i'm not sure what goes here

I’ve seen people accussing Dany οf paranoia at ACOK because she’s worrying that Westerosi politicians will make another attempt to kill her. According to them, it’s a sign of falling into the same madness with Viserys because at the beginning of the first book she seemed to question the existance of hired assasins while on the second one she worries over it.

In my opinion, the way those people read Dany’s chapters is so biased and narrow minded. The reason  Dany changed attitude towards the issue is simple: at the end of AGOT, she was nearly poisoned by a person send by Robert and his supporters. In my opinon Dany being wary of possible assassins send from enemies who has already done an attempt to kill her in the past, isn’t a sign of paranoia. It’s a sign of common sense and caution.

“ao3 should have an algorithm” ao3 should continue only giving me exactly what I ask for which happens because I know how to use the search, sort, and filter functions

you know what actually yes i am going to say it in a post proper. i see the garrus and wrex comparisons a lot in the "ashley is a racist" arguments, tali to a lesser extent. but i don't think we talk enough about how the fandom at large is like "i can excuse mordin actively experimenting on krogans and creating the genophage to cull them and DEFENDING his actions for all of me2 before finally feeling some remorse and trying to fix it in me3, but i draw the line at ashley saying some off-colour shit about aliens that she apologises for after going through character growth in the space of one game"

funniest thing about the “reddit migration” is that I haven’t seen a single post shitting on anyone coming from Reddit. when twitter started bleeding users everyone was firing rent-lowering posts but with redditors skittering about we’ve left the doors open and put out food bowls

We’re all less ashamed of being on reddit (only on the good subreddits, ofc) than we were of being on twitter (getting angry at clouds)

No one cares if a reddit emigre recognizes them

Alright, I’m back to making crackpot ASOIAF theories and today’s theory is that Jon Snow will be the subject of the ADOS epilogue; he may not be the actual POV, but will be the main subject (if that makes sense). My reasoning for this comes for a very important (but very vague) hint about ADOS.

Daniel Abraham, he guy who did the comics, stated that there is a throwaway line in AGOT that would be important to the last scene in ADOS.

He reaffirmed this again in 2019:

So we wonder, what is this important line of dialogue that will be referenced in the last scenes of ADOS? Well, I have a candidate:

- Prologue, AGOT

This is the very first line in the series. One could say that it’s the series opener. It features a ranging up North headed by Waymar Royce - a hot headed 18 yr old who’s as inexperienced as they come. This prologue mainly introduces the Night’s Watch and the Others (the series main antagonists). There’s also mentions of the wildlings, who have been warring with the Night’s Watch for quite some time.

So why is this important? Well, fans have made the connection between Waymar Royce and Jon Snow. In fact, there’s a very convincing theory out there that Waymar (in this prologue) is meant to be a Jon Snow stand in. And part of the theory is that the Others who come upon Waymar and the ranging party were looking for the Last Hero….they were looking for Jon Snow, whether they knew it or not. Like, how Waymar is described in the prologue is how Jon is described in the next chapter (Bran I). Their personalities are even a little similar in that book. Both are young, rash, hot headed and inexperienced. The difference is Waymar’s story is ending and Jon’s is just beginning. Jon won’t stay that way because he develops as a character throughout.

So think about it. Wouldn’t it be quite fitting for the series closer to mirror the series opener and be about a ranging up north? But this time, it’s not going to feature a fight with the Others since they’ll already be defeated - with Jon Snow being one of the leading figures. There won’t be talk of fighting with the wildlings because the Freefolk have already been brought over - by Jon himself. It won’t feature death (of the ranging party or the emergence of the Others) but will be about life - the new ranging party will be going out to look for signs of spring (life) and not death.

Where the series opener (prologue) is about death and war, the series closer (epilogue) will be about life and peace. Where we have a hot headed 18 yr old Waymar Royce to lead this small party, we’ll have 18 yr old Jon who’s wiser, more capable, and more experienced; Jon is forever 18 since you know, he died (probably) and is essentially stuck in time and what not). Unlike Waymar, Jon will be an agent of reconciliation, spring after winter, life after death; all these things define his arc and leadership.

