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rhaenin-time · 2 months

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Being a native who's studied colonialism means that I know wayyyyy too much about blood quantum. I know how stupid it is, how it's tied to eugenics, but I also know how it "works."

Which means I can use my stupid-power to do this:

Well this took a turn.

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horizon-verizon · 1 year

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If you think about it, the Greens hurt Helaena more than the Blacks ever did. Blood & Cheese was horrible but it was a reaction to Helaena’s brother Aemond killing their nephew Lucerys. So Aemond hurt Helaena by killing Lucerys. And it was Alicent who used Helaena as a political pawn and forced her to marry Aegon in the first place. Then it was Helaena’s mother and grandfather who plotted to crown Aegon, Helaena’s abuser, as king, which then triggered the war that caused Helaena’s misery. The Greens used Helaena as a political pawn and she suffered for it. She would have been much happier with the Blacks.

I think you would like what @hamliet says about Show!Alicent and her love HERE. And I write about her neglect of Helaena HERE. Again, for the show.

As for Book!Alicent, yep she basically hurts her kids and herself more than she would have had if she had more care for things outside of conformity. She and Otto, but she is a prime actor. You can’t follow discriminatory rules and have discriminatory/human-degrading beliefs against women, children born out of wedlock, etc., rife with abuse and power-hunger above all, and expect there to be healthy, nurturing love.

#alicent's characterization #alicent hightower #asoiaf asks to me #helaena targaryen #alicent and helaena #asoiaf sexism #cw child neglect #cw child abuse #tw child abuse

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wodania · 1 month

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jaime and cersei sharing wardrobes

bonus under the cut

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torchwood-99 · 7 months

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"Work, skills and traits that have traditionally been seen as characteristics of and appropriate for women shouldn't be derided or minimised in favour of skills and traits associated with men, and should be respected"

is a valid point, but so is;

"women shouldn't be forced to stick to work, skills and traits that are traditionally seen as womanly, even if they are valuable and important to society, and they have every right to resent and dislike a societal role and code of behaviour that has been inflicted on them regardless of ability, interest or inclination, because of something as arbitrary as gender".

Period heroines complaining about needlework and housekeeping, and fantasy heroines dreaming of sword fighting and adventures, are not a problem, and actually do give voice to the many women in the world who didn't and still don't fit into what society has decided women should be.

#feminism #fandom wank #fandom sexism #ASOIAF #A Song of Ice and Fire #Game of Thrones #Arya Stark #Brienne of Tarth #Little Women #Jo March #Bridgerton #Eloise Bridgerton #LOTR #Lord of the Rings #Eowyn #HOTD #House of the Dragon #Rhaenyra Targaryen

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jackoshadows · 10 months

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One of Arya’s canonical relationships often ignored or minimized, because of fandom sexism, is that of her and Rickon Stark. Despite the text mentioning several times that Arya loves to play with babies, this is ignored simply because her character is often critiqued - by both feudal Westeros and fandom - for not performing femininity as per patriarchal ideals.

Arya had loved nothing better than to sit at her father's table and listen to them talk. She had loved listening to the men on the benches too; to freeriders tough as leather, courtly knights and bold young squires, grizzled old men-at-arms. She used to throw snowballs at them and help them steal pies from the kitchen. Their wives gave her scones and she invented names for their babies and played monsters-and-maidens and hide-the-treasure and come-into-my-castle with their children. Fat Tom used to call her "Arya Underfoot," because he said that was where she always was. She'd liked that a lot better than "Arya Horseface." - Arya, AGoT

Arya has a closer relationship with both Bran and Rickon, right from when they are babies - it’s not just a case of her hanging around the boys. When Robb takes Sansa, Arya and Bran down into the crypts to prank them, it’s Arya’s hand that baby Bran clutches when he is scared.

Her brother Robb had taken them down, her and Sansa and baby Bran, who'd been no bigger than Rickon was now. (---) Sansa kept looking at the stubby little candle, anxious that it might go out. Old Nan had told her there were spiders down here, and rats as big as dogs. Robb smiled when she said that. "There are worse things than spiders and rats," he whispered. "This is where the dead walk." That was when they heard the sound, low and deep and shivery. Baby Bran had clutched at Arya's hand. - Arya, AGoT

Sansa’s only nostalgic memory of Rickon in her POV appears when she thinks Arya is safely back in Winterfell:

Once in a while, Sansa even missed her sister. By now Arya was safe back in Winterfell, dancing and sewing, playing with Bran and baby Rickon, even riding through the winter town if she liked. - Sansa, ACoK

And when Arya misses her family back home:

She wanted to tease Bran and play with baby Rickon and have Robb smile at her. - Arya, AGoT

After going on the run, Arya is concerned and worried for Rickon and wonders how tall he would have grown:

