I Go Off Abt This Every Few Months But Game Of Thrones Did Sooooo Much Damage To The Fandoms Collective

I go off abt this every few months but Game of Thrones did sooooo much damage to the fandom’s collective idea about what color auburn hair is because it sure is NOT what they did for Sophie. Catelyn’s hair is pretty damn close to dark auburn. But a lighter auburn is NOT red like that it simply isn’t. That’s why Catelyn said the red IN Sansa hair would catch the torchlight. It has red IN it but in most lights auburn looks more brunette. If you have auburn hair your experience will be that some people consider you a redhead and others would be shocked that anyone considers you a redhead.

I have fairly light auburn hair. These are unedited images of my hair taken moments apart.

In the one on the right, I had moved so the sunbeam could hit my hair directly.

More images. It’s a very dynamic color that can look very red or not red at all. In the last one I am indoors in low light and it doesn’t really look red at all. That’s what it’s going to look like most of the time.

Maybe people are confused because Robb and Edmure are described as having red/fiery beard, but it’s actually super common for men with auburn hair to have RED red facial hair.

Like this.

It also doesn’t help that searching auburn hair returns a lot of true redheads. Especially, for some reason, if you want a reference for men with auburn hair.

But here are more men with auburn hair. Obv you are free to draw Catelyn, Sansa, Robb, Bran, and Rickon with whatever sort of hair you want. But auburn =/= ginger :’)

I am a HUGE MCR bitch I saw them twice in October 2022, once for the tour and again at When We Were Young. Excellent choice and Mama is a timeless song that is often regarded as their best work. I think it totally fits. Could suit Aemond+Alicent too.

anyone here like mcr. is that too tumblr 2010 even tho they’ve released new music that everyone should listen to anyways.

so anyways i have a wip alicent/aegon fanmix i like to listen to when i’m reading fanfiction and i tend to build fanmixes by just throwing songs i think fit and then relistening 30 times to make sure they all flow together and i threw mama in there thinking it wouldn’t really fit and i’d probably have to take it out but it Does fit and also

I got really excited about his death scene again aksjsjdj i literally can’t wait to watch a burned, high off milk of the poppy, can barely walk Aegon start screaming and crying and spitting in Baela’s face with her head on a block because Sunfyre just died while Alicent is standing a few feet away begging him to stop and just take the black.

My blog is for me my blog is for me my blog is for me I tell myself as I notice a blog I like that I know I was following before is popping up in recommended and I’m not following them

This has to be bait right??

Watch me, a Dany fan, read even more into the Irri sex scene.

First of all. “Irri chose to do it the first time, Irri offered” choices are not made in a vacuum like this is a core principle of feminist analysis. It is not as cut and dry as Robert raping Cersei but you have to recognize the power imbalance and the fact that Dany does understand that Irri sees it as a duty.

I think Dany not recognizing the power she holds over Irri and the fact that having sex out of duty is BAD is a result of her persistent romanticization of Drogo and denial of her victimhood in the situation. If she were to recognize the inherent power imbalance and any wrongness, she would be forced to confront her own victimhood. She would be forced to recall Drogo in a negative light. She doesn’t like doing this. When she starts having fantasies of other lovers, she forces herself to think of Drogo, tells herself that it’s Drogo she wants.

She has rewritten the narrative of her abuse into something she can take comfort in. A warm memory of someone who “loved” her. Dany is certainly far better to Irri than Drogo was to Dany, so to acknowledge the wrongness of what’s happening with Irri would say REALLY bad things about Drogo.

And I’d even go a step further as to say that she needs to maintain the positive, romanticized image of Drogo in order to absolve herself of guilt for killing Mirri. Dany is constantly questioning the actions she has taken, ESPECIALLY the violent ones. She even is plagued by the memory of Visery’s death and clearly feels guilt about it. But not Mirri. Acknowledging the reality of Drogo and the person he was would lead to a new train of thought: Mirri was not wrong for “killing” him. Then, Dany would be forced to wonder if the sacrifice she made to get her dragons was wrong. The thing that brought her her power.

Being good and just is so important to her, as is feeling loved. All of these delusions prop each other up to maintain those feelings in her. In Dany’s mind, if Drogo was a good and loving husband, if the sex between Dany and Drogo wasn’t abuse, then Mirri was clearly wrong for what she did and Dany was justified in executing her and her dragons were born of justice. Thus, having sex with Irri also cannot be abuse. It cannot be wrong to have sex with someone who feels they are doing it out of duty, or else Drogo was an abuser who did not treat Dany with love and Dany’s dragons were born of the murder of a slave, and Dany does not believe slaves should be punished for rising up against their masters.

This whole situation is an excellent example of how self deception and romanticizing your own abuse can lead to the harm of others and not just yourself. Generally (speaking as a victim of abuse within romantic relationships), some part of the victim’s consciousness understands that we are deluding ourselves when we romanticize the situation and make excuses for our abusers, but we can shut down that thought easily: “even if I AM romanticizing it, I’m the victim, so it only hurts me, so I have no need to confront what may be the truth.”

Like sure. Maybe GRRM wanted a f/f sex scene. But is this not more interesting? Doesn’t this add more depth and intrigue to Dany’s character?

How’s that for reading into it??

Ugh you’re reading way too much into the Irri thing. It wasn’t abuse. George just wanted to write a sex scene between two hot girls. That’s it. And how can you be a Rhaenyra fan and hate Dany 🤨

I have to laugh at influx of hotd fans saying shit like “Cersei does horrible things but at least she admits it’s bad!”

Delusional inner monologue gold medalist Cersei? Cersei “My advisors are just jealous of me bc I’m so smart, hello faith militant please wait here atop this wild fire while I whip my maid for sneaking in at 4:37am to shrink my dresses” Lannister???

“At least she’s self aware” she’s been wasted since 8am gave her navy to a guy she just met bc he reminded her of her middle school crush and she’s pouring another shot, please be serious

Should the ship name for Podrick and Sansa be Podsa or Sandrick?

Hear me out he’s a hero he’s gentle he’s kind he’s brave in the face of his own fear he’s assisting Brienne in her search for Sansa he’s of age with her. He blushes when he speaks to her.

Podrick had a dog named Hero and Sansa’s direwolf was Lady HELLO come on.