| ASOIAF : PRE-SERIES |
feat. Aishwarya Rai as Elia Martell
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*text inspired by this post.
What the…? The books aren’t challenging, they’re just long. And even if someone didn’t understand something there’s about a million people here on Tumblr alone to help them out. Your condescension is unneeded, unnecessary, and uncalled for.
If there was a school for writers
How to torture/kill in the saddest ways your favourite characters - with Suzanne Collins.
How to be a complete troll about your plot - with Rick Riordan.
How to be the most cruel, harsh, sadistic and violent writer on Earth - with Michael Grant.
How to give your characters the most revolting and traumatic past - with J. K. Rowling.
How to ascend from a funcking fanfiction writer to a fucking best-seller writer - with Cassandra Clare.
How to have the most crazy, deep and lush metaphors (which don’t need exactly to have meaning or sense) - with Tahereh Mafi.
How to have the mad and non-sense ideas to books, but make them best-sellers - with Scott Westerfeld.
How to be a boss - with Neil Gaiman.
How to make the funcking reader cry a fucking ocean in three words - with Nicholas Sparks.
How to have the best and most creative narrative of the books - with Markus Zusak.
How to write teenage stories without being disgusting - with Meg Cabot.
How to create characters so human that you believe they are real - with John Green.
How to be shit and pretend you are good - with Stephenie Meyer.
How to write the most long-winded descriptions ever - with JRR Tolkien
What would George RR Martin teach…How to condition your readers to grow attached and then stomp on their hearts anyway?
Now when I first started reading Clash of Kings someone warned me, “The Sansa chapters are hard to get through but just push on and it’ll get better.”
Screw that.
JESUS CHRIST THE ARYA CHAPTERS ARE KILLING ME! Why didn’t he condense some of them?! I’m sitting here waiting for her to have a point while Sansa’s the one clearly developing into a fascinating character/badass.
Everytime I get to a Arya chapter I stop reading for about three days. Whyyyyy, GRRM, why.
I should be more constructive. Well to be completely fair to Arya, I’m only half way through the book and all she’s had the chance to do is wander around from place to place while everyone dies around her. And that’s not on Arya, not at all, because she’s like ten and she doesn’t have Needle and she’s ten.
But it is a tad boring. I would’ve liked it more if it help me get more of a handle on Arya Stark’s character, but she’s still essentially the same girl from the last book. Which, once again, more than fair enough, she’s gone through a lot of traumatic events. But I stand by what I said before, in that Arya has failed to have a point yet to me while I can see the entire point of Sansa and other characters and all their very pointy futures.
I should give Arya more of a chance, I know. It’s just, I’ve got to be honest, she’s a right little badass and she’s snarky and smart with an astoundingly realistic and delightful superiority complex she shares with all her siblings and I bet she was really cool in 1996. But I’ve read about so many Arya Starks by now that her characterization isn’t novel to me in the slightest. To me, let me stress. This is entirely opinion.
I’ve gotten two major side-eyes from the post so far, which suggest that maybe I’ve judged too quickly and I need to push through Arya’s many chapters and give her story a chance to develop. She’s chilling out with the Mountain right now, so it’s gotta get good. Am I right?
Edited for unnecessary bitchiness. So sorry.
Now when I first started reading Clash of Kings someone warned me, “The Sansa chapters are hard to get through but just push on and it’ll get better.”
Screw that.
JESUS CHRIST THE ARYA CHAPTERS ARE KILLING ME! Why didn’t he condense some of them?! I’m sitting here waiting for her to have a point while Sansa’s the one clearly developing into a fascinating character/badass.
Everytime I get to a Arya chapter I stop reading for about three days. Whyyyyy, GRRM, why.
I have a question for people who think Theon deserves everything that’s coming to him, because he “betrayed” the Starks.
So, do you also think Robb deserves everything he has coming to him due to breaking his word and betraying the Freys?
hmm.
or is that completely different because Theon was taken as a prisoner and raised by a family that help kill his brothers and very clearly wasn’t on a vacation at Winterfell. And that Robb was just following his heart.
Well, Robb wasn’t raised with the Freys. Does he kill any of them or anyone they hold of great importance? That’s a genuine question, I haven’t gotten that far. Did he promise to be like a brother to them and then go steal their homeland?
Also, it may not have been a vacation but it doesn’t seem to have been a bad life for Theon.
BTW, I just want to applaud you. I don’t always agree with you, but your defense of Theon as a complicated character is stellar. I think what most people forget is that Theon is just as young as Robb and all he wanted was his family and birthright back.
I can’t even with Theon Greyjoy
Like, Alfie’s acting and some of Theon’s circumstances are good enough to make me feel bad for him, but its not like the Starks ever mistreated him. And like, I don’t how to explain it - I’m not even that mad he took over Winterfell. He’s at war against the Starks now, and that was the logical thing to do. It’s the fact that he’s at war with the Starks - with Robb. It’s the fact that he threatened Bran and Rickon and killed Ser Rodrik. I just can’t even with him. It’s the fact that “Dude, Robb is finally showing you how much he trusts you!” and Theon threw it back it Robb’s face. It’s the fact that Theon is incapable of being the bigger man, or even, apparently, a brave one.
Like, son, I do feel really badly for you. There was a smorgasboard of bad situations leading to that point. But seriously? The Starks didn’t fucking kidnap Theon, Balon handed him over. Balon rebelled, Balon is the reason Theon’s brothers are dead. There is not one thing that’s on the Starks’ head except threatening to murder Theon if Balon made a move, and even that’s understandable since the man started a rebellion. The Starks owe Theon Greyjoy nothing. They didn’t have to shelter him, feed him, train him, teach him anything, but they did, because part of having a ward is fostering ties between two families.
I just refuse to have any sympathy for him. It’s like most of the things Jon Snow does - I feel bad, but I don’t sympathize, nor do I endorse your bullshit…and I love Jon Snow.
WHY IS NO ONE CONCERNED ABOUT THE STARK CHILD THAT LIVES IN CELLARS AND HARDLY EVER TALKS?
THE BOY. I DON’T KNOW HIS NAME.
THE ONE THAT ISN’T ROBB, OR PARALYZED, OR ONE OF THE GIRLS. HE HANGS OUT IN CELLARS (in the first season, at least) AND DOESN’T TALK AND I AM WORRIED ABOUT HIM.
You should worry. Poor Rickon, no one even knows his name.
If someone could make art or find art with Sansa Stark and “If I Die Young” I might die of tears. I know she doesn’t die young…not so far, I guess, I’m only on book two, but it just fits her so well in some parts.
Or if there was Arya/Sansa art with ‘Only If For A Night’ by F+TM. Especially the “And I heard your voice, as clear as day. And you told me I should concentrate. It was all so strange, and so surreal, that a ghost should be so practical” part.
Really I think Florence + The Machine would really like to be the Stark girls’ go to theme song people.
