#jon especially lol

[bobbinalong]

Reading Guides

Because my current pinned is getting a bit ridiculous, I decided to make a master post with all my reading guides/lists. They're all up-to-date as of me writing this and I try to keep it that way. Should I make any more reading guides in the future, I will also add them here.

Otho-Ra & Osul-Ra / The Super-Twins

Jon Kent / Superman Get to know Jon (with a shorter reading guide)

Jay Nakamura / Gossamer Get to know Jay (with a shorter reading guide)

Nia Nal / Dreamer

How the hell did we get here? - A guide to Jay Nakamura, Nia Nal and Jon Kent

[rriverrunning]

#tbh i think people vastly overstate the extent to which cat fits into the westerosi woman/wife/mother mold. because while it's not as obviously evident to the people around her like it is with characters like cersei ("i shouldve been born a man" etc to sansa, the way tyrion & jaime discuss her) or brienne (unable to fit into any traditional gender roles by her physical appearance and prowess as a fighter), she really plainly chafes against the constraints of those roles almost constantly in her own povs.

a lot of it happens in her head as she recalls her childhood as hoster's presumed heir, and reckons with her own lack of power to make political decisions (despite the fact that she is qualified, in fact likely more qualified than many of the men around her to do so) and save her daughters. but this resistance also does manifest in her actions, and she gets reprimanded for it!! robb sending her as an envoy to renly and stannis was explicitly a move to further push her out of the war strategy effort, something that's extremely complicated for her to deal with because it's coming from her own teenage son, who has also become a king, who is facing pressures from his own men. robb believes that he needs to present a strong front, something that being advised by his mother compromises, so he compensates by removing her from the situation entirely. she struggles with this dichotomy between her son who she yearns to protect and care for, and her king who ultimately has this power over her, just as she struggled in her relationship with ned (loving him dearly as her husband, but also being subject to him and his witholding of information having a lasting impact on her).

and these are not conflicts cat deals with easily: a lot of her worst actions and decisions relate back to these issues, because in places where cat does have power she uses it, and sometimes rashly, but she uses it when and where she can!! i think it's a mistake to be fooled by her outward appearance as the purely dutiful, deferent wife and mother (as many of the people around her are) because that simply isn't consistent with what catelyn truly wants for herself, or what she does in the text!

[fromtheseventhhell]

Remember George's outline notes that had "joy of giving" and "mercy at the gate" for Arya? Mercy is crossed out and we obviously have that as her sample chapter, so what if Arya's next alias is "Joy"? Over-thinking the significance of that phrase and how it could apply to the rest of her Braavos arc🤔

[syndrossi]

Weird question, in the books it’s shown a few times that Jon has a weird amount of strength. ( ie needing several people to pull him back, picking up a grown man by the throat, lifting a eight foot long spear single handed where others failed as a group. Here’s a Reddit post compelling a few of them.

My question is will this come up in resonant, or is it just general book weirdness? And if it is a thing is it something related to tptwp, so rhaegar also has it.

Some of those feats of strength seem to be driven by rage, other than the spear one, which speaks to a lot of the pain/anger Jon's internalized. I could see it manifesting more subtly as Jon being much stronger than his slighter frame would suggest, including when he's younger. Aka a thirteen-year-old Jon being able to match strength to strength against an older teen.

It certainly seems more a Jon thing rather than a PTWP quality he would share with Rhaegar (similar to how Rhaegar seems to be able to influence the emotions of others via song, whereas Jon can't hold a tune). Funnily enough, you can make the argument that HOTD!Daemon shows some of this in S1E3 fighting the Crabfeeder's forces. Just as Daemon approaches Vermithor while singing. I really do maintain that both twins are reflections of different aspects of Daemon.

[bitter-goodbyes]

THE ENDING OF MAG 91 “The Coming Storm”

[izzy140105]

Happy bisexual awareness week ya bitchless fools!! 🫶

[p0rk-guts]

im giving u a challenge, stick

draw ghost from cod 👹👹👹👹

or if not, martin blackwood because i love him :3

You get both bc ily! ^ v ^

[snow-blower]

Do you have a favourite song currently that just really screams it's about them? Before I landed on "cowboy like me" I went through a variety of different songs on a playlist I made for my oc and Jon ✋😭 WHY IS NAMING THINGS SO HARD??!!

I doo, but Rule #34 doesn't really sound like a fic name lmfao

But I think—I think, I'm down to one of these, I just can't decide which:

. Whatever It Takes To Chase The Monster Away

. You Save Everyone But Who Saves You?

. Bury Me Shallow; I'll be back.