Plus, Jon’s arc will come full circle. He’ll be a ranger, steward, and builder all at once; ranging to find new land for people to occupy after the WfTD, a builder of new nations, and a steward to rule over the land he has found/conquered. He’ll be the lord commander of a new Watch (but this one looks for signs of spring/life not winter/death). He’ll be the king too (a new version of the king beyond the wall but not a 1:1 of what Mance was since there probably won’t be a wall anymore, so he’ll just be the king). He’ll still be watching and seeing, important motifs in his arc throughout the series.

And it’s not too far fetched to say that Jon may go on a ranging up north sometime in the future. In fact, there might be sufficient foreshadowing.

- Tyrion III, AGOT

So yeah….

The TL;DR of this is that the series epilogue will feature a ranging to go find signs of spring (life) headed by Jon Snow, the Last Hero and the true king; not a stand in like the prologue, but the real deal. And maybe he’ll go further and further up north until he reaches the Land of Always Winter/the Heart of Winter where he will take guardianship/rulership of it. Honestly, I guess I’m just kind of obsessed with the idea of the boy named Snow going north to become the true King of Winter when all is said and done.

you ever think about how the asoiaf fandom will go on and on about Arya’s “traditionally masculine” journey and then you read her chapters and it’s like

if all of these are inherently masculine then I do wonder what is considered acceptably “feminine” in these people’s eyes. crying in a dress? because she does that too… but y’know this fandom and their desperation to separate Arya from her girlhood lol

Arya:

Insists women are just as important as men, and should have the right to bear their crest even when they marry into another house.

Adopts and protects an even younger little girl, opposing a group of boys to do so.

Befriends sex workers.

Avenges SA victims.

Is only ever opposed to wearing a dress on one occasion, because A) the dress in question was ugly (not liking a dress because it’s ugly has got to be one of the most “girly” things ever), and B) she was treated differently by the brotherhood on the basis of her gender when she wore a dress because they were reminded she was a girl.

Her celebrity heroes are actually all heroines.

Notice how Arya doesn’t idealize Aemon the Dragonknight or Ser Arthur Dayne. She has heroines, not heroes. She bosses around almost every guy she meets and tells them what’s what, but she doesn’t boss around other girls. She has way more beef with men than women.

But yeah, she totally fits into the “not like other girls” trope. Yeah totally. 🙄

Some people just can’t understand nuance or the idea that feminine and masculine are ideas with broad meaning, not literal things with laws and rules. Wearing dresses and cooking doesn’t inherently = feminine. And adventuring and wearing pants does not explicitly = masculine.

IMMEDIATELY STOPPED WHAT I WAS DOING (ACTUALLY IMPORTANT WORK) TO RUN TO MY BROTHER'S ROOM (IN A WORK TEAMS MEATING) TO WAVE AT HIM AND MOUTH. BERLUSCONI DIED!! I HAD TO DO IT 3 TIMES BEFORE HE GOT IT. HE PUNCHED THE AIR AND MOUTHED I LOVE YOU!! WE IMMEDIATELY TEXTED THE FAMILY GROUP CHAT

WE'RE POPPING BOTTLES AND DANCING ON TABLES TODAY. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING 🥂

Now that Pat Robertson's dead do you think his company will finally accept a buyout of their contractually obligated timeslot on Freeform (née ABC Family) or are they still absolutely committed to it

For anyone who doesn't know the history (or isn't American and doesn't know what this means)

In the 70s Christian Broadcasting Network founded a family TV channel they later sold. When they sold it they included a clause saying the new owners have to give them a timeslot for The 700 Club, and let them take over the network a couple times a year for a full day of fundraising.

