That handrwriting is nicer than my current, adult professional woman handwriting. You are a goddess.

I binged S3 last night as soon as I noticed it was up on demand. I adore this show and it’s like a rare beautiful flower that only blooms once every few years. A true-to-life female friendship, quirky but not unrealistic side characters... I love it. Didn’t love-love the finale, felt a little like invading someone…

Taylor has a huge platform, with girls all over the world aspiring to be just. like. her. I don’t pay any attention to any celebrities social media, I just see things like this post here. and my reaction to this was, gosh, for such a consciously curated social media event, taylor sure didn’t seem to mind/notice that…

oh man, my mom had Clan of the Cave Bear and I always wanted to pick it up, but I didn’t and i could not tell you why. did i really miss out?

everything swift (and most celebrities, tbh) post on social media is designed and engineered around the image they want to sell to fans and the general public. so yeah, it looks weird that this is the choice she made. 

I was being flippant about the whole thing. I do always wonder about who tags along with celebrities to take their vacation photos/videos though.

You’re inserting an argument that no one is making. *This* scene was gratuitous and poorly executed. I’m not calling for censorship. I’m calling for more ambitious storytelling that doesn’t rely on lazy tropes for character motivation or on sexual violence for audience titillation.

Yes, I think it would have been even more impactful if that was the first confirmation that we had of our suspictions. I am going crazy debating this in the comments with people. I don’t understand how this obvious criticism is being just repeatedly shot down as “it was so necessary so we would know that Ramsay was…

We’re never going to get anywhere productive with this conversation if you can’t view the two pieces (book series vs show) as separate. The show runners have made multiple decisions from the very beginning, that separate their work from the book. It is a different medium. The result is a different work of art, that…

It does make sense - you are saying Theon is the character in that scene with whom the viewer identifies. I am saying the viewer identifies with him because of choices made by the directors/writers/showrunners. And I’m saying THAT is the problem. THAT is my complaint.

oh my fucking god.

Its basically the Sherlock formula.... I just hope they have better stories to tell than the Sherlock team. #fuckmoffat

YAAAAAAAASssssss.

Totally on your team here. She’s not a good ruler at all! Slash and burn. Honestly, she’s kind of the #MAGA “let’s just try something radically different” candidate as far as Esteros was concerned. It’s not like life ended up better for the peons after she left.

The choice facing the director was not “depict the rape” or “show Theon’s reaction to the rape.” They could have omitted the scene altogether and we all would have gotten the picture just fine from Sansa’s monologue later about nightly torture she can still feel in her body. That is what sticks with me, it was an…

I was tempted to pick them up after learning about them through the show, but once I realized they are infamously unfinished and there is no apparent endgame for lots of tangential threads... I figured I could wait and see if they get finished before investing that time.

Yeah, you’re kinda saying the same thing I am, except I’m criticizing those choices that the director made. We didn’t need to be reminded of Theon. At what point during a rape should the attention be transferred to a voyeur -- even a relative of the victim -- as if that position is equally as traumatic as the victim…

That’s what I said.....?

My opinion of the show does not need to be justified or earned by my opinion of the books. There’s a much more nuanced conversation happening here about the show, and about rape on TV, as a medium separate and unique from the books. “The books were worse” does not absolve the show from its sins or immunize the…

You are missing the point so entirely I’m beginning to think it’s purposeful. My point is, the entire scene was unnecessary, unless they wanted to use the rape as a motivation for Theon, which is what people have been criticizing, and the choice the showrunners and defenders have not sufficiently answered for. The…