#like genuinely the parallels in the book aren’t even slick

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does anybody remember when I accurately predicted how game of thrones tv show would end bc I had a basic understanding of how the Tudor dynasty ended. lol.

#like genuinely the parallels in the book aren’t even slick #<-although again let’s hope the book series doesn’t end same as the show LOL #Robert = Henry viii #Joffrey and tommen as Edward vi (boy prince who dies young) #dare I say stannis = Mary I bc religious extremism #Cersei as lady Jane grey probably #or if you want the whole ‘named someone their successor in their will and got killed very quickly’ you could say that she’s Ned #although then succession order would be wrong #that does leave us without an Elizabeth though. renly is my Elizabeth I though 😞 #and THEN you get James I coming down from #Scotland to sort out everyone’s mess 🥴 #<- and that’s why I guessed a stark. and an unimportant one at that who hadn’t been involved in the fighting I argued. it’s funny that I was #except he was gay and everyone hated him and he set in motion what led to the civil war so 🤷‍♀️ #anyway as a girlie with a history degree nothing in those books is insanely #shocking to ME personally. although it’s interesting to see how my opinions have shifted in the last 4 years #early modern U.K. isn’t even rly my era and I still know this sndjdkfkf #also I know #in theory everyone says the books are based on war of the roses but imho robs rebellion works better in that sense than anything else #so then I use the Tudors as my framing for what goes on during the timeline #but again it’s all circular bc you have the war of the roses and not too much later you get the English civil war so #anyway dynasties I actually studied at uni are like. the Carolingians and Capetians and Hohenstaufen’s / Holy Roman Empire #and then tang song and Sui . which all give me a lot of perspective on how these processes work #election based succession no look at Holy Roman Empire #‘best amongst brothers’ succession yes look at dynastic China #my conclusion here is that renly was correct rip 🫡 #<- although I would be remiss to not highlight that several Chinese dynasties did practise primogeniture. but many of the most successful #ones didn’t #like I still can’t believe so many fans still think renly was insane like blood tanistry literally was such a thing historically that it #even has a silly sounding name. it was widely practised #him wanting to call an older brother is also what dany did and no one shits on her for that 🥴