Davos trying to read is too cute.

Also, I have no fucking clue where this thing with Gendry is going and it unnerves me.

I don’t think you understand. The REASON I read the books first is to KNOW how it all ends, so there are no nasty surprises.

When we cut to the “east” I feel like I’m watching footage of The Message, and I’m waiting for Anthony Quinn to pop up on a horse.

wiseoldunicorn:

caffeinatedfeminist:

wiseoldunicorn:

caffeinatedfeminist:

wiseoldunicorn:

caffeinatedfeminist:

But apparently what I’m seeing is that in this one Tyrion makes Sansa get naked on their wedding night and feels her up even though he knows how…

I don’t particularly care about reblogging this as as text, but wiseoldunicorn needs to stfu

I love Tyrion a lot, but the books are pretty clear in the way he “handles” Sansa

page 392:

“How old are you, Sana?” asked Tyrion, after a moment.

“Thirteen,” she said, “when the moon turns.”

“Gods have mercy.” The dwarf took another swallow of wine. “Well, talk won’t make you older. Shall we get on with this, my lady? If it please you?”

“It will please me to please my lord husband.”

That seemed to anger him. “You hide behind courtesy as if it were a castle wall.”

“Courtesy is a lady’s armor,” Sansa said. Her septa had always told her that.

“I am your husband. You can take off your armor now.”

“And my clothing?”

“That too.” He waved his cup of wine at her. “My lord father has commanded me to consummate this marriage.”

Her hands trembled as she began fumbling at her clothes. She had ten thumbs instead of fingers, and all of them were broken. Yet somehow she managed the laces and buttons, and her cloak and gown and girdle and undersilk slid to the floor, until finally she was stepping out of her small clothes. Gooseprickles covered her arms and legs. She kept her eyes on the floor, too shy to look at him, but when she was done she glanced up and found him staring. There was hunger in his green eye, it seemd to her, and fury in the black. Sansa did not know which scared her more.

“You’re a child,” he said.

She covered her breasts with her hands. “I’ve flowered.”

“A child,” he repeated, “but I want you. Does that frighten you, Sansa?”

“Yes.”

page 393

“Get in the bed, Sansa. We need to do our duty.”

…

She had started to pull up a blanket to cover herself when she head him say, “No.”

…

When he hopped up on the bed and put his hand on her breast, Sansa could not help but shudder.

he has the audacity to be upset that Sansa doesn’t fancy him, or share her secrets with him.

page 427

He could no longer bear to sleep naked, as had been his custom. His wife was too well trained ever to say an unkind word, but the revulsion in her eyes whenever she looked on his body was more than he could bear.

page 793

As man and wife they shared a marriage bed, but that was all. Even her tears she keeps to herself.

All in all, he dealt with the whole situation very poorly, and you need to stop.

likeindiana:

Okay….I like Jamie Lanister. 

halle fucking lujah 

u get a hug from me

eyesofahawk:

i’m so pissed because got is making me love ygritte. i didn’t really care about her when i read the books and i love her now and i’m so upset because it’s gonna make things so much harder and

right?? in the books, I was like meh, and now I just fucking love her

mumblebrows:

1. Nothing
2. Oral
3. Windmills

’s wrong with Jon? to me he’s mostly one of the few characters with apearent moral values, what’s not to like? #genuine question #I want to know if I’m missing something #I should start reading the books soon

he’s kind of a spoiled brat and also when you get to AFfC, you’ll hate him.

EDIT: also, morals are subjective.

theslavbarbarian:

fadingroots:

cypresssunn:

time to talk about daenerys and why she’s fucking up again.

the fun part about the etymology of westeros and essos is that no one can deny that they are being likened and structured after the real western and eastern worlds. the essosi societies are representative of eastern socities. and westeros, including daenerys targaryen, are stand ins for the western world. because of this, the two continents are coded for a multitude of western and eastern societies, as well as their independent and intertwined histories.

in the real life western world, eastern people are perceived as stagnant and backward. they are regarded as undeveloped economically, technologically, and most importantly moralistically. and at the same time, the west has always perceived itself has been that of modernized, morally dynamic, evolving. since it hardly ever lends this kind of consideration to the ‘others’ in the east, it positions itself on a pedestal from which it can dictate the goings-on in the world.

and so, white and western societies hold the idea that brown societies are incapable of change without outside, corrective influences. this has been used to excuse and validate colonialism and imperialism for centuries.

these real world crimes are relfected in the game of thrones canon. the essosi societies are coded as being backward. they are being coded as monstrous and without any other characteristic aside from slaveholding. and this is how daenerys excuses her own violent imperialism.

now let’s have a canon history lesson! the continent of westeros used to have slaves. but it was not it a hostile outside force that came in an eradicated the evils of slavery. these societies were not burned to the ground depending on their willingness to bend to an outsiders command. none of these countries were callously set back years and years in development because someone decided they had not advanced enough.

no, what got rid of slavery in westeros was the moral progression of it’s peoples, and the eventual criminalization of the institution. and what will get rid of slavery in the free cities will be similar societal progression. because believe it or not, all societies are capable of progression.

but of course, treating brown people and brown societies like multifaceted and complexly developing isn’t at all interesting. not when we can all cheer and coo over an empowered and entitled white woman exerting her power of all of these brown ‘others’.

all of this is great and fantastic and accurate

but wow am i the only one who always saw Essos as being much more advanced than Westeros? I mean the whole slaves thing isn’t cool, but

All the best trade goods come from Essos, all the finest foods and wines and silks and steel. Essos is dotted with magnificent, wealthy, powerful citystates; Westeros has three or four cities, a few more squalid towns, and a bunch of ancient, largely crumbling, forts. Essos is home of the arts, of culture, of learning; Westeros is too busy killing themselves every few decades, living in squalor, and at the end of the day, the feudal system honestly reduces the peasants/serfs to little more than slaves. Just because they aren’t chattel slaves, aren’t property, doesn’t keep local lords from having almost total control over their lives, and subjecting them to violence when they fail to comply.

I spent a while the other night explaining to a friend how fucked up the orientalism and exotification in ASoIaF and GoT, i’m not trying to deny any of that by any means

i just always read westeros as backwards and poor, and essos as more advanced and more wealthy? is that just me?

same

alla this

bless

whenever i try to bring up how the dolthraki are modeled after bedouins and how everyone speaks “harsh/guttural” languages everyone stares at me like i’ve grown a second head

and to criticise daenerys’ story arc is to be a misogynist apparently, so when i point out, yes, she’s a naive 13 yr old, but she’s behaving in a very white-supremacist manner, “i give you the gift of yr life ohohoho”

and he’s just like, “how about you just leave us alone?”

not to mention, the movie series makes her out to be this grandiose saviour of the slaves, when in actuality, in the book, it goes very differently, albeit still racist, “what? slaves don’t know how to BE ANYTHING other than SLAVES” but it certainly doesn’t glorify her, it shows the repercussions of what she’s done, because now who’s going to feed, clothe, and give resources to the hundreds of thousands of people you’ve “freed”? 

it is supremely obvious how the east is coded as “other” whether it be specifically modeled after Arabs or other PoC, and the west is coded as “civilised” and it’s just gross and omg, puke, i want to vomit on everything grrm loves