#BORING YAWNING SLOPPY

[fromtheseventhhell]

"Sansa = Ned 2.0 and Arya = Catelyn 2.0" is one of those takes where you can just tell people are more attached to the aesthetic than anything. "The Stark girls are most like the parent they look least like" sounds good on paper and people run with the idea, regardless of how it actually fits into the story. A majority of the justification relies on misinterpreting all of their characters + a healthy dose of fanon. What gets me is that this is the same fandom that insists that Lyanna, only compared to Arya in the text, is equal parts Arya and Sansa but Ned and Catelyn, two fully fleshed-out and complex characters, have to be more like one girl or the other? There's just nothing in the story to justify being so adamant about these comparisons. Arya and Sansa have parallels with both of their parents but at the end of the day, they are unique characters with their own stories. I'll never understand why people want to flatten these complex characters down to their most basic tropes and fit them into restrictive boxes just for a "poetical~" comparison.

[autistic-bashir]

don’t know if this is a hot take but i can’t stand the mirror universe every episode with it is literally this

[celestialprincesse]

writing essays about actual, well written, culturally important texts: 😭😡😤🫥

writing smut about fictional men: 💖🥰🤭🎀💞🫶

[emloafs]

you should write them in spain next 😭😭

i want to so bad!!!! literally sharing a bed trope when

[robertphilip]

some of you care way too much about fictional cheating . like genuinely who gives a Fuck

[r3v0lver-ocei0t]

look, i do get that nrs is not and will never be good at writing their characters in mk, but some mk fans, especially in this website are really doing too much and thought they can do better with their own ideas when it's also just as wack...

like "i don't like nrs' idea of (insert character here), i wish they're more like (insert idea here)", yeah sure, not because it's good but because it is also just as shitty as the typical nrs writing.

[taehyungfirst]

You’re such a tae akgae ew

Do you even know what’s an akgae? 😭

[fromtheseventhhell]

it's wild to see people say stuff like "sansa is a politician, arya is a warrior" while not being able to point out a single political act sansa has achieved, and not being able point out any of arya's "warrior skills" that isn't the handful of fencing lessons with syrio she received for like five months max lol

Politician!Sansa and Warrior!Arya are two fascinating ends of a fanon ouroboros; Neither concept exists outside of the other and neither concepts are based on the books. This fandom is just so attached to the idea of Sansa being this incredible politician, with intelligence above every other character, that her having nothing in her own chapters to support that idea doesn't stop them. That's why Arya's intelligence, skills, and entire character arc get reduced to her being nothing but a walking, talking weapon. Like you said, her "warrior" capabilities are essentially the handful of lessons she had with Syrio where her most important + relevant lesson was how to observe her surroundings. Her only "combat" training with the FM was her defending herself with a staff when she lost her eyesight. There's nothing to suggest that she's going to be a warrior, in fact we get the exact opposite. We get constant reminders of Arya's small stature and lack of strength that prevent her from fighting/defending herself in certain situations. All her kills rely on sneak attacks/stealth and she's never been in an outright swordfight with anyone. George even refrains from calling her a warrior like Robb and Jon. Brienne and Asha are examples of female characters who are actual fighters and if you compare their chapters, you can see the difference.

But then Arya's entire existence is antithetical to fanon!Sansa's. Her Harrenhal arc is what people pretend Sansa was doing in KL, her relevance to the North gets transferred to Sansa, and her intelligence and political activeness are erased so that Sansa can shine. They'll write essays on how Sansa is the most intelligent, politically savvy character and how Dany/Jon/Tyrion's arcs only exist to highlight her own ruling arc but the second someone asks them for evidence from the books, it's crickets. I don't understand why their enjoyment of her character hinges on her being the most important/intelligent one. No Arya stan is under the illusion that she's going to be the political character or outclass Dany, Jon, or Tyrion. It's just part of her story so we acknowledge it. Arya is going to have her political arc in Braavos and Sansa is going to have her political arc in the Vale, they aren't mutually exclusive. The only issue is that some people want Sansa to be the only one with a political arc and that's not the story that George is telling.

[cindol]

B-B-BUT SATOSUGU SATOGURU AHHH B-BUT YOU DONT UNDERSTAND 👹👹 like stfu is it cannon ? let me ship MY ships ‼️

like I couldn’t give a fuck about them being a cannon ship or some shit! I’ll ship sukuna and gojo just out of spite 😭

[tedwheeler]

“steve gets eddie flowers” “steve listens to metal for eddie” “steve learns how to play dnd for eddie” AND WHAT IS EDDIE DOING FOR STEVE?????

[valentinemailbox]

every time i see one of those “celebrity men that lesbians idolize” lists i kinda groan bc the list always consists of white men

[bonivers]

i would tolerate damon so much more if they had him end up with literally anyone else

[writing-fanfics-in-my-mind]

Wanted to make a joke about germans but like. We already just call it "Klimaanlage" :/

Can't let British people have air conditioning because first they'd call it something twee like "the climate fixer" and then in 20 years they'll call it "the climb" or "the climmy"

[fromtheseventhhell]

I ignore about 95% of the conversations surrounding Arya having killed people because, outside of Arya stans, people refuse to include the context of the very violent circumstances she experiences + her trauma which influences her actions. She wasn't destined to be a killer and her being forced on the run, having to survive during a war (at times on her own), having to witness countless people being tortured and murdered, being enslaved as a prisoner of war, having to witness the deaths of her family, etc. are all hugely important factors. Not to mention the times when her life is literally on the line and she has to make tough decisions to ensure her survival. The only time her trauma is acknowledged is when people are using it to prove she's "too far gone", otherwise it's essays on how she hasn't suffered that much. It's so boring how people ignore well-developed characters just to reduce them to one or two aspects of their story. And this treatment is only for certain characters; let someone mention Sansa being part of the plot to poison Sweetrobin and all of a sudden, people can understand being forced to make questionable decisions under difficult circumstances.

[felixcatton]

so sick of the "this show's popular will-they-won't-they ship won't get together because platonic love is important too" agenda that is currently plaguing popular television

[vilethot]

The other horror Instagram I always see does better videos because this one is literally like the fnaf game except there’s more movement