(Source: iwillgodownwiththeseships, via cerseilannisterss)
quality people:
The Odette to my Derek
My Apache princess
My Anishinaabe princess
My anger ball
My é-tsêhéstahe princess
My big scary Metis cousin
(Source: mellonball, via ivannikolayevich)
(Source: vega-ofthe-lyre, via cerseilannisterss)
#you win or you om nom nom there is no middle ground
DESSERT IS COMING
So, my srs business theme baking extravaganza, A Song of Icing Sugar and Fire, is over. I don’t know who won, but it wasn’t me. I ended up going to a party last night with my lips stained dark from mixing black and red icing and accidentally happening to taste it everyone and then.
It was so worth the wait to let my Targaryen dragons dry - they are my absolute favourite. Martell sun-and-spears were a casualty of my mistake in covering them with a damp towel as the black and red bled together. My Stark direwolves were beautiful, but I was anxious to get them done, so I stuck them in the freezer which, in hindsight, was dumb as it make them pretty ugly. All in all, if I did it again, I’d probably work with fondant for the bases and be prepared to allow 24 hours for drying time. idk if there’ll be a next time - maybe A Song of Ice and Cupcakes? Never underestimate boredom.
For people who are asking, these are Nigella’s Butter Cut-Out Biscuits (naturally they are delicioussss) and their frosted with the meringue icing recipe and technique from Sweetopia, NOT fondant, though I did pipe them pretty thick because om nom nom sugar in my belly.You can see pictures of the individual cookies HERE, but be wary for they are not so pretty up close (sugar cracks, I’ll have you know, and I made many emergency surgeries to stick on fallen limbs and dragon heads - who could have known that Westeros houses could be so breakable?).
Now I’m off, like Saturn, to devour some of my children with milk - Saturn might have missed out on that detail. Don’t worry, Jackie, I’m saving some for our online tea party :DDD(And none for Walder Frey, bye.)
(via ivannikolayevich)
“
When Columbus got off the boat, he asked us who we were. We said we’re the Human Beings, we’re the People. Conceptually the Europeans didn’t understand that, it was beyond their conceptual reality. They didn’t see us. They couldn’t see who we were. Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. It’s five hundred years later and they still can’t see us. we are still invisible. They don’t see us as human beings, but we’ve been saying to them all along that’s what we are. We are invisible to them because we are still the Human Beings, we’re still the People, but they will never call us that. They taught us to call ourselves Indians, now they’re teaching us to call ourselves Native Americans. It’s not who we are. We’re the People. They can’t see us as human beings. But they can’t see themselves as human beings. The invisibility is at every level, it’s not just that we’re tucked away out of sight. We’re the evidence of the crime. They can’t deal with the reality of who we are because then they have to deal with the reality of what they have done. If they deal with the reality of who we are, they have to deal with the reality of who they aren’t. So they have to fear us, not recognize us, not like us. The very fact of calling us Indians creates a new identity for us, an identity that began with their arrival. Changing identity, creating a new perceptual reality, is another form of genocide. It’s like severing a spiritual umbilical cord that reaches into the ancestral past. The history of the Indians begins with the arrival of the Europeans. The history of the People begins with the beginning of the history of the People. The history of the People is one of cooperation, collectivity, and living in balance. The history of the Indians is one of being attacked and genocide, rather than a history of peace and balance. The history of the People under attack, the Indians, in an evolutionary context, is not very long, it’s only five hundred years. The objective of civilizing us is to make Indian history become our permanent reality. The necessary objective of Native people is to outlast this attack, however long it takes, to keep our identity alive."
— John Trudell (Santee Sioux)
this. just. everything about this.
(Source: blackfeetvoices, via ayiman)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Alan Rickman reads Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
I came
(Source: tiny-sized, via tequilaflavoredkisses)
oh no!!! It’s crazy black Cinna!!! Hide your kids :)
Gorgeousness on a stick! Haters to the left!
