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What makes this hard despite how shitty this show is is knowing that Dany is killed by one of the few people she thinks she can still trust and the few people she loves. The girl who was never given pure simple love, killed by her lover. The girl who was preyed upon and raped and mistreated, killed by her lover. She died in the arms of her lover, killed by her lover.

It’s not right.

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gendry baratheon of storm’s end, lookin’ like a whole ass snack

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My only joy right now, the memes

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“i want you, i need you. oh, baby, oh, baby” - gendry probably

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Every single woman who is alive is alone in every sense of the word. Wild. 

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Honestly tho… honestly… no. D&D do not get to turn Tormund into a cinnamon roll, feminist, bromantic life partner with Jon Snow and in the same breath turn Dany into a through-and-through monster. Tormund, who led raids of Northern villages where each man, woman and child were brutally slaughtered “to send a message to the Night’s Watch.” Nah. They don’t get to make Tormund into Jon’s brofriend while simultaneously forcing the narrative in one single episode toward Jon needing to kill Dany for her crimes. They do not get to offer every (white) man in this show an opportunity at redemption - some of the most vile men actually attaining that redemption and being called “heroes” now - while Dany is painted as so villainous her entire existence has been tainted and only her death can save the world from her spontaneous, out-of-character, “madness.”

Nope. They don’t get to have it both ways. If they are going to afford Tormund and all the other redemption-arc men in this show a real chance at forgiveness, then that’s what Dany should be afforded as well. And even though that’s never going to happen in this sloppy, misogynistic porta-potty of a show, I will just preemptively forgive Dany right here and now, just like I forgave Tormund. Send.

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Jon knows how it feels to be stabbed. How much it hurts. Jon knows how it feels to be betrayed and murdered by people you trust. He knows the emptiness and darkness of death.

Burn in hell coward.

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Also, okay.

Theon: betrays a man who was like a brother to him, murders innocent children and men he’s known almost all his life, sets a chain of events into motion that irreparably harms multiple people. Suffers consequences but also receives compassion and forgiveness. Dies a hero.

Jaime: pushes a child out a window, crippling him for life, kills countless men, kills his King, poisons an old woman, threatens to kill children for military gain. Suffers consequences but also receives compassion and forgiveness. Dies a hero.

Tyrion: massacres thousands with wildfire, murders his lover and his father, betrays the woman he’s sworn himself to and likely plays a part in her subsequent rampage of destruction. Suffers consequences for things he didn’t do but never for the things he did, never seems to need forgiveness. Basically picks the new King and is named Hand and gets to make lighthearted jokes about brothels.

Jon: kills his own fellow of the Night’s Watch to save his own life, kills Wildlings by the score, executes sworn brothers of the Night’s Watch including a child, kills dozens of Northern men while fighting to take back Winterfell, is full party to Daenerys’s attack on King’s Landing, kills her in cold blood. Suffers consequences for his kindness but not for his violence, which is framed as justified. Exiled but into a life of peace and stability with friends at his side.

Why is it that all these men who have so much blood on their hands are still considered human, their actions are considered in context, and they’re given opportunities for atonement and redemption, but Dany, whose kills have been slavers, rapists, murderers, who has been brutal but in revenge for harm done against her, or in battle responding to those who attack her, whose whole story was set into motion by men who wanted her dead at any cost, has no opportunity for atonement? No redemption? Suffers tremendous, painful, devastating consequences, but receives no compassion or forgiveness or even legitimate attempts at fucking DISCUSSION, and dies a footnote, murdered by the one man she trusts who is also the only family left to her, barely important enough afterwards to be acknowledged by people who, up until like five minutes ago, believed in her so wholeheartedly that they practically moved heaven and earth to put her exactly where she is?  When it comes to reasons to kill her, her character is important, but not when it comes to her death and the aftermath? She’s just tidied up like something spilled on the floor so everyone can move on?

I mean, I know the answer, and it’s “Well the plot needed this to happen and the clock is ticking and also we’re sexist fuck-knuckles who mostly see female characters as plot-driving archetypes,” (and I’m not saying these male characters shouldn’t have received compassion or forgiveness, or that they didn’t deserve redemption! All of those arcs are great and interesting and HUMAN) but that’s ripe horseshit. I’m not one to say that fictional characters “deserve” anything. Things happen or they don’t happen, there’s no “should” in fiction. But holy fucking shit, was this unearned and hollow and completely disrespectful to the actors and the audience. 

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Jon literally murdered Dany…. like that was not killing someone in battle or in self-defense or as justified punishment for a crime…. he straight up murdered her when she was vulnerable and then got to return to his friends and his wolf, no worse for the wear aside from a little man-pain that seemed to quickly fade. I don’t want to read the bullshit defense posts for him, y’all can keep it.

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so let me get this straight

the starks started the show as a quite privileged family.

dany started the show being sold by her brother - her only family - to a marriage she didn’t want and was raped by the end of the first episode.

BOTH the starks & dany went through shit during the show.

the starks ended the show being the most privileged family.

while dany ended the show being MURDERED by the only person she loved - her ONLY FAMILY - after she finally got what she wanted.

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“What, what, what, WHAT!?” the actress recalls thinking. “Because it comes out of fucking nowhere. I’m flabbergasted. Absolutely never saw that coming. I cried,” Clarke says. “And I went for a walk. I walked out of the house and took my keys and phone and walked back with blisters on my feet. I didn’t come back for five hours. I’m like, ‘How am I going to do this??’

THAT tells you all you need to know about Daenerys. It was NOT foreshadowed. It was NOT in her character to do what she did. D&D are trying to cover their tracks but Emilia Clarke is not having it!

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The north wanting independence when the rightful heir to Winterfell is now King makes no sense. They’d have been ruled by a son of Ned Stark, which is EXACTLY WHAT THEY ALWAYS WANTED.

Sansa literally just wanted to be Queen. That’s it. That’s been her entire goal for a few seasons now, she doesn’t give a flying fuck about her family or for anyone but herself. It was straight up all about power.

Cersei lives on in Sansa. Incredible.

No wonder Arya fucked off west than to live with that mess in their father’s home.

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GRRM: The lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.

D&D: *makes sure each of the remaining Starks is a lone wolf*

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“In the godswood she found her broomstick sword where she had left it, and carried it to the heart tree. There she knelt. Red leaves rustled. Red eyes peered inside her. The eyes of the gods. “Tell me what to do, you gods,” she prayed. For a long moment there was no sound but the wind and the water and the creak of leaf and limb. And then, far far off, beyond the godswood and the haunted towers and the immense stone walls of Harrenhal, from somewhere out in the world, came the long lonely howl of a wolf. Gooseprickles rose on Arya’s skin, and for an instant she felt dizzy. Then, so faintly, it seemed as if she heard her father’s voice. “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives,” he said. “But there is no pack,” she whispered to the weirwood. Bran and Rickon were dead, the Lannisters had Sansa, Jon had gone to the Wall. “I’m not even me now, I’m Nan.” “You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the north. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you.” “The wolf blood.” Arya remembered now. “I’ll be as strong as Robb. I said I would.” She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought it down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. I am a direwolf, and done with wooden teeth. That night she lay in her narrow bed upon the scratchy straw, listening to the voices of the living and the dead whisper and argue as she waited for the moon to rise. They were the only voices she trusted anymore. She could hear the sound of her own breath, and the wolves as well, a great pack of them now. They are closer than the one I heard in the godswood, she thought. They are calling to me.”

— A Clash of Kings (via aethelfled)

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- Aoko Matsuda

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