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Barreft posted:He hates asoiaf fans so much lol his best quality.
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Barreft posted:He hates asoiaf fans so much lol I mean ... me too.
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Mar 28, 2023 23:15
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Anyone who is still an actual ASOIAF fan deserves hate from the entire world.
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Mar 29, 2023 00:29
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The only thing that I am waiting for is for Leyton Hightower to descend from his eponymous stronghold and have a wizard duel with Euron Greyjoy.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:01
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i just want to see my good friend griff and his son young griff do something
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Mar 29, 2023 01:08
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WATCH JON START A loving PLAGUE
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Mar 29, 2023 01:11
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Platystemon posted:WATCH JON START A loving PLAGUE shocked that grrm would make the gay pining guy superspreader
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Mar 29, 2023 01:13
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ItohRespectArmy posted:shocked that grrm would make the gay pining guy superspreader jesus i never even thought about that.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:14
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Kylaer posted:Anyone who is still an actual ASOIAF fan deserves hate from the entire world. I mean they're better than Harry Potter fans, but only just
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Mar 29, 2023 02:06
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I'd certainly rather deal with GRRM than JKR at this point
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Mar 29, 2023 05:02
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mind the walrus posted:I mean they're better than Harry Potter fans, but only just While they may both champion lovely media, to my knowledge GRRM does not devote considerable time palling around with literal Nazis, nor does he devote his money and influence towards the eradication of transpeople. Or even just applaud their death. And I don't think anything he's put his name on was literal blood libel? GRRM sucks and is an Absolute gently caress but it's really difficult to overstate what a monster Rowling is and how loving vile Potter is. I mean hell, at least ASOIAF for all its hosed up values comes out on the right side of the "is slavery wrong?" question.
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Mar 29, 2023 07:56
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Say what you want about GRRM’s series currently ending in its main text with Dany’s account of diarrhœa, at least he hasn’t wrapped up the books with the main character pondering whether his slave will bring him a sandwich.quote:“That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four- poster bead lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.”
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Mar 29, 2023 08:49
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:While they may both champion lovely media, to my knowledge GRRM does not devote considerable time palling around with literal Nazis, nor does he devote his money and influence towards the eradication of transpeople. Or even just applaud their death. And I don't think anything he's put his name on was literal blood libel? Harry Potter and Rowling both have truly awful values that make someone a bad person for liking them. GRRM and ASOIAF at least, for all of their innumerable flaws and faults, understand the pantomime towards things like "racism bad" and "rape bad" and "you shouldn't have sex with children" despite depicting all of those things in a darkly adolescent way.
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Mar 29, 2023 11:38
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grrm is a harmless bro who wrote some really captivating books, he has a talent for gritty fantasy and I adore his writing mannerisms and FFS sometimes you close your eyes and you can really grok some part of westeros or some conflict a character is having in a visceral manner, he's the American Tolkien, pretty much. he's also a fucker absolute, but he is no JK Rowling, when did GRRM ever give us cause to think he was anything but milquetoast hippie in his worldviews? the guy is alright, heck compare him to most boomers and he's downright progressive.
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Mar 29, 2023 14:34
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He is a bit of a creep for sure but overall a pretty harmless one, yeah He wont finish those books, though
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Mar 29, 2023 14:41
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Not to “both sides” thus, but I thought one of the main criticisms against GRRM currently was that he does indeed associate with Nazis and had handed off the keys to the kingdom to a pair of them as his assistants?
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Mar 29, 2023 14:48
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Linda is an embarrassing weirdo but really she's like the admin of his 90s era website and she helped him write some of his wiki books, she might be a nazi but she's a very Twitter kind of Nazi, like she has some meltdowns but thats it pretty much.
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There is a considerable difference between being a twitter racist and actively funding political campaigns that successfully repeal women's rights because you're afraid a trans person might benefit from them.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:when did GRRM ever give us cause to think he was anything but milquetoast hippie in his worldviews? the guy is alright, heck compare him to most boomers and he's downright progressive. Daenerys' wedding night 
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Mar 29, 2023 15:45
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Fair enough.
