I’ve officially decided my favorite relationship trope is “at first I was perpetually bothered by your mere existence but somewhere along the way you became my best friend and oh yeah I’m also in love with you.” Nothing else matters.
‘aemond takes harrenhal finds a witch who looks uncannily like his mother with almost the same name and takes her as a sex prisoner’ and ‘larys meets the queen who looks uncannily like his witch older sister (who breastfed him) with almost the same name and starts a multi-decade long campaign to psychologically and sexually torment her’ fight
when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes
i feel like you give me a very warped idea of what asoiaf is like
honestly it’s mostly about people eating very sumptuous dinners and describing each other‘s cool outfits and then at a distant second place like also the cycle of violence and gender and misogyny and class and the dangers of reactionary politics and false prophets and also dragons. and not in the fun way it is also about tits. and orientalism. but really what these books are fundamentally about is that blonde people are dangerous and evil.