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i am BEGGING yall to stop naming your kids like targaryens i saw a crofters daughter the other day BROWN hair BROWN eyes named VAELYRA just staring at me like this 👁️👁️ what happened to normal people names like tansy and briony and clump 😭😭😭
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if rha3nyra becomes queen i swear im moving to braavos for real this time
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you backwards sunset landers are always thinking that you can just hop on a boat and come to braavos as if we will be wanting you here, to greet you with open arms. braavos is full. do not bother in coming
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BRAAVOS MENTIONED RAAHHHH WHAT THE FUCK ARE LEMON TREES 🔥🔥🔥🍋🍋🍋
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do you think rhaenys the queen who never was had girl power
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yes of course!! ^_^
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do you think she effectively used girl power by killing five hundred people at the dragonpit just to serve face to the king and fly away
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i dont know about that...
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true capitalism can only emerge when the contradictions of feudalism are sharpened to the point of breaking. the destruction of the warmaking capability of the imperial core through the dancing of their dragons will offer us smallfolk the tools by which we may free ourselves. the war will liberate us bröthers
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fuck this stupid post my whole fucking family is dead they fucking killed my brother pate and my uncle pate and my nephew pate and my brother in law pate and
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OP you are NOT the revolution dude youre not even smallfolk 🙄 i saw your vent posts. your daddy is a myrish lace merchant in gulltown. YOU are upper. middle. class.
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i dont care what the red keep says. the STREETS are saying that queen rhaenyra and the queen mother alicent hightower are kissing with tongue and thats who *EYE* choose to believe. there are godswoods everywhere with those with the eyes to see or however it goes
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op's head is rotting on a spike rn btw
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goddddd lord corlys is so HAWT i neeed him in a way concerning to the Maiden Above
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seven be damned just say you want to make his tits bounce like a normal person. rhaenys isnt going to come back from the seven hells and kill you
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ever since a caution for young girls was banned hornyposting on this site has just gone downhill
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um can we talk about how they said rhaenys is in hell???
🌟 riverlandspeasant-12192
every t*rg is in hell on account of being born with Rot in their soul
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even the little children?
#erm rhaenys is half baratheon too
🌟 riverlandspeasant-12192
Yes.
#half based is still half cringe
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how is the Bear and the Lady Fair the song of the summer it’s not even the song of the hour of the minute of the second
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there are so many death threats in my inbox
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Rumor has it that a bastard witch named Alys Rivers is subjecting our pureblooded King Daemon to unspeakable torments in the name of her savage heart trees. Forswear the ways of degeneracy and remember our valyrian ways!!!
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give it a rest man the targaryens are nawtttt gonna fuck you
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OP you are literally a celtigar
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originally yes. that matters How?
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a ridiculous, fake language and culture. Send me your cranial measurements you old Valyrian ape i must study you for science
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which dragonseed is going to glass a town first
ulf the sot
hugh hammer
addam of hull
someone else??? (you know the Sowing has already happened right)
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i saw the ashes of my town smouldering in the red of dusk, rising in the wind the way that snow might fall. I was the only survivor of the raid by Prince Aemond on my village. Many more will be orphaned by this senseless war. Please, don't make jokes like this OP. There is still time for you to delete this
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erm actually its ok because i use dark humor to cope with trauma and im not even a woman grown plus i receive mystical visions and my dad could beat up your dad and
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if you see me responding to my thirteen alts keep moving. sometimes you just gotta talk to the realest mf you know
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arent you the guy who claimed to have a "dragon dream" about "all your haters roasting on spikes" after your shitty lute solo got zero listens on soundcloud
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this aspect of fitz's character breaks my heart into the tiniest little pieces every time.
would it be unethical to give your cat cigarettes
You need a few prescriptivist grammar sticklers around, or everything goes to shit. They’re an indicator species. Without them the whole internet goes into total trophic collapse, and no one cares about the difference between their, there, and they’re anymore.
immortality sucks crowd when they find out mortality also sucks
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name any other human being with a pantone shade darker than ecru
dev patel is the only brown man people know
dennis reynolds looks like chris cuomo
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Men’s Lives Have Meaning, Part 1: Introduction
There was an English teacher in my high school I got along with wonderfully, despite never actually having him for class. An hour into our first conversation, early on in my freshman year, he got that gleam in the eye good teachers get when they’ve sussed you out and they have something to recommend. He reached into his desk and pulled out a much-loved copy of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
For the unfamiliar, Tom Stoppard’s play centers on the titular secondary characters in Hamlet. In the Shakespeare original, they’re comic relief, puppets of the villains, and they die offstage. In Stoppard’s play, they know it, and are wracked with ennui as a result; playful college-stoner existentialist ramblings give way to anguished, angry condemnations of the fate to which they’ve been condemned. What did we do to deserve this, O Author, not only dead but swept aside, rendered unimportant? Clowns transform into Job before our eyes.
