“daenerys won’t die,” i say into the mic. the crowd boos. i begin to walk off the stage in shame.
“no, she’s right.” i hear a voice in the back say.
the lights come on. i look for the owner of the voice. there in the 3rd row stands: george r. r. martin.
Sophie Turner: It annoys me that people only like the feminine characters when they act like male characters. And they always go on about feminism. Like, you’re rooting for the people who look like boys, who act like boys, who fight like boys. Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.
And again Sophie Turner: I wanted her(Sansa) to have a bit of armor and a bit more warrior like.
Sophie describes Arya as a female character who pretends to be a man because she uses a sword. She complains that Arya is more popular than Sansa. But she wants Sansa to have armor and be a warrior character 🤡
“Sometimes she would close her eyes and dream of him, but it was never Jorah Mormont she dreamed of; her lover was always younger and more comely, though his face remained a shifting shadow”
Modern Stark au! Where the Stark boys still find the pups (dogs instead of direwolves) and Ned still agrees to let them have them only if they are the ones to take care of the dogs. But the kids being 21st century kids forget about it so guess who is taking for a walk six dogs every day? Ned Stark. He tried to complain to Catelyn once but she cut him off by saying " you are the one who brought six huge dogs in our house, now suffer the consequences".
Sansa would remember to walk the dogs every day, only to have her dad do it once and let Lady get run over because he was paying more attention to Nymeria than her.
Commission of Queen Dany and Missandei in Meereen for rhaenyratruther on Twitter!
Shout-out to Lady Smallwood. She was here for half a chapter but she was wonderful and I love her. I hope we get to meet her again.
There’s always this argument and providing of details trying to prove Arya is feminine. The fact of the matter is that Arya is feminine because she identifies as female. The end lol Or not because it will still get argued.
But yes, the truth is that swordplay is feminine because Arya does it and she identifies as female. Running around getting dirty and wearing pants is also feminine because Arya does it and she identifies as female. Executing criminals? Also feminine because Arya does it and Arya identifies as female. Caring about or not caring about one’s appearance? Definitely feminine because Arya does both at various points and she identifies as female. Anything Arya does is inherently feminine by virtue of her identifying as female and being pro-women/feminist.
It’s halfway through 2023 and people still want to punish women and girls for not limiting themselves to the roles men set for them. There’s also still this need to classify certain behaviors and traits as only belonging to one group and not another. It’s reductive and sexist. I don’t doubt that 2024 and 2025 will be the same.
But really, why aren’t female characters who want to limit, brutalize, and restrict other women considered masculine? Cersei, Alicent, and Sansa support patriarchal restrictions on women which should classify them as masculine, right?
Interviewer: Do you think the world of Ice and Fire is a pessimistic world where you get caught up in struggles and you can’t overcome them? Is Winter coming or is there actually hope?
George: In a very basic level winter is coming for all of us. I think that’s one of the things that art is concerned with: the awareness of our own mortality. “Valar morghulis” – “All men must die”. That shadow lies over our world and will until medical science gives us all immortality… but I don’t think it makes it necessarily a pessimistic world. Not any more pessimistic than the real world we live in. We’re here for a short time and we should be conscious of our own mortality, but the important thing is that love, compassion and empathy with other human beings is still possible. Laughter is still possible! Even laughter in the face of death… The struggle to make the world a better place… We have things like war, murder and rape… horrible things that still exist, but we don’t have to accept them, we can fight the good fight. The fight to eliminate those things. There is darkness in the world, but I don’t think we necessarily need to give way to despair. One of the great things that Tolkien says in Lord of The Rings is “despair is the ultimate crime”. That’s the ultimate failing of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, that he despairs of ever being able to defeat Sauron. We should not despair. We should not go gentle into that good night. So winter is coming, but light the torches, drink the wine and gather around the fire, we can still defy it!
– George R.R. Martin, Ideas At The House (2013)
anyways reblog this is you like arya and daenerys I need some people with taste to follow 🥰
Catelyn Tully of Riverrun 🐟❤️💙✨
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