#norh-south

[cervenakoviny]

Similarly eastern Europe. Having much more sparse population and low standards of living combined with actually somewhat easilly available neccesities for starting a household meant, you didn't need to save until you were 25 so that you could afford your own roof above your head. It would be very ordinary for a woman to marry in her 16 to 19 (and for her spouse to be older). There was high natality together with high child mortality, so you start relatively soon, your older daughter is also free to go early since there are her younger siblings to work around the house and fields and her dowry might be meager, but so is everyone's. The land's there, it just needs to be cultivated. It overlaps also with prices of grain. In early modern period western Europe covered their shortages of wheat by buying from Poland, Hungary and what is now Ukraine, Belarus, Baltics, western part of Russia. There is even a term for it since 1960s - Hajnal line. Running diagonally from St Petersburg to Trieste it divides Europe according to marriage patterns. The divide is not as hard as assumed earlier, much more fuzzy, what with southern Europe and some smaller peripheral bits in north and west etc. The concept is criticized a lot by some in the field. But it is a thing. When it comes to demographics, the right side is basically a century give or take behind the left side in marriage trends. For more detailed info - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern# (It talks abou christian marriage laws changing family patterns, average ages across time and space, wages, changes in population brought by plagues and immigration and stuff... These paterns fluctuated somewhat all the time.)

TL;DR: Women tended to marry between 20 and 32.  Read why below!

aufanficfanatic said: Isn’t it like, 14 or something?  I dunno man, educate me. 

I’m so glad you asked @aufanficfanatic because I have so much to say!

In upper classes the children were considered the property of the family, so they married whenever the parents wanted them too.  There were children of the nobility who where married as infants and then never saw their spouse until said spouse’s funeral due to the ague or whatever.  Even the daughter of a simple gentleman might start feeling a bit alarmed if she hit 24 without any offers of marriage, but then her duty was to secure a suitable match.

The merchant, crafts, and agricultural classes were a bit different.  And by a bit different I mean they were entirely different.  A lot of this marry at first blink of puberty thing is part of the mythology that because the average age of death pre-1700 was about 35-40 that meant everyone died at forty.  What really happened was that most people lived to 70 and half of all children died.  Application of math tells us that if you add 70+0 and then divide by two the average death date is a bit misleading as a statistic.

The two most important things to people in a primarily agricultural culture is population numbers and food.  You need more population to grow more food and you need more food for your population.  There are other, more complicated factors such as the local nobility using the peasantry as cannon fodder, taxation, self-defense of the village, trying to avoid depopulation, but we’re going to skip that discussion.

Population is the big issue when it comes to marriage age, and let’s be honest.  When we pick a teenage marriage age the picture people have in their minds is a forty year old man and a sixteen year old girl.  This large age gap marriage mythology is a largely colonist era idea that means to depict sexual exploitation of children is natural and traditional for the purpose of corrupting men’s natural healthy instincts and discrediting cries of alarm from women.

But we’re not here to talk about politics, we’re here to talk about population.  For Western Europe marriage was for the purpose of creating a home, a social, emotional, and physical support system - children were an expected part of that.  However!  Even among women who chose not to get married, and there was at least one bastard born every year, they chose to have their children at an older age.

There are several issues about a woman’s body that could get in the way of a young marriage age.  First being that historically the first child a woman had usually died within a month, if the child was born alive at all due to a variety of issues like nutrition and stress on the woman’s body.  You know how everybody tells women not to carry things?  Well, European women didn’t always have that luxury.  The older a woman was, the more like she would be to be strong enough to lose less babies.

Second, poor nutrition can push back puberty, or at the very least menstruation.  This meant that many young ladies would only have superficial signs of puberty until they hit about sixteen, meaning that even if someone was going by some patriarchal conception of when a woman was marriageable, she’d only appear ‘on the market’ at sixteen, not be married by it.

Third, the woman’s body was insufficiently developed as a teenager, IE if she was sixteen or younger, her vagina would be smaller and her vaginal lining would be too thin  as the thickness therein is determined by the amount of estrogen in the system.  Usually the vaginal lining is not childbirth safe until the end of puberty, which depending on the female, is between 18-20.  People are good at picking up patterns.  They figured out pretty quick that women under eighteen tended to die during childbirth.  I won’t be graphic, suffice to say they bled to death.

