A Dance With Dragons

Jul 14, 2011 10:36

Halfway through the book I was ready to come and write a really angry post. Decided to finish it first, and now I just feel kind of drained and moody. It's not that it was bad per se, just that people wiser than me were right and GRRM clearly cannot conceive of competent women. They have to fail and be patronized and rescued and sexually dominated ( Read more... )

grr! martin, books

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ladyelleth July 14 2011, 23:29:00 UTC
Or maybe just a crapload of feminist AUs with the tagline "how it SHOULD have happened..."

Very much in favour of that. Mini AU feminist drabble series?

You should still read it though, so we can discuss.
Yes, certainly! I'm sort of tempted to keep a body count, too. Read the prologue for now, already one woman dead - but she was an 'ugly spearwife', so I guess it doesn't matter? -_-

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Thank you. She's River Song. She's making Daleks beg for mercy. What's not to love? :D

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mouse_rat July 15 2011, 16:42:50 UTC
Mini AU feminist drabble series?

I'm in. Do you want to wait till you've read the latest or should we just commence? I have ideas already. Some might be a bit silly.

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ladyelleth July 16 2011, 11:26:41 UTC
Do you want to wait till you've read the latest or should we just commence?
I don't have those books memorized as much as I have Tolkien, but hey, let's start? I'll finish the latest before I write anything from that point in canon, but there's plenty material before that. :D

I have ideas already. Some might be a bit silly.
I can't wait to read them, silly or not. Go, Mousey!

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