And Then They Disposed Of All Their Drugs And Had A Good Night Sleep And Woke Up And Got All Their Stuff

Okay I would never smoke but they Did kinda go off with the aesthetics

"I don't think it's possible to wipeout House Frey. There's a Frey in every corner of the planet."

Then good thing they won't have to be. Old Walder's double dealing and treachery will follow them all so terribly that whatever descendants he has left will either forswear their relation at any cost, or cut their throats themselves rather than live as Freys. Maybe some of them will even take up some manner of atonement for the family crimes, but I won't hold my breath.

Yo! I sumbled across a blog post cheering Tywin and the red wedding, and someone commented this(wendynerdwrites), i thought wait a goddam minute!:

"My fantasy is that Guest Right is eventually restored with one caveat - no Lannisters. The Boltons and freys are going extinct. But the Lannisters will survive with generatons of being ousted from negotiations, parlays, state and court events, all diplomacy and as a result, their stock dwindles to near nothingness. Their .ane becomes a punchline. They have Casterly Rock taken from them and they can't even fight or appeap because they are ineligible to negotiate the end of any rebellion they might attempt. They are the new house Hollard. All thanks to Tywin."

This the true ending of Tyrion, the only surviving Lannister and Tywin 2.0! This. is. karma. This is everything that they fear even Tyrion. 🤣

As fun of an idea as that is, "peace except Lannisters" isn't real peace, and I don't think the author would write an ending where future generations are paying for the crimes of their ancestors indefinitely.

Side note, I don't think it's possible to wipeout House Frey. There's a Frey in every corner of the planet. Lol

Aaaaw, thank you..😊

@joel-mlller came up with an Oberyn lives au where he’s blind and wears silk wraps over his eyes and it awakened something in me, sorry

wrapless version under the cut

Okay... but y'all, as dark as it was... CRWBY could have made it so much darker

They could have cut up and bruised Ruby's face after her Aura broke and she took all that physical abuse, especially with Ozpin brutally caning her like an abusive father or uncle

We could have heard squishing and crunching noises when Neo stomped on Little

They could have painfully, heartwrenchingly, drawn out Ruby's suicide with the poison making her jerk and choke and dribble bile in a disturbing parallel to IRL suicide by ODing or drinking bleach/antifreeze

They would have been forced to up the maturity rating if they did, so they didn't, but can you imagine...?

EDIT: And oh dear... how could I forget all the rape imagery around the Curious Cat standing on top of Ruby, penetrating and violating and dominating her in multiple meanings of those words at once. They could have made it so much worse by having the Cat purring, nuzzling, and licking Ruby as they brag about the act of being inside and a part of her, how much they will enjoy it...

I am not okay...

Reading the article, Nick's complaints about the film are:

The cartoonishly over-the-top greedy and selfish middle fingers to Big Pharma and "philanthropists" are poorly written and have no depth... because they are cartoonishly over-the-top middle fingers to Big Pharma and "philanthropists"

Ridley is unsympathetic and ungrateful for not being 100% with making billions off the corpse of an innocent mystical creature, can't she see her Dad just wants what's best for *her*?

The plot is tooootally predictable and therefore loses points for originality and impact

And his one bit of praise is that Shepard was magnificently fun to watch, and all because Will Poulter put his soul in it, but you know what, that's valid.

Holy shit, this was scathing.

Bahahaha the URL

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/death-of-a-unicorn-review-paul-rudd-and-jenna-ortegas-terrible-horror-comedy/

Hail to the queen, baby.

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Here’s one good thing to come out of 2020:

Paleontologists completed a life-sized replica of Sue, the most complete T. Rex ever found.

And she is freaking GORGEOUS!

As I read more about this beauty, I found out some new details regarding things I thought I previously knew about the beast that was Tyrannosaurus Rex, and I’m going to share them with you.

First, and most obvious, her size:

This is nothing new, we all figured T. Rex was big, but I for one never stopped to consider exactly how big it was. Nobody ever really knows what to imagine when they read about something the size of a whale that walked around and ate everything it could kill. 

Speaking of eating things, I just want to remind you all that T. Rex had–by miles–the strongest bite of any terrestrial animal living or dead, somewhere around six and a half tons of force. That’s over six times greater than the current estimate of what Allosaurus was capable of, and three times what was delivered by the highest measured reading of the living title holder–the estuarine crocodile. It didn’t have to waste time swinging its head open-mouthed like Saurophaganax for a little extra oomph, or grow fancy serrated teeth like Carcharodontosaurus to cut pieces out of its prey. It opted for the simplest approach: get its mouth around something and crush it to death; imagine the full weight of an elephant on whatever was between this thing’s jaws.

