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gwydion* Best of luck to my Canadian readers on your election tomorrow. Let us all hope for change.
* There was a typhoon ongoing in the Philippines Sunday morning.
* "Amazing Images Reveal How the Exclusion Zone Around Fukushima Has Been Abandoned to Become an Overgrown Wilderness:" http://designyoutrust.com/2015/10/amazing-images-reveal-how-the-exclusion-zone-around-fukushima-has-been-abandoned-to-become-an-overgrown-wilderness/
* "Deadly shooting sparks panic at ZombiCon in Fort Myers:" http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/18/us/zombicon-shooting-fort-myers-florida/
* "Chivalry Isn’t Dead, You Just Don’t Know What the Fuck it is.:" http://bettermyths.com/chivalry-isnt-dead-you-just-dont-know-what-the-fuck-it-is/
* "Fangs For The Fantasy: Meg Rosoff: Challenging Diversity in Children's Books:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/10/meg-rosoff-challenging-diversity-in.html
* The prezzie turned out to be a black, handwoven scarf. I am difficult about textures, but this one was smooth and soft enough that the test wearing went well, so I think it will work. I love the subtle texture of the weave. The amount of work and skill involved blows me away rather. LM is quite pleased with the wrapping material which involved some excellent crinkly tissue paper from which she has made her self an excellent mest.
* More Black Sails XVII in the comments, in which a commentator does an excellent job of explicating what I mean by Charles Vane's wooing pattern: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/131475492392/black-sails-rewatch-xvii
* Black Sails Rewatch, XVIII:
1. The politics of this episode are fascinating even while it gives us the Vane/Flint team up I think we all were longing for. I love this episode so much it is ridiculous. I think the theme of this episode is wake up calls and ugly truths.
2. Abigail is brilliant here. Look at her calm, politely worded, utterly appropriate fury with her father. She has measured his stories against his actions and the behavior of those he betrayed and condemned and she is having none of his bullshit. Her measured condemnation is so powerful because it is so reasoned and her disappointment and quiet contempt so powerful. She calls him out on framing her removal as for her own good as opposed to the real purpose of silencing her. It would be so easy to frame her as a naif, but the show doesn't do that. She may be inexperienced but she is no fool. All a long she has used her traditional feminine presentation and careful manners as armour. Here it is also a spear. The daughter he hoped to raise as a pliant extension of his political aims sees right through his lies and his attempts to keep her in ignorance have back fired.
One of the many, many things wrong with Game of Thrones the show vs. a Song of Ice and Fire is the was D&D stripped Sansa of her intelligence and her arc in the books whereby she basically teaches herself political survival skills while people are literally trying to do terrible violent occasionally deadly things to her. One of the many, many things Black sails does right is take a similar character: highly sheltered upbringing; traditionally feminine skills, manners, and presentation; bookish; intelligent; observant; and highly adaptable and shows her repeatedly using those shills over an arc during which she turns herself into someone able to play a political game for which she was deliberately unprepared by her father. Abigail's arc is much what Sansa's could have and should have been if D&D were not so blinded by their deep examined misogyny. I know I keep saying that this show is everything I wanted Game of Thrones to be but it failed to deliver. This is yet another example.
3. Oh Charles, look at that paper thin political veneer he's thrown over his extravagant gesture designed to impress Billy. yes, he's starting to bend from his absolutist position on the future of Nassau, but fundamentally, he is doing a very flashy thing that Billy wants him to do and won't it be impressive as hell if he pulls off the impossible yet again, hmmm, Billy? His First Mate is not falling for Charles' I'm totally not doing this to woo Billy to our crew denials and keeps pointing out the thinness of the veneer. I do think Charles is recalculating the long term future of Nassau, much as I assume Flint is doing. Both of them are intelligent long planners and both of their plan A's have fallen apart. Time to put together some sort of plan B. I've said elsewhere I will be fascinated to see if there positions move closer together and I have hopes of them dancing in and out of alliance and opposition in season three. There is basis for mutual respect and now some common ground but they both have so much pride and ego and a desperate need for face survival wise. there is so much room here for conflict and cooperation both, and we've seen Charles do that before too.
