sometimes we do think abt how ice and fire explores women and the patriarchy and women like cersei and margy who benefits from it as well as being condemned by it and women such as brienne who will never fit and women such as asha who fits it but empowers themselves differently than complying and we do think about how toxic masculinity is handled ala sam and tyrion and etc etc and we do think about the nuance each pov character has and how they’re wildly different from each other with their own themes and still carry the theme of the narrative in their own ways whether abiding by it / drifting from it / defying it etc. etc. and the story is being told by different perspectives thus making the overall plot very rich but then we remember germ’s breast kink /: