that were left intact.

If I were a child while watching those scenes, I would have thought nothing worrying. To be fair, I would have thought "wait, loving a girl is an option??" because turns out I like girls... but the acceptance of my sexuality wasn't easy at all, I repressed my feelings until late teenage years, and I hurt myself and other people in doing so.

Sailor Moon is not only about this, of course: It's an amazing show that shaped my whole childhood. It really helped a whole generation of children and teens. It's a staple of anime and manga, a symbol of women empowerment, and strenght in femininity. I grew up with the Senshis' looks so much that, thinking about it, maybe that's why I dress with pleated short skirts all the time, and wear ribbons...

The only thing is, i feel an empty spot where Michiru and Haruka's love should have been. The censorship among children's media, especially if coming from the (more progressive) far east, erased from our whole childhood the message that, yes, love is love.

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I need more of this shit please provide more of this shit i need it

in modern asoiaf wex is theon’s 12 year old algebra tutor (child genius and teenage dirtbag buddy comedy duo situation) who theon enlists to do the accounting for his business (selling vapes filled with water to kids in the park for 50 bucks each) until lysa finds out he sold robin an ‘e-cigarette’ and calls the police. wex lies to the cops for theon (who’s now temporarily blinded after lysa maced him) so theon is forever in this seventh grader’s debt but the only thing wex asks for is a date with asha because he knows it’ll piss theon off sooooo bad. asha thinks it’s the funniest thing in the world also she hates theon so she and qarl take wex out for ice cream while theon vents in his journal (robb said his therapist recommends it to blow off steam) until he gets bored and punches a hole through the wall next to a neat row of other punched holes covered by posters of half naked men covered by pictures of half naked women. their business is failing btw bran keeps stealing the pre-janked vapes from theon’s bag so he can give them to jojen (neither of them vape they just like to have them) and theon is convinced that the police are watching him and taking his vapes before he can sell them so that the government can force him to get a job because ramsay (lab partner in biology who always smells like pepperoni and b/o) told him about area 51 and now theon’s really scared of the fbi monitoring him and busting up his fake vape business and putting him away for life in one of those freaky facilities ramsay won’t shut up about where they torture you and probe you probably (he tries not to think about the probing because it makes his stomach feel weird). ok good night i loveyou