4. I love how much of this episode is about politics. You get the shipboard manuevers with vote counts and gaming out of scenarios and the power shifts. you get the public political theater in Charlestown with all the speeches on various sides trying to spin public opinion. You get the political fall out of eleanor's abduction in Nassau and Max taking political and economic advantage to expand and strengthen her power base. It's lovely really.
5. Look how good Billy is getting at thinking like a Quartermaster and expanding into captain skills. Episode One Billy would never have thought like that. He can see ahead to the high probability of Charles killing them all later. When Charles sidles up his his attempt to win Billy's cooperation, he does that beautiful little negotiating maneuver of rejecting him then calling him back to offer him a tool he can use to improve his plan: a political tool in the form of Abigail's diary. You get his practical political conversation with Silver about the head count for Quartermaster and the reminder that he sees Silver clear. You get the clever counterattack on the mutinying members of Charles' crew. Our little Billy is all grown up!
6. I love the Flint facial expressions through the whole vilifying and tempting sequence: the skeptical amusement at the descriptions of him, his responses to Ashe coming to lie and betray them yet again. What Ashe tries to go here is incredible manipulative. He pulls this whole thing about how James should help him save dead Miranda from posthumous indignity by signing a confession. It's the same trick as last episode really. You can tell it's bullshit because no one forced him to have them drag her coffin into the square and the crier's speech was clearly already written. him daring to evoke Miranda's memory in asking him to beg forgiveness. Seriously, this whole thing seems so intensely personal. Killing James Flint isn't enough he wants to destroy James McGraw utterly you can't convince me there isn't more there. Flint calls him out for cowardice in harsher and more explicit terms than Abigail did. I wonder does Ashe hate himself? How much? Or is he as conscienceless as Silver. I like to hope there is more Flint than Silver in him, mostly because I'd like him to have suffered under the contempt of those who he claimed to love.
7. Idelle is Quatermastering for Max now. Max has really come into her own as a power. "For people like us, power in this place is most effective when it is least perceived." I do think this is actually true of most kinds of power. It is why i had a tendency to take over any LARP I played in back when I was young and LARPing was new, until I got bored because it was too easy. The most powerful position is generally that of Kingmaker, of fixer, of power behind the throne. If you use force or throw your weight around, people tend to resent it. A hand on the tiller so gentle no one's there steers people best. One simply is pervasively useful and pleasant and before anyone notices the system can't function without you. Meanwhile, the anger and assassination attempts all focus on the figurehead with the target on their chest. I used to win a lot of games of Junta this way too. Look at how fast Max has learned.
8. We finally get a scene where Anne tells Jack what she is thinking about where they are. It is suitably sparse and very Anne. It's really beautiful, the way it ties the few fragments we have about her interior life: her conversation with Max in an earlier episode in which she wonders if by rescuing her Jack robbed her of learning to be strong on her own and her aborted conversation with Jack last episode. Being coded in a traditionally masculine way, she generally speaks in action instead of words, whereas Jack usually talks out his thoughts and feelings. He said previously to Max that he is not sure he ever knew her at all, and the fear of that, of not really knowing her interior life has hung over him most of this season, really. So this scene is a reversal: instead of Jack talking about his thoughts and feeling while strong silent type Anne makes the occasional laconic interjection, here Anne is speaking and he is listening to here with this expression of worried concentration as he waits to see if she is lowering the axe on him. It is here: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/131479626932/black-sails-xviii-anne-and-jack
9. "I have one regret. I regret ever coming to this place with the assumption that a reconciliation could be found. That reason could be a bridge between us. Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it." I think that Miranda and James’ fury all along has been that they foolishly expected more out of civilization. They implicitly believed that there was some sense of justice and fairness despite what was done to them instead of seeing the Empire for what it is: a system designed for the systematic oppression for the benefit of the few. Pirate society is honest about it’s inherent brutality; the empire lies. Pirate society is merit based and democratic for all its faults; the empire is built on the blood and bodies of slaves. I think the slave revolt on that ship earlier in the season and Flint freeing the slaves during the escape from Charlestown is not an accident. yes, it's expedient chaos, but I think it’s there to remind us and the characters just what the empire they are trying to rejoin really stands for. I think James, Miranda, and Eleanor have been barreling along ignoring all the Red Flags about what they are really dealing with, just as Charles has been barreling along ignoring all the warnings that the Empire is coming and things are going to change dramatically.
