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i was walking past someone tonight and i happened to look at them and i was steering my eyes down- i saw they had tHIS GIF ON THIER PHONE PAGE AND IT WAS THE WEIRDEST FEELING I HAVE EVER FELT IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. my pace went from sloth to bolt from the olympics real quick.
0 to 100 nigga real quick
Lol you walked faster because the person had an ass on their phone
I walked faster because the person had MY ass on their phone. I thought I made that perfectly clear, but clearly some people are a little dense
beatriceinmessina asked: Why do you hate Ser Jorah so much (other than that he's creeping on a sixteen-year-old girl?) I don't like him much either, but please explain.
He’s an unrepentant slaver. He refuses to acknowledge that he’s ever done anything wrong. He doesn’t give a shit about Dany as a person. He doesn’t care that she told him no. He has no ideology outside of his own pleasure. He’s Littlefinger with a sword. He’s Victarion without even the pretense of a culture that encourages his awful behavior; Jorah’s fellow feudal noble Eddard Stark found his treatment of peasants so appalling that he came for Jorah’s head.
So that’s why he’s a terrible person. As for why I think he’s also a bad character, it’s because he’s fucking boring. Jaime and Cersei are bad people, but they’re complex and compelling, and they have arcs; Littlefinger at least has his complicated schemes to keep me interested; Victarion’s hilarious in his not-getting-it-ness. Jorah’s just relentlessly awful. There’s nothing more to him. Which is an accurate portrait of your average Gamergater or Rabid Puppy, sure, but those assholes are boring too, and don’t need any more representation than they already have. Jorah has way too much screen time (so to speak) for such a one-note douchebag.
I don’t agree always agree with @poorquentyn’s character analyses (nearly always, but we differ on Victarion Greyjoy, who he finds hilariously over the top and I think is a repulsive monster) but as always he absolutely nails why Jorah Mormont is a horrifyingly awful human.
To be clear, Victarion Greyjoy is absolutely a repulsive monster, but you can’t tell me that him wanting to sail across the Dothraki Sea, or accusing the ocean of being the wrong color, or being shat on by monkeys in the middle of a dramatic moment, isn’t funny. Same deal with the Yunkish Masters–they’re monstrous slavers and hysterical morons. Just look at the nicknames the Windblown give them!
I don’t think the idea is that Jaime can throw a child out a window and still be a good person; I think the idea is that he’s a bad person, the kind that throws a child out a window, but draws our empathy anyway in those post-hand-loss chapters. Same deal with Cersei and the Walk. It’s not that they suddenly stop being villains. It’s that they’re complex, compelling, thoroughly human villains.
but hasnt jaimie been redeemed? a character can do bad things, repent and then atone after which he cant be considered a villain anymore, now admitedly its been a while since i read the books and this may not actually apply to jaimie
I really don’t think Jamie has earned any sort of redemption. For that matter I’m not sure he repented that much either?
I mean. He regrets the Tysha thing, sure. Does he regret pushing Bran off a window? Does he regret fathering three bastards and sparking a civil war? He certainly doesn’t regret killing Aerys, which, fair. Saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But then proceeded to keep those same lives at risk by not telling anyone.
Agreed. What Jaime wants isn’t to be a good person. What Jaime wants is to feel good about himself. Being an antihero used to make him feel good. Now it doesn’t. So he wants to be a true knight not because it’s the right thing to do, but because he needs a new self-image (he invokes Tywin at Riverrun for the same reason). “Sansa Stark is my last chance for honor” is a fundamentally self-centered statement. It’s all about him. That’s why I say Jaime’s is an identity arc, not a redemption arc.
