#this is not hating on game of thrones the show

[jessenia-doll]

quick rant-i see a lot of discourse on this subject and i wanna add my two cents:

i'm so irritated with how people would use the "if you don't like it don't read it" or "it's canon" or the "it's just fiction" argument (excuse) to write and enjoy the most heinous and morally disgusting stories. it doesn't matter if you can just "block the tag" it doesn't change the fact that what you're writing is still absolutely rancid. people shouldn't have to manually block tags to compensate for your questionably abnormal yums. how some of you guys can jump through literal hoops to justify and defend incest/rapey concepts is beyond me.

at the end of the day people are allowed to make whatever content they want and enjoy that. my yuck may be someone's yum, but these are real things that happen to real people, and those sensitive subjects aren't just fun make believe stories and they shouldn't be treated as such. personally, just because it's fiction and isn't "hurting anyone", doesn't make it any less odd. it's still nasty and weird. yes, some shows and media revolve around that sort of content, but it's weird to make fics fetishizing and making a smutty fantasy out of that. it's weird to want that. and i hate that you guys normalize it as such. if you're posting things of that nature online publicly for everyone to see and especially of such sensitivity then don't be surprised you get criticism. my opinion: normal people do not enjoy fan fiction (not books or shows who have this content in it's self, but those who FETISHIZE IT and make those smutty scenarios for the love of the game) on rape and incest as fantasy and i will die on this hill.

i also hate that yall would "age up" characters that are underage for suggestive fics but that's a separate rant post for another day

please note that i actually do like reading fics from fandoms, and i do like the game of thrones universe and i find it interesting but sometimes things are taken too far

[elliesgaymachete]

I think Game of Thrones damaged collective expectations for television media and is the reason for the decline of full length low budget seasons.

We all know HBO is high budget cable even before, but Game of Thrones was arguably the first time one of their shows became so massively, globally successful. People who had never consumed fantasy media in their lives were watching Game of Thrones. It became mainstream culture rather than nerd culture so your coworkers weren’t going to make fun of you for liking it. In fact, your coworkers probably watched it too.

Before this the only TV shows that achieved anywhere close to this level of popularity (and even then were not nearly as popular as Game of Thrones) were network shows, usually TV comedies. These were low budget and had full seasons! Things like HIMYM, Big Bang Theory, The Office. You either watched them or knew multiple people who watched them. Sometimes TV dramas also reached this level of popularity—Shondaland shows to name a few. Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder. Even if you didn’t watch them, you had heard of them. These were also network shows. Low budgets, 22 episodes. Not to mention network television is FREE so it has the potential to reach a much wider audience than cable.

But Game of Thrones exploded into common popularity. Even people who didn’t watch much television watched Game of Thrones. And you know what they had because it’s an HBO show? Insanely high budgets and 10 episode seasons. They were basically making ten short movies released as TV seasons. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that itself, it worked well for Game of Thrones. The problem is how its affected television production since then. Sure shorter seasons and miniseries have existed before, but it feels like they’ve been in an upward trend ever since Game of Thrones

Every studio with a streaming service wants to create the next mega popular phenomenon like Game of Thrones so they copy the formula. Big budget, shorter seasons. Quality over quantity. But in doing so they neglected the main format television has used for quite a while. Network seasons are fewer and far between with smaller budgets and shorter seasons so they can invest more in the high budget shows. And a few of them were good, but somewhere along the way, they lost sight of the quality part and throw microbudgets at shows for six episode runs and are surprised when no one gets invested after only six episodes when we used to get 22 episodes and since no one’s watching anyway they just cancel it without giving the show a chance to find its legs. If it happens to get a lucky with a second season but there’s not EXPONENTIAL growth in viewership? Cancelled. Why is no one watching tv anymore? Why does no one want to pay for our streaming service that releases maybe one show you like every other year? Why why why they ask when they ruined a perfectly good formula and make things less and less accessible

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

i hate the idea of sansa ending up as this cold ice queen when through out the books one of her defining characteristics has been kindness. kindness to dontos when joffrey wanted him executed, kindness to the woman with the baby during the riot, kindness to an injured lancel despite cersei's words, kindness through warning margaery of the type of person joffrey is, kindness to sandor clegane and sweetrobin in the vale. sansa even says that once she was queen, she'd wish to rule with kindness when cersei encourages her to rule with fear during the battle of the blackwater. i cant imagine a world where grrm would genuinely go with the idea that only once you refuse love and warmth can you rule

[puppeteerpoet]

Sansa stark they’ll never make me hate you

[witchlingcirce]

I think about how there played by the same actor all the time bro

[seasononesam]

Stackednatural- 71/327

Slumber Party (9x04) October 29th, 2013

[nessberry]

"You can't hate this character because-" yall ain't real haters I'll hate whatever character i want and I don't care I'll hate a character so much it consumes my entire being just because I was annoyed the day they were introduced and they made a facial expression I dont fuck with or I didn't like they're tone in one (1) line character hating is half of media enrichment I fear

[captaincanonly]

none of these make sense. send help. i’ve gone woke…..

