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i just got to hodor/wylisâ death and the reason he only says âhodorâ and i was BAWLING from the second meera started saying âhold the doorâ ohmyDAYS đ«đ«đ«đ« đ« đ« the only other personâs death i cried for was ygritte and not even as much as i did for hodor
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Lowkey I could and will go on about Hodor at some point because that was a diabolical character to write. Man gets disabled (in a way that looks exactly like brain damage mind you) and then everyone including his family just stops using his real name because he can't say it. He just gets used for manual labor by the family too. He says nothing but one single word, then they make him stupid and big and gross. The other characters use that to insult other people. Dude just write the word retard you know you want too.
This ends up saying shit about disability too because you have Sansa who like is the one using Hodor as a way to insult her sister. In a well he's so stupid and gross that you guys would be perfect for eachother. If this was intended to be something adding on to Sansa's other expressions of bigotry (sexism and classism) then that could be cool but tbh I think the writer just did not think about it. Hodor is made brain damaged through magical means if the show is correct and so he just didn't think about the fact he fully just wrote a dude with severe brain damage. Like my great grandfather had brain damage so he had a limited vocabulary and was not able to learn how to read. Hodor is very much written and coded as a man with brain damage (the only one mind you even though most of those knights should have it). Then treated by the narrative as not even really a real person, he's just a tool used by the Starks.
Husband just made me watch the Hold The Door episode of GoT whilst Iâm PREGNANT and HORMONALâŠwar crime
Am I the only one who thinks that Hodorâs various âhodorsâ have meaning, the way âI am Grootâ can be translated by Rocket Raccoon? I swear he has too much understanding of what other people say to him to be âsimpleâ. I think thatâs just his âvocabulisticsâ as Rocket says in the GotG film.
I feel like on the show it was portrayed as a random noise he made.
I know in my heart that Brienne and Hodor are second cousins
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it still bothers me that daenerys uses irri for sex. itâs right up there with bran infiltrating hodorâs mind and taking over his body. neither of them may fully understand the implications of these actions, but theyâre still harmful.
idk if itâs like tmi to share about my uncle & sister when discussing hodor & sweetrobin, itâs just honestly hard not to think about them. i donât always like to analyze thru the lense of my life, but i was thinking about it a lot today. i think the experience of growing up with a dying sister & a schizophrenic uncle made me a much more complex & i hope better more understanding person and i can only hope that those two felt the same about me, that my existence in their lives was a positive. and i see these patterns within my own life that exist within the lives of sansa and bran, as The Kid In The House With Them, and i honestly find it fascinating how well the feeling was captured.
one thing (and this is so random) that i point to as another really good example of Being The Kid In A House With Someone Who Is Sick is the comedian daniel sloss, he has these bits about his sister that i find hysterical bc i completely understand them. he details his reaction to his sisterâs death & it is, i swear to god, the EXACT reaction i had to my sisterâs death. just complete agony & then âokay time to go to school bye!!!â that was the moment i was like âthis guy is an ARTISTEâ and itâs bc he made one of the worst days of my life FUNNY.
very similarly, i think asoiaf & hodor and sweetrobin mirror my own life so intensely itâs a bit remarkable to me. the things bran struggles with are a much worse, fantastical version of something i remember clearly struggling with & that was that i could be QUITE a bossy little brat with my uncleâŠ.bc everyone around me was like that with him! and my uncle is quite different from hodor - in fact, my favorite memory i have of him is when my grandma snapped âare you crazy? are you mad??â at him bc he had poured half a tub of gravy on a paper plate (it was for his mash which was also on the plate heâs valid), and my uncle very drily went âwell yeah mom, isnât that the problem?â and she felt TERRIBLE while he LAUGHED HIS ASS OFF, so to be clear, my uncle was verbal lol & quite witty - but there ARE some crazy similarities that read as so authentic to me within the story (witty he was, but he DID just stop talking & stare sometimes & i say this not to, idk, use him but i think itâs important to be a bit transparent about this stuff, that he struggled his whole life with being present bc he was Not getting the healthcare he needed to be lucid. he was a very tricky sort of case & we did not have money & that meant his downswings were a lot more severe. it sucked, for him especially!).
