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I saw a similar thing in a screenshot on Reddit the other day.
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Okay, but what professor was such an asshole that they wouldn’t let a woman in labor do a makeup exam? You know someone said some shit and she felt like she HAD to do that exam, labor or no.
OK true story from one of my professors: She got pregnant while getting her PhD. Not planned, but it would work out that she would do her lit review (where she had a massive list of books she had to spend two hours talking about) a month before her baby was due. Plenty of time, right? Well, her daughter came a month early. On the day that she scheduled her lit review. So she’s in labor with a baby that’s four weeks early, she calls up her male professors that are going to be doing her lit review, and they say that squeezing a human being out of your vagina isn’t a good enough reason to cancel. She can’t reschedule, they’ll just fail her. And my professor will have none of that. They agree to have the lit review at the hospital, but they kick out all nurses and doctors because you can’t have anyone else in the room. (like the nurses are really going to be secret undercover English professors who will whisper to her answers about Virginia Woolf). So for two hours while my professor was in labor, these male professors are hounding her about early 20th century British literature and the nurses are just about losing it and as soon as it’s finish they rush back in to make sure everything is okay. And the best part of it is that my professor was so focused, so determined to pass and not let her 5 years of work end in a failure, that she says she didn’t feel any pain for those two hours. WHILE IN LABOR.
Fucking men. Seriously.
i’m both the son and the mother
it was also truly laughable that they made dany seem like she was paranoid when people legitimately were plotting to depose her and varys was poisoning her food. ooohhh look she’s paranoid and crazy. like these mother fuckers weren’t talking about how to control her, how to put jon on the throne, and literally trying TO KILL HER.
men apparently: believe what i say not what i do, or you’re fucking insane.
i don’t know if i can articulate this correctly, but i’ll try
Dany always represented radical change - she was the one who was going to break the wheel, to overthrow tyrants, to liberate people (as she said in her final speech to the Dothraki and Unsullied). And as Tyrion said in this final episode, we rightfully cheered her for that.
But season 8 took that message of radical change and equated it with genocide, violence, and needless slaughter. Suddenly, Dany is “revealed” to be a power-hungry villain who can’t tell right from wrong, who needs to be “put down” by the sensible male hero because she’s too dangerous, and she’s a “threat” to the world of men (and boy, was that a telling line).
What kind of message does that send to the characters? Of course they go back to the old way of doing things: other than their Monarchy Lite™ that they create with Bran, things are basically the same - Grey Worm, the Dothraki, and the Unsullied conveniently leave Westeros, so the white people don’t have to deal with assimilating or reconciling with them; the Wildlings also conveniently go back to the other side of the wall, so the Westerners don’t have to try to live alongside them; and the woman who promised radical change - who promised liberation and freedom for oppressed people - conveniently goes crazy and is killed/overthrown, so the lords of Westeros don’t need to worry about changing their ways or having a threat to their power. No radical change, because radical change is dangerous. So, for the white, male, artistocratic characters in Westeros, the status quo is maintained for their benefit when Dany is killed (both literally and figuratively, with her character development).
So what message does this send to the audience? Dany represents radical, liberalizing change, and the creators of GOT are “pulling back” that mask and showing that, oh no, the activists who are pushing for deep, institutional changes for the voiceless, for the vulnerable, for the estranged? They are actually the evil, genocidal maniacs. We can’t trust them - so we should stick with the system we have and just fix it a little bit. Put a band-aid over the problem and it’ll go away, right? The plebians will be happy with a temporary fix, right?
And what does this message say to the members of the audience who are a part of villified and vulnerable communities, and who rightfully want radical change, and who fight for monarchs (*cough* candidates *cough*) that want radical change, like Grey Worm? It says that you are evil, and inherently violent, and that you should “go away” and live in your own, ~inferior~ society. These people are depicted as evil for cheering Dany’s destruction of their oppressors, because…they’re the evil ones for killing oppressive men? Come the fuck on.
This is why I hated D&D’s interviews in the post-show of the Bells, when they said they wanted to focus on the ~real people~ of King’s Landing who were suffering from Dany’s attack. D&D don’t care about the real people - if they did, they would have considered how it would look to have the ONLY champion of the common people (Dany) be torn down as a “tyrant” herself, only to be replaced by the exact same, flawed and aristocratic system that she wanted to overthrow.
