"Sansa = Ned 2.0 and Arya = Catelyn 2.0" is one of those takes where you can just tell people are more attached to the aesthetic than anything. "The Stark girls are most like the parent they look least like" sounds good on paper and people run with the idea, regardless of how it actually fits into the story. A majority of the justification relies on misinterpreting all of their characters + a healthy dose of fanon. What gets me is that this is the same fandom that insists that Lyanna, only compared to Arya in the text, is equal parts Arya and Sansa but Ned and Catelyn, two fully fleshed-out and complex characters, have to be more like one girl or the other? There's just nothing in the story to justify being so adamant about these comparisons. Arya and Sansa have parallels with both of their parents but at the end of the day, they are unique characters with their own stories. I'll never understand why people want to flatten these complex characters down to their most basic tropes and fit them into restrictive boxes just for a "poetical~" comparison.
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don’t know if this is a hot take but i can’t stand the mirror universe every episode with it is literally this
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writing essays about actual, well written, culturally important texts:
😭😡😤🫥
writing smut about fictional men: 💖🥰🤭🎀💞🫶
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look, i do get that nrs is not and will never be good at writing their characters in mk, but some mk fans, especially in this website are really doing too much and thought they can do better with their own ideas when it's also just as wack...
like "i don't like nrs' idea of (insert character here), i wish they're more like (insert idea here)", yeah sure, not because it's good but because it is also just as shitty as the typical nrs writing.
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You’re such a tae akgae ew
Do you even know what’s an akgae? 😭
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Stop making Yona the "braincell" of your ship. Let her be a girlfail.
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fine i'll say it. the eye is the lamest entity
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it's wild to see people say stuff like "sansa is a politician, arya is a warrior" while not being able to point out a single political act sansa has achieved, and not being able point out any of arya's "warrior skills" that isn't the handful of fencing lessons with syrio she received for like five months max lol
Politician!Sansa and Warrior!Arya are two fascinating ends of a fanon ouroboros; Neither concept exists outside of the other and neither concepts are based on the books. This fandom is just so attached to the idea of Sansa being this incredible politician, with intelligence above every other character, that her having nothing in her own chapters to support that idea doesn't stop them. That's why Arya's intelligence, skills, and entire character arc get reduced to her being nothing but a walking, talking weapon. Like you said, her "warrior" capabilities are essentially the handful of lessons she had with Syrio where her most important + relevant lesson was how to observe her surroundings. Her only "combat" training with the FM was her defending herself with a staff when she lost her eyesight. There's nothing to suggest that she's going to be a warrior, in fact we get the exact opposite. We get constant reminders of Arya's small stature and lack of strength that prevent her from fighting/defending herself in certain situations. All her kills rely on sneak attacks/stealth and she's never been in an outright swordfight with anyone. George even refrains from calling her a warrior like Robb and Jon. Brienne and Asha are examples of female characters who are actual fighters and if you compare their chapters, you can see the difference.
But then Arya's entire existence is antithetical to fanon!Sansa's. Her Harrenhal arc is what people pretend Sansa was doing in KL, her relevance to the North gets transferred to Sansa, and her intelligence and political activeness are erased so that Sansa can shine. They'll write essays on how Sansa is the most intelligent, politically savvy character and how Dany/Jon/Tyrion's arcs only exist to highlight her own ruling arc but the second someone asks them for evidence from the books, it's crickets. I don't understand why their enjoyment of her character hinges on her being the most important/intelligent one. No Arya stan is under the illusion that she's going to be the political character or outclass Dany, Jon, or Tyrion. It's just part of her story so we acknowledge it. Arya is going to have her political arc in Braavos and Sansa is going to have her political arc in the Vale, they aren't mutually exclusive. The only issue is that some people want Sansa to be the only one with a political arc and that's not the story that George is telling.
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“steve gets eddie flowers” “steve listens to metal for eddie” “steve learns how to play dnd for eddie” AND WHAT IS EDDIE DOING FOR STEVE?????
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scream fans with the most mid white boy ever is the killer
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OK GUYS I HAVE FINALLY READ THE MAZE OF THE SPHINX AND WHEN I SAY THAT I READ THE SPHINX'S LINES IN ABBY LEE MILLERS VOICE I MEAN IT.
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every time i see one of those “celebrity men that lesbians idolize” lists i kinda groan bc the list always consists of white men
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i would tolerate damon so much more if they had him end up with literally anyone else
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