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When people can accept dragons, giants and fucking ice zombies in a show but black people is too far for their imagination to stretch 😂😂😂

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From what I can see, Dany seems to prefer long drawn out and excruciating methods of execution. She chooses methods that prolong the execution and subsequently the victims pain instead of showing them the mercy of a quick death.

Her expressions are also very telling. She usually looks captivated and she is even shown smiling. She enjoys the power this affords her which is alarming because of Barristan Selmy’s words about her father-

“ The Mad King gave his enemies the justice he thought they deserved and each time it made him feel powerful and right. Until the very end.”

Her advisors, Barristan Selmy and Tyrion Lannister both advise her against taking such measures but she petulantly sticks to her decision because she doesn’t like being questioned and believes whatever justice she decides is obviously the right one.

The usual response when anyone questions her executions is that they all deserved it. However, D*ny shouldn’t be able to unilaterally decide what anyone deserves without investigating whether they are guilty of the crime. That’s the reason why trials exist- to determine whether a person is guilty or not.

If it was honorable to execute someone without a trial then Catelyn could have executed Tyrion on the basis of her suspicion without offering him the courtesy of a trial.

On a post I made about how D*ny was wrong in executing the Tarly’s, I had her fans accuse me of forgetting Jon executing Olly or Sansa killing Ramsay even though these are all completely different circumstances.

Jon executed Olly and the other traitors who committed treason by turning against their Lord Commander. He also looked them all in the eye and asked for their last words, something I have never seen D*ny do. He gave the people who murdered him a humane death through hanging whereas D*ny has crucified 163 masters some of whom were innocent of the crime she executed them for.

Sansa killing the man who tortured and raped her daily, who killed her little brother and mutilated Theon is not the same as D*ny burning two people for not blindly bending the knee to her and staying loyal to actual crowned Queen of Westeros.

When Sansa had to execute a man who was a political threat to the North, she gave him a trial. Littlefinger was tried for his crimes and executed based on actual evidence of his crimes.

D*ny doesn’t care about ‘innocent until proven guilty.’ This is made clear when she burned an innocent former master alive in Meereen just to make an example out of him. Why should anyone want a queen who believes her justice is the right justice regardless of culpability.

D*ny talks alot about “breaking the wheel” but all she seems interested in is establishing an autocratic rule so that there is no room for dissent.

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We Really Need to Talk About the Forehead Kiss Scene

Consider this another iteration of the Sansa and Jon “Would that be so terrible?” scene that I covered a little while back.

For a lot of people that believe that Jonsa will happen, the scene on the battlements in “The Winds of Winter”, the finale episode of the sixth season of Game of Thrones, is the starting point of that belief.

It’s unusually sweet, as Jon and Sansa scenes tend to be. It’s almost semi-unnecessary to the plot. It’s the last we see of Jon before it’s revealed that he is the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, making this decidedly un-sibling like interaction with Sansa a bit less suspicious except upon rewatch. (Sidenote, imagine if this scene took place after we learned about R+L=J…)

But a lot of Jonsa skeptics (I’ll call them that though there are obviously varying degrees of this such as “venomous”) seem unable to understand why this particular scene feels so different from just about every single other scene on the show. To me, there are multiple factors that make this particular scene unique from any other on the show.

It’s an almost perfect example of a “romance setup” from multiple angles.

1.) It didn’t really advance the “plot”

For some reason, this scene was included among the 10 most crucial scenes of the series by HBO pre-season 7 buuuuut not a lot happened at face value.

Jon had just banished Melissandre for burning someone alive (inquisitive emoji) and was watching her leave on the battlements. He’s approached by Sansa. She says she’s sorry. He credits her for winning the battle. They say they need to trust each other. They leave. So why is a “recap of events” considered a crucial scene? Why was it on the show at all? Viewers wanted to know what Jon was going to do about Sansa arriving with the KotV and if they were going to have a conflict about it. Except that part took about 5 seconds. And the opposite happened. 

Similar to the Littlefinger choke scene in season 7, this didn’t really directly affect the actions of the characters in any way. Even if a scene doesn’t advance “plot”, it’s meant to advance the “story”. What happens here between Jon and Sansa? It revealed something between the two of them that wasn’t revealed simply through the dialogue. It’s inclusion in the show at all should leave you wondering about its purpose, but the added layers of the length, framing, and use of reaction shots should make it fairly obvious that it’s a romantic scene.

2.) Both characters are pleasantly surprised by each other’s tenderness towards the other

I think to really grasp this scene, you have to get inside the heads of each character.

Normally, any surprise in Game of Thrones is a bad thing. The strange quality of the battlements scene is that it’s an inversion of the normal routine. We need to take a step back and evaluate the psychology of Jon and Sansa as they’re entering.

Jon has just banished the person who resurrected him. He’s just won a battle that he knows he should have lost. He’s clearly been quite introspective about Sansa and what she meant and her importance in winning the battle since he’s already preparing her chambers. Somehow, the tent scene is magnified in its intensity because this scene is its exact opposite and it’s where we last left off with Jon and Sansa.

Sansa pleaded with Jon to listen to her.