A whooping gang of small children went running past, chasing a rolling hoop. Arya stared at them with resentment, remembering the times she'd played at hoops with Bran and Jon and their baby brother Rickon. She wondered how big Rickon had grown, and whether Bran was sad - Arya, AGoT

For a moment Arya forgot to breathe. Dead? Bran and Rickon, dead? What does he mean? What does he mean about Winterfell, Joffrey could never take Winterfell, never, Robb would never let him. Then she remembered that Robb was not at Winterfell. He was away in the west, and Bran was crippled, and Rickon only four. It took all her strength to remain still and silent, the way Syrio Forel had taught her, to stand there like a stick of furniture. She felt tears gathering in her eyes, and willed them away. It's not true, it can't be true, it's just some Lannister lie. - Arya, ACoK

She watched the parchment twist, blacken, and flare up. If the Lannisters hurt Bran and Rickon, Robb will kill them every one. - Arya, ACoK

So canonically it’s Arya who played with baby Rickon, misses him terribly in KL, wonders how tall he has grown and worries over what is happening to him in Winterfell. All this is Arya, not Sansa.

Note: This is not a critique of Sansa and how much she thinks of her family. There is nothing wrong in not wanting to be near babies or not wanting to play with babies. There is nothing wrong in not wanting to hang around little children or not wanting to care for them. Especially as Sansa and Arya are themselves children!! They are only 9 and 11 when the story starts and are now 11 and 13.

This is a critique of a fandom that twists Arya into some ‘NLOG’ caricature, ‘male-coded’, masculine, being violent, impulsive, too damaged, going around biting people, who can only fight or kill, wanting to sail away instead of being home with family, cannot become Lady of Winterfell because she is not the right kind of lady, has internalized misogyny etc. - all because her character disliked a few activities like sewing, singing and dancing. And all the while projecting qualities like motherhood, maternal feelings, womanhood, romance, marriage, children on 11/13 year old Sansa.

Things get even worse with the Jon/Sansa shippers, who turn Jon and Sansa into some masochistic, twisted idea of Ned and Cat (Because of course Jon Snow is a self-loathing, pathetic, shallow, sad sack of shite craving Catelyn’s approval and falling for the daughter who looks like Cat and acts a snob towards him simply because she’s too beautiful to resist at 11 years old 😭) and therefore Rickon is going to see them together and think they are his parents....

Like I said, taking from Arya’s canonical relationships in the books and giving to Sansa because the tradfem section of fandom are unable to read Arya as having a loving and caring relationship with her little siblings.

And then there’s Rickon Stark himself. First of all, Rickon would surely remember Jon Snow and Sansa as his siblings? Why would he think they are Ned and Cat? They are not clones!!

Secondly, Rickon and Shaggy were mirroring each other’s wildness before they even left Winterfell. It’s Shaggydog who was biting people! Rickon then grew up during his formative years with Osha in Skagos or Cannibal Island. Osha is of the Freefolk and the Skagosi, like the Freefolk, talk in the Old Tongue. They live in caves and perform human sacrifices. This Rickon is going to see Jon and Sansa and go all ‘Mama and papa!’ and think he is their baby?! 😂😂😂

Then there’s all these future speculations and theorizing about how Sansa is going to become Rickon’s regent in TWoW. Again, how? Sansa is 13 in the TWoW sample chapter. Is she suddenly going to magically grow 3 years in the next chapter and turn 16? Additionally, the regent should have a good know how of the North to help the Lord of Winterfell run WF and the North - again, canonically it’s Arya who knows how Winterfell works, who refers to her father’s advice and teachings and who follows her father’s idea of Northern justice.

The only Stark/Snow who currently has the age and experience to become anyone’s regent is Jon Snow. And I don’t even see him being appointed as one, rather it’s more likely he is made KITN.

So after Bran, the Stark closest to Rickon is Arya. And then it’s most possibly Jon Snow. Jon who tells Tyrion to take a message for Rickon in Winterfell and Rickon who stopped to tell Jon hi at the feast and kept asking Bran why Jon was not sitting with them.

The only reason 13 year old Sansa keeps being connected to Rickon as some kind of maternal mother figure is because of fandom sexism and their rigid ideas of gender, femininity and even toxic masculinity.

#Arya Stark #Rickon Stark #asoiaf #Fandom sexism

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ariamariastark1 · 1 year

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Your daily reminder that Sansa Stark exists and is more than just ‘feminine’.

Sansa exists to represent the girls born and raised in extreme privilege that have been groomed by their mentors and family into being complicit in their own misery and to uphold their own oppression to themselves and others.

It was Sansa’s internalised prejudices that made her a bully against her own sister; it was Sansa’s obsession with appearances and fantasies that didn’t allow her to see Joffrey and Cersei’s real nature and it was Sansa’s shallowness and internalised sexism that made her ignore Margery’s red flags.