PREACH!!!
can we just talk about how in season three, daenerys was willing to endure misogynistic humiliation at the hands of master kraznyz and then that second sons dude (the titan’s bastard) because she wanted them to think that she’s just a stupid, airheaded little girl so that she could take them by surprise later on. like she had to listen to these grown men make incredibly degrading and objectifying comments about her because she wanted to bide her time.
the notion that dany is entitled or impatient or impulsive or too emotional or not smart is simply not true and has never, ever been true. she even calmed jorah and grey worm down when they threatened the titan’s bastard. that’s not the sign of someone’s maDNess bEING forEshadoWED.
WHEN EURON SAID DAENERYS AND MISSANDEI RIGHTS 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
People talking about how Daenery getting the throne in the end would have been “boring” and “predictable” yet in the same breath talk about how her going mad was foreshadowed and how unfair it is that Jon isn’t king…
me when dany forces people to hear all of her titles which are essentially victories she’s won in her very hard climb from the bottom to where she is now:
“Queen of Meereen”: By right of conquest.
“Queen of the Andals, and the Rhoynar and the First Men”: Although technically a claim, she’s actually going to save that mother fucking country and the people, and she has a right as it is the legacy of her family, a legacy they created, so I won’t fight her on this.
“The unburnt”: A freaking goddess, I tell you.
“Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea” : The first time all the dothraki unite behind one leader, a woman, and let me tell you, this title is an understatement because she’s actually the Stallion Who Mounts The World.
“Breaker of chains” : She made her personal mission to help the slaves, free them, and maintain that freedom. Slavers Bay, no more.
“Mother of Dragons” : She brought dragons to life, the last dragons in the world, after more than a century of being extinct.
How many people can say that they have done most of these things….on their own right…
You will listen, and you will respect.
^ THIS.
I know it is a fandom joke - “lol daenerys and her hundred titles”, but in a world where men get to hold titles for no reason other than their birth, and are immediately respected by people of westeros and real world fans alike for the smallest acts of goodness; I have no issues with Daenerys’s million titles which she earned through her hard work, intuition and wits.
Also it reminds me of this poem by Warsan Shire:
give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.
You can’t throw a brick in the fantasy section of Barnes and Noble without hitting a Tolkien knock-off character with 20 titles. The only difference is that Dany is female. Literally that is the reason people joke about this and accuse her of not earning her titles.
All of this. Thank you
Robert Baratheon: Is happy with and justifies the rape-murder of Elia Martell and the murder of Elia’s infant children because those children are “dragonspawn”; rapes and abuse Cersei; slaps her in front of Ned; constantly cheats on Cersei because he is obsessive about Lyanna Stark; GRRM literally calls his hatred of the Targaryens a “madness” Tywin Lannister: Engineers the red wedding; abuses his children, especially Tyrion and Cersei, their whole lives; executes every man, woman, and child in House Reyne for its revolt against him; Orders the gang-rape of Tyrion’s first wife, Tysha, and orders him to join; Orders Gregor Clegane to rape and murder Elia and to murder her children; forcefully marries Sansa to Tyrion and has no regard for Sansa’s safety and basically tells Tyrion to get a child in her one way or another, which means he’s sanctioning rape yet again
Jaime Lannister: Pushes an 8-year old child out of a tower to hide his affair with his sister Cersei and justifies it as the things he does for love; does quite a few other horrible things for Cersei’s sake
Khal Drogo: Marries a 13 year old and keeps her as his sex slave, keeps other slaves in his Khalasar and destroys villages, rapes his wife every night until she is nearly driven to suicide
Roose Bolton: Practices the tradition of the first night, in which a lord can have sex with any of his serf’s wives. Upon finding out that a miller married a washerwoman without telling him, he hangs the miller and then brutally rapes the washerwoman under the same tree from which her husband was hanging. A year later, when the woman shows up with Ramsay, his son, he considers having her whipped and killing the child until he realizes that it actually is his son. Theon notes that he is actually more cruel than Ramsay, even though Roose is more outwardly calm.
