#thé riverlands is like. the fucking boat from rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead in that sense

[visenyaism]

this is too good to put on the darkstar shadow post but literally this. feastdance being a deconstruction of the first three books in that they are about how to survive the plot as a side character in a very liminal setting (theeeee riverlands) with the destruction at the red wedding literally ripping a gaping wound into the narrative so there’s so many dropped threads or missing foils or spiraling-out chronology all over the place. this too is a way of making the narrative feel haunted. and then you get to theon adwd asking why the fuck he’s still here when his narrative foil died two books ago. because the gods are not finished with him yet. god