sethmacenzie
Seth Macenzie
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1) The Last book I read:
Fire and Blood by GRRM
2) A book I recommend:
The book with no name by Anonymous
3) A book that I couldn’t put down:
The eye of the moon by Anonymous
4) A book I’ve read twice (or more):
Die wilden Hühner by Cornelia Funke (if I'm feeling down, brings back lovely childhood memories)
5) A book on my TBR:
Coraline by Neil Gaimea
6) A book I’ve put down:
Doon Quixote (might try again)
7) A book on my wish list:
Most of Terry Prachetts work, I don't have as much reading time as I used to.
8) A favorite book from childhood:
Inkblood from the Inkheart series (until the third one came out and I stopped reading Cornelia Funke with how dissapointed I was)
9) A book you would give to a friend:
The Red Mohawk by Anonymous - just to see their reaction.
10) A book of Poetry or Lyrics you own:
The collection of Shakespears Sonnets
11) A nonfiction book you own:
my books are currently on the move and I can't think of a single title of the non fictional books, might be something along the lines of: the history of art
12) What are you currently reading:
Fanfictions mostly due to time constraints.
13) What are you planning on reading next?
Mostly fanfictions because I don't have time for longer works while moving.
13 Books!
Tagged by @ferrame thank youu 🥰
1) The Last book I read:
The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi
2) A book I recommend:
December by Phil Rickman
3) A book that I couldn’t put down:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
4) A book I’ve read twice (or more):
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
5) A book on my TBR:
The Indifferent Stars above by Daniel James Brown
6) A book I’ve put down:
That one by Marie Kondo about throwing things away that give you no joy. The book gave me no joy.
7) A book on my wish list:
Erebus by Michael Palin
8) A favorite book from childhood:
Trail Boss in Pigtails by Marjorie Filley Stover
9) A book you would give to a friend:
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
10) A book of Poetry or Lyrics you own:
Thomas Traherne: Poetry and Prose
11) A nonfiction book you own:
The Great Mortality by John Kelly
12) What are you currently reading:
The Queen: Nofretete's Global Career by Sebastian Conrad (in German)
13) What are you planning on reading next?
Where the Crawdads sing by Delia Owens
Bonus Round Shelfie?
My little library ♥️
Tagging @november-rising, @st-clements-steps, @sethmacenzie, @salty-wench and whoever wishes to do this!
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While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a slapping,
As of some one gently flapping, flapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some fairy,” I muttered, “slapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
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Nope, nope, nope. In the entire EUROPEAN UNION streaming is ILLEGAL since 2017 and can get you fined and those fines are not cheap.
There are other countries where it's also illegal, so check before you do something.
I love piracy but I'd also like to make sure you guys know that it's only piracy if you actually download it. It's technically legal to visit Watch Free Online type sites, it's just illegal for *them* to host those files and share them around without paying. They can't get you for just Watching free online. Use firefox and adblockers etc but it's not a crime. They also aren't going to get you for actually pirating shit more likely than not as long as you're not, like, running a whole fucking operation of it. It's so fine. Be free
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I agree, this is very typical for Ramsay, he does take Theon apart,
he was an archer, he took his fingers, but left enough to be useful, but enough to make everything harder,
he used to smile, he took his teeth, but left enough to not starve, but also so few and broken teeth that they hurt him and make eating hard,
he used to be a fighter, he took his toes, but left enough so he could walk, but it's in pain and it's slow,
he used to screw around, he took his penis, but left the rest so he could still have the physical urge for it, so he'd be constantly reminded.
On a side note: As someone without male genitals: it still horrible hurts to get any form of kick, punch etc between your legs and I don't know why Benioff and Weiss who wrote the episode think that it wouldn't hurt just because you lack certain parts. Speaking from the experience of someone that had a bicycle bar smashed there.
What did Ramsay take from Theon, apart from fingers, toes, teeth and skin? This last reread has made me pretty certain that the pillar is gone but the stones remain. Why?
Discussion of canon-typical awfulness below the cut
Exhibit A:
He has only taken toes and fingers and that other thing, when he might have had my tongue, or peeled the skin off my legs from heel to thigh.
ADWD, Reek II
What else could the 'other thing' be? Theon mentions fingers and toes freely in his thoughts, thinks about how Ramsay threatens to take his tongue - what else could be unmentionable if not the D? That'd be something even his thoughts'd shy away from.
Also, thing, singular. Had the balls been involved it would have been those other thingS, methinks. I've never heard a man speaking of his privates as one thing, certainly not of his balls. Not saying it's not possible, but it seems to point more in a single thing direction than the whole package.
