Puerto Rican by birth, Héctor is one passionate fellow.
Maybe too passionate.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Warning
Prepare yourself for a Game of Thrones rant. It’s short, but it’s potent. It also contains spoilers from the TV series (epi. 3.4), so you should scroll down if you don’t wish to be spoiled.
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Brienne had this little, wonderful chat with a broken-down Jaime on last Sunday’s episode. There, she told him that he needed to outlive his personal crisis… That his “taste” of the real world was just that, a taste. And that he sounded like a bloody woman.Yes, Brienne of Tarth, women’s paladin for a lost cause in Westeros’ male dominant world, verbalized that with her own mind and mouth. As a result, every book reader has seemingly come out from their cave and attacked the writers for writing such “out-of-character”, sexist non-sense. Blergh.
First of all, in the name of nuance, fuck nuance. In the tragic, unforgiving continents of Westeros and Essos, nuance of any type should be a commodity, not a rule. So, whenever a character displays some by smacking it against a wall, we should stop and listen. Here goes:
Brienne stands equal to everyone on the traditional, Westerosian perspective of women as being frail, and “not enough” to share ground beside men on a battlefield. Why does she think that? Well, because she’s that fucking woman that gets constantly mocked at and marginalized due to that very same perspective. She might think it wrong because she embodies something different, but her mind cannot deny that the world view is that… In fact, in Gwendoline Christie’s performance, we get to be witness of the after taste that brews on her mouth after spouting such filth… Because it IS filth.
But that’s the beauty of Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire and the world in general: beautiful contradictions like that. And I really appreciate the writers’ sensibilities for it. I remember when watching the episode, I turned to one of my best friends watching beside me right after that line came up and said “that’s beautiful, because it’s exactly the thing she wouldn’t say, and she did, and she feels awful and torn about it”. Being a minority, I’ve gone through similar situations, and I’m sure a million others, too.
Because that’s life.
Brother. This is a homecoming I’ll tell my grandchildren about.
Perfect.
apio:
What, and you didn’t spend your morning photoshopping dupes of the Game of Thrones season two poster in preparation for the most important Sunday night event of the year?
Priorities, sir.
Priorities.
Haha, the last one. KEEP WONDERING! YOU’RE NEVER GOING TO KNOW! HAHAHAHA
Fuck you, GRRM. I luv u doh.
Desperately need a poster of that last one.
HOW I STAGED A GAME OF THRONES THEMED PARTY, part 2
cont. from “HOW I STAGED A GAME OF THRONES THEMED PARTY, part 1”
• Results
Well, I think the pictures above speak for themselves, don’t they? :) The majority of the banners were of the House Lannister variety, considering that it was my birthday and I was role-playing as that little shitfuck we all know and love, King Joffrey (so ‘effin fun).
All the hard work payed off tremendously. As for the party itself…
It was insane, it was crazy-fun…and it was over before we knew it. :(
The end.
I humbly thank you for following these two posts. :)
HOW I STAGED A GAME OF THRONES THEMED PARTY, part 1
It’s been long since October 8 2011, the night I threw a birthday bash inspired by the fantastic work of George R.R. Martin and the spot-on HBO adaptation. For some reason, I didn’t post anything about it on any social network back then. Now, I reflect on how it came to be and the final product, which was everything I hoped it to be (and more) thanks, in no small part, to the help of family and friends. Let’s dig in…
• The project
With HBO’s new series lighting my geek world in fire, I immediately knew what I wanted to do for my birthday: celebrate it, ICE AND FIRE-STYLE, with an elaborate themed party that’d stay inside a limited budget (of about $100 bucks), and that’d be monetary accessible to my guests as well. That last part was particularly important, as every one of them needed to choose a character to role-play as and buy their own costume to portray it. My standards are pretty high, so anyone in just plain rags wouldn’t have cut it for me…and everyone knew it.
• Facebook as an event organizer
Two months before the proposed date of the party, I started a Facebook “Event” page to get the planning and hype rolling amongst my friends and family. This turned out to be an invaluable resource of communication between the guests and me (as the host). It also opened a direct channel of discussion on where to find the best deals on costumes, party ideas, etc. As crazy as this might sound, the planning (and consequently, the end product) benefitted from this IMMENSELY.
• “Win or die” week
As the date approached I gathered dozens of pieces of carton, huge and small, from unused displays at the store I work in and recruited help in the form of two of my best friends, Ana and Nicolmarí, and my mom to assist me in the creation of the decorations that’d grace the entrance to the house and what we’d already deemed “The Throne Room”, (or my house’s garage where the actual party would take place). After stocking up on paint and yards upon yards of red and white fabric to create a decent number of house banners, we started work on them. Crafts have never been my thing, but I ended up hand painting the vast majority of the banners myself. Cray-cray.
We also started work on the Iron Throne, an on-the-budget replica of the iconic seat of power of Westeros as seen in the TV series. As days pressed on and the work intensified, the house became a construction zone full of cardboard and fabric debris, paint stains on the flooring and increasing amounts of stress. Saturday (the day of the party) arrived and with it the time to install all the decorations we’ve worked on so hard for the previous 4 days. That day saw the Iron Throne finally come to fruition. It was such a fantastic sight for all of us to see everything as previously envisioned come together in such a great way and with only hours to spare.
• Results
Coming up NEXT!
Absofreakinglutely love this. <3
SING IT IF YOU KNOW THE WORDS.
PAM-POM, BARA-PAM-POM, BARA-PAM-POM, BARA-PAM-POM
PAM, POM, BARA-PAM, POM, BARA-PAM (POM, BARA-PAM-POM, BARA-PAM-POM, BARA-PAM-POM)
PAM, POM, BARA-PAM, POM, BARA-PAM (BARA-PAM-POM, BARA-PAM-POM)
A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin exchanges a few laughs with Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) on set.
I’m in love with this picture.
“A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel…and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.”
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Bring. it.
Héctor starts to read A Clash of Kings, Book Two of A Song of Ice and Fire.
