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May 22 2012
May 20 2012
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May 19 2012
Extraodinary .... herd of Manta Rays .... incredible shot
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hanzieh
May 18 2012
And then there are some things that are just
don’t square with history. In some sense I’m trying to respond to that.
[For example] the arranged marriage, which you see constantly in the
historical fiction and television show, almost always when there’s an
arranged marriage, the girl doesn’t want it and rejects it and she runs
off with the stable boy instead. This never fucking happened. It just
didn’t. There were thousands, tens of thousand, perhaps hundreds of
thousands of arranged marriages in the nobility through the thousand
years of Middle Ages and people went through with them. That’s how you
did it. It wasn’t questioned. Yeah, occasionally you would want someone
else, but you wouldn’t run off with the stable boy.
And that’s another of my pet peeves about fantasies. The bad authors adopt the class structures of the Middle Ages; where you had the royalty and then you had the nobility and you had the merchant class and then you have the peasants and so forth. But they don’t’ seem to realize what it actually meant. They have scenes where the spunky peasant girl tells off the pretty prince. The pretty prince would have raped the spunky peasant girl. He would have put her in the stocks and then had garbage thrown at her. You know.
I mean, the class structures in places like this had teeth. They had consequences. And people were brought up from their childhood to know their place and to know that duties of their class and the privileges of their class. It was always a source of friction when someone got outside of that thing. And I tried to reflect that.
And that’s another of my pet peeves about fantasies. The bad authors adopt the class structures of the Middle Ages; where you had the royalty and then you had the nobility and you had the merchant class and then you have the peasants and so forth. But they don’t’ seem to realize what it actually meant. They have scenes where the spunky peasant girl tells off the pretty prince. The pretty prince would have raped the spunky peasant girl. He would have put her in the stocks and then had garbage thrown at her. You know.
I mean, the class structures in places like this had teeth. They had consequences. And people were brought up from their childhood to know their place and to know that duties of their class and the privileges of their class. It was always a source of friction when someone got outside of that thing. And I tried to reflect that.
- George R.R. Martin
May 17 2012
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May 16 2012
“— Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal![]()
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faraska
why are there 2 "Wien"
May 15 2012
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kortufka
A lot of people still confuse Austria and Australia, I hope that makes it clear.
May 14 2012
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