To be fair to Jon, it’s hard to understand what Sansa is saying but instead of trying to understand her more, he allows them to be dead locked and unable to finish their thoughts.

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D&D has an agenda

The show runners really know how to direct audience’s perceptions and attitudes towards the characters and their relationships.

In S6, they planted the seed of romance between the supposed half-siblings with emotionally intense moments like this

and this

These scenes for sure have some romantic undertone. Still, if you are annoyed by incest (or pseudo-incest), the depiction of emotional closeness between Jon & Sansa is totally acceptable for a brother-sister relationship. Their behaviors are within the acceptable boundaries.

Audience: I sense something odd, are they a bit more than siblings? … Anyway, after all the horrors happened to their family, to their knowledge, they are all that remains to each other, that might explain…And the Starks is a loving family…

Then they were presented like a ruling duo which exactly mirror their deceased parents (a much loved couple throughout the entire history of the show) right the moment it was revealed to audience that they are in fact cousins (Cousin marriage is common by Westeros standard and it’s not considered incest in such world.)

Audience: Oops, are they NedCat 2.0? Okay, if one day they know about the true parentage and romance blossoms, I can “digest” it somehow. 

Into S7, while Jon & Sansa are still unaware of their true biological relation, there are no more than the subtle hints of unexplainable romantic vibes which are left unsaid.  

All we know for sure is Jon is an abnormally overprotective brother to Sansa. He easily gets offended or enters angry kitten mode with every man who, at one time or the other, comes across as Sansa’s potential suitor.

She is the reason he is ready to kill someone who does harm to her.

She is also the reason he restrains himself from killing the person who betrayed his brothers and burned down his home, just because such person helped Sansa escape the Boltons. 

Note that Jon’s strange feeling for his “sister” does not pop up out of nowhere. Since S1, we already know he has a thing for redheads. Make us wonder where the hell he has such “obsession” from? 

Everything is subtext !!

Why?

Because, apart from the purpose of building up suspense, D&D are step-by-step watering the seed of romance between Jon & Sansa, so that when it finally sprouts, the audience are already mentally prepared. Their romance would be more morally acceptable, if it is confessed only after they know the truth about Jon’s parentage rather than before that.  

D&D want their central couple to be widely accepted/ supported by the audience, and that’s why they build up Jonsa love story slowly, stone by stone. 

On the contrary, Jonerys is popped up very confusingly, with a voice over revealing that they are aunt and nephew (more blood related than cousins, especially in the case of Targs who practice incest for centuries).

Audience: Another Jaime-Cersei? Spare me <facepalm>. When will this show stop feeding me with the incest sh**??

Targcests are worst of the worst if we take history into account. 

The reaction to this whole Jonerys affair has been perfectly expressed by Emilia herself.

Not to mention that just a few moments before, Jaime & Cersei, another notorious incest couple, whose relationship is detested by most of the audience since the very beginning, have broken up. That is not good news for Jonerys either. 

Throughout the length of the story, we’ve seen how toxic and destructive Jaime & Cersei’s relationship and how it ruined their family, as well as the realm. There’s no way that the story will end with just another incest couple.

Is it clear which couple D&D are trying to convince us to root for?

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Jaime: I am not attracted to Brienne of Tarth whatsoever

Jaime’s dick:

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do not pity the dead, pity the living, and above all, those who don’t appreciate sansa stark

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GRRM didn’t just

1) Create a boy and girl

2) Let them grow in the same household but kept them as distant as possible

3) Make their first infactuations look very similar to each other

4) Let them daydream about children whose physical characteristics match with each other

5) Write that the girl wanted a traitor to die in the hands of a hero and took great pain to get him to the other end of the continent, only to have him killed by this guy. Did I mention in the same manner she had wanted?

6) Get him to become a lord from being a bastard and her to become a bastard from being a highborn lady so that she can finally understand what it’s to be like one.

7) Give him the surname snow and has it associated romantically with the girl, going as far as her connecting snow with lovers kisses

8) Make them yearn for the domestic life of winterfell than any of their other “siblings”

9) Makes him call her “radiant” in his very first chapter.

10) Makes him pop up in the next chapters whenever she was bethrothed to a person or flowered.

Only to let them stay as just siblings till the end

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I'm fascinated that Kit still hasn't used the word "love" in reference to Jon's feelings for D. He's talked about attraction, and mused about when Jon may have started "liking" her, but he's never used the word "love," even though E has used it to describe D's feelings for Jon. Isn't it strange that the actor playing that role has never once used the word "love" when talking about the supposed greatest, most important romance of the series? And s7 ended a year and a half ago. He's had time.

YOU KNOW WHY ANON!!!!!

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Please tell me you get the Zig Zag option on this?

Ghost Rickon

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They just hate us cuz they ain't us bisshhhesssss

yeah i predicted months ago that the hostility towards jonsas was only going to get worse & worse as s8 drew nearer and it became increasingly harder to ignore the writing on the wall. lots of people will insist the hostility is because of how jonsas act, but we're not behaving any differently than we always have. no, they're only getting more vicious and aggressive because they're terrified we're right. strap yourselves in, ladies. they're lashing out in panic and it's only going to get worse.

