#@ grrm

[booksbhenchod]

arya in twow when she finds out the night's watch brothers killed jon

[moompl]

No way they called GRRM a FAN

The audacity these people have

[pessimisticpigeonsworld]

Do you think Grrm hates Rhaenyra? I keep seeing this ever since he wrote that post.

See I don't think GRRM hates any of his characters, but especially not Rhaenyra. I can understand how people can interpret it that way to an extent, but it's very obvious he doesn't hate her.

In F&B, GRRM purposely writes it from the perspective of biased men, so of course Rhaenyra is portrayed badly. She's written by Munkin, Eustace, and Mushroom to be a negative example of women in power.

However, GRRM's MO has pretty much always been tackling medieval stereotypes and prejudices. Xenophobia, hatred of bastards, ableism, and sexism are all prevalent themes in ASOIAF. However, just because these themes are portrayed doesn't mean GRRM shares these views; in fact he uses ASOIAF to point out how destructive and wrong those ideas are.

Rhaenyra's story was written to show the destructive nature of the patriarchy. She as a character is meant to be morally gray and hated by historians. She's reflective of how history views ruling queens; she's demonized, wrongfully blamed, and disregarded.

The way readers are introduced to Rhaenyra is through people who hate her for being a woman who fought for her birthright. The way GRRM wrote his latest post about her is still from that perspective. People who claim he hates her are people who are unable to separate his actual views from those of his characters.

[councilofcastamere]

Daemon in modern times would strike me as high school Rhaenyra’s creepy older boyfriend who parks outside the school premises to pick her up. Her friends are concerned but they’d never say anything that would anger the ceo’s daughter. Rhaenyra gives off comgirl vibes and is a keyboard warrior when she wants to be but most times she just ignores the hate comments on her TikTok as to not ruin her father’s reputation. She’s also a descendant of Swedish Royals.

[mochagenda]

quite an unpopular opinion, but i shall stand ten toes down on it...

I absolutely hate the fact that they made Alicent the face for Team Green. It just makes no sense to me at this stage of the show.

The poster for season 2 as well. However amazing it looked, it takes away from the actual plot of the series: Aegon usurping Rhaenyra's throne! Yes it was Alicent's lie (belief more like) that caused this to happen, but I'm not saying they shouldn't have put her on the poster, but to place her at the forefront?

They definitely should have had Aegon facing Rhaenyra, and Alicent behind Aegon and Daemon behind Rhaenyra (but in a way that could have alluded to the fact that he was on the fence lowkey against Rhaenyra, and same for Alicent, given that she ultimately goes against her son).

But anyway, hopefully, season 3 (regardless of what grrm insinuated) turns out better and the story comes together (and has a poster worthy of nitpicking).

[visenya-targarye]

it's always a lannister beefing with a child

(honorable mention)

[nonbinarylesbianherb]

[jeyneofpoole]

deleting a post you made twenty minutes ago is a timeless tradition in the hallowed halls of all women who have blogged before us and will blog after us. grrm welcome to the ranks queen.

[jeyne-arryn]

Phia Saban gave a wrenching, powerful, heart-breaking performance as Helaena Targaryen, Aegon’s doomed, haunted queen and mother to his children.

George R.R. Martin - NOT A BLOG: Blood, Cheese, and Grief (July 5, 2024)

[mileenaxyz]

Okay...now...hold on....

[the-walrus-squad]

Any Writing Professor: Do not name any two characters with the same letter, it will confuse your audience.

George RR Martin and Hidetaka Miyazaki: This is Radagon, who married Rennala, mother of Ranni who likes to pose as Renna, enemy of Rykard and Radahn. He is really Marika, Maliketh's Goddess, mother to Morgott (AKA Margit) Mohg, Malenia mother of Millicent, Miquella, possibly Melina and now Messmer, and she had them after she raised Godwyn and Godefroy with Godfrey, from whom Godrick is descended.

[saessenach]

What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Jon Snow - and family that haunts him, because sometimes ghosts make for the best love stories.

[lya-dustin]

grrm right now

[shebsart]

POV characters: AFFC

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[agot]

[acok]

[asos]

[fanfictionroxs]

The world calls you 'breakbones', but the first word your son thinks of to describe his father, is 'gentle'.

Harwin Strong the man that you are. Best father in Westeros!

[sunfeyre]

calling an author "unprofessional" bc he hates how his precious work that he spent years on being butchered is beyond madness. the thoughts, the ideas, the hard work, the inspiration, the sleepless nights, the creativity, the emotions and feelings he has put into his work being thrown out the window not once but TWICE must be heart breaking to him. he knows he doesn't have much time left on this earth and he has the RIGHT to be upset and devastated at how his legacy is being dragged through the mud and "fixed" by a bunch of pretentious narcissists that think they could do a better job than him, bc if they're doing this while he is alive imagine what they would do when he isn't.