#anti pools

[toastful]

You’re trying so hard and yet, still failing.

Pretentious without the intellect or substance to coincide. A carbon-copy snowflake who’s self-proclaimed variety of “different” ironically matches umpteen other people’s.

Stop taking yourself so seriously. Again, you’re trying incredibly hard and still failing. Individuals of actual intellect and substance can see right through you, even if you lack the self-awareness to do so yourself.

First of all how dare you! I am probably the most intellectual and substantial person on this website. I’m not like the others here. I’m better. Smarter. More talented.

This website is full of children who can’t read, are illiterate, watch day time television, listen to George Micheal, and can’t understand the complexities of poetry and classical literature!! No reading comprehension!! No media literacy!! This place needs a helping hand and that’s why I’m here!

Of course I take myself seriously! My job is serious! Only a serious, smart, intelligent, and handsome individual can do what I do. I am probably one of the post prolific thinkers of this time. A modern day philosopher. You wish you were as deep and intellectual as me.

And don’t you dare call me a snowflake! I hate cold weather and don’t appreciate being compared to that diet cocaine that falls from the sky. I was in the D.A.R.E program in school. I’m am proudly anti drug! Who needs drugs when you can have intellectually stimulating conversations and literature! Books are my anti drug!

You seem like a very shallow, sad person. It’s clear your projecting your insecurities on to me. You yourself are probably insecure about your short comings. How you blend into the crowd of this site. How nothing about you stands out. How you probably enjoy taking dips in pools during the summer time. All things that classify you as lesser then my character. I’m standing out and making a change. I am a god amongst men. You see that and freeze. Look at yourself and feel bad. Then you throw those icky little feelings at me. For shame anon, for shame. I suggest you take a good look at yourself. Maybe crack open a book instead of playing Candy crush on your phone. If you did that, then maybe one day you could get a little closer to being like me. But not too close. That would be impossible.

Also, I don’t appreciate your use of the term “coin-cide”. I think coins are lovely, and to wish such levels of extermination on them is cruel and wrong. Please reevaluate you thinking. Such violent thoughts are worrisome.

I hope you understand that you’re wrong and I am right. Don’t argue with me on this. Instead try to grow as a person. Have a good day.

[pretty-kitten-paw]

The UK government headed and run by many transphobes has decided to make the Trans Panic defense legal. If a trans person does not disclose their gender and the other party presses charges due to this, they can be convicted with sexual assault crime.

Furthermore any trans person, (tho particularly trans women), who has obtained a Gender Reassignment Certificate (GRC) will be put into prison of their birth sex if the matter is a sex crime

With these two bits of legislation Labour have made it not only legal but easy for trans people to be jailed and sexually assaulted by members of their birth sex. We know for a fact that sexual assault in prisons happen esp to trans women. We know that placing them in female prisons, whilst not eliminating sexual assault, does make it less common.

Labour are defining a movement based on fear. Based on the fact that any cis person disgusted by their own internalised transphobia at sleeping with a trans person will have the full backing of the law to punish them. Even if sexual consent was given. Even if you both got inebriated and fucked and the "victim" found out your transness later. This puts every stealth trans woman at risk. This puts every trans woman who enjoys hook ups at risk. This puts everyone at risk.

And yet people wonder why trans women overwhelmingly date their sisters and friends.

[l3m0nflavoredst1mz]

make a stimboard of markiplier just being mad at everything

Angry Markiplier Stimboard

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[silverflameataraxia]

Sansa and Jeyne are the only people to call Arya ugly.

Meanwhile Ned, Jon, Gendry, Lady Smallwood, and the kindly man have all commented on her beauty, but this fandom ignores it in favor of two middle-school-aged mean girls who have to put Arya down to feel good about themselves.

[goldkirk]

I don’t know how to explain any more clearly that it doesn’t MATTER if it seems legitimate to you. You have got to fact check every single headline and post and claim on the left just like you need to do on the right.

The left is NOT immune to misinformation and rushed reporting. And the more emotionally polarizing or shocking the talking points, sound bytes, and headlines are, the worse it is and more frequently it happens.

Learn to verify through multiple independent sources. If you can’t do that, you can’t trust it.

