#minitafan

Have all collectively forgotten we have seen him in a Speedo when he was in St. Andrew’s and Catherine in a bikini during their baby moon? I have seen them both in short shorts during their sailing engagements more than once.

Women on X complaining that she’s walking through cornfields because apparently cancer patients are not supposed to ? 😖

What’s wrong with people?

THE PRINCE OF WALES DOESNT WEAR SPEEDOS!!! WHO TOLD YOU THAT LIE!!!! WE HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN OVER THE SHORTS & BARE LEGS SCANDAL, AND YOU ARE BRING IN BARE THIGHS NOW?????? 😭😭😭

Jokes aside but I honestly cannot believe that was Liz Jones' very real and very serious argument, ik rr are dumb as rocks but that even surprised the heck out of me. That's a new journalistic low even for them.

It's utterly ridiculous and stupid the way these people are istg... the cornfields thing made me want to punch someone coz most tweets I saw were accompanied by 'oh but why isn't she showing us her treatment and journey that way' and I was just like????? Infact I saw a video of an rr also saying that. All these people wanted her was to be a show for their entertainment and the fact that she's decided to keep her treatment private and not given them those moments on a silver platter is why they are whining about this.

1. The curtain of light is mentioned only in a Bran chapter

2. The very first chapter of the first book is about an Other killing a brother of the Night’s Watch that looks like a Stark

3. Sam and Jon spend the entire series fighting wights and Others

4. all the mythology about the living dead is set in the North -thank you Old Nan-

5. Bran the Builder built a gigantic wall and a geotermal castle to stop them

But

Platinum Barbie has dragons! She’s the solution! I have connected the dots!… 🥴

part of why it’s so annoying is exactly that - the ice part of the song centers in the north, this apocalypse that’s spiraling out of control and no one cares to fight it except a few people. meanwhile, the fire part is clearly centered around dani and…her dragons are spiraling out of control and dani more and more turns a blind eye. you have so much of the northern magic in bran’s chapters, so much rich, interesting writing and information including the stupid curtain but all of that in the end is about…dani apparently. and we ignore that bran shares a name with bran the builder. we ignore that the kings of winter were doing fine for thousands of years until the targs showed up and periodically set the continent on fire every 50 years over the iron throne. we ignore that the valyrians were slavers who fell bc of a slave uprising & are still venerated by the targs & dani. we ignore that the long night happened before and *didn’t need a dragon to stop it.* ignore the CONTINENTAL WALL and ICE ZOMBIE DEFENDED CASTLE that stopped it the first time. ignore that dragons refuse to fly north of the wall.

ahhh ty hehehehe

“Winterfell belongs to my sister Sansa” is still the best line about her than anyone else has said in the series so far. Everyone wants Sansa’s claim, everyone wants to use her, they call her stupid, they think she is too southern because she doesn’t have her wolf, she is a Lannister, she betrayed Ned, she will never go home.

Here’s Jon Snow, upholding the undeniable fact that she is Ned Stark’s daughter, that she is as Northern as any of her siblings, that she has the right and the ability to rule the North, no matter who her husband is because she was a hostage and was forced into that marriage.

Even if Jonsa doesn’t happen Jon has already made his choice for Sansa as he made his choice for Arya. He loves all the Starks, and he will stand for Sansa’s rights even at a great cost to himself. And that is canon, and will forever be, no matter how many haters Sansa has, this cannot be erased.

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Yes, couldn't agree more. "Winterfell belongs to my sister Sansa" is really iconic. And add to that that Jon never had an unfriendly thought about Sansa (and don't @ me about that 'half-brother' line)

But you know, even if they just fight alongside each other and are indifferent, Jonsa would still not be a crackship. Crackships are ships that do not interact in canon and have no idea that the other person even exists. Sansa/Hizdahr would be a crackship.

They use that word for us to imply that it's crack to ship them and I simply refuse to go along with that. Even if Jonsa never becomes canon it has the hell of a potential.

As for Jon, I think that some parts of the fandom (*cough*) have takes on Jon that simply cannot be verified in the books. 🤷‍♀️

The Varys quote is about Aegon son of Elia, who will be her political rival, anon.

But, since I agree with anon that you write metas very well, perhaps you should write a meta about why Barbecue Barbie will not have a happy ending. 😈

Her first chapter in the first book literally starts with aunty being bathed and dressed by two slaves, and her followed chapters aren't that different.

Other female characters like Sansa and fave sis are also depicted being bathed and dressed by maids (not slaves).

The three of them were helped to survive by many people, true and false friends, or even captors.

But of these three characters, only Sansa can sew, and she's very efficient with the sewing needles.

Also, of these three characters, only Sansa is dutiful, the other two are either entitled or rebellious.

And of course, of these three characters, only Sansa is closer to that Varys description of the perfect ruler:

"He is here. Aegon has been shaped for rule since before he could walk. He has been trained in arms, as befits a knight to be, but that was not the end of his education. He reads and writes, he speaks several tongues, he has studied history and law and poetry. A septa has instructed him in the mysteries of the Faith since he was old enough to understand them. He has lived with fisherfolk, worked with his hands, swum in rivers and mended nets and learned to wash his own clothes at need. He can fish and cook and bind up a wound, he knows what it is like to be hungry, to be hunted, to be afraid. Tommen has been taught that kingship is his right. Aegon knows that kingship is his duty, that a king must put his people first, and live and rule for them."

—A Dance with Dragons - Epilogue

And of all those that traits, GRRM thinks that duty is the key:

What's the best, the ideal ruler for Westeros would have what kind of traits?

Well I think one of the fundamental things is... in a good king is someone who regards being king as a duty rather than a privilege that they’re entitled to. A duty to the realm, to dispense justice, to have peace and occasionally to do, you know, boring things like building roads and sanitation in King's Landing and all that… Nobody really wants to do a spin-off show about "King Jaehaerys builds the roads", but I do think, if you actually lived in Westeros, you might like a king who’s more concerned with building roads than fighting wars... And Viserys, of course, who comes to the throne when the old King dies, that's sort of his goals too, I mean he wants, he doesn't want, well he does kind of at the end of his life, he wants a little glory, but he's not driven by glory, he wants to be a good king, a wise king, to protect his people, I think those are the most important traits.

—GRRM - House of the Dragon Cast Comic-Con Panel - July, 2022

Duty and boring things aren't aunty (who literally dies of tedium while holding court) or fave sister's forte.

I know that aunty and fave sis have or there is the appearance that they have some of those traits Varys listed but they aren't dutiful and duty is the key.

That post was full of contradictions between the passive aggressive trolling and the lack of reading comprehension.

Thanks so much for the prompt, my dear! I hope you're good with a little bookshop/spy AU??

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She’s been working in the bookshop five days a week for five months since Brynden placed her here, saying it would fill a need and keep her safe enough until he can get her home. Her role in the Resistance may seem a small one but it is vital. Information must pass back and forth somehow.

It carries a few perks as well.

She gets to live above the shop and this part of the capitol is not as dangerous as some. Sansa loves to read and she’s surrounded by so many books all day. Shelving books, keeping track of inventory, sweeping up and helping the few customers with the coin and freedom to come and shop these days are simple enough labors.

And then there’s him.

“Good day, Mr. Snow,” she says when the bell above the door stops jingling. Her heart is already racing. She’s always glad to see him but doubly so since he’s been absent for several weeks. Where has he been? She’s been worried. Does he know that? Would he care if he did?

“Good day, Miss Stone.”

Here, she is Stone. Is Snow his actual last name? She wonders if he knows how much she anticipates his visits or how his last name always brings home to mind.