#kinghthood

[ivovynckier]

Can this man pass a metal detector?

[mariuspompom]

Picture this, you try to prevent an evil act once and everybody hates you for it and your reputation is destroyed so you're like fuck it I'm gonna become an enabler instead. You're deeply immoral for years, and you thrive. And suddenly you're like what if I choose to do good for a change what if I stop enabling evil for once, just because, just for the fuck of it because I don't want to do that anymore. And BAM you lose a hand for it. And BAM you decide to go back and do it again because you left something at Harrenhal and you know it's stupid and you even say so but you don't care about consequences anymore because now that you're no longer worthy of kinghthood and you are no longer a swordsman all you're left with is who you truly are at the core when all these things are gone. And you want to go get her and you want her to call you Jaime

[lingulaca]

I'm so sick and tired of Sansa hate train. Why is it so easy to forget at the beginning of AGOT, she's 12-13 and has always lived quite a sheltered, peaceful life. Sansa enthusiastically accepts gender roles of the period? She has no reason to think being a woman in Westerosi society is something terrible - her parents' marriage is a happy one, Cat, who's her role model, apparently enjoys being a mum and generally seems content with her life. Sansa perceives arranged marriages as something utterly natural (just like all girls and women from her social class do) and trusts her parents (yet again, happily married) will find her a good husband. Why wouldn't she? She's "bastardophobic" (and it's Cat's fault)? The whole Westerosi society is, but for some reason, a 12 year old, probably told by her Septa how awful and sinful creaturs illegitimate children are, is the one who's so fiercely hated. Sansa isn't particularly close with Jon? And neither is she with any of her brothers! "Coeducation" doesn't exist in Westeros, girls and boys are prepared for differet roles by different people (even if they're siblings). Girls are left in the care of their mothers and septas, while men like swordplay teachers, tutors and in case of more modest families, fathers, are in charge of raising boys. Young men are often sent away from their family houses and serve as squires, preparing for kinghthood. I also find it ridiculous the "antis" blame Sansa for not being able to see through Cersei and falling for the Lannisters' bullshit. Bitch please, Ned, a man in his mid 30s, failed to adapt to the twisted world of court intrigues! If Sansa is ridiculous cos she believes knights are righteous and good, and Cersei's a wise and worthy queen because she's beautiful, so is Jon. After all he perceives dudes from the Night Watch as noble knights (but in black), protecting their land from whatever the fuck is lurking on the other side of the wall and is disappointed to learn King Robert is ugly and fat. And Jon's life has never been as sheltered as Sansa's. Besides, he's 2-3 years older than her lol.

OMG YES it bugs me so much when ppl say "sansa treats jon terribly just because he's a bastard" HELLO SHE'S A LITTLE KID BEING INFLUENCED TO THINK THAT WAY BY LITERALLY EVERYONE AROUND HER. it's so illogical when ppl blame her for that. the two reasons my stepdad dislikes sansa r that one and because she's "mean" to her servants😭 like, everyone who has servants is "mean" to them ! and sansa isn't even cruel in that department !

i cannot stress this enough, sansa didn't do anything to anybody to make people hate her as fiercely as they do ! sansa antis blame so many things on her due to them just refusing to realize she's a kid and give her grace. just like you said, her and jon were naive in similar ways because they were CHILDREN. ppl seriously hate on her for believing what she was taught and then in the same breath will criticize the society that taught her those things. same as when they criticize cersei for being manipulative and then hate on sansa (the victim of that manipulation) like what ??? like okay, bad thing is bad, but... victim of bad thing also bad for falling for bad thing ??? huh ??? i really don't get what's not clicking for sansa haters. it's not her fault she believes things that aren't true/are harmful ! she had no way or reason not to

[coolmaycroft]

Well... if the fantasy is set in medieval Europe then It makes sense in-universe the crusades would be good, right? At the time people thought they were getting back the Holy land and all that.

And part of the probelmatic subtext is that the crusades were a big parts in the development of the miyth of kinghthood (I'm talking out of my ass here, don't quote me on that).

Writers really like the romantic idea of a group of badasses marching to an unkown land ruled by the evil empire™. And from our modern perspective of deconstruction the only way to add crusades is to show the real imperalist and thecoratic motivations behind the movement.

So... people gonna assign meaning to things outside of their historical context. Maybe we're all too dumb and can't be trusted with history

kind of concerning how married the fantasy genre is to "crusades as a basically good thing"

[otaku-discover]

I got my side quest done ✅

[hell-heron]

Favorite Really Serious Asoiaf Analysis parallels:

- literally any situation involving suffering and social outcasting/a different situation involving suffering and social outcasting

- both these characters had some type of belief at some point, and became more cynical at some later point

- both these characters have parents. Also siblings. They feel some type of relatively intense way about at least one of these people

- thinking about this absolutely bog standard social institution for the setting such as the night's watch, kinghthood, or the concept of being a noblewoman in general is actually thinking about one character specifically, as we know that asoiaf has such tight and limited worldbuilding it would never be brought up unless essential

- GRRM forgot he had already used this outfit description/food symbolism/turn of phrase/basic mention of body language and we're all about to pay for it

[shirnaomi]

My DnD Campaign

If you're Lapis, Quen, Anisha or deril, DO NOT READ THIS.

So I started DMing because I'm a worldbuilder. Since I can remember, I would always make up kingdoms and cities inside my head, and once introduced to DnD I realized it's the perfect medium to build my worlds.

My current one is named Afriard (afri-ard), and it has four continents (one is an island continent and one is secret).

I have several pantheons, two of them are open, and one is monotheistic.

I have kingdoms and empires and federations and tribes and oligarchies. I have a magic association and several kinghthoods, most of them are employed by the government.

I have magical and natural phenomena that shape the surface and geography of my world.

The one thing I don't have, and it's not because I can't think of one, is a BBEG.

I just don't understand the concept of one bad guy. My world has several people or organizations that could be classified as BBEGs, but non of them are the center of the campaign.

So what do I have instead?

My PCs.

My style of DMing is PC focused. I create a world, my players create their characters, and their arcs and desires become world-turning events.

For example, two of my players have characters that got disconnected from their siblings. So the answer to finding one of them is to find the other. (Spoiler: one of them is part of a secret organization that erases people's memories, and the other is in a secret organization that opposes corrupt organizations, and it trageted the mind erasing one).

The BBEGs of my campaign are the people or organizations that serve as a barrier between the party and the resolution of some character's arc.

[patrickrennie]

Well, a kinghthood is an official recognition, so there might be a problem.

i wish america had a knighthood system so it could be bestowed upon tony hawk