Exhibit B:
“A bath and change of clothes will make you smell sweeter.” “A bath?” Reek felt a clenching in his guts. “I … I would sooner not, m’lord. Please. I have … wounds, I … and these clothes, Lord Ramsay gave them to me, he … he said that I was never to take them off, save at his command …”
“You are wearing rags,” Lord Bolton said, quite patiently. “Filthy things, torn and stained and stinking of blood and urine. And thin. You must be cold. We’ll put you in lambswool, soft and warm. Perhaps a fur-lined cloak. Would you like that?” “No.” He could not let them take the clothes Lord Ramsay gave him. He could not let them see him.
ADWD, Reek II
Theon'd rather people recoil in disgust from his stench than seeing him naked.
Theon peeled his gloves off and held his hands up for them to see. It is not as if I stand before them naked. It is not so bad as that.
ADWD, A Ghost in Winterfell
Exhibit C:
Ramsay smiled his wet smile. “Does she make your cock hard, Reek? Is it straining against your laces? Would you like to fuck her first?” He laughed. “The Prince of Winterfell should have that right, as all lords did in days of old. The first night. But you’re no lord, are you? Only Reek. Not even a man, truth be told.”
[...]
Ramsay rose, the firelight shining on his face. “Reek, get over here. Get her ready for me.” For a moment he did not understand. “I … do you mean … m’lord, I have no … I …”
ADWD, The Prince of Winterfell
Ramsay taunting Theon about a dick he knows isn't there anymore is just so. on. brand.
The way Theon reacts says more than Ramsay's words though, as if for a second he's really wondering if Ramsay has forgotten that particular part. “With your mouth,” Ramsay clarifies then, and for me this cements it.
As for what was taken, this can be read as Ramsay knowing he left Theon with urges, but no outlet for them. And the urges are still there, though more psychological than physical I reckon, judging from the state Theon is in:
He wanted to hit her, to smash that mocking smile off her face. He wanted to kiss her, to fuck her right there on the table and make her cry his name. But he knew he dare not touch her, in anger or in lust.
ADWD, The Turncloak
Conclusion: dick off, balls on
All of this doesn't really change anything, except add an extra layer of cruelty to Ramsay's little games - and it'd mean Theon can still experience sexual pleasure, or even father children, with detours.
Much more interesting is the psychological effect. I always thought balls are what men are most precious about, but I've had a long, super interesting discussion (at work of all places) with some of the guys, and the consensus was that the loss of dick would make them feel less like a man than the loss of balls. I'm sure there are enough men who feel differently, but out of five, four said they'd rather lose the balls (and be done with it, one said) than lose the D.
In the show, Harrag's knee made it clear that Theon draws a blank there, but to me it seems to be different in ASoIaF. What do you think?
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If you want to complain about Alfie Allen as Theon, complain about the costume design.
"He chose boots of supple black leather, soft lambswool breeches of silvery-grey, a black velvet doublet with the golden kraken of the Greyjoys embroidered on the breast. Around his throat he fastened a slender gold chain, around his waist a belt of bleached white leather. He hung a dirk at one hip and a longsword at the other, in scabbards striped black-and-gold."
ACOK, Theon I
How did they manage to dress Theon more Stark than all of House Stark?
offended on alfie allen’s behalf only guy putting his entire pussy into that show and bitches are on tv tropes calling him mid
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The fact that the episode where Arya assists Tywin and famously says “most girls are stupid” corresponds directly with the chapter in the books where she overhears Chiswyck laughing about how the mountain and his lackeys (him included) gang-raped a 13 year old child, and this harrows and angers Arya so much that she adds all of these people to her prayer kill list and uses her one of her three precious death-wishes with Jaqen H’ghar is the reason I will be personally beating the bloody shit out of d&d.
#arya stark#asoiaf#book vs show#game of thrones#this is for all the people who think arya tywin is better than the book version
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Since I made an entire cirtique about this season already, yes to this. It wasn't just the one thing, it was so much more.
Also finale specific: why are they so fine killing people left and right, when they both have had very different reactions to killing before?
and unless yall think izzys death and how it was handled was the only thing that bothered me. the whole stede/ed fight was entirely rushed and not explored properly. at the foundation, theres a real problem, aka eds need to retire vs stedes need to embrace the pirate life. but it was just handled so poorly??? ed straight up leaving after no more than 2 minutes of conversation, stede calling him a coward and then turning into a walking embodiment of all the ppl that bullied him toxic masculinity, then them meeting again and him replying "i know" to eds "i love you"???? girl get it together
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So I've said my part about ofmd season 2s finale and that I didn't even care anymore that my favourite character died, but the show had such an insane decline from season 1 to season 2 it was simply not as enjoyable for the entire time.
