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miguel sapochnik kinda went off on d&d 👀

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A Huge Shout-Out

To @supermcfluffinator , @cantfightfatetoo , and @selkiesstories.

The reply feature in my messaging still hasn't been fixed yet, but I just wanted to say thank you for all your well wishes! I miss you all so much, and can't wait to chat again soon! ❤❤❤💖💖💖

All the Love,

Me, @chid-sen-gan

#personal things... #and thank you @supermcfluffinator for your gift #i loved it more than you know!!! #💖💖💖 #love you all #miss you all

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why does bad canon have to happen to good characters?

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if by ‘’vanilla’’ ships you mean ships with a healthy amount of respect, trust and love for eachother, then yes. i love vanilla ships. i am the queen of all things vanilla. my name is vanilla. 

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If you want to “shock your audience” maybe you should just try writing a good story.

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To everyone who's messaged me for the last few days,

I'm soooooo sorry about not replying. I've tried, but my replies in the text box keep refusing to send, and I keep getting a red "failure to send" message each time I try. I've contacted tumblr support, however, and should hopefully have the issue fixed soon.

Until then, just know I'm thinking of/missing all of you so much, and can't wait to talk to you again!

Lots of Love,

Me, @chid-sen-gan

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As someone who's currently rewatching both LotR and GoT, I can say this is the truest thing ever.

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To GoT S08 except E02:

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So, to everyone saying that those of us who hated GoT S8 are just angry because we didn't get a happy ending...

I'd like to debunk that myth.

Like, hon, it was never a happy ending we wanted. Just a coherent one.

#anti dany stans #anti daenerys #anti jonerys #anti targaryen #anti pretty much this entire season #except you episode 2 #you were a dear and deserve all the emmys #but apparently slating you for a nomination #isn't subversive enough for hbo

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On behalf of HBO, i’d like to apologize for not submitting “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” for the best writing category for the 2019 Emmys. They know they fucked up. Thank you.

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Dear Dany Stans,

If you don't like my posts, then allow me to introduce you to the block option.

Sincerely,

Me

#anti dany stans #anti daenerys #anti jonerys #anti targaryen #either block me or I'll block you #capische???

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I'd really like to meet some of these amazing ones you speak of, considering one just defended Dany feeding a man to her dragon to me by saying "but the dragons needed to eat" and "it's just like when we eat animals".

Daenerys has like the worst stans. I mean, some of them are decent people, some of them are really amazing. But a lot of them are worse than Ramsay stans.

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I’m glad with all the limited time they had to wrap up on all these complicated, ten-year-long character arcs that they spent a full minute showing Tyrion rearranging chairs.

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Dany Stans on Dark!Dany: So what if it was foreshadowed?! Foreshadowing isn't enough to explain things! It doesn't count!!!

Also Dany Stans: Why didn't Dany end up as queen?! Why wasn't Jonerys endgame?! And boatbaby?! How could you, D&D?! What about "foreshadowing"?!?!?!?!

#anti dany stans #anti daenerys #anti jonerys #anti targaryen #anti targ restoration #i've been watching a lot of youtube videos #and the hypocrisy is blinding #only one guy out of maybe twenty got it right #bless him

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The Poor Handling of Jon’s true Heritage Pretty Much Wrecked the Ending

I think a big part of the problems with season eight was the poor execution of Jon’s character arc, more specifically the impact of Sam and Bran’s revelation about his true lineage.  Although the earlier seasons were pretty much a faithful adaptation of the books (with some big omissions), Benioff & Weiss got to the point where they had to work with less of a blueprint.  Particularly in seasons seven and eight, their goal was to wrap up the series (sooner than what was needed), by hitting the big plot points and then kind of working backwards to fill in a few blanks.  They could not take the time to tell the involved, character driven story that is Martin’s trademark, where the inner psychology of the character is driving the dialogue and the developments. Instead they went for spectacle like what we would get from an action movie.  So, for example, if Dany being killed by Jon is the spectacle planned for episode 6, they did the bare minimum by keeping Jon reduced to kind of a placeholder who was mouthing the same old lines about “his queen” until they could get him to the point where he suddenly goes off the rails by killing Dany. 