“How did it find something to eat?” I hear you asking. “It can’t see something if it doesn’t move, right?”

Listen, I love Jurassic Park too, but that’s a big crock of shit.

Notice how both her eyes face forward. That gives her binocular vision (the ability to focus both eyes on one target, like you and I). More importantly it means she has impeccable depth perception due to overlapping fields of vision from each, large, eyeball. Researchers agree that T. Rex not only had incredible vision, but that it was probably better than most modern animals–including eagles, hawks, and owls–and that she could likely spot something three and a half miles away. If something that big can see that well, it doesn’t matter if you move or not, she’d be able to tell if it was an animal trying to hide or a piece of vegetation. So pray she isn’t hungry if she lays eyes on you. And even if by some miracle she didn’t see you, she’d still smell you. 

If she decided you looked tasty, you probably wouldn’t hear her coming as much as you’d feel her. Modern science indicates that T. Rex didn’t roar like in Jurassic Park, but rather bellowed or maybe even hissed like crocodilians. If she were on to you, you’d most likely feel this sense of unease creep up your spine as a low-pitched rumble in the air permeated through you. You wouldn’t know what it was or where it was coming from until you hear her footfalls. By then it’s too late–you could try to run but she’d probably catch you. There’s plenty on YouTube that reconstructs what T. Rex may have sounded like, and it’s legitimately haunting.  

To wrap all of this up, the one bit of good that came out of the cursed year that is 2020 is that this wonderful child of science and art came into the world, and reaffirmed my respect and admiration for the eight ton slab of muscle and teeth that is this magnificent creature.

…and it is nothing if not magnificent.

And a finger on the monkey's paw curls!!

MAYA PYRRHA OMFG AND THEY FINALLY PUT MAYA OZPIN TO USE

At least we'll have Kit and Emilia's bewildered expressions to that joke of a finale 😁

Comedy gold

Show Dany wasn't a charmer. The characters are either dumb down to make them follow her or are smart enough to know what kind of person she is. She wasn't that complex character. Infact her villain arc gave her some depth.

It's painful how stupid everyone had to become. We always focus on Jon, but so many characters had to be lobotomized to make it work.

Not Sansa though! :D

I actually think Jaime and Cersei won't make out of twow. Aegon will hold King's Landing against Daenerys, not Cersei i.e, a much more likable monarch, making Dany's actions even more horrific. And Jaime's plot for S7/S8 didn't even make sense. But they will die together, of that I am sure.

(in reference to this post)

I agree. I think Dany's choice to take KL from Aegon is far more interesting than for her to fight Cersei because killing Cersei would have no personal significance, debating whether or not Aegon is who he claims to be, deciding he is a fraud whether that’s a genuine belief or merely a convenient one, it allows a lot more inner turmoil. Also, I believe Martin said something about us getting a little Targ war, a mini dance of the dragons 2.0, so it seems likely the two will have a fight over the throne. But even without Martin's comment, in the books themselves he's ramping up to it with this:

"A dragon eating its own tail, aye," Valena said. "From the days of Aegon's Conquest. He did not conquer here. Elsewhere he burned his foes, him and his sisters, but here we melted away before them, leaving only stone and sand for them to burn. And round and round the dragons went, snapping at their tails for want of any other food, till they were tied in knots." (TWOW, Arianne I)

which is yes, history, but also signaling what is to come for House Targaryen. They fight and kill each other, it’s fitting that that is how they go out. And we know they will, that although Rhaegar was "the last" and that Viserys thought he was the last, in truth, Dany will be the last:

And saw her brother Rhaegar, mounted on a stallion as black as his armor. Fire glimmered red through the narrow eye slit of his helm. "The last dragon," Ser Jorah's voice whispered faintly. "The last, the last." Dany lifted his polished black visor. The face within was her own. (AGOT, Daenerys IX)

So for her to kill a Targ claimant to take the throne and then be killed in turn makes sense to me.

I now can’t remember if there was a specific line that convinced me Jaime and Cersei would die together, maybe it was just Jaime saying it (“We will die together as we were born together”) that planted the idea, but before s8 I had accepted it as inevitable. There is an entire section of this post by @istumpysk with quotes/spec about how. 

Food for thought:

The Furies of Greek myth, in order to not be directly named to draw their unwanted attention, were referred to as *The Kindly Ones*