Fourth, due to apprenticeships and occupations, many women were too busy to get married as teenagers.  Women had occupations other than some variation of mother or healer?!?  Yes, rhetorical question, they did!  If your last name was Baxter or Webster, not only do you descend from a woman who was a Master of her craft (baking or weaving respectively) but that one of your male ancestors took on her surname instead of the opposite.  Other female heavy professions were black smithing, silver smithing, accounting, leather working, agricultural labor (except wagonering and plowing - no innuendo intended - that was more of a man’s job since they would often have to travel), administratrix (more legal than a steward, more useful than a lawyer), ale wifing and brewing, knitting and lace working, and notary-ing.  Since having one or both of a couple having a craft occupation meant that their children would have a shoe in to a network of guilds it was of great benefit.  Additionally since many men traditionally worked the land or went to war, it meant that their family would be taken care of if something happened to his health.

So there you go!  Women generally started getting married after they finished their apprenticeships or when they reached about 20 and started having their own property and kept getting married until they were tired of it.

[unreadpoppy]

Considering Davrin is a grey warden and we've seen a battle in Weisshaupt, I hope it's explained what the fuck went down between the northern and southern Grey Wardens, since we do have mentions that shit happened (so much shit that Hawke was stranded in Weisshaupt for two years, jesus)

[beni75]

Photos and texts: @gardarolafsphotography

1-. Hvalsneskirkja church in Sandgerdi South, Iceland

2-. Hvítserkur is a 15 meters high basalt stack along the eastern shore of the Vatnsnes peninsula, located in northwest Iceland. Severeal species of birds such ad Gulls and Fulmars live on it

3-. Kerid seen from above! Kerid is a volcanic crater lake located in the Grímsnes area in south Iceland, on the popular tourist route known as the Golden Circle

4-. Landmannalaugar

5-. Looking forward to the next Aurora Borealis season here in Iceland, only a few months to go!

6-. Miss this place so much! Venice, Italy

7-. y 8-. Mount Kirkjufell, Iceland

9-. Pure icelandic landscape on the way to Landmannalaugar

10-. Sitting on top of Godafoss waterfall in Iceland

11-. Skógafoss waterfall. Iceland

12-. Sky full of stars. Reykjanes, Iceland

13-. Sunset in North Iceland

14-. Sunset on Reykjanes peninsula. Iceland

15-. The amazing Seljalandsfoss waterfall seen from above!

16-. The art of nature. Iceland

17-. The beautiful Godafoss waterfall, one of my favorite falls in Iceland

18-. The beauty is not hard to find here in Iceland

19-. The Blue Lagoon, Iceland

20-. The dramatic landscape of South Iceland

21-. The midnight sun, Iceland

22-. The night fog covering up the mountains in Norh Iceland

23-. The Northern Lighthouse at Reykjanes peninsula, Iceland

24-. The powerful Aldeyjarfoss waterfall seen from above, located in North Iceland

25-. The top of Mount Kirkjufell. Iceland

26-. This is me exploring Aldeyjarfoss waterfall, what an amazing sight. Iceland

27-. Thorsmork. Iceland

28-. Top view of Kerid, this is how the birds see it

29-. y 30-. Godafoss waterfall, North Iceland

[driftwooddestiel]

transcript of video:

