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nightjarring · 10 months ago

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Actually listening to the ASOIAF books has made me start to think that people who treat this series as the ultimate example of Bad Gross Male Fantasy Writing might actually just be stupid.

Idk how you read these without taking note of the fact these books are explicitly about people who are othered by the incredibly harsh, rigid society they live in. The vast majority of the perspective characters are disadvantaged in some way, most of them are either physically disabled, women, or otherwise socially outcast, or some combination of those things. The books so far are an incredibly detailed exploration of the intersection of privelage and disenfranchisement and I am actually annoyed at all the people giving writing advice who bust these out as the ultimate What Not To Do bad icky no-no series.

#i have read bad gross male writing and this is not what this is. go read something by heinlein or niven and report back to me #blurb #im incapable of consuming things when theyre topical or relevant #maybe in 15 years ill read dungeon meishi #anyways #i have more thoughts but i pulled an all nighter for no reason and am a little delirious #adding here that i havent watched the show and probably never will and also am reading the books bc telling me #not to do something is the fastest way to make me do it. also i befriended a history nerd who pestered me into it

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