ASOIAF stans can be very annoying because a common characteristic in any discussion about leadership in this series always delves into readers zeroing in on failures while they completely write off any successes. This happens with just about any person thrust into a position of power, but I see these bizarre standards most applied to Jon Snow and Daenerys (especially Dany). You’d think that after years and years of analyzing the text to death, we’d come up with more compelling arguments than “Jon Snow bad Lord Commander” and “Dany bad (she’s just bad)”. Fans have decided to define these two by the mistakes they make while completely writing off all the good they do. And then the most baffling thing is when they say that Dany and Jon are failures so someone else should be the endgame ruler….and then they name Young Griff as their chosen champion.
Setting aside the obvious role Aegon plays as a narrative foil to Jon and Dany, how can anyone say he would do a better job? He has done literally nothing. His skills are a blank slate. Where is the evidence that he would have better reforms for the Watch than Jon did? That he would know how to better handle the different factions at the Wall than Jon did? That he would know how to prepare for the upcoming food shortage than Jon did? Where is the evidence that he would know how to better handle Meereen than Dany did? That he would know how to better deal with the obviously gargantuan task of abolishing slavery?
The point is that ruling is hard. There’s no such thing as a perfect ruler in this series and if anyone thinks that there is, they obviously have not been paying attention. All who have been put in a position of leadership in this story fail in some way. That’s the nature of the job. Even good-hearted, well-intentioned people like Jon and Daenerys struggle with the weight of leadership. So even as they do such incredible good, they still have blind spots. That’s because they’re human and human beings are not perfect. And let’s be real, people would complain if they were suddenly so good at ruling despite their young age and inexperience. So it’s insane to me that fans will read these books and come to the conclusion that all that is needed, instead of Jon and Dany, is a perfect leader who will make everything ok - even more baffling when they name Aegon/Young Griff or some other person who has zero experience with administration so far. Please, let us be serious for once.
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So when I started the show, I knew Sauron was a character so I clocked/assumed it was Halbrand early on as I think I heard it or saw photos or something. But I figured it would be something we found out like an episode or two later and not the plot twist for the whole season. So the longer things went on I was like…surely not. Surely it can’t be him. And even though it was technically spoiled, it still got me! It was still a great twist! Galadriel befriending the man she’s been hunting this whole time without knowing only for it to be revealed right at the end and then she doesn’t tell anyone? Absolutely eating it all up, cannot wait for season two. Season one has been so phenomenal honestly I might watch it again before Thursday.
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ngl it always annoys me how they make a running gag out of guda being traumatized by Halloween bc like. What’s the trauma. A kind of weird girl sings loud and is a bit wacky and some wacky stuff happens? Oh no, and you have to get one of your 15 loyal friends to help you out? How terrible, truly you need to spend the next 10 minutes of intro shivering and shaking over how deeply and uniquely horrific it was. Btw you don’t ever really remember those dead civilians you saw get slaughtered from camelot that’s the job of the people who killed them to feel guilt abt even though the versions who did it are confirmed to be fully different from the ones we see in other events <3
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Being an extremely sapphic person in the utmv fandom is kind of weird because I often feel out of place amongst people going crazy over masc characters who I just physically cannot see any appeal in.
Like what do y’all mean Fell, Horror, and Nightmare are hot??? Just in their base appearances??? Like yeah they can be and they can be visually interesting, but y’all think they’re THE hottest characters this fandom has to offer? I just do not get it. Where is the appeal.
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Re-joining the tumblr scene~!
I mean you hopefully don’t know me since I’m making it a point to separate myself from my prev accounts (other than those who know me personally) but! I’ve missed the radqueer community and tumblr sooo…
Blog theme is just a theme! I don’t ID as Yanqing (if someone randomly comes along and wants my url just dm me and I’ll see what I can do). I am using it because my Doll loves Yanqing and we thought it would be cute.
I don’t know what I want for names here so just call me whatever strikes your fancy. It/Ey/Love/Fluff/Purr/Kit pronouns, please!
If it wasn’t already obvious, I’m Radqueer. Im anti harassment, pro consang, pro para, pro trans id, pro fic, etc. I would rather people who will hold my identity against me not interact, but I won’t have any strict DNI (please try to interact in good faith. If I misinterpret you, just let me know, I’m not trying to make enemies)
Only consistent tags I’ll probably use are #Doll <3 and #Ouppy <3 to easily reference those that are mine. Speaking of my dearest loves, if you’d like to see their blogs you can find them at @morphoqueer and @jatlokgwo respectively!
My main/base blog is @sugarysakurakitty. I won’t be super picky about how I mix between the two.
My main interests at the moments are Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Obey Me!, Bungou Stray Dogs, and Wuthering Waves (WuWa is a very passive interest in comparison to the others, though)
the only trans ids I feel comfy sharing are transnutallergy (in the process of transitioning! Made easier by the fact that my friend is cisnutallergy so we never eat stuff with nuts and she can give me tips and she helps me feel more comfy saying I have a nut allergy! <3), transsinglet (already transitioned though it was kind of on accident), and transvalentinesbirthday + bibirthday.
Idk if this intro post is gonna be permanent but at least I’ve got something! That’s more than usual.
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Some troll just sexualized one of my Mitsukou posts and then proceeded to hate on one of my Aoinene posts directly after so I’m sorry for those of you that have to see that. I blocked them but ik that doesn’t hide their reblogs from other people so I just hope ya’ll know I never intended to invite discourse with those posts or to depict the characters in a weird way. I’d recommend blocking them too because it seems like they just want to start shit
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ok very self absorbed question, but ignoring my actual chart, what sign(s) or placements would you guess i had strongly in my chart based on how i come across/talk on tumblr?? 👀
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