The reality: The ICJ has dismissed Israel's request to throw out the genocide case and has ruled in favour of South Africa pursuing the genocide case at the ICJ. It also ruled in favour of most provisional measures.
Zionists:
She learns that knights are not a song - that she won’t have a Florian - very harshly. But she still strives to be kind, which I love.
A lady’s courtesy is her armour and all that jazz
Coming onto my barely used non private account to say that while Sansa learns the brutality and harshness of the world from the hands of sworn swords/knights (kingsguard, clegane etc) — we see her exhibit growth in compassion and understanding in those same interactions
Was re-reading Alayne I from Winds, and found Sansa has indeed begun to learn this lesson. When she greets the Waynwood party, everyone else simply tries to ignore Ser Wallace Waynwood’s debilitating stutter. Sansa, however, helps him out when he is clearly struggling.
I’m so overwhelmed with emotions over this piece of thick paper.
It tells me that despite everything, I didn’t just survive - I met the goal I set myself in that time. Finish it. No matter the outcome, finish it.
Have you read Smith of Wootton Major?
First published in 1967 - and reissued on 5 September 2005, edited by Verlyn Flieger - the book is set outside Middle-earth and tells the story of Smith who visits the realm of Faery. And, it is beautifully illustrated by Pauline Baynes!