During this time their family channel passed through the ownership of Fox and ABC, and during its time as ABC Family it gravitated towards teen dramas. Its brand now is actually not just teen dramas, but often queer, diverse teen dramas. Meanwhile they've been forced to platform a show where the host calls 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina God's punishment for homosexuality (there's also rumors that they forced the network to keep "Family" in the name long after it became a teen network)

By all accounts they've been offered copious amounts of Disney Money and have turned it down every time. The contract is so ironclad Disney lawyers can't find a way to get out of it. Their contract also mandates they can't bury it late at night either, so The 700 Club airs at 10/9 in the morning and 11/10 at night (the latter prevents Freeform from launching any kind of late night block), with disclaimers in front of it. Incredibly snarky disclaimers

Meanwhile their post-700 Club disclaimer looks like this

Pat Robertson's show is holding a network hostage due to a contract from three decades and two owners ago, and the network openly despises them. Literally nothing else like it

Like as an example of the type of Extremely Un-700 Clubian programming Freeform put on around it, at one point Pat Robertson's lead-in was The Fosters, a show about a interracial lesbian couple raising five children, with trans and gay recurring characters, and yes, apparently they did do it deliberately so anyone tuning in early to watch The 700 Club would catch a few minutes of the inclusive lesbian mom show

You have your favorite ship. But where to dock it?

There's still time to vote in the Space Opera Ship Wars!

Original tweet

I think the logic here is:

>we save people from fires

>fires can kill anyone, including queer people

>we also save queer people from fires

And in an age where paramedics legally refused to save the life of a trans car crash victim, that’s an important sentiment to state

Grabs a sharpie and adds “And Neither Do We”

Don’t worry, it’s there lol.

One thing I found very funny about the "Dany will burn King's Landing and become the mad queen"theory, apart from all the other things other people have pointed out that doesn't work about it, is that timeline wise, it also wouldn't work.

Jon Con and Young Griff are already in Storm's End by the end of Dance. Dany is stuck in a desert about to meet with Dothraki, how on earth could she get there in time for the King's Landing battle coming Cersei's way when she has to deal with both the Dothraki AND Meereen being at war and Euron coming before coming to Westeros? I know she has dragons but come on....

This GAME man...

I was a weird kid and am now a weird adult but I wake up every day and thank god I wasn’t a weird kid in the age of tiktok and putting your face and government name next to dogshit takes

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i would kill for the confidence of novelists who write genius-poet characters and then actually write samples of the “genius” poetry in the book. if i were a novelist writing a genius-poet i’d just be like “trust me, the poetry’s real good.”

Last night I had a dream I woke up to find that my house had been turned into a Smart House with every wall being a digital screen including the roof so I could see it even laying on bed and the Siri voice said “Don’t worry. You are perfectly safe in your Apple Smart Home™️” knowing I have a BIG phobia of intruders especially at night and it continued with “Let’s explore the neighborhood from the comfort of your home” so it opened google maps and accidentally zoomed past a shitty jpeg of the girl from The Ring standing outside my house and it said “ignore that”. woke up laughing

I may put together a longer post about this later, but something I feel very strongly:

Fantasy as a genre does not need to morally justify its existence.

I see "fantasy can do and say really important, profound things, but most of the time it's just escapist trash" going around pretty regularly. But it is no more incumbent on fantasy to say Important Profound Things than on any other genre. It's no worse for it to be escapist than for anything else to be—that's part of what fiction is!

It's not to say that fantasy or any other genre, or particular trends in any genre, are above criticism, but that fantasy-specific condemnations tend to trade in wild double standards.

remembering old internet friends that you just fell out of contact with is the worst pain. i love you, but we never said goodbye. we said “see you tomorrow” like the optimists we were. i miss you, the loss of you from my life has impacted me, but still the world turns. you could be dead, but i don’t know to mourn you. if i see you in the streets, will i know it’s you? the same face i brought many smiles to? will we pass each other by, neither of us the wiser? i wish i could go back, back to that day we started not talking, and say hello, perhaps extending our friendship just a bit longer. i will never forget you, and to me, we remain the closest of friends. i will always remember you, even if you may not return it.

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