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The Rantings and Ramblings of a retired student president of the Carleton College Science Fiction and Fantasy Alliance who is also studying to become a medievalist. Home for this year, but hopefully resuming my M.A. Program in York next year if all goes well.

Martinus (RL: Ross). 23. Male. Massive geek and nerd of many descriptions. Singer (but can't read music). Writer (fanfic). Chronic meta writer. Catelyn Stark/Samwell Tarly hybrid and proud of it. Callsign: Stan.

Resolute and stubborn stan of cerebral protagonists (and antagonists at times), honor-bound soldiers, flawlessly flawed 'righteous' warriors living in fear, walking identity crises (often of the morally-grey variety), children-at-heart, lost souls looking for somewhere to belong, lost souls who keep running, and those characters who take 'working inside the system' as a challenge, not a limitation.

This is not a spoiler-free blog for anything not currently airing.

I love nothing more than when characters reveal themselves while talking about someone else. And there is nothing more innately human than hypocrisy born of fear.

voices in the wilderness

RAVENCLAW
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HOUSE TULLY OF RIVERRUN
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A Guide to Martinus’s Tags

Battlestar Galactica: all of this has happened before

Caprica: ghosts in the machine

ASOIAF: life is not a song (thanks katurarifka)

Harry Potter: neither can live while the other survives

Game of Thrones: winter is coming (these will definitely overlap)

(New) Doctor Who: we’re all stories in the end

Classic Doctor Who: travel really does broaden the mind

Torchwood: everything changes

Firefly: I aim to misbehave

BBC’s Sherlock: do your research

Downton Abbey: what is a weekend?

The Borgias: sex. power. murder. amen.

Babylon 5: and so it begins

Star Wars: a long time ago (generally my meta/ramblings on the EU are here)

The Hour: the mechanics of how we bear witness (thanks curlybeach!)

Buffyverse: the earth is doomed

Lord of the Rings: what is courage now?

Band of Brothers/The Pacific: were you a hero in the war?


posted 5 months ago with 4 notes

  1. pileofgoodthings said: “life is not a song” is so very meta and appropriate for asoiaf.
  2. jwesterlings said: babylon 5? LET ME LOVE YOU. ALL THE FEELS
  3. pandoricker said: one i like for buffy is ‘the earth is doomed’, from s1e2. or ‘the earth is definitely doomed’ from later in the show… i could think of others
  4. martinusmiraculorum posted this