/lit/ - Literature

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The issue is with implying ASOIAF proper is subversive in any way in the first place. I have to believe it's genuine unread children/newkeks or only the staunchest Christcucks that believe Lord of the Rings and veiled Christ allegory is the final destination for all fantasy. The ASOIAF books are stupidly pulp for how people treat them, less so than their predecessors surely but still- they don't "degrade" fantasy or any particular ideology any more than the most popular fantasy works of the 80s.
I think the adaptation has colored the external view of the property pretty much irreparably, because when you strip out all of the goofy shit and absurdist worldbuilding that is in the books I guess it would come off as a needlessly dim and bitter depiction of a "fantastical" world.