#This is absolutely beautiful WHAT😭😭😭

[melrosing]

sorry if this comes off as a shallow question but i wanted to know if you think arya is intended to be pretty. bc from my interpretation of the reading she’s absolutely not but she’s still one of my favourite characters in the series and i always get into arguments with other arya fans bc of this. i always read her story as sort of similar to brienne’s, who’s my absolute favourite character, and brienne fans will never (from my experience) accuse someone of hating her because they think she’s ugly. is this a phenomenon you also see? what’s your opinion?

not the prettycourse 😭 ok so I understand that some people might find more meaning in Arya’s story if she weren’t beautiful, bc I agree that ugliness is a powerful part, crucial even, of Brienne’s story. Brienne isn’t an ‘ugly duckling’, she never gets the catharsis of becoming a swan: she is truly society’s definition of ugly, and she is an incredible person too, worthy of respect and admiration. it’s rare that you get a story about an ugly woman that manages to be so much else besides, and doesn’t ultimately subvert that ugliness by reassuring readers that she was secretly attractive all along.

so I do understand the ambivalence towards Arya’s story as one that does just that; presents an ugly duckling narrative without subversion. there’s no powerful message in that. Arya doesn’t have to overcome anything to be attractive, she just is.

which is to say, Arya is canonically pretty. this is said several times over by multiple people, including Ned, Jon, Lady Smallwood, the Kindly Man, etc etc. it’s made very clear that Arya is the spit of Lyanna, who was considered a beauty. maybe not in such a conventional sense as Cersei, but still more or less conventionally so. it’s implicit that Arya’s beauty is merely hidden behind the messy hair and the dirty face etc etc like it’s whatever, she’s canonically pretty.

I think it’d be more interesting if Arya were just a normal looking kid lol, she doesn’t need Brienne’s story but we certainly have way more female POVs described as beauties than we do otherwise. Catelyn, Daenerys, Sansa, Arya, Asha, Cersei, Arianne, Melisandre - they’re literally all described as beauties in some sense. Brienne is the sole exception. Compare to the men, amongst whom only Jaime is described as a stunner lol, then Theon is considered fairly hot, and Jon…. might be?? and then that’s kind of it.

so I do think that it would be more interesting if a character who was once teased for her appearance didn’t have the author quickly assure us that actually she’s a beauty, because that’s not often how it works in life. some people can clean themselves up a bit and suddenly get compliments, but for the people who have really suffered appearance-based bullying, they don’t suddenly turn out to have been beautiful all along. they look how they look, and it’s up to society to celebrate them as they are, not for them to meet societal standards. this is what I think Brienne’s story does so effectively, but at the superlative end of the spectrum. unfortunately, there is no middle ground between Brienne and a host of beautiful female POVs and that’s on GRRM.

as for the Arya stans, to some extent I understand them getting annoyed at a broad insistence that Arya looks otherwise to how she is canonically described. there will be certain fans with an agenda in saying this. but given that you can’t really go a day without seeing some variation of this discourse in fandom, I’m going to say that this argument over the hotness of a ten year old girl has officially had way too much air time and can we please all just accept that yes she is canonically pretty and who the fuck cares

[dark-lord-of-awesomeness]

Stan: YOU MAY BE OLDER THAN ME BY 15 minutes FORD BUT IF 15 MINUTES IS THE HILL YOU WANT TO DIE ON THEN YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS FIFTHTEEN MINTUES??? REHEATING HOTPOCKETS, DO YOU WANT TO BE A HOT POCKET FORD?!?

Ford: IF BEING A HOT POCKET WILL KEEPS YOU FROM WANDERING THE FOREST THEN YES STANLEY IM A “HOT POCKET”, FIFTHTEEN MINUTES IN THE GRAND OF SCHEME OF THINGS MEANS A LOT—

Stan: DAMMIT FORD, Why does this mean so much to you?!? We’re TWINS, it shouldn’t matter who’s older or younger because we were born on the same day! Why does you being be so much older matter to you? THIS JUST ANOTHER THING TO LORD OVER MY HEAD! Ohhh look at me I’m ford and Im smart and artistic and strong and older than you and there’s nothing the “Spare Stan” should do because he’s just SO stupid and—-

Ford: Stanley…

Stanley: No— Just…

*A silence hangs over them*

Ford: We’re….having another misunderstanding aren’t we? I didn’t think… *trying to recollect his words* I suppose you’re right that being 15 minutes older isn’t really much of an excuse….

Stan: That’s a first, you admitting I’m right? *Sighs* Also I’m a grown ass man, Ford.

Ford: I know that. Just…you’ve, always protected me when we were younger. And you’ve clearly have had a life full of hardships. Is it so wrong to prevent you from going through more? I can provide for you now, I can protect you now, MORE than I ever could back then. Is it so wrong to want you to be okay?

We’ve missed out so much of eachother’s lives.

I don’t want to lose you, or for you to get hurt and not tell anyone. You’ve suffered in silence for so long as a cat, who’s to sah you don’t do it with other things?

You’re used to throwing yourself so often into danger, that you don’t trust anyone to help you.