Hey everyone, let me tell you a story. So, there are 300 thousand people in the north of Gaza, it’s not empty. 300 thousand people are in the norh of Gaza, and they are for weeks facing a real famine, facing a forced starvation, and they don’t have anything to eat. So, they ate everything, no other options. They ate the grass, they ate the [unsure of word], the animals’ food, they ate the leaves, they ate everything, and they are dying because of hunger. During the past week, I’ve heard and read about 10 people at least who died because of hunger and the families are warning because they are still suffering, the starvation is continuous. It’s now a tool of genocide. The Israeli army is preventing the institutions to enter any humanitarian aid, or not allowing them simply to enter any humanitarian aid to the north of the Gaza strip. It’s— The Israeli army is intentionally starving and killing people by starvation, by starving them! I mean, the day before yesterday, 8 to 10– 8 trucks, carrying flour into the north of Gaza strip, each 8 truck contained a hundred packs of flour, each bag is 25 kilograms of flour— how can that be enough for 300 thousand people? Can you just tell me how can that be enough? And the WFP reported that they will temporarily stop their operations and food distributions in the north of Gaza strip until the conditions “get better”. Because the Israeli army is threatening and not allowing the institutions to enter the food to the north of Gaza strip. Last week, an [unsure of word] strike targeted an [unsure of word] truck, so how can the conditions “get better” in a genocide? Just tell me, if the conditions would ever “get better”, would we prefer to wait and plant our food or to grab the food from here, from the south, for friends and families in the north of Gaza strip? This is insane. This is madness. You can simply drop the food over north of Gaza, hand the food through warplanes, through your helicopters, through— I don’t know, any country in the whole world, any institute in the whole world, and drop the food over the north of Gaza strip. Don’t wait for their permission, because we don’t have, we don’t need, we don’t have to ask for permission to rescue people. There are innocent civilians, people, children, women, elderly, sick people, injuries, they are under bombing and starvation together. They don’t have any food to eat. Now, you can rescue them by drop the food over Gaza, feed the north of Gaza, drop the food over Gaza. Any country can do this, any organisation can do this. Just do it, don’t wait for anything. They are innocent people and they are dying. We cannot just let them down, right? We cannot. Can we?

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please let me know if i messed up any words or if you know what’s being said in the [unsure of word] parts

For the sake of humanity rescue 300,000 dying!

[weripoffstudiosuniverse-blog]

North Park - A rip-off of South Park!

[bergaposting]

[graceverse]

WHAT IF?

Ok, so here’s a thought. What if in Season 8

1. Brienne arrives in Winterfell with Jaime and the Starklings are all: “we don’t want to have an audience with Jaime. Why? What do you mean why? He pushed Bran out of the window that’s why. We want him in the dungeon!” And Brienne goes, “but we’ve all done something that was vile and wrong and we were given second chances!” And the Staklings are still, “Nope, no!” So Jaime gives Brienne a “fuck loyalty, huh?” look before Brienne very gently nudges him inside his cell. She warns him, “I’ll be back, try not to escape.” 

2. Meanwhile Sam and Bran tell Sansa and Arya Jon’s true parentage and Arya is like, ‘No! That’s not true! Jon’s my brother!’ But Sansa tells Sam to send a raven to the Citadel, “I want a written letter confirming the authenticity of this book!” And Sam goes, “You want me to write to the Citadel about the book I stole?” and the Starklings, go, “Uhm, yes? That’s exactly what we want you to do, is there a problem?” and Sam leaves them, on the verge of tears. So Arya asks, “what are we going to do?” And Sansa very regally juts out her chin and says, “what father had been doing all his life, we will protect Jon.” And Arya goes, “Fuck yeah!” And then Sansa very queenly tells her, “There must always be a Stark in Winterfell.” Arya is not sure what this means but Bran merely nods in agreement and Arya is all, “what the fuck is going on here?” 

3. Jaime is granted an audience with the Starklings and he tells them about the Golden Company and then pledges his life to Sansa, and Sansa tells him to arise and all that shit and then she goes, “We will ride for Riverrun. You will pretend to be my prisoner.” And Jaime is all, “are you fucking kidding me?” Sansa raises her eyebrows at him, “does this bring you dishonor? To pretend to be captured by the family whose family you have slaughtered?” And that shuts up Jaime. Sansa declares, “Robb was King in the North and The Trident. I am Catelyn Stark’s eldest daughter, The Trident is mine.” Bran nods and Arya is all, “The Starks are coming for ya!” Sansa tells Arya, “when Jon arrives, don’t make trouble, we need him safe. He must not know yet. No one must know yet. Just make him suffer for bending the knee. But not the ‘I’ll cut your face and wear it’ shit, ok? He’ll cry.”

