Jenny. This blog consists mainly of Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire, with particular focus on Tyrion, but also among my favorites are Sansa, Cersei, Arya, and Brienne. I also occasionally post about video games or books or whatever else I find interesting.
Not to defend booktok weirdos but the amount of people in a comment section saying “these people who are obsessed with smut books are literally porn addicts” is insane because if you don’t see the difference between smut books written by some random woman and a multi billion dollar industry built on the exploitation of women and minorities and the commodification of their bodies… idk what to tell you. Obviously those books aren’t your critical thinking skills.
Truly love the number of people I’ve met that have been like “Well I went to a Catholic school as a kid, which is to say I’m not Catholic” like damn Catholic schools really out here doing the exact opposite of missionary work.
motherfuckers be like “i’m an anarchist and believe in abolishing the prison state and want to support restorative justice” and then talk about how they want to murder anyone who does a thoughtcrime about fanfiction
there is a huge difference between criticizing an institution and criticizing individual behavior. i can criticize the makeup industry without criticizing the 14 year old girl who uses concealer because she’s self-conscious about her acne; i can criticize the plastic surgery industry without vilifying the woman who decided to get a nose job after two decades of pointed comments and bullying. it is intellectually dishonest to respond to an institutional criticism as if it were a personal attack; on the flip side, it is cruel and unnecessary to leverage personal attacks in the name of institutional criticism
if i see one (1) more person respond to a perfectly reasonable beauty-industry-critical sentiment with “but i personally enjoy eyeshadow. why are you attacking people who like eyeshadow :(” or “exactly, all women who wear makeup are miserable and brainwashed” i am going to climb a tree and bite the top of it
one thing that’s great about the song of ice and fire books is the way nobody ever knows what the fuck is going on. like somebody in a bar will be like “long live good king renly!” and somebody else will be like “oh he died. like a month ago. yeah lady catelyn stark stabbed him” and somebody else will be like “actually I heard he was stabbed by a shadow his brother fathered on a priestess” and a fourth person will be like “wait didn’t renly literally just win the battle of king’s landing last week” and then they’re all like “well, whatever. long live good king whoever it is now. next round’s on me”
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the funniest one to me was when catelyn was having a sit down with stannis and renly and stannis was like “renly I don’t care how cute you are, you are not the rightful heir 😤” and catelyn was like “um… neither are you? joffrey is next in the line of succession? we’re all rebels here?” and stannis is like 👀 and renly is like “lol bro guess she didn’t get your raven memo about all of cersei’s kids being incest bastards” and catelyn is like “cersei’s kids being what now”
I have often said that asoiaf would have ended halfway through the first book if they all had cellphones and I was right.
My take is that “forced diversity” in media very much isn’t a real thing but there is a trend of diversity with 0 thought put into how characters’ identities affect them & if it makes any fucking sense what they’re doing in the story. And also everybody forgot what tokenism is
Like that thing where somebody’s trying to write an oppression allegory with nonhuman races but there are also humans in it and you can’t have all your humans being white so then they have like a black person calling an elf a slur or something. Why this
Every time I have to sit through a blue person explaining racism to poc because somebody didn’t think very hard about their scifi/fantasy setting I just think to myself… why are they doing that
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