We Need To Talk About The Reason For The Night's Watch Decline Are The Targaryens And The Targaryens

We need to talk about the reason for the Night's Watch decline are the Targaryens and the Targaryens alone.

That's why Jon and 40 other dudes were out here trying to fight like 100,000 windings and 1 million white walkers.

as if we don't semi-regularly bring up the horror that is Lysa and Jon's marriage. It's one of the main reasons why Lysa Is The Way She Is. it's the foil to Cat and Ned's happy marriage, as it really is sheer luck if a woman ends with a "good" marriage. The whole situation that leads up to the marriage literally haunts Hoster on his death bed. Girl.

The Atelier Couture

Because god forbid we show three dimensional characters in their apex of grief, rage and pain - No actually here’s a female rat catcher that Aegon is killing because he hates all females and that’s the only reason why.

When Daemon & Rhaenyra scorch and kill an innocent servant to facilitate Laenor’s departure- no biggie. When Rhaenys kills hundreds of smallfolk in a “badass” stunt at the Dragonpit - no biggie, the smallfolk don’t matter.

However when Aegon commit murder after his mother, wife and daughter were beaten, threatened with r*pe and tortured until his son was murdered before their eyes - it’s for no reason except he hates poor innocent women.

Daemon can grieve the “loss of his son & do anything for his family including killing many innocents” but anyways here’s a female rat catcher so you can understand truly how much the Greens just hate women in general. That’s it. Nothing else. Remember who the bad guys are everyone!!!

Sansa, Dany, and the Fandom's Shit Takes on Child Marriage

'12 is considered an adult in ASOIAF! stop projecting modern morals onto the series!'

first of all... it's not lol. multiple characters in ASOIAF express disgust and reluctance at the idea of marrying off children, particularly in the case of kids marrying adults. Tyrion himself brings up how young Sansa is. Ned describes Lyanna as a 'child-woman' at 15/16. Viserys expresses doubt that Drogo would find Dany, who is only 13, appealing. adults being sexually attracted to kids is not seen as a 'norm' or 'standard' in the series.

second of all, even though child-marriage does occur in the series, if your takeaway is that anyone critiquing this is 'missing the point', you are so tragically stupid i literally don't know what to say. do you think GRRM included this to celebrate it? to argue that in a morally dubious setting, the onus is on the victim to ‘make the best of it’? that the system can't change, and might makes right? really? that's your takeaway?

third of all, the idea that, had a character like Sansa actually 'embraced' the older men preying on her, she would have succeeded politically and become a 'player' is fucking ludicrous. Littlefinger would not hand Sansa significant power the moment she 'allowed' him to assault her. that's not how he operates.

he has never intended to let her become his equal or co-ruler in any regard. he views Sansa as a plaything and an emotional replacement for her mother. he might actually come to believe he loves her, he might show her affection and support, but he would never regard her as an equal or let her dominate the relationship in any way.

finally, in the case of Dany, if you view her relationship with Drogo as in any way healthy, triumphant, or an assertion of feminist power... I literally don't know what to tell you, lol. yes, Dany is able to use Drogo's affection towards her to secure some safety for the enslaved women of the khalasar.

however, at no point does she begin to actually command Drogo, and the second she displeased him the tables would have turned immediately. bargaining with your rapist is not the same thing as a consensual alliance of power between equals. Dany had as much autonomy within the khalasar as Drogo permitted.

i know that targ incest is very normal in westeros but at the same time i cant help but imagine all the non targ wives being brought in and looking down at their little babies and just grimacing. Like do you think they just spend their kids whole childhoods hyping themselves up and trying to make themselves okay with it like "yes theyre mine but theyre also targaryens. theyre my children they belong to the kingdom. theyre my kids i love my kids, this is the best thing that could happen to my kids..." kind of choking on that last sentence lol. anyways.