love love love the way grrm plays with the different pov characters, especially the ones on different sides. thinking specifically about tyrion introducing jaime like this is my older brother his greatest character flaw is that he never takes anything seriously literally one chapter after we saw jaime attempt to murder a nine year old from the perspective of the nine year old
highlights of the only affc chapter jon appears in, which i just read:
-everyone complaining about jon being a dick and sams like you guys are just mad he got a real job and then jon’s kind of a dick and sam’s like 😦
-jon sucks he never hangs out with us anymore he just bosses me around and hits shit with his stupid sword we miss him :(
-aftermath of the jon gilly baby swap “discussion” and jon’s clearly like ok that’s me done being a heinous cunt for today this part will be easy sams going to love going to college but then sam also starts freaking out and jons like what is your PROBLEM!!!!!!!!
-it’s your stupid fault i’m in stupid charge so now you have to deal with it go do autopsies NO MORE negative self talk I WILL KNOW
-“your evil bird drew blood” “ok what do you want me to do about that.”
-just straight up being like i want to fuckin kill the lannisters. anyway the nights watch takes no part or whatever. hope they eat shit and die
-he truly has the bearing of a man who was screaming into a pillow mere seconds before someone entered the room and is going to resume screaming as soon as they leave
-gilly kind of chewing him out on the way out the door and jon’s like :\ ok and sams like well that’s none of my business
-pull your hood up you have snowflakes melting in your hair 😭😭😭😭
i’m not a medievalist but the whole feudal gender thing in asoiaf is interesting because it really feels like the peak masculine ideal is being a lord which itself is gatekept by class and birth order within the upper class. so if you did not inherit your way into wielding systemic violence over others as a first son you as a second son have to compensate by being really really good at individual violence. but to only benefit from systemic violence without at all demonstrating skill in individual or systemic violence is a female trait. these people are insane
because ultimately what IS a second son but a boy daughter
crop of something I had to stop working on when I remembered for the 7,493rd time that I am disabled, not sure if I’ll finish because some things about it were bothering me, but
‘you have x many followers’ those r cadavers girl. corpses. abandoned vessels of blogs who once were. its the apocalypse in there. its me and my 5 mutuals against the world.