4. Jon arrives in Winterfell but Sansa is not there. He’s half relieved, half-crazy with worry, esp since Littlefinger is not creepily hanging out at the back. “Where is Sansa?” he asks, all broody and dark eyed and Arya very sadly says, “she’s gone.” And Jon goes all pale and wild eyed with grief and he looks like he’s about to stab himself with Longclaw when Bran says, “hey chill out, she’s out gathering armies for you because Cersei isn’t going to help you and will in fact attack the North with a bunch of Unsullied except only they have cocks, so they’re easier to bribe.” Jon and Dany both go: whaaaaat? While Tyrion is all: oh, shit! Dany announces, “I will go back south and take what is rightfully mine!” But Jon and Tyrion stops her, “you can’t! You promised the North! What kind of Queen are you if you will not hold your word?” Dany and Jon goes off to sulk. Separately.

5. Sansa rallies The Trident, presenting them with the Kingslayer and she tells them that all the women and children can leave for the impregnable Vale, where they will be safest. It would be the last to fall if the wars reach them. She will distribute the provisions the Blackfish had secured in Riverrun but she will need their help. Rumors about the wight in Kings Landing had reached them and because Sansa is honest and bad ass and is the daughter of Cat, the sister of Robb and the one who captured the Kingslayer for justice, they rally behind her. Also it’s winter, if anyone can get them through winter, its the Starks. Winter is coming, they always say and you can bet your ass they know exactly what to do in winter.

6. Cersei, upon hearing that Sansa has Jaime tells the The Golden Company to forget about Dragonstone, she ain’t getting shit from Dragonstone anyway. She wants Sansa and Jaime captured alive so she can punish them herself. She sends the Mountain with them whose sole task is to beat the shit out of Jaime and take the Stark Girl. The Golden Company camp a few miles away from Riverrun, ready to attack. But during the night, they are attacked by a bunch of giant feral wolves. Those that escapes blindly ran into Riverrun and are soundly defeated by Sansa’s army. The Mountain almost takes Sansa, but Jaime very neatly cuts off his legs and well, gravity.  

7. Bran doesn’t need ravens and shit so he announces to the Northern Lords, to Team Bend The Knees, that Sansa has defended The Trident and is – gasp – heading towards King’s Landing. Dany doesn’t take it well and while planning her next move, she made the mistake of calling Sansa’s actions treasonous, punishable with death and Jon is not having any of that. He slams his fist on the table, making Dany jump, “YOU. DO. NOT. THREATEN. MY. SISTER. EVER.” Dany, shaken, lifts up her head and coolly says, “Oh, so now it’s my sister, you think I haven’t noticed how you act every time someone says her name?” and Jon is all, “what the fuck you talking about?” And that is the beginning of TargBowl.

8. The Lords of the Trident forgives Jaime because he saved their queen and he fought valiantly. Sansa tells him that he is longer a “prisoner” but is now her sworn sword. Jaime winks at Brienne and Brienne is as always, none too amused. Jaime tells Sansa she should go back to Winterfell, but Sansa shakes her head, “no, I don’t want to”, all pouty and sad eyed and Jaime figures it out, because he’s so been there and done that. He’s not at all sympathetic, “you foolish girl! You’re in love with your brother. Well, half-brother but… oh, seven hells…look at me and Cersei” and Sansa is indignant, “I am not Cersei and Jon is not you.” She almost tells Jaime that Jon is actually her cousin, thank you very much, but she has more sense than that, thank God for character development.

9. Sansa asks for Theon’s help and Theon pledges all the remaining Greyjoy ships to her cause. Sansa arrives in King’s Landing and tells the people that they need not fear Cersei anymore. Those who do not wish to be part of the coming war are free to go and they can seek shelter at The Trident, The Vale or even The North. Those brave enough can join her in taking King’s Landing from Cersei. Cersei sees the futility of killing the people of KL and burning it down to the ground. She’s done that already. And she hates being redundant. Also, all things considered, this is much better than dealing with dragons and so she readies her remaining armies. The people of KL is already sick of Cersei’s shit, so they wisely flock to Sansa.

10. Jon and Dany battles the Night King and the army of the dead and are triumphant but Drogon fought Viserion to death and now she only has Rhaegal. Sansa and Jaime battles Cersei. 

