ser sam of the tully corner

the thing that bewilders me about a lot of fantasy readers is that they read about settings and plots featuring imperialism, war, and slavery and then call the inclusion of violence, abuse, and sexual exploitation "edgy" and "gratuitous" and it's like what did you think was happening. why were you under the impression that you were going to get a cozy story about fascism or something. far be it from me to criticize anyone for not wanting to read about torture in their spare time, and there are certainly cases where heavy subjects are poorly executed, but is it not equally insulting to sanitize them for a feel-good adventure.. like no one put a gun to your head and forced you to give your fantasy novel an enslaved protagonist. sometimes writing is supposed to make you feel bad

I can't with the double standards in this fandom when olenna tyrell weaponizes her gay relatives to terrorise a blonde woman and put her bloodline on the iron throne everyone calls her "queen" and "woke grandma" 🙄 but when I, otto hightower

Okay I’m actually pissed off at this point why is Alicent getting sexually assaulted AGAIN. Two episodes in a fucking row I’m not giving them any grace on this anymore they rly took what was a very interesting dynamic of someone who was a victim of marital rape and took it to “okay alicent has nothing to do this episode quick spin the wheel pick a different man to SA her”. It’s lazy, repetitive, sexist, and at this point its insulting what purpose does this serve? Can we fr not think of ANYTHING for her to do?

aemond literally crawling to alys. as their first meeting. daemon wouldn't give her harrenhal but he would. sara hess my hand in marriage

aemond showing up at harrenhal on mommy’s orders (alicent), immediately looking for mommy 2 (daemon) but instead stumbling upon soon to be mommy 3 (alys)