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people will really be like "you invented entire languages for your fantasy world? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, writing an epic story about medieval tax policy" and then not finish their epic story about medieval tax policy https://t.co/VxRRWk34N4
he doesn't! it's well underway. example. sandor clegane is a dark parody of a knight. he is brutally effective yes, but hideous rather than handsome and deeply cynical. "a knight is for killing." but alone of the chivalry, he protects a distressed damsel https://t.co/jD12NRE2fL https://t.co/sz97ypPy1p
the hound isn't as cynical as he presents himself. no one who cares so much for the truth is his contempt for knights is because he tacitly believes in the value of the chivalric ideals they disrespect none of GRRM's True Knights--Sandor, Brienne, Duncan--are legitimate knights
sansa saves the hound just as he saves her by giving him the opportunity, for once, to be the kind of knight he dreamed of as a boy; to Become Good. and by perceiving that Good, and by believing in him https://t.co/G59a6Ggmpc
irrespective of what martin says in interviews, like the superficially profane hound it's pretty clear he knows what is Worthy in asoiaf martin is trying to find his way to believe in a fallen world https://t.co/OujvuaE5qA https://t.co/WsokrFdgKm
martin reportedly loved chivalric romances as a boy somewhere, in the darkness of dreams, abides the other camelot that can never die. i hope he finds his way home. https://t.co/mYtfNa1OLE
@eigenrobot If I can give you another example, perhaps not from the author but from the show and adored by fan base: people really do like unabashed celebration of masculine virtues being rewarded with in-universe success and the acclaim of others. Exemplar: https://t.co/CtroJiMg2l
@eigenrobot This character’s arc is being thrust into leadership before they were ready, spitting defiance at a foreign king, being called to a hopeless war, accepting because honor demanded it, leading men into battle, and then dying heroically having killed her enemy with purest virtue.