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Liked Show!Blood and Cheese I just have two issues:

-Wish they’d made it explicit why Blood didn’t just check which one the boy was. Just a line about no waking them incase they scream or something.

-Why did Alicent have to be mid ride? It’s so jarring but not in a good way. I get they want to show where Crispy Cole was but I think it would have been better to have them in a state of undress in her bedroom and we can all just infer what was going on.

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I have some issues with show Blood and Cheese but I like that Helaena points to Jaehaerys.

Blood questions whether she’s lying, because who would give up the heir that easy? Because in Westeros a son’s life is worth more than a daughter’s life.

But to Helaena it doesn’t matter if they believe her or not, because either way she’ll lose a child.

She isn’t trying to sacrifice her daughter for her son, even if that’s what she should do by Westerosi standards. They are both her children, they both matter.

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Also wanted to add that this whole thing about the importance of funeral customs is very Classics. We see it in the Iliad. In Antigone, burying a traitor is a politically transgressive act. Proper funerals are a big thing in Roman history, and the origin of Gladiatorial Games is as funeral gifts for the deceased. Funerals could also be big political events, see Julius Caesar’s funeral.

I just think it’s neat how all the little Roman influences pop up throughout this series.

Something about Arachne Crane’s funeral and the treatment of her body vs the tributes and the Capitol deciding who gets their humanity recognised by having a dignified burial.

Something about Sejanus Plinth rebelling by breaking into the arena to honour Marcus in death because he recognises his humanity and the importance of giving him proper burial rights because if he can’t save him at least he can do this.

Something about Reaper Ash treating the bodies of the fallen tributes, his supposed enemies, with such care and hiding them from the view of the Capitol and doing so on TV, publicly declaring that the tributes were people who deserve human dignity.

Something about Katniss and Rue all those years later.

Something about how the treatment of the dead is a way of confirming who’s lives matter, and how care for the dead becomes an act of rebellion because it is a way of recognising the tribute’s humanity.

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Jamie chose to become known as a dishonourable kingslayer in order to protect the people of Kings Landing and his family.

Ned chose to become known as a traitor plotting against the rightful king in order to protect his daughters.

They both sacrificed their honourable reputation in order to save others. I wish they could have known each other better.

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I love this type of photo. My fave will always be Uther’s pink DS.

nothing funnier than this genre of pics to me

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Do you ever think about the fact that opening chapter of both The Hunger Games and TBOSAS we see the protagonist get ready for the reaping? They both talk about the food available to them and then get dressed in their parents hand me down clothes but the context is so wildly different for each of them? Because I do.

I’m doing a reread and it struck me how similar the opening chapters are and how Collins really smacks you across the face with Snow being a foil to Katniss. The circumstances are on the surface very similar and it only serves to highlight the difference between the two in terms of morality, motivations and societal standing. They are literally fire and ice.

There’s also the Tigris and Katniss similarities which make me very emotional but that’s another topic.

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So we all know how Suzanne Collins plays with YA romance tropes with the ‘love triangle’ in the original series but can we talk about how she does the same thing with TBOSAS!!!

The ‘dark romance’ is a big thing in YA. The brooding, charismatic villain redeemed by his love for a quirky, clever heroine. Except Snow is never redeemed, he’s an awful person who’s obsessive and controlling and doesn’t really see Lucy Gray as an actual person. He’s paranoid and mean and chooses power over her. He’s what these awful villain men would actually be like in a relationship.

IDK but I think Collins is intentionally playing with tropes again. Even the title sounds like a YA dark romance.

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Something about Arachne Crane’s funeral and the treatment of her body vs the tributes and the Capitol deciding who gets their humanity recognised by having a dignified burial.

Something about Sejanus Plinth rebelling by breaking into the arena to honour Marcus in death because he recognises his humanity and the importance of giving him proper burial rights because if he can’t save him at least he can do this.

Something about Reaper Ash treating the bodies of the fallen tributes, his supposed enemies, with such care and hiding them from the view of the Capitol and doing so on TV, publicly declaring that the tributes were people who deserve human dignity.

