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[the-ginger-hedge-witch]

Wishing all of you a tender forehead kiss from a strong but intimacy-starved man who is scared of the feelings you are awakening in him but is already in too deep to know how to stop.

[esther-dot]

[gameofgreen]

Hotd writers workbook each season:

-Sexually humiliate team green for shock value by inventing non-f&b scenes.

-Turn a civil war into a psychosexual lesbian story between one bad (victim) woman who needs to be constantly punished and one good (victim) woman who is constantly restrained by her gender.

-Glaze girlbossified victim rhaenyra, her feminist sex-trafficker advisor and to an extent her pdf daddy husband (ironically even GRRM was not up their bottoms as much as ryan condal and his writers are).

-Humble alicent through SA by framing her as constant victim of her own side to 1) justify her supporting rhaenyra over her kids 2) for #them to go > she deserves it for daring to support her son against queen rhaenyra, the greens are SO horrible, this is what inventing patriarchy does!

-For the gazillionth time, show how immoral criston cole is.

-Repeatedly depict all of tg as deviant evil misogynists and all tb as goody two shoes feminists by adding more non-book scenes, nuance be damned.

-Milk daenerys and asoiaf prophecy as reserved quota.

-Give most tg screentime to alicent who isnt even tg anymore but another rhaenyra stan.

-Add plagiarized dialogues to show how simultaneously girlbossy and victimised all hotd women are, particularly rhaenyra.

-Allude how every medieval woman against rhaenyra MUST be a pick-me hypocrite woman for trump and every woman for rhaenyra is the most perfect badass feminist ever lived, there is no inbetween.

-Only and only rhaenyra is allowed to love, cry, feel for her children in this show.

-Bare minimum characterization for the velaryons. Their portion of tb screentime is given to rhaenyra, daemon and mysaria.

-Make the greens weaker, more divided and pitiful for #their gratuitous gooning.

-Remove all f&b nuance that GRRM wrote and reiterated in his blog to turn the story of the entire dance into tb best, tg worst propaganda for fave self-inserts.

*Best Show Ever!*

[thehelenas]

They're using Helaena's neurodivergence as a reason to render her a politicaly insignificant oracle. Don't let them fool you.

At Aegons coronation, they erased Dowager Queen Alicent placing her crown on her daughter's head and calling Helaena her queen.

We know that Helaena was happier before she became queen, but that's after Jaehaerys died. Before that, Helaena doesn't express her opinions and feelings on her ascension or the political scenario.

During Blood and Cheese, Helaena offers her necklace for Jaehaerys' life. Her NECKLACE. In the book, she offers her LIFE. They changed so much of the scene, whole characters aren't where they're supposed to be, but they couldn't leave in a line that shows Helaena is willing to die for her LITTLE CHILDREN, like many mothers would, including neurodivergent ones.

In the book, when forced to choose a son to be murdered under horrible threats made to her daughter, Helaena chooses Maelor to die instead of Jaehaerys. It could be because Maelor was younger and didn't have the awareness that Jaehaerys had, but Helaena's choice ultimately prioritises the life of her firstborn, Aegon's heir. It's a political move. In the show, she's so far removed from politics, the only thing she does that remotely comes close is being forced to parade her son's body around the city.

Then, they refuse to let her call Jaehaerys by his name, instead she calls him "the boy", and people argue that it's because she's in shock, but no other character calls Jaehaerys by his name UNTIL Helaena herself says "I'm sad for Jaehaerys but I ought not to. Children die all the time" in the most dismissive way possible. She doesn't ugly cry. She doesn't sob or scream or express her pain. Her devastating grief is conveniently opted out, and episodes later she is ready to be the cryptical catch-you-in-a-lie targaryen oracle. She doesn't ride her dragon to assist the war efforts, not because she's spiralled into depression and what is crudely called madness, but because she doesn't like to ride, as per Rhaenyra, and if she's ought not to be sad, she can't be enraged or vengeful either, because it would be just as inconvenient and wrong, and she's a pacifist with a sensitive soul that shouldn't be corrupted by her evil brother.

An angry mob of smallfolk throws fish at her and Alicent, when she was notoriously beloved by them in the book.

Her authority as Queen Consort is constantly ignored, bypassed and disrespected by her own mother, when Helaena outranks her.

Why is no one campaigning for Helaena to use the power her position gives her?

They made her a vessel for the prophecy, a plot with so many holes it's become swiss cheese.