10. I wish we knew what Max was thinking about Eleanor's fate and not only what she wants people to think she is thinking.
11. I love that moment when it looks like Silver is picking the crew over personal safety, when actually he is mentally calculating the chances that Billy will take the ship now Flint's crew has the shackle key, and comes up with best to hold out and look heroically loyal to the crew then come out on the wrong side of the battle between the mutineers and Flint's crew. The sequence in his plot line from here to the end of the amputation is where he most reminds me of Jack Rackham. Silver has the same unshakable belief that his charm, his tongue, and his cleverness will get him out of any scrape. He honestly can't believe that he's not going to be fine in the end if he stalls and holds out long enough. It is an utter shock to him that there are real permanent consequences this time. Of course what is calculation of the odds of Billy's extreme competence vs. the lead mutineer and the skeleton crew looks to the crew like incredible self sacrifice on his part on their behalf. To them it looks like he loves them so much he literally gave a limb for him. *facepalm* I'm sure that given his earlier statements Billy sees right through him. It is equally clear in the final scene with Flint and Silver in the Captain's cabin that Flint does not. He still sees Silver as fundamentally like himself, ruthless, but needing the men as much as he needs them. ("The more those men need you, the more you need them. And it drives us to do the most unexpected things.") Flint is trusting that the relationship between officer and men on a ship like that is as seductive to Silver as it always was to James whether flint or McGraw. Of course it isn't. Silver has been completely honest with Flint about being in it for himself repeatedly, but Flint never really hears that. He reads John Silver's loss of limb as sacrifice just like the rest of the crew. *head desk*
12. Charles is testing James, I think. He sets it up to look like a really stupid plan and expects James to take that at face value, but instead of taking "More or less" for an answer, James thinks it through and clearly comes up with a good idea of what the actual plan is. you can see Charles watching James out of the corner of his eye, not expecting much and the way he looks at James when James displays he gets it. There is a lovely little low key power struggle as they work out further details. It is interesting to me that Flint suggests a very Charles twist to the plan, "That we remind them that they were right to be afraid." It reminds Charles that Flint is one of the most feared pirates for a reason despite all their political butting of heads and it also signals a policy shift on Flint's part. They are closer to meeting in the middle than either would likely admit to the other. There is a testing and a certain about of respect building going on throughout this whole sequence. The Vane/Billy scenes were about a one sided wooing. Here there is something more mutual going on from the moment Charles appears in the square until their last scene together back on the ship. They are feeling each other out afresh. Up until now they've been too blinded by ego and baggage to really look at each other, but Charles action is so extraordinary and their mutual survival now so entwined that they both set about taking each other's measure. It's most obvious in the verbal jousting, but I think the tandem violence of the escape is important too. There are different kinds of Captains. Look at Jack Rackham compared to Ned Low to see how extreme the separation in style and skill set can get. They have done each other massive damage for two seasons by not weighing each other accurately. Their opposition to each other has torn so much apart and fucked each other's plans up royally. They've been in scenes together and physically fought each other, but I think this is the first time they've really paid attention to who they are dealing with. On the platform, it's mostly corner of the eye and voices pitched not to carry because they are on display. Later is is the choreography of violence. When they get to the ship there is a new respect that there wasn't before. They are both monsters but they are known monsters now with some goals in common, if that makes sense. The can row the boat together literally and metaphorical when they need to. "I'll not hold pirates prisoner on this ship, not after today."
13. Even recovering from a no anesthesia amputation, Silver lies to manipulate Flint and cover his ass, thus setting up next season.
* Black Sails Rewatch Masterpost: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/131482824262/black-sails-season-i-2-rewatch-master-post
* I can't believe I finished the Black Sails commentary!
