#idk if i take val out and we spend a majority of our time in the van

[pir8]

once were moved im gonna start planning out how id renovate a van for real. need to do some research—im hoping to get a high roof model and find an insulation + flooring solution that would maintain maximum height in the cargo area

imagine if i could take val camping.......

[him-e]

I’ve read a lot of meta on why the show did or did not follow through on Martin’s endgame. Right now I think D&D did hit the major beats of where Martin is taking the series. My biggest disappointment is I just feel as if nothing really matters in the end? I really don’t think Martin is making some poignant or insightful remarks about war and power? I can’t reconcile him creating a character such as Aegon the Conquerer and then saying that everything said character was built upon is wrong?

Especially when, narratively, Aegon won. He conquered an entire continent because he could; killing quite a lot of people in the process. Then, for the rest of his life, he wielded an ungodly amount of power. Maybe I’m off base, but if an author wants his themes to resonate with me they need to be narratively consistent for all characters. Because right now it just seems as if he’s picking and choosing which characters he wants to metaphorically dump all of his themes onto and make examples of.

The problem is that asoiaf is still an ongoing, unfinished work so we don’t have the full picture to safely conclude what’s the authorial intent and the overall message of the series---assuming there has to be *one* at all (I mean, complex narratives often have more than one message and one layer of reading; asoiaf has so many pov characters precisely to offer a wide and diverse range of perspectives on morality, war, power, destiny, heroism, nobility, monarchy and so on; etc.)---and while I’m always the first to say that we absolutely can, and SHOULD, take the show into account to guess where the books are going, especially plot-wise, I would refrain from using the show’s narrative to analyze the subtler nuances and the thematic/philosophical aspects of books that Martin hasn’t published yet, because the show is often... not very good, or at least not consistent, at adapting them. It has never been the show’s primary purpose and concern anyway. We need to wait for the source material to go beyond “character X ends up doing Y” in our analysis.

That said, I won’t deny that I’m not entirely sure why GRRM is releasing two in-depth books about Targaryen history if the point is that it’s just going to end with Dany. Well, yes, there’s still Jon, who might eventually come back to Winterfell and marry Sansa have some cute part-Targaryen spawn with Val or some other Wildling girl, I guess, but the Targaryen dynasty as we know it, the dragonlords of old Valyria, dies with Dany. Legacy is not about blood, it’s about preserving memories and values, and Jon is out there preserving the Stark legacy, not the Targaryen one. “Maybe the point is that the Targaryen legacy deserves to go extinct”, you might say... but then why the hell is Martin spending so much time on it? Why should I even read Fire and Blood, if that’s the case? Idk I’m just as confused as you.