#thanks for reminding me that at some poin my mind started to link francisco pizarro and aegon the conqueror for reasons

[kellyvela]

realmente cree esa persona que los targs forzando a los reinos ancianos de westeros a aceptar el trono de hierro, quemando a los que se les resistieron con sus dragones no es el imperialismo porque *checks notes* esos reinos también se establecieron usando fuerza???? porque no impusieron su idioma???? o sí por supuesto cuando los españoles conquistaron a los azteca o a los inca in fact no fue imperialismo ni colonialismo porque eran imperios también y todavía hay gente que habla nahuatl y quechua so if you think about it realmente eran soberantes bien benevolentes uwu

Yeah that's their logic, they think we can't hate targies for being conquerors and at the same time love the Stark children, because House Stark ancestors, the First Men ("the conquerors"), more like 8000 years ago, were at war with the Children of the Forest ("the conquered"), then we are hypocrites, we need to judge the Stark children, the ones blessed by the Old Gods, the same way we judge targies, the ones that are so proud to be the blood of Old Valyria.

Their takes are so narrow that they didn't stop to think about how the war between the COTF and the First Men ended with a peace treaty, The Pact of the Isle of Faces.

They are very loud about targies not imposing their religion to Westeros, but they didn't mention the Doctrine of Exceptionalism and the "veiled threats" of parading dragons all over the seven Kingdoms.

They are very loud about targies not imposing their mother tongue to Westeros, but they forget to mention that people in Astapor speak High Valyrian with a growl of the old Ghiscari tongue, that people in Yukai speak a dialect of High Valyrian, different from Astapor's, but similar enough, and that people in Meereen speak a bastard form of High Valyrian, blended with Old Ghiscari.

And of course they will never talk about how the First Men, and much later The Starks, adopted the COTF religion, the Old Gods, and not the other way around.

But at leats they're funny, right? They provide free amusement. I will never get over them describing targs as "GRRM's elves." LMAO