The Yuuzhan Vong story arc in the old Star Wars Expanded Universe wasn't exactly great, and the "nice space vampires" trend-chasing trash that followed was pretty bad, but what a lot of people don't seem to remember, and what I only remembered just now, was that the early villain figure in the Vong arc was some angry Twi'lek lady that was leading what was called the "Diversity Alliance" and was actually an asset of the Vong. Basically, space SJW that wants space diversity is actually a space religious terrorist asset. :sus-torment:
Many of these series are using Asian-sounding names for their villains (yuzhaan vong) which is sus. As a teenager I read the libertarian Wizard’s First Rule / Ayn Rand fan fiction series and by the end of it the villain had some kind of Asian name, I can’t remember.
I’m watching/reading Game of Thrones for the first time and think the politics are actually mostly pretty good but GRRM is still a lib. I’ve noticed that Jews/Roma don’t exist in any form in his alternative medieval Europe, at least so far. Also, white saviorism, and nearly all the main characters are nobles, which for me undermines GRRM’s supposed critique of feudalism. He was just on Colbert a few weeks ago saying he wishes he had a dragon so he could attack Moscow.
he doesn't wish for world peace. he wishes for this.
Been hearing people rave about how House of the Dragon is all about how playing around with dragons is foolish shit and sooner or later they will fuck you over and how they're a big nuke analogy etc, seems GRRM should watch it.
Tbh they managed to distill whatever little story and intrigue was mixed with the copious amounts of misogyny in Fire and Blood, and then turn it into a sort of cool tale about people. It's not without its faults, but I'd even say that s1 is better than anything after s3 of GoT
If he could have unrestrained wishing I suspect he'd become some sort of Khorne/Nurgle/Slaanesh champion.
Did he even read his own books? My takeaway from them was definitely not "all of our problems can be solved by an application of incredible violence".
Secret new character in winds of winter, Zelenskyyyy Targaryyen.
GRRM is at heart a capital-R Romantic and it shows very frequently in ASOIAF. The series is a Deconstruction-Reconstruction of the High Fantasy genre.
One of the persistent and repeated messages of GRRM's most famous setting is "this place is shitty with shitty people and a shitty system but attempts to change that system are even shittier so just pick your favorite flavor of shit and roll around in it." :kombucha-disgust: