Unsolicited Rants

goodreads is always like “hidden gems!!!” and then the horror section consists of the same three books that they’ve included in every other list they’ve ever created that’s featured horror

Do you ever think about how when older men look at Jon they see a surrogate son who they want to help achieve (Stannis, Jeor, Mance,) while when older men look at Dany they see a sex object (Daario, Drogo, Jorah?) Because I do.

might sleep with my lights on because i watched a scary tiktok earlier #mylights

jane eyre should’ve ended with jane and rochester getting married and then jane locking him in the attic for prolonged periods of time while the novel framed her as righteous and romanticized it

It’s disturbing how people always want to bring up Dany’s dead male ancestors, but never her female ancestors. They want her to be the scapegoat for the actions of long dead men whom she’s never met, but ignore the enduring tradition of suffering and suppressed Targaryen women, that she is actively subverting…almost all Targaryen women after the conqueror’s wives (and we can argue all day about how much power or autonomy even they had, tbh) were passed over in some way or another in favor of a man, many losing their lives in the process, or enduring sexual violence, forced birth, unimaginable horrors, and in Rhaenyra’s case a bloody, terrible war. All for the crime of being born women. Daenerys is not the sacrificial lamb that all of her male ancestors’ sins are transubstantiated onto, that is such a tired, lazy, and misogynistic way to look at her story…she is the breaker of generational chains for her female ancestors. She is the star after the tower. The empress of the dawn. She is hope and healing, not destruction and rage. Dragons plant no trees, true, but Dany does.