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Tywin’s treatment of Tysha is one of the cruelest things in the entire series and I genuinely don’t understand how people try to justify it. She was just a young girl who loved Tyrion, and because Tywin couldn’t stand the idea of his son marrying a “commoner,” he destroyed both of them.

Forcing Tyrion to watch while she was assaulted, then forcing him to participate too, wasn’t “discipline” or “protecting the family name.” It was sadistic humiliation. There is no excuse for it.

And honestly, I don’t even want to imagine how terrified and broken Tysha must have felt during all of it. People sometimes discuss this storyline like it’s just another political move by Tywin, but there was a real human being at the center of that horror. She didn’t deserve any of it.

What makes it even worse is that Tyrion spent years believing she never loved him, because Jaime was forced to lie. Tywin didn’t just ruin one moment he permanently damaged Tyrion’s ability to trust love and kindness. That’s not greatness or “hard leadership.”

Honestly, one thing I’ll always respect about Jon is how he handled the whole House Umber and House Karstark situation.

Alys Karstark and Ned Umber were literally children. They didn’t choose what the adults in their families did, and punishing them for the actions of their fathers would’ve been cruel and shortsighted. Jon understood that. He saw scared kids caught in a war they didn’t create, instead of “traitors” that needed to suffer for optics.

That’s why I still side-eye Sansa a little during that scene. She, out of everyone, should know what it’s like to be trapped by your family name and the decisions of the adults around you. She spent years suffering because of who her relatives were, so hearing her push for punishment never sat right with me.

Jon showed mercy and intelligence there. Keeping the Umbers and Karstarks loyal through Alys and Ned was far smarter than creating another generation full of resentment. That scene honestly showed why he was acting more like a true Stark leader than almost anyone else at that point

still feel bad for Khartoum 😭

That horse was completely innocent.

People talk about the famous “horse head scene” because it’s shocking and iconic, but imagine being that beautiful animal caught in the middle of mafia business. Khartoum did absolutely nothing wrong and ended up paying the price for someone else’s power move.

Honestly one of the cruelest parts of the movie to me isn’t even the violence between gangsters. it’s the fact they killed an innocent horse just to send a message.

still think about the case of Kimberley Jackson from 1968 all the time.

She was only 5 months old when she was abducted from outside her home in Norton, County Durham. Her mother briefly looked away while making her a bottle and preparing a bath, and during those few moments a teenage boy reportedly took Kimberley in her pram. About 90 minutes later, she was found drowned in shallow water nearby.

What makes this case stick with me is how unbelievably random and senseless it feels. Witnesses actually saw the boy pushing the pram, police interviewed thousands of people, and yet nobody was ever identified or charged. Imagine living the rest of your life knowing someone took your baby in broad daylight and vanished without a trace.

There’s something especially haunting about older unsolved cases like this because so many answers were probably lost forever with time. This one genuinely never leaves my mind.

What are some forgetten cases? Lost in time?

genuinely still don’t understand why Eddard told Cersei the truth.

Like what did he THINK was going to happen?

He literally discovers that her children aren’t Robert knows how dangerous the House Lannister are, knows King’s Landing is full of corruption, and instead of immediately exposing her publicly or getting his daughters out safely first he WARNED her!!!

That scene frustrates me every single rewatch because it’s basically Ned handing her time to destroy him.

I get that he was honorable and didn’t want innocent children murdered, but in a place like King’s Landing honor almost feels like a weakness. Cersei was never going to quietly accept defeat and leave. She immediately started planning.

It’s tragic because Ned was probably one of the only genuinely decent people in the entire show, but his honesty and damn honor got himself and eventually so many others killed.

I’m 29 weeks pregnant and I need to know if anyone else has experienced this because I feel absolutely insane 😭

I am OBSESSED with musty smells right now. Like the smell of a bike repair shop, an old shed, a basement, a parking garage anything damp, dusty, stale, or slightly moldy smelling. If it smells old and weird, I want to stand there and inhale it forever.

I know this sounds ridiculous, but the craving for these smells is so intense it’s driving me crazy. I don’t want to eat anything weird, I just want to smell weird places 😅

Has anyone else had bizarre smell cravings during pregnancy? Please tell me I’m not alone.

Isn’t it kind of strange that Eazy reportedly had so many girlfriends, baby mothers, and hookups, yet we never hear about any of them being diagnosed with HIV? Statistically, you’d expect at least some public cases or stories to have come out. Was it kept private, never confirmed publicly, or is the story around it more complicated than people think?