So, this post isn’t wholly about the show. The show’s writing and character development have been in a nosedive since Season 5. They clearly bungled Daenerys’s turn; they just didn’t devote enough time and energy to it. 

And obviously Daenerys has become a fan favorite, one of the heroes in a story full of Joffreys, Ramseys, and Cerseis. People, especially women, related to her story of rising from an abusive, oppressive situation and growing into a strong, independent woman. The turn was hard to accept.

And a big part of that is because of George R.R. Martin himself.

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If you play an openly antisemitic, racist, & transphobic game which directly supports its’ openly antisemitic, racist and transphobic creator… You don’t get to call yourself an ally. Full stop.

I get it, HP was many people’s childhood. Nostalgia, memories… But at some point you have to ask yourself if it’s worth it. You were children back then, and most of you can truthfully claim you didn’t know better. But now…? The vast majority of you? You are adults. You are no longer children.

Jewish people have asked - begged - us to listen to them about JKR’s  antisemitic shit for years. Trans people are (also) actively being put in danger because of how JKR is using her money.

At some point you have to ask yourself, is it really worth to play a game - knowing full well what it supports - just for some childhood nostalgia? To re-live some memories? Is it really worth to play a game you full well know at this point actively aims to hurt Jewish, PoC and Queer people?

… Sadly some of you will say yes, it’s worth it for you.

However, that also means you will face consequences of your choice. And we are watching - searching - for who we can trust.

Is it truly worth it, to live in a world where your Jewish, Queer and PoC friends know they can’t trust you?

Because we will know.

He’s a Baratheon with a Targaryen great-grandmother. He was raised with the small folk so he knows their problems and (Bill Clinton voice) feels their pain.

Making Bran king completely ignores the expectations and norms of Westeros. Great southern lords aren’t going to agree to let some weird woods witch from the North be king. That council was ridiculous. I guarantee Yara Greyjoy and the Prince of Dorne are immediately starting rebellions when they get home. I doubt even Bran’s own family are going to be that warm on his rule; Sansa embarrassing Edmure in public like that probably didn’t fill him with familial love for his sister’s children (He also spent years as a prisoner because Robb couldn’t keep his dick in his pants, and Robin Arryn’s mother refused to let the Vale help in the War of the Five Kings). 

And Bran is wise? What’s your proof for that? What has he done in the last few seasons other than destabilize the political situation in the country? And trained to rule? He was a child when forced to flee Winterfell and then lived for several years in the woods. Trained to rule a treefort, maybe.