#& dany only going through a brief dark phase & ~accidentally~ setting off king's landing but redeeming herself as the savior of Westeros?
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aryas · 1 year ago
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The thing about fandom-at-large’s perception of Jonsa and jonsa shippers is like - what’s it like when everyone disagrees w you? It happens rarely in ASOIAF fandom. Doesn’t it make you reconsider? How can you be so sure that everyone *else* is actually wrong? Heck I second guess myself for a lot less than that lol
I just find the theory to be extremely convincing? It's the missing piece that suddenly made everything else about the books lock into place as well. When I discovered it, the series suddenly made sense, in terms of what kind of story GRRM is trying to tell. It's a paradigm shift.
The fandom-at-large isn't an entity I find to be very credible in terms of its widely accepted opinions (especially on Sansa) or theories (dragons being the solution to the ice threat) so why would I care if they disagree? I'm not basing my judgement on theirs. I am basing it on what I personally find plausible. Jonsa is a theory that elegantly ties together a number of disparate plot points and puts groundwork for the future back where the story began (House Stark as a family) which creates a counterweight to the other plot points that are heading toward confrontation. It just really works. To me, it is the only theory that works because it doesn't leave dangling ends, and it fits within his fairly consistent messaging on sustainable v. destructive choices. It just works.
#i was really 🤨🙄 @ that other anon (or was it the same?) with their 'a united fandom is usually right' take#i.e. if the fandom at large inordinately hates jonsa & its shippers like it does it means they're right & jonsa#is not a worthy topic of speculation & jonsas deserve to be ostracised#but... since when are the masses always right?#and if we're hated bc some of us think jonsa will happen in the books even if it didn't happen on the show#why does the rest of the fandom get a pass? they're all very much guilty of the same thing?#like the book purists clinging to their theories such as the 3 heads of the dragon as saviours of westeros#stannis tacking back winterfell & all the 'good guys' united vs 'ice' while 'fire'/dragons save the day?#or the starks & dany becoming great chums- no geopolitical or ideological conflict whatsoever#& dany only going through a brief dark phase & ~accidentally~ setting off king's landing but redeeming herself as the savior of Westeros?#or jonerys as ice & fire prophecy?#all these things didn't happen in the show either yet somehow that's not as ''damning''? why the double standard? why the hypocrisy?#the real reason why jonsa and/or jonsa shippers are hated SO MUCH is that jonsa (or the mere potential & possibility of it) theatens the#good ole theories involving everyone's kEy 4 faves (bc let's face it- they dgaf about bran)#the fandom convinced itself were canon a decade ago#if a fandom is united in their hatred towards a group of people who think outside the box or interpret a story differently#and if that justifies hurling shit at them for several years (srly the long s7-s8 hiatus especially? it was BAD)#that says more about this 'united fandom' (or i should say coalition of bullies) than it does vice versa#fandom wank#fandom double standards#anti stale but popular asoiaf theories
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