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i-professional-procrastinator · 4 months

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It's really funny how Gale clearly has more haters than Snow.

It's strange how Snow has sympathizers even. Don't get me wrong, I love him, he's so well written and I thank Suzanne Collins' pen everyday but being a great character doesn't make him a good character...? Tom blyth did an excellent job and I have nothing but love for him. But people act like his Snow and Donald Sutherland's Snow are two different people. I personally don't think Snow had an ounce of goodness in him, or anything to question his fucked morals. That man made deliberate choices. He took the wrong actions on purpose. He chose himself over doing the right thing each time. Sure he was shaken up by Sejanus' death or killing for the first time in the arena (remember though, that made him feel powerful, that says a lot), but that didn't stop him from choosing to do that again. He got worse with time. He was always evil just not accustomed to the consequences I guess? There's not a lot of gray area when it comes to Coriolanus Snow. The sympathizers (there are SO MANY on twitter) often forget that Tigris went through the same things and still chose to be better. Snow was always a terrible person. I can't think of a suitable way to add his inner monologue to the movie but honestly that would have helped immensely because HIS THOUGHTS ARE ALWAYS INSANE and give so much insight into his growth...from a bad person to a far worse person.

Gale on the other hand is a product of war. War has no winners and Gale is the prime example of that. Sure he fought for the "right side", he fought for his people, he fought to save lives but that's didn't protect him from getting innocent blood on his hands. Gale also took the "wrong" actions I guess but unlike Snow, I don't think he had a choice. As Katniss said he's fire, like her. He fought because there was no other option, and he went in with all his heat. He got burned too. He lost a lot, putting aside Katniss, the PTSD and the trauma. He deserves to get shit for killing civilians but there was a lot behind that awful step than just "Gale evil, Gale wanted people (read Prim, most of the fandom would not have cared if it wasn't Prim but that's a topic for another day) dead."

Gale is a far more complex person than Snow (I didn't say character because I'm not talking about writing, ofc the villain is better written than a supporting character ) and he deserves respect for that. I think the early/mid 2010s shipping wars did a lot of damage to his rep. And all this is coming from an everlark shipper so just think about it for a second.

Ignore typos it's 3:31 AM. Thank you for coming to my Ted-Talk. I do not respond well to constructive criticism.

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nightswatchdisbandmentera · 9 months

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Thinking about poor, doomed Young Griff and how it’s not even important if he is or isn’t Rhaegar’s real son. Because what makes him a fake goes beyond blood - it’s really down to intent and experience. He’s a poor rich man’s Aegon V, but like without the organic hero’s journey.

He’s a lab experiment pretty much. However well intentioned he is, there isn’t much indication that his journey has been authentic. Varys and Illyrio are trying to recreate Aegon V with a fake...literally down to the “let’s hide his hair” scheme. They even gave the boy Aegon’s freaking name (it’s a king’s name after all so I can’t blame them). But they missed like the biggest, most important lesson of all. Aegon V CHOSE to go out. HE made himself, no one else did. His journey was organic as it was derived out of his own autonomous decisions, not manufactured down to the smallest detail (does YG really know what it means to starve and be homeless and hunted?). And there was no promise of a reward (I.e., kingship). Egg didn’t know that he’d be king and even after his dad rose to the throne, there were a ton of people ahead of him. FFS he’s called Aegon the Unlikely. Bro just woke up one day and was like “ay wouldn’t it be nice to actually experience this realm from the perspective of a disenfranchised person?”

Meanwhile, our poor Young Griff is being made to go through all this with the expectation that it’s all going to pay off when he becomes king. BUT (big but!), who’s to say that he actually gets it? Like does he really get why he needs to see how this horrible feudalistic society preys on the smallfolk and makes corpses out of them? Wait, does he even know or recognize that the system needs changing? Like did Varys and Illyrio just tell him “people poor” and leave it at that? Why are they poor Young Griff? How did they get there?! Do Varys and Illyrio even get it? Do they understand that Aegon V was a radical change maker?

How hollow is it that it’s not Young Griff making the conscious decision to actually try and see how his subjects live. He’s not making the conscious decision to be a change maker, no matter what Varys and Illyrio say. People in this fandom will talk about how Young Griff will be the perfect king but…perfect for whom? In what way? In a series that critiques this entire system, what about YG screams that he’s going to actually tackle some of the systemic issues that need tackling - the systemic issues that Aegon V tried to tackle after organically going through his own journey?

WELLLLL….isn’t it cool that Jon and Dany are the true heirs to Aegon V’s legacy not because of blood, but because they actually get to the heart of Aegon V’s journey? Say what you want about them but they are radical as it gets (Jon at the Wall and Dany all over Slaver’s Bay). No one manufactured them. No one told them they had to care about people. No one told them they had to do this lab experiment to become king/queen. They actually did their own thing, while themselves being disenfranchised (GRRM identifies both as outsiders). And without the expectation of a reward (like Jon is literally told that his entire life will basically amount to nothing).

