#amazingly boring

[antique-forvalaka]

Worried im gonna develop a Big Fucking Jawline cuz i keep catching myself gnashing my teeth

[ohblimeygeorge]

I’m gonna be super honest here… that was not George’s/merc’s worst race or the worst strat call ever and some of you are acting as if George ended up being p20

[malkaleh]

I’m not better but also I can be alone and one big thing is that I asked for help, which let me say is Fucking Terrifying. Also I did not in fact give into the voice that was like it is its fault it is a doll and went no even if mu voice shakes when i say it.

So I’m not better but also I am.

[inky-toons]

Does anyone fuck with KISS like I do because between Gene Simmons and Paul Stanely and ACE I AM A FOOL ‼️‼️ THE WORLDS BIGGEST FOOL! THEYRE GORGEOUS

Prettiest men you will ever find and trust me I'm a fan of Mötley Crüe, Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, Led Zeppelin, Nick Lowe and Soft Cell. 70's men are literally my type 100% I am INANE

[archivedjuice]

l'eclisse (1962) / dir. michelangelo antonioni

[hotboiessek]

had a stress dream the night before my first day with students about not filling out attendance quick enough and our attendance clerk getting angry at me

[evidently-endless]

me trying to explain how participating normally in conversation makes me feel like i’m rude and boring and annoying and taking the whole thing over

[mephist0phallus]

It’s likely a combination of post-pasting-myself-and-my-bike-across-two-lanes-of-traffic and the beer I drank in record time but I’m going to be a bitch now. Literally zero takes on source material get me so heated as someone just being a jackass.

When you seem to exclusively reference a character when you want to take snide potshots at people with incredibly innocuous takes. You might actually be the point source for this bad faith pollution. If you’re so proud of ignoring discourse then you actually have to follow through with that by . Not discoursing.

Christ, we’re going to start sending people to the chair for being bland now are we?

[yourcomputerr]

did anyone else kind of not enjoy that

[saltlickmp3]

this is a post saying wOW LED ZEPPELIN ARE SO FRICKEN GOOD

because i have just remembered this fact

& led zeppelin III is the best one and you know I'm right it's way better than their fourth

[his-madness-keeps-him-sane]

I honestly think that the inability to understand the most basic ideas of ASOIAF characters comes from bad faith criticism, especially if they think that "long winter" is not a central plot point of the story.

Whatever about worldbuilding, I don't care about the freaking bees of Westeros (and the problem is again that Martin has a stick up his ass and should act more like Tolkien and embrace more the poetry and less the pedantry).

I understand and enjoy criticism (1- I think he deserves it, 2- I like to interact with different opinions of things I read/watch/whatever) but saying "winter is unimportant" explains why so many understand the books as a misanthrope story.

Because you have Jaime's journey after "being evil" or Sansa learning the game of thrones to survive while knowing that she doesn't want to become a Cersei.

There's a lot of dark and cruelty but the central conclusion is always the same: be clever!

That's where the TV show failed, in the book consequences matter!

Ned is not dead because he was "good", Ned is dead because he was DUMB!

Nobody said "oh but why did he have to die?" because we know why!

Every single death happens because someone didn't know how to play the game.

That's why Daenerys is doomed to become a fascist (the tv show was BAD but the general idea of Dany turning "bad" is there in the books too).

That's why I will always defend Sansa (arguably the biggest victim of fan's misogyny).

The characters, good or bad, are (usually) incredibly well written, with (usually) a lot of nuance.

From the anti chosen one/Prince Charming of Dany/Jon to the child soldier metaphors of Arya there's really a lot of though and care behind them all. And that's why the books have become impossible to finish. Too many complex pieces to play with.

Martin has A LOT to criticize and I wish he stopped with the bullshit (and the obsession with rape, and the racism, and the...) but I can't understand how someone can read those books and think "this author thinks humans are awful".

Everyone hates Cersei and then Martin goes "Take this, a Cersei POV chapter" and... Fuck.