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* There was a typhoon ongoing in the Philippines Sunday morning.
* "Amazing Images Reveal How the Exclusion Zone Around Fukushima Has Been Abandoned to Become an Overgrown Wilderness:" http://designyoutrust.com/2015/10/amazing-images-reveal-how-the-exclusion-zone-around-fukushima-has-been-abandoned-to-become-an-overgrown-wilderness/
* "Deadly shooting sparks panic at ZombiCon in Fort Myers:" http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/18/us/zombicon-shooting-fort-myers-florida/
* "Chivalry Isn’t Dead, You Just Don’t Know What the Fuck it is.:" http://bettermyths.com/chivalry-isnt-dead-you-just-dont-know-what-the-fuck-it-is/
* "Fangs For The Fantasy: Meg Rosoff: Challenging Diversity in Children's Books:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/10/meg-rosoff-challenging-diversity-in.html
* The prezzie turned out to be a black, handwoven scarf. I am difficult about textures, but this one was smooth and soft enough that the test wearing went well, so I think it will work. I love the subtle texture of the weave. The amount of work and skill involved blows me away rather. LM is quite pleased with the wrapping material which involved some excellent crinkly tissue paper from which she has made her self an excellent mest.
* More Black Sails XVII in the comments, in which a commentator does an excellent job of explicating what I mean by Charles Vane's wooing pattern: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/131475492392/black-sails-rewatch-xvii
* Black Sails Rewatch, XVIII:
1. The politics of this episode are fascinating even while it gives us the Vane/Flint team up I think we all were longing for. I love this episode so much it is ridiculous. I think the theme of this episode is wake up calls and ugly truths.
2. Abigail is brilliant here. Look at her calm, politely worded, utterly appropriate fury with her father. She has measured his stories against his actions and the behavior of those he betrayed and condemned and she is having none of his bullshit. Her measured condemnation is so powerful because it is so reasoned and her disappointment and quiet contempt so powerful. She calls him out on framing her removal as for her own good as opposed to the real purpose of silencing her. It would be so easy to frame her as a naif, but the show doesn't do that. She may be inexperienced but she is no fool. All a long she has used her traditional feminine presentation and careful manners as armour. Here it is also a spear. The daughter he hoped to raise as a pliant extension of his political aims sees right through his lies and his attempts to keep her in ignorance have back fired.
One of the many, many things wrong with Game of Thrones the show vs. a Song of Ice and Fire is the was D&D stripped Sansa of her intelligence and her arc in the books whereby she basically teaches herself political survival skills while people are literally trying to do terrible violent occasionally deadly things to her. One of the many, many things Black sails does right is take a similar character: highly sheltered upbringing; traditionally feminine skills, manners, and presentation; bookish; intelligent; observant; and highly adaptable and shows her repeatedly using those shills over an arc during which she turns herself into someone able to play a political game for which she was deliberately unprepared by her father. Abigail's arc is much what Sansa's could have and should have been if D&D were not so blinded by their deep examined misogyny. I know I keep saying that this show is everything I wanted Game of Thrones to be but it failed to deliver. This is yet another example.
3. Oh Charles, look at that paper thin political veneer he's thrown over his extravagant gesture designed to impress Billy. yes, he's starting to bend from his absolutist position on the future of Nassau, but fundamentally, he is doing a very flashy thing that Billy wants him to do and won't it be impressive as hell if he pulls off the impossible yet again, hmmm, Billy? His First Mate is not falling for Charles' I'm totally not doing this to woo Billy to our crew denials and keeps pointing out the thinness of the veneer. I do think Charles is recalculating the long term future of Nassau, much as I assume Flint is doing. Both of them are intelligent long planners and both of their plan A's have fallen apart. Time to put together some sort of plan B. I've said elsewhere I will be fascinated to see if there positions move closer together and I have hopes of them dancing in and out of alliance and opposition in season three. There is basis for mutual respect and now some common ground but they both have so much pride and ego and a desperate need for face survival wise. there is so much room here for conflict and cooperation both, and we've seen Charles do that before too.
