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  1. VanRopen
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    "A Song of Ice and Fire" stories

    Yeah, I’ve actually read that one - mostly out of inertia. It’s a 3/5. There could be a good story written with the premise, but the writer wasn’t skilled enough to handle it. The smut is just random garbage that didn’t contribute to anything, “cunning” plans aren’t actually cunning, nor does the train of successes ever meaningfully stop. That said, I think the author did improve over the course of the story and I’d at least take a look at anything they put out in the future. tl;dr - I...
    Post by: VanRopen, Aug 8, 2020 in forum: Story Search
  2. VanRopen
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    He started a thread for it l, but didn’t get far in. There was this post tho, which summarized a lot of what I remember.
    Post by: VanRopen, Jun 18, 2019 in forum: Story Search
  3. VanRopen
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    You’d think so. But fanfiction clearly demonstrates that the show convinced a fuck of a lot of people that 24 year old Rhaegar running off with 14-15 year old Lyanna is totes okay because it's true love, and also that marriage was entirely legit. I’m at the point where I can’t stand it even in guilty pleasure fics.
    Post by: VanRopen, Jun 7, 2019 in forum: Story Search
  4. VanRopen
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    Just finished powering through all 580k words. There’s definitely some...I’m not sure angst is really the right word, but there’s some moping. Don’t care for the romantic conflict either. But it never really felt overbearing, and it’s definitely not the majority of those hundreds of thousands of words. What the fic does have is some dope battles, and solid tension throughout. Good character work too. Overall, I’d say it was pretty fucking great. For all the slow start and feeling later on...
    Post by: VanRopen, Jun 2, 2019 in forum: Story Search
  5. VanRopen
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    Yeah, and after binging that I tried The Cold Truth. Uh huh. Maybe if they played up her actually being crazy, which Cat seems to think, but no - seems like this is getting played straight, and that comment is just meant to establish Cat as a bitch.
    Post by: VanRopen, Apr 18, 2019 in forum: Story Search
  6. VanRopen
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    Wounds spoiled me. I forgot how unbearably fucking stupid the usual portrayal of Lyanna is.
    Post by: VanRopen, Apr 18, 2019 in forum: Story Search
  7. VanRopen
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    They definitely didn’t have the power to force the issue - they aren’t gonna go to war over this, she’s a cousin not the main line. It’s an insult, but Bobby at the end of the day isn’t gonna give enough of a shit to push a Stannis that has dug his heels in.
    Post by: VanRopen, Apr 12, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  8. VanRopen
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    We have rum mentioned explicitly and vague mentions of "liquors". I have no idea why people focus so hard on alcohol production.
    Post by: VanRopen, Feb 20, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  9. VanRopen
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    But the inserted orphan was able to look past it, and we found that believable. So obviously it just depends on the character and circumstances. And then, even if you had everything necessary to invent something...now comes the implementation/adoption across a continent with decentralized governing structure.
    Post by: VanRopen, Feb 19, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  10. VanRopen
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    And yet Cxjenious managed an example of how just that can work, :V This is a pretty worthless example though. What always get me is shit like: If you were going to talk about purely utilitarian measures like this...why the fuck would you pick Cersei? When has she ever been a long-term asset to her “side”?
    Post by: VanRopen, Feb 19, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  11. VanRopen
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    He's Serbian. If he isn't hating Turks, it's only because he's 110% focused on Albanians.
    Post by: VanRopen, Aug 29, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  12. VanRopen
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    Only finished the first book, haven't started this bit - but goddamn that was good.
    Post by: VanRopen, Aug 29, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  13. VanRopen
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    Young Tyrion had it worse than Young Cersei, and he didn't go around pushing people into wells.
    Post by: VanRopen, Aug 15, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  14. VanRopen
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    While I generally agree with the rest, I do have to point out that Cersei is exactly that kind of psychopath and the SI knows this going in.
    Post by: VanRopen, Aug 15, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  15. VanRopen
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    Oh thank god. That would have been a fucking crime.
    Post by: VanRopen, Jan 13, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  16. VanRopen
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    Huh. This is actually a pretty solid start. Will be keeping an eye on it.
    Post by: VanRopen, Sep 29, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  17. VanRopen
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    Those goals still don't mesh with what he did though. If you intend for them to act as a fleet in being, you don't send your unsupported infantry to get mauled, you hold them back and force Tywin to react to what he thinks is your whole army. That's fundamentally my issue. He apparently didn't want to risk a single confrontation, so instead he...sent them into that confrontation anyways, with less support plus the hope that if his other gamble pays off they won't end up getting rekt even...
    Post by: VanRopen, Aug 30, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  18. VanRopen
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    ...what? "A defensive battle" isn't somehow any less of a decisive field engagement - yes, Robb wanted Tywin to be unaware of his move on Riverrun, but he did this by sending his army right at Tywin. You are pretending this "defensive battle" somehow isn't a pitched battle, and that's ridiculous. We literally saw this in canon. Bolton's army got wrecked, and if Tywin had followed he would have prevented him from reforming it and smashed the Northern host beyond immediate repair. Tywin won....
    Post by: VanRopen, Aug 29, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  19. VanRopen
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    Please explain to me the difference between Bolton meeting Tywin in the field and Robb meeting Tywin in the field. What the flying fuck are you talking about? Robb's plan wasn't an alternative to fighting decisive battles. He explicitly told Bolton to go meet Tywin in the field. I don't care about the situation. He was in it, that's life. But when making political decisions like the one at the Twins, he needed to weigh his possibilities against his needs. GRRM did so in a HUGELY...
