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13. worst blorboficiation
the fact that there is a βaegon ii targaryen is not a rapistβ ao3 tag (he is canonically a rapist) with hundreds of works is pretty grim to me. i donβt mind the underlying phenomenon in isolation - just ignoring the fact a hot guy is a perpetrator of sexual violence because you are hot for him and want to write fic thatβs enjoyable to you - like whatever, itβs not that serious even if i am not into it. but there is something deeply sinister in the fact that there is a whole like. fic culture about leeching that from the story and character and signaling that neutralization for comfort and pleasure. as far as iβm aware there isnβt an equivalent for any other character so that kind of wins.
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Opinion on drogo and Daenerys?
i love the story of a girl who experiences unimaginable abuse and emerges victorious while the abuser is somehow just that irrelevant guy in her past, just a step towards her empowerment and nothing more. "if i look back i'm lost", i think it's a very radical and hopeful narrative.
"Call me grisha. Call me zowa. Call me death, if you'd like"
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"courtesy is a lady's armor" is what sansa repeats to herself in king's landing while she's being held hostage and is at the mercy of people who seek to use her as a political pawn for their own gains (the lannisters and the tyrells). it is not meant to be aspirational, it's a coping mechanism which she uses to make herself small and invisible to survive the mental and physical torment being heaped on her by a society which only recognises her value in the form of her reproductive capabilities and expects her to remain a docile object, not an active participant in her own life. and internalising such an ideal begins her loss of identity arc. presently she's sequestered in the vale, forced to leave behind her name and her home, to forget who she is. because that's what it does to you, hollowing yourself out to meet the expectations of feudal patriarchy until your will is broken. catelyn experiences it in a literal sense with stoneheart serving as a metaphor for this process. and obviously what is happening to sansa is not her fault, neither her nor catelyn are being criticised by the text for performing feminity, it's a criticism of the exploitation of young girls by westerosi society, something that is enforced and achieved and passed down through those songs about dutiful ladies awaiting gallant knights in their towers. the key here being that the version of heroism preached in those songs (able bodied, all men, all handsome - a definition which excludes bran, tyrion, sandor, brienne) and the role of women as passive agents is what's being questioned, not the notion of performing goodness in a broken world. sansa is right to be a dreamer, to be kindβthat's what makes her a hero. but her arc is also about unlearning those harmful foundational myths of westerosi society.
"I have lots of wishes, but my favorite one is to be an artist in Paris and to do fine pictures and to be the best painter in the world."
"That's what you want too, isn't it, Jo? To be a famous writer?"
"Yes, but it sounds so crass when she says it."
@pscentral event 35: parallels
β³ jo and amy march in little women (2019), dir. greta gerwig
(ACOK, Tyrion IX / So Spake Martin)
Broke: Sansa will hate Dany on sight
Woke: Sansa will see Dany and think βBlorbo from my songsβ
Probably off somewhere misusing free willFree palestine π΅πΈπ΅πΈ
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