hear me meow meow

reading hegel so i can understand marx so i can argue about asoiaf online. follows/likes from @aworldunturning

[grimark]

i think maybe george r r martin should write alecto the ninth and tamsyn muir should write the winds of winter. just for something different. like they should just swap drafts and then see what happens.

[komsomolka]

isekaing into asoiaf universe to teach jaime lannister that according immortal science of marxism leninism killing king aerys was a radical revolutionary act shaking the foundations of feudal system

[mala-taste]

#jaime if he understood that the reason his society is not prepared to accept the precedent set by an elite guard murdering his own king#for tyranny#is because the act inherently shakes the foundation of a feudal system that necessitates these contracts (vows)#that operate on a nonsensical and contradictory moral construct that he criticizes#because it is integral to reinforce class stratification#and the flaws and contradictions he identifies in westerosi code of ethics#is primarily rooted in this flawed system#—> ‘how much can a crown be worth?’ and ‘#‘queer that they never ask who killed Rossart…but of course he was no one lowborn’#but unfortunately he is a bimbo who just wants to swing a sword really hard

go off @blankwhiteshield

don't hide this in the tags

[ilynpilled]

jaime lannister after you put it like that

[proustianrevelry]

It's possible, but even mentioning the beast is dangerous. Jaime Lannister would love 18th & 19th century German philosophy. He would be Ser Dialectics. He would personally ride courier to put a copy of Phenomenology of Spirit in Brienne's hands, because he knows if nobody else gets it, she will. Ideas are like knights, clashing valiantly in a battle to determine all that is true, and when the blades of two contradictory truths meet, their sparks are the light by which man glimpses a far greater truth that supercedes and engulfs them both (Jaime is ok with this phrasing because he's not read any Freud).

This battle is not of mere flesh and blood, it is a war of concepts and ideals! Why, when Jaime struck down the Mad King and got corncobbed for it, the fickle affections of the mob and his fake friends in Kings Landing actually mean nothing in the face of this struggle for the meaning of justice itself!

[ilynpilled]

[visenyaism]

So wait I got confused. Are there true knights anymore? Or is that like. Over. Cheers

girlllll the old world is dying the new world struggles to be born and the true world never existed it has always been over. cheers

[dreg-heap]

"Great man theory of history" deniers when you point out the 5% increase in horse euthanasia in the state of Pennsylvania coincides exactly with Taylor Swift's 13th birthday

[yurinullification]

Have had this part of my bookshelf like this for ages but just realized it kinda just looks like I'm trying to champion a bold new reading order for ASoIaF while everyone waits for winds of winter

[yurinullification]

[marwyn]

This index lineup is killing me

[sporeblossom]

the more I think about my beloved ned stark, the more I think about that "he couldn't fit a whole woman in his head" quote from succession. not to compare logan roy to ned but i do think that ned suffers from misogynist blinders a lot of the time. he was aware that lyanna was Different (didn't adhere to patriarchal standards) and thinks of it mournfully. he views it as something that doomed her and wishes he had done something different to save her - but saving her would have somehow entailed ned breaking her out of her expected role as a woman and I don't think he was capable of that. He does his best as a girl dad but again he does fail his daughters to some extent through simply not being capable of seeing them as full people. he knows that Arya is unwilling and incapable of conforming, but he never even questions that she will grow up and marry and be a lady. he lets her train sword fighting, but doesn't think about the consequences of that decision. he never talks to sansa about the intrigue and plots if the court that she will have to navigate, and her naivite makes her easy to manipulate. ned never even considers that that is something she will encounter so doesn't prepare her for it. he has a happy marriage with catelyn in part because they both believe so strongly in what a Normal Marriage should be in westerosi patriarchal society, and he listens to her political advice because their worldview mostly belong to the same paradigm, so nothing Catelyn says truly challenges his view of how things should be. but catelyn also has a strong magical intuition (she understands magical omens on a much more intuitive level than anyone else around her, feeling dread, doom, etc when any foreshadowing happens in the text), but this is not something that they can share because ned can't believe in that without questioning the righteousness of Roberts rule. I think cersei is actually the closest ned comes to Grasping the Idea of a Woman in the story.

