#and it’s like if Theon gets adopted by Nice Rich People then what happens to Asha

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idk if this is Little Baby Discourse that we’ve already been over but as someone whose family was directly and irreparably affected by predatory child welfare services under a colonial government I find those modern au takes where it’s like ‘the Greyjoys are an ignorant low income family and they live in a trailer and the Starks notice immediately that Theon is malnourished so they take him in and everything works out the end’ to be uhhhhh questionable like why is Unhealthy Dynamic synonymous with Poor and what is so attractive about the canonical Child Removed From Their Culture And Homeland being translated into Poor Child Leaves Bad Hick Family To Be With Nice Upper Middle Class Family ???

#also another thing that cps does is separate siblings which is Very Bad #and it’s like if Theon gets adopted by Nice Rich People then what happens to Asha #I am babbling but like #u get what I mean #honestly it just gives me the same vibe was what the rcmp did to my grandparents because their parents were Bad Stupid Injuns #like I’ll be the first to project my daddy issues onto B*lon no question but #I’m not out here pretending that Winterfell was any healthier for Theon than Pyke was #also the Greyjoys are literally canonically stupidly rich they are part of the 1% Theon is a whole ass prince #balon was whacked by the wizard mafia that was white collar crime #and like my dad’s family is poor and dysfunctional #those dynamics exist and they suck but like #slapping rich people on the problem isn’t fixing it especially when considering the fact that the iron islands were colonized more or less #asoiaf #theon greyjoy #valyrianscrolls #also when ppl are like #‘the iron islands are Dumb and Bad because they’re misogynistic!!1!!’ wait until u find about literally all of Westeros #also while I’m at it #I’m from a tribe that is consistently stereotyped as violent and crazy even by other natives #our anglicized name comes from an anishinaabe word meaning man eater #so chocking up entire cultures as bad and crazy and backwards is extremely suspicious to me #even if said culture isn’t even real