So here's a quick critique of open issues that stuck with me:
-they killed Ivan off-screen and he's only mentioned once in passing, no one cares or questions where he is when they meet again, they were fine with Izzy there, but didn't even bother asking about a crew member they were much closer with
-Buttons turned into a seagull (which I didn't think was bad) and it's only questioned once by Roach and then never again brought up, and Roach asks if Ed didn't simply kill him and it's just ignored
-Ed doesn't really become part of the crew, he doesn't pay up for what he did and why is Izzys deathbed apology more sincere than Ed's non apology about Izzys leg? He doesn't deserve to come back at all, because he doesn't do anything to earn it. He spends a day with Fang and that counts for the whole crew, Fang who isn't even angry at him
-Izzy actually earns his place within the crew and still has to apologize to Ed, his worst abuser. Sure Izzy was part of the problem with Blackbeard, but in no way does it justify what Ed did to him (and everyone else while he was Captain of the Revenge)
-remember last season when Ed made it clear that he only ever killed one person, and then in the finale he coldly pushed Lucius over and it was therefore a big deal? Yeah Ed just randomly kills like it's nothing now, and "go back to what you were good at", it wasn't killing, Ed was never good at killing
-they barely paid attention to the non ships aside from Izzy and it sucks. We had such a wonderful balance in season 1 of crew live, that we got to love them all, we didn't have any of that in season 2, it's so plain when you look at Archie, she just didn't get what her crewmates got to the point you don't care about her all that much
-speaking of Archie, that relationship something with Olo, JIm, Archie and Zhang Yi Sao was a mess, they sank of the biggest relationships from season 1, which had such a well done ark in the first episodes, and many, myself included thought we might get a poly relationship, but we didn't, we got the mess we had. We had a well developed relationship that took an entire season to build and it got removed during the first three episodes in favour of two new underdeveloped characters getting with them in no time
-I know we are not historically accurate and don't bother too much with it, but Zheng Yi Sao is the most powerful female pirate in history and they nerved her for nothing, I did like how Richard got rid of her fleet, but they should have used someone else than a pirate known for dying peacefully because she got so powerful she made a deal
-the pacing was obviously bad, and I want to give them as much nicety about it as possible, but Owl House got cut from an entire season to three episodes and they still manged to nail it, ofmd lost 2 episodes and it doesn't excuse this pacing
-honestly Izzys redemption ark was rushed, just so he could be killed off, it was too much, too fast. I do love the first few episodes of him, but doing drag was a bit far fetched for episode 6, but it's a small complain, loved the singinig and dancing
-"bottle it up" is the new solution to problems, after "talk it through as a crew" from season 1. Lucius, Frenchie and Izzy just bottle everything up and nothing bad comes of it, we're supposed to believe that's a good thing?
-everyone knows Stede is alive, Mary relies on him being dead and it's never brought up or important whatsoever
-this season feels like there aren't proper consequences, Ed can leave and come back and it's fine, Buttons can turn into a seagull and no one cares, Auntie gets blown up with the fleet and survives, people get stabbed multiple times and survive, but Izzy gets shot and dies, it's all over the place
-there is always the whole: we have a suicidal character, they try to kill themselves, they fail, they get over their depression, they finally get happy, and we kill them off just after they found happyness. It sucks as a trope, it gives every last person that is suicidal the feeling that being happy is not worth it, because you're going to die anyway and well, maybe don't have the characer that tried to kill himself this season a line about wanting to go and in the same episode that had "it's only suicide if we die", it's tasteless at best and ill-intended at worst
-Roach is in the main cast now, but I swear he had more scenes in season 1 than seaosn 2
-having a tiny funeral scene and bam wedding, like there was no decent emotional impact on either of these moments, any why would they bury him without his leg or ring?
-Stede has a panic moment when he kills Ned and it seems like that's why he and Ed slept togeher, but it's not brought up that killing is still an issue
To end it on a few positive notes, I liked
-Swede becomes Jackies husband and Roach going Mrs Bettet about the whole thing
-most of the first three episodes in general
-Buttons turning into a seagull and being recognized as a seawitch
-having more historical figures
-Auntie
-Susan (mostly) aside from the issue I brought up
-Wee John getting into knitting
-Izzy sining and dancing
-the entire leg arch of Izzy
-pretty much all Izzy/Stede interactions
-Frenchie sceming again and the rest all going with it
-indigo!