[fillejondrette]

perhaps my favorite sansa moment of book one is when she asks her septa whether lord beric is going to put gregor clegane’s head up on the walls of his own castle or bring it back to kings landing to put it up on the walls of the red keep - she and jeyne had been arguing about it, you see.

[translannisters]

Was gonna reblog this post without additions but OP is virulently transphobic so now I AM gonna promote my podcast actually. Listen to episode 15 of Hear Me Meow Meow if you wanna hear this legendary Sansa moment talked about by two extremely funny smart and insightful trans guys who, crucially, don't post shit like this:

[visenyaism]

Baby Stannis gently nursing an injured bird back to health when no one else would and naming her Proudwing until the bird loved him and perched on his shoulder and followed him around until he abandoned the her because Robert told him it was gay to have an animal friend who couldn’t do violence is still so evocative to me like I’m genuinely so so sad thinking about it

[visenyaism]

This is the first Davos chapter this is THE Stannis character introduction. You have to give up sweetness and kindness and empathy for violence or you look a fool. Stannis you ARE the bird

[visenyaism]

Christ alive those books were so profoundly fucking good. The prose never stopped being electric it never stopped reaching through the page to wink at you and make an aside to say hey: this is important. Everyone go read Wolf Hall right nowwwwww

[translannisters]

You need to read A Place of Greater Safety next. Objectively Wolf Hall is the better Mantel book but APOGS is like this too and somehow changed my brain chemistry even more. Also it has Nedbert in it

[translannisters]

Camille is admittedly nothing like Ned but at one point his workhusband who is everything like Robert gets so mad at him that he hits his (own, not Camille's) wife. Which would be enough to qualify them for that status on its own given that that's every other Ned POV chapter

[visenyaism]

Christ alive those books were so profoundly fucking good. The prose never stopped being electric it never stopped reaching through the page to wink at you and make an aside to say hey: this is important. Everyone go read Wolf Hall right nowwwwww

[translannisters]

You need to read A Place of Greater Safety next. Objectively Wolf Hall is the better Mantel book but APOGS is like this too and somehow changed my brain chemistry even more. Also it has Nedbert in it

[translannisters]

Your hosts have spent the spring each going through every malady imaginable but we lived bitch. Happy to get this out just in time for it to still be Pride month at least, Tyrion and Bronn deserve that much

Tyrion and Bronn (who DEFINITELY don't like each other or anything) have a conversation about a specific horrifying episode from Tyrion's past, leading them and also hopefully every first-time reader to conclude that Tywin needs to be [REDACTED FOR ALGORITHM] post-haste. Ned has to deal with some more consequences of Robert's (in)actions and at least manages to inadvertently kickstart one of the coolest plotlines in ASOIAF history (not that Atlas who's writing this and had a major Robin Hood hyperfixation as a kid is biased). Sansa and Arya Go Through It as Sansa tries and fails to use her best 11-year-old undiagnosed autistic girl scripts in the face of The Horrors and Arya has to try to explain to her older sister that war crimes might be bad. They're leaving King's Landing soon though so we're sure everything is going to be extremely normal for these kids from here on out!!! Chapters: Tyrion VI, Eddard XI, Sansa III

[thedevilsrain]

jon snow: im a bastard. everyone hates me. i want to die. and im 14

tyrion for some fucking reason:

[ceriseo]

true legacy of dragonstone is toxic polycules. visenya/aegon/rhaenys/orys rhaena and her dykes wtvr was going on with daemon at any given time. the pinnacle of it all naturally is selyse stannis melisandre davos. fun fact but melisandre’s end goal is not actually bringing forth azor ahai but orchestrating a foursome w/ stannis selyse and davos. it’s just that no one except for her actually wants that so she has to resort to leading her accelerationist cult.

[antigonehappy]

we could solve asoiaf by introducing daenerys targaryen to jacobinism

[theweirwoodfiles]

Team Black + wolfpupy tweets

[thehauntingofharrenhouse]

the real villain of asoiaf is the 500 middle-aged men in positions of power whose egos you must appease in order to accomplish anything at all lest they side against you. and euron greyjoy