GRRM opens a great discussion through Sansa: the intersectionality between victim and oppressor, how woman can become both of them and how they are trained from birth to uphold the same status quo that hurts them.

#asoiaf #sexism in asoiaf #asoiaf meta #Sansa Stark deserves better fans

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stardyng · 2 years

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Yet another Sansa stan being an Alicent Stan lmao you guys need to stop being so predictable. I don't even hate her show version but the way you peeps love to latch on to a passive redheaded character who accepts her suffering in a feminine woke submissive way is getting comical at this point xD. Stan whoever you want, just keep your same old 'too-powerful-for-their-own-good' Targ takes to yourself thank you

The way you people finds ways to shame and denigrate female characters for how they handle and process patriarchal violence and abuse is absolutely astounding, and imply that there's good victims and bad victims is absolutely ridiculous. None of these characters ''accept'' their suffering. That's such an incredibly disgusting thing to say. They are young girls that live in a society that restricts and limits them, and preys upon them and these are victims to men in power that use that power to use and abuse them as they see fit. That's why (alongside a plethora of other reasons, of course) you're not going to see me shame Rhaenyra for getting groomed by her grown male uncle, or Cersei for getting abused by Robert or Daenerys for being abused by her brother for years and sold to and SAed by a grown man.

All of these characters were stripped of any real choice and power and were forced into submissiveness and passivity by their violently patriarchal society for years and years, and the most meaningful part is seeing them break out of it. Stop making weird connotations to people emotionally connecting to victims of abuse who were regulated and constrained by people that have power over them, and had to survive by enduring and pretending. Like of course this is a narrative that I would be emotionally engaged with considering how much I personally relate to a lot of aspects to it in regards to my own life and experiences, and so many other people see differing aspects of these characters and their hardships, how they endured, who they became and how they broke away from all of the limitations, and it means something to them in regards to their own lives, and that's an absolutely beautiful thing.

Sansa, for example, attempted to kill herself, attempted to push Joffrey off the tower, constantly made digs at him when she could, bolted away and refused to kneel when she was forced into marriage and continuously aimed to get out at the right time. She never ''accepted'' her suffering. She did what she had to do to survive, but there was always steel underneath even as she was only eleven/twelve. There was a lot of power to that, and there was also a lot of power in all of the moments of her faking and enduring these horrors and continuing on pretending regardless. Also, Alicent strode in, interrupted and boldly declared war at her current enemies' wedding. All of these women are forced into horrible positions, had to endure, and break away from it or take control of their lives in their own time. Even if they hadn't endure, or didn't break away from it at the end, they definitely wouldn't be ''worse victims'' for it like you seem to imply. My other issue with the other side of the HoTD fandom is how you all try to dictate who people are and are not allowed to like and what takes people are and are not allowed to have based on your own personal narratives. Also, the ''too powerful for their own good'' isn't just my Targ take, it's the whole conundrum that GRRM explicitly stated he wanted to explore with that family. Like wow I'm talking about what this man wanted his readers to talk about. Big problem. Anyways, if you don't want to see my takes, don't go to my account. Block me instead of immediately checking my account and sending hate in my inbox whenever I make a new post.

#these people are so deep in their own repugnant sexism that they end up coming up with the most disgusting victim shaming takes #I've seen it from other social media sites but multiple years have only further fueled your complete bullshit #sansa stark #alicent hightower #game of thrones #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #house of the dragon #and the way they think they can dictate who people are allowed to stan #and what side people choose like please stay in your own lane #anti targ stans

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blackcat419 · 4 months

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Your post about Alicent, Sansa, and Elia - I would add Catelyn to this as well - and their fandom perception, etc. was very on point. I've noticed with the ASOIAF fandom, in general, is that there is a significant subset of fans (almost always women themselves) that will always stan/cape for the NLOG Power Fantasy Self-Insert and will put down the 'meek, submissive dutiful wife' types which they perceive are in opposition to their faves. There is a very misogynistic undercurrent in the fandom in regard to women that are deemed as 'only' being wives and mothers and nothing else. They are deemed boring, irrelevant, and not worthy/or exciting enough by the fandom. They are offered no empathy, or grace, and their victimization is often ignored or downplayed because they didn't 'fight back.'

There is also another element to this in how insanely male-centered these fangirls are. The reason why some of these self insert power fantasy characters, like Rhaenyra, Dany, Lyanna, etc. (the GRRM Girl Boss) are so revered is because they have been 'picked' by important men in the series. These fans will elevate a female character and deem her worthy as soon as an important male character is said to be in love with her. This is why they cannot stand Daemon very obviously cheating on Rhaenyra with Nettles because it implies Rhaenyra wasn't 'enough', same with Baela and Jace/Sara Snow, and why they look down on women like Elia, Alicent, etc. because they didn't 'satisfy' the targ men in their lives. Saying Elia is barely a character, but stanning Lyanna who is also essentially an NPC is laughable, but since Lyanna was called willful a few times, played with a sword, and Rhaegar risked it all for her she's considered stan-material. I'm unmoved and unimpressed, but fine whatever. Shiera Seastar, has two character traits, being hot and having two targ men in love with her. Yet the stanning her is not weird at all but being interested in the DLC is? I need these people to be serious.