4. I love how much of this episode is about politics. You get the shipboard manuevers with vote counts and gaming out of scenarios and the power shifts. you get the public political theater in Charlestown with all the speeches on various sides trying to spin public opinion. You get the political fall out of eleanor's abduction in Nassau and Max taking political and economic advantage to expand and strengthen her power base. It's lovely really.
5. Look how good Billy is getting at thinking like a Quartermaster and expanding into captain skills. Episode One Billy would never have thought like that. He can see ahead to the high probability of Charles killing them all later. When Charles sidles up his his attempt to win Billy's cooperation, he does that beautiful little negotiating maneuver of rejecting him then calling him back to offer him a tool he can use to improve his plan: a political tool in the form of Abigail's diary. You get his practical political conversation with Silver about the head count for Quartermaster and the reminder that he sees Silver clear. You get the clever counterattack on the mutinying members of Charles' crew. Our little Billy is all grown up!
6. I love the Flint facial expressions through the whole vilifying and tempting sequence: the skeptical amusement at the descriptions of him, his responses to Ashe coming to lie and betray them yet again. What Ashe tries to go here is incredible manipulative. He pulls this whole thing about how James should help him save dead Miranda from posthumous indignity by signing a confession. It's the same trick as last episode really. You can tell it's bullshit because no one forced him to have them drag her coffin into the square and the crier's speech was clearly already written. him daring to evoke Miranda's memory in asking him to beg forgiveness. Seriously, this whole thing seems so intensely personal. Killing James Flint isn't enough he wants to destroy James McGraw utterly you can't convince me there isn't more there. Flint calls him out for cowardice in harsher and more explicit terms than Abigail did. I wonder does Ashe hate himself? How much? Or is he as conscienceless as Silver. I like to hope there is more Flint than Silver in him, mostly because I'd like him to have suffered under the contempt of those who he claimed to love.
7. Idelle is Quatermastering for Max now. Max has really come into her own as a power. "For people like us, power in this place is most effective when it is least perceived." I do think this is actually true of most kinds of power. It is why i had a tendency to take over any LARP I played in back when I was young and LARPing was new, until I got bored because it was too easy. The most powerful position is generally that of Kingmaker, of fixer, of power behind the throne. If you use force or throw your weight around, people tend to resent it. A hand on the tiller so gentle no one's there steers people best. One simply is pervasively useful and pleasant and before anyone notices the system can't function without you. Meanwhile, the anger and assassination attempts all focus on the figurehead with the target on their chest. I used to win a lot of games of Junta this way too. Look at how fast Max has learned.
8. We finally get a scene where Anne tells Jack what she is thinking about where they are. It is suitably sparse and very Anne. It's really beautiful, the way it ties the few fragments we have about her interior life: her conversation with Max in an earlier episode in which she wonders if by rescuing her Jack robbed her of learning to be strong on her own and her aborted conversation with Jack last episode. Being coded in a traditionally masculine way, she generally speaks in action instead of words, whereas Jack usually talks out his thoughts and feelings. He said previously to Max that he is not sure he ever knew her at all, and the fear of that, of not really knowing her interior life has hung over him most of this season, really. So this scene is a reversal: instead of Jack talking about his thoughts and feeling while strong silent type Anne makes the occasional laconic interjection, here Anne is speaking and he is listening to here with this expression of worried concentration as he waits to see if she is lowering the axe on him. It is here: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/131479626932/black-sails-xviii-anne-and-jack
9. "I have one regret. I regret ever coming to this place with the assumption that a reconciliation could be found. That reason could be a bridge between us. Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it." I think that Miranda and James’ fury all along has been that they foolishly expected more out of civilization. They implicitly believed that there was some sense of justice and fairness despite what was done to them instead of seeing the Empire for what it is: a system designed for the systematic oppression for the benefit of the few. Pirate society is honest about it’s inherent brutality; the empire lies. Pirate society is merit based and democratic for all its faults; the empire is built on the blood and bodies of slaves. I think the slave revolt on that ship earlier in the season and Flint freeing the slaves during the escape from Charlestown is not an accident. yes, it's expedient chaos, but I think it’s there to remind us and the characters just what the empire they are trying to rejoin really stands for. I think James, Miranda, and Eleanor have been barreling along ignoring all the Red Flags about what they are really dealing with, just as Charles has been barreling along ignoring all the warnings that the Empire is coming and things are going to change dramatically.