And it’s even better that they were unlikely. Young Griff is meant to happen - well someone is pulling the strings to make sure he works. He’s taking the role of someone who was always meant to be king - for Rhaegar’s son was meant to be king. But Jon and Dany are actually following the Aegon V blueprint because they weren’t meant to happen. Jon is a second son who is presumably a bastard with a contentious claim, and Dany is a daughter who was never meant to survive being sold off to slavery let alone rise to queenship. Neither one of them was meant to be on the throne. No one told them to do the things they did. No one took them and placed them in the positions they’re in. They rose to the occasion by themselves and made changes by their own volition - just as it was with Aegon V. And what makes it even better is that just as Aegon V was chosen to be king, so were Jon and Dany (Jon was literally elected into office and basically won over the wildlings while Dany was dubbed “mhysa” because of her actions in Slaver’s Bay).

#asoiaf #jon snow #daenerys targaryen #young griff #aegon v targaryen #varys #illyrio mopatis #valyrianscrolls #my stuff #like they took an imposter and were like let’s recreate this cool king from decades ago #wasn’t it nice how he cared about people and stuff?#how we actually journeyed among the smallfolk and lived among them and directly experienced what it means to be disenfranchised?#yeahhhh let’s do that…..but we won’t do it organically #meanwhile prince in hiding jon snow doesn’t even know he’s a prince in hiding #he gains power and is just like yeah isn’t it cool to be nice to people and give them basic human decency?! let’s do that from now on #and he has zero expectation for a reward - like he KNOWS that the only reward he’ll get is at best being forgotten at worse infamy and death #dany literally sees people being slaves and is like that sucks ☹️ lemme do something about it #and she DID #she freaking did #like I’ve always felt that we’re not going to get on page confirmation that Aegon is a fake #because it’s not about that #it’s about a boy whose been forced to wear boots that don’t fit #so he’s tap dancin and tap dancin until he can’t anymore and dies #Dany doesn’t need to be YG’s undoing #YG all be his own undoing and that’s more interesting from a character level #the lesson isn’t ohh he’s not the hero because he doesn’t have the right blood #y’all I could go on and on like!!!

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kellyvela · 2 years

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So the prophecy...

Aegon foresaw the end of the world of men. 'Tis to begin with a terrible winter gusting out of the distant north.

[I, Rickon Stark, Lord of Winterfell….]

Aegon saw absolute darkness riding on those winds. And whatever dwells within will destroy the world of the living.

When this Great Winter comes, Rhaenyra, all of Westeros must stand against it. And if the world of the men is to survive, a Targaryen must be seated on the Iron Throne. A king or queen strong enough to unite the realm against the cold and the dark.

Aegon called this dream "The Song of Ice and Fire". This secret it's been passed from king to heir since Aegon's time. And now you must promise to carry it and protect it.

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I can't with the mention of a Lord of Winterfell in the middle of all that...

AND THE DAGGER!!!!!!!!!!

#SPOILERS #grrm #asoiaf #game of thrones #house of the dragon #i can't...#lmao #years later jon snow unified that realms of men and arya stark used that dagger!#targs suck at prophecies as i always say #also the word song always meant clash no romance....#even stannis looks better now after the prophecy lmao

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demadogs · 4 months

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i like to mentally cast actors for hypothetical adaptations of my favorite books. for YEARS now i have been searching for the perfect simon snow. i have some baz contenders but ive never found a perfect simon. i am pleased to announce that i have FINALLY FOUND HIM…. its walker scobell. he’d be a perfect simon snow.

#he literally looks like how i imagine 5th year simon snow SO SEEING HIM WITH A SWORD FIGHTING A CHIMERA??!!! I WAS SO DISTRACTED #rn hes a baby so give it like 3 more years bc simon and baz are 18 but HED BE PERFECT #i always say i dont want the adaptation but then i cast it perfectly and now i kinda want it #but itd be SO hit or miss and id be absolutely devestated if it sucked bc this book… these characters.. they are everything to me #i read this book when i was 16 and i still think about it every day if they completely flopped the movie i wouldnt recover #im still looking for penny i do have a contender for agatha #walker scobell #carry on #snowbaz #percy jackson #simon snow #baz pitch

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katnissandpeetamellark · 3 months

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#it doesn't fit PERFECTLY but I'm always down to bully Coriolanus #Coriolanus Snow #Arachne Crane #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #TBOSAS #ABOSAS #BOSAS #ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #hunger games #THG #Text Post #incorrect hunger games quotes #incorrect tbosas quotes #Arachne sucks but so does Coriolanus so it's like oh well you're both stupid #I wonder if she hadn't died if he would've considered her to be his wife. He certainly hated her... maybe even more than Livia.#BUT he does seem to have a BIG annoyance with how she like “hits” him or whatever LMAO

