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my friend and fellow swain scholar is reading asoiaf for the first time and agrees with me that it's bullshit that the riot NDs cite tywin as inspiration for swain....but they did just remind me that his rework dropped in 2018 which was when thrones-fever was still very much part of the culture and so it's not unlikely that the reason for the citation is just that laurie or some other narrative lead fell a little too in love with charles dance's performance and got tunnel vision

i like deeply deeply disagree w the sentiment that there is no way to make a war movie (or war story generally) that doesn't glorify war and i think that sentiment is primarily born of the fact that the united states of america in particular is war-worshipping martial-power-obsessed culture therefore ergo the people making the statement (americans) are just people who can't imagine war not being at least a little bit cool. but i do think the one way you cannot and never will be able to functionally communicate how badly war devastates the lives of those it touches is to tell the story from the perspective of the people who have regularly been agents of warfare on behalf of an aggressing state or culture having some kind of moral crisis about what they're doing and expecting that to be morally instructive to the audience which is why riven's whole thing is so hollow

i think actively being a bad guy enjoyer is good for one's constitution