Yes, she's bad. But suddenly she is a person, not a fairy tale evil queen. She has ambition, she's scared, she's a mother, she's a woman in a sexist world full of violence against women... And we learn all those fears and dreams directly from her, from the "evil queen".

One of the little things that the TV show did well was Joffrey's death.

I remember people being... Uncomfortable. Because while enjoying the death of a monster they realized "wow... He's just a 16 year old boy... Dying in his mother's arms..."

And that, and not "historical accuracy" or whatever Martin claims, is the true golden heart of ASOIAF.

That the world is awful and make us awful

And that it doesn't have to be like that.

That's why the winter IS central.

Because a looming doom should be enough to make them realize how dumb the whole "game of thrones" is (like, you know...the real world and climate change??? The pandemic and the totally insufficient collaboration between countries???) and yet they keep fighting for an ugly chair that kills you if you sit on it too hard because it's made out of the swords of a colonialist war.

IT'S NOT SUBTLE

For all its faults, what ASOIAF is saying (or should be if Martin stopped with the bullshit) is that the world is awful, but you don't have to, and that it's never too late to change.

That you can be good but you have to be CLEVER.

That the kids are the future and can be the change.

That the Starks were always right and the winter is coming.

And that the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

And I don't think he's ever gonna finish the books, but I don't think it's a coincidence that the last book is called "A promise of Spring".

Say what you want about Martin and his stupidity and empty pride.

But ASOIAF, even if failing a lot in achieving it, is ultimately about hope.

Hope in spite of horror.

Btw, a disclaimer: I'm not even a fan anymore!

I haven't even read the last published book!

But to be a hater you have to admit the good parts too!

Listen to Orson Welles, the OG hater!

Jeez!

Disclaimer x2: I refuse to acknowledge any grammar or orthographic mistake, I can't read anymore 😌

Someone over on Discord asked, "I'm morbidly curious: How BAD is A Song of Ice and Fire in terms of the authenticity George claims it to be?"

My reply was straightforward:

The long and the short of it is that ASOIAF is basically a vehicle for GRRM to present both his rape fetish and his Hobbesian view on human nature and has less historical accuracy than Frozen or most other Disney movies.

That's actually a good way to think of it, now that I've said it--he's Family Unfriendly, they're Family Friendly, but both have the same relationship with History: just Pure Aesthetic with no consideration for how the worldbuilding would work.

[psychoticallytrans]

When kids are trying to explain a problem they are having to you, you need to ask questions. Kids often don't have the words that they need to explain what is going on. So, they substitute in words that they do know that are as close as possible. If you take what they say at face value, you can sometimes entirely miss the actual problem.

A recent example is a kid, ten years old, I know who kept saying that their problem is that they "get bored" when reading. I've been helping by recommending books and other material relevant to their interests to their parents, but it didn't seem to work. So, I came over, sat down with the kid, and asked them to read as much of a short story as they could before they got bored.

They could read about sixty or so words before they were unable to focus on the text any longer.

According to them, this has been a problem since they were seven. But because "boredom" was the only word they had for it, they received attempts to get them more engaging texts. That's a great strategy for most book-shy kids, but not when it's looking far more like an undiagnosed disability. This kid has amazingly supportive parents who are now looking to get them more expertly evaluated, but because they didn't have the language to explain how bad the problem was, it flew under the radar for three years.

Ask kids clarifying questions when they're having trouble, especially when the problem you think they are telling you about isn't being solved by solutions that would normally work. You might figure out why those solutions aren't working.

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

Holy shit I love my job. Today is Tea loving her job day.

[mouthfulloftoothpasterry]

On my 13th book of the year :p

[destiel-wings]

191. rumplestiltskin (mr. gold) | ONCE UPON A TIME

[queenofthegalaxxy]

Mhmm.

Link here and here to only one of the pics of that post, because I'm not sharing pics that aren't mine and on the same manner don't wanna reblog that post I found in the tags reposting these pics -

very very Blackfire behaviour. I especially like the reactions everyone shows.