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sudaca-swag · 3 months

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you win: amazing skin and hair because of the humid weather

but you pay: not being able to breath and feelings of your inminent death

#we are latines we suffer but we are hot through it #AND IF HUMID SUMMERS WERENT ENOUGH U GO AND HAVE A HUNID WINTER WHICH SUCKS ASS SO BAD #ive gone to europe in winter with snow and shit and ive felt way more cold here in uruguay during july and we dont even have snow #AND ITS BECAUSE OF THE HUMIDITY LO QUE MATA ES LA HUMEDAD MUCHACHOS #your clothes never dry so u are always cold

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elegyofthemoon · 4 months

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question: is anyone having the trouble of tumblr eating your tags or is tumblr just being glitchy for me?

i wrote a post just a bit ago and wanted to ramble more on the post in the tags but when i went back to edit the tags, i saw half of the tags were GONE. so i tried to retag everything i remembered but even after i saved, the tags would still be eaten its kinda :/

#snow speaks #idk tumblrs been very glitchy for me as of late #whenever i try to retag things it winds up eating the post and then i lose it to the void #OR this situation where it loses half my tags #like yes i get that i ramble too much but seriously ? T _ T #i think what sucks more is that im about to lose it to the void because it refuses to save the organizing tag and it just has my rambles in #*instead #:/ sucks #its ok i dont need my rambles i have the questionable amount of posts saved in my draft to give myself pain instead but still ;;#its just annoying #like i also know tumblrs always been a faulty website thats basically standing on a stick in order to function #but i never felt like it was THIS bad until like these last few months #and this all started bc i was trying to find a ramble i did a bit ago about di//luc and I WAS PISSED THAT I COULDNT FIND IT AGAIN AND ITS #JUST LOST FOR ETERNITY ON MY BLOG... its annoying

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wayfinderships · 2 months

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Good morning gamers! Hope you're all doing well! As for me, I'll be quite busy working on assignments but hopefully I'll have some time afterwards to watch some more T.iger and B.unny :>

#pan rambles #Also I had a nightmare which sucks #Right when I think I've gotten used to them it always manages to surprise me somehow #That aside though. I bet Snow is real nice to cuddle👉👈 He's like a giant teddy bear!#...also I might have a certain cook on the mind. He's pretty warm too-

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theskeletoninthegarden · 1 year

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I have a coworker that I used to love to talk to but she has a problem with interrupting me, constantly, in the middle of conversations. Oftentimes she doesn't react to a statement of mine, and will interrupt with something completely separate, but it genuinely hurts my feelings?

And I don't know how to mention this without hurting hers.

#personal #we work together and although we've spent some time outside of work together it's difficult to make happen #but at this point I really just don't want to #she's nice! she's a decent human being!#but damn I've shared moments when I've been genuinely upset about something #only for her to steam roll into whatever I'm saying and that always makes me feel worse?#like i understand talking to someone who will wait to reply and that reply seems utterly separate #but there's a difference between a response that seems to have no relation but actually does #with the speaker taking the time to make that connection #compared to someone barely making an interested okay or a noise or nothing at all #and then starting on a completely different topic without any sort of lead up #maybe she's just excited to share something with me every time by golly gee conversations are #a two way my friend #i dont get to be the bicycle while you act as the fucking snow plow #i like her but i don't want to talk to her anymore! i don't want to share anything! and it sucks!

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nightswatchdisbandmentera · 1 month

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Much has been said about why Jon sacrificing Dany a la Nissa Nissa is horrible, sexist writing (in addition to being completely useless because Dany already fulfilled the prophecy herself)…but no one ever mentions how this literally doesn’t make sense for Jon either? Like the very first chapter in the series, Bran I, tells us what Jon would do if he ever had to make a choice: he would choose to sacrifice himself over anyone else. You mean to tell me that very same Jon who is unwilling to deprive his younger sister of her birthright would deprive a would-be lover of her very life?? That’s just so diametrically opposed to who Jon is. Plus it’s thematically inconsistent because Jon always gets rewarded for sacrificing himself, which is very different from the established Azor Ahai lore given to us by Salladhor Saan.

#I’m always so surprised when I see jon stans supporting this theory as a means of softening the blow from objectively sexist writing #like nooo this not only sucks for dany it sucks big time for jon #why would anyone think this is good for his character??#or even thematically coherent with his arc??#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #daenerys targaryen #jon snow #also like jon might be getting aa mentions but he’s also a last hero parallel - the last hero story is all about self sacrifice fam #which imo makes him a thematically different entity from azor ahai but i don’t wanna argue about that today

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snowy-bones · 1 year

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