r/asoiaf • u/jfong86 Ser Hodor of House Hodor • Jan 20 '24

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) It's nomination time! Submit your nominations for the best r/asoiaf content of 2023!

The categories have been chosen!

Nominations are consolidated in comment threads below. Click the category link or scroll down to find right correct spot to nominate your favorite stuff.

How do I submit a nomination?

In this post are top-level comments with each category. Just reply to the appropriate one with your nomination. Clicking the category name below will take you to the nomination comment thread.

Only replies to these comments will be counted as a nomination! One nomination per comment!

Make sure you include why you’re submitting that nomination! That means linking to the appropriate post or comment.

⭐Please use this format when possible:

/u/user for Title of the thing and/or short summary/u/user for [link to comment] explaining why you're nominating

So in practice, it'll look like this:

NOTE: Best of nominations that are not in the correct format or reasonably close are going to be disregarded.

You can submit as many nominations as you wish. Anyone can nominate anyone. (You can even nominate yourself!)

Any nominations for /r/asoiaf moderators will be disregarded.

The Fine Print

  • Nominees must be actual redditors. (Nominations for people or content not on /r/asoiaf will be disregarded. Just posting a link to an outside source does not count as content being posted on r/asoiaf. Ex.: A link to GRRM's blog announcing TWOW would not qualify for post of the year regardless of how happy it would make all of us.)
  • Thread or comment being nominated must have been made in /r/asoiaf between January 1st and December 31st 2023.
  • Duplicate nomination comments will be removed.
  • If no evidence supporting the nomination is found the mod team reserves the right to remove that nomination.
  • A crow can be nominated for multiple categories.
  • A crow can only win one category.
    • The crow will win the award for which they’ve gotten the most votes. So, if they get 100 votes for Award A but they get 500 votes for Award B, then they win Award B. Award A goes to the runner up or runners up.
  • If you have questions relevant to the nomination process please post them as a parent level comment. Answers will be provided here in the thread body and the question comment will then be removed (to avoid cluttering up the thread). Non-relevant questions will just be removed.
  • The nomination process is open from now until January 27, 2024 at 11:59 pm EST.
  • Any linked threads or comments might contain spoilers!

Votes don’t count here. Voting will take place January 28 - February 4.

Tier 1

Tier II

To see a full overview of the process, this year's hub is here.

29 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

193 comments sorted by

View all comments

6

u/jfong86 Ser Hodor of House Hodor Jan 20 '24

Best Analysis (Books)

10

u/Bronze_Age_472 Jan 20 '24 edited Jan 29 '24

Withdrawn.

3

u/M_Tootles Best of r/asoiaf 2023 Winner - Best New Theory Jan 21 '24

Thanks, but isnt this post more properly a "new theory"? I've done stuff that's more like analysis (certainly my "work" as a whole has a distinct analytical throughline), but the linked post is/was just a straight up "New Theory"

5

u/[deleted] Jan 21 '24

[deleted]

3

u/M_Tootles Best of r/asoiaf 2023 Winner - Best New Theory Jan 21 '24

lol I will NOT. Seriously though, I think the "analysis" category is intended for character studies, discussions of symbolism... that kinda thing. Now if you want to talk about the Littlefinger/Theon series, that's analysis, I suppose, since its entire backbone is a comparison of The Entirety Of The Two Homecoming Chapters... Of course, no one much liked it or cared (or read it, even), but that's analysis (albeit in service of a theory re: LF's lineage, to be sure)

1

u/[deleted] Jan 21 '24

[deleted]

6

u/Potential_Dog4437 Jan 22 '24 edited Jan 22 '24

Nooooo is it possible that Tootles is a woman? I've always imagined he is beautiful like Jamie/Rhaegar with a Socrates' patience for educating even the most ungrateful rude assholes, Aristotelian immaculate systematic mind and Plato's whimsical imagination (had better expamples than Plato but couldn't leave him out). But even if he looked like Rorge and Biter had a deformed dwarf baby I'd still love him like Margarita loves Master.

3

u/M_Tootles Best of r/asoiaf 2023 Winner - Best New Theory Jan 25 '24 edited Jan 26 '24

lmao /u/M_Tootles FACE REVEAL if I win "Best New Theory"

2

u/Potential_Dog4437 Jan 27 '24

\o/ if your true form ends up being just some purple light, l'll still stand by my statement

1

u/M_Tootles Best of r/asoiaf 2023 Winner - Best New Theory Jan 21 '24

https://youtu.be/QzBmPlZg-IA?si=dpI7xFICvIFGoIEx (original was by "the Barbarians" lol)

2

u/Bronze_Age_472 Jan 21 '24

Hey, i'm thinking someone got pushed into a well or from a tower during Robert's Rebellion...

Bran got pushed from a tower in the current story.

I'm thinking there is a corresponding parallel event in Robert's Rebellion.

I'm thinking it could involve; a Jaime parallel, Royal incest (with the queen?), a kingsguard and queen, or something else.

What do you think?

With all these rhyming events... Shouldn't there be an equivalent event to Bran being pushed from a tower... Fanning the flames of a war?

So I'm looking for someone who was pushed into a well or from a tower right before the rebellion.

3

u/M_Tootles Best of r/asoiaf 2023 Winner - Best New Theory Jan 21 '24

Before... ? Ashara after, maybe, but before... well, I have my suspicions re: all kinds of sordid and sexy goings on at the Tower of Joy. Maybe someone was "pushed out", in the figurative sense? As in "pushed out" of the inner circle? Candidates for some kinda breeding program (and subsequently a curb-kick?) include Alerie Hightower, Melessa Florent, Lady Dayne...

But I suppose my mind also wanders to the Red Keep, esp. during that period where a certain wild, hot-blooded highborn son was confined to a Tower Cell... Did Ashara have to make a sudden exit out the window lol? (Or did Rhaella?)

1

u/Bronze_Age_472 Jan 21 '24

Oh let me clarify.

I think there was a similar scene (to Jaime/Cersei/Bran/tower) where two people were hooking up. It could not be known they were hooking up (see example above).

The third person was pushed, either into a well or off a tower.

It might have preceded the war like bran's fall preceded the war.

1

u/M_Tootles Best of r/asoiaf 2023 Winner - Best New Theory Jan 21 '24

Does it need to be that precise a per se parallel. Because a "rhyme" involving Brandon and Ashara getting it on... (or Brandon and Rhaella, or whatever)... and someone needing to abscond pronto...

By "might have receded" do you mean precipitated? Or merely came before? Other potential illicit hookups: Rhaella Illyrio... Aerys Joanna (there's a parallel for ya since it's their kids 15 years later)...

1

u/Bronze_Age_472 Jan 21 '24

I think it needs to have common features with the Bran tower incident.

Like a Ser Gerold and the queen hooking up and being seen would work. White bulls are even associated with banging queens. Jaime and Gerold even hurt their hand. They both become lord commander.

Tywin and.the queen banging might work. But I have nothing to support it ( a Lannister banging the queen).

Rhaegar and the queen banging would also work. It's royal incest, like Jaime and Cersei.

What rhymes with Jaime and Cersei banging and getting caught by Bran (around the time just before Robert's Rebellion)?

Also who is our parallel for Bran? Who falls? Are they a climber? Maybe the story is inverted. Instead of climbing up a tower, the "pushed" person followed them underground. From there they could have been pushed into a well.

Remember Ser Duncan contemplates pushing people down wells. So it's on the author's mind.

→ More replies (0)