Then there's someone like Rhaella, who should be revered in this fandom because she literally died giving birth to the last hope of the targ dynasty, but she is either ignored or clustered in with the characters the Girl Boss stans cannot understand people liking. You just know targ stans don't like Rhaella because she didn't girl boss her way out of her abusive marriage and instead was a 'passive victim' who 'did her duty.' Importantly, she was also not loved by or sexually satisfied her targ husband. And, canonically, Aerys lusted after other women, like Joanna Lannister, which degrades Rhaella even more in the eyes of these types of fans because once again she was 'beaten' by other women in terms of being desired by the men in her life.

You also see this mentality when Arya fans use Arya being Jon's favorite sister over Sansa as some like, own, against Sansa or whatever. Am I supposed to give a single fuck who Jon Snow, of all fucking characters, prefers or likes? Because I don't and Arya isn't 'better' for having more attention from an 'important' male POV character. It's so male-centered and pick me-ish, it's insane lmao.

Bottomline, a lot of these fans are profoundly misogynistic, hypocritical, male-centered, and honestly cannot consume media without projecting and self inserting into a power fantasy character. And they need other women to be downgraded by both the narrative and in the fandom to add 'spice' to stanning the self-inserts that they have deemed worthy.

Anon you hit the nail right on the head with this! These fans only like female characters that they see as desired by male character around them, usually Targs because we need that nazi eugenics metaphor.

A lot of these fans like to delude themselves by saying they like characters that are active and actually do stuff but they always fail to notice or care about what characters like Sansa, Elia, Catelyn, and Alicent do!

Fans hate on Catelyn because she’s active but in the wrong way to them. She gets shit done! Girl literally crossed the continent to warm her husband and find out who tried to kill her son! She caught off an assassin for her baby! But it’s not active in the way these fans want because she’s not bending over backwards to accommodate and baby Jon Snow.

Same with Sansa and Alicent, these two are very active in their own ways, they’re plotting, guiding, and influencing those around them but the second Alicent gets violent or Sansa has thoughts of regicide, they’re instantly bad characters who are being active the wrong way.

And Lyanna and Elia are both very passive characters. The most active thing Lyanna does is being the mystery knight and the most active thing Elia does is taking the lead role in caring for her babies by not letting wet nurses nurse them. After this they’re both background characters who suffer at the hands of the men around them.

Basically these people like to lie and say they want active characters but when the characters are active, it’s not in the right way. I saw someone say that they like active characters who succeed but no character is succeeding 100% of the time, they’re all failing!!

#house of the dragon #hotd #anon ask #sexism in hotd #sexism in asoiaf #fans only liking female characters when a targ man picks them

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ladystoneboobs · 8 months

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He[Ned] had a grim cast to his grey eyes this day, and he seemed not at all the man who would sit before the fire in the evening and talk softly of the age of heroes and the children of the forest. He had taken off Father's face, Bran thought, and donned the face of Lord Stark of Winterfell. -Bran I, aGoT Bran's bastard brother Jon Snow moved closer. "Keep the pony well in hand," he whispered. "And don't look away. Father will know if you do." -Bran I, aGoT Lord Eddard had tried to play the father from time to time, but to Theon he had always remained the man who'd brought blood and fire to Pyke and taken him from his home. As a boy, he had lived in fear of Stark's stern face and great dark sword. -Theon I, aCoK The Lannister lord was strong-looking for an old man, with stiff golden whiskers and a bald head. There was something in his face that reminded Arya of her own father, even though they looked nothing alike. He has a lord's face, that's all, she told herself. She remembered hearing her lady mother tell Father to put on his lord's face and go deal with some matter. Father had laughed at that. She could not imagine Lord Tywin ever laughing at anything. -Arya VII, aCoK Theon told himself he must be as cold and deliberate as Lord Eddard. -Theon IV, aCoK [...] "My father never used a headsman. He said he owed it to men he killed to look into their eyes and hear their last words. And when I looked into Ygritte's eyes, I . . ." Jon stared down at his hands helplessly. "I know she was an enemy, but there was no evil in her." -Jon VII, aCoK As he knelt to the block, the kennelmaster said, "M'lord Eddard always did his own killings." Theon had to take the axe himself or look a weakling. -Theon V, aCoK He is an old man, Jon told himself. Fifty, maybe even sixty. He lived a longer life than most. The Thenns will kill him anyway, nothing I can say or do will save him. Longclaw seemed heavier than lead in his hand, too heavy to lift. The man kept staring at him, with eyes as big and black as wells. I will fall into those eyes and drown. The Magnar was looking at him too, and he could almost taste the mistrust. The man is dead. What matter if it is my hand that slays him? One cut would do it, quick and clean. Longclaw was forged of Valyrian steel. Like Ice. Jon remembered another killing; the deserter on his knees, his head rolling, the brightness of blood on snow . . . his father's sword, his father's words, his father's face . . . -Jon V, aSoS "My blood price, he[Tormund] called it," said Jon Snow, "but he will pay." "Aye, and why not?" Old Flint stomped his cane against the ice. "Wards, we always called them, when Winterfell demanded boys of us, but they were hostages, and none the worse for it." "None but them whose sires displeased the Kings o' Winter," said The Norrey. "Those came home shorter by a head. So you tell me, boy … if these wildling friends o' yours prove false, do you have the belly to do what needs be done?" Ask Janos Slynt. "Tormund Giantsbane knows better than to try me. I may seem a green boy in your eyes, Lord Norrey, but I am still a son of Eddard Stark." -Jon XI, aDwD

