George "Rejected Runt" Martin, who is 5'6" (168 cm) tall, writes fiction from the perspective of an envious midget who wants to see the tall fall.
Lord Tyrion Lannister is the youngest child of Lord Tywin Lannister and younger brother of Cersei and Jaime Lannister. A dwarf, he uses his wit and intellect to overcome the prejudice he faces.
Peter Dinklage, born June 11, 1969, Morristown, New Jersey, U.S, American actor who was perhaps best known for his role as Tyrion Lannister, a humane and clever dwarf with a penchant for debauchery, on the HBO television show Game of Thrones (2011–19)
For anyone unfamiliar with the term, a self-insert character is typically defined as the fictional version of yourself that lives out your dreams and fantasies in a novel, short story, or most commonly, fanfiction.
Samwell Tarly is another example: a fat cowardly virgin scholar who rises to the top through the power of plot armor and being a niceguy™.
Varys the fat eunuch is a third. Chinese imperial eunuchs were notoriously petty and self-centered, yet Varys is a rare selfless patriot, despite lacking any children to motivate his concern for posterity. Patriotic self-sacrifice is a masculine trait for the same reason that drunk driving is a masculine trait: testosterone. Something GRR Martin obviously lacks.
Tyrion and Varys Being an Iconic Duo | YouTube
Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. JRR Tolkein, a 5'9" Nicolas Cage lookalike, wrote to express the Good, the Beautiful and the True. Tolkein could've written enough orc rape scenes to make Martin envious (and horny). But Tolkein didn't, because rape disgusted him. Tolkein married his childhood true love, who chose him over money, family and religion.
Behold the inspiration for Tinuviel:
Searching photos of GRR Martin's romantic partners yields no comparable inspirations.
GRR Martin's first wife wouldn't follow him to Sante Fe, much less wait through years of no contact and WW1. GRR Martin wrote a dying world poisoned by his sexual perversion and status frustration. Martin's plot tears down all that is noble and fair, ruining the world until at last damaged and desperate beautiful women are within his self-inserts' feeble reach. The constant sexual assault is a symptom of his buried bitterness towards women and the tall men they chose over him. The world must learn to stop overlooking the dwarf!
- George RR Martin is a fucking weirdo | r/MenWritingWomen
- He REALLY likes rape | Vox Populi
- The grimy pessimism of George RR Martin | VP
- Mailvox: GRR Martin and the Left | VP
- George Martin baits the hook | VP
- When A GAME OF THRONES was great | VP
- Theories of collapse | VP
Martin's fiction thus belongs to the subversive category, and cannot outlive the temporary cultural milieu which it deconstructed, as so many other popular works are overlooked by future generations, to whom his nihilism will be no novelty. He will forever fail to measure up.
- Bookman list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1890s | Wikipedia
- Mailvox: illumination and shadow | Vox Populi
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To forestall the inevitable: I am 5'11", and my wife fits under my chin. Tiptoe kisses are cute.
ASoIaF is an endless series of setups with no payoffs.
Every time I criticized the story people would insist "it's all building up to something!" in spite of all evidence to the contrary. The last season backlash was the realization that I was right all along, with the diehard fans resorting to "the books were adapted wrong / Martin will fix it" cope.
We learn from Martin's writing people will read 6000 pages of rape and descriptions of food as long as you keep fooling them into believing it's leading up to something. You can keep this train rolling forever by just pilling new mysteries onto the old ones. "Audience strip mining" as I call it. You dig a massive pit harvesting your audience's goodwill, then abandon the giant wreck as you abscond with their cash. It's a talent to be sure, but I consider it exploitative. Such is the nature of the market.
The unfortunate thing is Martin not only seemed to burn his own fanbase down but everyone elses' too. Readers and editors are loath to produce or consume more epic fantasy as they become leary of these sleazy writing tricks.
There have been plenty of payoffs. The Red Wedding itself was a payoff, for example.
There are also a bunch of other payoffs we already know like Jon Snows origin and such.
Red Wedding isn't a payoff it's an exploding cigar. Like all of his plotlines, it's not resolved but aborted, rug pulled out and everyone falls flat.