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reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to
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WHO was going to tell me that the Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird is set to the tune of Streets of Laredo/The Unfortunate Rake??!?!!? And it’s WRITTEN LIKE THAT IN THE BOOK?!?!???!
Like the fact that it’s supposed to be her lamenting her own impending death?? And she chose the most famous folk song about someone lamenting their impending death??? Hello?!??
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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie
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Sarita Choudhury in Fresh Kill (1994) dir. Shu Lea Cheang
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can we just have, like, any feminist movement whatsoever. did everyone just stop caring?
feminism became a declawed commodified marketable trend and then trends changed and everyone just decided to pretend we won feminism despite nothing changing? despite things actively getting worse? is that what happened?
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INCREDIBLE take. girl what
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I didn't even care about the result, the questions here are just delightful
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hey, uh. what the shit
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I will be 70 years old and I still will never have gotten over the time the Mythbusters used a rocket powered steel wall to - and I use this word as literally as possible - vaporize an entire car into red mist
If you haven’t seen this episode of Mythbusters I feel so bad for you because “What car?” remains to this day as a defining moment of my adolescence and my entire life
That was a near-religious experience
I made a gif of it for those of you who cant watch the video in your country. Or if you know you just want to stare at it mesmerized like me
Oh wow they sure did vaporise that car into red mist
1994-1996 Ford Aspire
(formerly)
I’m partial to the “Can a Snowplow Split a Car in Two” one. The answer was “No”, so they naturally ramped it up. Which led to this
A rocket powered, sharpened steel wedge slicing a car (with its engine!) in two, right down the middle
@identifying-cars-in-posts what’s this one?
1988-1989 Honda Civic
(formerly)
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dyatlovpassingprivilege
serf: 🫱🌾🌾
lord: and the rest?
serf: apologies, my lord. a rot spread o'er much of the barley
lord: a feeble excuse for such a paltry cum
serf: ..my lord?
lord: has this rot spread to your ears as well?
advisor: (leans in and whispers)
lord: 😳
serf: may i lea-
advisor: his grace will be shooting you with crossbows
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Fare well
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the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight
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Okay, imagine hearing someone say something like that on a mainstream television channel in a country that wasn't a fascist ethnostate.
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Hi Butterfly! I'm a huge fan of your blog. My question is, what do you think of Vaes Tolorro? What is the reason GRRM created this abandoned city and describe it in so many details, only to leave it so quickly? What does it symbolize?
Vaes Tolorro is part of Daenerys Targaryen’s messianic journey in her first chapter of A Clash of Kings – beginning with following a star, wandering in the empty desert, flensing away all her illusions – arriving at a city of dust and ghosts, yet filled with natural innocent pleasures in the form of ripe fruits and pure cold water – before being greeted by three wise men who will take her to the next stage of her journey, the city of decadent pleasure and temptations.
Vaes Tolorro is also the symbol of hope among the ruins, peaches so sweet you almost cry. Life, sprouting wild and fierce and defiant, amidst nothing but death and destruction. Life finds a way. An oasis of life and hope, glorious and beautiful, still standing after everything, as @joannalannister says.
Vaes Tolorro, the City of Bones, is also one of GRRM’s many creations that give his world “flavor text”, a feeling of an epic, beautiful, and lost civilization, beyond our reach, beyond our full comprehension. It’s a lost city, like Chroyane (once a glorious festival city, now a place of mists and silences, haunted by stone lepers), part of the grand tradition of lost cities in literature, as @racefortheironthrone says. Or as @boiledleather says:
I’m saying that whatever theory you can hash out and write down is likely beside the point. The point is how it makes you feel. Do you feel that something of tremendous, awesome importance has happened that you can never fully understand? That there are forces at work in this world beyond even those of the Others and the Children, beyond R’hllor and the Seven and the Old Gods, beyond the Stranger? That you are, in some fundamental and inescapable way, at sea?
The sea is the point. Not the land you could perhaps construct amid the sea, holding it at bay for however long—the sea. The sea. THE SEA.
Or as Susan Janet Ballion says:
#vaes tolorro #IS MY FAVORITE #i mean sure it doesn’t do much for the plot but THE THEMES #THE THEMES!!!! #THE RESILIENCY OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT!!! #LIFE AMONG THE RUINS!! HOPE!!! #AND THAT LONG AUTUMN!!! THAT FADED GRANDEUR!!!! #THINGS THAT WERE ONCE MAGNIFICENT THAT HAVE FALLEN TO DUST!!!! #LOOK ON MY WORKS YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR #IT’S SUCH A GLORIOUS JUXTAPOSITION OF LIFE AND DEATH AND HOPE AND DESPAIR AND BEAUTY AND RUIN #THINGS ONCE LOST CAN BE FOUND AGAIN #imagine an ASOIAF tv show and it’s episode 2x01 #and Dany&co. are wandering in the desert so hot and thirsty and her people are dropping like flies #and just when it seems like all hope is lost #they stumble into Vaes Tolorro #and the episode ends with Dany biting into a peach and the music swells and the credits roll #NOT TODAY MOTHERFUCKER #IT’S SUCH A SYMBOLIC “YOU THOUGHT I WAS DONE BUT I’M BACK BITCHES” (via @joannalannister)
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posts that have changed my reading of asoiaf and that still influence me to this day :
1) the starks derive their legitimacy from the mostly forgotten mythos of the long night :
2) volantis must fall :
3) daenerys’s story is also about healing :
4) ned’s legacy vs tywin’s in affc and adwd :
5) true knighthood and how it functions within asoiaf :
6) euron is terrifying and he’s messing with dany :
7) little walder frey is an interesting character :
8) the significance of the sigorn and alys wedding :
9) sam is a thematic key within the narrative :
10) the maesters are up to something :
11) winterfell was built to keep out the others :
12) visenya killed aenys :
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