aw, gotta love that dichotomy of even ned's own adoring children, not just theon, knowing he had a cold and stern side as a lord, grim and frightening to enemies, always alongside the warm, laughing dad who told them bedtime stories, that nice side of ned which is the only part most of fandom wants to acknowledge. arya even reminded of him by the face of tywin frickin' lannister! this same dad who laughed off bran's disobedience climbing all over the castle like a monkey, who couldn't punish arya for using a secret sword behind his back, who didn't even want sansa to be a witness to his passing sentence on gregor clegane with mere words for his crimes, that same soft-hearted guy would have admonished 7yo bran for looking away from his first beheading, to toughen him up and make him into a man already. just imagine, for jon to be so certain of that, either he and/or robb must have looked away from their first beheading at bran's age and been sternly told off for it. (amab) children can't be allowed to have a natural human reaction to sudden blood and gore watching dad kill someone. gotta stamp that shit out right away!

striking the way jon always uses memories of ned to choose not to kill innocent people who had yet to do him harm, first with ygritte and then the old man ygritte urged him to kill, but also uses his noble father's example to prove his willingness to kill children with zero sense of contradiction. that has to be a reference to theon, right? ned's own experience (implicitly) threatening a child ward/hostage, which all his bannermen would be well aware of. sure, jon's right about the unnamed older man. ned wouldn't murder one of his own subjects like that, he owed no duty to the magnar of thenn and would likely find undercover work even more distasteful than jon did. but, ygritte, really? a wildling of the enemy people all northerners were taught to kill? i have to wonder. did ned really find more evil in the deserter's eyes than jon did in ygritte's, making him deserving of beheading? or is it just that ned could feel he deserved to dutifully kill every time he passed that eye contact test? his reasoning was that deserters were dangerous because they already had a death sentence for oathbreaking, therefore had no reason not to commit any other crime. doesn't that same self-fulfilling violent prophecy apply to all people born on the wrong side of the wall? when you've got nothing left in life, you have nothing to lose by attacking people on the other side. is theon being "cold and deliberate" at winterfell, even killing a man with his own hand for someone else's crimes, is that really so unlike a true son of eddard stark? how different is it from what ned could have done to theon himself to punish him for his father's crimes? (surviving) child-ward-hostages always "none the worse for it" indeed.

(also interesting how jon thinks of janos slynt when asked if he could behead a wildling child. janos slynt who had sinned against jon and ned, wanting jon dead since the day they met, exactly the same as anyone to be beheaded, no matter how young or innocent. can't question jon's willingness to behead anyone else once he's executed one awful guy. it's even funnier when we the readers know janos slynt's worst sin is baby-killing as part of his old job. killing royal bastard kids like jon, no less. jon gets to (unknowingly) kill a baby-killer and threaten children in the same book, using the baby-killer's death as precedent for killing someone else's children. guess that's all part of killing the boy to let the man be born, gotta be willing to kill any man or boy. neither prince theon nor lord commander snow could afford to look a weakling to their own men or enemies. uncle maester aemon helped finish all the work ned started turning jon into a hard, strong man.)

