[ 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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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It can be satisfying if well done, but the threshold for "well done" gets harder to reach the more investment the audience has in the story and the characters. If the first book had been a standalone, he'd probably be fine. If the first three had been a trilogy, it would've been controversial, but he could still have pulled it off. With an anticipated seven books, particularly when they're being stretched out over so many years because the man writes at the pace of mountains forming?

There might be an author who could manage a Rocks Fall ending and still leave the audience feeling satisfied with the outcome (or at least a significant portion of the audience, because it's fandom and you can't please everyone), but GRRM is not that writer. I think some of the still-beloved characters will die in the end, because the conflict - whether over the throne or against the White Walkers - has been built up enough that an Everyone Lives ending would be equally unsatisfying, but there has to be someone the audience cares about left to walk away from the ashes.