The Flowers & The Weeds, The Birds & The Bees

rinielle:

neohellion replied to your post: neohellion replied to your post: Anonymous asked:…

Do you have any ships on the show?

Mmm… I totally ship Robb and Talisa (but I’ve heard she isn’t exactly in the books?)… though not as much as I ship Robb and Me.

Jon and Ygritte, totally shipping Arya/Gendry but that’s partly Tumblr’s fault that I already shipped that before I even started watching xP… Tyrion and Shae too =). 

Sansa and all the good things in the whole world… 

All the women and being generally awesome…

XD

Haha, not that you need my two cents but I am sooo excited by you jumping into this fandom that I just have to talk about it!

Yeah, Talisa is a new character… and she is WAY better than his love interest in the books, so I get why they changed her and made her awesome. Robb/Being Handsome… there is no finer ship. Lol. (I got chills when he became King in the North, both in the book and on the show).

I was never really a fan of the Jon/Ygritte ship because in the book it is mostly about sex, and that’s not usually enough to get me shipping. However Ygritte in the show has so much more appeal and I’m really loving their story come to life. You will have to let me know what you think once you read Clash of Kings.

Again I was never a fan of Tyrion/Shae either. In fact I didn’t like Shae at all in the books. They’ve made her much more compelling in the show. So I can see the appeal there. Again, you’ll have to let me know what you think when you get to them in the books.

EEEE! Arya/Gendry is one of my OTPs if you couldn’t tell already. I’m so excited for you to read about them. Plus I love who they cast as Gendry. He is just perfect.

I agree, all the woman being awesome is by far the best thing about this series.

rinielle:

whitters23 replied to your post: neohellion replied to your post: Anonymous asked:…

Have you just started reading the books now? What do you think? Are you in love with them yet? I want to know all of you thoughts!! XD

Eeeep. Yes, I just started a few days ago, but I keep forgetting to take the book with me to work in the morning and I’m so tired when I get back, so I’m not that far in at the moment. About up to where Mormont is asking Tyrion to plead the case of the Knight’s watch to the King and his father.

I do love the series already though, and I’m impressed so far at least with how well the television show has done translating the books to the screen… I mean there will always be discrepancies and I think there’s quite a bit more sex in the show than is actually described in the book, but overall it so far seems to be staying pretty much in line, and pretty true to the main storylines. 

I adore the writing style, it’s so full of description and feeling, but it’s also so easy to read and follow. So for my work tired and slightly slow mind it’s awesome and it’s helping me get back into the habit of reading often - something I sadly lost as of late, with work troubles and money troubles and the minor obsession I have with Castleville and Tumblr xP.

I wish I could give you more indepth coherent thoughts but as I say, work tired and slow right now xD… maybewhen I’m a little further into the books… or if I have a holiday o-O’ (not likely -_-‘).

The first season really does stick close to the book, which is WONDERFUL, but the second season starts to deter pretty drastically from what’s written, which for the most part I can understand (you have to try and fit sooo much into the series, and you have to do it so that viewers who haven’t read the books can actually follow the show).

I finished the series in March but with the second season coming out and all of these people talking about theories that I didn’t pick up on I had to start the books again. You know it’s a good series when… haha.

I think Daenerys was my favourite character for the first couple of books. She’s so wonderful and my heart goes out to her so much in the first book. I just wanted to hug her all the time. I actually cried when I read the part where Drogo dies! And of course Arya is amazing, she’s my favourite character now. Tyrion is a close second. He’s so quick and full of smart ass remarks. They couldn’t have cast a better person on the show. My other favourite is Jaime, but you won’t see why until the 3rd book.

Anyways, as you are reading the books you’ll have to let me know all of your ships and theories and what not! I don’t have enough people to discuss this book with. xP

(via rinielle)