Stan: I appreciate the gesture, Pointdexer. But it makes me feel absolutely awful. Because I’m the one who’s supposed to be protecting you. I’m supposed to be the one who’s supporting you, not the other way around.

Ford: And why not?

Stan: Because, just because okay?!

(And that’s all the dialogue I got for now, please enjoy this 3 am ramble. Idk why I wrote this, but hopefully you’ve enjoyed)

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Its beautiful. Love misunderstanding brothers.

Ford just wants Stan to be safe and to be OK and that's harder to be with the cat thing, but Ford can do it better now also. He can protect and provide for Stan, and Stan doesn't have to put himself in danger! Ford can protect them himself!

Stan doesn't see it this way of course, just sees Ford being better than him, and him being useless. Now he can't even do the one thing he was good for, which was protect Ford, so why even be here! What's the point of him!

Just ugh. There's no right answer here. Just gotta talk it out and compromise somewhere.

[unriding]

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[hussyknee]

Ever since I realized anyone who's made art I loved could turn out to be a monster I've tried to preemptively interrogate how many preconceptions and biases I've formed towards creators just because I've bonded with their work, and think about what I'd do if that axe fell on my own most beloved books and music and shows (I mean it already has on many of them. Millennials can't have shit). I've squared it with most of them but ngl, in the full knowledge that I didn't actually know the man from my left elbow, if Terry Pratchett turns out to be a shitwipe I'll probably just lay down and die. I'm the first to encourage engaging much more critically with his work than his insufferable fandom will ever do, but I cannot contemplate someone whose blistering rage against social injustice I can feel so keenly in my own blood could be a racist or a piece of shit like Gaiman. Maybe he'd have disappointed the fuck out of me by believing Gaiman until he became indefensible, because whiteness and man-ness and ego sometimes calcifies in people's twilight years and undermine all they were in their youth. But actually being party to, or knowing about and accepting of that kind of abuse, especially at the time of writing Good Omens, when the characters of Vimes and Granny Weatherwax were beginning to unfold in his imagination? I don't want to live in a world where that's possible. I can't.

I mean, if allegations like that did come to light I would believe the victims and shut the fuck up about my own turmoil until the dust settled. But I'd also just fucking give up on the world man.

[paintedbandshirts]

Once again starstruck by the beauty and intensity of louis’ eyes✨

Drawn in prismacolour coloured pencils || Inspired by this post x

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[ismyteadoneyet]

How fortunate am I to have so many Things to love and be excited about, to appreciate and look forward to?

Things I feel so strongly about that they stumble into my mind, univited, at random times of the day? Things that spill into my speech and vocabulary without me noticing? Things that impact my vision to the point where everywhere I look, everywhere I go, I see ghosts of them?

How lucky am I to have so many Things I love and cherish enough for them to reshape my very person, change my beliefs and make me grow? Things that make my own loved ones see the Things out in the wild, and go out of their way to make sure I see them too?

How wonderful is it that I have Things that I love so much that the very act is deemed and dubbed "not normal", making my love for them seem like it's more than they are supposed to recieve? An out-of-the-ordinary and above-the-norm appreciation for the Things that make the people around me shake their heads, call me "silly".

My dear, beloved Things, may I always stay silly for you ❤️

[ikram1909]

About his ear injury against Osasuna: "it was 4 staples yes. Yeah the last one really hurt I shit myself (😭) but I didn't feel it much because I was still hot from the game"

How do you remember the moment they were healing you?

Gavi: "the truth is I was looking forward to getting back to the game and I don't even remember much" (you can literally see him complain about the game while the doctor is working on his ear 😭)

- That shows your commitment and your sacrifices

Gavi: well I always try to help the team in any way I can.

- What are you willing to do in a match for barça?

Gavi: well, unless I end up at the hospital... (Laughs)

[shalom-iamcominghome]

It's a travesty to me that the only chanukah (or even jewish in general) movie my dad's seen is Eight Crazy Nights - don't get me wrong, it's a decent movie. But only when it's Davey being vulnerable and when the movie undeniably engages with his jewishness

If I ever get my own place, I'm forcing him to watch jewish movies and whatnot because there is no way his only exposure to judaism is through that movie and him trying to convince one of his soldiers to request a kosher MRE. He cannot live life this way (lighthearted)!

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[baliisarda]

"Preying upon a boy as a woman needs to be discussed more in medias" You guys couldn't even handle Marie-Thérèse and Octavian I fear

[knifearo]

who up thinking about moses sumney doomed. "am i vital if my heart is idle? am i doomed?" "if lovelessness is godlessness, will you cast me to the wayside?" moses sumney 2017 album aromanticism save me... moses sumney 2017 album aromanticism... save me moses sumney 2017 album aromanticism...

[rinhaler]

Have any of u guys fallen for a character u had no interest in bc you saw a really good edit of them

[huellitaa]

4ever love my squishy tummy and gap tooth

[ukulelegodparent]

grrrr why did people ever stop wearing mid-renaissance clothes

[teenagefeeling]

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[skin-slave]