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Friday Jun 27, 2025
Friday Jun 27, 2025
Daenerys decides it's time get out of dodge aka Qarth (for now) and meets the main character of the story: Strong Belwas.
Links from Lo: https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/allegories-four-continents
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Intro by Anton Langhage
1 months ago
Regarding the use of women as national imagery I think one thing you’re overlooking is that this is usually applied Sophiology. Reducing it to an individual psychosexual pathology on the side of nationalists is kind of missing the historical context and aesthetic meaning of that imagery.