#fanatsy

all these authors trying to replicate daenerys and failing horribly, will always be funny to me because it's so obvious that they fell for the “vibes” and the cool titles without understanding that grrm de-centering all the men from daenerys's story is what makes it empowering! if khal drogo hadn't been killed, she would've sailed to westeros and probably gotten that throne by now. but as the khal's wife and not as the breaker of chains and the symbol of hope & radical change that she has become within the story's narrative because then, she would've had to constantly compromise her morals and watch her husband's armies burn, rape and pillage their way to KL. sure she would've tried to fix the damage to “balance” it out but with him still in the picture, her arc would not have reached to it's full potential. george makes it clear in the very first book that the story is not about him or them. it is daenerys and daenerys's alone. current fantasy authors with their so-called feminist themes literally do the opposite of this. they absolutely can't handle letting the story actually be about the protagonist, nope. the story starts with the underdog heroine with some hidden powers but as soon as the love interest appears, it'll become all about him. she will completely become a part of His Gang and he will be the one to elevate her position by sharing his power/status with his wife/gf who'll get some epic titles thrown her way for doing nothing lol. it's beyond pathetic atp.

I personally think Hoid's true goal and the timeline is like Taravangian's diagram in that Brandon thought of the whole thing years ago in a moment of brilliance and can't quite remember all the details. And he's frantically trying to read his notes that are written in dawnchant, a language he never finished the cypher for cause he figured he'd remember it, and he writes in the hope that it will jog his memory