[bauliya]

i think there should be a batfam centric DC run of all the bat children slowly coming to terms with the fact bruce is getting older and gradually and quietly taking on more and more responsibilities that come with being batman EXCEPT FOR damian he can’t do it he just can’t he’s only in highschool and he barely got any time with his dad and as he watches him take longer to do routine tasks he gets increasingly harsh and cruel with his father until his bruce has to say something along the lines of i am doing my best, you know and damian has to leave the room

[bobbinalong]

kiddos

[fissions-chips]

…spider jon… fairy tim…

[jazzyinspace]

Krieg: We are making wonderful time, but everything I showed you today is extremely important, so let's review. ...Jeff? Jeff: 💤 Krieg: 😤

[fromtheseventhhell]

I don't want to imply only Arya antis think she'll go to the Riverlands first lol I'm pretty sure us Arya stans came up with the theory she'll reunite with Lady Stoneheart and give her the gift of mercy in the first place. Unfortunately though there are a lot of people whose speculation for Arya starts and ends at her killing people and disappearing off the face of the earth or realizing "revenge is bad" and then doing absolutely nothing afterwards. Though one thing I've seen very common with Arya antis is the idea that she'll effectually never reunite with any of her family members or identify as Arya going forward, either staying in the shadows or dying nameless or faceless without anyone recognizing her. That's a bit that worries me somewhat with her returning to the Riverlands first thing. Most Arya fans do expect her to be crowned by Lady Stoneheart and lead the BWB and Nymeria's pack up north but a lot of speculation from non-Arya fans ends up similar to Arya's reunion with Sansa and Bran in season 7; out of the loop, out of place, her journey treated as boring compared to the others, underwhelming reunions, conveniently out of the picture long enough so she can't ruin relationships that otherwise wouldn't happen with her present, secondary to Sansa.

One thing I think gets overlooked is how close Braavos is to Westeros. I've seen a lot of people act like Sansa in the Vale is a hop, skip, and a jump away from the Wall while treating Braavos like it's as far away as Meereen but they're actually about the same distance away. Braavos does appear to be perfectly placed if his original intent was for Arya to end up somewhere in the North, whether at the Wall, White Harbor, or even Hardhome.

But mostly I reject the idea that Arya will end up secondary to her brothers if she goes North. I have faith in GRRM loving Arya too much to ever treat her the way the show did in seasons 7 and 8. I think she has a role to play in the North considering how much of the Northern plots in ADWD are tied together with the "Arya"-Ramsay marriage and Jeyne. Stansas ASOIAF fans really believe that Jeyne will have absolutely no intersection with the person she's impersonating despite GRRM spelling it out that she's almost guaranteed to sail to Braavos for safety. It makes absolutely no sense to believe Jeyne would go to Braavos and never even encounter Arya. We also know GRRM intended for the Stark direwolves to go against Ramsay's hounds at some point in the future of which there's about nine named ones so far. Sounds like Ramsay will find out what wolves to do dogs ;) That may be enough to overwhelm Ghost or Shaggydog even if together but even a fraction of Nymeria's pack going north with her could handle them. I also refuse to believe Lady Stoneheart will die again before encountering a resurrected Jon. There's been rumors she and her men have been seen disappearing into the Neck which did lead to in book speculation the BWB has some contact with the Crannogmen. Arya can also be a bridge between Bran and Jon if GRRM keeps the estrangement between them.

And I really want Roose to find out he was in fact careless with a prize of great worth by not realizing he had the real Arya Stark under his nose in Harrenhal as his cupbearer lol. It'd be a shame if he died before finding out. But I do agree that she could go to either location and GRRM could make it work. I seem to remember jokes about GRRM being stuck because there are too many locations he wants her to be in lol.

I didn't think you were implying that, I just wanted to clarify that there were valid reasons for her heading to the riverlands and that I agree that some people only theorize that because they view the North as the most important location so they ignore her connections to it. I agree with a lot of your points and it's very frustrating that Arya's arc gets reduced so much because people refuse to see her as an important character. A majority of the theories surrounding her are the barest bones and people only expect her to leave the faceless men, kill [x] character, and then fuck off in a boat while her siblings (i.e. Sansa) carry the bulk of the Northern plot. The reality is that Arya's arc is difficult to predict because she has so many plot setups. There is an entire arc in Braavos waiting to play out, she has connections to the Northern plot, and she has plenty to do in the Riverlands. Arya is one of George's favorite characters and he's spent a lot of time developing her for a reason, so safe to say that whatever route he ends up taking it's going to be well-written and respectful to her character.

[niightcravvler]

Picked up the DC pride collection today and overall I think it was pretty good but also um. Why was the jon kent story so bad lol

[fearcicada]

I'm so fucking. Dumb I was agonizing over making sure my Elias bouchard cat design had the proper coat color that both fit his personality while also allowing him to have his proper eye color while matching the breed standard before remembering. That eye color matching the body is literally the most non-issue fucking thing. I forgot

[shnashq]

mf turned from silly to

freaky

in a matter of milliseconds