"The defiling of a god is an ancient human tradition. Why should I be an exception?"
fauxkaren:
thenorthdismembers:
(source)
1. Tyrion – 185
2. Jaime – 119
3. Daenerys – 93
4. Sansa – 87
5. Arya – 86
6. Cersei – 84
7. Tywin – 81
8. Jon – 79
9. Robb – 73
10. Margaery – 72
11. Olenna – 71
12. Thoros – 67
13. Ygritte – 65
14. Theon – 64
15. Joffrey – 63
16. Brienne – 60
17. Missandei – 58
18. Shae – 54
19. Melisandre – 51
20. Davos – 48
20. Gendry – 48
22. Varys – 46
23. Bronn – 45
23. Stannis – 45
25. Jorah – 44
25. Sam – 44
Catelyn is only 40th, which is very disappointing to me.
Catelyn is 40th
and YOLO Stark is 9th.
Remember that time when Catelyn was the POV character and that whole Riverlands/TeamRobb branch of the story was actually her story?
No? Well neither does HBO.
margotkim:
Every time someone uses “but that’s what things were like back then!” to justify the shitty treatment of women on GoT, I want to gently clasp their head and whisper, “the past is no less complex or multidimensional than the present. throughout history, women have found ways to seize agency within the limited roles forced on them and when you say that women should passively suffer and endure because ‘that’s the way things were’, you reduce them to nothing more than historical victims when the truth is so much more vibrant, varied, and interesting. also westeros isn’t fucking real, so why the fuck should it conform to your extremely narrow understanding of europe’s past.” then i headbutt my way out of there and flip off into the sunset while singing, “did the fucking dragons not tip you off?”
"A thousand wolves have eaten grandmother, a thousand princesses have been kissed. A million unknowing actors have moved, unknowing, through the pathways of story.
It is now impossible for the third and youngest son of any king, if he should embark on a quest which has so far claimed his older brothers, not to succeed.
Stories don’t care who takes part in them. All that matters is that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself."
- Terry Pratchett,
Witches Abroad (via
adramoetic)
"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light."
- Madeleine L’Engle,
A Ring of Endless Light (via
larmoyante)