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makerkenzie:

Sorry the kid can’t be in three places at once?

If there’s anyone in Aerys II’s Kingsguard who bears partial blame for the murders of Elia Martell and her children, it’s their Lord Commander Ser Gerold Hightower. He’s the one who had authority over the other knights. He knew they were leaving their little brother all alone to babysit their inbred trainwreck of a king in the middle of an uprising. It wasn’t Jaime’s idea to be the only KG knight left at the Red Keep with nobody looking after Maegor’s Holdfast. Sorry if Jaime was too busy trying to talk the king out of letting Tywin and his army through the city gates.

Nope, sorry not sorry, the youngest KG knight ever, who was being used as both a bodyguard and a hostage to a guy who was totally willing to blow up the capital city, does not get the blame for failing to be in the right place to scare off Gregor Clegane. Not before we point the finger at the older KG guys who ran off to support Tunnel-Visioned Emo Prince in knocking up Lyanna Stark and fucking well knew they were leaving Jaime to handle a problem with no solution.

The blame for the murders of Elia Martell and her children goes to:

1. Lord Tywin for sacking the city and having Gregor Clegane in his employ,

2. Gregor Clegane for being a repulsive rapist and baby-smashing monster,

3. Tunnel-Visioned Emo Prince for abandoning his wife and kids for a younger and supposedly healthier girl,

4. Aerys for being the Worst King Ever,

5. Ser Gerold Hightower for running a KG with no backbone.

alicestill:

2dnd:

Brazilian graphic designer and illustrator Butcher Billy got the idea of turning famous love hits into book covers of horror master Stephen King. 

Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” The Smiths, “Head Over Heels” by Tears For Fears and many others were portrayed in a very unusual way.

“This series imagines an alternate universe where some of the most desperate and tragic romantic songs in the ‘70s and’ 80s are actually books written by Stephen King. The concept is to look at the dark side of love by the vision of pop culture, bringing aspects of its classic stories to play the true meaning of the songs – this can be completely subverted or stressed strangeness, while paying tribute to the vintage design of the original covers,” Butcher writes on his Behance.

Love this!

@wikdsushi

transhumanisticpanspermia:

franklyfranchia:

targent:

what is it about being on a plane that makes people go buckwild for ginger ale literally everyone be ordering it

ginger ale is supposed 2 help settle ur stomach if ur nauseous so ppl get it on planes if they get planesick

ginger grow in the ground so it keeps you connected to god’s earth while you’re thousands of feet up in the Heathen Tube

Two kinds of people.

…Harry wasn’t irrationally biased against Snape

bounding-heart:

He just didn’t have all the information.

Harry’s negative attitude and feelings towards Snape were completely justified based on how Snape treated him and his friends. And don’t give me any of this “Snape was only shitty to Harry because Harry had a bad attitude” garbage. No, Snape was not “putting up with Harry’s bullshit”. I’m going to lose my mind. You’re talking about an adult interacting with a child. 

The very first time Harry saw Snape, Snape looked at him with enough venom that Harry knew he didn’t like him. By the end of their first lesson, he knew Snape hated him. This adult he’d never met before. How freaky would that be? 

Snape’s first words to Harry were public insults. Harry was eleven. He was a small child. Harry did nothing, absolutely nothing, to provoke Snape. Snape saw his name on a list and said the “Our new celebrity” line, humiliating him in front of Draco and his Slytherin friends. Then he asks Harry a question he knows he’s going to get wrong and mocks him when he does. And when Neville messes up his potions, Snape snaps at Harry for not stopping him and accuses him of letting Neville make a mistake so Harry would look good in comparison. And he takes a point. That’s just their first interaction. 

That kind of thing continues throughout. And yeah, eventually Harry started answering back. Good for him. Standing up for yourself against a bully is brave. It’s not “bullshit” Snape had to put up with. 

I swear to god, if I see another person claim that readers only have a negative view of Snape because the books are from Harry’s pov…

Love Snape. It’s fine and good to love him. He’s a fascinating character, he’s got wonderful good qualities as well as deeply negative qualities. He’s got qualities that make him sympathetic despite his nastines. But don’t erase his nastiness by claiming Harry’s pov wasn’t reliable. (Harry is NOT an unreliable narrator. He doesn’t lie to readers or intentionally withhold information from them. His narration is reliable based on what he experiences. If he’s wrong, it’s because he doesn’t have all the facts. Like any narrator.)

This makes me every bit as cross as “Snape was an incel who just wanted to fuck Lily”. It’s no better than that. When you say stuff like that you’re providing fodder for the people who think Snape fans are abuse apologists.