ninezku:

8 Game of Thrones PSAs

play-with-my-joystick:

terra-mater:

15 amazing things in nature you won’t believe actually exist

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Nature is amazing and beautiful

endless list of films with gorgeous visuals → Hercules (1997)

“I know every mile,
Will be worth my while,
I would go most anywhere,
to feel like I belong.”

epic-humor:

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the-yolocaust:

the-yolocaust:

has anyone ever finished a game of monopoly

i now know why

queenofwrath:

Lannister Meme /Eight Dynamics [1/8]→ Cersei and Joffrey

“He was all I had once. Before Myrcella was born. I used to 
spend hours looking at him. His wisps of hair, his tiny little 
hands and feet. He was such a jolly little fellow. You always 
hear the terrible ones were terrible babies. ‘We should have 
known, even then we should have known.’ It’s nonsense. Whenever
he was with me, he was happy. And no one can take that away from
me — not even Joffrey.”

ourmrsreynolds:

I think sometimes people forget that Stannis didn’t name Davos Hand just because he was ~honorable~. Davos is actually pretty effective at his job, way more effective than his immediate predecessor, whose top hits include:

• hey maybe you should bend the knee
• also wed Shireen to Tommen because incest totally doesn’t squick you out does it Your Grace

The thing about Davos Seaworth is that he has never had a lot of resources, yet he has always known how to make the most of them (was there ever a more potent use for a few barrels of onions?). And that’s why I think Stannis sending him to secure White Harbor’s allegiance isn’t wishful thinking. Stannis knows what Davos is capable of when his back’s against the wall. Maybe especially when his back’s against the wall. Here he is dripping wet while being cross-examined by the Lord of Sweetsister:

“Why should I give [Stannis] any aid? Answer me that.”

Because he is your rightful king, Davos thought. Because he is a strong man and a just one, the only man who can restore the realm and defend it against the peril that gathers in the north. Because he has a magic sword that glows with the light of the sun. None of them would get him a foot closer to White Harbor. What answer does he want? Must I promise him gold we do not have? A highborn husband for his daughter’s daughter? Lands, honors, titles? Lord Alester Florent had tried to play that game, and the king had burned him for it. …“The lion is dead,” said Davos, slowly. “There’s your truth, my lord. Tywin Lannister is dead.”

So Davos runs through his mental repertoire of reasons to support Stannis and discards them one by one as unsuitable for the situation. If it were Alester Florent in there, trying to dissuade Lord Godric from shipping him off to King’s Landing, I would not give him odds. But Davos understands that Godric needs to hedge his bets lest he’s later penalized by the winning side for supporting the wrong team. The way Davos handles Godric sets us up for the way he handles Wyman Manderly once we get to White Harbor:

“So I ask you, Onion Knight - what does Lord Stannis offer me in return for my allegiance?”

War and woe and the screams of burning men, Davos might have said. “The chance to do your duty,” he replied instead. That was the answer Stannis would have given Wyman Manderly. The Hand should speak with the king’s voice.

Where Davos goes wrong is to try to channel Stannis instead of saying it in his own words. Let’s try that again:

Ser Marlon turned to his lord cousin. “Your lordship asked the onion knight what Stannis offers us. Let me answer. He offers us defeat and death.”

“Death,” he heard himself say,“ there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!”

And maybe he bends the truth but he nails it. He identifies the single most compelling reason that the Manderlys should care about Stannis’ cause. Now there’s no way in hell Lord Wyman would ever support a Lannister-backed regime so he probably would have been receptive to Davos’ overtures anyway, but this farce of an audience is a test, too - a test of King Stannis’ diplomatic mettle. Yes Lord Godric likely would have let Davos go anyway, too, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t appreciate how well Davos acquits himself. When Stannis raises him to Hand he says, “All I ask of you are the things you’ve always given me. Honesty. Loyalty. Service.” Honesty and loyalty we recognize readily enough, but the many valuable services he renders his king should not be overlooked.

Davos is not a miracle worker and he can’t win them all. The first time we meet him, in the ACOK prologue, he’s just returned from an unsuccessful mission to recruit the Storm Lords to rise for Stannis. He’s obviously not a master manipulator like Varys or Littlefiger. But let’s not pretend that Davos is a plainspoken family man with zero political acumen.

fer1972:

Flowers made of Animal Bones and Skin by Hideki Tokushige

lady-of-asgard:

iamtonysexual:

remember, kids.  ”pinnacles” is pronounced

not

WHY DOES THIS MAKE SO MUCH SENSE