Meanwhile in KL, Jaime kills Cersei, but not before he gets fatally wounded by Euron (sorry, Brienne + Jamie fans) Euron tries to flee, but is killed by The Greyjoylings. Cersei, Euron and Jaime dies. Sansa does not want the Iron Throne, but she makes the reveal of all reveals: she is taking the Iron Throne, in behalf of Jon Snow aka Aegon Targaryen – no, the other Aegon Targaryen, Rhaegar’s son from Lyanna Stark, the true heir of the Iron Throne and who is fighting in The North so that they will not have to face the horrors of the Night King’s Army. The people cheer for their king because they are sexist shits, but it’s not their fault, that’s how it was during those times. Sansa leaves Edmure and Lord Royce to take care of anything that needs taking care of while she’s gone. Sansa is so done with the South and she immediately rides North.

11. Dany is PISSED. She is FUMING MAD. She did not help the North defeat the White Walkers to be usurped by her NEPHEW. She thinks Jon deliberately did not tell her about his parentage and she was tricked by the WHOLE FUCKING NORTH, the STARKS most especially. Jon on the other hand is terrifically wounded but he’ll survive. He is CONFUSED and MOPEY and he’s all “NO. WAIT. WHAT? YOU’RE MY AUNT? SANSA IS MY COUSIN?!’ And is in no shape or form ready for another war. Dany wants to take Rhaegal and finally take the Iron throne but she is killed by… Tyrion or Varys. Or both of them. I don’t know. No one knows. No one saw it happened. So Jon is all, “but I don’t want the Iron Throne! It does not belong to the Targaryens. When is Sansa coming back home? Will she back soon? I miss her.” And Tyrion is, “well who the fuck does it belong to?” And Bran goes, “to the Baratheons.” And everyone groans out loud because they’ve had enough of these reveals and they make Bran promise that Gendry Baratheon will be the absolute LAST reveal. Sansa returns to Winterfell, triumphant and she’s so happy and she hugs Arya and goes, “the Storm Land is yours.” But Arya is all, “I don’t want to be a LADY!” and Sansa smiling sweetly almost evilly tells her, “yes, of course, you’re no Lady. You’re Queen.” 

The Greyjoys are finally given their right and freedom to rule over their Island provided that they stop being assholes to everyone else. Yara and Theon are only happy to make peace with the rest of the Kingdom. The Vale and The Trident refuses to be parted from their Queen and so The Vale and The Trident are under the protection of the North. The rest of the houses also want the guidance of a King and Queen because they’re all lazy fucks and do not want the headache of ruling separate kingdoms. And so the South is ruled by Queen Arya Stark and the North is ruled by Queen Sansa Stark – because, fuck yeah for Stark women!

12. It takes a year and a half for Jon and Sansa to sort out everything, but they finally do it, to the relief of Tormund, because Brienne had told him she will not be stolen by Tormund unless Jon and Sansa becomes King and Queen in the North and Tormund had begged and begged Jon to just man up and steal Sansa, which Jon finally does. And Tormund could never be happier. He is already planning on how to steal Brienne.

THE END.

Ok. WAIT. 

I think I want to actually write this as a fanfic, be right back.

[di-elle]

north-and-prejudice:

Margaret PLS

[gutenbeatrix]

I drew both of my personal versions of Norh Korea and then I just tacked on South Korea. His hands say: LiES, PAiN. And o'course he has an ARMY hoodie. UwU Btw the symbol on North Korea's hat is the Korean Communist symbol but it's not very clear. Sorry. :p

[IMPORTANT INFORMATION: I HAVE REPOSTED THIS ONTO MY REDDIT (u/SchlechtBeatrix) ONTO r/CountryHumans!]

[julibf]

Sansa and Arya will be Queens

So, I have this theory that BOTH Sansa and Arya will end this story as Queens. If we go back to book 1, George left us a foreshadowed hinting that both girls would have a very special ending in this story.

“Brandon. Yes. Brandon would know what to do. He always did. It was all meant for Brandon. You, Winterfell, everything. He was born to be a King’s Hand and a father to queens. I never asked for this cup to pass to me.”

AGOT - Catelyn

That was my first hint. This quote from the books always stayed with me. At the time I didn’t know how this could be possible, but I don’t believe George writes quotes like those just to filled up pages. I saw it as a foreshadowed for an ending.

 SANSA FORESHADOW TO BE A QUEEN.

