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nightswatchdisbandmentera · 1 year

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Just gotta say, I’m realizing that how people discuss the Jon-Gilly situation is essentially how fandom has chosen to interpret Jaime and the trebuchet baby…there’s an interesting discussion to be had there, but this fandom just wants to focus on the extremely wrong thing in either scenario. Oh nuance, how I weep for you.

#I’m so so so tired #so tired #jon snow #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #interesting how the whole gilly ordeal is essentially co-opted depending on what part of the fandom you’re in #either to prove Jon is an evil callous monster with no compassion or feeling #completely ignoring that jon literally has to mentally harden and berate himself to do this #that he takes no joy in it - which parallels Aemon telling him to kill the boy because there will be no joy only hardship in his command #that this whole thing isn’t about him being unfeeling or without compassion #but about him trying to do good by others but going about things in a way that yields not so ideal results - presumably #because there is a chance that poor monster may be fed to the flames anyway post stabby stab #this is something that appears in other people’s arcs btw but some of y’all will ignore that 🧐#other people will decide to take the Gilly situation and compare it to a completely unrelated and irrelevant event like?!!#and I won’t even mention trebuchet baby lmaoooo #Jon and Jaime being so popular in fandom but subject to the most surface level analysis imaginable #you HATE to see it #you are a hero to some and a villain to others #oaths and vows #the heart in conflict with itself #almost like that’s the point yeah?

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