theladyofthorns:

#a man is regretting giving the power of life and death to a vengeful 11-year old #a man should have expected this to go badly 

“I haven’t played with dolls since I was eight.”

Sansa Stark in 2.09, “Blackwater”

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From birth we’re taught that we’re owed a beautiful girl. We all think of ourselves as the hero of our own story, and we all (whether we admit it or not) think we’re heroes for just getting through our day.

So it’s very frustrating, and I mean frustrating to the point of violence, when we don’t get what we’re owed. A contract has been broken. These women, by exercising their own choices, are denying it to us. It’s why every Nice Guy is shocked to find that buying gifts for a girl and doing her favors won’t win him sex. It’s why we go to “slut” and “whore” as our default insults — we’re not mad that women enjoy sex. We’re mad that women are distributing to other people the sex that they owed us.

Yes, the women in these stories are being portrayed as wonderful and beautiful and perfect. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.

” —

David Wong, 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women (via chirart)

That last line is right on the money.

(via thingsthatscareme)

“She wants to go back to Winterfell and see her family again, but after being caged up, she’s learned not to trust anyone. She knows her family isn’t going to be like it is in the fairy tales, waiting for her return. She hears that her brother is fighting a war, and she knows it’s never going to be the same. It’s not like she has a plan to get out, because she’s only thinking about her survival now, and she’s kind of just going with the flow. But she’s very broken, kind of stunned and traumatized, and it’s hard for her to function without the people who love her. I would love to see Sansa marry for love, but after what’s happened with Joffrey, I think it’ll be hard for her to trust anyone.” — Sophie Turner (via itsinthetrees)

“I would love for Jon Snow and Dany to end up on the Iron Throne together. That’s just if I’m watching it, and not in it, because of course I would love to see Sansa on the Iron Throne, too — and I don’t want anything incestuous for Sansa! I love her, because I’m very biased towards my character, but Arya is my favorite. I think the women are the ones with the real strength in the series, the mental strength, and you can see this divide clearly in the books — that the women are going to come to power.” — Sophie Turner, in an interview with Vulture (x)