doseofwords:

closetsoftheredkeep:

Sansa’s Wedding Gown Part III:

The lovely embroidery band was created by artist Michele Carragher:

This is her description of the story that the band tells:

For Sansa’s wedding dress the designer Michele Clapton wanted to have an embroidered band that wrapped around which symbolically told Sansa’s life from the Tully and Stark beginnings to the entanglement with the Lannisters.

Her story starts at her lower back where the Tully fish and Stark dire wolf are entwined. As we move round to the front the Lannister Lion is becoming dominant over the dire wolf and at the back neck the Lions head is stamped onto Sansa. The dress colour was still very much Sansa Stark and the embroidery had pale golden tones but woven through the story are ripe red pomegranates, the red colour symbolising the growing Lannister influence over her.”

The pomegranate detail is interesting and invocative. Catherine of Aragon chose the pomegranate as her personal symbol as pomegranates are symbolic of fertility. The goddess Persephone ate a pomegranate given to her by Hades. This bound her to the underworld. She remain there for a third of the year, instead of being returned completely to her mother Demeter.

Sounds kind of familiar doesn’t it?

I don’t know if it was intentional, but having the Stark and Tully sigils form Sansa’s backbone is perfect.

This is so cool.

danielleh:

IT’S A BIRTHDAY MIRACLE

(In the style of the Dead Milkmen)
This is the story
Of the best birthday
EVER!

freshome:

300 Year Old Farmhouse Elegantly Converted Into Modern Living Space

This is exactly how I pictured the house in the south of France in The Magician King.

doseofwords:

game of thrones character per season:
↳ Jon Snow (Season 1)

The burden of being the handsomest curly haired British boy on my television lies solely on your shoulders now, Jon Snow. I hope you don’t take this lightly.

Jon Snow always looks like he’s just waked and baked and then had a good cry and can’t believe you expect him to clean his room.

kfan:

A new story about Amanda Bynes and S4 of Arrested Development and The Celebrity Machine and social media and Apple iOS and clickbait titles and health care reform and rape culture and the new Daft Punk and 

I read this and then felt like how you feel after you finish your breakfast on the first morning of vacation. Ah! That was lovely, now I can start my day.

Ah, I can hear it mating under the bedroom window at 3 am just like it was yesterday.

Never ordering from here again.

odditiesoflife:

The Merry Cemetery

In Săpânţa, Romania, there lies a very different kind of cemetery. Rather than the usual dark and ominous crypts and tombstones reminding us of our eventual demise, the Merry Cemetery chooses to remember the past lives of its residents with brightly painted tombstones and even more colorful stories about the people themselves.

The idea for the unusual crosses was started by 14 year old town resident Stan Ioan Pătraşe. By 1935, Pătraş began carving clever verse and ironic poems about the deceased, as well as painting the crosses with the deceased’s image, often depicting their manner of death.

Over 600 beautifully carved wooden crosses display the life stories, personal descriptions and final moments of almost everyone who has died in the town of Săpânţa. The illustrations show everything from soldiers being shot and beheaded to a poor soul being struck by a car.

The epitaphs reveal surprising truths and a fair amount of good humor. For example one cross reads, “Underneath this heavy cross. Lies my mother in law… Try not to wake her up. For if she comes back home. She’ll bite my head off.”

I really miss The Plug. Nobody’s brain works like Jay Carlson’s.

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