We're all doomed, but who cares? More Game of Thrones ramblings

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Trying to use a non-spoilery icon outside the cut, though it's not the icon I want to use.

More slightly shame-faced Game of Thrones 'shippy rambling behind cut, with spoilers obviously.



Okay, so you know the other day when I thought most people reading about my sudden Dany/Jorah love (she shouldn't have kissed him, damnit, and most of all, he shouldn't have gone on his knees to her) would be thinking ewww! he's old enough to be her father? Well, I'm sure there are people thinking that, but mostly -judging by all the icons I'm seeing, and all the comments about the pairing on game_thrones, I'm very far from alone. Far from being part of 'we happy few', I seem to be part of a major 'shipping group (in the show-based part of the fandom anyway). Weird.

I also don't seem to be the only one getting bromance-y/'shippy vibes off Bronn and Tyrion either. This is such fun! :Is a happy 'shipper.'

And that's despite having accidentally spoilered myself when, on ordering the first book in the series on Amazon (yes, like mrs_underhill, caliente_uk and coercion88, I am going to read the first book, and then try not to read the second until I've seen season 2), my eye skimmed over the blurb for the latest book - the one that comes out in about 2 weeks. Aargh! And then, if that wasn't bad enough, I followed a link (forget which one) and found all these character profiles (books characters, that is), and before I could tell myself not to look I'd read the Jorah Mormont one (can't help it if I read faster than I think, can I?). Oh well, I can't say I didn't know it would all end in tears, because I did.

But never mind. Until we get to that point I'm just going to enjoy it as much as I can.

I'm falling more and more in love with this show every day. Can you tell? I'm obsessively watching the two GoT fanvids I've saved to my memories over and over again and looking through every icon post seaching for the perfect icon for this character and that character, then seeing one I like even more and changing my mind. I'm even seriously thinking of deleting some of my BtVS icons to make room.

It must be serious.

Comments

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Apparently, there are rows like that going on on TWoP even as we speak. I think I'll stay well away.

I tend to avoid TWoP....they don't appear to like the same characters I do, and the maturity level over there hasn't quite made it past the 8th grade.

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Yes, I've heard the same. Apparently, you still can't mention Spike on there without being screamed at.

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Still? Sigh.

But it's not just Spike, apparently.
Noticed a clear pattern in the posts and comments. Very whiny.
With a rigid view of morality. And zero tolerance for views that differ from their own.

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It's a pity that sites like that are what people think of when they think of online fandom. But I suspect they are.

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Yep. Unfortunately most people think ACIN News and TWoPy and possibly the boards associated with onzines like EW, CNN, and TV Guide as well as Whedonesque and IDW are representative of fandom. They've never seen boards like ATPOBTVS, Buffy Cross and Stake, Live Journal, or the vast array of the boards under the wire. (shrugs). As a result they make the assumption that fans are between the ages of 10-35 and predominantly male. The critics think the main fans of Game are fanboys - they couldn't be more wrong. They also think that most of the people playing on the net are men - they aren't. Every time a tv critic states this - they get smacked upside the head and made to look like an idiot. Gina Bellafante, the NY Times TV critic, was just the latest.

They don't understand the internet. And make stupid assumptions. I have a lot of fun laughing at them. ;-)

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Every time a tv critic states this - they get smacked upside the head and made to look like an idiot. Gina Bellafante, the NY Times TV critic, was just the latest.

Yes, I saw that. Silly woman. Don't like it when people make blanket statements such as 'women don't like sci-fi.' On the contrary, I think women have much broader tastes in literature than men, probably because they've learned to identify with the 'other' (in this case, white men, who are the usual protagonists in these things), while men aren't nearly so good at doing the same in reverse. IMO.

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Agreed.

On the contrary, I think women have much broader tastes in literature than men, probably because they've learned to identify with the 'other' (in this case, white men, who are the usual protagonists in these things), while men aren't nearly so good at doing the same in reverse. IMO.

I agree with this. It certainly has been proven to be true in many conversations I've had at work and elsewhere. My mother has much broader taste than my father does, as do I and my sisinlaw in comparison to my brother - whose taste is far narrower. We've had to adapt, they haven't.

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Yes, you won't get many men who will read so called chicklit (or books written by women at all, no matter the genre), or at least who will admit to it.

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Too true.

It's interesting though..The two most maligned genres are female romance novels and/or chicklit (which isn't necessarily a romance in all cases) and super-hero/noir/western comic books (which often feel like the male equivalent of a romance novel). Being a fan of all genres, including those...at different points...I find the gender-biased prejudices people have against them interesting.

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Being a fan of all genres, including those...at different points...I find the gender-biased prejudices people have against them interesting.

If frustrating. I like all those genres myself, except chicklit, which I find boring. And I only like romances that aren't actually that romantic.

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Eh, I've admittedly only been able to get through two chick-lit books and both were for a book club. Also both were by British writers - Bridget Jones (which started the whole trend) and Confessions of a Shop-a-holic - which is basically a Bridget Jones knock-off. The rest? I couldn't make it through.
Romance novels? I read a lot of when I was much younger...then I read fanfic on the internet, which sort of ruined me for the whole romance genre. It's a sad sad thing when a work in progress story with pre-established characters from a tv show that you read on the internet on someone's blog is far better written and far more innovative than an original story published in a book.
Does make one wonder about the publishing industry...

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Does make one wonder about the publishing industry...

There is a lot of bad stuff out there.