America is a failed state

actually that's evil masculinity which is reactionary and bad. unlike good masculinity which is just about being smarter and better than women in every way.

I think the ultimate fantasy that people have when depicting Brienne is thinking 'Well *I* wouldn't think she was ugly just because she doesn't fit medieval Westerosi beauty standards. In fact, I would think she was HOT!' OK. Cool. Would you still respect her if you did, in fact, think she was ugly though? Or is morality tied up with appearance still, just behind one additional layer of abstraction?

all the female characters in asoiaf have to deal with beauty as a real, material condition that affects their lives. it's socially constructed, and maybe those constructions don't line up with our understanding of beauty, but that makes it no less real. the text is not concerned with whether Arya, Sansa, Brienne, or Cersei are attractive to a modern reader. it is concerned with the way it shapes their available choices. Brienne's choices for marriage are severely limited because people agree she's ugly. Cersei and Sansa are commodities in part because they are agreed to be beautiful. Arya is treated with more respect when she wears a dress and conforms to gendered expectations, but the supposed ugliness of her gender non-conformity merits worse treatment. what we think they look like is irrelevant.

Imagine being the first animal to get eaten by another animal in the cambrian era you would be like oh hey dude haha what’s up oh shit oh geez

aborted doechii: i mean fuck i wouldve liked pills i wouldve liked drugs i wouldve liked gettin money i wouldve liked strippers i wouldve liked to fuck i wouldve liked day drinking and day parties and hollywood i wouldve liked doing hollywood shit snort it probly would!

maybe prometheus's liver is the eagles safe food?