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Daenerys IX AGOT

not Dany figuring out the futility of revenge in her first book 😂😂😂

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done with the "came back wrong" trope. what about came back American

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when you think about it, it's really something that Game of Thrones took the woman that was fighting to end the current structures of power and injustices of the world and saving all the oppresed and decided to transform her into a villain compared to Satan (like, she is outright called Her Satanic Majesty in the Season 8's script) who without any reason ends up burning half a million of innocent people instead of outright targetting the one person responsible for all her misery, and then is murdered by poor crying man who swore he loved her but knows what is best

Putting aside all the HUGE problems with all of the writing, I just find it fascinating. How the end of Game of Thrones is the restoration of the status quo. The council talking about repairing and opening brothels. How the Starks, yes, despite all their suffering during the series, still remain in power at the end of everything, despite being as bad or worse than the Targaryen, not even acknowledging their sins and how much their legacy and position was built through blood war genocide and conquest, how it was the First Men who, in the TV series continuity, caused the creation of the White Walkers

Like. Of course Daenerys had to be villanized. She was too dangerous. Her ideas couldn't be tolerated. What the world needed was... to keep the status quo that benefits and oppresses the same people again and again. The best the latter can get is a little time of liberation before the rest of the world, leaded and convinced by the same powerful classes, determine you got too much and you don't get to exist or to live anymore. Isn't that what we have been watching for the last years? How everything we thought was gained has been taken and is still being taken from us, so casually? Our right to decide, to feel, to live and exist? How the supposed "mercy" is just a lie until they get tired of pretending and show they had not changed at all?

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Starting to draw asoiaf fanart starting with our little khaleesi

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Arianne and Doran

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"back on my bullshit" in reference to recurring hyperinterests dating back to middle school and beyond

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Something that's chapped my ass lately is people sharing news that the FDA is going to stop monitoring dairy, because they are being gutted due to mass firings/layoffs and revoked funding (much the same way that OSHA is being attacked), and then sharing memes... of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"... being like, "wow, we* cannot trust the food!!"

They are genuinely not seeing the irony that they are MISSING THE SAME POINTS the audience was missing ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. They are not seeing that the public health tactics taken IN RESPONSE TO THIS back then are THE SAME TODAY.

It keeps being about the *"we" the consumer, as a distinct and separate entity from the implied "they" of the laborers. They're missing the entire fucking thesis of the book, because they're going, "Yeah, yeah, sad story, whatever— is THAT what happens to my pork??"

And then, same as pork, because very specifically the FDA and CDC are not allowed to test for diseases in pig farm populations because 100 years ago we found out that shit gets people squeamish, dairy will continue being subsidized, and dairy regs will be transitioned to private corporations' self regulation & management.

And people will CONTINUE TO NOT GET THE THESIS.

And it's such self serving nonsense that it actually lends itself MORE readily to those concerns being swept under the rug, because all you have to do is obfuscate and then stop generating the scary data, so people then think they must be safe. Then they've spent enough energy and focus on that that they continue not giving a shit about the rest of the content of the book!

When it is unfortunately an incredibly topical book!

Stop focusing on the fucking pork! It's not about the pork! I need leftists to READ! Christ!

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Brian and Roger without fail every time they imitate or paraphrase Freddie:

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Interviewer: We have watched Daenerys struggle with leadership and how fierce she should be with the people she has vanquished… You know, “Should she kill all the slave masters? How many should live?” and she is stumbling.

George: This is a huge part of A Dance With Dragons. Dany’s attempts to rule in Meereen and the struggles she is having are a major theme of that book. How do you do this? It is not easy. If we all knew the right decision, we wouldn't have the kind of two-party politics that we have. In any society, there are people who think “this is the right way to go,” “no, this is the right way to go,” “we have to be harder,” “we have to be softer,” “we have to go to war,” “we have to make peace.” People look at real history from the benefit of hindsight, but you have to take hindsight off the table and try to think about these issues as of the time. I am trying to give my characters, especially the ruling characters, some difficult problems to solve, and then their own beliefs and their own personality and their own views on what the obligation of a king or lord is to their people comes through.

- George R.R. Martin, New Mexico In Focus

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not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

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DEI does not mean lower standards.

You are thinking of white privilege.

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It’s May

First photo credit: Neal Preston, Morumbi Stadium, 1981 Other photos: Brian May All photos from Queen in 3-D

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[(book) snowstorm commission]

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