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Ravenson posted:His plot purpose is to preempt and gently caress over Dany. The books have made it pretty clear that as much as the nobility hates the Targs, from the small folk perspective the Mad King is looking less and less lovely with every war crime the new rulers commit in his absence. There's plenty of folk who would rise up for a true Targaryen, and so fAegon is on route to beat Dany to Westeros, win the popular appeal, offer her a version of what she wants that she won't take on principle (become his queen and inherent subordinate after all she's gone through), and promptly get eaten by dragons to absolutely ensure that the small folk will be just as done with the Targs as everyone else. If he weren't there and she showed up first she'd have the Throne in a matter of weeks with no problems, with him there even if she takes King's Landing she still won't have the kingdom. The irony is that Jon being as he is comes down purely to luck and his own nature. He has every reason to be bitter as hell, and frankly a lot of his motivation seems to be the desire to tell all of Westeros to get hosed and go be literally anywhere else. Makes his ending in the show make sense, of course Jon and Arya hosed off north after the war, they've got absolutely no reason to stick around while Sansa and Bran play at being rulers until the next rebellion. The wildlings are pretty much the only ones that have ever treated Jon as just some guy, and at the present point (and in the show) Arya's really got nothing left of a personality or sense of self beyond 'Jon's cool, I'll go chill with him and we'll murder the poo poo out of whatever was hanging with the Others'. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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von Metternich posted:Randor Clegane Rand al'Clegane
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Waltzing Along posted:Sometimes I am reminded of TS Morgensterns, The Princess Bride. Garth Ennis makes absolutely no secret that he didn't read superhero comics as a kid, and the Boys is just his natural state as a miserable bastard applied to taking the piss out of a genre he doesn't love and resents being the defining one in comics. He still uses sex and shocking violence way better than GRRM, though.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Vikings got most of their ore from bog iron. Japan is famous for using iron sand, maybe you were thinking of that? I have done medieval-era weaving. It cannot be overstated how much loving work went into clothes before modern automation took some of the labor. I still do tablet-woven trim sometimes, and it's 30-40 hours to get a shirt's worth, and that's with someone else shearing, carding, spinning, and dying the wool I use. Hell, consider the labor required to do laundry in pre-modern society. Just an example, and this is 18th century, so a bit more available in the way of metal goods and chemicals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xenLzd2-Dk Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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Typo posted:Book 4 has simultaneously some of the best (the Cersei chapters) and worst chapters in the series I hate to give GRRM credit, but that is such baller pirate dialogue I swear he probably co-opted it from history somewhere.
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Waltzing Along posted:I wanna read the version where Jon Snow knows everything. Now there's a fanfic. Jon Snow gets shanked at Castle Black and wakes back up at Winterfell, the morning before Ned is to execute the deserter from the Watch.
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