[ SECRET POST #3432 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3432 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Flaky Pastry]



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02. http://i.imgur.com/kqv1lD2.gifv
[Homestuck, gif]


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03. [SPOILERS for Fire Emblem Fates]




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04. [SPOILERS for Game of Thrones]




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05. [SPOILERS for Captain America: Civil War]




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06. [WARNING for all common triggers/general discussion of triggering material]




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07. [WARNING for rape]























Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[philstar22]

I don't think that would be satisfying, at least with Dany and Jon. They've been on specific journeys, and to have those journeys end before they even get where they are headed? That would be unsatisfying for most readers.

[ariakas]

Where is Jon's "journey" headed, exactly? He's right where he should be: facing the real threat to Westeros, the White Walkers. Having him die fighting the real threat to the realm wouldn't be unsatisfying at all.

And sure, just about anybody else would have died for making the same mistakes Dany did in ADWD, in most of Martin's work, but Dany has Plot Armour, because if she doesn't make it back to Westeros her whole arc was pointless. ...But on the other hand, it makes her arc deeply unsatisfying, because we know she can't die no matter what she does. Her getting kidnapped by Dothraki? Yawn. There's no threat. Honestly, if she was killable, that would make for a much tenser, much more interesting arc, because so much of ASoIaF is built around the "anyone can die" concept - which is true in most of Martin's work - which isn't honestly all that spectacular otherwise, in this series.

But anyhow, Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies in this case would mean "white walkers kill everyone" ... which is honestly where I suspected he was going with it in the first, given the rest of his oeuvre. Too many people ignoring the real threat for petty gain = death in many of the rest of his stories. I was looking forward to that, and recent revelations about what the Children did only strengthened the allegory of white walkers = nuclear weapons, "winter" in this case being nuclear winter, but... now that I've realized Jon, Dany, and Tyrion - the three heads of the dragon and GRRM's favourites - can't actually die it's just become another tiresome pandering fantasy where the heroes stroke the author's own ego and there's a whole lot of one-handed typing.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong, though.

[(Anonymous)]

People being able to be killed is the only form of tension a story can invoke?