10. I wish we knew what Max was thinking about Eleanor's fate and not only what she wants people to think she is thinking.
11. I love that moment when it looks like Silver is picking the crew over personal safety, when actually he is mentally calculating the chances that Billy will take the ship now Flint's crew has the shackle key, and comes up with best to hold out and look heroically loyal to the crew then come out on the wrong side of the battle between the mutineers and Flint's crew. The sequence in his plot line from here to the end of the amputation is where he most reminds me of Jack Rackham. Silver has the same unshakable belief that his charm, his tongue, and his cleverness will get him out of any scrape. He honestly can't believe that he's not going to be fine in the end if he stalls and holds out long enough. It is an utter shock to him that there are real permanent consequences this time. Of course what is calculation of the odds of Billy's extreme competence vs. the lead mutineer and the skeleton crew looks to the crew like incredible self sacrifice on his part on their behalf. To them it looks like he loves them so much he literally gave a limb for him. *facepalm* I'm sure that given his earlier statements Billy sees right through him. It is equally clear in the final scene with Flint and Silver in the Captain's cabin that Flint does not. He still sees Silver as fundamentally like himself, ruthless, but needing the men as much as he needs them. ("The more those men need you, the more you need them. And it drives us to do the most unexpected things.") Flint is trusting that the relationship between officer and men on a ship like that is as seductive to Silver as it always was to James whether flint or McGraw. Of course it isn't. Silver has been completely honest with Flint about being in it for himself repeatedly, but Flint never really hears that. He reads John Silver's loss of limb as sacrifice just like the rest of the crew. *head desk*
12. Charles is testing James, I think. He sets it up to look like a really stupid plan and expects James to take that at face value, but instead of taking "More or less" for an answer, James thinks it through and clearly comes up with a good idea of what the actual plan is. you can see Charles watching James out of the corner of his eye, not expecting much and the way he looks at James when James displays he gets it. There is a lovely little low key power struggle as they work out further details. It is interesting to me that Flint suggests a very Charles twist to the plan, "That we remind them that they were right to be afraid." It reminds Charles that Flint is one of the most feared pirates for a reason despite all their political butting of heads and it also signals a policy shift on Flint's part. They are closer to meeting in the middle than either would likely admit to the other. There is a testing and a certain about of respect building going on throughout this whole sequence. The Vane/Billy scenes were about a one sided wooing. Here there is something more mutual going on from the moment Charles appears in the square until their last scene together back on the ship. They are feeling each other out afresh. Up until now they've been too blinded by ego and baggage to really look at each other, but Charles action is so extraordinary and their mutual survival now so entwined that they both set about taking each other's measure. It's most obvious in the verbal jousting, but I think the tandem violence of the escape is important too. There are different kinds of Captains. Look at Jack Rackham compared to Ned Low to see how extreme the separation in style and skill set can get. They have done each other massive damage for two seasons by not weighing each other accurately. Their opposition to each other has torn so much apart and fucked each other's plans up royally. They've been in scenes together and physically fought each other, but I think this is the first time they've really paid attention to who they are dealing with. On the platform, it's mostly corner of the eye and voices pitched not to carry because they are on display. Later is is the choreography of violence. When they get to the ship there is a new respect that there wasn't before. They are both monsters but they are known monsters now with some goals in common, if that makes sense. The can row the boat together literally and metaphorical when they need to. "I'll not hold pirates prisoner on this ship, not after today."
13. Even recovering from a no anesthesia amputation, Silver lies to manipulate Flint and cover his ass, thus setting up next season.
* Black Sails Rewatch Masterpost: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/131482824262/black-sails-season-i-2-rewatch-master-post
* I can't believe I finished the Black Sails commentary!
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com