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trying to explain empathy to someone from mammalians nurturable: so imagine there's a goat

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The most compelling thing about daenerys targaryen to me really is that she is the very last one of them. No restoration no encores the prince the targaryens destroyed themselves promising is a little girl who cannot look back so the only home she can return to is the one she makes out of the world for everyone else with nothing to return to. That’s everything…

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every single “they should have been smacked more” is a crazy take tho like the joffrey one feels particularly wild because not one but two people talk about robert nearly slapping him to death as a baby and are clearly freaked out by the incident, but people will say it about cersei & theon too and it’s like. u think MORE domestic violence would have made cersei stable?? rodrik cassell straight up says “i should have killed you as a kid” completely ignoring that the cavalier way theon’s life and death is treated when he’s a child is exactly the reason why he’s insane. none of the books are particularly subtle about this and yet!

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Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

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THE YURI of Westeros !!!

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Do you ever think about how people judged and were cruel to Brienne her whole life and the most the people most important to Brienne (Renly, Catelyn, etc) did for her was let her pledge her service to them. And then Jaime comes along and looses a hand while trying to protect her and then jumps in a bear pit for her and then gives her a gift so priceless that the richest house in the country could not afford one, so priceless that I cannot even think of a modern comparison.

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That one ask about Alysanne's name got me thinking that after the dance the Targs didn't knew What other names could they use since they didn't knew other Valyrian names and they began to just smash them and if they sounded Valyrian enough they took It but in Valyrian It sounds really weird and goofy, more or less like in Venezuela where they mix their parents name and end up getting Yuniliexis Yohanni and for everyone else in LATAM sounds odd

I think names like Aelinor and Aemma are already absolutely just valyrianized Westerosi names. “Aemond” is the most obviously fake remix name I’ve ever heard in my life. They’re like Mormons they’ll just toss an ae in there somewhere maybe a y if they’re feeling fancy and call it a day

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what i need is a devout knight

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affc kingsmoot

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george gets some shit sometimes about tyrion and jaime having a lot more redeemable qualities in juxtaposition with cersei but honestly one thing i really like about the way that cersei is written is that legitimately none of that negates her status as a victim of a system and misogynistic violence. it is just more interesting to me to think about the things her story touches on without the need to frame her as not an unequivocally bad person as if that is a requirement for her victimhood and for me to view these things as wrong and unjust

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Waiting for everyone to get appropriately crossfaded before starting fuck marry kill cersei lannister/jaime lannister/tyrion lannister debate that subsumes the rest of the function

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Nettles and Sheepstealer by Audrey Benjaminsen for a new edition of Fire and Blood.

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hm.

hmmm.

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I love that Tyrion isn't a perfect victim. I love that he's angry, vindictive and hateful. I love that he's a real and raw depiction of complex trauma that doesn't shy away from showing the ugly reality of how much a person's mind is damaged after years and years of constant abuse.

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early season 3 tyland sniffling at a council meeting obviously about to cry trying to report on the defeat of the lannister army and the death of their leader jason lannister. whole time everyones studiously ignoring the red highlights he got in essos

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inspired by @ilynpilled's posts x x