#Because you're not abolishing the “bad” system you're simply destabilizing it and seeding the ground for MORE opportunism? | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

rhaenin-time · 5 months

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This is your reminder that ambiguity in a (competently written) story functions to force the reader or viewer to engage on a thematic level, rather than a literal plot level. In other words, you don't "answer" ambiguity with conspiracy-grade theories born and "proven" through easter egg hunts and counting breadcrumbs. The thematic answer, the message of the ambiguous part of the story, should fit regardless of whichever of the likely possible "answers" is the "true answer." Because in cases of ambiguity, the thematic answer is the "true answer."

Do with that what you will.

#literary analysis #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray baird #fantasy is probably the most metaphorical genre in general people #asoiaf #fire and blood #hotd critical #hotd #asoiaf fandom #hotd sexism #rhaenyra targaryen #amethyst empress #velaryon boys #strong boys #Did you know that Rhaenyra's story is about MiSoGyNy?#And how in the absence of codified law enforced by a higher power that it's the UNDERSTANDINGS between us that keep society together?#And that weaponizing misogyny and other forms of bigotry to justify severing those understandings for opportunism's sake #is how you end up DESTROYING the social order?#And that even in a “bad” system that's still a “bad” thing to do?#Because you're not abolishing the “bad” system you're simply destabilizing it and seeding the ground for MORE opportunism?#Where FORCE is valued above all else?#In this world in this era we MIGHT call that “fascism.”#And we most certainly wouldn't call it “liberation.”

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