As a rule, when some anon tells you to “calm down”, they’re the one who is pissed off.

But you know, fiction doesn’t exist in a vacuum. These aren’t real people but they reflect very real situations. Why do you think Sansa’s situation is such a hot-button issue? Every day in real life women are subjected to the idea that we should be grateful just to not be raped. Or that if we are, that we caused it somehow, in a million tiny ways. Fiction reflects real life. George RR Martin certainly knows that.

Funny how people are happy to discuss fiction and then when the debate isn’t going their way, suddenly it’s “omg it’s just fiction!”

You may think we look stupid caring about a fictional character, but you’re the one sending anonymous hate to random people on tumblr. So…

True story: I am not a Sansa stan. I like Sansa very much as a character. I love ASOIAF, so I love most of the characters, but if you think I adore her and think she’s flawless you’re dead wrong. She’s not even in my top 5 favorite characters.

She doesn’t owe Tyrion shit. He is definitely better than Joffrey, but Joffrey is one of the worst people anywhere so that isn’t saying much. She’s entitled to be sexually attracted to Loras. She’s fourteen, and he’s pretty, and it’s not a crime. She does not have to justify not being attracted to Tyrion’s looks. He’s also twice her age, drinks a ton, can be pretty crude, and his family helped kill her father. Joffrey promised he would never hurt her again, and then he abused her and executed her father. Why should she trust Tyrion? We know he isn’t a monster, but she has no reason to trust him yet. Joffrey was nice to her a few times as well.

I love Tyrion as a character (who BTW? IS my favorite character) but you have to look at him from Sansa’s POV. He’s a stranger, and everyone tells bad stories about him. She’s had a couple decent experiences with him, but that’s not enough to overcome the monstrous abuse she’s suffered at the hands of his family.

That’s the thing though- it wasn’t stupid. Because as far as he knew, there were more white walkers around. Last time he saw a white walker, there were a lot more and wights, as well. We saw how quickly WWs can move in the very first episode, actually. Getting out of there very quickly is a sound decision. Not to mention, it is entirely possible that he has more dragonglass in his cloak. We don’t know yet. Anyway, he doesn’t deserve to be hated on. Very few people are celebrating the character for being incredible, there’s just a lot of whining in his tags about how could he be so stupid, and it pissed me off. In the moment, it was a sound decision. (And in the book, we know why he can’t pick up that dagger right after it kills a WW. That same reason may actually apply in the show, but they haven’t established it yet. Perhaps they will eventually. Who knows.)

They really didn’t explain it well. It was one of my issues with the season premiere. It seems like the WW/wight army simply ignored him because he wasn’t a threat, hiding behind his rock, and then Sam hauled ass away from them. Yeah, I don’t buy it either.

The show actually showed Sam, Grenn and Edd finding an entire cache of dragonglass weapons- knives, arrowheads, etc. We only saw him displaying one dagger to Gilly. We have no idea where the other pieces are. (There is actually a reason he couldn’t pick it up in the book, but the show didn’t stop to explain it.)

But anyway, no Sam is not stupid. Last time he saw a White Walker, right behind there were several more, and hundreds of walking corpses. Remember? If you have good reason and experience to think there may be a fuck ton of White Walkers and wights on your tail again, I’d be panicked too. He ran like hell. And rushing at a White Walker is the bravest thing just about anyone on the TV show has ever done.

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It probably is a reference to that but it’s still an unnecessary one. Pretty sure Arya could have the archery lesson without that remark.

I was really distracted this week, waiting for the Ros scene. I was spoiled on it, because at Winteriscoming, people were discussing the scene-someone leaked screencaps of it over at 4chan. I liked the episode mostly aside from the Ros scene. I’ve had time to get used to some book-to-show changes that I think are throwing some people off (Gendry stuff). The pacing didn’t bother me too much actually, but I tend to like slower, more thoughtful pacing. I hate it when GoT rushes pacing and gets frenetic.

I suspected she was going to get killed off this season when they made her a player in Varys and Littlefinger’s game, so I wasn’t horribly shocked by her dying, but the manner of her death is unnecessary. D&D are going for shock value, to make Joff into a more horrifying monster. It’s dumb. Turning Ros into target practice (shooting arrows around her groin, no less) instead of writing her out gracefully or killing her off offscreen is just tacky and dehumanizing.

Liking a show does not mean I have to like all the ways in which they have adapted it. They haven’t done a great job when it comes to adapting a lot of the female characters, but I still enjoy GoT better than most TV shows.

Mya definitely met her father and was known to be his, presumably because he was fostered at the Eyrie. Beyond that, it’s not terribly clear. How official and open does “acknowledging” have to be? Very few people parade their bastards around as openly around their households as Ned Stark did. I think the problem comes about when people take for gospel what they read on sites like AWOIAF instead of basing their knowledge on what is actually in the books.

I look at it this way as well- how on earth did Jon Arryn find Gendry? He paid for his education as a blacksmith since he was a kid. Does Jon pay for every child of every prostitute who claims they have a baby by King Robert? Seems unlikely because that man got around. They knew the boy was Robert’s. That’s enough acknowledgment for my reasoning.

Yeah, I don’t know, it’s a logic jump. Probably because I don’t talk about my personal life hardly ever so they just defaulted to straightness. Which is sorta funny when you think about it. But this episode of DS9 is melting away my giving-a-shit about anything else. :)

Anonymous asked you:

I feel like Varys and Baelish are unnecessarily risking their lives by playing the game of thrones, because they can never really become king.

well I don’t think that’s Varys’s aim, to hold power in his own name as king, not at all. I don’t think Littlefinger wants to necessarily hold all the power in his name, but he holds quite a lot for someone born from a house that was barely noble. Sometimes men wind up on thrones they weren’t born to, so who knows. Maybe he does have ambitions that high, but I think he continue to control things through others, the way he always uses pawns.

astormofdragons:

How about Natalie Dormer with dark hair, I remember Renly talking to Ned in the first book and asking if Margaery and Lyanna look alike. She is 30 but doesn’t look her age at all.

I don’t think they’re twins, so that probably wouldn’t work. A resemblance between the two would be helpful but not necessary. If they ever do a flashback and cast Lyanna, I think the resemblance I’d look for would be to the Arya and Ned actors.

Anonymous asked you:

idk if you’ve been asked this before, but how do you think they’re going to film all those “flashback” scenes? like, whenever cersei talks about her and jamie being young but mainly all the info get get about the events right before and during robert’s rebellion from jamie? in asos, jamie [redacted for spoilers]; do you think they’re going to actually film that or just have jamie talking?

They’ll just have them talking and sharing memories. Why waste precious budget on a flashback when they can have an actor monologuing for a few minutes? Like when when Tyrion talked about Tysha and other scenes like it.

Anonymous asked you:

I am not sure if you ave heard this theory or not, but it goes like this: Robb…Talisa….[basically I have to edit all of this Ask for spoilers but if you asked the question you should understand the answer.]

No, I don’t believe that theory. I think it’s wishful thinking on people’s parts, and that GRRM made a mistake in the books when he wrote a slightly contradictory description of hips. He’s done it before. It’s bound to happen with hundreds of characters.