Thank Goodness, I'm Not The Only One Who Thought They Were Similar! 🥰

I am going to regret asking, aren't I? What happened?

In light of recent events

For one, their Deaths are complete polar opposites, bit still very very good at what they do and are amazing to behold

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING... THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH

"You do that too much, you know what you get? FAT PIGEONS!"~

is good omens in the same universe as the sandman?

No.

Ozpin: "Did you tell her to try working the shaft?

Oscar: "Yes, Professor."

Ozpin: "Good work."

Oscar “Tech Support” Pine. Alternatively…

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

It legit ticked me off that Cleganebowl was a thing, especially how the show handled it. I'm a huge fan of redemption/closure arcs where the vile villain/edgy anti-hero does some major rethinking of their life after getting their ass thoroughly kicked, and using that revelation to either atone for their crimes or acknowledge there is no forgiveness for them and quietly leave those they have wronged alone.

Sandor getting brutalized and mutilated by Gregor while leaving the undead bastard untouched like a day after making his peace with the Stark sisters and surviving the Long Night is not the makings of a glorious narrative

There were shadows all around them. One shadow was dark as ash, with the terrible face of a hound. Another was armored like the sun, golden and beautiful. Over them both loomed a giant in armor made of stone, but when he opened his visor, there was nothing inside but darkness and thick black blood. (Bran, AGoT)     

Here I think Robert Strong is looming over the Hound and Jaime, instead of Ned, Sansa and Arya. Maybe there's Cleganebowl coming and there's a chance Jaime will have to go through Robert Strong to reach Cersei.

Maybe! It's easier for me to believe there will be a fight between Jaime and dead!Gregor than the Hound and dead!Gregor.

Cleganebowl has always been a silly theory to me, anon. He's dead. He has no head. He's dead and headless. What is the point? Is it supposed to be a triumphant moment for Sandor Clegane? Finally vanquishing the evil brother?

The evil brother who is already dead, and has no head.

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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 Mormont women live and breath the Mama Bear trope: fierce, loyal, no-nonsense women with their own brand of sweet tenderness who *can and will* fight tooth, claw, and sinew to defend their home and family.

Brave companions used black bear in fighting pit in Riverrun. Dany called Jorah her black bear in ASOS. His sigil also had black bear on it. Then the bear in Bear and the Maiden Fair is described as having black and brown furs. Do you think black bear is indicating something?

Hi anon!

I'm extremely ambivalent about how GRRM uses bears. There's no one recognizable theme like with dogs. The best I've arrived at so far is that bears can represent questionable mentor figures.

Sansa in the Vale is compared to a bear cub (with Littlefinger her horrible "father"), Dany compares herself to a bear cub withJorah, the fugitive slaver who both advises and molests her, then you have Jon with Jeor Mormont, who hands him the transformed family blade that used to be a bear - but was turned into a wolf, making him a pseudo "father", who is both a useful teacher AND a misguided leader of the Watch, but leaving Jon in charge of his own wolfy fate, eventually.

Arya watches the black bear kill Amory Lorch and feels reminded of Yoren, her second (and violent!) mentor after Syrio, but that same bear is turned against Brienne as a precurser to threatened rape and murder, and the bear is killed when Jaime returns to save her. 

In the song "The Bear and the Maiden Fair", the male bear is another beastly sexual predator.

On the other hand, the ladies of House Mormont are generally depicted as loyal protectors and independent leaders. Dacey is Robb’s loyal guard, while Maege is trusted to carry out a vital mission for him. Lyanna Mormont has no qualms about rejecting Stannis, steadfastly sticking with House Stark. Asha is undeniably impressed with “Aly” Mormont, who protects Asha from the fire-mad R’hllor adherents in spite of the ancient enmity between their people. 

Tormund’s story of the she-bear who sheds her skin mirrors Alysane’s story about the Mormont ladies being skinchangers who mate with bears in the woods. The bear goes her own way. No husband necessary. 

The Mormont men? Absent, dead, deeply flawed, irrelevant.

There is a clear and constant rift between the female bear and the male bear. 

If I had to make a guess, I would suspect that the bear image is about growing beyond a flawed system. The mentor that protects the various characters can transform into a weak leader, a traitor, a predator. Independence is better. Growing up is necessary. Responsibility for one’s own fate is necessary. 

Be that as a she-bear, or a wolf. (Or a dragon.)

Oh yeah, I forgot about him. No excuses there...

I like to think Conquest always whispers his darkest secrets to people he's about to kill because he has nobody to chat with. "I love rainy days, fluffy kitties, and double rainbows. Take that to your grave." *CRUNCH*

I don't have an issue with the believability of Cecil's dumb hubris nearly as much as I do with the fact that in the Invincible universe, not only can you survive after your head's been shattered into a literal pile of goo, but you can also still talk to request medical assistance.

I want a 200 issue comic and three seasons of a TV show 🤩🥰

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