how do i get this stupid ass clown off my dashboard looking like the 🤡 emoji
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The idea that GRRM is anti Tolkien is particularly funny because ASOIAF is sprinkled with rather intricate (and even passionate) homages to LOTR. And I can’t help but think of how Tolkien’s Fellowship, more specifically the Hobbits, may have inspired GRRM’s Night’s Watch. Jon Snow, for starters, is in many ways a combination of LOTR’s Frodo and Aragorn. And in the same way that Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are unexpected heroes in LOTR (because who looks to a hobbit as the face of an epic adventure?), Jon the bastard becomes the leader of a ragtag of socially disenfranchised men (in the form of the NW) who are anything but heroic. Sure there’s the odd knight or noble in there, but the NW is quite full of criminals and the very worst of the social order. The hobbits aren’t the strongest or the sharpest but they become the face of the fight against Sauron. And the NW, while being severely undermanned and under-equipped, has become the main force that stands against winter. GRRM even adds a love letter to Tolkien’s Sam Gamgee by adding his on Sam - Sam Tarly - who acts as a moral compass and counselor to Jon, in the same ways that Sam Gamgee is key to Frodo’s journey. And just like Frodo, Jon gets his very own pair of jokester friends, one of whine is even named Pyp. So it’s all very beautiful and nice, and we should talk about it more because it’s super evident that GRRM is a massive Tolkien fanboy. But I do have to say tho, GRRM’s take on Gandalf is exceedingly hilarious just because Melisandre is famously very bad at her job.
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putting the word "white" in front of the word "woman" doesnt make whatever misogynistic thing you're about to say somehow less misogynistic
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I think we should romanticise brown eyes more. I've started to fall in love with my brown eyes for the first time in my life and it is so, so refreshing. Brown is beautiful.
Dear people with brown eyes, I love you. Those whose eyes are too dark to see pupils, I love you. People with eyes the colour of healthy soil, with eyes that are deep and dark and rich brown, I love you. Your eyes are worthy of being romanticised. They may not be the colour of the ocean, or leaves on a tree, but they're brown like bark, or chestnuts, or dark as night, deep like memory, beautiful and unique.
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sorry i really dislike when people say that Kaeya's biological father was an abusive asshole or whatever, it's clear as day that the decision of him leaving Kaeya in Mondstadt was not an easy one, you can feel the pain and regret in his voice on the Weinlesefest event, and he wouldn't have done it if he had any other choice.
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My very cold take is that you probably shouldn’t start running a poll bracket on tumblr if you’re not prepared for someone you put in the bracket to win.
My other hot take is someone taking a bracket all the way to the final, and then deciding during the whole final that they’re nuking the whole thing because they don’t want one specific option to win, even though it wasn’t actually winning at the time you closed down the poll is fucking hilarious and peak tumblr.
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