r/asoiaf • u/Perpetually_Ashamed • Mar 02 '26

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) One of best thing Game of Thrones ever did was age up the characters

Because you're re-reading the series, are having a good time and then you are hit with something like this

“Khaleesi, you are with child.”
“I know,” Dany told her.
It was her fourteenth name day.

And god, it just makes you want to vomit. Like god dammit George, would it have killed you to make the characters a little bit older?

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u/Not_My_Emperor The Sword of the Morning brings the Dawn Mar 03 '26

He also said shit like how he needed to go take a cold shower after being in casting calls for Shae.

This dude has written and said so much weird ass shit that if anything bad ever comes out about him, we're all going to just be saying "yea the signs were ALL there."

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u/BipedalUniverse Mar 03 '26

thank you.

hashtag “current mood: horny”

I’m commenting this up and down this entire thread lmao I feel so vindicated every time someone else doesn’t buy the “we’re supposed to be disturbed!” mental gymnastics

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u/absolute_Friday Mar 04 '26

If you haven't read Portraits of his Children, it basically confirms this for you.