It Should Have Been Ava

roy carrying that article with him in his wallet for twenty years….. roy refusing to comment on a 17-year-old player’s first game as a pundit….. a man who recognizes cycles and breaks them!!!!!

That thing people do with female characters where they like, in their attempts to compensate for the unfairly negative way that female characters are often treated by fandoms they end up overshooting and just making them Too Good and flawless and endlessly caring and loving and patient and incapable of doing or being wrong and just removing everything that’s distinctive about the character, making her completely flat & forgettable & uninteresting, because they don’t want to say anything about her or depict her doing anything that might possibly be interpreted negatively.

#someone in the notes is like ‘once they say she’s the only one with braincells it’s all over’ so real (via @oodlyenough )

I really love the idea that Ned thinks he’s a gentle parent but like….by northern standards. He’ll be like ah I remember what this was like I can’t be as harsh as my father…..boy hostage fetch my sword I have decided you children will watch me perform a beheading instead of the traditional bloodeagle. I know I know I’m getting soft in my old age (27)