#rant tw.

[gildhart]

.... lagill is so.... *gagging noises*

[dracaesanguinem]

I think this community has a lot of hate stemmed already into it, especially considering the television show and D&D’s work.

While I do not agree with some creative decisions, here’s something I found today on reddit that also should be taken into consideration from time to time and that  I do agree with instead of just blatantly hate on something without trying to have a bit of a clearer view from both sides of the coin. Now I’m not trying to say that any of you who don’t agree with this are hating, but it’s, nonetheless, an interesting point of view I’d like to share.

I’ve had this discussion IRL a few times with some of my friends and late college partners — some of them who decided to go into the movie / television industry after we finished our Design degree. And several of these conversations came into one conclusion: it is impossible to adapt a book to tv medium in absolute accordance to the source material. Some things simply do not translate into a visual dependent medium. However, when the case is that the source is unfinished, as is the case with the ASOIAF series, things get a little trickier. (Add in the fact that it’s one of the most complex universes being explored at the moment with endless possibilites, and you’ll find yourself in an endless pit).

Some bits and pieces are highlighted to make the point clear and shine a little TL;DR on it and the source is linked as well.

{ SAUCE — the comment section is also very interesting and worth a read. }

“I think D&D expected to have a lot more material to work with when they signed on to create the series. After the way seasons 5 and 6 went I think that played into their decision to shorten seasons 7 and 8. Quick timeline of events, D&D first got the idea to adapt ASOIAF in 2006. Development started in 2007. The pilot was ordered in late 2008 and shot in 2009. There were extensive reshoots and the series was picked up in 2010, finally premiering in 2011.

So D&D got started right after A Feast for Crows was released. That book took 5 years from the release of A Storm of Swords, but before that GRRM was releasing a new installment every 2 years. A Dance with Dragons was finally finished in time for the first season in 2011. I think it’s reasonable that they believed they’d have at least 1 more book to adapt in the series before they had to start writing original content. And when they did get to that point, GRRM would have actual manuscripts and drafts from A Dream of Spring, rather than the broad strokes and key points they were given. We all know now that didn’t happen.

Adapting a novel is much different from writing original material, and I feel bad because D&D planned on doing the former. They signed on to tell GRRM’s story, not write it for him.

It was easy last season; all they had to do was take the storylines from where they left off in the books and bring them to logical conclusions. Jon was dead, he came back to life and had his confrontation with Ramsay. The Knights of the Vale help Sansa take Winterfell. Bran completes his training and heads home. Cersei has her trial (but TWIST she kills everyone). Arya finishes her training, escapes the House of Black and White and goes to work on her list. Daenerys gets the Dothraki back, kills the masters once and for all and (FINALLY) heads to Westeros.

This is a big reason so much was cut from the show and altered in season 5. D&D simply couldn’t introduce any elements that they couldn’t wrap up in a way that impacts the main because they didn’t have enough material.

Now they’re in a pickle. George may have given them the ending but they now have to write the story to get us there and make it entertaining and believable for a fanbase who has been waiting 20+ years for these scenes. To make that even possible, they’ve already had to cut out 7 episodes.”

Important line of comments here about some of the most hated things about the show’s plot

[pcraspcra-arc]

Anxious vent, please use caution ❤️

My great aunt had to have the same biopsies done that I’m going to have. And hers came back as like grade 3 metastatic carcinoma. So now I’m more anxious that mine may come back similar AND having to put all of that on my poor mom who lost her dad just a couple years ago and took it really hard. And hers came mom died from cancer when I was still in high school.

It’s just all very scary and I’m hoping that it’s not as big of a deal. But I’m still struggling with the anxiety and worry.

[pcraspcra-arc]

I'm so stressed out bc my parents' cats and my cats are not integrating well, while also my parents keep trying to let them integrate freely instead of slowly introducing and it's causing fights. which is increasing my stress which is the opposite of what I need right now.

[pcraspcra-arch]

growing up and realizing your childhood has influenced the way your brain developed due to trauma is... not fun.

i could feel myself retreating back to my childhood self and how i felt because of the way my family acts. it's.. exhausting.

i need to chat with bf.

[jaceconfuzed]

I probably shouldn’t have had that conversation today

I talked a bit with one of the people who had recently left Them

and like I did good with being present and we commiserated in being painted as the Devil and I talked about how they painted me the same( me, who grew up sitting in their pew) and a little about my frustration with Them,- like 1 (mother of 5, known to said person) wasn’t really messed up until she got into drugs in HS (I grew up with her; have known her since they were 9 and I almost 7) and idk if it’s really right at all to blame her parents (they certainly didn’t invite her to do crack, I didn’t say that part in church tho) but being ostracized by Them didn’t help - I mean, to me they had been family for better than a decade. It still hurts- sometimes really bad, maybe not as bad, definitely not as long as the episodes were in high school, but I will not be going down where there may be people I know for the Feast, at least not until I’m out of school completely. (I can’t face that kind of spiral if I’m in classes, even if it isn’t a long one.)

And I defended the 4 a bit, and Elisha’s wife. It’s a lot to lose family - the people there know that. It’s also a lot to have to sort everything you’ve ever beileived and Then, on top of that, if you go back to a congregation face people you demonized for years. That’s a lot. And we talked about how they need love, and not hate or blame or rumors rn.

