Not to beat a dead horse, but when we say Arya got screwed over by D&D from the beginning, I mean the first episode but also the casting itself.
I’m not criticizing the actors, I think they all did a really great job, I just want to acknowledge the fact Arya feels like an outsider. That’s incredibly important to her story and part of it is physical, because she is the only one who looks like a Stark. That’s a pretty important part of her story and it resonates later on when she can’t get rid of the identity of Arya Stark of Winterfell. It is important that she is the only one who looks like Jon while the others have the Tully look.
Making Sansa the only one with the Tully looks changes the dynamic of the family in different ways.
Couldn’t agree more. They should have either cast red and/or auburn haired actors for Arya’s brothers or put them in wigs. At least Richard Madden dyed his hair a dark auburn, but the color grading in the episodes made it hard to tell. This combined with the clear acceptance Arya has from her parents when she skipped out on Septa Mordane’s lessons and she used a bow ruined Arya from the get-go. It changes her personality and her character arc. She is meant to be an outsider who is self-conscious about the fact that she can’t conform to southern highborn standards of femininity. And this is the reason why Arya thinks she can’t be a lady. It changes a lot of her internal story and struggles. But then again they weren’t interested in adapting book Arya. It’s clear when they erase this and make her 10x more violent than her book version. Not to mention making her the instigator in her relationship with Sansa. And one of the most egregious character assassinations in S1 was when they gave her Sansa’s reaction to Ser Hugh’s death, and then amped it to 100 by making her look like she liked seeing him die violently. But the fact is, Arya was never there, and it was Sansa who was fascinated by Ser Hugh’s death and didn’t react to it. Arya was butchered from the get-go and yes it started with the casting.
Would also be really annoying if they wore heat resistant gloves to throw back the hot tear gas canisters and if this got shared to all those protesting…
Would be a further shame if people started covering cameras (as seen in Hong Kong, with protestors using poles and rakes to lift cardboard boxes over security cameras), blinding drone optics with laser pointers, and flooding police-run reporting apps with junk data.
It would be a shame if the protesters noted that plainclothes cops can be identified a number of ways, such as wearing steel-toed boots; an armband or wristband of a particular color; driving white, black, or dark blue cars with concealed lights; or having the outline of cuffs visible in the back pocket or the bumps of an armor vest’s shoulder straps under their shirt.
It would be a shame if the protesters began making their signs out of inch-thick plywood to stop rubber bullets, forming a tight shield wall to prevent police from singling out and mobbing individual protesters. It would be a shame if the people behind the shield wall held up umbrellas so that tear gas canisters fired over the heads of the front line will be bounced away. It would be a shame if protesters began constructing improvised armor vests out of duct tape, hardback books, and ceramic tiles.
It would be a shame if protesters started wearing safety glasses, hard hats, respirators, and gardening gloves, all of which can be found at the same hardware stores as the plywood. It would be a shame if they started using traffic cones (the kind without the hole in the top) upside-down buckets, or other improvised lids to contain tear gas by placing them over the canisters.
It would be a shame if protesters learned that police scanners are legal to own in the US, allowing them to learn where police are moving and what routes they intend to take. It would be a shame if they discovered that these scanners can be used to send as well as receive, allowing them to flood the scanner frequencies with noise.
All this would be a terrible, terrible shame.
Hey it be even more of a shame to not use plywood
But Rubbermaid instead. Shame shame definitely DONT do that
It would be a shame if someone had to reblog this. Such a shame
This may just be the autism speaking, but I fucking hate when customer surveys ask me ‘how likely are you to recommend this or that to a friend’ because they are lying about what they’re asking. I am 0% likely to recommend almost any product to any friend and especially not by brand if at all possible, but what they want to know is 'did you have a decent experience with the thing’ and that’s a whole other fucking question if you want that answered fucking ask that. Except if I answer the question they’re asking instead of the secret question, they yell at their employees on my behalf which I never wanted either. Terrible system, would not recommend it to a friend.
UGH is is literally so much to ask that I have time and money to learn how to tailor clothes and embroider and knit and make cakes and bake bread and do makeup and hair and nails and do all my own diy projects around the house and
like I know this is probably so hard to make but my brain says I could do that and I need to do that
btw since this I have been beautifully and painfully trying to learn to cook, crochet, sew, paint etc and oh boy am I mediocre at a bunch of things but I’m having fun
Hey folks! Times are hard, I work full time, and I’m burnt out. I’ve just got my mojo back with writing, and I don’t want to lose it again due to overwork and stress. I don’t often ask for support, but here I am, asking for support.
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just recirculating this since Emma hurt her foot, and we’re looking at a vet visit starting at $160 🥲 🫠
what’s the most demented thing you guys got in trouble for in school mine was when an english boy in my class made fun of my name and called my mum a (derogatory word for irish travellers) so i told him my ira uncle was in town and was coming to blow him up after school
