#i mean i love character analysis in general but there’s so little on Mel

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Mel my beloved…. If anyone has a character analysis post on her I’d love to be linked to it, she’s one of my absolute favourite character and I might just rewatch the show for more details on her and others ( forgor half of the details )

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* getting  to  know  the  mun :

name :   melissa nickname :  mel faceclaim : that depends but when I use ooc icons they're usually adora from she-ra and the princesses of power pronouns :  she/her  height :   165cm birthday :   november 12 aesthetic :  grey days, warm fluffy blankets, black cats, piles of books, videogames, changing hair color as often as possible, biting nails, the scent of rain (idk I just made a list of things I like lol) last  song  you  listened  to : The Man - Taylor Swift favorite  muse (s)  you’ve  written : Myrcella tbh but Tyrande is v close... Actually I can't pick bc Alleria and Ashara too I love all of my children I’m just more attached to Myrcella probably

* getting  to  know  the  account :

what  inspired  you  to  take  on  this  muse :   (I'll do this for Myrcella) so I read the asoiaf books and fell in love with her immediately. few times have I ever felt so strongly that I really wanted to write a muse, still, I hesitated about making a blog for her because I was very afraid of jumping into a new fandom (and one that seemed very different from the ones I had been in at that point) so I waited for a while but she was persistent lol. so I gave up and made a blog eventually and here we are now. it literally just happened like that: I read the books and Myrcella stuck with me and never left :v

what  are  your  favorite  aspects  of  your  current  muse :  she's admittedly a very minor character and open to different interpretations (which is part of why I love writing her! because there's not much canon to bind me lol). nevertheless, I think the little we see of her makes it clear Myrcella is very strong, stronger than most people think, and immensely clever. she's more than just good. she's very observant, she's charming and capable of using it in her favor, and of course, she's brave and outspoken too and I don’t know I love everything about her, even the tragedy of the suggestion she would play the game well and be a better queen than either of her brothers but that we will never truly see this being developed because she’ll die as prophecy demands aksdjfnaksjdfn

what’s  your  biggest  inspiration  when  it  comes  to  writing : the canon material mostly, but other than that I like theories and character analysis (good ones give me life and often help me get muse for her, but bad ones fuel my writing out of spite lol). more than anything, how I feel in the fandom I’m writing in influences my muse heavily (for all my muses tbh), so the people I write with play a big part where inspiration is concerned. when it comes to myrcella, you @wclfcrown, but also @wineinthewidow and @agirlofwinterfell who aren't as active atm (neither am I with asoiaf muses tbh aksnfjksdnaf) but I love always

favorite  types  of  threads :  I love suffering so angst and drama are my favorites but tbh I love fluff and cute nice stuff too and honestly I can go from 4+ paragraphs of serious threads full of feels to crack posts so uh yeah anything  

biggest  struggle  in  regards  to  your  current  muse : I'm insecure in general lol I don't think she's difficult to write but I struggle with muse sometimes because of anxiety and insecurity for the most part because it makes me feel replaceable and Not Good™ . the lack of muse because of how I feel in the fandom can make it harder too. but I can’t really think of anything specifically about Myrcella, she never required me any sort of mood or thought process to write her. I guess this would count: she comes to me very easily when I have muse but if I don’t she won’t come at all no matter how hard I try to write her.

tagged by: @wclfcrown thanks dj <3

tagging: if you read all of my bullshit up to here consider yourself tagged I mean it go do the thing rn

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Episode 3, Season 7, Part 1

Before I do this recap, I’d like to state that this is going to be an analysis with as little shipper bias as possible (I can’t keep it off fully) because the whole episode was so well done and I’d like to see it as a whole. Spoiler warning!!!

As expected the episode starts with Jon and Davos landing on Dragonstone. When I saw the blue waves of the sea crashing against the storm, I thought it was beautiful. Then I thought, hmmm Dragonstone gave Jon a better welcome than it did D. Peter Dinklage was brilliant in his welcome address and so was Kit. That they trust each other, share a bond and even understand each other is visible from the first scene of their reunion. I love the wary look that crosses Jon’s face when he’s asked to handover all their weapons. He looks at Davos, at his men and then answers with an “Of course.” The dothraki lord (or whoever he is) stares Jon down which he returns without backing down. 