And how awful it is for a father to run off his entire family and not even want to make a deal to see his grandkin. But none of this was revelation. They’ve known all of it since between 1998 (when the first grandkid was born-ish?) and definitely by 2018, when he said the shit he said on the opening to the feast recording & Visitors took the whole mess back to Branson sites. We knew it flew from Florida to Oregon then.

But Mom is angry because I talked about it. I’m so sick of her attempting to uphold that stupid rule- idk if she even realizes she does it, or that she realizes it’s there, the rule about pearls before swine that attempted to keep the problems within the 4 walls; I had so many problems with that rule at the first- But I didn’t even bring them up first- mom did. And then they took the conversation, because we Had been talking about narcissists and false prophets and false gospels (and I was talking about Armstrong and the Kingdom of God Gospel focused on in the sermon and how actually Kingdom of God is always in conjunction with healing, and I’ve yet to see where it has the word “government” or “administration” connected except where it has been connected in, but they twisted that part good when other people started giving sidelong glances, and next thing I knew, we were no longer discussing Church History- which would benefit the 2 new people and a number of the old, but Cru. And then, it just felt really nice to say words with people who Get It and don’t try to make me feel bad for being hurt like Mom. They Get It, and I’m not the bad guy for being hurt there.) and after we were in the middle of talking about false gospels we were talking about Cru and the spirit of Jezebel, and how they hope he isn’t ever able to build a congregation, but he’s a soothsayer and he’ll tell that old sob story how his kid (s and wife, now) have abandoned him for being a follower of Jesus (or maybe he’ll use the title Prophet, he liked trying it on) and I don’t mean to hurt anyone. I stuck up for them and said they’re hurting and upside down and have only ever heard the things he said.

And yea, of course they participated in perpetuating it. So did I. I was pretty good at it. That sucks. Of course some of them have to come to that reckoning, and it hurts, but I never told these other people that the 4 should be blamed in any way. I said that it hurts, and the entire lot need support and to not talk about those things unless they bring any up and to just lend an ear.

But of course Mom was pissed, because I shouldn’t ‘gossip’- I didn’t start it. Did I get out of hand maybe at the end. Yea, sure. It Still Hurts sometimes that they kicked me out of church business while I was attending and had called me Pretense and a Jezebel, and that still hurts. Yea, I got animated when I talked about how I regarded that church as family and they accepted offhandedly for years that I was possessed. Who wouldn’t have? If she had been on the receiving end of those comments instead of the hearing end, maybe she would feel the betrayal I do.

[velvetipped-a]

there is a bit of a long and emotional rant below. tw: alzhiemers, grandparents illness, family stuff. 

I'm feeling lots and lots of different emotions today and I just want to vent them out. A couple of weeks ago my nana was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. I haven't seen her in a long time (regrettably a few years) because of Covid but also because we had a big falling out five-ish years ago and it broke our once very very close relationship apart and I was lowkey avoiding going to visit her because sometimes she'd make me feel bad. Anyway, it seems since she's forgotten about the thing we fell out over (this became apparent a little while ago) and I'm going to see her today for the first time in maybe three years? and I really don't know what to expect. My nana was always the 'glam nan' and looked after herself and wouldn't leave the house without her makeup on and hair curled. Apparently now she's lost a lot of weight and isn't looking after herself the best. I'm getting upset thinking about the fact that she's got this horrible disease and I'm worried I'm going to get upset when I go and see her. It's just really hard knowing she's not the same person I grew up with and had this really lovely bond with (until the falling out) and I just really don't know how to process it. The last thing that I want is to show that I’m upset in front of her because I don’t want to bring attention to the fact that she’s sick. 

[jaceconfuzed]

Lack of sleep hygiene rant

(Is that big number telling on myself? Probably, rn I’m a little too tired and frustrated to care overmuch).

I think this might be the part I hate the most about the seasons changing.

The fact that the time we’ve slept was from approximately 9:30-1:30, and that’s with the melatonin gummies from the store.

Same last night- 11-3ish, then awake for an hour before someone managed to sleep.

Yes I know “12 hours is way too much time on your phone” the school reading is on the internet, so half of it is necessary right now. Yes, it would likely be that high either way. This is the simplest thing my brain has found to occupy itself. Bad idea? Duh.

I’ve heard them all- get 1 hour of exercise before bed; don’t do blue light 1 hour before bed; read something with an actual physical book that is difficult to make you sleepy; I have sleep pills if you want to borrow some; just make yourself sleep- you need proper sleep, it’s why you can’t sleep properly (not cyclical at all…); if you ate properly your brain would sleep properly; it’s just brain damage; you’ve been this way basically your entire life, how do you expect it to change?

And honestly, on nights like tonight,, I don’t expect it to change. I expect there will be occasional weeks, or even a couple months, where we get at least 6 hours of sleep in a snatch. And then it’ll lapse back into this, 4 hours tops, fighting to go back to sleep for at least 2 more, constantly tired no matter what, because it doesn’t matter how much we do in a day, if we take the proper precautions and do all the good things- we did that. Had years where we did the exercise and work and had a full day of Everything, no blue light for 2 hours before bed. And apparently, according to our sister, we were awake then too.

At least this isn’t every night- this is number 3, I think, but eventually we’ll be exhausted enough to get a full 8 hours’ sleep.