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Something that really bothers me about people’s hatred towards Ron is that unless you grew up really poor you have no idea what it’s like and how much it affects you. Especially if you grow up poor surrounded by rich friends. The jealousy seriously eats you alive and the way Ron acted was perfectly understandable.
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Over twenty years later, I’ll still never forget the day one of my classmates told me to just ask my parents for more money, as though I was literally too thick to work out the obvious solution. Because in her world, it was that simple. Or the day my teacher gave me an ‘are you even trying for a believable lie’? look when I had to tell him my parents couldn’t afford to send me on a low-cost excursion. Or how for an entire school year, I had to wear a school uniform skirt so small it left angry marks on my waist every day, because my mother begged me to make it last just one more year. The day everyone thought it was hilarious to ruin my pencil case, and even more hilarious that I was so upset and claimed that my parents would be furious with me - LOL, that silly girl! They’ll just buy her a new one, it’s not that difficult! (Spoiler, they couldn’t and it was). And yeah, I had my fair share of second-hand underwear too, like another character who grew up in poverty. The utter shock I felt when I realized other families not only had air conditioning, but also used it regularly… the jealousy I felt when everyone else had nice formal wear and I had whatever my parents could manage to get… the list goes on and on. And that’s on top of a bunch of other struggles and disadvantages I had.
But to hear Ron critics talk, he was the worst person alive if he ever even dared to want nice things for himself instead of just nobly being happy other people had them. ‘Why is everything I own rubbish?’ is not a permissible attitude, not even for a moment.
I see a lot of people making fun/disapproving of how Ron is always stuffing his face with food and it INFURIATES ME. When you grow up fucking poor you learn to take advantage of free food when you have it. Asshats.
Also does anyone realize the sheer fortitude Ron had to have to invite Harry over to his house!?
I could not invite my better off friends over to my house because things were literally falling apart inside of it and my family didn’t have the means to fix it and it ate me up inside to not be able to have my best friend over to my house when I spent the better half of my teenage life sleeping over at her house because my parents and I didn’t want her to see how rundown the inside of our home was.
Ron was so nervous about what Harry would say about his house and was embrassed by the state of it but he saw Harry needed somewhere to stay and he opened up his home to him. People who have always been well off wouldn’t understand the magnitude of that action.
Ron is a damn treasure and anyone who hates him because of his jealousy can’t understand the deeper meaning behind it.
also, harry himself grew up with hand-me-down garbage from Dudley. he understands ron’s frustration with his secondhand clothes, space, toys. what harry gets upset about is when ron doesn’t appreciate having what harry didn’t– protective parents, loving siblings, a space where he’s wanted. and by and large, ron does appreciate it, and tries to share what he does have with harry.
ron and harry are very, very good friends, who want to give each other what they can, and this is what makes their misunderstandings and fights so upsetting. not ron being shitty, but two genuinely kind, generous boys with a lot in common still managing to hurt each other now and then due to their differences.
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Man, lemme tell you, this transition was a TRIP to watch in realtime.
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SO MY OLD EMAIL IS FUCKED!
heya peeps! apparently tumblr decided to change my password for me, and since the email I have on this blog is an old one that I don’t use anymore, I have no idea what that new password is. so effectively, if I am ever logged out of my PC, I won’t be able to get on again
sooo I will be changing blogs in about a week or so. I will still be drafee (will be changing this one) but I’ll have to follow people all over again, so if you’re a mutual send me sth, I don;t wanna forget anybody
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SO MY OLD EMAIL IS FUCKED!
heya peeps! apparently tumblr decided to change my password for me, and since the email I have on this blog is an old one that I don’t use anymore, I have no idea what that new password is. so effectively, if I am ever logged out of my PC, I won’t be able to get on again
sooo I will be changing blogs in about a week or so. I will still be drafee (will be changing this one) but I’ll have to follow people all over again, so if you’re a mutual send me sth, I don;t wanna forget anybody
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SO MY OLD EMAIL IS FUCKED!
heya peeps! apparently tumblr decided to change my password for me, and since the email I have on this blog is an old one that I don’t use anymore, I have no idea what that new password is. so effectively, if I am ever logged out of my PC, I won’t be able to get on again
sooo I will be changing blogs in about a week or so. I will still be drafee (will be changing this one) but I’ll have to follow people all over again, so if you’re a mutual send me sth, I don;t wanna forget anybody
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SO MY OLD EMAIL IS FUCKED!
heya peeps! apparently tumblr decided to change my password for me, and since the email I have on this blog is an old one that I don’t use anymore, I have no idea what that new password is. so effectively, if I am ever logged out of my PC, I won’t be able to get on again
sooo I will be changing blogs in about a week or so. I will still be drafee (will be changing this one) but I’ll have to follow people all over again, so if you’re a mutual send me sth, I don;t wanna forget anybody
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Wow.
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nicole big ass grinch hands kidman kissing eric from true blood like this in front of her husband is a complete power move
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Hello! I don't know if you've written about this before, but do you believe Jon/Sansa will happen in the books in some capacity?
