#got critical

[dumbfilmschoolkid]

jacob anderson seeing the writing quality in the critically acclaimed series he stars in suddenly dropping below ground and the episodes becoming so dark you can’t see shit

[junewild]

new asoiaf/got worldbuilding discourse just dropped! check out the author’s blog for more thoughts on asoiaf, lotr, and more.

[madeleineengland]

We are really cooked

[kennedye-ken]

Aaaand coded Sincerity page 13

[wrath-of-achilleus]

one of the reasons why I HATE the "what do dragons eat, anyway?" "whatever they want" exchange from GoT, is not only because it shows an incredibly amount of entitlement from sansa towards both jon and dany (who have already contributed more individually towards the fight against the Others, and also for the good of the people that they rule, than sansa ever does in the whole show), but also because book jon and dany would have absolutely thought about these logistics. like, their arcs in adwd show an incredibly amount of consideration towards the 'boring' parts of ruling -- the resource management, the diplomacy, etc.

like jon was literally groomed for command by being mormont's STEWARD. and one of the first problems that dany faces as queen is the fact that she doesn't have enough food to feed her people.

it was just incredibly unrealistic for the show to put dany, jon, and sansa in a situation where sansa has to be the one asking the other two to think about problems of food and storage, because the real jon and dany would have come up with 20 different solutions for this by the time they reached the north.

[l1ghtbr1nger]

asoiaf fashion we deserve

part 7/??

the reach and house tyrell edition 🏵️

loras would slay in this doublet. the floral details, the embroidery… say less.

THERE IS MARGAERY TYRELL EVERWHERE FOR THOSE WITH EYES TO SEE

i feel like margaery would favor a pastoral vibe for her more casual gowns, like this one. all the girls of the reach emulate this look with ribbons and sheer fabric

a high collar for my good sis alerie tyrell (formerly hightower)

gilded armor for the bannermen!!

marg wore this while she sat for her portrait for joffrey, don’t argue with me

this cape was MADE for ser loras, next question.

[amatres]

rhaena having her story to be reworked into taking over nettles story is just sansa being given jeyne's story instead of letting her have her vale storyline 2.0 bc no writer seems to value that these characters strengths are being political and soft power focused and instead just want to give them the hard girlboss story line because that is more exciting to them

[silvervvings]

HotD has almost the exact opposite problem of GoT and it’s kind of funny when you think about it. d&d wanted GoT to be a fantasy political drama and didn’t really care to explore the magical elements and so those important parts of the story felt half baked which led to the end of the show being pretty terrible because asoiaf isn’t just a political story set in a fantasy world but the magical elements of the story are incredibly important to the series end. HotD should’ve just been a political drama set in a fantasy world, it’s a story about a dynastic dispute that happens to involve dragons but condal seems intent on making it some grand story with prophecy and is trying to explore the things that should’ve been explored in GoT but have no room in HotD. i like Aegons prophecy as a concept but it has no place in HotDs story and trying to boil down everyone’s motives to prophecy really just dampens the story, the dance is a story about a family tearing itself apart and the fact that they have dragons makes the war more destructive but the fact that they have dragons also takes a backdrop to the politics and the interpersonal relationships of the story.