if i look back i am lost

"character deserved better" (but they were never going to get it that's the stuff great tragedies are made of) vs "character deserved better" (but the writers really blew it)

Brienne who has to dress up in male armour and Jaime who used to dress up as a girl as a child

george has bad writing but it's rarely the 'bad' lines that the redditors give him shit for. yes i will defend 'fat pink mast' yes i will defend 'myrish swamp' and 'men call me darkstar and i am of the night' and 'the more she shat the more she drank' i actually dont care about any of them because they're effective for the tone and mood they're trying to convey. if im being honest my problem is that the dothraki dont get to be people

people make theon out to be a lot more stupid than he actually is. yeah he's dumb as rocks in all the ways that matter. but to give him a little credit he did capture winterfell with twenty good men

The thing about Theon is not that he doesn't have the braincells. He HAS the braincells. We KNOW he has the braincells. He just ignores his ability to use them in almost every critical scenario he comes across. The frustration this generates on the reader is at least half of the character's charm!! He can't hear you yelling at him through the page to WAIT AND THINK and he's twice as compelling for it

hear me out…modern au dany as matilda. she spends all her time at the local library because it’s an excuse not to be at home and it’s the only place where she can hide from viserys. she devours every book they have, but her favorites are the fairy tales and she ends up reading those over and over again. one day as she’s reading the little mermaid for the one millionth time she’s approached by baby sansa. except she’s kind of just standing there and staring at dany and clutching a giant book to her chest (she’s like 99% sure that dany is a real-life disney princess because only princesses have silver-gold hair and purple eyes). basically sansa tagged along with robb and jon because they needed to pick out a book for their school project, but they only want to look at the comic books and sansa got bored of waiting for them so she just wandered over to the fairy tale section on her own. the only problem is that she doesn’t actually know how to read yet because she’s 3. lucky for sansa, dany offers to read to her because after going through basically the whole library she’s a better reader than any 5 year old has a right to be (she does the voices and hugs sansa during the scary parts and even teaches her to sound out some of words). dany wishes that someone would read to her once in a while too, but this is almost just as good.