An Arthurian Sword At Sunset

Joan Crawford’s spirit appeared to me last night and told me she and Bette Davis had hate sex on the set of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane

Bette Davis’ spirit appeared to me a minute after that and told me Joan was lying

Jon Connington and Young Griff Dunk and Egg came back wrong-isms….

prince pretending to be a commoner and commoner pretending to be a prince. red dragon and black. both have floppy straw hats to keep their face out of the sun. both raised in the wild but one is to get away from the targaryen dynasty and the other is an attempt to restore it. Dunk walking into the fire to save Rhaella and Jon invading Westeros with terminal greyscale ready to burn it down. aching fundamental lie at the heart of their relationships (dunk isn’t a knight) (young griff isn’t rhaegar’s son) semi-known never acknowledged would break them would not matter because the love and care they have for those kids transcends it a little (egg is dunk’s squire) (young griff is griff’s son). and ultimately that love was there and it mattered and it was not enough for either of them they are both being led to their respective apocalyptic funeral pyres!

As a principled feminist I'm often tempted to say shit like "are men capable of higher thought" but then I have to remember not to perpetuate gender essentialism and change it to "why do men choose not to think about anything"

listen i consider myself an empathic person but after a certain point i get sick of other people’s problems. my friend is always talking about how the jewel-eyed skull on their mantlepiece is tormenting them w its sinister beauty and im over it. like dude i don’t want to talk about this anymore. get rid of the fucking skull

you’ are biased against my skull

i’m not having this argument again man

Very importantly Dany would recognize that she CANNOT make him her master of laws bc he’d be way too much of a hardass but she also can’t pick someone else as her hand bc he’d be a middle child about it and the whole thing makes her restructure her entire council to put everyone’s talents to good use so he gets appointed something between hand and guy who can figure out how to structure and finance all her new social programs. He’s pissy about it at first bc he wanted to mete out justice or whatever but he hunkers down and invents the excel spreadsheet (WITH formulas) because This Is His Duty. Six months in everything is structured and fully funded for the next 20 years because he got an insanely good deal with the iron bank. Dany very charmingly and pointedly credits him every time they hit her goals with raising literacy rates and vaccinating children and she designs a stag standing on a firm bedrock to put on all the public program logos so people start calling him some shit like Ser Stannis The Stalwart because he’s so hardworking and responsible (no he cannot possibly do a press conference, Dany needs him for a meeting that day, she sends her apologies) and Stannis is like finally some fucking recognition, NOT that he wanted or needed any he will simply continue to do his duty as always <- guy who’s 14 year old cousin absolutely played him into materially bettering society by addressing needs and creating safety nets instead of just punishing people