Randyll Tartly: Is violently abusive and fatphobic and forces his son and heir, Samwell, to join the Night’s Watch because he believes Sam is too fat and soft to be a “real man” and to wield Heartsbane, the Valyrian Steel sword that is passed down in their family from generation to generation. Tells Sam that if he does not join the Night’s Watch, he will hunt Sam down and kill him, and tell his mother that he died on a hunting accident. On the show, even though he is a sworn bannerman of House Tyrell, he and his son and his soldiers betray the Tyrells and participate in the sack of Highgarden and the execution of all the remaining Tyrells.
Jeor Mormont: Cooperates with Craster, a man who forcefully marries and rapes his daughters and then gives his sons to White Walkers, because Craster is one of the few resources beyond the wall that the men of the night’s watch can utilize
Jon Snow: On the show, executes a child who was manipulated by grown men into killing him, a child that was angry because his parents were murdered by Wildlings
Tyrion Lannister: Uses stores of wildfire to blow up the Stannis Baratheon’s ships and many people die in the process, so that he can protect his family and King’s Landing
Saintly, his holy highness Ned Stark: Fights for Robert in spite of his own anger at Robert’s lack of honor toward Elia and her children, because he swore an oath and stands by his oaths; would have told Robert the truth about Cersei and her children, knowing that Robert would’ve most likely murdered all of them
The absolutely braindead, violently misogynistic, useless worthless amalgamation of fans in the got/asoiaf fandom: The same bullshit useless fucking banalities about how the asoiaf characters are morally grey
The same braindead, violently misogynistic, useless, worthless amalgamation of fans in the got/asoiaf fandom when Daenerys does literally anything: HER MADNESS AND TYRANNY WERE FORESHADOWED
the ceo of disney, studying the multi-film, multi-million dollar contract he just gave david benioff and d. b. weiss:
Can’t wait for the northmen to start starving because there’s no food left and no one wants to trade with the isolationist kingdom that has done nothing for anyone else and welcomes no one into their land.
Can’t wait for the Dornish and Iron Islands to ally with each other and start a rebellion for their own independence because they don’t want to be ruled by a Stark boy.
Can’t wait for Bronn to run the Westerosi economy into the ground because he can’t do basic math.
Can’t wait for Bran to try and enforce any of his policies or fight back against rebellions without any proper military forces.
Can’t wait for a new power vacuum and game of thrones to begin once Bran gets old and dies because suddenly everyone can claw and fight for the spot.
Cant wait for Dany to watch and laugh from Volantis bc no one in Westeros is a competent leader and they all thought they could do better than her
I can’t stop thinking how Emilia said she cried and questioned her own character she’d played for nearly a decade and literally turned to alcohol as a depressant I literally want to set d&d’s house on fire
I’m loving all these they kinda forgot memes on freefolk
I like to imagine that Drogon will start his own tradition of letting them rebuild WF and KL in peace only to be back once a year to burn it down again lol
and it’s a different time every year so they can’t even anticipate it, living their lives in constant anxiety for when their day of reckoning arrives to purge the land of their sins.
it’s what they deserve.
It’s also always a different castle, so they can’t even really abandon a place to relocate and things will be fine. He’s just like “closing my eyes and flying around for 1 minute, first thing I see when I open my eyes, I burn”
“If it snows tomorrow, it’ll be somewhere South, if not it’s the North this time”
“If I am a good boy, I will allow myself two castles this year”
And every time a fucker with a ballista tries to kill him and every time the fucker dies horribly.
The thing is that dragons live for long so this little badass can keep it up for 200 years.
Two centuries of just fucking with people. He’s going to find some dragon eggs, hatch them and teach them to keep this tradition up for thousands of years.
I 100% support this.
One of the dragons will be called Daenyra by future historians.
And the people will say that it was the drsgon queen come again to extent her vengance.
People come to believe it’s divine retribution so people start to worship the dragon and the Cult of Daenerys becomes he new dominant religion of Westeros.
And meanwhile she’s laughing her ass off from HEAVEN with Drogo and Rhaego.
Better yet, she returns to life with her new boyfriend, The Nightking…who is a sweetheart with her and only her.
I mean it is a song of ice and fire.
If it fits it fits
Me @ Daenerys after the writers completely destroyed her character