#valyrianscrolls #asoiaf meta #asoiaf #ned stark #bran stark #theon greyjoy #arya stark #jonathan snowflake starkgaryen #wolf pack #he was his father's son. wasn't he? wasn't he?#two reasons i can't be a northern nationalist stark stan: 1. having never been up north in winter i am a weenie when it comes to cold #2. idt a clean behading works as a morality test #should we really compare stark beheading to bolton flaying and see it as a pure and sacred tradition just for being cleaner?#do y'all just not realize how hard is it is to behead someone w a giant sword? that you can ignore the sexism and ableisn and just think #theon (and robb w karstark) mustve done it freakishly wrong?#arya couldn't behead someone either. not just sansa (or bran).#her thing is stabbing and slitting throats not literally swinging a big blade like ned. and that's ok!#a humane execution method is kinda an oxymoron but idt any beheadee would be grateful for a personal messy killing by a kid as long as they #didn't enjoy it and felt kinda sad like ned afterward #even theon could pass that part of the test #do we not think roose bolton and rickard karstark could follow the old way too?#(c)lsb

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tallemajas-scriptorium · 7 months

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‘Violetta’ teaser

Trigger warnings - noncon/dubcon relationship, incest (uncle/niece), canon typical sexism, sexualization of minors (USA age of consent is 18), foot fetish, age gap, lolita theme, Larys is his own warning, icky, Larys is in his 30s while Violet is 15 in this segment

If you have any other warnings that you believe I should include, please let me know!

an : This whole segment is written in the point of view of a severely warped male mind. Nothing that occurs in this plot line is acceptable. I myself am an adult female and I do not condone ANY of these actions in anyway whatsoever. I don’t want to get too personal but I went through several cases of abuse in varying stages during my teenage years and while in those years, I read Lolita many times. For me, this is a form of coping and I am very nervous to post this as I do not want anyone to be upset by my writing. If you are sensitive to the warnings stated above, please skip reading this teaser and please don’t read the whole chapter if or when it is released as more warnings will be added to the final product. I’m posting this teaser here for feedback and constructive criticism, pointers from fellow fanfiction writers would be greatly appreciated!

Larys, overlooking his political tact, was a man of simple pleasures. Always the intelligent second son trailing behind his handsome older brother. A scholar of sorts, dabbling in many studies. Histories, being a favorite of his but most interestingly, botany.

The hills of Harrenhal flourished this time of year. In fruitful times like this, he preferred to meander about the bountiful lands to admire the scenery in peace and quiet. At the moment, he trudged along, in no rush to be anywhere. It was hot out today, a light breeze made the tall grasses dance for him, of course reminding him of her swaying with the wind like the branches of a mighty willow. Dancing like no one else was there. His hand clutched the head of his cane in silent agony, his heart and cock aching for her. His chest rose and fell in haughty breaths, the linen of his shirt hung loosely about him, flitting ever so slightly in the breeze. He turned his focus to the vast plains before him, studying the flowers that bloomed for him.

Roses.

Sunflowers.

Violets.

“Uncle!” Larys turned back to see the object of his strife rushing towards him. Her big ocean eyes finally focused on him and it felt like she had seized his still beating heart in her tender hands for safe keeping. It felt like his world had all but stopped in this moment, kept only for himself. His thin lips pulled up into a small smile as he watched her bound over to him, bare feet hopping over the tall pasture that he had strolled through alone.

She finally reached him, looping her delicate arms around, hugging his free arm, squeezing it between her blossoming breasts in her excitement. They felt so full now, lush and ripe. There it was again, the agonizing ache in his trousers.

“My dear,” He greeted hoarsely, awestruck by the youthful beauty that clung so defenselessly to his side, just where she belonged. Her plump lips pulled wide, exposing her big teeth, almost too big for her mouth. She let go of his arm, much to his despair, before presenting before him, a tediously woven crown, a crown of flowers. Larys observed it curiously the species of flower she had meticulously chosen for him was intriguing and frankly quite alarming.

White oleander, deadly nightshade and mountain laurel, woven together by mistletoe.

“For you,” she held it up high, expecting him to bow his head before her. Instead, he gazed down through his thick lashes at her, his dark eyes fixed wantonly on her throat. How he wished to kiss it, to mark it as his. “Don’t look at me like that.” She said, suddenly sounding stern as she retracted her arms to her bosom, her perked breasts pressed together in a vulgar display. Larys cocked a thick eyebrow in confusion of her rapidly changing emotions.

How tedious the minds of children can be.

“Like what?” He inquired, gazing into her blue eyes. She huffed like a spoiled child as his pink tongue darted out to wet his lips like a starving hound. “Kneel down.” Larys blinked, eyes full of confusion at the child’s orders. “Kneel down!” She squawked again, louder this time. Larys huffed before gently getting down to his knees, not to upset his misshapen foot. He gazed up at her as she laid the venomous crown upon his brown curls.

Her fragile hands came down to cup his stubbled cheeks in her palms, his heart pounded against his chest. Her heavenly smile upon her lips drove him mad with desire. And as if the gods themselves had granted his wish, she leaned down slowly, laying a kiss upon his lips. In that moment, he wondered if it was all just a dream. Was she there with him now? Bearing his face in her pure hands, her plush lips pressing against his? She tilted her head, deepening their embrace, Larys’ eyes widened in shock before fluttering shut once again. His cane fell to the grass below as his hands reached to desperately grasp her sides. But as soon as his hands touched her, she retracted.