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Mar 29, 2023 15:56
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You don’t have to even mildly defend him. He’s a shitfuck and that’s all there is to it. Fucker is rich as poo poo and does nothing with it other than feed his fat gullet and play choochoo with real trains.
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Mar 29, 2023 17:50
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I can't believe there's more than a dozen new posts and the Fucker is not dead/ published a new Mercy chapter
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Mar 29, 2023 18:43
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bone emulator posted:I can't believe there's more than a dozen new posts and the Fucker is not dead/ published a new Mercy chapter Yeah but check out his toy. https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2023/03/29/dragons-dragons-everywhere/ 
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Mar 30, 2023 00:25
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It's pretty funny how GRRM's dragons are pretty constantly barely above the intellect of a horse, while he embodies most of the spirit of what a lot of European dragons were said to symbolize-- rich, vicious douchebags who blight their land by hoarding treasure and eating too drat much.
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I think technically his dragons aren't dragons, they're wyverns, because they have four limbs instead of six (four legs plus two wings for a true dragon)  I swear there was a neckbeard emoji at some point that wasn't  but oh well.
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Platystemon posted:Say what you want about GRRM’s series currently ending in its main text with Dany’s account of diarrhœa,
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I wonder how many years need to go by before a reboot of the show is done. Knock it down to plot arcs for just a few characters, rewrite ending for Ayra and a few others. Tighten poo poo up so Bran's journey is more central, or at least the twist at the end makes better sense. I wonder if would be engaging. Like are there really interesting stories in there, as it gets refined down? Can the Direwolves actually mean something and not get written out of the ending? Rickon is endlessly ignored, and that gets played up more and more over the years.
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Kylaer posted:Daenerys' wedding night That’s fiction inside a book. It didn’t really happen. He made it up.
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Knuc U Kinte posted:That’s fiction inside a book. It didn’t really happen. He made it up. Big if true.
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Knuc U Kinte posted:That’s fiction inside a book. It didn’t really happen. He made it up. TERFherder posted:I wonder how many years need to go by before a reboot of the show is done. Knock it down to plot arcs for just a few characters, rewrite ending for Ayra and a few others. Tighten poo poo up so Bran's journey is more central, or at least the twist at the end makes better sense. I wonder if would be engaging. Like are there really interesting stories in there, as it gets refined down? Can the Direwolves actually mean something and not get written out of the ending? It was fun when the story started because it wore its lack of sentimentality proudly and an used a sociology-driven plot structure to create a wonderful blend where you could be surprised but also look at plot developments as tragically inevitable, but the TV writer is always going to be a TV writer and even by the end of the "good" books it was already being driven by sentimentality towards its characters. That's its own kind-of tragic. In other words the only way to do a remake/reboot/whatever is to fundamentally rewrite it. Which is why it's going to be real funny when Warner-Whatever-they-call-themselves inevitably tries again for brand recognition.
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It'll be Disneyesque Star War spinoff style poo poo all the way down.
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mind the walrus posted:You're dunking on turds in a toilet lmao. Simply ignoring all the material beyond ASoS and just finish the Stark/Targ/Lannister saga is the way to go here. I thought that's what David and Dan should have done all along.
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Is the book out yet
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What does your heart tell you?
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I’m not sure this tv show really needed a book adaptation.
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bone emulator posted:Was the Dragon House show any good? I'm still only about seven eps in, and... it's OK? Considine and Smith are legitimately terrific, nothing's been poor so far, but everyone's an rear end in a top hat and not in the fun "pick your favorite schemer" way, and knowing where it's going, it feels like it's taking a long loving time to get there.
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bone emulator posted:Was the Dragon House show any good? It picks up near the end once it gets through its 8-episode prologue, yes. Up till that point it just sort of limps along on the strength of Paddy Considine and Matt Smith's phenomenal acting talent alone. I wasn't all that wowed by it and not much of it stuck with me after I finished it aside from a few moments, but it's not awful or anything.
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The best and worst thing I can say is that my conservative co-workers were all fans of it at first and completely dropped off talking about the show within a few weeks. It was still an enormous ratings hit, I'm pretty sure. 81sidewinder posted:Simply ignoring all the material beyond ASoS and just finish the Stark/Targ/Lannister saga is the way to go here. I thought that's what David and Dan should have done all along.
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