Foster Mom Welcomes Another Baby Into Her Litter.

Foster mom welcomes another baby into her litter.

I never thought The Martells could be very dark. Elia and Oberyn both have blond, blue-eyed children. That is rare for people of color, and the odds go down the darker the non-white parent gets. I'm sure you could dig up some instances where it happened, but it is certainly not the norm for very dark people to have blond, blue eyed children, and it happened twice in the same family! Either the Martell family has the most un-dominant skin and hair genes EVER, or they aren't that dark at all.

It’s because most of these children are biracial??? A dark-skinned person can perfectly have a very fair-skinned child. If Sarella can be black because her mother is from the Summer Islands, Tyene and some of Elia’s children can perfectly be white-skinned if one of their parents are. Also, you seem to ignore that Rhaenys, Elia’s daughter, favors her mother and is dark-skinned.

In any case, the Martells are described as visibly non-white people in the material and the casting should reflect that, no matter how their children look. 

I don’t think we talk enough about it being 100% ok to abandon your goals.

There is so much about keeping on trying and working hard and You Can Achieve Anything When You Put Your Mind To It which is a great sentiment. And for the large part its true and I don’t intend to contradict that when I say that look: sometimes you have to quit and that’s ok.

There is no virtue in pursuing a goal to the detriment of your health and happiness. Not every goal is attainable for you no matter how much you want it and it isn’t shameful to walk away from an aspiration that isnt working for you or is sapping your energy and it doesn’t feel worth it anymore.

You’re no less for changing your mind about something halfway through, or losing interest, or deciding other things are more of a priority than getting fit, running that marathon, getting into med school or whatever else you hoped to do. Forgive yourself, move on.

Rant Time:

Okay, so I have seen some posts circling around Tumblr defending white-washed fancasts of the Sand Snakes, particularly Nymeria and Tyene.  They try and justify the white-washing by saying that Nymeria is described as having “milk-pale skin” and Tyene as having green eyes and blond hair.  First of all, George RR Martin has said that Nymeria looks like Janina Gavankar:

She is most definitely not a white woman, and is 100x hotter than Gemma fucking Arterton wearing brownface in the Prince of Persia.  .  Fancasting a white person to play a mixed character erases part of their identity, and that shit is fucking racist.  A lot of mixed-race people can be described as having milk-pale skin, but that does not make them white.  Case in point:

All of these people have milk-pale skin and are mixed, not white.  Similarly, having blond hair and/or blue or green eyes does not automatically mean a character is white:

A large part of Tyene’s identity comes from being the daughter of a Dornishman.  She should be played by a mixed actress in order to reflect that.  I am fine with a white-passing mixed woman playing Tyene, but Gemma Arterton, Jennifer Lawrence, and Katie McGrath are not mixed and are therefore inappropriate choices for Sand Snakes/Martell women.  

Seriously, stop using white actresses for these characters.  Literally every major character in the series outside of Dorne is white.  If you want to use Gemma Arterton, Jennifer Lawrence, or Katie McGrath in your fancasts so badly, use them for characters that aren’t from Dorne.  I think that all three of those actresses could work as Lyanna Stark, Asha Greyjoy (since so many people hate the actress on the show), or Val.  I also think Lawrence and McGrath could work as Mya Stone.  You should use women of color to represent the Sand Snakes/Martell women.  Please just fucking stop with the whitewashing.  

The whole “Asexuality is just about choosing who to fuck or choosing not to fuck” shit is hilarious because this bullshit little ism can literally be applied to the entirety of the LGBTQ community -except- for Trans people.

“Stop shoving homosexuality down my throat bc who you choose to fuck isnt my business” “Homosexuality is a choice”. <—-ALL THE EXACT SAME FUCKING ENERGY.

“Nobody cares about who you choose to fuck” or “Just because you wont fuck X doesnt make you special” isnt new, it has been used against the lgbq community since for fucking ever. And lets not even get into how many of yall say asexuality/etc isnt real and is just trauma or mental illness and shit like that. You think that shit is new? You think “Who hurt you?” and “You need therapy” is unique and groundbreaking?

Really goes to show how far too many of you are heavily impressionable minors and havent been around the block enough times to know bullshit when you see it.

For instance, an entire vapid, irrational backlash started by TERFs that keeps mutating like a virus. But I’m sleep tho….

Fucking THINK, damn. You’re literally just repackaging flimsy right wing rhetoric and weaponizing it against whatever flavor of the week has your panties in a bunch

No snark, no smart assery, no douchebaggery today, just making sure you all know condoms are one time use only cuz this was a scary headline.