A Storm Of Swords, George R. R. Martin

A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin

things Bloodraven and Santa Claus have in common:

red and white color palette

lives in the far north

helped by a species of small people in green

is always watching you

having now seen a photo of the actor who plays francesca, i gotta say the evidence is strongly pointing to TWN’s approach to actors of color being “change their hair and eyes so they can pass for white, unless they’re dark-skinned and then let people pat us on the back for keeping their natural hair (but still make their eyes blue sometimes)” and that’s REAL fucked up, y’all. really really fucked up.

(francesca actor photo in question:

like holy shit, they whitewashed the FUCK out of her, i had NO IDEA)

(the notion that “istredd’s eyes are blue bc he’s a mage” does not hold up when plenty of other mages have brown eyes, so let’s not even start with that. not to mention it was a CHOICE in the first place, not an immutable law of reality)

she took the bard in the divorce

All those lonely miles That you ride Now you’ll walk with no one by your side Did you ever even care with your swords and your stupid hair? Now watch me laugh as I burn all the memories of you

me in the year 2087