Larys gasped, falling forward onto his hands, he looked up to her only to see her devious smirk. Giggles escaped her uncontrollably before she turned and ran, leaping over the grass like wolves themselves chased her. Her cackling echoed in his ears as he watched her fade away into the distance.

She’d left him, panting and heaving like a dog with the mere touch of her lips. His shaking hands gripped at the grass, pulling tight, blades of grass being yanked up by the roots as he agonized on his knees, alone once again with his taunting thoughts.

She tormented his every waking moment.

an : So that is a small snippet of the writing I’m doing at the moment, it’s inspired by both the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and the film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by Jaromil Jireš and I would really appreciate some feedback from fellow writers. If this upset you in anyway I completely understand and I apologize, I know it’s a dark subject to write on. I promise not all of my stuff is like this, this is very different from my usual. I do hope you enjoyed it a little, I’m very embarrassed over my writing so if I could ask everyone to please be kind in the comments, I’d really appreciate it. @valeskafics please critique me! Thank you for visiting my page!

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rhaenin-time · 3 months

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It will always annoy me that Dany and Jon's greyest, darkest acts are SO similar, and yet neither tend to be viewed as GREY.

How exactly is THIS irrefutable proof that Dany is fated to be a mad colonizer, rather than a harsh lesson where Dany makes the decision to execute the woman who did her personal harm, but still learns you can't hide behind small mercies?

And yet THIS is simply Jon Snow giving this annoying kid the justice he DESERVES?

When they are VERY similar moments. Both Jon and Dany recognize that these two had reasons and genuine trauma behind their decisions, both still execute them because, well, that's what you do when someone proves to be that dangerous to you and yours, and both go on, after one of their darker acts, to fight for the greater good.

In fact, Jon (in the show) comes off WORSE. Dany acknowledges that Mirri had reasons to do what she did, and recognizes that it's not enough to help a chosen few within a violent, harmful, system. She needs to END those violent, harmful, systems. With the very dragons she acquires from this, yes, darker grey moment.

Keep in mind this argument doesn't really apply to the books, where Jon's arc goes down differently (also tbh the betrayers had a lot better reasons than in the show). But what exactly does Show!Jon learn? Does he acknowledge that there are MANY Northerners, the people he hopes to rally behind him, who have lost a lot to raidings? Does he make any effort to mend these enmities?

No. Jon learns nothing. Because Olly is annoying because he's against Good Jon who is good.

#daenerys targaryen #jon snow #asoiaf #asoiaf sexism #game of thrones #also hot take but Book!Jon actually kind of had it coming he was being dumb and breaking vows #post

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daenystheedreamer · 11 months

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top 5 asoiaf villains. evil bitches only!

since u specified evil bitches i will refrain from including mel or theon or stoneheart since theyre a little complicated -_- im mad about it though they're villains in my heart at least for a time...... it really pained me to leave off darkstar too 😭 my little batman freak

EURON GREYJOY god i love lovecraft. not the guy the octopus stuff. bad bad evil man but he's just SO much he's everything he's serving pure kunt

janos slynt. I KNOW I KNOW but he's extremely funny. he's so slimy and awful and his death is just so iconique its undeniable. flop of the century.

petyr baelish. horrible evil evil evil man hate u hate u me and my mutuals would have killed littlfinger with hammers thank u very much. great villain i love to hate him. MEN!

CERSEI LANNISTER CUNTRESS OF CUNTEROS girl i love u so much. youre not even a villain youre the hero of (your) story u did NOTHING WRONG!!! when the villain was created by men. when she is all that men fear. and they HATE her. lovelovelove

house frey if the entire house counts walder frey if it doesnt :) wrinkled bag of bones how are your loins so damn fertile. that was the sabitha in him i know it! house frey more like house slay. LOVE THEM!!! shoutout to big walder frey godspeed lil bro 🫡

honourable mentions: tywin lannister (hate your stinking guts), joffinho baratheon my blorbito 🫶, signore roose bolton, cregard karstark the shit slinger of castle black

#is it feminism or sexism if theres only one woman on the list....#asoiaf #ask #anonymous #yintagasketcgames #MWAH

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torchwood-99 · 9 months

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*gently taking "let women be feminine" crowd by the hand and explaining that the existence of GNC female characters, the pleasure in the existence of GNC female characters, and admiration of GNC female characters who go up against societal expectations to be true to themselves, do not in any way prevent other women from being "traditionally feminine", and gender non conformity has not been used as weapon to oppress or deny women opportunities in the way that "traditional femininity" has. For centuries, what people called "femininity", this ideal of what "women should be", has been used to hurt women, and it's a them problem if the existence of GNC characters causes them so much anguish*

#Disney #NLOG #Let women be feminine #GNC #feminism #sexism #TERFS DNI #Bridgerton #ASOIAF #Game of Thrones #Snow White #Rachel Zegler #too many fandoms to count #Arya Stark Daenerys Targaryen Eloise Bridgerton Brienne of Tarth this is for all of you

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jackoshadows · 1 year

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Just to reiterate how Arya and Sam have these parallels of not being able to comfortably fit into Westorosi society’s patriarchal ideals unlike their ‘perfect’ siblings and yet while the theme of toxic masculinity is acknowledged and recognized in Sam’s narrative by fandom, Arya gets hit with nonsense like being ‘male coded’.