Season 1 Episode 4 - Septa Mordane and Sansa in the Throne Room discussing Sansa’s future as queen and the future of her children.This scene was written especially for the show, it is not in the books, and it seems to foreshadow Sansa’s future. “Someday your husband will sit here and you will sit by his side.”

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"You," Ned said, kissing her lightly on the brow, "will marry a king and rule his castle, and your sons will be knights and princes and lords and, yes, perhaps even a High Septon."

Arya screwed up her face. "No," she said, "that's Sansa." She folded up her right leg and resumed her balancing. Ned sighed and left her there.

AGOT - Eddard

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“Another lesson you should learn, if you hope to sit beside my son. Be gentle on a night like this and you’ll have treasons popping up all about you like mushrooms after a hard rain. The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.”

“I will remember, Your Grace,” said Sansa, though she had always heard that love was a surer route to the people’s loyalty than fear. If I am ever a queen, I’ll make them love me."

ASOS – Sansa

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“ She is good at this, he thought, as he watched her tell Lord Gyles that his cough was sounding better, compliment Elinor Tyrell on her gown, and question Jalabhar Xho about wedding customs in the Summer Isles. His cousin Ser Lancel had been brought down by Ser Kevan, the first time he’d left his sickbed since the battle. He looks ghastly. Lancel’s hair had turned white and brittle, and he was thin as a stick. Without his father beside him holding him up, he would surely have collapsed. Yet when Sansa praised his valor and said how good it was to see him getting strong again, both Lancel and Ser Kevan beamed. She would have made Joffrey a good queen and a better wife if he’d had the sense to love her. ”

ASOS - Tyrion

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ARYA’S FORESHADOW AS A QUEEN

The wolf symbolism.

Arya named her wolf Nymeria as a homage to Queen Nymeria who was the warrior-queen who led the Rhoynar refugees to Dorne a thousand years ago. She is an ancestor of House Martell and House Dayne, and is seen as the founder of Dorne as a unified realm under Martell rule.

Arya and FAegon parallels:

Varys description of FAegon to Kevan Lannister fits Arys to a t. Arya has lived among the small people, she was educated on both religions of Westeros, she can hunt and fish; she sees the North as her duty, not her birth right. She has was shaped by life to be a queen.

“He reads and writes, he speaks several tongues, he has studied history and law and poetry. A septa has instructed him in the mysteries of the Faith since he was old enough to understand them. He has lived with fisherfolk, worked with his hands, swum in rivers and mended nets and learned to wash his own clothes at need. He can fish and cook and bind up a wound, he knows what it is like to be hungry, to be hunted, to be afraid. Tommen has been taught that kingship is his right. Aegon knows kingship is his duty, that a king must put his people first, and live and rule for them.”

ADWD

Arya and Egg Targaryen  parallels:

Both are made to chase small animals to make them quicker; Both regularly shave their heads during certain period of their life; Both are being repeatedly mistaken for stable boys. Both live for some time among smallfolk. Both traveled around Westeros alongside a hedge Knight/soldier. Both are last in line to inherit among their sibling. Both serve as cupbearers at some point. Both are insolent and witty in their responses. Both are adventure seekers. Both are implicated in an incident of "assaulting" a member of the royal family, though Arya does the deed herself while Egg calls for Dunk's intervention.  Both were unlikely to end up as King or Queen.

 Now, as many of you may know. I believe that Jon Snow will be the King by the end of this story and will marry his cousin Sansa Stark. And I think this marriage will unite the Kingdom, bringing peace to a nation destroyed by years of wars.But I dont believe the North will ever bend the knee to the south again. The North independence has been a topic since book 1 and it is still a important issue in the story. I believe the North will be reunited with the rest of the Westeros by a marrigae alliance, like Dorne was in the past. And the kingdom will be able to keep part of their independence and the Tittles of King and Queen in the Norh, like Dorne was able to keep in the past the titles of Princes and Princesses. 

“Its the dragons that we married and the dragons are all dead.”

Catelyn XI - AGOT

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You might have knelt, damn you. Would it have been so bloody hard to bend those stiff Stark knees of yours and let me keep a little dignity?

