#fire imagery

is this a little inspired by writing with @thoughtfullyrainynightmare

Princess Gillestia

-Mod Dragonfly

𝓐𝓻𝓽𝓮𝓶𝔂 𝓑𝓾𝓻𝓪𝓴𝓱 𝓲𝓷:

4: Sabotage!

edit: the link to the prompt post is dead :( but ill put the image under the cut

i love toxic yaoi :) uploading it early becous im silly

Targ stans will combat the argument of the fire threat being just as deadly as the ice threat with that one time GRRM said that fire is life, love and passion (if I remember correctly) yet then they’ll ignore everything in the text pointing to dragons / fire being a destructive force as well as GRRM calling them the equivalent of nuclear weapons … They can’t even admit that dragons cause mass devastation , they’ll jump you for daring to go against the grain of these fire breathing lizards being anything but cute pets to be worshipped 💀

My favorite thing is still that one time a blog claimed that me pointing out negative fire imagery in the books was a racist attack against the country of Azerbaijan. Ah, good times.

GRRM does describe fire in positive terms, same as he does snow and cold. And he describes both as destructive and deadly too. They never take scale into account.

Gently falling flakes, ice used to cool burns or store food, or a general winter landscape are not the same as a winterstorm, an ice cell meant to degrade and torture, or an icy darkness that lasts a generation. A hearthfire or a little bonfire meant to sustain life is a very different image from the kind of destructive conflagration we associate with war, murderous funeral pyres or dragonfire.

Agnes Montague, Born In Flame