a lion still has claws

I think you’re missing the point. No one needed to replace Jeyne, certainly not a character played by an actress only 18 at the time of filming.

D&D have cut and changed so many things- from Arianne and Lady Stoneheart to Young Griff and Jon Connington- but they made a deliberate choice to purposely include this subplot that wasn’t necessary.

I remember talking about how Arya’s time in Harrenhal was lightened so much in the show because in the books she suffered considerably more abuse. She was beaten very regularly and worked to the point of crawling to bed and bleeding hands. But then I realized recently, it may be because Maisie wasn’t old enough to have sexualized abuse at the time.

Yes, a character named Jeyne Poole had a similar arc in the books, but she was cut. Instead of cutting her disturbing plot, D&D went out of there way to have it with a barely legal actress and in so doing added more unnecessary sexual violence. And “so much worse”, okay, are we really comparing sexual assault and abuse stories now? Sansa was raped and that’s not okay just because it could be “so much worse”. One person’s considerable trauma does not negate another’s.

Sansa has a plot in the books. D&D took that from her so they could use her for this. This was a deliberate choice to value this plot, one of sexual violence and abuse, over a ton of other options Sansa as a character had. Moreover, a ton of other options D&D had for screentime.

Where’s Bran? Where’s Arianne? Where’s the Brotherhood Without Banners and Lady Stoneheart? Where’s the Greyjoy brothers? Where’s Young Griff, Duck, JonCon, and Septa Lemore? Hell, where’s Barristan Selmy?

It’s not that D&D came up with the idea of Ramsay torturing and raping on their own (though I would argue we’ve already seen plenty of his sadism already and more was gratuitous,) it’s that they valued this storyline over all the others. They went out of their way to include it and destroyed Sansa’s arc in the process. Meaning they chose this storyline over her old one and all the others they cut.

So, no, I don’t agree that D&D did the best they could. I think they did their best to include more sexualized violence.

Because really, what did this add? Why was it necessary to include over all the other plots? Sansa already had reason to hate the Boltons and Ramsay. Theon did, too. The audience didn’t need to be told Ramsay was a sadist and terrible, they already knew that. Sansa had already been abused and tormented before. How did this move the plot along?

Why was this so necessary that D&D bent over backwards to include it?

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her new album has few love songs

she told Rolling Stone that she doesn’t date anymore

she finds it necessary to make fun of herself every chance she gets

why “Shake it Off” exists

why she DOESN’T DATE ANYMORE

why she refuses to date even though it’s her own personal life

did i mention that she doesn’t allow herself to date anymore lol

This isn’t funny. This is fucking disgusting. Sure, she looks like she’s shrugging it off like a joke. I get that it’s a joke. So does she. But do people not understand that Taylor Alison Swift’s entire future is basically ruined? She has dated six people in her entire eight year career. Six. Not fifteen in the last year. Not twelve. Not six people in eight months. Six people in eight YEARS. Still, though, she seems to get slammed for it by every media outlet, by every award show host, by every country music fan, by every One Direction fan, by every person who reads any magazine where they pull information out of their asses to get money. They have no problem ruining someone’s reputation for money.

Taylor Swift is a twenty-four year old girl who will eventually need someone to spend the rest of her life with. How is that going to happen now? Not only does Taylor get bashed, but any male she is seen with gets bashed. Taylor could be seen with her brother and get slammed for having a new boyfriend. Sorry, HollywoodLife, but I don’t think Taylor’s very much into incest. 

Whoever decides to date Taylor is going to get shit on by magazines and people everywhere. “Haha, bro, watch out. She might write a song about you” will probably be the end to every article about her future boyfriend and her relationship. Maybe some man out there will be able to brush that off, but what the fuck? 

A twenty-four year old girl with a heart of absolute gold shouldn’t be forced to go through that. She is trying to live her dream while leaving the greatest impact on the world she possibly can, and now she has to control what she released, who she dates, who she’s seen with, and basically just control every single little aspect of her life. I get that it’s the life of a celebrity, but take Adam Levine for example. He’s a great guy. He’s also idolized by women everywhere. He’s had more girlfriends in his career than Taylor. Do you hear about that?

Get rid of the double standard; let Taylor Swift live her life without the rumors, the jokes, and the hate. As someone who Taylor has impacted positively, it’s just really fucking annoying.

You know when you’re in class with someone who has no idea what the fuck they’re talking about? That’s what being a Taylor Swift fan is like, everywhere. Turn on the TV, false information. Open a magazine, false information. Scroll through Twitter, false information.

Instead of making jokes about Taylor’s relationship-life, why don’t they make fun of her for, I don’t know, something harmless? Tell her she’s addicted to Instagram because she is sometimes seen up at 4 in the morning commenting paragraph upon paragraph of comforting messages to tweens who are dealing with things they don’t know how to deal with.