ASOS - Tyrion

Littlefinger season 5:

“Marrying his son to the last of the Starks, gives him more legitimacy in the North than any alliance with a hated southern House.”

This union of Aegon Targaryen and Sansa Stark, would not only reunite the realm, but also give mroe legitimacy to Jon’s claim to the Throne. Which is what happened to Elizabeth of York and Henry Tutor. 

Thats how I believe Sansa will be the Queen of Westeros and Arya will be the Queen in the North by the end of this tale. 

[tonfromph]

south o norh

north, kasi tiga south ako! nukaba! hahahahaha. 

[norfolknaturalist]

Nashville Warbler (Leiothlypis ruficapilla) in our yard this past week. Nashville Warblers create their nests on the ground beneath shrubs. Although named after a city in Tennessee, this warbler travels further south for winter, making it to Texas, far southern California and Mexico/Central America. It's that time of year, when many small warblers are making their way Norh to breeding territories and so pass through Southern Ontario, bringing their new songs and frenetic energy. . . . . . . . #nature #ontario #nashvillewarbler #warbler #warblersofinstagram #warblers #leiothlypisruficapilla #migratorybirds #migration #birds #birdwatching #birdsofinstagram #backyardwildlife #backyardbirds #natureobservation #naturephotography #norfolkcounty #norfolkwild #blognorfolk #simcoeontario (at Simcoe, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CANf7KIAdDH/?igshid=1fwzdgveb7p1x

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North Korea’s cheerleaders are drawing eyeballs and sparking controversy

North Korea’s cheerleaders are drawing a ton of attention at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and it’s easy to see why. With their carefully timed, synchronized chants, cheers, and routines, it’s understandable that so many people on social media are talking about them. The mainstream media has been similarly fixated on the North Korean cheerleading squad, with numerous write-ups about their decidedly odd presence at the games.

Their cheers frequently rang out during the unified Korean hockey team’s 8-0 loss to Switzerland on Saturday, seemingly undeterred by the shellacking. Several videos of their choreographed movements and songs have gone viral on Twitter, and the Washington Post has even translated some of their words so that their meanings are more clear to an English-speaking audience.

North Korea is sending like 12 athletes to the Olympics and TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY PROPAGANDA-TRAINED CHEERLEADERS. The pics from past events are simply beyond pic.twitter.com/33jjWWw8gZ

— Jia Tolentino (@jiatolentino) February 8, 2018

First stars of the Olympic Games have emerged—North Korea’s cheerleaders https://t.co/Rc7eEykTHa

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) February 10, 2018

When you sit next to #NorthKorea’s cheering squad at speedskating.#PyeongChang2018 #olympics @NBCOlympics pic.twitter.com/e3TRP7NYiL

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) February 10, 2018

Now South Korean cheerleaders are doing some dance-off to sexy music as the North Korean cheerleaders sing old songs about unification. pic.twitter.com/F6Nglk7C9y

— James Pearson (@pearswick) February 10, 2018

But given the North Korean government’s draconian and brutal policies toward dissent, and the big question of why it sent the cheerleaders to Pyeongchang―likely, to score a public relations win that obscures the country’s various, grievous human rights abuses―some people weren’t so thrilled with the positive coverage.

As someone from South Korea, all I can say is f**k North Korea, and f**k all the media outlets going gah gah over their brainwashed cheerleaders

— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) February 11, 2018

I can report South Koreans here in Pyeongchang are not as enthralled with Kim Yo Jong and the North Korean cheerleaders as it seems some media are back home.

Something about N.K. killing, starving, & imprisoning its people while threatening South Korea with nuclear annihilation.

— Willie Geist (@WillieGeist) February 11, 2018

This. Those aren't cheerleaders. https://t.co/RuTc4icru9

— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) February 11, 2018

What Norh Korea really needs is cheerleaders for democracy, freedom and human rights. https://t.co/a4ujPAHnum

— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) February 11, 2018

I’ve been struck by how much of the North American media has written about the symbolic unity and how it might be a start. Many of the South Koreans I’ve talked too feel incredibly skeptical about all of this, that the cheerleaders are propaganda tools to fuel a narrative.

