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— "give me cersei lannister, and you would see how gentle a woman can be.”
jin jîyan azadî
Joined February 2021
these verses from a lord byron poem reminded me of the way the long night is described in asoiaf
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okay so go die then…?
I will die on the hill that the shows ending is the books ending (even though it’s achieved differently) and he hasn’t released the books bc he’s trying to find a way to end the story differently to avoid the backlash despite everything he’s already written
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It’s genuinely heartbreaking how Emily Brontë spent her final year before death refusing treatment for Tuberculosis, and reading the few negative reviews of Wuthering Heights believing that she failed at everything, while this is turned into a billion dollars wine-mom pornslop.
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asoiaf fans be like we hate dany because she believes she is divinely ordained to rule westeros and that is why we support the divinely ordained true rulers of westeros, the starks
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Surrogacy wasn't a thing when Dworkin wrote this, but it applies just the same.
I dont see any issue with surrogacy as long as the surrogate is paid well and is a consenting adult .
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exploiting the vulnerability of financially destitute women is definitely something to judge
Meghan Trainor tells PEOPLE that surrogacy is not “something to whisper about or judge” after welcoming baby girl via surrogate: “It wasn’t our first choice, but we had endless conversations with our doctors on this journey, and this was the safest way for us to be able to
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i’ve been thinking about this since i finished plato’s republic and i feel that this passage creates a philosophical outlook for dany’s role as the symbol of hope in planetos. grrm intertwines the concept of idealism with the genre of fantasy to set up dany’s subversive arc. 🧵
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Des femmes qui se sont faites violées par des nazis puis humiliées par pure misogynie
After the Second World War, collaborationist women who had informed on members of the resistance and acted as interpreters during interrogations were paraded through the streets of Paris with their heads shaved and swastikas drawn on their faces. People whose relatives had been
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turks going crazy cuz the rest of the world ain’t dumb stupid and brainwashed like them😭 sorry to break it to you we are in 2026 and you’re still in sultan salim mode or whatever that manwhore’s name was
Bella Hadid: “Özgür Filistin, özgür İran, özgür Kongo, özgür Sudan, özgür Kürdistan. Tüm ezilenler özgür olsun. İnsanları, toprakları ve kaynakları siyasi piyonlar gibi kullanan güç sahiplerinden dünya kurtulsun. ICE kaldırılsın.”
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adding the narrator and anthea from ‘i who have never known men’ to this list i’m so distraught
i love how sororal bonds/friendship function as a form of defiance against the patriarchy. jane & helen, emilia & desdemona, nettie & celie (+ initial shug & celie), dany & missandei, laila & mariam, ofglen & offred.. regardless of intention, the patriarchy is ultimately defied
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right wingers will say these anti-capitalist critiques but start frothing at the mouth when you mention socialism, let alone communism
-Study for 20 years -Work for 40 years -Free for 5-10 years -Die It's a scam bro
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daenerys, through the magical elements of her character, yearns and will attain the concept of justice through her idealistic reforms; which fulfils grrm’s view of fantasy not just being “a dream,” but something more real than the current reality in planetos.
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dany embodies fantasy itself: she is hopeful for creating a new order, dangerous to the exploitative systems, and especially, transformative. grrm highlights the descriptions of fantasy as an attainable goal just as plato highlighted the attainability of justice.
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by reminding herself that she’s “the blood of the dragon.” dany’s dragons, born from literal fire and ash, symbolise that idealism can break into reality. they are dreams given flesh, proof that the intelligible world can erupt into the visible one. ultimately,
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comfort of a familiar system, even if it is exploitative. grrm affirms the necessity of idealism when lamenting how “our dreams becoming so much smaller when finally coming true.” dany remains the beacon of hope precisely because she refuses to abandon her ideals to fit reality,
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through dany’s struggles when implementing her reforms, grrm emphasises the difficulty of translating intelligible ideals into visible structures. like plato’s philosopher who exits the cave and becomes enlightened, she experiences hostility by those who want to bask in the
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reality is predictable and safe while fantasy is daring and transcending which mimicks dany’s political outlook. dany’s visions of a liberated world free from exploitative systems is risky and unstable, not because it is false but because it challenges entrenched systems.
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fantasy “flying on the wings of icarus” and reality “on southwest airlines” illuminates this outlook. both of these descriptions involve flight, just as both of plato’s worlds involve a perception of truth. the experience of flying is the same but the mode fundamentally differs.
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daenerys values justice as a real and binding concept, not as something that is transactional and determined by those in power. instead, she views it as a motivator for real change in society. by doing so, she acts in accordance with plato’s intelligible world. grrm’s contrast of
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