Habitual Reader

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

This exact thing is playing out as we speak in The Boys fandom (or what's left of it)

I got the feeling again that an ask I submitted two months ago didn't go through, but seeing you talking about Arys reminded me of it. I was re-reading AFFC a while back and got to thinking about Arys and Arianne's relationship. Specifically, I'm wondering if there was ever actually anything between them or was it just lust on the one hand and manipulation on the other. What was the point of their affair since it ended in Arys' death? Or was it specifically just to pile on misery for Arianne?

Thinking about how Arys racks up as a Kingsguard who ruins the stability of the feudal system as someone who gets played into handing over a princess to be mutilated in addition to trying to set up a counter monarch and stoke fresh civil war.

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

“A comprehensive New York War Crimes study (“Words Like Slaughter”) comparing the Times coverage of the genocidal war on Gaza to its coverage of the invasion of Ukraine, found that the paper legitimized and glorified the Ukrainian military and underground resistance groups “unequivocally,” all the while condemning Palestinian resisters, “who are generally cast as terrorists and rarely have their motivations, perspective or strategies explained.” The New York War Crimes is a free newspaper distributed by Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG). Since its first issue on November 9, 2023—which listed the names of 2,608 martyrs killed by the IOF—the paper has published twelve themed issues, including “Media Manufactures Consent for Genocide” and “Revolution and Resistance until Liberation and Return.” “Weaponizing the widespread visual recognition of the Times as a voice of authority,” the paper is influenced by ACT UP’s paper the New York Crimes, which began circulation in 1988, near the beginning of the US AIDS epidemic. Isack, “Stealing the Voice of Authority.”

Sometimes I like to imagine somebody getting into ASOIAF for the first time based exclusively on liking what they saw on Tumblr, sitting down to read A Game of Thrones and finding: