There Is So Much Going On That I Don't Know What To Comment On First...

Same silly hand-wringing, different format. No wonder Neil is at home here on Tumblr

below is the letter received by Neil Gaiman from the “concerned mothers of america” in ‘92, and his response :)

he mentioned this letter in a recent interview with Pink News:

“I remember getting a very grumpy letter from the ‘Concerned Mothers of America’, informing us that due to the number of gay characters in Sandman they would be boycotting us and we had to repent,” he said.

“We never repented and the sales just went up, and up, and up. So I never really worried about their boycott.”

*ugly wheezing dying seal laughter*

Wyman Manderly from ASOIAF

A walrus selkie whose human form is a short stout bald man with a muttonchop beard that still kind of looks like a walrus

Reblogging again even though I already receive a blessing the last go round

She's crying her best

She’s really Going Through It™

Okay I would never smoke but they Did kinda go off with the aesthetics

*Are there* any good fanfics where its Sansa who gets the heck out of Dodge after Ned's execution, and its Arya who is pulled into the Lannister's iron grip? Coz if so, I would very much like to read them.

I hate oppression olympics posts about Sansa and Arya any day of the week, but illiterate losers acting like Sansa was a privileged captive with her name while Arya wasn’t.

When like no she wasn’t ?? Sansa was the daughter of ‘traitor’ and part of the psychological torment she was put through daily was to act grateful to her captors and to constantly come up with reasons why she was good and worthy of being kept alive, fed and dressed, one slip and those things would be taken from her. Sansa had a tiny safety net while Robb was alive, but it got smaller and smaller, and after he was dead, it was virtually non existent.

Not to mention the beatings that were actually really severe. No one force you to like Sansa, but for god's sake, she's a child beaten on a regular basis by grown men wearing armour!

Boros slammed a fist into Sansa’s belly, driving the air out of her. When she doubled over, the knight grabbed her hair and drew his sword, and for one hideous instant she was certain he meant to open her throat. As he laid the flat of the blade across her thighs, she thought her legs might break from the force of the blow. Sansa screamed. Tears welled in her eyes. It will be over soon. She soon lost count of the blows. (ACoK, Sansa III)

And she was literally forced into a child marriage with a man twice her age, married into a family who had been responsible for her father's death, who later murdered her mother and brother.

Let's ask Arya if she'd prefer to live on the run, hungry and in constant danger, or be a captive in King's Landing, forced to marry Tyrion Lannister.

Hear hear

We've been without the next book too long if this is what we've been reduced to when it comes to theories and plot twists... 😅

Apparently the favourite Rhaegar x Lyanna explanation is now that the whole war is actually Brandon Stark's fault (Rhaegar only kidnapped Lyanna to save her from Aerys' wrath, realised how perfect this arrangement was for the prophecy, he told Rickard about it but didn't have time to tell Brandon and Brandon then ruined everything when he went to King's Landing). Like. Sure, time to blame the guy who lost his sister and was then brutally murdered alongside his father. Also, Rickard definitely would have been fine with his only daughter, whose betrothal was decided by him, becoming the crown prince's second wife (at beast). Anything to absolve Rhaegar of blame

Wow.

Also, can we remember that what started the war was not Brandon riding in to the Red Keep and being a little too confrontational about the fact that his sister was abducted by the crown prince, but the fact that Aerys chose to murder eight people about it? Lords and their sons? Without trial? Lords of the Riverlands, Vale and North? And then went on to demand the murder of two more, Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon, the new Lord Stark and the Lord of Storm's End? Two of the highest Lords in his Realm? On the basis of absolutely nothing?

Even if the hare-brained theory had any merit - that Rickard Stark would have been fine with making a concubine of his only daughter and destroying a betrothal that would have made her the Lady of Storm's End - that still has no bearing on the fact that Aerys decided to be a tyrannical, sadistic murderer instead of following the rule of law and upholding his end of the feudal contract and granting a fair trial.

And given the volatile political position of House Targaryen at the time, given that a block of informal alliances had formed between North, Vale, Stormlands and Riverlands, Rhaegar is STILL INSANELY CULPABLE if he did not realize that kidnapping half of a future marriage within that alliance block would be the domino that would send political stability in the Realm crashing and burning. Even if Aerys had not been a sadistic tyrant. Which, however, he was!

The conduct of House Targaryen is from every angle indefensible and no amount of contrived excuses will change that.

The big bad of Final Fantasy XV

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Ardyn Izunia - Wikipedia

A man whose flawless charming and suave troll personality is belied by the sheer *tragedy* of cosmic hell he got put thru that its a miracle he can even fake a smile

Unfortunately, Jaune's now in the camp of cosmic plaything.....I believe I hear sauve man named Ardyn Izunia welcome him into the group.

Who the shit is that