Roughly a year later, I was recommended Peter David’s Sir Apropos of Nothing, this time by my mom. The novel’s not without its flaws, and the sequels were quite disappointing, but it was the first remotely “deconstructive” fantasy novel I’d read, and it appealed to me on the same basis as R+G: giving self-consciously secondary characters the spotlight to encourage empathy. The titular hero has been told his entire life by his mother that he’s destined for great things, only believing her deep down where he barely realizes it, and then he learns his best friend from childhood was the hero all along:
“My life meant nothing. I meant nothing. … I was a supporting player. I had a bit part. I was a walk-on, a one-off, whose presence was worth a chapter or two at most, a few lines in a ballad.”
So you can guess, then, who my favorite character in ASOIAF is.
Quentyn Martell is not the hero. He will never be king. He will never marry the beautiful princess. He will never avenge his family. He will never go home. He died knowing his friends died for nothing, knowing he slaughtered teenagers for nothing, believing himself worthless.
He was not. He mattered.
Quent mattered to GRRM, and he matters to me; he lived and lost, tried and died. This series will be devoted to exploring all the facets of his gem of a storyline: the IMO sharpest genre commentary in the series, the window it provides onto the hell of the Meereenese Knot, the pitiless critique it aims at Doran. I’ll be talking about fairy tales, dense symbolic imagery, the horrors of war, but also fear and humiliation and guilt and desperate blind hope.
Above all, though, I will be talking about Quent. He wasn’t a redshirt, gods no; he was smart and sweet and shy and sad, and never wanted to be the hero. He never wanted a quest. How can that be, a young prince in a fantasy story, not wanting a quest to wed the beautiful princess? Surely that’s your dream, the one you’re being kept from by Circumstances! But with Quent, GRRM flips the script: all Quent wanted was a quiet life with his wife, and for his friends to be alive again. To borrow from countless war stories, that poor kid just wanted to go home.
So that’s really the main point of this series: explaining why my blog is called what it is. It only broke my heart when Quent walked semi-knowingly to his death because I cared about him so much before he did it. Or as Drink puts it:
“Men’s lives have meaning, not their deaths.”
Anonymous asked:
who the hell is quentyn and why do you care if he's gone or not? asking out of simple curiosity...
greenbloods answered:
quentyn martell is a point of view character in A Dance with Dragons, the fifth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin. the son of doran martell and mellario of norvos, quent is sent on a quest by his father along with his friends to reach daenerys targaryen in the east, to remind her of a secret marriage pact signed promising her older brother’s hand in marriage to quentyn’s older sister. quent is tasked with making good on that pact, except with his hand to daenerys. but quent’s adventure stinks. his friend dies, his mission fails, he witnesses atrocities beyond count in essos, and he loses everything. but quentyn never wanted to be the hero. he just wanted to do what his father asked of him.
quentyn’s storyline in adwd is a poignant contrast to the main storylines of the Destined Heroes like jon and daenerys, as his suffering is not rewarded or foretold by any prophecy, nor does he have any special warging powers by which he can return from the dead–he’s just a frog told he had to kiss a princess, who danced with dragons against his fate. quentyn was not adapted into the show Game of Thrones, and his presence in the books is often underlooked and underappreciated by many fans, as many question why we spent so much time with a character whose storyline seemingly “goes nowhere.” but quent mattered.
Anonymous asked:
who the hell is quentyn and why do you care if he's gone or not? asking out of simple curiosity...
quentyn martell is a point of view character in A Dance with Dragons, the fifth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin. the son of doran martell and mellario of norvos, quent is sent on a quest by his father along with his friends to reach daenerys targaryen in the east, to remind her of a secret marriage pact signed promising her older brother’s hand in marriage to quentyn’s older sister. quent is tasked with making good on that pact, except with his hand to daenerys. but quent’s adventure stinks. his friend dies, his mission fails, he witnesses atrocities beyond count in essos, and he loses everything. but quentyn never wanted to be the hero. he just wanted to do what his father asked of him.
quentyn’s storyline in adwd is a poignant contrast to the main storylines of the Destined Heroes like jon and daenerys, as his suffering is not rewarded or foretold by any prophecy, nor does he have any special warging powers by which he can return from the dead–he’s just a frog told he had to kiss a princess, who danced with dragons against his fate. quentyn was not adapted into the show Game of Thrones, and his presence in the books is often underlooked and underappreciated by many fans, as many question why we spent so much time with a character whose storyline seemingly “goes nowhere.” but quent mattered.
turning a big dial labeled "victim" on one end and "perpetrator" on the other back and forth and constantly looking back at the audience for approval
Anonymous asked:
least favorite asoiaf subplot
i love all my asoiaf subplots and am so glad we got the chance to get these books and i will never speak a word against any of them. that being said i wish we got more of a payoff to the dorne subplot .because right now it looks like doran’s master plan he’d been cooking up for 17 years was
- get oberyn to make tywin confess to ordering elia’s death
get arianne to marry viseryssend quentyn off to die in a foreign country in an attempt to marry daenerys- ???
- vengeance. justice. fire and blood.