Let the Reader Beware
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.
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{ GAME OF THRONES }
“Ser Davos, and undrowned. How can that be?”
“Onions float, ser.” ASOS
Isaac Hempstead-Wright, (“Bran Stark” on Game of Thrones)
OK Wait wait whoa. This is a joke right? Did this kid actually say this?
…Is he some kind of child genius?
(via screwydame)
trouble all around us
dirty tricks at every turn
seems that we historically
refuse to live and learn
Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) - If I were on the Iron Throne, I’d call my sister and say, “You want to be queen?”
can someone please tell nikolaj he isn’t jaime lannister
#in 1776 stannis baratheon crossed the delaware river #and brought independence to america #for this brave act he was elected the first president of the united states
#they offered him king of america first #and he was like YES #but then davos was like stannis can i talk to you for a sec
Hibberd at EW has the scoop on characters now confirmed to be IN for S3, including:
– Mance Rayder: We’ve heard about him all season. A former member of the Night’s Watch who became the “King Beyond the Wall,” the leader of the Wildlings.
– Daario Naharis: A confident and seductive warrior.
– Jojen Reed; Meera Reed: A teenage brother and sister duo with special insights.
– Edmure Tully: A brash young member of the Tully family.
– Ser Brynden Tully (The Blackfish): Catelyn’s uncle.
– Lady Selyse Florent: Stannis Baratheon’s wife.
– Shireen: Stannis’ daughter.
– Olenna Redwyne (The Queen of Thorns): Margaery Tyrell’s sharp-witted grandmother.
– Beric Dondarrion: A skilled knight who is the leader of the outlaw group Brotherhood Without Banners.
– Thoros of Myr: A red priest who follows the same religion as Melisandre.
– Tormund Giantsbane: A Wildling raider.
TULLYS. REEDS. SHIREEN. OLENNA.
The smallfolk say it was King Renly’s ghost, but wiser men know better.
lol, Lancel, you are the WORST.
I laughed so hard at this and I’m not even sorry.
#by the way she didn’t shove him #she jabbed his wound from where he was shot with an arrow earlier #also i didn’t find this funny or humorous or empowering to cersei at all #moments like this are moments where i just sort of cock my head and scowl #because at that point cersei doesn’t give a shit #she just wants to leave with tommen #this wasn’t empowering for her #this was an inconvenience she just gets rid of because she can #because honestly ‘overpowering’ lancel is NOT a feat #at all #he’s weak #he’s easily lead #and he doesn’t fucking deserve what cersei and tyrion do to him #he #just #doesn’t
tags from chelsea
soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur
happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr.
#open with the queen centre stage #wide open isolated court a performance space #and the floor is hers to hold #in contrast to the start of the season where her first shot is filtered through the bars of a gilded cage #her voice ground out beneath the swell of men’s voices #trapped and silenced within the confines of day-to-day queenly protocol; perversely empowered in the midst of death and destruction #because now finally she can wrest the narrative back into her hands #she does not have to play queen-as-prop; waiting for the full weight of the prophecy to fall upon her #or queen-as-prize; waiting for her handsome knight to save her #instead she can be queen-as-soldier; queen-as-narrator#and the story she reclaims her last act of warfare
♞ To be a True Knight one must be brave and just, and must defend the young and innocent, and women who cannot defend themselves. One must be cleanly as well as godly, and must act with military courtesy to any and all.
