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valiantnedspreciouslittlegirl:

look you know that lysa would have a new singer every other week at court and it would drive cersei up a fucking wall because cersei didn’t like lysa and probably didn’t want to listen to her dang singers and watch her being all happy and excited about them and so they’d get into these really passive-aggressive artisan wars where cersei would focus on Very Lannister Tapestries and lysa would get new singers and jon arryn and robert baratheon would be completely Oblivious the whole fucking time

Superman v Wonder Woman: A look into the Alien & the Amazon

feysera:

Some excerpts because it’s a long piece: 

The stark contrast in their childhoods – and subsequent adolescence – is something many people tend to overlook or gloss over when comparing the two. A huge oversight, especially when it’s such an important factor that shapes their characterizations.  (…) Likewise, with the vast difference in their respective beginnings, it should be expected that Diana and Clark will develop different personalities.

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Their different backgrounds hold the root of their altruism. Diana is under no obligation to leave her paradise – where she knows peace with her loved ones – for our messy world, but she chooses to do so. Clark is under no obligation to help a world that continually hates and mistrusts him, but he too chooses to do so. It’s the Right Thing to Do, and they know it. This selflessness propels them forward in their heroic journey.

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Is it all contrast between them? Not really, for there are parallels too.

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People are also complex, and often, no sole character can embody everything we wish to relate with. 

As a woman, Diana is to me the feminist dream of someone empowered. (…) However, Diana coming from a place of privilege, a literal paradise island, is something that I can’t relate with. That’s where Clark comes in. There are many moments where I better related to him in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, than Diana in Wonder Woman. 

As a person who feels othered and has grappled with depression, Clark offers me a shared experience many other male superheroes in movies don’t.

Superman v Wonder Woman: A look into the Alien & the Amazon

straightpeoplereceipts:

straightpeoplereceipts:

straight people shaved wonder woman’s legs

who personally went to themyscira and shaved the legs of every single amazon you fucks

looks at Ancient Roman women who removed all their body hair- usually with pumice stones or plucking (or further back to Ancient Egypt for any Bana-Mighdall Amazons, and even here’s discussion of Renaissance hair removal cream recipes), there is a in-universe excuse for it


http://squirrelwrangler.tumblr.com/post/162610455810/audio_player_iframe/squirrelwrangler/tumblr_nbcyures2v1r1xn0b?audio_file=http%3A%2F%2Fa.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_nbcyures2v1r1xn0bo1.mp3

firebornmoods:

If the Lord don’t forgive me
I’d still have my baby and my babe would have me
When I was kissing on my baby
And she put her love down soft and sweet
In the lowland plot I was free
Heaven and hell were words to me

I also applaud George Lucas for making the hero a fourteen year old girl. Lucas makes childhood in the Star Wars universe a sci-fi throwback. He transformed Buster Keaton into an orange amphibian outcast. The movie thought outside the box, experimented with storytelling structure (think four battles converging), propelled visual effects, and did not give us the same Star Wars film we already owned. It was completely original and to this day, I can’t think of a blockbuster film as original as The Phantom Menace.

The Phantom Menace didn’t follow the rules. It made up its own rules. You don’t become George Lucas on accident. People have called him lazy. If he was lazy, Anakin would have been fifteen in Episode I. He wouldn’t have been pure of heart, he would have been born a bad seed. He wasn’t. Anakin was good. I deeply respect George Lucas for thinking outside the box and always doing the unexpected and giving his characters a trajectory.

Jason Ward, editor-in-chief of MakingstarWars.net, on The Phantom Menace.

The above post sums up 99% of the reasons why I feel nothing but cold contempt when I see people complaining about Anakin’s age in TPM or the fact that he was undeniably selfless and good, instead of their darkened, stereotypically ‘badass’, macho-laden ubermensch and proto-Vader. Last I checked, even mass-murderers had more or less innocent childhoods and didn’t just pop out as screwed-up examples of humanity. 

Give me the innocent, the selfless, the one who shines as bright as the sun and I will cry a thousand more tears when he’s finally consumed by hatred and darkness.  

(via officialhandmaiden)