@alucennia @lewnerys Bran & co likely already ate human flesh when they're en route to see the Children with Coldhands.
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@SirenofScience
Neuroscience PhD | horror, sci-fi, and fantasy lover | crow aficionado | boring pedant | bibliophile | musical fan | she/her
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House Stark's gothicisms are truly unparalleled: you have not one but TWO zombies, a damsel running through a castle in her dead aunt's dresses, a little girl in a death cult wearing the skins of dead men, a disabled boy tapping into a tree hive mind, and a (potential) cannibal
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Contributor @SirenofScience gives us a new #bookreview today, for modern classic historical sci-fi, Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler
divinationhollow.com/reviews-and-arโฆ
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@danymeria Yeah! They are some of my favorite more minor characters.
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@SirenofScience yeah i said asha for axes because i feel like we haven't seen much of the mormont women. i like maege and aly though, i hope they play a role in the future
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i'm tired of beautyscaling female characters. let's powerscale instead. brienne is the best swordfighter, lyanna is the best jouster, ygritte is the best with a bow, and arya has the most potential
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To give you a sense of how quickly the parenting world has gone insane, I'm a Millennial and my friends and I all worked as babysitters when we were like 12
elizabeth@cobavines
@HighHeelEsquire She is THIRTEEN. If she was 16 or 17, yes this would be crazy overbearing. What are they doing at just 13 they donโt want the mom to see? Sheโs too young to be totally unsupervised. I donโt think this is too much at all. Theyโre babies.
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@werewolfshauna Yup. People are missing the point that stupid girl fight BS is life threatening in that environment. I think Tai or Nat even lampshades it in early S3. I do think Laura Lee would've got Jackie or Shauna tho had she lived & either slept outside.
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realistically jackie wouldโve let shauna sleep outside had th roles been reversed because its not like anyone knew jackie was going to DIE๐ญ its like the equivalent of making ur gf sleep on the sofa for a night cuz ur mad yk. Like jackie was stubborn and spiteful too !!!!
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I could not agree more. There are many that span the whole nation & regional ones like Appalachian lore, Lovecraft country's cosmic horror, southern gothic's bayous or decrepit plantations, the aliens/cryptids in the northwest & southwest, etc.
Low-Poly Paul Atreides@muaddibstyle
Iโve been thinking about this a lot, and Iโm realizing thereโs plenty of Americana inspired fantasy but itโs all horror.
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@Ancapta This is why a lot of my upper level science students struggle with experimental design. They can memorize foundational knowledge & how stats work but struggle when applying that to their experiments, interpreting data, &/or writing formal results.
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@jamesceceree @thhouseofblack He says it in regards to Loras Tyrell, a slim teenager compared to his sister in his build & appearance. There's also Elia Sand aka Lady Lance. Lyanna may have practiced using a lance & an armor with Benjen. GRRM wants us to assume she's capable & was the KotLT.
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@SirenofScience @thhouseofblack Jaime says that jousting mostly relies on being an excellent horseback rider because he is assuming the person doing the jousting is of the appropriate size and strength to wield a 14 foot lance in full plate armor without much trouble.
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Have you considered that Lyanna Stark is simply built different
Cato the Elder@CatotheE
Makes no sense. A 14 year old girl isn't beating trained men like that. She's no Brienne of Tarth. She's not even Asha Greyjoy. Rickard was strict about gender roles.
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@squrtyl4 Tbf, canonically she is also impulsive (wolf's blood) & has a romantic streak (acting as an ideal knight for Howland & crying over sad music). Lyanna is still a teenager & they can be wise one day & foolish the next.
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@baptizedbones This is why I try to go in as blind as possible to movies. The barn scene was upsetting but no worse than many other horror films.
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The way people were saying that the barn scene in The Bone Temple is so brutal and "goes too far" kinda concerns me because I didn't think it was that bad, so it makes me worried that I'm horribly desensitized
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@westerosies It is. I teared up when Vhagar took out Meleys for a few reasons. One of them was thinking of the fun times the 2 dragons would've had together when ridden by Baelon & Alyssa or by Laena & Rhaenys.
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Itโs sad seeing dragons that once lived peacefully together now divided and set against each other by war. This is probably the happiest weโve ever seen Caraxes and Vhagar.
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theres so many whimsical baddies that have their bachelors, masters, and phds. liking pink and sparkles doesnโt make a woman โbrain deadโ you all are just hateful
R.@TeslaOnDiet
Why do people on Twitter act like the only way to have โwhimsyโ is to be this brain dead, pink, sparkly, infantilized version of a woman?
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@Alineofmine @winxformers Ciri was blessed enough to have an adopted grumpy dad & an adopted grumpy mom who would do literally anything for her.
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Iโd love to see this trope with a mother and daughter
old toons@oldtoons_
Favorite characters who are like this?
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@Zeeeeee______ @VioletFlame23 Sansa starts as a book smart not street smart type. She eventually becomes more aware though: realizing people only want to marry her for her claim to Winterfell, that Loras will kill Joff once he hurts Marg, that LF is not her ally truly, etc.
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@VioletFlame23 I read those books so many times and don't remember thinking Sansa was smart... guess it's time for another read.
Bran and Arya are much smarter in the show than in the book, where they're a lot younger.
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This also ties into one of my complaints about the show: It takes book characters who were at least moderately intelligent, but inexperienced, out of their depth, or surrounded by smarter people (early Sansa, Edmure Tully, Mace Tyrell) and portrays them as complete morons
Violet@VioletFlame23
1. None of the women in the series were trained from childhood to "build an efficient spy network" 2. Sansa *was* taught geopolitics and history! In the novels, Sansa was always portrayed as extremely book smart, just naive (Yes, I know the show just made her a total airhead)
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@goldhowler @jemsgreatsin I think there were some female Starks that married Vale Lords (Cat references them at 1 point) but I also think the southron theory is true. Rickard was looking at Lords Paramount for fostering or marriage, not just any lords below the neck.
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@SirenofScience @jemsgreatsin Those ambitions must be true, because except for Brandon and Lyanna, all the Starks married into houses of the north.
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the only reason margaery is more politically skilled than sansa despite being close in age is because the tyrells were playing the long game of thrones. the starks kept to their business until robert knocked on their door hence why sansa didnโt need to be taught scheming&plotting
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i genuinely go crazy for morally ambiguous, witchy female characters with prophetic visions, a complex relationship with religion, possessions and a madness that is consuming them slowly but surely. the #best character trope ever, they will always be my favourites
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@GsusChriste @ABigRoundBoy @sami_abdt Yes & I always thought it was because Cat's mom died & she became the acting Lady Tully. She was responsible for things her mother would've handled had she lived & Sansa does something similar in the Vale after Lysa's death.
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@ABigRoundBoy @sami_abdt Sansa is naive in Kings Landing because no-one views her as more than a pawn, and so they keep her in the dark. Margery has her family, Sansa doesnโt. If I remember correctly Cat was firstborn, so Hoster confided in her before Edmure was born, which isnโt the case for Sansa.
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Come on, give us the list of those 11-year-old daughters that were taught geopolitical history and political schemes in the story
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@thhouseofblack His "there must be one more" comment in Danys vision suggests Rhaegar saw all his children as prophecy babies. I think he believed he needed 3 kids for prophetic reasons & Jon was the final piece to complete his 3 headed dragon. Agreed that aegon was who he thought tptwp was tho.
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