ASOIAF: Balon Greyjoy is an old, old man and old men like their grudges.
Me: Balon’s in his early 40s at oldest. At his youngest, he might be the same age as Robert. Is Robert an ‘old, old man?’
ASOIAF: His wife is elderly and will die soon.
Me: She can’t be that old – her youngest is only a few years older than Robb Stark. And she’ll probably die soon because she’s sick with some sort of cough. She’s not dying from old age, here.
ASOIAF: Euron’s been gone for many years and has had all these adventures in Valyria and Asshai.
Me: Euron’s been gone for two years tops. Was he just non-stop on the move?
ASOIAF: Quellon died when the grandkids were young, they never talk about him much.
Me: Theon was young at 4 years old, but Asha would have been 7 and the other two could have been a good deal older. That’s plenty old enough for Asha to remember her grandfather and the Ironborn culture war. That’s the same year Urrigon and Quellon’s Piper wife would have died by the way, so Asha should absolutely remember THAT at the very least.
ASOIAF: Victarion and Aeron are old and dour.
Me: They’re YOUNGER than Balon – who, again, is in his early 40s at max. No way they’re that much older than, say, Ned Stark. Hell, Aeron’s probably barely in his 30s.
EURON WAS EXILED IN 297. THAT’S LIKE 3 YEARS TOPS BY THE TIME HE COMES BACK. HE WASN’T EVEN NECESSARILY *GONE* WHEN THE BOOKS STARTED.
GRRM, LEARN TO TIMELINE, THESE DAMN SQUIDS HAVE ME INVESTED IN THEIR MESS OF A FAMILY AND IT CLEARLY HAS NOT BEEN AS LONG AS YOU THINK. THE GREYJOYS JUST AREN’T THAT OLD AND IT JUST HASN’T BEEN AS LONG AS YOUR BOOKS MAKE IT SEEM.
BALON DIED IN 299 AND EURON RETURNED STRAIGHT AFTER. AS IN, THE NEXT DAY. THAT IS TWO YEARS *MAXIMUM*.
i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake
fabulous
i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.
Watch The Breadwinner, and appreciate the film for what it is: This is a beautiful film directed by a woman, executive produced by a woman, voiced by Afghans, and about Afghan women and their experiences.
Call your reps saying you’re not happy with the new bill, donate to the ACLU if you can, and call Microsoft’s customer support line to complain about their new TOS.
“Call Microsoft Customer Service direct – 1-800-642-7676 – hours 5 AM til 9 PM PST time (USA) – Saturday and Sunday, 6:00 AM – 3:00 PM PST time (USA). In Canada, call (877)568-2495.”
i’d love to be able to say, “oh, they’re just kids, they don’t need to be 100% radical whatever all the time.” except that a) they’ve built a mass movement and b) made specific policy demands.
these demands are resoundingly backwards – expanding police presence on campus, opening up police access to medical records and criminalizing disabled bodies, asserting the need for militarized police forces – and now have mass support from an uncritical base that’s backing them on the grounds that they’re being made by students. the amount of facebook posts i’ve had to crawl between praising their ability to ‘speak truth to power’ is astonishing; sure, they’ve stood up to the (also reactionary) NRA and rightist senators, but that alone does not a platform make.
It’s important to note that those “demands” for expanding police presence and criminalizing mental health do not stem from the actual official March for Our Lives movement.
As far as I can tell, these proposals comes from an article from The Guardian which allowed 10 students from the MSD high school newspaper, Eagle Eye, to write an article for the website. (article can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2018/mar/23/parkland-students-manifesto-americas-gun-laws) These students are not the ones who have been leading the march or the ones who have been seen speaking out to the media recently.
The March for Our Lives petition/website does not include these suggestions.
The actual March for Our Lives petition demands only include an assault weapons ban, prohibiting high capacity magazines and closing the loophole in background checks. The official petition can be found here: https://marchforourlivespetition.com/ The March for Our Lives website includes funding for gun violence research and intervention and eliminating restrictions on the ATF (which includes things like digitizing gun sales records and instituting safety requirements, did you know guns shown to have manufacturing defects are not required to issue a recall, even if people are killed because of it?) Information found here: https://marchforourlives.com/how-we-save-lives/
If I am wrong, please let me know, but as far as I can tell the only source for these proposals are this one article, none of the official March for Our Lives includes any proposals for increased armed security or allowing police access to mental health records.
EURON WAS EXILED IN 297. THAT’S LIKE 3 YEARS TOPS BY THE TIME HE COMES BACK. HE WASN’T EVEN NECESSARILY *GONE* WHEN THE BOOKS STARTED.
GRRM, LEARN TO TIMELINE, THESE DAMN SQUIDS HAVE ME INVESTED IN THEIR MESS OF A FAMILY AND IT CLEARLY HAS NOT BEEN AS LONG AS YOU THINK. THE GREYJOYS JUST AREN’T THAT OLD AND IT JUST HASN’T BEEN AS LONG AS YOUR BOOKS MAKE IT SEEM.
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