So I’m restless and annoyed and just generally off-kilter, and really, I just want to get the fuck out of here. I want out of this life - well, actually, I want to actually have a life where I don’t have to ask permission for every goddamned fucking thing. I’m 21 years old and practically nothing about my home life or the fucking rules I live under has changed since I was ten.
I want to go home, and I swear it’s not here. I’m just not entirely sure where it is.
- May 26
- , 2012
The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful people”. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every kind. it needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and human, and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.
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Sansa is also totally a defender of “cripples, bastards, and broken things,” right? (Think of Dontos and Lancel and even Sweetrobin.). Well, what if she and Tyrion work their marriage out and run around Westeros adopting all the unloved, broken children and in healing them, also learn to heal themselves? Sound good? OKAY.
Can this happen? I mean, I know it’s probably too happy for GRRM, but God, I would love to see this. They can be at Winterfell or Casterly Rock; either one is big enough to have room for all the children they bring home.
Okay so for that fandom meme Cat asked me to ramble about something fannish.
I think people in fandom often forget that fannishness is inherently visceral. It’s not like people sit down and go “Oh look, these character portrayals exactly fit what I find appealing in most TV shows, I’ll keep watching to see if they hit all my favorite tropes”. No. People start a show and they go “This is entertaining, I’ll keep watching I guess”.
Likewise, people don’t go “These two characters have a dynamic that is both healthy and mutual, I will ship them together!”. They go “OMG the chemistry” and they ship them.
No one should ever have to defend a visceral reaction. If you ship something, you don’t need to explain your reasons! It’s fine if you do, but seriously, whatever, sometimes a ship just pings your radar. Same when it comes to finding a show entertaining, or a character appealing, or a plotline interesting, etc. These are not necessarily logical reactions, nor should they be.
The only point on which fans should have to defend themselves is, in fact, how they defend what they like. You can like any character out there, but if you start calling them flawless when they (for instance) have committed genocide…well, that’s problematic. You can ship any pairing out there, but if you (for instance) deny that one character is stalking the other…well, that’s problematic. You can watch any show out there, but if you (for instance) say that it’s progressive when it regularly has sexism, racism, and homophobia…again, that’s problematic.
But liking something fictional is a visceral reaction, not something you can control—just like you can’t choose who you fall in love with in real life. The heart knows what the heart wants, and that’s that. What goes on in one’s head is complicated and should rarely be judged. Only what comes out of someone’s mouth—aka their thoughts turned into arguments—is worthy of analysis and judgment.
Sherlock Holmes, capable of being sassy and dry and deadpan WITHOUT being an unremitting asshole? WELL I NEVER.
HELLO ELEMENTARY. THIS IS ME CLIMBING ON BOARD. A few days ago I had almost no feelings about this show one way or another but now…I guess I do. And here they are, in list form!
1) Yes! Sherlock Holmes looks like he might be a halfway decent human being capable of empathy and regret! Stop the presses, open your books, commence delighted comparison with the original canon.
2) I wonder if I am a bad person if I now consider ‘watching sophistory delivering satisfying verbal smackdown’ my #1 favourite fandom spectator sport. I BELIEVE IN YOU SOPHIE.
3) Apparently some people are waffling on about Joan gasping and turning away from the sight of a murdered corpse in a pool of blood to be a sign of how she is weak, I mean come on, she’s a surgeon, right?
Bitches.
I am a doctor.
I have seen trauma victims, and assisted during a number of different surgeries.
I can’t promise you that if suddenly presented with an unexpected bloody corpse I wouldn’t have a reaction involving gasping, making girly squeaking noises, throwing up, and/or generally having a good old freakout. Blood is not just blood. Context is a fucking concept.
4) LUCY LIU, TAKE ME NOW.
Thank you that will be all for now.
Thank you to number 3. Also. I really, really want to see Elementary - all the talk about it, negative or positive, has just made me unbearably curious to see what they’re going to do.
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So, I’ve been reading A Feast For Crows, ASOIAF book four, and I’m a bit puzzled. Isn’t this the book I’m supposed to dislike most or something? I heard it was boring, etc…
Me, I love it; the political machinations are quite fun to read, Sansa becoming Alayne in the Vale is both a fascinating and unsettling story, the Greyjoys are fucked up and I am seriously coming to love Asha and Victarion’s not bad, Jaime, Arya and Brienne are all enjoyable to follow in their journeys, and I am liking Sam more and more despite that awkward as hell sex scene… I miss Tyrion and Jon, I kinda miss Dany, but I can get book five for them next, so I’m good.
I still think the least interesting part of the series so far was Dany’s Qarth arc - except the Houses of the Undying, but even that kinda fell flat for me - and that was in A Clash of Kings. Ah well, YMMV, I guess.
No, seriously, I barely remember anything from the Qarth thing, I was so impatient to finish those chapters and get back to interesting stuff. :/ The version in the show might be a total departure, but at least it holds my attention.
- May 21
- , 2012
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Tyrion:
If Stannis breaches the gates, the game is over.
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Varys:
They say he burns his enemies alive to honor the Lord of Light.
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Tyrion:
The Lord of Light wants his enemies burned. The Drowned God wants them drowned. Why are all the gods such vicious cunts? Where is the god of tits and wine?
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Varys:
In the Summer Isles. They worship the fertility goddess with sixteen teats.
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Tyrion:
We should sail there immediately.