But what I really loved about this scene (thought it’s really in the background) is the small reassuring wave Jon throws in the direction of his Men, asking them to wait there while Davos and Jon follow Messandei and Tyrion. I think every scene involving Jon is building his strength and character as a leader. 

We directly come to one of my favourite scenes in the episode. Tyrion and Jon’s conversation about Sansa. Honestly, I had expected Tyrion to address her as LADY Sansa. After their wedding he does ask her to call him Tyrion and he calls her Sansa but that he should address her with so much familiarity even after believing that their marriage was a sham sort of poked me the moment I heard it. After politely asking about her well being, after addressing her by her first name, he then proceeds to ask JON

“Does she miss me terribly?”

Of course this is Tyrion Lannister’s sense of humour, he means that as a joke. But Jon Snow, doesn’t get the joke. He doesn’t find it remotely funny. He proceeds to give Tyrion THE DEATH GLARE and I disagree with those who feel he stared at Tyrion because this conversation felt awkward. If you feel awkward you look away, not at the person literally staring him down. Tyrion senses Jon staring at him and is embarrassed immediately when he turns to see the look on Jon’s face.He’s also the first one to look away. He feels the need to explain to Jon that the marriage was a sham and that it wasn’t even consummated. And Jon literally grates out an “I didn’t ask” to Tyrion’s explanation. So I’ve read people say that Jon says that because he’s embarrassed talking about his sister’s sex life but somehow I didn’t read it as that. I kind of read it as Jon meaning, it doesn’t make any difference to me if your marriage was consummated or not. Sansa, stays EXACTLY where she is (under my fucking protection, the shipper adds), whether you think she’s your wife or not. 

Then Tyrion says, She’s much smarter than she let’s on. To which Jon gives a slight nod and says, “She’s starting to let on.” Okay guys, Sansa is clever, we get the point. 

What I don’t understand is why this subject was even being discussed? Tyrion was the only man who has ever been Kind to Sansa, well other than the hound. It would have been more brotherly if the conversation had gone something like this. 

Tyrion: And Sansa, I heard she’s alive and well?

Jon: She is and she’s told me that you were kind to her. 

Tyrion: Our marriage was just a sham(the audience understands and knows very well that it was not consummated. Probably, Jon does too. It was enough to call the marriage a sham). She’s endured a lot but she’s much cleverer than she let’s on. 

Jon: She’s starting to let on. 

Tyrion: Good

See the difference? No death stare needed. Sansa has explicitly told the audience and Jon (In front of the audience) that Tyrion was indeed kind to her. Why then did they make Tyrion appear like he was talking about his wife and that Jon didn’t like it one bit? They’ve a strange way of bringing, Sansa, her suitors, Jon and sex in one conversation.

Next conversation hightlight:

Tyrion: General rule of thumb. Stark men don’t fare well when they are south.

Jon: True. But I am not a stark.

At this point, I yelled. Of course you are not Jon. You are a bloody Targaryen!! Someone tell him already!!

 The dragons fly over their heads, Jon and Davos fall. Missandei looks amused. She’s probably thinking. “Mission scaring King in the north:Accomplished”

Then happens one of the most interesting conversations in probably the entire episode. Mellissandre Telling Varys that she’s done her part for now. “She’s brought Ice and Fire together.” This screamed red herring to me. You see we’ve been told time and again in the show that Mel, doesn’t fully understand the visions that she sees. She only sees what the lord of the light shows her and she assumes what it means. She also admits in the same conversation that Jon Snow doesn’t like her because she made ‘terrible mistakes’. She also explicitly tells D in the previous episode that She believes that D has a role to play, as does another. What are these roles and how they will play out, is left to the interpretation of the viewer. SO it really remains to be seen if Jon and D are really ice and fire. Or did she just mean that they are each other’s polar opposites?