Something about Katniss and Rue all those years later.

Something about how the treatment of the dead is a way of confirming who’s lives matter, and how care for the dead becomes an act of rebellion because it is a way of recognising the tribute’s humanity.

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Fave thing about the Ghosts Christmas Special is that we don’t see any of the ghosts at the end in the flash forward. Meaning we don’t get see who, if anyone moved on.

The group of ghosts Alison greats in the hotel might not be the same as the one she left.

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*takes the ghosts fandom gently by the hand* I know this is quite a young fandom on average so I want to reassure you that it'll be ok. You can love people and be family without living together. Moving out from your parents' or a close group of uni flatmates or away from your school friends is scary and it feels like an ending, but it'll be ok. Alison doesn't need to live with the ghosts for them to be family. It'll be different, and change is always scary, but it'll be ok

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Something about Arachne Crane’s funeral and the treatment of her body vs the tributes and the Capitol deciding who gets their humanity recognised by having a dignified burial.

Something about Sejanus Plinth rebelling by breaking into the arena to honour Marcus in death because he recognises his humanity and the importance of giving him proper burial rights because if he can’t save him at least he can do this.

Something about Reaper Ash treating the bodies of the fallen tributes, his supposed enemies, with such care and hiding them from the view of the Capitol and doing so on TV, publicly declaring that the tributes were people who deserve human dignity.

Something about Katniss and Rue all those years later.

Something about how the treatment of the dead is a way of confirming who’s lives matter, and how care for the dead becomes an act of rebellion because it is a way of recognising the tribute’s humanity.

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On reread I’m beginning to think that Casca Highbottom’s hatred of Coriolanus Snow was less about who his father was and more about his terrible personality.

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I hope Lucy Gray survived to old age if only because she would have loved to see Peeta Mellark survive two hunger games and Snow’s downfall on the basis of artistic talent and pure rizz.

When he dropped the baby bomb and had people calling to stop the games I just know my girl was cackling with delight.

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So we all know how Suzanne Collins plays with YA romance tropes with the ‘love triangle’ in the original series but can we talk about how she does the same thing with TBOSAS!!!

The ‘dark romance’ is a big thing in YA. The brooding, charismatic villain redeemed by his love for a quirky, clever heroine. Except Snow is never redeemed, he’s an awful person who’s obsessive and controlling and doesn’t really see Lucy Gray as an actual person. He’s paranoid and mean and chooses power over her. He’s what these awful villain men would actually be like in a relationship.

IDK but I think Collins is intentionally playing with tropes again. Even the title sounds like a YA dark romance.

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Do you ever think about the fact that opening chapter of both The Hunger Games and TBOSAS we see the protagonist get ready for the reaping? They both talk about the food available to them and then get dressed in their parents hand me down clothes but the context is so wildly different for each of them? Because I do.

I’m doing a reread and it struck me how similar the opening chapters are and how Collins really smacks you across the face with Snow being a foil to Katniss. The circumstances are on the surface very similar and it only serves to highlight the difference between the two in terms of morality, motivations and societal standing. They are literally fire and ice.

There’s also the Tigris and Katniss similarities which make me very emotional but that’s another topic.

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Obsessed with Kitty loving romance and reading smutty novels but being absolutely disgusted by the thought of anyone actually having sex.

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No because it’s so important to me that the loml Kitty Higham wasn’t murdered and didn’t die alone, unloved or unmourned.

Her death wasn’t intentional like we thought it was. It wasn’t a victory for someone who hated her it was a tragic accident.

She got an apology from her sister, even if she didn’t hear it. Her sister regretted that way she treated her and had to live with that regret.

Kitty may have died but she got an afterlife full of love and with only good memories. Meanwhile the family who was so unkind to her had to acknowledge how badly she’d treated her and live with that guilt. The people who hurt her didn’t gain anything from her death they were hurt by it.

We got two death reveals this season and they both died loved.