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The fact that the Rhoynar also had a story about the Long Night and no one ever seems to remember it is M A D D E N I N G

clock squirrel girl my sister is the true one above all

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85. bran is grrm’s central character but grrm hasn’t written enough chapters for him and that’s why so many people have bad takes on him — too many chapters pass between his & people forget to paint a coherent picture of bran in their heads as they read

83. grrm wants to write nuanced female characters with untraditional fantasy roles but he also wants bodice ripper damsel in distress naked lady fantasy tropes & that’s what makes evaluating the female characters in his storyline difficult (and this doesn’t just apply to dany)

59. grrm's orientalism is a separate issue from whether essos or westeros is more advanced. essos is more advanced, both politically and technologically; the orientalism lies in grrm's construction of the cultural bases of essos vs westeros

54. magic will be back by the end of asoiaf. bran cannot be a king without magic, because it is a magical mandate that will make him king and narratively justify his ascension, and bran cannot wield greensight or warg or skinchange if the overall magic in the world dies out.

also clock that the direwolves and dragons both went into extinction roughly 50 years of each other, both aligning with the death of magic. so its ridic how much the fandom denies targaryen (specifically dany's) magic but will welcome stark magic with open arms.

not to make everything about magic and dragons as i usually do but lets also talk about that westeros experienced a record breaking peace of 120+ years under dragon-ruling targaryens. again, dragons are associated with dual meaning, one of which is PEACE AND PROSPERITY

50. slavery in westeros does exist, through sexual enslavement, wartime enslavement, prison labor. tyrion and arya both compare what they've seen and gone through to essosi enslavement.

49. if grrm does not write jeyne poole confronting the starks for what happens to her, her storyline will remain an exploitative narrative of a woman suffering for a man's redemption

clockkkkkkk. cause people dont talk about just how well dany fits into this archetype (though admittingly, her being this while simultaenously being the chosen one/hero/exiled king is whats subversive. this archetype is usually for a side character or love interest or antagonist)

its also explicitly important that both jon and dany parallel specific lovers/couples of the past. brynden = jon, shiera = dany visenya = jon, aegon = dany (more so later) lyanna = jon, rhaegar = dany in two of these instances, its jon's starkness that connects him to them.

37. jon is overall a stark, and a wolf, and him accepting parts of his targaryen self (being a dragon rider, having a future targaryen wife, being rhaegar targaryen's biological son, being a dark sister figure like visenya) won't take away from that. again see: brynden, jace

#like for a navya asoiaf hot take that isn’t related to daenerys

One of these tweets is not like the others, but anyway. Powerscaling is dumb. Franklin Richards (with help) created this multiverse based on the one Jean Grey gave birth to. At some point, you’ve gotta admit: these “infinitely powerful” characters are all… infinitely powerful.