easy to forget but book jon snow is great actually. he gets so drunk he cries in his first chapter. he's 16 years old and laser focused on loan negotiation. he keeps getting promoted against his will. he's the chosen fantasy protagonist with the worst genre awareness ever. he implements pro immigration social reforms. he has a giant albino pet wolf. he cuts a guy's head off. he thinks he invented cunnilingus. he's been dead for 15 years.

asoiaf fandom is so good when you dont have someone whispering in your ear about the most shippable 12 year old or the prettiest 12 year old or the most ontologically evil 12 year old or

“ooohhhh this teenage girl character is so annoyinggg because she didn’t react to extreme stress in a way that was reasonable or what i consider to be normal oooooooohh” well i’m launching the missile

Can I speak my truth. I don’t think Brienne is even a little gay. I think she’s a kinsey zero who false positives on everyone’s radar. I think if you dropped brienne into new age 2024 she would get treated as a lesbian in her day to day life but whenever a woman liked her she’d be like. Ummmmmmm I’m really sorry but I don’t. Feel like that. I think she’d give lesbianism the good old college try bc of the direness of her male love life and come down firmly on the side of not attracted to women. I think she is quintessential pnw woman who you think is a slam dunk homerun lesbian based on everything about her who drops the word husband on you. I think she gets clocked on sight and mentions a partner named Jaime which makes people go. Okay. Partner i know that game. Jamie easily the name of a lesbian. Easily. And then she drops the he pronouns and you go. Well. Could still be a weird lesbian. And then Jaime is a business major in a frat with generational wealth. And HE is the kinsey five in the relationship.

yeah jonsatin is a good ship but it’s not jonsam. it’s not “he could think here, and he found himself thinking of samwell tarly.” it’s not “the world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice as samwell tarly had.” it’s not “silent as shadow, the pale direwolf moved closer and began to lick the warm tears off samwell tarly’s face. the fat boy cried out, startled . . . and somehow, in a heartbeat, his sobs turned to laughter. jon snow laughed with him.” it’s not “from that day forth, neither rast nor any of the others would hurt samwell tarly.” it’s not “he wondered where poor sam was now. and what he was.” it’s not “if it weren't for jon, none of them would have liked me. and now jon was gone, lost in the skirling pass with qhorin halfhand, most likely dead. sam would have cried for him, but those tears would only freeze as well . . . ” it’s not “he could not understand why the gods would want to take jon snow and bannen and leave him, craven and clumsy as he was.” it’s not “his dreams were strange than night. he was back at horn hill, at the castle, but his father was not there. it was sam’s castle now. jon snow was with him.” it’s not “do it, sam. was that jon, now? jon was dead. you can do it, you can, just do it.” it’s not “I wish jon was here. he liked grenn, but he couldn’t talk to him the same way. jon wouldn’t call me slayer, I know.” it’s not “had samwell tarly made it home safely, he wondered, or only the birds?” it’s not “jon had once threatened to have ghost rip his throat out unless he stopped tormenting samwell tarly . . . “ it’s not “jon is smiling. a sad smile, still, but definitely a smile of sorts. sam was glad to see it. it is the first time I’ve seen him smile since I got back.” it’s not “sam, you’re a sweet fool. open your eyes.” it’s not “be quiet. you lied and schemed and plotted to make me lord commander. you will obey me.” it’s not “jon, he’d said, but jon was gone. it was lord snow who faced him now, grey eyes as hard as ice.” it’s not “jon smiled a strange, sad smile. ‘and pull your hood up. the snowflakes are melting in your hair.’” it’s not “instead, he blamed jon snow and wondered when jon’s heart had turned to stone.” it’s not “sam, you sweet fat fool, you played me a cruel jape when you made me lord commander.” it’s not them.