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#daemyra The Dragon Queen without her Rogue Prince

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love reading asoiaf threads about translation fails

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GRRM’s blog post is really funny because it amounts to “cause and effect matters” which seems so obvious. But the lack of it is a hallmark of poor writing, and honestly all writers maybe should be reminded of this regularly.

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see one of my problems w movies n tv shows is that they often show a character of like a scientist or a historian and try and make them extremely boring but that shit just doesnt work on me. theyll b like 'well in 13th century turkey...' n everyone will b like ughhh shut up professor dinglebarry no one cares and like. well excuse me. stop the movie. id like to hear more about 13th century turkey.

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Me @ my draft

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I'm just curious if you post your fanfics on any other sites besides AO3.

I do not! All my fic is up only on AO3, and I have no plans to post elsewhere.

(Once upon a time I had a fanfiction.net account, but it’s long defunct.)

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While I agree that in between the lines there's a lot of obscurity, have you considered that I'm not inclined to resign to maturity

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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I was thinking today about the arguments that “if Rhaneyra had done ____, she would not have been usurped”, and the way the meta-narrative around Rhaenyra’s story and the creation of the Dance prove that ultimately false.

From the Appendix of A Game of Thrones on, Rhaenyra was usurped (though it was not framed that way in said appendix, of course, using the in-universe order of kings). From then, details have shifted in canon, leaving the facts that Rhaenyra was usurped and that her line regains the throne unchanged.

Elder by a year or elder by eight (or by fifteen years in show canon), Rhaenyra was still usurped.

With a childless first marriage to a Lannister or a fruitful first marriage to the Hand Lord Lyonel Strong, Rhaenyra was usurped.

Before Daemon existed as more than “nameless Targaryen husband”, Rhaenyra was usurped.

It’s almost like the point of the story is that Rhaenyra, a woman, would be challenged no matter what she did, who she married, what color her sons’ hair was.

Hm.

(That’s not to say there were not ways to prevent the Dance. But it is to say that when framing the Dance as an event, we can’t dismiss the fact that it is a story framed around a woman’s usurpation, no matter the plethora of circumstances Rhaenyra found herself in as she was formed in the canon. To do so truly flies in the face of one of the major points of the Dance.)

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So much about Rhaenicent undercuts the rest of the show. So much of the narrative has to bend to serve this dynamic that the writers refuse to give up. It’s deeply disappointing that they are so invested in a relationship that continuously makes the pieces around it falter or fall flat.

I wasn't going to rant anymore and go to bed but then I kept thinking of the scenes that could have been included by deleting that entire screentime devouring Rhaenyra/Alicent scene.

1. Rhaena claiming and flying Sheepstealer. They built it up the entire season with no pay off. That girl doesn't even have proper dialogues and it's been two fucking seasons.

2. One proper private conversation between Daemon and Rhaenyra.

3. Cregan and the Winter Wolves. I found out they cut his scene.

4. One shot of Jace on Vermax. Where tf is Vermax anyway?

5. One tiny scene with Aegon III and Viserys. You know.....Daemon and Rhaenyra's sons.

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The bizarre things some people say about the French Revolution

Through the power of google, I ended up on some strange conservative blog where I found this:

“Make no mistake, Robespierre was one of Satan’s greatest servants and the villagers of the Vendée were certainly on the side of the angels. As such, we can be sure that both sides in this epic struggle between good and evil now have their reward. Robespierre would be killed by the same orcs that he had unleashed on the Vendée and his fate after death might be too horrible to contemplate. The heroic villagers of the Vendée, butchered in their thousands by the hordes of revolutionary orcs, are now in the company of the saints, martyrs and angels.”

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/01/frodo-versus-robespierre.html

omg

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im gonna watch dr. who in chronological order by the time period they travel to

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one thing about asoiaf is that it frequently invites you to have sympathy for characters who've carried out varying degrees of morally repulsive acts (most apparent with pov characters such as theon, cersei, tyrion, and jaime but also sandor, joffrey, and even viserys). and most of these characters have received some equivalent of, what may look like 'narrative comeuppance' : theon flayed by ramsay, cersei made to perform her walk of atonement, tyrion sold as a slave, jaime losing his hand, joffrey's painful, drawn out death etc. except the scenes really aren't framed like that since the series doesn't seem to buy into that idea. all these incidents are not just deserts but moments of horrible injustice against these characters. and that's a little series thesis statement in itself, no neat category of monsters whose misdeeds can be addressed by a single moment of karmic justice but people like you and me who hurt others and have been hurt and continue on living. it's saying, here's this person who is capable of great cruelty influenced and motivated by their experiences with the world, but will you also hold understanding and sympathy in your heart for when the world is cruel to them in return? given what most fandom discourse looks like... the answer to that question is unfortunately a resounding no for a lot of readers.

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Found an Aemond and shouted at him across the street. He thought we said “Daemon” and was about to scream “dracarys”… or maybe thank us? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Found Daemon and Rhaenyra at Comic Con! And then we inadvertently separated them!

But Rhaenyra returned to join her consort so all is well.

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Found Daemon and Rhaenyra at Comic Con! And then we inadvertently separated them!

But Rhaenyra returned to join her consort so all is well.