PLEASE CINNA COULD YOU CUM STYLE ME I WILL BE YOUR BOY ON FIRE & YOU CAN BET ON ME ALL NIGHT LONG
FALALALALALA LOVE IT
lenny kravitz is perfectionnnnn
(Source: fuckyeahthehungergames)
(Source: callmecorreen, via squintyoureyes)
^^ omg that was me last night. This just made my day.I SAW WHERE COOKIES WEREN’T
AND SAID
NO
THIS WILL NOT DO
(via thesavagesalad)
I WILL NOT GET INTO ARGUMENTS ON THE INTERNET. I WILL NOT GET INTO ARGUMENTS ON THE INTERNET. I WILL NOT GET INTO ARGUMENTS ON THE INTERNET. I WILL NOT GET INTO ARGUMENTS WITH YOUR FAT, MUSTARD STAINED, UGLY, DIPSHIT, BUCK TOOTHED, FASHION BACKWARD, SPLIT END FACTORY ASS ON THE INTERNET. I WILL NOT GET INTO ARGUMENTS ON THE INTERNET.
I AM AN ADULT. I WEAR VERY EXPENSIVE BOOTS. I READ BOOKS FOR PLEASURE.
I WILL NOT COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH. I WILL NOT COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH. I WILL NOT COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH.
(via thesavagesalad)
I know i don’t usually hate on fictional characters but EURGH, I just don’t like Sansa Stark!!
She’s so rude, wimpy… basically represents this weak, subordinate woman who does whatever ‘her Prince’ tells her, and stand up for him even though he’s a complete bastard and she knows it. She’s nothing compared to the other women. Dany, Arya, Cersei… every single other female character seems to have much more guts than she does. I much prefer Arya in the Stark family. Even after Ned is killed, and she truly seems to detest Joffrey, she still doesn’t really man up..
Before the Sansa-faithful defend her honour by proclaiming all my above comments false, I would just like to point out that I actually don’t know what happens past the first book, so if you reply, please don’t say anything that might spoil it for me. Having said that, I feel my point is completely valid in Game of Thrones, since that’s all I have encountered of her behaviour.
Anyway, I just have a liking for strong female characters, so she just annoys me right now. I hope she toughens up.. am predicting she must at some point!
She was living in a fantasy world that, in the first book, she’s already woken up from. There is no way she could be the other women, she isn’t Arya and she hasn’t had the experiences to be Dany. By the end of the first book she’s already growing up, becoming braver. She doesn’t let Joffrey intimidate her and even though she calls it madness, it’s very brave of her to tell him that maybe Robb will give her his head.
so you want sansa to “man up”
she can’t man up because the entire position she occupies in society and her ‘new life’ at court is explicitly feminine. i know, it’s just an idiom; no it isn’t. to ‘man up’ would be to take action, to show defiance toward her captors, to take advantage of the greater range of options and solutions and techniques available to men to solve her predicament — to take up a sword and fight. because this is medieval fantasy! that’s what heroines do! they act like heroes!
except when acting like a hero would get you killed, and you have to find a way of expressing your identity and your agency and your ability that doesn’t involve something so simplistic ass hitting something with a stick and hoping things work out.
that is not a position she can occupy. that is not a position she has had the training for or knows how to perform, and it is not a position that would be accepted by anyone else around her anyway — please see arya’s difficulties in interacting with society in any capacity. the fact that she can function, because she must function, within the idea that society has set up for her should not be grounds for condemnation. she reconciled the role she was destined to play regardless of her actions — political marital bargaining chip — and made that as palatable and pleasant as she could. she couldn’t take a stand against joffrey because what would it accomplish, other than alienating the family to whom she was already contractually bound and making things worse. sansa stark has consistently been essentially the only person making sensible decisions for the entire book.