Not interested in politics? She's neurodivergent. Doesn't offer her life for her children? She's neurodivergent. Is not consumed by grief? Neurodivergent. Doesn't like to fly on her dragon that she claimed at what, eleven years old?

Who knows why.

[sarcasticsweetlara]

And then people dare say they made Helaena more complex when they just simply gave her the label of neurodivergent and proceeded to strip Helaena from the agency, as little as it may have been, that she canonically had.

[kadarakey]

just like GOT the writers are only interested in the suffering of one woman (if that, even), a blond conquering type. If a female character is not that, their suffering is diminished or made irrelevant, or worse, magnified and punished by the narrative. It is beyond me how any female viewer (or any being capable of thought) would be able to tolerate this shitshow.

[weirwoodwed]

“Oh, it would be so sweet, to see him once again..”

— Sansa Stark & Jon Snow [ comm by lunapiq ]

[powderpowderblue]

Sometimes I remember there was a Targ fan who thought Dany was modelled after the missing Romanov daughters, which is why she is destined to win the Iron Throne back. (Being compared to a tsarist dynasty is apparently a good thing?) And for some reason they also said she is "Jewish queen" coded because she was exiled out of Westeros??? (Romanovs famously known for persecuting Jews??? Targs famously known for their blood purity obsession??)

They were so close to getting it.

[kadarakey]

there’s a Romanov theme with a different princess who is lost and coming back to her ancestral home. That would be a princess from a family of five children, from snowy country and solemn faced people of rich cultural heritage, largest country on its continent, her family executed or lost. There are two sisters who match this description who play out ‘reclaim home’ and ‘start afresh’ resolutions. I don’t think it’s about the Romanov dynasty as a whole, just personal themes of family, winter, children caught up in politics, hidden identities that are present. Sansa building a snow castle scene is similar vibes to Once Upon a December scene in Anastasia

[papayajuan2019]

paper and pen seems so powerful now. on account of all the. surveillance

[marmorada]

[huffylemon]

[joyflameball]

The notes get 0 stars in reading comprehension

[toomanyvocals]

VINCE GILLIGAN: I hate AI. (Variety; Deadline)

[ramosdefloress]

Vince Gilligan you absolute goat

[everythingfox]

He had something important to say

[starkmaiden]

How quickly the Dreadful can throw me right back into Jonsa brainrot.

[ladyennefer]

I personally don't take that line from GRRM about Sansa dying serious at all but I'm still annoyed as hell with him for giving haters and antis ammo and making the fandom experience as a Sansa Stark fan even more hellish for us. Disappointed.

[kadarakey]

The fact that we are yet again pointing out how 11-13 year old girl was supposed to be ‘killed off’ is honestly so tiring. In a book with 100+ characters full of adult psychos and murderers it’s this one barely teenager who we really need to be grateful that wasn’t ’killed off’. Ugh.

Like yeah Tyrion’s story is dark and - newsflash - he’s a serial abuser and a murderer, so duh it makes sense the show ending is a happy one for him. But to keep saying ‘Sansa was supposed to die blah blah’ is just so over.

Maybe Martin mentioned her only because she’s the only one he knows is absolutely surviving at this point (obvs). Still. Not the vibe.

[rosavaya]

“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

[anarchistmemedistro]

[mentalhealthmemesofficial]

[notthegrouch]

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” 

- Vincent van Gogh

[contemplativepervert]

favorite thing in asoiaf is that the stark family tree is just filled with haters in every generation. theon stark brandon snow alaric stark cregan stark even ned's brother brandon and lyanna too. even the current kids jon snow robb sansa and arya all have some kendrick lamar level of beef w at least one person. brandon the builder spawned an entire genre of haters

[understcry]

BONUS:

[secondlina]

Time has changed me.

But i'm still here.

[jesncin]

my high school english teacher would often critique our literature analysis work by pointing out: "you're treating these characters like they're real people. They're not. They're characters". And it took me a long time to understand what he meant by that. Because I always thought "isn't that the point? That writers want to write characters to be so three dimensional that they act and feel like real people?" but that's not it.

Characters are tools a writer uses in service of a story. Of course characters can be written with depth to the point they feel real to us, but they exist in service of their narrative. Something real people aren't beholden to at all. When discussing characters, I think it's easy to accidentally see these characters as "real people" and not extensions of the author's beliefs. Tools for a narrative. Means of storytelling.

[kikujomi]

Winterfell Princess ~ Sansa Stark