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[nigesakis]

[sirtadcooper]

What do you need?

I've got half a pouch for my last smoke. That will do for me.

[saints-who-never-existed]

Today I'm thinking about that wee moment between Crozier and Little at Fitzjames' "funeral".

How quiet it is and how soft.

How vulnerable Crozier suddenly is and how Little seems to allow him to be so, giving grace even when it's a grace he himself was denied.

After all, who could better understand Crozier's pain? Who else understands intimately the pain of losing two friends in one day? Of losing one to a miserable, gruesome death and seeing the other disappear off into the landscape itself, no less?

[roaldamundsen]

no joke when the sea came into view henry peglars poem came to mind and I could've choked I'd missed her so much

[laststandx3]

I'm so SO normal about that face cupping now

[filletedfennysnake]

EATING the textures on this

thinking about anastasia trusova paintings again

[thecyrulik]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

real talk having the 2nd worst new years eve yet 🤢🤢🤢 (throat infection, twisted neck, banged-about-foot, ego AND the rest o' me all bruised like misjuggled peaches 🍑🍑🍑)

im bent outa shape and suspectin the universe owes me 8 buck if anyone wannsa chip in

[artharakka]

Playing Skyrim again

[filletedfennysnake]

@gwalch-mei @rainbluealoekitten @gingersnaptaff MERMAN

-The Merman-

[nigesakis]

This scene so sad... could not stop thinking about @pikslasrce 's post and needed to see it in action.

[ladystoneboobs]

so, one aspect of catelyn which i think is underrated (certainly the biggest adaptation loss which nobody talks about) is her, let's say superstitiousness, or better yet, let's call it genre-savviness, being one of the few adult characters open to magic and the supernatural in this fantasy world. we first meet her in the godswood, home of gods which are not truly hers, yet she is still very aware of their power. when she and ned talk of the deserter he killed, he hopes he won't have to go with the nw to deal with mance rayder, but she has even more fear of that idea bc there are worse things beyond the wall than just wildlings. ned scoffs and says she's been listening to old nan too much, but she's right. we already know from the prologue that she's right! and here she is, understanding the genre of their world better than her husband, who was actually born and spent his earliest years in this northern land of deep magic, listening to old nan's stories. same with the direwolves, where she was uncomfortable with them at first, but later believed in them as guardians from the old gods even after robb had lost his own faith. and once again, we know she's right even if she doesn't know the evidence to back up her instincts, bc summer and shaggydog did not fail bran and rickon and robb was almost certainly a warg like his brothers. (perhaps making it more fitting that she's the one brought back as a fantasy vengeance monster, not ned and robb, the most unbelieving dead starks.) and in her 2nd agot chapter, everyone focuses on her ambition in wanting ned to agree to the hand job (pun intended) and sansa's betrothal, and while she does recognize the value of their daughter being a future queen more than ned does, that's only her stated argument bc she thinks it's rational enough for ned to listen to. (if ambitious matchmaking were as important to her as to her father she never would have made those frey betrothals fandom loves to blame her for.) in her own head there's a deeper urge driving her. she keeps thinking of the dead direwolf with antlers in its throat, an omen which filled her with dread from the first she heard of it, before robert's arrival, and thinking of it again is what makes her desperate to convince ned not to refuse robert. she had to make him see. and really, she's not wrong, as jon snow would say. the dead direwolf was an omen of ned and robert getting each other killed. it's just one of those misread portents, with no way of knowing the danger to ned was in his loyalty to robert, not conflict with him. BUT the next time she's dealing with baratheons, she knows exactly what she's talking about. it's catelyn, not brienne, who sees the shadow slaying renly, and explains that it was stannis who did that through some dark magic. with no way of knowing how it was achieved and no prior expectation that such a thing were ever possible, she realizes with no hestitation that stannis was guilty and that his red witch was capable of pulling this off somehow. really, the only instinct of the supernatural she's wholly wrong about is her insistence that varys gathered his knowledge through some dark enchantment. however, though that might offend varys, given his own personal experience with a sorcerer, i'd say it's a reasonable assumption without knowing the dude had children moving through walls everywhere like oversized rodents. and imo it just shows she had a healthy respect and awe for varys's power which most other characters lack.

