#(except Discworld is an excellent deconstruction of fantasy and storytelling tropes and incisive social commentary‚
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This is one of the plot points of Terry Pratchett's Men At Arms.
if you ask me, the guy who put the sword INTO the stone should be king, not the chucklefuck who got it out.
#begggggging y'all to read discworld#the wealth of british pop cultural literary genius to choose from and y'all picked fucking harry potter#you must read discworld to cleanse your soul#so men at arms: imagine if superman was actually the prince of gotham but didnt know it and joined its police force headed by clint eastwoo#like clint eastwood's character if they made a sequel to million dollar baby after hillary swank died and he'd be drunk in a ditch every da#he's not an exception to 'all cops are bastards' but in his case the 'bastard' is complimentary#and then someone invents a gun#oh and prince superman's sword isn't a shiny noble piece of bling but an unremarkable plain worn down hard hewn thing#that has definitely been used to kill and defend and survive for a long long time#in contrast to the gun. the imperial weapon of the modern age.#the prologue of Game of Thrones has a similar sword dichotomy and I wondered whether GRRM was influenced by Pterry#even though it's not that novel a concept considering ASIOF is also partially a critique of traditional fantasy archetypes like LOTR#same as Discworld#(except Discworld is an excellent deconstruction of fantasy and storytelling tropes and incisive social commentary‚#whereas ASIOF is an misogynistic edgelord fantasy written by a racist Redditbro)
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