Asoiaf Illustrations By Cao Ke (deviantart) For The Chinese Edition Of The Series

Rhaenyra, Realm's Delight

tma fandom get more insane about lesbians NOW!!!!!!

"True power can reside wherever the hell it wants but not with me! Now let me swing my sword around" is the only acceptable answer to Varys's riddle from the sellsword's perspective and Jaime wins the game

it’s soooo crazy that after jaime killed aerys they ASKED him who he was declaring king was he naming himself or tywin or robert or viserys. because so much of the power politics so much of the crown power is this long absurd constructed legitimacy oh the baratheons have a targ ancestor it’s almost continuity that’s why it’s ok. you can’t kill a king and get rid of all that power it was more inherent than that. but when the kings dead on the floor that doesn’t fucking matter at all ask the kid who killed him if he’s king now it’s a moment out of reality. he might as well be isn’t that the way it worked back then. none of that was real it’s all violence might makes right and momentum and jaime says i don’t care name whoever you like. it won’t be me

“It’s planet of the incels!” is so funny because it’s a line that riles up a very specific subset of people who complain about the state of Doctor Who

bloodraven at the redgrass field

(Umm akshually-) Jupiter is not a failed star either. It will need to be at least 75-80 times more massive to be in the range of possible stars. It's not even massive enough to be a brown dwarf.

"Jupiter was meant to be a star but failed" or jupiter was a very successful planet? stop downgrading my man 🥀🥀

I still get excited when my friends refer to me as their friend

"My friend said" "this is my friend" "they're my friend"

Im freaking out inside every time

re-reading dunk & egg as well to finish off my asoiaf re-read :)) i love the d&e stories more than any asoiaf that isn’t a clash of kings or a storm of swords. like half of my favorite (and the best) characters, settings, themes, worldbuilding in that universe come from these

I feel like typically the "dead wife" montage does nothing for me, even when executed very well, because it's often just like "here's this woman you'll never get to meet, she only matters because a man loves her so much and now he's sad."

But the montage wasn't just Mark's recollections. It was her perspective too. He's her dead husband. He's her Eurydice as much as he's his own Orpheus.

This isn't humanizing Gemma for Mark's sake. This is humanizing Gemma for Gemma's sake and it's there not for us to root for Mark, it's there for us to realize we're rooting for Gemma. Every moment Mark reaches out for her, she's reaching back.

The dead wife montage normally deprives a woman her agency, making her a tool for a man's arc, but this episode fully restored Gemma's agency. She's fighting back, she's yearning too. She hurts, she aches, she angers. She fights, she bleeds, she gets frustrated too. And has been before she was ever Ms Casey,

I've never seen a show restore a character's humanity as fully as this single episode did for Gemma. She went from an abstract concept--a wife, a severed employee, a ghost--to a tangible person.

And this was realized so literally as well. We literally see her bleed, we literally watch her eat, her hands cramp up, her teeth ache. It's like watching a hologram become flesh muscle by muscle, bone by bone.

I'm in awe of what they were able to do for her in just 50 minutes. In many ways, I feel I know Gemma better than I know half the cast.

Happy Granadaversary!

Forty-one years ago today, the Granada adaptation of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes began with A Scandal In Bohemia, and a legend was born.