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So it goes. COYS. He/Him

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@lovesickplaid @RITUSINGHieuy @shinobuissm No, Tad Williams, who GRRM has credited as a major inspiration behind ASOIAF, invented the terminology in the Dragonbone Chair

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@lovesickplaid @RITUSINGHieuy @shinobuissm He didn’t come up with that either

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@thefemagend @thejolson You could argue that it’s making things more equitable in a vacuum, but only if we’re only accounting for the disabled party’s challenges and ignoring the aggrieved party’s needs. In reality, it kinda just seems like you want an infantilized relationship with responsibility

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@thefemagend @thejolson Not to pick nits, but shifting an oversized share of the burden onto one party to accommodate the other’s disability is inherently not making things more equal.

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Can’t tell if @paramountplus is just the worst streaming app or if somebody at paramount decided to move this game off the app, but not being able to watch the Hearts/Celtic title match is incredibly frustrating.

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@petsoldat @gale_winchester @nikicaga Like, you see the very real, very personal impact each of these themes has on each character - a “sanitized” story with Cadrach, for instance, doesn’t have his non-traditionally linear character development

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@petsoldat @gale_winchester @nikicaga Obviously a subjective thing, but I don’t really follow your logic here, the themes like grief & the way it poisons, the relationship between PTSD & addiction, the nature of Faustian bargains, the horrors of war/combat, etc. don’t feel “sanitized”

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@petsoldat @gale_winchester @nikicaga fwiw, I read it/fell in love with it as a teen, & I don’t actually look at the YA distinction as an inherent negative, it’s just never occurred to me to classify it in the same category as, for instance, the Prydain Chronicles or the Dark is Rising, etc.

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@petsoldat @gale_winchester @nikicaga I’m curious what gives it that designation to you? Is it Simon/Miriamele/Binabik all being teens and the “coming-of-age” aspect or are there specific plot points/developments?

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@Ichbins8 @gale_winchester @nikicaga Otherland is magnificent, but he’s better known for Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn/The Last King of Osten Ard which are quintessential “epic fantasy”

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@gale_winchester @nikicaga The answer is to pick up anything by Tad Williams

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@STORMWARA Memory, Sorrow & Thorn by Tad Williams is the inspiration behind of ASOIAF - Martin lifts from/pays homage to it in a number of different ways and for my money Tad’s prose and character development are second to none. Can’t recommend it highly enough.

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ASOIAF is really a victim of its own success, it got too big & subsequently has the single dumbest fanbase in all of fantasy literature - everybody looking for contrarian answers to prove how clever they are rather than accepting the obvious truth on the page. Lyanna is the KotLT

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@litussaxonicum @Dlika2 @AegonDayne And this is coming from someone that really enjoys ASOIAF

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@litussaxonicum @Dlika2 @AegonDayne If you’re seriously asking - outside of the the obvious Tolkien, Le Guin answer below - Tad Williams, Steven Erikson, & Robin Hobb are all easy answers; Rothfuss, Jemison, Kuang, & Wang all have claim as well, & maybe even Paolini from a strictly worldbuilding perspective

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@normal_jake_ Anyone who thinks Garlan Tyrell stands a snowball’s chance in hell does not understand the story they’re reading lmao

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@apotrafied The Dark is Rising or Redwall are classics if they’re into fantasy

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@thereisnojayjay Channel Innocent III and place the entire US under an Interdict

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@AdriaOriginal @kikujomi It’s a very well done way to demonstrate that Robb is Ned’s son, through an through, whereas D&D just turned the plot into a ripoff of The Winter King