[danymst]

assembly distractions

sketch!!

[bloodyspector]

Shōgun getting renewed for multiple seasons when it was supposed to be a limited series while Dead Boy Detectives gets cancelled after one season is the clear example of everything that is wrong in the industry right now. Things either get milked so hard the audience eventually gets tired of the product (The Walking Dead and Grey's Anatomy) or it gets cut short because it didn't become the next Stranger Things.

[rynnthefangirl]

Just started (finally) reading the main ASOIAF series... why did nobody tell me that book!Jon was such a cutie pie?? Such a good boy?? That in his first POV scene he literally gets drunk, knocks over a serving girl and spills wine everywhere, and runs from the hall crying as everyone stares at him?? That he jumps for joy and spins Tyrion Lannister in a circle right in front of the men of the Night's Watch when he finds out Bran woke up??

Wtf did the show do to him, show!Jon is such a bland and boring character. Book!Jon I've only had for a chapter and a half, but if anything happens to him I will kill everyone in the series and then myself.

[kvtnisseverdeen]

The horrors I have just loosed cannot be for a crown alone. HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.04 “The Red Dragon & the Gold”

[tell-them-the-north-remembers]

I feel like whenever we talk about Aemon the Dragonknight's love and devotion for a particular sibling of his we focus on the wrong one. The singers (and asoiaf fans alike) always speak of how much Aemon loved Naerys and how he would do anything for her. Except he didn't, if he truly loved her more than anything he could save her from the hands of Aegon, and would be willing to pay the price for it. But he did not. He duelled for her honour once, people say, but the only time he did actually fight for her was when he too was accused of treason (adultery) with her. He didn't keep Aegon from impregnating her after she made it clear she didn't want to suffer any more pregnancies, he didn't attempt to whisk her away or just seperate them temporarily (as even Baelor did) even though he was supposedly SO in love with her. And he certainly did not die for her.

Aemon died for his brother. He certainly argued with Aegon (because he did hold affection for Naerys) but he never truly opposed him in a way that mattered. He protected him more than he did anyone, even when Aegon wasn't the king he was sworn to, even before Aegon was a king at all. And at the end of the day Aemon died for Aegon. He could die for Naerys, he could defend her from Aegon and become a kingslayer, a kinslayer too, to protect her. But he chose to protect his brother with his life and he quite literally died for him, leaving behind Naerys to continue suffering her husband's abuse on her own until it killed her.

Aemon the Dragonknight loved his siblings (as arguably most Targaryens do in sometimes screwed-up ways), he loved them in different ways perhaps, but one of them mattered to him more than the other, enough to die for. And it was the one that had been nothing but cruel and hateful to him all his life.

[hickeysgodcomplex]

The thing that pisses me off most about the Arya/Gendry ... "ending"(????) is that... these two people love each other. It was such a good mix of stony girl who only smiles for her dude who can hold his own but is also a huuugggeee goof.

Like, his little rant about not even knowing how to hold a fork. And him just gushing and saying he loves her and needs her with him. And she smiles at him. And kisses him.

And then she says what she says and it hurts me everytime. Not because it isn't true. But because... Gendry KNOWS that. He knows she's not a lady. He's always known that.

It just hurts my heart that the writers thought Gendry didn't see her? Or at least that... she thought he didn't? Because in that moment he wasn't asking her to be A lady.

He was asking her to be HIS lady.

And he would have accepted her however and whoever she was. Like he always had. With a twinkle of mischief in his eyes as he called her "milady", waiting to see that smile.

[izzy140105]

Me when I found out that dumb and dumber never wanted or intended for Jon to kill the Night King despite all the build up for it:

[qyburnsghost]

They had Daemon set the new standards for Targcest so when Rhaena fulfill her erasure replacement for Nettles, we won’t be mortified by the lover portion of her character.

Just kidding