“Melisandre as a Franz Von Stuck painting” - requested by baby-eater
(Source: sansa-snarks, via semicolonlife)
they say my brother robb goes where the battle is thickest
#i LOVE this though #because what she is saying is ostensibly a compliment to robb #but she’s using it to get joffrey to the thick of the fighting— where he is most likely to be killed #so she is metatextually implicating robb as a bad king #heroic chivalric valiant #but dumb #sansa stark knows you shouldn’t go where the battle is thickest #and weaponizes that knowledge
(via plays-with-squirrels)
- Benefits when you're cute: More people notice you, more people talk to you, people listen to you, you get jobs easier, you get dates easier, it's easier to get into a relationship, people text you back faster, you get more followers, you get on those fuckyeah sites faster, you feel better about yourself.
- Benefits when you're ugly: you don't get raped.
So i came across this post a little while ago. (I’m just giving a link because I can’t get the formatting to work on a quote post. I’ll reblog the original in a minute.) For those who don’t feel like clicking through, it goes like this:
Benefits when you’re cute: More people notice you, more people talk to you, people listen to you, you get jobs easier, you get dates easier, it’s easier to get into a relationship, people text you back faster, you get more followers, you get on those fuckyeah sites faster, you feel better about yourself.
Benefits when you’re ugly: you don’t get raped.
I nearly didn’t do anything because I’m tired and whatever, it’s just a stupid post, there’s a lot of stuff out there about rape culture and surely other people can tackle this. Then I saw how many notes this has. So allow me to calmly voice my opinion:
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST NO. NO, NO, NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO.
This is not only not true, it is a dangerous belief that needs to be stopped right now. Rape is not about physical attraction, okay? People do not get raped because they are attractive. People get raped because rapists rape them. Rape is about power, rape is about control, rape is about dominance. There is a reason rape is so sickeningly prevalent in war-torn countries, and it is not because the women there just happen to be so beautiful; it is because rape is a weapon of war, a means to terrify and subdue a populace. Men can be raped; children, the elderly, the disabled, all sorts of people society does not deem “cute” can be raped. The only unifying characteristic of rape victims is that they were not in a position to protect themselves.
Now let me explain why, even if it were true, this belief is so dangerous. It hinges on this: women are not supposed to believe they are attractive. To believe that you are attractive is to be considered conceited. So what this kind of thinking tells women is that if they are afraid of being raped, they must think that they are so beautiful that “someone would want to rape them.” And that is so, so terrible because it tells women not to trust their own instincts. There are already too many voices in a woman’s head telling her not to listen to the part of herself saying “I don’t trust this guy, I don’t feel safe, I need to leave right now.” (Here, I can even list a few of them: “But I don’t want to cause a scene;” “But it would be rude;” “But he’s probably actually a nice guy;” “But what if people think I’m overreacting;” “But I don’t want him to tell everyone I was a bitch.”) Now you’ve just added “But I’m being vain, I’m not pretty enough for him to want to rape me.”
Don’t underestimate the power of these thoughts to prevent a woman from securing her own safety. You may think that’s stupid, but it doesn’t matter because that’s just the way things are. Let me speak about myself - Every time I consider my own safety, every time I wonder if I should ask someone to walk me to my car, if I should have 911 typed into my phone as I walk through a garage, I think “Don’t be silly, who would want to rape you?” and it is a constant struggle to remind myself that that voice is not mine, that voice is dangerous, that voice is buying into a bullshit narrative of rape that just isn’t true. So please, everyone, let’s put it to rest.
[…] try to imagine fandom’s reaction if the next big Holmes adaptation to come along had Holmes and Watson as British, yeah - young black British men, living case to case on a council estate in a dodgy area of London. How fandom would react if Sherlock Holmes didn’t employ street kids and homeless people like trained animals to do his bidding, but instead was part of that invisible underclass; if instead of having his eccentricities tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making. If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch; if his arch enemy weren’t Moriarty, but the systemic poverty and inequality that has him helping out his oppressors just to get by, and that makes the other side of the law look more tempting to someone with his skills every day.
I would watch the hell out of that. I’d even write for it. What do you do with Mycroft being part of the “Establishment” then? Mycroft works at the local youth center? Mycroft as a pastor, deeply disapproving of his brother’s failure to reject street culture and conform? Hell, Mycroft IS the police? Token affirmative-action face of colour, should have made DI ages ago but is still a PC even though half the force secretly ask his help? And because they resent Mycroft, they resent Sherlock even more, fueling the rivalry? Lestrade can stay a DI, with the authority to choose to work with either Holmes but not enough authority to force everyone else to do so.
I’m curious to see how Mrs Hudson and Moriarty would work in this.
Holy fuck this would be truly awesome. Mrs Hudson could be a nice woman who occasionally makes the boys a meal or offers up a warm bed during severe weather. And Moriarty, fuck. He could be like a well-to-do man who previously was in Sherlock’s situation. He somehow moved on from that kind of life, and sees a lot of himself in Sherlock actually, but hates for that reminder. Wants to take Sherlock down, put him back in his place.
Shit, this would be bloody brilliant.
aaaaalllll stuff I want to cram into the ‘#221b baker towers’ tag proper. DAMN YOU TUMBLR.
…Can we have this? Can we please have this?
(via puckling)
(Source: honey-power, via jonknows)
Taking her own life would be the ultimate act of control in the ultimate heat of chaos on Cersei’s part—hers and Tommen’s. The episode begins with all of her children out of her reach, Myrcella in Dorne and Joffrey off to the battlefield, both next to death, as far as she’s concerned. She fears…
