#the wildlings are the misunderstood antagonists we’re meant to be ultimately sympathetic to. yeah

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love this passage because.. winterfell has already been destroyed. by southerners, who soon will camp there tearing at each other’s throats worse than any giant would. cannibals in the wolfswood, why not? ramsay’s already there hunting women. chariots across the barrowlands? why fear that when even now jeyne poole is being escorted to her torturer across the same land. the fishwives of the stony shore are being stolen for thralls by the ironborn. even the daughters of white harbour are being traded by their fathers to men they do not know. what must follow? better turn your eyes south, jon! it’s already happened! it’s happening now!

#i love it he’s a dumbass basically until he sees mance burn #like even after ygritte his mind isnt changed but i really think... that must be the catalyst right? #asoiaf reread #neeed to pinpoint the moment he’s likr Wait lol wildlings are people. whats the moment??? i dont remember! #anyway Literally free folk hive. this plotline. oh buddy #i saw a comment somehwere that was like... the Others cannot be secretly morally complex and sympathetic. thats not their role #because george already did that. with the wildlings. and.. #yeah!!!! yeah like the others are not a Society of People with Motivations like all the rest of the villains and scum of westeros #theyre meant to be the antithesis the natural come back to haunt. #just a setting. just the cold. yaknow #the wildlings are the misunderstood antagonists we’re meant to be ultimately sympathetic to. yeah #what king’s peace do you want them to follow???? WHAT LAWS???? the laws of westeros that are so strong and never broken? #asos as a book is ABOUT laws being violated over and over ESPECIALLY Natural Laws. #three kingslayings. two kinslayings (euron of balon; tyrion of tywin) #bran warging hodor for the first time. EVERYTHING about the red wedding and the shattering of guest right. #it’s so amazing how flimsy jon’s retorts become when you take it all in!!!! your words - like the wall - a paper shield