If you have to wait extra hours for the real information to come through vetted channels—NOT just one individual somewhere everyone links to, and not just one single media source either, EVEN if it’s a major news network—thats just how it has to be. What news outside of genuine local disasters near you TRULY needs your outrage and post-sharing in the next hour specifically?

Misinformation works best by not seeming like misinformation and by fitting in with the rest of what you already expect to see. It doesn’t help anyone to not be able to recognize and avoid the stuff.

[talistheintrovert]

NEW VIDEO IS UP!! the vibes are very much:

[pessimisticpigeonsworld]

D&D saying that one of their favorite plots from the books is the Boltons in Winterfell is a massive sign of their sexism. Now, for anyone one else, I'd probably not care, in fact, I'd agree it's a very interesting part. However, when it comes to the showrunners who needlessly wrote in excessive rape and violence against women, I see it as a red flag. That's compounded by the way they wrote it.

From the beginning of the show, D&D sabotaged the storyline by removing Jeyne Poole. Keep in mind, ADWD was released in 2008, while GOT premiered in 2011, meaning there was no possible way for D&D to not know everything necessary to bring about that specific plot. Add to that the fact that GRRM was heavily involved in season one, them blatantly ignoring Jeyne makes even less sense if they truly cared about adapting it properly.

Knowing this, that D&D themselves sabotaged their own story, the way it was handled makes a bit more sense, though not nearly enough. Without Jeyne there to play the part of fake Arya, a new bride for Ramsay was needed. Sansa was D&D's favorite character, they were unsatisfied with the story GRRM had written for her, they wanted more screen time and plot relevance for her. It seemed like making Sansa take Jeyne's place was a good solution to both these issues.

Except it wasn't. Littlefinger sending Sansa out of the Vale to marry Ramsay makes no sense. Not only is Sansa the object of Littlefinger's obsession, a replacement for Catelyn in his mind, she also was important to Littlefinger getting the Vale on his side (in the show). She was charming the lords and knights, balancing their intense dislike for him with their desire to help/protect her. Not to mention she was his only alibi to save him from accusations of Lysa's murder. Sending her away from the Vale harms Littlefinger's plans. She also would definitely not be "protected" from Cersei; after all the Boltons were loyal to the Lannisters and hated the Starks, what's to stop them from killing Sansa or handing her over once the Northern lords are more settled?

Speaking of the Northern lords, D&D removed the Northern Conspiracy. Throughout the book plot, the Northern lords are plotting to save Arya and depose the Boltons (in a nutshell, it's actually much more complex, but I'm not going into that rn). It's an excellent expression of how the Northerners loved the Starks and hate the Boltons. In the show, the lords are a bit disgruntled, sure, but they have no interest in deposing the Boltons and saving Sansa.

Another major part of the storyline minimized by the show is Theon/Reek. Theon's struggle with identity is a major part of his character throughout the series, and ADWD is no different. He's been stripped entirely of his identity by Ramsay's torture and Theon's own choices. Part of his arc in this book is discovering himself apart from the Starks and the Greyjoys.

That's definitely not what the show did. As I said earlier, Sansa is D&D's favorite character, so naturally she became the center focus of this arc, while Theon was pushed aside. He's essentially reduced to the method of Sansa's escape and goes on track to return to his pre-season one perception of himself: a Stark. This is a massive disservice to his character, Theon isn't a Stark; his life with them is important to his storyline and will definitely inform what he becomes, but it's not the true culmination of his arc. Basically, Theon was turned into a side character in his own story. It's through his pov we see this story, he's the character most tied to Ramsay. Obviously Jeyne is important and a main character in her own right for this arc, but she is not the central character we see the story through. So why is Sansa? She has no stake in this story, Jeyne is forced there after being sex trafficked and Theon is a captive.

So what does this leave for the show version of the plot? There's no conspiracy, Theon's pushed to the side, and politics and overall story are sacrificed. Well that leaves torture and violence against Ramsay's bride. Without the many moving parts of that storyline, it's just a story of a woman being abused horribly by her husband and eventually escaping. However, the escape isn't even the main aspect of the story focused on, that's always the abuse. It's also purely Sansa's abuse, not Theon's or the many people tortured and murdered by Ramsay, Sansa is the sole focus.