— Joon Lee (@iamjoonlee) February 11, 2018

The North Korean cheerleaders are creepy, okay? They're slave laborers, selected for their beauty, and then taught chants they perform for their Dear Leader. It's creepy you like them.

— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) February 11, 2018

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It’s worth noting that in 2005, reports suggested that members of the cheerleading team were themselves sent to labor camps, as punishment for discussing a trip to South Korea with their fellow North Koreans after returning home.

Even for the seemingly cheerful red-clad performers, living under the North Korean government poses serious and severe risks of draconian punishment, including being sent to camps reportedly rife with torture, starvation, rape, and death. This threat of harsh reprisal might help explain just how much boundless energy and seamless coordination the squad has demonstrated so far, even when the results from the unified Korean team don’t quite measure up.

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North Korea’s cheerleaders are drawing eyeballs and sparking controversy

North Korea’s cheerleaders are drawing a ton of attention at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and it’s easy to see why. With their carefully timed, synchronized chants, cheers, and routines, it’s understandable that so many people on social media are talking about them. The mainstream media has been similarly fixated on the North Korean cheerleading squad, with numerous write-ups about their decidedly odd presence at the games.

Their cheers frequently rang out during the unified Korean hockey team’s 8-0 loss to Switzerland on Saturday, seemingly undeterred by the shellacking. Several videos of their choreographed movements and songs have gone viral on Twitter, and the Washington Post has even translated some of their words so that their meanings are more clear to an English-speaking audience.

North Korea is sending like 12 athletes to the Olympics and TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY PROPAGANDA-TRAINED CHEERLEADERS. The pics from past events are simply beyond pic.twitter.com/33jjWWw8gZ

— Jia Tolentino (@jiatolentino) February 8, 2018

First stars of the Olympic Games have emerged—North Korea’s cheerleaders https://t.co/Rc7eEykTHa

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) February 10, 2018

When you sit next to #NorthKorea’s cheering squad at speedskating.#PyeongChang2018 #olympics @NBCOlympics pic.twitter.com/e3TRP7NYiL

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) February 10, 2018

Now South Korean cheerleaders are doing some dance-off to sexy music as the North Korean cheerleaders sing old songs about unification. pic.twitter.com/F6Nglk7C9y

— James Pearson (@pearswick) February 10, 2018

But given the North Korean government’s draconian and brutal policies toward dissent, and the big question of why it sent the cheerleaders to Pyeongchang―likely, to score a public relations win that obscures the country’s various, grievous human rights abuses―some people weren’t so thrilled with the positive coverage.

As someone from South Korea, all I can say is f**k North Korea, and f**k all the media outlets going gah gah over their brainwashed cheerleaders

— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) February 11, 2018

I can report South Koreans here in Pyeongchang are not as enthralled with Kim Yo Jong and the North Korean cheerleaders as it seems some media are back home.

Something about N.K. killing, starving, & imprisoning its people while threatening South Korea with nuclear annihilation.

— Willie Geist (@WillieGeist) February 11, 2018

This. Those aren't cheerleaders. https://t.co/RuTc4icru9

— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) February 11, 2018

What Norh Korea really needs is cheerleaders for democracy, freedom and human rights. https://t.co/a4ujPAHnum

— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) February 11, 2018

I’ve been struck by how much of the North American media has written about the symbolic unity and how it might be a start. Many of the South Koreans I’ve talked too feel incredibly skeptical about all of this, that the cheerleaders are propaganda tools to fuel a narrative.

— Joon Lee (@iamjoonlee) February 11, 2018

The North Korean cheerleaders are creepy, okay? They're slave laborers, selected for their beauty, and then taught chants they perform for their Dear Leader. It's creepy you like them.

— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) February 11, 2018

Related video

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It’s worth noting that in 2005, reports suggested that members of the cheerleading team were themselves sent to labor camps, as punishment for discussing a trip to South Korea with their fellow North Koreans after returning home.

Even for the seemingly cheerful red-clad performers, living under the North Korean government poses serious and severe risks of draconian punishment, including being sent to camps reportedly rife with torture, starvation, rape, and death. This threat of harsh reprisal might help explain just how much boundless energy and seamless coordination the squad has demonstrated so far, even when the results from the unified Korean team don’t quite measure up.

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