i think its a little underappreciated that grrm allows his main characters to be disabled and hurt. tyrion's dwarfism and bran's paralysis are obvious but also dany's infertility?? jon's pains and scarring after he burns his hand fighting the Others?? ned's broken leg plagues him for months and the scars on cat's palms consistently ache and phantom pains haunt jaime through out asos and the arrow brienne took to her leg does actual harm instead of just leaving a neat scar and when biter chews off brienne's cheek she's visibly disfigured afterwards. theres no brushing over any of their injuries and all of them are consistently affecting them even after they heal. or don't heal. lady stoneheart and beric dondarrion carry their injuries even after they die. the gashes on stoneheart's face stay even when she comes back and beric never regains his eye. dany stays infertile thats not something that can be reversed. the same way tyrion's injuries after the battle of the blackwater cant be reversed and jon's scars can't be erased bc at the end of the day when ur disabled theres no cure for that. u just have to Deal with it no matter how difficult it is and i think its nice when fictional characters still find a way to push through it the same way we do
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"Your style has changed. What's with the blood-red eyeshadow?"
— "I don't want to look kind-hearted."
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THE TUDORS (2010)
James Dean as Caleb Trask East of Eden (1955) dir. Elia Kazan
“That’s right. I killed your master. And now I’m gonna kill you too. With your own word, no less. Which in the very immediate future, will become my sword.”
When I Arrived at the Castle (2019) by Emily Carroll
Now is a good time to tell you what I know about death: Nothing goes away but becomes something else. The story goes: God watched the son go down. Or, God was the son going down. Or God was gravity. Or God spoke in the voice of the people so to bring that man down--he went and became a lamb cut open. He went and became August sun. He went and became. He went and became. My brother sat up. A holy future passed us by and surrounds me now. Brother, we're going down. Brother, get up.
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