So basically, D&D took a plotline that's filled with the inner workings of Northern politics and the complexities of battling identity loss and reduced it to another excuse to show a woman be raped and abused on screen. The desire to turn this stroy into another way to make Sansa suffer is disturbing, and to make matters worse she fucking thanks Ramsay later on?? This whole storyline in the show is disgusting and yet another sign of how sexist D&D are.

[amaltheas-garden]

hotd writers thought Rhaena's Vale plot was too boring for tv so they stole a black character's plotline to make a white character more interesting, and they thought we wouldn't notice because they made the Velaryons black in the show (and yes, Rhaena is still written as a white character because she is Valyrian, and the racially based discrimination and violence book Nettles faces has been erased) 🤡

[sovereignsystem]

Endos when you tell them facts;

[agentrouka-blog]

A small subset of Arya stans really needs to understand that there is an essential difference between a by-proxy marriage (everyone is who they say they are, they are just using a mutually agreed-upon stand-in for the legal ritual) - and literal fraud involving a captive and choiceless imposter forced into child marriage for the optics of supposedly continuing the line of the old liege lord with the new liege lord.

Basically: No, Jeyne Poole's ordeal doesn't make Arya Lady of Winterfell, ffs. Apart from the obvious fraud being committed through Jeyne's deliberate false identity, this would imply that the Boltons are the rightful lords of Winterfell and convey this status onto Arya Stark through marriage.

Are you even serious?

Is that how a Stark would think of their claim to Winterfell? Marrying into it, by the grace of the murderers of Robb Stark who have been granted the titles formerly belonging to House Stark by the Lannisters?

Are you going to be calling her Lady Bolton then?

All these contortions just to somehow pretend that Arya has some superceding legal claim to Winterfell over her siblings. Absurdity.

Or to claim that this means Arya has "forced marriage" parallels with other characters. No, that's Jeyne Poole it's happening to. Arya is selling oysters in Braavos and killing people.

[toastful]

Good to see you back, I was worried that the pool industry might have gotten you.

Thank you for your concern, anon! Luckily the pool industrial complex has not taken me down yet. They are biding their time but they have to try a lot harder to stop me from exposing their evilness!

[beanghostprincess]

Once again thinking about Sanuso Superhero Au....... Stealth Black being forced to be a villain and thinking he has no other choice but to be evil always fighting against Sogeking who won't stop accidentally seeing the good parts of him and wondering if he truly has a heart, while Stealth Black keeps meaning to kill Sogeking but he can never do it... The whole "I'll cut your throat, that'll shut you up" vs "You're beautiful".

[welcomefortune]

Ned, sweetie, I’m so sorry an ugly ass bitch would even say that

[silverflameataraxia]

She had never cared if she was pretty, even when she was stupid Arya Stark. Only her father had ever called her that. Him, and Jon Snow, sometimes. Her mother used to say she could be pretty if she would just wash and brush her hair and take more care with her dress, the way her sister did. To her sister and sister's friends and all the rest, she had just been Arya Horseface.

- The Blind Girl, ADwD

It's just simply not true that only Ned has ever called Arya pretty. Other characters have made mention of Arya's beauty, but she brushes them aside and doesn't believe it because Catelyn never thought she was ladylike enough to be pretty, and because she was so badly bullied by Sansa and Jeyne. Everyone could think Arya was the most beautiful girl in the world, and Arya would still think she's ugly.

But I do love how Ned and Jon (of course Jon. No surprise there.) would re-enforce to Arya how beautiful she is.

[genericpuff]

I just KNOW they’re only having sex for episode 265. I CAN FEEL IT IN MY BONES

no that's literally all it is

it's morpheus talking gibberish about dream diving for like 5 panels

and then the rest of it is just the same shot of H x P from different angles talking about things we've already seen them talk about

and then hades 'proves' to persephone she's a good queen by boning her

i'm not fucking joking

you're not missing out on a THING

[stagefoureddiediaz]

The Chris and water theming is still making itself known.

It’s making me wonder if that pool is gonna get built and Chris is gonna get into danger in it because Helena isn’t paying attention etc!