even beyond that, she’s being held captive, forced to occupy an even narrower sphere of passivity — completely docile, completely loyal, subject to the threat of violence at any time and completely disposable. her father had just been executed for treason. her sister was, for all she knew, dead. her family were war criminals.
what do you think would happen if she had “manned up” and done anything but pretend meekness and submission.
she would have been executed.
end of the story.
the fact that she starts to occupy that position, literally stripped of power and rendered completely passive to the world around her, and still maintains her personal integrity and agency makes her one of the strongest characters in the entire series. if you think you have to be able to wield a sword and be feisty and righteously vanquish your enemies on principle to be strong, then you are going to have some major issues with this series.
gendering the starks as masculine is gross and thinking that Acting Like A Stark is a good idea after you’ve seen what its results are in the first book is kind of honestly bizarre.
(Source: catofwinterfell, via fuckyeahsansastark)
Custer Died for Your Sins: lols08: Rant about nationality and grudges (my personal addition - to...
Rant about nationality and grudges
(my personal addition - to the author of the original post)
well….
“advantages” you say?
First off I am a First Nations person and I don’t actually have many advantages. Even though I may have additional help paying for school it doesn’t mean that it will be easy for me. Even though I get a measly few cents off of the taxes I pay on something doesn’t mean I have an advantage.
I was a 4.0 student, who attends well known schools, and still I have never once received a First Nations scholarship - despite applying to every single one I could find. I actually have student debt - $9,000 to be exact right now. My parents actually pay out of their own pocket so my brother can go to the school he chose (that’s tens of thousands of dollars by the way).
Do you ever wonder why First Nations students are not attending post-secondary school? Do you ever wonder why alcoholism is rampant on our reserves? Do you actually personally know any First Nations people from a reserve - or more specifically how about an isolated or northern reserve? Have you ever visited a reserve? Have you ever seen how some urban Aboriginal people live?
Did you see how I have to endure complete racism at one of the best universities in Canada? Is this an advantage that I have? Am I privileged? Am I privileged when I am made aware that 99% of the time I will be the only First Nations student in my classes? Is this an advantage - that I made it to university? Please do tell….
Perhaps what this man said to you wasn’t polite or respectful - and who knows why he may have said it. Is it fair to say that we have advantages that we don’t utilize? Absolutely not! You don’t know anything about this man’s life and perhaps anything about life as a First Nation person as general. Have you ever stopped to look at the issues surrounding the fact that he is homeless and First Nations. We have extremely diverse issues that affect our social, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual parts of our lives. We deal with not only personal trauma but also inter-generational trauma. We have so many issues that I can discuss with you. I actually work in the health/counseling field and I specifically work with First Nations, Inuit and Metis people and I can tell you from all of my personal and work experiences I have yet to meet a fully advantaged First Nations person.
I openly welcome you to learn about some of my struggles as an “advantaged” person. For example…here’s a brief list of some of my advantages.
First Nations Advantages
- Statistically speaking I will die before you due to the various health, social, economic, emotional (etc) problems that are affecting people of my ethnicity
- More of my friends or family members are likely to commit or attempt suicide - they are also more likely to be raped and/or murdered
- I have a much lower chance of attending post-secondary school - and once I do attend post-secondary school I have a much lower chance of actually succeeding
- I have a higher chance of being raped, murdered and abused than you
Perhaps this man made that comment because he was angry. In many ways he has every right to be angry. He’s homeless, hungry, possibly dealing with an addictions issue, etc. He probably has many reasons to be angry.
Our ancestors used to live freely on this “land” but now we are stuffed into reserves that are way too small for our expanding populations. When we fight to get more land we are just “spoiled Indians”. Why don’t we just leave the reserves? Well this is a complex question you see….we have many reasons why we don’t want to leave our reserves. There are also many reasons why other Natives choose to never return to their reserves. I could go into detail here, but I’d rather not because it is so complex and would take forever to explain.
I could go on - but I’d rather not.
(Source: ofallmediums)