Hi @drafee! I consider myself a moderately skeptical jonsa shipper. Full disclaimer: I rarely ship stuff that I don’t think has at least a 1% chance to become canon. A big part of what makes fiction fun to me is examining the ways two or more disparate pieces of storytelling can come together, and shipping is no different. Imo, Jonsa has exactly that 1% chance to “happen”… which is a very important 1% to me.
#thank you so much!!!#I think I'm shipping jonsa for real now#at first I thought it was just some good chemistry that d&d stumbled on by accident and had no plans to bank on#but I've been reading stuff and it's got me thinking that maybe this is where this was some sort of Checklist Effect in play#so this is very good#jonsa#asoiaf
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Please take a moment to enjoy Jason Mantzoukas’s perfect grossed-out reaction to the kisses in The Lake House.
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commodore james norrington in 2003 hit film pirates of the caribbean: curse of the black pearl did nothing wrong, he was simply trying to incarcerate johnny depp literally decades ahead of the curve
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simon update: donations are not coming and we’re really worried about him right now. he’s peeing but he’s obviously in pain and he’s pacing back and forth. if people could please share his donation post that would go a long way in getting the word out to ppl who are able to donate. this lil monster means so much to us and i can’t imagine this house without him. he doesn’t deserve to be in pain like this, to be struggling with something like this. please any help would be so appreciated. https://www.youcaring.com/simonmyroommatescat-949693 #catsoginstagram #cats #bengalcat
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Anonymous asked:
Do you like Jon and Sansa together? Do you think it's a posibility in both the books and the show? Why or why not?
Ah, Jon and Sansa. For some reason this has become like the ultimate GOT / ASOIAF Rorschach test? Either you see it in the inkblots or you don’t. I have no problem with people who don’t, but personally, I see it. While I wouldn’t call myself a passionate shipper or anything - I pretty much only get passionate about crackships or Cleopatra-and-Antony-style tragedies - I quite like Jonsa.
I think the two of them complement each other’s personalities, have similar belief systems and life goals, and have a surprising potential to be a truly healthy and supportive couple (surprising both because of the ‘thought they were siblings’ thing and because this is GOT and ‘healthy romance’ has been pretty much unheard of since the passing of Ned and Cat). There’s also enough angst built-in to the relationship to keep it an interesting dynamic for me. And I think it just makes for a fun twist and a good story.
TV relationships are usually based on the most unrealistic idealizations of romance ever to fuck up someone’s concept of how love actually works, and so for me Jonsa is a nice aversion in the sense that they clearly work as a couple. You can see why they like each other, where they clash, and how they work to resolve those clashes. The mechanics of the pairing make sense, you know? If I met them in real life I feel like they’d be an actual functioning couple, not a toxic circus show like most fictional romances - particularly in the fantasy genre. The appeal of Jonsa is in its practicality more than its drama, which I find very refreshing, especially in a high fantasy setting.
As for the possibility of its happening, yes, I think it has a good chance. I actually thought it had potential for winding up endgame a long time before I even starting caring about them as a romance. That’s why I became interested in it in the first place - it has textual evidence, it has a solid narrative structure, and the politics of it work out almost too well. Thematically, I think it would be a satisfying ending for both characters - if you want to hear more on my opinion on this aspect, you might take a look here. It also has the advantage of being a relationship that could quite literally save lives when it comes to patching together the Northern alliance and possibly the realm as a whole. It has historical parallels to events we know GRRM drew from when writing the books, and there’s proof that GRRM already considered pairing Jon off with one of his sisters from his original outline of the series. And that’s not even getting into all the hints the show has been dropping.
A Jon and Sansa marriage would be an ironic, unexpected twist that nonetheless functioned as a deeply appropriate cap to the thematic arcs of both characters: for Jon, finally becoming a ‘true’ member of the Stark family despite - and, in fact, because of - the new knowledge that he was never even Ned’s bastard in the first place but a Targaryen all along (not to discount the importance of Lyanna as his mother, but I’m looking at it with the patriarchal logic of the setting); and for Sansa, finally marrying a prince and becoming a princess in the most unexpected way possible, long after she became too wise to want to do so, and all because of the bastard half-brother she used to look down on. For Jon, marrying Sansa would be about coming to terms with his identity issues - if he was truly a Stark, he couldn’t marry her, but in marrying her as a Targaryen he achieves a kind of ‘Stark-ness’ anyway. And for Sansa, a relationship with Jon would be the culmination of her character growth about looking past appearances to the truth underneath. It just makes a good, twisty end to a good, twisty story.
That doesn’t mean that Jonsa is inevitably going to happen, of course - I could be wrong, as I’ve been wrong about endgames before (ah, Zutara, I remember you fondly). And as I’m not reading the series or waching the show primarily for the potential romances, it wouldn’t be the end of the world. I’ve always been more drawn to interpersonal relationships and character dynamics than I am to action scenes, however, and this particular relationship is interesting enough that I’d like to see it play out on the page and the screen. (I also, personally, just enjoy being right about things, and so a Jonsa endgame would also be fun for me purely because I like having my theories turn out to be correct.)
Anyway, those are my thoughts on the Jon and Sansa relationship. Hope that helps!
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