#no shire like his fantasy namesake! no heroes journey return just sadness and fear and longing!!!!
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it's about the way that sam feels like he has no home and he never gets to have a place he feels safe in, not horn hill, not the watch, probably not the citadel… tbh it’s that persistent neverending feeling of being unsafe— not just uncomfortable or shy, but *unsafe*— that feels the most cogent in terms of a trans reading of sam
#no shire like his fantasy namesake! no heroes journey return just sadness and fear and longing!!!!#asoiaf#his placelessness his identification with birds his endless circles and journeys to the same place#the fact that his first chapter is this huge heroic culmination that would be the triumphant endpoint of any hero's story#but for him it's the beginning. is so poignant.. like it didnt even matter for him..... he just cant be That...#Not to imply that like. unsafeness is inherent to trans identity but#it really fully resonates as gender horror and keenly feels akin to dysphoria
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