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the three that died in the yellow of autumn grass: I am disappointed that Sandor didn't cry.

corseque:

I am interested to the point of fixation on characters that are used explore gender roles and social identity and abuse recovery.

When a grown-ass man who is a self-aggrandized heartless killing machine breaks down and sobs “like a little baby” after re-living the worst traumatic experience of…

Filed under got corseque reblog this is sad and true I cry for the wasted potential of the show :/

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I actually liked Selyse a lot. I find her a very sympathetic, tragic character (much more so than in the books, to be honest).

Tara Fitzgerald (apart from being extremely pretty) portrays Selyse as a broken woman, who, stricken with grief over the loss of three of her children (and a near-death of her only surviving one) and married to Stannis - a cold and distant man, never intimate with her and uncomfortable in her presence - is only capable of coping with her situation through religious fervor.
Selyse keeping her stillborn children preserved in glass in her own bedroom is morbid and disturbing - but, as with Lysa, her excentrities are the result of a terrible past trauma, the failure to make justice to what they perceive to be their defining responsibility - to produce an heir to their husbands - and the fact that they had to face it alone.
It’s quite unfortunate that, judging from her tag, she will probably be remembered primarily as the crazy-fetus-lady.

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ssandorclegane:

the greyscale was rly well done but i thought theyd??? colour her hair?? or give her a wig/???

Actually, I think, genetically-wise, it is possible for a brother of a man who is unable to have blonde children (Robert) to have blonde children (Stannis, in this case). I’m not sure about what the mechanisms of determining the exact colour actually are, but say if Stannis’ and Robert’s mother and father both had dark hair, but also carried genes for fair hair, then Robert could have inherited only the “dark” alleles from both of them, and Stannis could have inherited one fair and one dark allele. So Robert would be able only to have dark-haired children, notwithstanding the colour of their mother’s hair, if we presume the “dark hair gene” is dominant. If Selyse happens to have a (recessive) “blonde gene” too, Shireen could very well be of a fair fenotype (have blonde hair).

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