I loved the part where she says that she’s got to come back to this strange country to die. Anybody else thought of Arya Stark when she said that??

And when she tells Varys, Just like you. Did anyone else remember what D told Varys about burning him alive in the previous episode???

WELL, I DID. 

End of Part 1

[thatsnotcanonpodcasts]

The Sun Also Rises Sandwich

Published in 1926, Ernest Hemingway told the spicy, dramatic tale of a group of passionate and broken expatriates spending a wine-hazed week at the Pamplona Fiesta, where all their interpersonal dramas come to full boil. Things are heating up for Ol' Matty, too, as he finds seducing a volcano for a ride out of the Center of the Earth was more than he bargained for. I'm not even surprised anymore. Sure, seduce a volcano.

Turns out the writer of Ol' Matty's available is just as lazy as Verne, and the lethally dead-end plotline of wandering his subterranean prison are coming to an abrupt and epic end. After successfully turning the volcano on with a whole new segment, things got a little too saucy and lava-y for Ol' Matty as he is shot out of the volcano like a cannon, skyrocketing toward the surface. Quite a bit hungry, he uses this convenient burst of heat to make the spicy and boozy sandwich based on Ernest Hemingway's spicy and boozy novel, The Sun Also Rises. Say what you will about the Ol' fool, but he knows how to see the silver linings in things, and always when is the right time to drink - it may be his last, after all.

Finding himself back on the surface eventually, and more importantly back in his element with his idol Hemingway, Ol' Matty may be elevated but he is delving deeper and deeper into history and literary analysis all the same. I was about to be impressed to be honest, I mean, the guy seems to be able to summon an orchestra for dramatic readings, but then he was attacked by a bear and it got weird again.

Even though he now has paws for hands (Yes, both hands. Don't ask), once again Ol' Matty has created a wonderfully delicious word sandwich with a dangerously high alcoholic content, shimmying down the skinny of history (bread), story (meat), characters (cheese), themes (sauce) and his final thoughts (seasoning). But get this, he may have stitched bear paws on but he is healthier, he added both tomato and lettuce just for kicks!

The novel is a impassioned, and beautifully spun and exaggerated roman à clef: the characters are based on real people in Hemingway's circle, and the action is based on real events. Hemingway presents his notion that Gertrude Stein's "Lost Generation"— who she and many else considered to have been decadent, dissolute, and irretrievably damaged by World War I—was in fact resilient and strong. Hemingway investigates the themes of love and death, the revivifying power of nature, and the concept of masculinity.

Love stories? Love hearing about the tales of old with Ol' Matty but want to know them yourself? Want to join the Book Club Sandwich but don't have the time or desire to sit down and read? Well, you dolt, check out Audible, where you can drive to your destination and faraway lands all at once. P.S. Audible, please sponsor me.

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I have only ever read the book with my own eyeballs so I can't personally vouch for any version on Audible, however there is one read by William Hurt who I know is quite good and think we can trust, Quixotes.

If you really don't want to read or listen, I recommend the 1957 film. Hemingway himself didn't like it because it was shot in Mexico for budget reasons, but the script itself treats the original text as gospel, the story is streamlined excellently and the dialogue is more or less directly lifted from the book. While Errol Flynn was glorious casting, and Ava Garner turned in a fine performance as Brett Ashley, other than Flynn the cast is terribly miscast on account of age, all at least 20 years older than they should be. Nevertheless, you forgive Ava Garner and Errol Flynn due to their solid performances, and Tyrone Power and Mel Ferrer are eventually believable as Jake Barnes and Robert Cohn. I haven't seen the 1984 version and don't care to, I'll confess. I only watched the 1957 for Flynn as the book is the best version of this story.

Ol' Matty's Sources:

A.E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises_(1957_film)

Shmoop Analysis - Cos Plot Summaries are hard on time constraints.

https://www.shmoop.com/the-sun-also-rises/summary.html

Hemingway: The Paris Years by Michael Reynolds

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