There was very little intrigue about Jon’s Targaryen Bloodline simply because his character was a now mostly a cardboard cut-out instead of a well-rounded person.  Even during season seven, most of his talk consisted very one-dimensional statements about the threat of the Night King which turned him into an almost annoying “prophet of doom” type caricature of himself.  Not that the advance of the Night King was not what Jon should have been focusing on, but his character lost much of what had made it so great.  His dialogues were almost exclusively about the Night King and came off as wooden because he was not given very much nuance.  His supposed romance with Dany is a great case in point, and still comes across as very ambiguous. 

The earlier seasons were very much about Jon Snow’s backstory, which is rich with pathos and intrigue even in the show.  Jon’s parents, although we only see them briefly, are major figures because Robert’s Rebellion and Robert Baratheon’s ascension are major drivers of the entire story.  Rhaegar’s motives, which we never got to hear any more about, are left shrouded in mystery by the show, even though the saga and details from the Tower of Joy are major revelations from the earlier seasons - which are shown as being intimately connected to Jon’s Kingship.  Benioff and Weiss did a good job handling these essential plot points in season six, but then just dropped it all so that they could finish the series with abbreviated seasons for seven and eight.  Many viewers were willing to overlook the huge problems with season seven because they believed that season eight was going to bring everything together, including the deeper mysteries of Jon’s birth and resurrection.

Instead they likely designed episodes five and six as “showcases” for Dany’s descent into genocide and then the necessity of Jon killing her.  The essential tragedy of this for Jon is pretty much skipped over in favor of giving us  a Dany-centric arc in the final season.  The first episode is about her triumphant arrival at Winterfell.  She shares her dragons with Jon, only to find out right before the big battle that her love interest is her nephew and more importantly the rightful heir.  Dany gets a cold reception in the North and is somewhat usurped by Sansa and also eclipsed by Jon’s popularity.  It’s all about her rather than Jon; but it could have been about both if the writers had taken the time and effort to do justice to the full story.

Jon Snow in “The Bells”.   His identity/moral crisis should have been a centerpiece of season eight.

The Starks do triumph in the end in that the remaining characters all live and have new beginnings, but the ending feels unsatisfying because the plotting makes them appear as footnotes to Dany’s story.  This is a big reason why the ending feels muddled.   We can see the “bones” of Martin’s story, and how the Starks are going to be the next chapter of his saga (if ever told), yet their characters have been given short shrift because the focus was on Dany’s arc.  The story lost so much of the richness and complexity of the Stark family, including their mystical roots with the North and the Direwolves.  In particular, Jon’s story was central to the “Song of Ice and Fire”, but the show lost the fascinating threads of what he was really all about.

How much better could Game of Thrones have been had Jon’s personal qualities vs. those of Dany been made a centerpiece of the story!  Even Varys’s short-lived “plot” was inexplicably presented as a minor sideshow when it should have been a major development for Jon and the Starks.

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Its been weeks but everytime I see a beautiful gif set of costumes, sets and emotional scenes with actors giving it their all,  I get uncontrollably ANGRY!!! THE PRODUCTION CREW AND THE CAST DIDNT DESERVE THAT CLUSTER FUCK OF A FINAL SEASON.  They all deserve so much better. Thank TPB that the GA knew who to blame for that dragon shit of an ending. 

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It's not that we didn't get the character, it's that none of you did.

Dark!Dany foreshadowing has been there since the start. The only reason it seemed more pronounced and/or "forced" in the later seasons is because D&D aren't masters of subtlely like GRRM.

Your girl was always going to be a heel.

And, to quote every Dany stan I've ever encountered - you can die mad about it.

Love being told by Dany stans on twitter that I clearly dont understand storytelling and character arcs when I say Dany wasn’t acting ooc… the writing was rushed and it was poorly executed because there should have been clearer development for the storyline but it was absolutely NOT ooc