In this too we can see the inherent misogyny in this fandom, where Samwell is allowed to be different and like different things and he is appreciated for loving songs and dancing. He gets sympathy for the abuse and toxic masculinity that he faces. His relationship with Gilly is celebrated, he is deserving of love and romance.

And yet Arya gets the hate simply for wanting to learn how to use a sword (And it’s not about using a sword either considering the male characters are badass for using a sword!).

She gets labelled ‘NLOG’, there are popular posts about how her journey is ‘masculine’ or how she is ‘masculine-coded’, posts about how she has ‘internalized misogyny’, where she will never be a Lady because she is not ‘feminine’ enough. How fans only like her because she’s ‘male coded’. How she is not ‘realistic’ or a boring character because she’s ‘male-coded’.

Posts on how Arya will never get love or romance, even when older, because she’s the wrong kind of girl. There are essays about how Arya did not try hard enough to fit in, that she’s equally at fault for the contentious relationship between her and Sansa because she did not spend enough time sewing and doing things that Sansa liked. That Ned not punishing Arya for picking flowers from the marsh or getting her a ‘dancing’ master is him showing ‘favoritism’ implying that Arya should have been punished for stepping outside the bounds of patriarchy dictated femininity.

Arya is treated by fandom like she is flawed for not being the right kind of girl. That she is not important in the narrative because she’s not the right kind of girl. The compassion and kindness so very clearly inherent in the character and embedded in the narrative is ignored in favor of her being a violent killer because she’s not the right kind of girl. Her intelligence, perceptiveness, quick thinking, critical thinking skills ignored because she’s not the right kind of girl. Also ignored widely by fandom that Arya too has taken abuse and kept silent because what good would it do to react and be killed?

These sexist double standards have only widened with the TV show’s horrendous misogyny in the way they wrote and depicted Arya Stark, stripping the character of all the nuance, complexity and everything that makes Arya, Arya in the books. Instead we got an one-dimensional trope in GOT, the complete opposite of book Arya Stark. As GRRM has stressed again and again, the show is not the books and the show characters are not the book characters. Take your ‘Arya has a masculine journey’ posts dripping with misogyny, elsewhere.

[Note:I am not denying the fatphobia with respect to Samwell which is indeed a thing and the reason for why, despite being one of those rare good guys in Westeros, he gets used the least for shipping. Something that GRRM himself bemoaned in one of his blog posts. I am just referring to the difference in how toxic masculinity and femininity are treated by this fandom because while the toxicity of one is recognized, the other is celebrated as a good thing]

#Arya Stark #Samwell Tarly #asoiaf #fandom nonsense #Sexism #Sexism in fandom #anti GOT

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sapphicgren · 13 days

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it is so sad/funny to me that there are folks on this hellsite unironically making stuff up about asoiaf to hate on. get on my level and be locked in pvp combat with george every time you crack open one of his accursed tomes. read another book that isn't harry potter

#grrm #asoiaf #it is so funny to me when I see another bootlicking jkr stan take shots at this series #as if your own beloathed series isn't riddled with sexism and racism #also george simply isn't spending his ill-gotten gains funding irl violence against minorities #hope that helps

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ariamariastark1 · 2 years

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Am I the only one who gets weirded out with the amount of Terfism and Trad Wives in he ASOIAF fandom?

It’s a combination of

“X character has male privilege she likes to play with swords ”

“X character doesn’t deserve *thing* because she is male coded and Z deserves it because she is a soft female*

“To be feminine you have to (insert things that only rich women can do/afford) and that (symbol of lower class femininity) isn’t valid and actually is masculine

“X character has renounced her womanhood because when she was 9 years old she wanted to play with her friends and not sit with a woman that she didn’t like”

“ I headcanon X character as gender queer because ’she’ (insert here previous points) (proceeds to ignore how headcanoning that would destroy X character’s message). What!? No, you can’t headcanon Z character as Gender Queer, you’re so sexist!”

“Ignores the fact that GRRM denounces this type of thinking and that in ASOIAF he condemns this repeatedly

#asoiaf #arya stark #sexism in asoiaf #anti sansa stark #fandom wank #asoiaf meta

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