-everyones new looks
-Fang going fishing and his and Roachs spa day
-the after credit scenes
-Ed freaking out because Stede moved too fast
-Stede having a killing flashback when killing Ned Low
-Spanish Jackie in general, but especially poisoning everyone and getting Swede a new look
-Richard as the main antagonist
-Clocks
-Stede getting Hellcat Maggie and the to mutiny
-the entire cast was amazing
And I shouldn't have to say this, but: don't harass people over this, critiquing is fine, threats are not. And no it's not bury your gays, everyone here is gay and that is not one of the issues this season had.
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Two times in my live my favourite character died and I did not shed a single tear.
I cry about pretty much everything in movies and television, if it's sad or if it's happy. I've cried about Beth in the Walking Dead, and I don't even watch the Walking Dead.
The second the Prince and Izzy had their conversation I knew they were going to stupidly killing him off, when I got shot I was like: yup there he goes. And he dies. I didn't even care anymore, it was so badly done and this season was so far from the first in terms of quality, but some stuff was still fun and I knew they got their runtime cut, so I was willing to cut them some slack.
But I had a bad taste in my mouth since episode one when they killed Ivan off-screen and only mention him once. Then they made Button turn into a seagull and it's only adressed once by Roach and then never again. Crew is family my ass, we got a tiny funeral scene and then the wedding, there is no emotion behind this anymore and it sucks.
The other one was Theon Greyjoy btw, the second he said, that he's protecting Bran in the show I knew it was over and there was no emotional impact anymore about any death in season 8, just blandness.
A blandness I would have never expected from Our Flag Means Death.
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Nighteye saw All Might in AFOs arms and was like: yup, he'd dead.
No faith in Tonshinori or anyone else whatsoever.
CHAPTER 404: WE LOVE YOU! ALL MIGHT!! SUMMARY
i can’t wait for next week!!
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Usually whenever people used to get “evil makeovers” they were so cool and exciting, you used to hate when they got back into their old style, but my god Willow did fantastic in this regard to finally flip it around.
Before: young, handsome prince with style, fits perfectly into this campy fantasy world, peak character design for a prince you’d assume is just living his best life and nothing else
Afterwards: Hunger Games contestant, feels out of place, something is clearly very wrong
A+ on the costume design here, I feel exactly what I should feel here, which is: what have they done to him?
Listen, do you still look handsome? Yes. But Airk, my guy, my dude, NEVER get a haircut from a mysterious woman you just met!
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It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the episode, but how did I oversee this?
Vic is the type of guy who says to Euron he’d never wear lingerie, but then Euron tricks him to wearing it anyways and Vic ends up saying it was his idea all along.
Here are my personal favourites from the episode:
Three shops with signs above them:
Tannery
John Tanner
Owner
Mill
Robert Miller
Owner
Candy Shop
William Child Eater
Owner
Dr. Hibbert in front of his potions that include
-The Stranger from A Song of Ice and Fire
- Mundane Potion from Minecraft
-Lucy’s Codrial from The Chronicles of Narnia
- Cure Moderate Wounds a spell from Dungeons and Dragons
- Red, Green and Blue Potion from The Legend of Zelda
(the inscription says Red Potion - Restores Heath 20 Rupees, Green Potion - Restores Magic 30 Rupees, Blue Potion - Restores Both 100 Rupees)
- Elexir of Madness from multiple fandoms including Dungeons and Dragons
- Barkskin +2 from Dungeons and Dragons
- Ent-Draught from Lord of the Rings
- Polyjuce Potion from Harry Potter
- Milk of the Poppy from A Song of Ice and Fire
And of course:
A Simpsons version of GRRM with a sign over his shoulders that reads “TThe End is not nigh” at the front and “I’ll tell you when it’s nigh” at the back.
So Idk if you all have seen the Simpsons S29E01, but if you haven't, please do. Apart from Marge's mother dating a White Walker, and lots of other references (including somehow a prediction of Dany's KL rampage), there's this gem in the background:
And I'm absolutely dying at the images this creates in my head 🙈🙈🙈
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Die vier Reiter der Apokalypse: Apfelsine, Zitrone, Himbeere und Kirsch.
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bold thing to say on a page inhabited by people who read and write fanfiction
absolute worst brand of media criticism is when people start off making a reasonable point then jump straight to "and here's what SHOULD have happened: [something that actively makes the story worse]"
#fanficion#writing#you'll never resonate with everyone#alternative universe#what are fix its but this#i mean its not completly wrong#but still#one mans fix it is another mans nightmare
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