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Every year something happens where people are like LET THIS BE A LESSON YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT SOMEONE IS GOING THROUGH IN PRIVATE!! but the lesson is never, ever learned
#and i say this as the World's Preeminent Hater of the british royal family#and the british#kate middleton#chadwick boseman#and numerous other people
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Thinking of how Neddard kills Lady himself because she was of the north and deserved better than a butcher, and how he was himself killed by that butcher, and how his two eldest sons were ambushed and stabbed in the heart, and Viserys' men tying up the stag so he could kill it.
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'Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.’
-Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
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This is such a funny image because of course Melisandre would stand right at the edge of the wall to prove ~her power~ despite Jon warning her the wind has been known to blow men off, and Jon is just standing behind her glowering. I can practically see Jon "flexing the fingers of his sword arm" as he thinks how easily she could fall and having to stop himself from bodily hauling her back in.
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I haven't (and probably won't) see the film but the Tumblr posts praising Oppenheimer for being a nuanced portrait of a man trying and failing to get exculpation for his choices...while simultaneously trying to shout down the (incredibly mild, and legitimate) criticism of the filmmakers choosing to exclude the weapons' victims are really something.
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This is probably sacrilege to ASOIAF fans, but one of the reasons I'm ambivalent about the final book(s) never coming out is that I think the racism is a big part of the reason why he can't write it and if so I find it very satisfying.
GRRM put 2 of his big 5 (not counting Arya, because Braavos is better) in oriental stereotype land, but needs to move the plot along to get them back to Westeros. This is the infamous the meereenese knot. And he cannot 'untie' the political situation because almost everyone there is a cardboard character that he never bothered to properly personify and clearly does not care about. Look at the differences in characterization between Ygritte and Irri and Jiqui.
GRRM is way to much of a white liberal to cut the knot (aka get rid of all the brown people) so dany and Tyrion can turn up in Westeros next chapter. So we get endless slogging to resolve the political situation that no one cares about, (imo, especially not the writer, hence the delays).
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Writing Lessons from ASOIAF
The last night fell black and moonless, but for once the sky was clear. "I am going up the hill to look for Ghost," he told the Thenns at the cave mouth, and they grunted and let him pass.
So many stars, he thought as he trudged up the slope through pines and firs and ash. Maester Luwin had taught him his stars as a boy in Winterfell; he had learned the names of the twelve houses of heaven and the rulers of each; he could find the seven wanderers sacred to the Faith; he was old friends with the Ice Dragon, the Shadowcat, the Moonmaid, and the Sword of the Morning. All those he shared with Ygritte, but not some of the others. We look up at the same stars, and see such different things. The King's Crown was the Cradle, to hear her tell it; the Stallion was the Horned Lord; the red wanderer that septons preached was sacred to their Smith up here was called the Thief. And when the Thief was in the Moonmaid, that was a propitious time for a man to steal a woman, Ygritte insisted. "Like the night you stole me. The Thief was bright that night."
-Jon, ASoS
I have this passage marked as 'writing inspiration' and wanted to share why I like it, if (like me) you are an ASOIAF fan and struggling aspiring writer. GRRM does a few things in this passage that I think are helpful 'advice.'
Exposition: When people criticize bad books not set in our world (or even mediocre books that could be better), one of the most common complaints is clunky exposition or info dumping, especially in the first few chapters of the novel.
Here, GRRM is expositing in a way that adds depth and richness to Westerosi and Freefolk societies. Jon lists the stars by talking about his childhood (which we already care about) and compares and contrasts his names with the names by which Ygritte knows them. This is more retainable and interesting for readers than if he had simply looked up at the sky and listed them for us.
Importantly, we are three books into the series, but we are still learning about the world. Everything hasn't been told to us already.
Lesson: Find memorable ways to show your worldbuilding. And you don't need to show everything in the first few chapters.
Cultural similarities: By this point, we've learned that the Freefolk are descendants of the First Men who were kicked on the worse side of the wall. This is one way of reinforcing the point, by having them share names for 'universal' things like stars.
Cultural differences: The influence of the Andals' religion on the common tongue, even among the First Men, is obvious here with the star named the Smith. But the passage is also pointing out at least a couple of other differences between their geographies and cultures.
1. The Fauna of Beyond-the-Wall: At the beginning of ASOS, Chett's prologue notes
It was a rare thing to find even a dozen mounted wildlings, and five hundred...
One of the advantages that the Rangers have over the Freefolk is their properly armed and armored warriors, but it seems clear that horses is another. Jon mentions that most of the people in the column are traveling by foot.
And even more telling, only one in a hundred wildlings was mounted. The Old Bear will go through them like an axe through porridge.
Stallions, while important in both cultures, are perhaps less important to lay people beyond the wall. At the very least, they're not important or perhaps relevant enough to the common person to merit the name of a star. The King's Crown also falls in this category, obviously.
2. The importance of thieving in Freefolk culture: The harshness of the North, especially during winter, has been established many times. This is magnified north of the wall, which is colder and more brutal. Aside from climate, a big reason is because they lack regular commerce with the rest of the Seven Kingdoms due to the Wall. They can't exactly show up to the Vale to buy grain during hard times.
Thus the Freefolk have had to become necessary thieves, and thieving has in turn been raised to a point of respect or reverence, even extending to their courting or mating customs.
We don't know at this point, whether stealing women was part of First Men culture that the Northerners gradually discarded. But, I think we can say that part of the reason the Freefolk have elevated stealing to a virtue is because it's so necessary. Thieves are needed for luxuries, like silks, wine, spices and so on. But they're also crucial for survival, by taking weapons and perhaps food and goods that you can eat or trade for food during their harsh winters.
