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I am wired to develop hatred against any character the author doesn't only favour but tries to shove down our throats, which is why I will always hate Daemon, Tyrion, Bloodraven (Blackwoods in general). It helps that all these are despicable men with very little redeeming qualities. Then there is Arya who as a whole is a hero, despite her progressively darker nature, but I don't hate her because she is a child, I just don't give two fucks about her.

i get it but also EYE am a fantasy enjoyer i like the weird tomboy who identifies as both a wolf and a girl who has wolf dreams where she guards her mother’s bloated and decaying body from being nibbled on until the magic fire zombie nearby can come and kiss her mother awake! like, yes i DO like that benjicot blackwood with the fun sigil and the cool pagan religion experiences being responsible for death for the first time and rises to the occasion even as he’s continuously hysterically crying over all the death he himself has a hand in, to the point that he keeps the bones of a man he loved from that man’s brother for years because he can’t let go of the terror he had a hand in.

like i definitely get you, we all know i have bitched about tyrion being overwritten ie just relying too much on his pov to move the plot along so the scenes can get repetitive (how many scenes do we need of him and shae fucking and feeling weird afterwards) or how some of arya’s time at harrenhal drags a lil bit but imma be honest i don’t quite understand when people are like “he made this character too cool so i’m gonna spite hate them” like everyone’s so mad about how there’s no way we should know what dialogue was exchanged before daemon and aemond died and meanwhile i’m over here rambling on the phone to my cousin like “and then daemon did a sick backflip offa caraxes’ neck and had his sword angled Perfectly to get aemond right through his good eye it was awesome” aksjdjd I like to laugh at how obvious his favorites are but it’s HIS story i think it’s ultimately fine if he thinks tyrion is cool as fuck or wants to give me like 5 chapters in a row where arya is just chillin in braavos, if it bothers me i put my audio on 2x speed 😎

#i do understand spite stanning where it’s like ‘the author clearly doesn’t like this character so the character is mine now’#altho i think u should be aware how much of that is necessary for the story and how much of it is Genuinely a weakness in the writing.#asks #anons #i also think sometimes people get deranged talking about barba bethany melly and naerys but that’s just typical misogyny #but like yeah i do think there’s parts of the stories that are Slightky weaker bc of his favoritism.#but that’s mostly f&b i mean so long as tyrion getting chapters doesn’t detract from say cersei’s arc that’s fine.#like i think you can tell he REALLY loves sam (who doesn’t) but sam’s pov and jon’s are evenly handled AND sam getting a pov doesn’t detract #from gilly as a character or jon or small paul or alliser thorne etc instead he gives us slightly different insights than jon.#i think agot does a good job of balancing all the povs in kl for example. the middle of acok struggles imo.#i’m not like picking at you specifically anon just like rambling with you about the series in general btw #idc if u hate daemon tyrion or the blackwoods so long as you’re not weird about arya & don’t call tyrion like #straight up slurs akskd 💀

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