#im so scared of conflict

[maddiethegoodwitch]

“you didn’t say anything tho” IM TOO SCARED TO

[mipexch]

been thinking about something wicked a little too much lately. no harm in romanticizing the ominous dreadful unstoppable force

[jon-sedai]

Something that’s always missing whenever people talk about Lyanna and the Kingsguard at the Tower of Joy is that these things should always circle back to Jon Snow. He’s our main character here. Rhaegar and Lyanna, as well as the Kingsguard, are all dead. They were dead before this story began. This tiny section of text is meant to give color to Jon — who is alive, and whose story is currently unfolding. The events at the Tower of Joy, told entirely through Ned’s fever dream for a reason, essentially serve as one thing: fantasy protagonist myth building 101. Three wise men, a legendary magical sword, some of the greatest knights of an era, a dying queen lady, the end of an age, a dead prince, a dead king, and then here comes a soon to be completely orphaned prince whose life hangs on the balance and whose survival depends on the compassion of one lord and his wizard friend. GRRM is literally retelling King Arthur’s backstory through Jon. This whole thing is one giant literary allusion to Uther and Igraine and the boy king Arthur, to Lancelot and his Joyous Guard, to Guinevere, and to tragic romances. It reads as an ode to Arthurian fantasy and is meant to backdrop the main protagonist’s fantastical origins. The Kingsguard are there to play into that. Their presence at the Tower, in that moment, was never about Lyanna; not solely, anyway. Their presence is tied to Rhaegar’s last surviving male child, and the language used suggests that they had chosen their king, for better or worse. Any discussion surrounding the Kingsguard’s presence at the Tower that focuses on anyone but Jon completely misses the point imo.

[sludgekludge]

what even was the point of wanting to make helluva about 'messy romance and complex characters' if they can't commit to that at even the most basic level. the narrative will just decide that a character has done wrong without explaining what or how, it'll completely ignore or justify legitimately dubious things, it's so desperate to tell you exactly how to feel about certain characters...

stella's dialogue is so cartoonishly on-the-nose evil and she has no actual motivations. none of stolas' mistakes are acknowledged until now, 2 seasons in (and even then, they're trying to justify them), half the stolitz-related conflicts are almost comically childish. blitz yelled at stolas, which is mean. instead of looking at this with nuance, blitz is in the wrong, and stolas is not. there is a wrong party and a right party, every time. there are no shades of grey.

where's the complexity? these characters range from cardboard to slightly thicker cardboard with maybe a drawing of a frowny face on it, except the frowny face changes colours every time you look at it because the writers worship inconsistencies.

[jasperandhenryslovechild]

urges to post about my genloss oc and do a completely impulsive rebrand of this blog just to yap about genloss

[huellitaa]

girls we might have a problem (i couldnt sleep last night because i was thinking about her, i havent stopped thinking about her since yesterday, ive been rereading our texts for the past hour)

[uselessgay10101]

If something happens to him I will kill everyone in the vicinity

[puppppppppy]

if escape rooms as team building exercises became popular im not sure if id be more excited or terrified

[folkloregirlfriend]

i just feel like. i'm happy with my own company or i have very high standards for relationships with people because i don't like anyone and people piss me off very quickly and i let go of them soooo easily it doesn't even matter to me

[seongpinkhwa]

gang i can't even lie. i am Freaking Out

[wp100]

wonder where khadgar's been :p

[cyalmaf2]

[ ☁️✶ ]

i heard they were getting popular

i really don't like posting ship art in public but whatever here you go

[dykeovsky]

was nobody going to tell me about pathologic 3 quarantine.

[depvotee]

Ok ok okokokokokoko (not ok)

I'm still not buying the stupid retcon of s2 and I'm firm on Vander murder attempt towards Silco was a mixture of various factors but the main motive was political.

[kissingwookiees]

okay i have to make a confession: bellara being repeatedly described as a romantic called to mind two things for me the first being they mean that 1) she has a very rose colored view of /something/ maybe the world, maybe the elven gods, any number of things really... and 2) that she might get shoveled into that 'in universe shipper' trope and my worst fear is she might be canonically a solavellan and im so terrified of that notion actually

[icarrymany]

i have horrible second hand embarrassment issues that make it hard to do literally anything but other than that my autisms empathy is LOW