i think the way that thereâs this sort of conflicting idea within the story of âhodor is a man not a muleâ and âhodor is branâs legsâ that makes it hard for bran to truly grasp the concept of hodorâs personhood. and i think as a child i saw my uncle as a child bc other people spoke to him like he was one. but when i was his caretaker towards the end of his life, he got quite upset with my grandpa for talking down to him during an argument & it made me really reflect. like yeah, iâm sure it doesnât help him at all that every time he complains it gets chalked up to âthere he is being weirdâ can the man not just get cold & turn the heat up? why does it have to be a sign of the end times & his meds not working again? and i think a LOT about the way bran rationalizes raping hodorâs mind bc hodor doesnât fight back & he gives hodorâs body back. itâs this constant fight for autonomy, in a way that everyone else does NOT have to fight. and i see it SO ACUTELY in hodor, that frustration that the people you love do not take your personhood seriously (for the record, i bought him a heated blanket to fix the issue & everyone was happy. like, the man was cold damn).
and the sweetrobin/my sister stuff is very intense for me. like with daniel sloss, this part specifically i think really shows how talented of a writer grrm is. he can get into the head of anyone & understand them, truly. thereâs so much energy spent on this one child, but you are also a child. old enough to understand why this one gets the attention, not old enough to not take it personally. i deeply understand lysa; i used to get out of bed and watch my sister sleep, when she was finally âokayâ enough to not be in my momâs room & sleep in the kids room with the rest of us. i would just get nervous something might happen. it was silly, bc ultimately once she was âokayâ she was actually quite healthy up until the day she died, but of course all i thought about was âwhat if something happens and im the one in the room?â when i read sansaâs chapter with him going down the mountain & the way they hold each other on the way down, i think about our last good day, where we went to the zoo & they had this ladybug exhibit and a zookeeper poured hundreds, thousands of ladybugs into our hands & my sister giggled the whole time at the feeling. it feels like, for just a bit, when im reading about hodor, or sweetrobin, or shireen, i feel like,,,,,,the memories dont have to hurt. they had lives that maybe werenât long but they were full. maybe if i can love hodor enough it will feel like playing soccer with my uncle again.
Paraplegia is a type of paralysis that mainly affects your legs, lower body and some of your arm abilities, too. Usually happening due to extreme injuries to your nervous system, especially your spinal cord, but it can also happen with various medical conditions and diseases. Although Game of Thrones is a fantasy series filled with dragons, magic and intriguing politic tension, it also weaves moments of realism.
During the first couple of episodes of the first season, Bran stark, one of the youngest children of "Ned" Stark is pushed of a tall tower in Winterfell after seeing an affair between the wife of the current king and another man, Jaime Lannister.
Due to the extension of the injury its is assumed that Bran suffered an injury to his Thoracic spine or lumbar spine. In addition i assume he's suffered a complete injury where he has total loss of movement and loss of sensation, displayed in episode 4 in season one where Bran has to be a carried out of his bed by Hodor, where his legs looked completely limp.
Bran stark is only one example of the game of thrones representation of disabilities, despite the fantasy realm, it still demonstrates real conditions from likely injuries from the medieval period usually caused by the lack of knowledge in medicine and lack of regard for health and safety.
What makes Brans portrayal particularly interesting is the balance between fiction and non-fiction. His physical limitations are consistent and his struggles are highlighted throughout the episodes however his beginning resilience contributes to his character developments and further develops his character identity, not just another child of Ned Stark. This is a rare example in media of a character who's story line isn't defined solely by its set backs but a transformation which is more satisfying to observe as an audience.
Seeing representation incorporated fundamentally within the plot of a TV Show as mainstream and imaginative as Game of thrones is majorly significant, while bringing to light ableism as a prominent thing in both todays society and older times when the show was set, demonstrated as Tyrion Lannister, whom has dwarfism is consistently referred to as 'The Imp' due to his stature but also his attitude and wit.
It is also interesting so far, to see in the series how ableism in the show is portrayed as influenced by social class, as Hodor with expressive aphasia is only briefly seen in the early episodes and is treated like he's simple minded within the house of Stark, where as the mistreatment of Bran Stark is more subtle as he is a noblemen of Winterfell but is constantly referred to as 'crippled'. However, plausibly this may be just because Hordor is a lowly servant and this is the general treatment of the lower class.
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Paraplegia is paralysis that affects your legs, making it impossible to stand or walk. This symptom usually happens with injuries but can in
In the rich tapestry of Game of Thrones characters, few transformations are as profound as BranâŠ