Where are these demon jonsas ??? I follow most of the big names in fandom and are friends with like…ninety percent. I haven’t seen even the saltiest of ladies do anything but respond to shit that’s in our tag!!!!

They tag things on purpose, we call them out, and they run behind their blogs and call us big and bad. 🙃🙃 They’re all weak skinned babies.

And pointing out Dani is going dark is

A) not hate

B) not bullying

C) not sexist

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I don't own any of these but the last gif is actually honestly the one v v v v few times Jon smiles/laughs

I find the Jon/Dany's romance really little shown. However, I think I see what D&D want to show: Dany is in love and Jon feels more & more attraction and affection for her even if, politically, he is not on her side. The absence of a first kiss, their short love scene, their relationship of power, Kit's acting, Jon's lack of dialogue...It's unromantic. But I'm worried: Can the show create a Jonerys' romance & a Jonsa' one in so few episodes without Jon seems to play with the feelings of 2 women?

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If definitely is. More often than not they told the audience how Jon and Daenerys feel for each other rather than show us with visual cues and tropes. Because of this direction it can leave us asking “uh, where?” From comments like “I’ve noticed you staring at her good heart.” And “I suppose he stares longly at you hoping to gain a successful military alliance.” When we haven’t seen any of that from Jon’s part.

But I disagree that D&D nor Kit are showcasing any attraction from Jon’s end to Dany. Half the time Jon is frowning and looking like he’d rather be anywhere else when he’s around Daenerys.

Let’s take a few examples.

Not a lick of softness there.

We saw Jon’s first time with Ygritte, a woman he didn’t agree with morally and always butt heads with but Kit showed there was an attraction there that he couldn’t help.

Look at the subtle tug Ygritte does to Jon when she tries to kiss him again. She’s pulling him towards her and Jon takes a deep breath in, allowing her to do this as he signs into the kiss. Kit is conveying quite well how Jon is feeling in this moment. He knows there’s a bigger picture and he probably shouldn’t be doing this, but something is there.

With Daenerys though, Jon shows no such weakness in any of his expressions.

This is supposed to be a man overwhelmed with desire and yet his hesitation at the door before forcing himself to knock and body language show each choice is deliberate and lack any evidence of passion from his end. Kit knows how to portray a man smitten. This doesn’t feel like one of those times and it’s a noticeable difference compared to Emilia’s choices to show Daenerys evolving feelings for Jon that go from bad first impression, intrigue, fondness, infatuation and then love.

I think this is all on purpose from D&D subtextul choices and dialogue opened for interpretation with lines like “They’ll come to see you from what you are.” And “I wish you good fortunes in the wars to come.” A statement shown to be quite ominous and linked to opposing sides and death.

D&D love showing off their actors abilities to potray powerful performances and they wouldn’t miss the opportunity to showcase their “It” couple falling in love with iconic moments like a first kiss etc.

But they did and they not only didn’t use any sort of classic romantic trope, they actively showed us the complete opposite of the moments they used for other characters who have fallen in love.

So, when they eventually do crumble very soon in season 8, you can go back and see the hints and foreshadowing they were never meant to be the end all be all couple of the show and they just don’t work well together. They have always been foils to one another’s story and it will make sense to us once we go back and watch after the show is said and done for.

They don’t need to make room for two romances in season 8 with J*nerys and Jonsa because they were already established and focused on in season 6 and 7.

We see what Jon and Sansa mean to each other and have watched them grow as a pair. The visual storytelling is leading up to head and they have enough time to tell it all without it feeling random on further inspection. The seeds have already been planted whether we saw them or not.

We will also be able to look at the stark contrast of how Jon truly feels for both Sansa and Daenerys. One that’s genuine and true. The other cold and flat. Plus, we know 4 out of 6 episodes will be 80 minutes. That is more than enough time to handle the upcoming triangle we will see between Jon, Sansa and Daenerys come season 8.

Thanks for the ask!

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How the fuck have I never actually not seen this

So I know that the Theon Jon scene in 7x07 is heavily foreshadowing Jon's upcoming identity crisis and inner conflict with the 'you don't have to chose' line, but if the Sansa kidnapping theory is true, then it also foreshadows what Jon will do. As soon as Theon mentions that he needs to go after Yara, Jon's immediate reaction is 'why are you still talking to me'. Bonus - I can never get over Jon's very subtle reaction when Theon mentions Ramsay

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nonny! THAT’S A GOOD ONE! I never thought of that, wow.  This could totally happen and now i want that stupid ass kidnapping theory to come true. Damn :C

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grrm wrote a whole book about how targ history is bad, and instead of this fandom finally getting the message, we get everyone reblogging pretentious think pieces from bnfs that basically say "*gasp* oh that grrm, he's hopeless, how did he write this without understanding how problematic it is?! he's such a middle-aged cishet white man." for christ's sake, sharon, he knows how problematic it is, he's telling you that targs are BAD.

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The only acceptable reason for this is if this character is actually a demon who seduces men and then eats them. [source]

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deja vu motherfucker