oh, oh, and let's not forget that she also believed in the curse of harrenhal, from her own childhood and the stories old nan told her kids. "and every house that held Harrenhal since had come to misfortune. Strong it might be, but it was a dark place, and cursed. 'I would not have Robb fight a battle in the shadow of that keep,' Catelyn admitted." sure, that wasn't enough to save robb, but he did not die from the curse of harrenhal. that doom was meant for his enemies from tywin lannister to roose bolton.

[saints-who-never-existed]

Another ‘Little’ Parallel

There are two very specific instances, it strikes me on my millionth re-watch, where Lt. Little is holding a gun pointed squarely at Crozier and, with all the heart-rending parallels this show has to offer, I can’t bring myself to believe that this isn’t meant as one.

The first instance is in Episode Five. Crozier has been fully in the throes of his alcoholism throughout and has behaved abhorrently as a result. A man literally dies in the process of procuring him booze and he barely bats an eyelid at it. He lashes out at almost everyone around him - Fitzjames, Blanky, Silna, Goodsir, and Little too. And for his own part, Little not only has never looked more miserable and beaten down than he does in this episode, but he’s also never looked more full to the brim with impotent simmering rage. Yet when Crozier hands him the gun, Little hesitates for a long, still moment and when he finally grasps the gun he does so gingerly, taking it carefully by the handle, and dropping it onto the table the first chance he gets.

The second is in Episode Nine. Golding has betrayed them, and yet another man has just died for Crozier – poor Hartnell caught in the crossfire. Little is once again miserable, beaten-down, and angry but there’s no caution in him now, he’s jumpy and clearly panicking too – he has his finger on the trigger, he’s 100% ready to shoot in retaliation, even if it means his own death, and Crozier knows it. This is why he steps in front of the barrel before he coaxes the gun from Little’s hand - he knows with absolute certainty that the Lieutenant won’t fire on him.

There are so many similarities in these two scenes but so many differences too.

Both are about Crozier taking control of a situation, first of all, whether that be with regard to just himself and his drinking, or to the wider fate of the men. Both are about Crozier passing the responsibility, the burden of leadership onto Little. Both times Crozier is essentially stepping up and putting himself in danger – from the agonies of withdrawal, from a bullet. Both times see Little unsure and reluctant – first to take one gun, then to part with another.

I think one of the things that a gun in this scenario represents is the ability to determine one’s own fate and take control.

The first time we see Little after he takes the gun and de-facto leadership of Terror, it’s like night and day. He looks much better for one thing – clean, clear-eyed, fluffy-haired, and actually well put-together. But more importantly, he has control now, he’s finally able to get on with his job in the fullest sense, and I think we see even in that one small scene with Dundy and the benjo plan that he’s perfectly good at it. He strides into the room with ease and confidence, rousing the men with a clear authoritative command that is immediately obeyed. The men are as content as they can be and so is Little.

When the gun is taken from him (along with Crozier), Little looks much worse the next time we see him. Not only is he much more bedraggled and ill-looking, he’s more unsure and more beaten-down than ever. Again, he enters a space filled with his men, but things could not be more different this time. He’s shot in a way that makes him look much smaller and much lower down than the others, for one thing. And for another, his words aren’t met with obedience this time but with gentle yet grim, open defiance. He no longer has any real control over his own fate.

There’s likely even more to the two scenes that what I’ve described but I’ve made myself sad enough already writing as much as I have. I’d like to hear others’ thoughts on this though. 

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

yeah im fine i'll be back to serving cunt in a second *collapses*

[tvmusiclife]

[rozugold]

I thought that you’d do no harm

And the rough sketch cuz I thought the difference between it and the final drawing was coool