    Post by: VanRopen, Aug 29, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  20. VanRopen
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    How is this relevant to anything? You were talking about the decay of institutional knowledge due to a lack of warfare. The War of Ninepenny Kings was in their lifetimes, and they would have seen it first hand. The issue was in dislodging Tywin. Do note that I said "harry Tywin as he retreats", not "and destroy the Western army and capture Tywin". I did bring this up rather specifically, which you ignored. Compare that scenario to the one in which Robb loses via his OTL plan - he's worse...
    Post by: VanRopen, Aug 29, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  21. VanRopen
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    There was the War of the Ninepenny Kings. It's true though - unless we want to give some care to GRRM's rushed and kinda nonsensical outline of the Reyne-Tarbeck Rebellion, Tywin just walked through that while his enemies faffed about and he rolled 20s. This is what gets me the most - just go fucking fight Tywin. You're on the right side of the river for that already. Even if we swallow that there is literally no crossing along the entire length of the Green Fork, it doesn't matter....
    Post by: VanRopen, Aug 29, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  22. VanRopen
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    Mostly because GRRM made it a point for rocks to fall and kill everyone who tried to go there: Aurion, the major Volantene expedition, Tommen, Gerion, etc. Still, if you're playing up the available magic from the start it could work and be cool.
    Post by: VanRopen, Aug 2, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  23. VanRopen
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    Pretty sure that's Disengagement.
    Post by: VanRopen, Jul 12, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  24. VanRopen
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    Exactly, she is with child. Yet it has been years, during which time he was apparently beating Margaery. For Olenna to tolerate that, she isn't just different - she's lost her defining characteristics. And this before you factor in that the intervening period would have been the perfect time to gank Joff so that Tommen would stand to inherit. Also, it's quite unrealistic. A mistress is one thing, flagrantly spitting on your peace treaty is another - nevermind the damage to Margaery's...
    Post by: VanRopen, Jun 17, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  25. VanRopen
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    >"that’s why ser Meryn Trant had to beat her every time the king wanted to bed her." >"But Lady Margaery wasn’t a maid anymore. That rose had ready been plucked from the bush. It was known in all Seven Kingdoms that the Tyrell girl was sleeping with Joffrey. They didn’t even make an effort to hide their liaison, strolling at times at Maegor’s Holdfast right in front of Sansa. Varys reported that they had also a hideout right outside the city where they sometimes met during whole...
    Post by: VanRopen, Jun 17, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  26. VanRopen
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    Is this not a point of divergence with the decision to foster Tommen and Myrcella? What does that have to do the fact that her chatting with Tyrion the way they do in Chapter 8 is *absurd*?
    Post by: VanRopen, Jun 6, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  27. VanRopen
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    I remember that when it was one chapter, I think. The taffy thing was amusing, and it could have stood as a cracky one-shot if the ending of that chapter was made a shade less wanky. ...unsurprised to see it totally dove off a cliff though.
    Post by: VanRopen, Nov 24, 2015 in forum: Story Search
  28. VanRopen
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    Here's the thing. You're making a distinction with "alone", but it is a ridiculous distinction to make. Odran holds that absconding alone necessitates the rebellion, which you have a problem with - gotcha. But this isn't happening in a vacuum, the culture and political system of Westeros play a role in any assessment you're going to make. What I'm trying to say is that the more accurate statement is: "In light of the millennia of tradition Rhaegar was spitting on, the religious tensions...
    Post by: VanRopen, Sep 9, 2015 in forum: Story Search
  29. VanRopen
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    Since your entire argument seems to include this assumption... ...why the hell do you think people would go for polygamy in opposition to literal millennia of tradition instead of just "he fucked her" and acknowledging the bastard? Also, if we are whining about poor debating: "broken betrothals did not lead to war" is a shit position anyways, this is far more than that. It's spitting in your wife's face to go fuck another man's betrothed, then making off with her.
    Post by: VanRopen, Sep 9, 2015 in forum: Story Search
  30. VanRopen
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    Chapter 10: [spoiler] Not really ambiguous.
    Post by: VanRopen, Mar 17, 2015 in forum: Story Search
  31. VanRopen
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    You know, I still don't get it - Jon's existence poses a threat if the deception is uncovered, yes, but how is his being at Winterfell any more dangerous than being somewhere else?
    Post by: VanRopen, Jul 20, 2014 in forum: Story Search
  32. VanRopen
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    The Viserys quest?
    Post by: VanRopen, Jul 11, 2014 in forum: Story Search
  33. VanRopen
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    *shrug* Fair enough. I certainly don't mind washing our hands of him, I just think we shouldn't pass up an opportunity to grab a potential skinchanger because there might be some minor political backlash - and even then, only assuming his identity gets out and anyone cares at all in the face of his father's corpse. The Frey's mean nothing to us, and have no real reason to hate Ungren anyways, these aren't their lands. There are three Tully's left one of whom is about to die, one who is would...
    Post by: VanRopen, Jul 7, 2014 in forum: Story Search
  34. VanRopen
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    What relationships could we fuck up? Who gives a shit about this guy? Ungren is who they were here for, and Robert is about to drink from his skull. And no, morality was brought up when people started saying taking him in was Ned-tier naive, and that sort of morality has no place in ASOIAF. Which is fair - and irrelevant. There is a difference between not being a cunt and doing what is necessary. Nobody in the thread is opposed to killing him if the guy proves more trouble than he's worth.
    Post by: VanRopen, Jul 7, 2014 in forum: Story Search
  35. VanRopen
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    Let's not bring an argument from another quest here. ...but you're missing the point if you think morality and the power of friendship are the guiding principles here.
    Post by: VanRopen, Jul 7, 2014 in forum: Story Search
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