D&D looking miserable up to their ass in snow in Iceland.

onionjulius replied to your post: ugh sometimes I feel like I need a side blog where…

Sometimes I heart posts with SUCH GUSTO OMG.

We need an ‘I FUCKING LOVE THIS’ button.

Follow Friday 

Just one person today.

She read over my latest WiC article for me before I posted it, gave me her opinion, and is generally kind and smart and funny, and her take-no-shit gameface is awesome.

OnionJulius

One more reason why Catelyn > Everyone else.

Very good point also. And there’s the whole messy question of nationality vs. ethnicity and so on.

edit: I said nationalist instead of nationality. Hmm.

tags: #onionjulius #game of thrones #huffpo

onionjulius:

I know it’s the worst way to start off a post and I’m sorry and yes you can all hate me but

“ For all the talk of the old gods, even Melisandre’s repeated comments about the “Lord of Light,” it is the Goddess, in all her magnificence, elegance, vulnerability, bravery, mystery and cruelty, all her many forms, young and old, beautiful and ugly, wise and foolish, who is running the show.”

- from the HuffPo article just linked on tumblrofthrones

I don’t get this.  I have seen the sentiment certainly that ASOIAF/GoT is “about the women” and I am not trying to say that simply because I don’t see the point it isn’t there but

I don’t see how it’s the point.  There is a LOT in ASOIAF/GoT about women, but when men outnumber women as characters, when women are more objectified than men by the narrative, when the “realistic” depiction of the patriarchy ultimately limits many women’s agency and even livelihood (perhaps rightly so, but STILL), when a heavy burden of the female narrative is placed on off-screen women and women as symbols and blah blah blah … IDK I’m sorry it sounds an awful lot like appeasement to me.

Maybe I will get a lot of shit for this and maybe I will deserve it too.  But hey what’s fandom without a little shitstorm.

Oh I don’t agree 100% with the HuffPo article but I found it interesting. I do see the story of ASOIAF being largely about and driven by women because they survive and go on when the men keep dying or fading away and we have so many female POVs. Some of the women rule through the men, so they are in control of their destiny as much as any character can be in this fucked up world.

I guess I don’t see the “realistic” depiction of patriarchy as limiting the women character’s ability to tell the story and be a significant portion of it. I don’t know if this is making much sense. But I don’t think what you’re saying deserves any kind of hatred, as it’s a valid criticism that women are more objectified in that world, etc.

Follow Friday 

Well, it’s almost Friday. Close enough.

I haven’t done one of these in ages, so I’m overdue. I’ll try to do it more often. Here are ten blogs that always have good stuff and you should follow if you aren’t already. If you are following them then I salute your taste!

Follow Friday Recs

Onion Julius

With Eyes Averted

Watermeloncholy

Kissed By Fire

Marilynde

Fantastique Collective

Bex

Parisian Skies

Femmenoire

FuckyeahWinterfell

I don’t really have any gifs that suit this sort of post, so here’s Major Kira pulling a splinter from Gul Dukat’s ass.