So the Thief is great name for a major star in their culture, in the way that Jupiter was in western European culture.
Movement: We learn later that Jon is (brooding) on a hill near the wall, a long ways away from The Fist of the First Men where we saw him last. The end of the passage also sets up Jon describing the beginning of his physical relationship with Ygritte, but he does this in post. There is no 'and the next day, and the next day' until we get to the meat (heh) which is the instinct of many newbie writers. We have arrived here without tedious descriptions of progress, while also covering a lot of physical, emotional and narrative ground.
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The most enraging reaction to these things, for me, is always, always "they're just trying to destroy him because he is ____!" (in this case, Moroccan/African/Muslim)
As if his victims couldn't also share these identities...as if we aren't frequently their first victims.
As if 'you can't destroy someone from our own community!!' isn't THE stick used to beat us into submitting to atrocious things.
I don't want to wait for hell any longer. I need to burn some of these people right here on earth.
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kylian Mbappe marched west to lure Lord Tywin to the Westerlands and trap and defeat him there, but the rest of the team didn't know about his plan...
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The Lord's Rights
Jon's beheading of Janos Slynt is deeply satisfying and hilarious on many levels but my favorite is that Jon Snow is also unstintingly giving him the lordly honors Janos is so proud of.
Janos is (understandably) obsessed with being properly addressed, constantly reminding Jon of his correct title in ASoS as he is trying to either kill Jon or get him killed, which Jon reacts to with wry mockery.
M'lord," Janos Slynt reminded him. "You'll address me—"
"I'll go, my lord. But you are making a mistake, my lord. You are sending the wrong man, my lord. Just the sight of me is going to anger Mance. My lord would have a better chance of reaching terms if he sent—"
-ASoS
When Janos promises to kill Jon he specifically tells Jon it will be by the noose, and not the sword, because while he is a traitor like his father, he also happens to be a bastard, not highborn. He also threatens to hang the turncloak Mance Rayder from the wall, so clearly even death for Lord Janos is one final way to differentiate between the great and good and the riff-raff.
So Jon stopping Janos' hanging and then beheading him-by his own hand, no less-is one final, unspoken recognition of Janos' cherished lordly rights (in addition to upholding the traditions of the First Men, etc.)
He is about to die a brutal, totally avoidable death AND shore up Jon's authority that he and Ser Alliser were so desperate to undermine, but at least Jon is killing him respectfully.
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The Dance of the Dragons starting with one dragon devouring another (and its rider) and ending with one Targaryen claimant feeding the other to his dragon is just *chef's kiss*
The placement of the tail in the Targaryen sigil has always reminded me of an ouroboros: the dragon devouring its own tail.
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As Pretty Does
Note: this is fluffy speculation
She had never cared if she was pretty, even when she was stupid Arya Stark. Only her father had ever called her that. Him, and Jon Snow, sometimes.
-Arya, ADwD
I wonder whether Jon telling Arya that she is pretty is similar to how he thinks of Ygritte"s beauty.
When Jon first meets Ygritte, he notices that although the Freefolk think she is a great beauty because of her hair, she is, according to the standard of beauty in the Seven Kingdoms, actually quite plain. But as he gets to know her he finds beauty in her, anyway. Her teeth are crooked, her eyes are too far apart and her red hair is messy and unkempt, but he grows to love her smile, the vivacity of her eyes, and her 'kissed by fire' hair.
Arya's insecurity about her appearance is at least partly connected to her behavior. Catelyn thinks of her appearance in the same vein that she thinks, disapprovingly, of her actions:
She had Ned’s long face, and brown hair that always looked as though a bird had been nesting in it. I despaired of ever making a lady of her. She collected scabs as other girls collected dolls, and would say anything that came into her head.
-Catelyn, ACoK
The lumping-together of her looks and her conduct would not have gone unnoticed by Arya, who would have undoubtedly been made to feel doubly insecure because she didn't even try to make up for her inferior looks by being a "stupid little lady."
So I'm thinking of a scenario where she gets a new dress for a feast (or something similar), and sits still while she is she is scrubbed and groomed and her hair is styled. She looks her best, and feels somewhat pretty. But, Arya being Arya, gets distracted, goes outside to explore and be generally underfoot, and stains her dress ruins her hairstyle.
She feels guilty and dejected because everyone knows that she has to put more effort into her appearance just to be acceptable, never mind pretty. Jon, seeing her insecurity, reassures her: Not only is she is pretty-messy hair, stained dress and all-she actually looks all the prettier for not being so damn prissy. And then he musses her hair further.
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Alicent Hightower: deciding to interpret Aegon's dream to unite the realm in a way that divides and weakens the realm, causes untold death and destruction, destroys the Targaryens' greatest asset and could possibly have wiped out House Targaryen itself.
Rhaegar Targaryen:
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If you're new to the ASOIAF fandom, here are a couple of threads on the overall vileness of Linda and Elio: here and here.
And, yes, Martin knows how they are, because they have been criticized before. He just doesn't care.
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The ghost of Otto Hightower must have looked at Tywin's failure to sell Cersei to a Targaryen with Gordon Ramsay levels of disappointment. Like...'Do you know who else is passionate about books Tywin??'
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Tormund Giantsbane Being Casually Pro-Abortion...
And if Ygritte does not want a child, she will go to some woods witch and drink a cup o' moon tea. You do not come into it, once the seed is planted.
-Jon, ASoS
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He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold...
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